Friday, April 12, 2019

Cherry-picked reading of electoral history: An election is in the air when politicians resorts to populism

“This country,” Margaret Fuller wrote in the middle of the nineteenth century as she considered what makes a great leader, “needs… no thin Idealist, no coarse Realist, but a man whose eye reads the heavens, while his feet step firmly on the ground, and his hands are strong and dexterous for the use of human implements… a man of universal sympathies, but self-possessed; a man who knows the region of emotion, though he is not its slave; a man to whom this world is no mere spectacle or fleeting shadow, but a great, solemn game, to be played with good heed, for its stakes are of eternal value.”

'They're quite angry': Peter Dutton doubles down on attack on rival as campaign gets nasty

While Peter Dutton has reiterated his claims his rival, Ali France, is using her disability as "an excuse", she says he is "not focused on the real issues".

 No light can escape the gravitational vortex of election 2019
As election 2019 kicks off, the only certainty is a cranky and mistrustful electorate
The Conversation
There are generally two kinds of federal election: those where the government is returned, and those where it's defeated. The former is more common.

 From tourist boss to PM: ScoMo's mountain climb to the top spot















The hidden influencers who code our world

The figures he interviewed for the book include the creators of many of the notable software applications we use today — such as Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Thompson, a technology journalist who writes regularly for The New York Times Magazine and Wired, was motivated by his observation that, throughout history, some professions have suddenly become crucial and exerted an outsized influence on our society.

 The Death Of Smartphones SafeHaven
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