In a dying culture, narcissism
embodies the highest attainment
of spiritual enlightenment.
— Christopher Lasch
Dog Person
Prophetic words from the great Philip Dick:
“There will come a time when it isn't 'They're spying on me through my phone' anymore. Eventually, it will be 'My phone is spying on me'.”
Behind the Lines is a travelling annual exhibition developed by Museum of Australian Democracy at Old Parliament House Canberra.
Each year the Behind the Lines exhibition features a broad selection of political cartoons from around Australia, providing an insight into the year in Australian politics and current affairs. This year’s Behind the Lines is swinging at the pinata, passing the parcel, and waiting for the music to stop because the theme is All Fun and Games.
Cartoonists are popping on their party hats and breaking out the bunting while they take us on a journey through the year that was 2023.The exhibition is proudly supported by the National Collecting Institutions Touring and Outreach program, an Australian Government program aiming to improve access to the national collections for all Australians.
Behind the Lines 2023 - All Fun and Games
Strange afternoon after legislative luncheon at the Strangers Dining Room
NEWS: Assassin Used Drone on Saturday to Map Site.
* * *Athletes warned after attacks on Australians in Paris
Senator Linda Reynolds repeatedly leaked confidential correspondence about Brittany Higgins’ compensation, legal documents reveal.
Whom the Gods Want to Destroy, They First Make Mad The Elephant
The Donald Trump Interview Transcript Bloomberg
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USPS shared customer postal addresses with Meta, LinkedIn and Snap TechCrunch
RNC 2024 Day 3 updates: JD Vance touts working class roots in debut as VP nominee ABC
Mass deportation line Politico
In this interview, Errol Morris talks about truth, documentary filmmaking, and AI. “Truth, I like to remind people — whether we’re talking about filmmaking, or film journalism, or journalism, whatever — it’s a quest.”
Ugh. “The people who run publishing companies consistently value quantity over quality. This is stressful for the workers on the ground, the ones who likely chose to work in book publishing in the first place because they actually, you know, like books.” So … outside consultants seem attractive. - LitHub
Jeremy Cooper, the winner of the 2019 Fitzcarraldo Prize, remembers when he had a little cushion of money from selling art and a lot of chutzpah: "I ditched my literary agent Curtis Brown, as they strongly advised me against writing fiction and since then I’ve handled all my work myself.” - The Guardian (UK)
Molly Templeton’s desire is “for us to have the time, the space, the mental bandwidth to welcome uncertainty, to crank up our curiosity and give the weird or confusing or just slightly unexpected books a chance. And I want it to be totally okay and acceptable and normal.” - Reactor Mag
Well, time to write a satire. Or so says Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, the author of Chain Gang All-Stars. - The Guardian (UK)
