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Scott Morrison and Bill Shorten weigh in on Israel Folau scandal
CITIC: Clive Palmer raises China security concern in letter to WA ...
Scott Morrison and Bill Shorten weigh in on Israel Folau scandal
CITIC: Clive Palmer raises China security concern in letter to WA ...
The Australian Financial Review
GRAHAM FREUDENBERG. Vale Evan Williams
No Australian adorned the professions of politics and journalism like Evan Williams. He was much more than a beautiful writer. He was a beautiful man, who brought a shining light and grace to thousands of lives. He died a few days ago. Continue reading
Happy Ever After
One of the reasons people are mad about this episode is because this foretells a grim ending to this nine year saga next episode.
We don’t know the specifics yet, but after committing a genocide, there’s no way Dany can finish her arc happily. That must be sad for anyone who thought she would. But it’s Game of Thrones? Honestly how did anyone expect it would end? With the most beautiful wedding in the world? With a rousing awards ceremony like the end of Star Wars: A New Hope?
If there’s one moral of this show, it’s that playing the Game of Thrones makes literally nobody happy ever. Especially not us!
The Guardian – Is engagement with current affairs key to being a good citizen? Or could an endless torrent of notifications be harming democracy as well as our wellbeing? “…We marinate in the news. We may be familiar with the headlines before we have exchanged a word with another human in the morning; we kill time on the bus or in queues by checking Twitter, only to find ourselves plunged into the dramas of presidential politics or humanitarian emergencies. By one estimate, 70% of us take our news-delivery devices to bed with us at night.
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'Some journalism is just sucking'
Soledad O'Brien fired off an impassioned response to a CNN analyst critical of the state of the media.
Soledad O'Brien. (Photo by Charles
Sykes/Invision/AP)
Julian Zelizer, CNN political analyst and professor of history
and public affairs at Princeton University, on Sunday tweeted:
“One of the dangers for our democracy is that we become numb to
the misuse of power, where a real ‘crisis’ becomes one more passing breaking
news story. We move on to the next story when we see our Watergate because we
assume the system is broken.”
In response, longtime journalist Soledad O’Brien responded with this
tweet:
“ ‘We’ move onto the next story because cable news does. Stories
get momentum when you sit, and stay and report and dig and don’t chase every
headline: ‘Trump has a new nickname for …’ Some journalism is just sucking and
we know who they are.”
Hong Kong lawmakers fight contentious extradition law with punches
The city's legislative assembly descended into chaos on Saturday as pro-Beijing and pro-democracy lawmakers disagreed..
'A throwaway city of junk buildings': Leading architect slams NSW government over heritage
Philip Thalis, a City of Sydney councillor, used the National Trust Heritage Awards 2019 to decry privatisation and planning in Sydney.
“Magic is opening doors you didn’t know existed.”
… Józef Czapski: painter, prisoner, and disciple of Proust. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)Born and buried a Catholic, carrying a small oilcloth Bible with him when he travelled in Russia in search of the truth about his fellow prisoners, Czapski was a religious man. A Tolstoyan pacifist in his youth, who resigned from the Polish cavalry because he did not want to kill other human beings, he was attracted to the mysticism of Simone Weil (1909-43) and became a close friend of the God-seeking Russian philosopher Dmitry Merezhkovsky (1865-1941). Czapski was not mistaken in finding in Proust’s work a kind of religion: not a story of redemption, but a struggle to defy time and disillusion, and eternalise the passing moment in memories of meaning and beauty.
The Daily Dot – Here’s what you need to know about the security and privacy implications of smart speakers, both the myths and the realities – 1) Smart speakers are always listening – One of the first things you’ll hear about smart speakers like echo is that they’re “always listening” to your conversations—which is technically correct. But we often mistake “always listening” with “always recording.” “The Echo is not recording everything you say in its presence,” says Lane Thames, a senior security researcher at Tripwire. “Recording does not start until you ‘wake’ it up by saying its wake word, such as ‘Alexa.’” Unless muted, your speaker does, however, keep a few seconds’ worth of sound recording. “This limited local voice recording is only for the purpose of the device detecting its wake word,” Thames says
The New York Times – “What little privacy people don’t give away, companies tend to take. Given this unfortunate reality, to get complete privacy you’d need to install a labyrinthine series of software tools that make the internet slow and unusable — think specialty Web browsers, encrypted email and chat; virtual private networks; and security-focused incognito operating systems. Or you’d need to stay off the internet altogether. But don’t lose hope. Although total privacy is all but unattainable, you can protect yourself in two ways: Lock down your devices and accounts so they don’t give away your data, and practice cautious behavior online. Getting started is easy. By making a few simple changes to your devices and accounts, you can maintain security against outside parties’ unwanted attempts to gain access to your data as well as protect your privacy from those you don’t consent to sharing your information with. You really can take back some control over who has access to your data. Here’s how, according to the experts at Wirecutter, a product recommendation site owned by The New York Times Company. Start with these tools, but keep in mind that behavior matters just as much…”
Why Cryptocurrency Investors Are Renouncing Their U.S. Citizenship
The New York Times – “What little privacy people don’t give away, companies tend to take. Given this unfortunate reality, to get complete privacy you’d need to install a labyrinthine series of software tools that make the internet slow and unusable — think specialty Web browsers, encrypted email and chat; virtual private networks; and security-focused incognito operating systems. Or you’d need to stay off the internet altogether. But don’t lose hope. Although total privacy is all but unattainable, you can protect yourself in two ways: Lock down your devices and accounts so they don’t give away your data, and practice cautious behavior online. Getting started is easy. By making a few simple changes to your devices and accounts, you can maintain security against outside parties’ unwanted attempts to gain access to your data as well as protect your privacy from those you don’t consent to sharing your information with. You really can take back some control over who has access to your data. Here’s how, according to the experts at Wirecutter, a product recommendation site owned by The New York Times Company. Start with these tools, but keep in mind that behavior matters just as much…”
Why Cryptocurrency Investors Are Renouncing Their U.S. Citizenship
Something
amiss in live-and-let-live Australia
Has freedom of speech been eliminated in the workplace? Found guilty of a serious breach of his contract with Rugby Australia, Israel Folau is now to be punished on the grounds that he openly expressed his personal – and sincerely held – religious beliefs.
Has freedom of speech been eliminated in the workplace? Found guilty of a serious breach of his contract with Rugby Australia, Israel Folau is now to be punished on the grounds that he openly expressed his personal – and sincerely held – religious beliefs.
A few years ago, it would have been laughable to
think a sports star could be drummed out of his profession simply for having
stated his deep religious convictions about Christian lifestyles. Yet the Bible
is the same; but the countries that sent it out (Australia, UK, U.S., NZ), have changed, and they don’t like the Bible
message now being preached to them. It is an Orwellian, watershed moment.
