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The Onion headline "Timothee Chalamet Under Fire for Dismissive Comments About Traditional Japanese Puppet Theater Form 'Bunraku'" was liked by Bernie Sanders.

Bernie... thank you

Obligated now to bring up that time I saw someone a couple of times a decade or so ago for an evaluation for ADHD.

They gave me a take home test.

I lost it, never found it again, never followed up, didn't get the diagnosis but eventually my psychiatrist put ADHD (inattentive type) in my chart.

My mum and dad's local pheasant, which is real, but looks like the product of the gathering of a talented craft club

Another look at my mum and dad's local pheasant

My mum and dad's local pheasant showing his more lighthearted side as he jokes about how much he looks like he's been felted

I absolutely refuse to believe that the pheasant who regularly visits my mum and dad’s garden is real and has not in fact been crocheted.

Pretty crazy how important the blockade of a trade route is right now

Secondly, if Mr Morrison had suspected the NPP was misleading, I think it probable that the last thing he would have done was refrain from speaking up in the hope of OCI being adopted without further delay or investigation. For, as a member of parliament and minister of many years standing, he would almost certainly have foreseen that, were he to do so, there would be a high chance of the deception soon being discovered and of his and his government’s subjection to the inevitably adverse political consequences that would follow. Rather than being a reason to suspect a dishonest failure to inquire, the fact that Mr Morrison did not make further inquiries appears more probably consistent with him not having perceived there was a need to do so.

"We don't believe Morrison would act dishonestly, because he was a member of parliament for many years" is a very funny argument. I'll give them that

The NACC's view here is even funnier when you consider it's about a bloke who secretly appointed himself to multiple roles and thought no-one would find out.

you are considered personally responsible if you are part of the mandatory unemployed this country apparently needs to keep its economy going while the people in the highest positions of power aren't accountable for a single fucking thing #auspol

unsurprising that the pigs are ignoring the requirement that it must be clearly intended to harass or offend #auspol

Another one that comes to mind was a study of menstrual blood volume that systematically underestimated it by 2/3rds

Maybe if some of the boosters had taken just one sociology of science course… nah

Because, like, some of the evidence LLMs were trained on is built around the idea that only people assigned male at birth have study-worthy bodies

Maybe I’d be less ai-skeptical if some of those guys stopped saying things like “evidence-based medicine is now a solved problem”

Or ai people could try finding a way to talk about it without combining the smug condescension of an 00's reddit atheist with the undeserved faux-intellectualism of a teenage libertarian in their first philosophy class.

a neil gaiman defender contests a response of 'no' to a link to a substack, and is told 'I see that like Neil Gaiman, you don't understand that no is a complete sentence'

you want to see a murder

AustLit’s 25th Anniversary special: Research Project 2 OF 25: [Image shows a black stage with five curved rows of black seats in front of it: the image is designed as an icon, not as a representative or illustrative image. On the stage are three images from set design associated with the project. This first shows a man in a grey suit, on the left, kissing the hand of a woman in a white tutu-style skirt; the second shows a grey, two-storey street scene; the third shows a vaguely Greek-looking scene, with pillars and cyprus trees.] AUSTRALIAN DRAMA ARCHIVE Continue to explore the project!

About the Australian Drama Archive project Project start: 2016 The Australian Drama Archive Project is a digitisation project publishing plays and research relating to writers working in the period before the 1960s. Collaborators at The University of Queensland and the University of New England set out to digitise and research a collection of Australian plays from the twentieth century up to the 1960s and bring them to life again through publication, production, and new research.

The Australian Drama Archive’s dataset includes but is not limited to the following: > Biographical information — playwrights and writers working in the period before the 1960s. > Play Information — synopsis, publication details, production details and historical notes. > Research outcomes > Digitised transcripts of plays researched in the project. [Banner image shows a series of pages from the plays included in the project: the pages are text-heavy and the text is illegible at this size.] Selected plays were scanned and in most cases run through an optical character recognition (OCR) process which generated a plain text file that was subsequently corrected. In some cases the OCR text was so bad, due to the poor quality of the original manuscript, we determined it was best to manually transcribe the text.

AustLit is celebrating 25 years in 2026 For this momentous anniversary, we have a year’s worth of celebrations planned, from in-person and online events to project highlights, video guides, and information trails. Celebrate with us by following, sharing our content and using #AustLit25 to share your Australian literature discoveries. Visit our website for more details! 25 years of discovering Australian stories

Today's highlight is the Australian Drama Archive, a full-text collection of pre-1960s plays, from the claustrophobic horror of The Flail of God to the absurdity of The Ladder Game.
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Beautiful slides by Monica Clayton!

We're so back once everyone realises computers can't actually do the maths for generating warp fields

Mate I am pushing 80,000 lines of code into our repos a day, no idea what any of it does but it looks good in the Jira reports

The best thing about this is that no-one knows what productivity is, /cc @liamhogan.id.au

In the present context, however, of an investigation into allegations of corrupt conduct, we are not so much concerned with Diceyan theory of ministerial accountability and Cabinet solidarity as with personal obligations of honesty and good faith. Thus, although Mr Morrison may have been responsible to Cabinet for the failings of DSS – in particular for DSS’ failings in not preventing the shortcomings of the NPP and checklist – it by no means necessarily follows that Mr Morrison was personally at fault for not detecting the failings of DSS or that he set out to act dishonestly or in bad faith. The question of any personal shortcoming requires consideration of the system and circumstances of ERC’s operation at the time of its adoption of the NPP.

The passages clearing Morrison of fault are extraordinary

NACC says Morrison is technically "responsible" as cabinet Minister, but not "personally at fault"

If responsibility exists without consequence...then what does "ministerial accountability" even mean anymore?

Library stripped of state literary award role in fellowship fallout Queensland’s state library will no longer run major literary awards on behalf of the government after a long-awaited review. But the future of the event is unclear.

God it's embarrassing living in a state run by the National party

Pretty telling that AI tools have been most enthusiastically adopted in workplace contexts with *extreme* power imbalances. Most people looking for jobs aren't in a position to fuck these things off

What a fucking crock.
Two mid-level officials found to be corrupt by the NACC, but the big guns get off scot-free forever.

You know, I shouldn't laugh. It's not like the Nats actually had the option of not picking the dumbest guy who's ever lived to lead them, because they're all viable contenders for that title

They massacred Steve's boy, Paul

The Royal Commission found that “Robodebt was a crude and cruel mechanism, neither fair nor legal” and “a costly failure of public administration, in both human and economic terms.” The Royal Commission made 56 recommendations, all of which were accepted or accepted in principle by the Government.

The government is still persisting with the claim that there were only 56 recommendations out of the robodebt royal commission, when there were 57 and they just didn't like that last one.

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LOL

MrBeast competition to see who can make it through the Strait of Hormuz

I'm going to love thinking about this while completing the annual workplace professional integrity training quiz, which says things like "gifts over $200 must be personally approved by the COO"

KEY FACTS • In a 40-minute-long interview on MSNBC, Harris told host Rachel Maddow she had always believed that "titans of industry" would serve as a guardrail for democracy in the country.

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Just become Juggalos guys