Unclassified Documents Contain Troubling Information About Dragnet Phone Surveillance Program
The Australian Taxation Office has paused a letter campaign alerting taxpayers they have historical “on-hold” debts after conceding its communication caused “unnecessary distress”.
ATO apologises for ‘unnecessary distress’
Fresh appeal in battle over secret robodebt documents
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Existential Comics celebrates its first decade — with a joke 10 years in the making
HEY, IF IT MAKES YOU FEEL BETTER: The Placebo Effect in Action: Research and Everyday Life. “The placebo effect occurs more often with subjective symptoms, such as pain, rather than objective medical evidence, such as a tumor identified on a computed tomography (CT) scan. In other words, a placebo treatment may help improve your pain, but it is not going to kill cancer cells the way actual chemotherapy drugs do.” That said, killing actual cancer cells would be good
Deep space astronauts may be prone to erectile dysfunction, study finds Guardian
EU nation resumes purchases of Russian gas RT. Czechia
“Things Can’t Get Any Worse, They Got to Get Better”: Paul Schrader’s ‘Light of Day’
All of the characters in Paul Schrader’s Light of Day (1987) are looking for a way out. They’re stuck in menial nine to five jobs, on the line in factories and behind candy-colored checkout stands in supermarkets…
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