Gordon Knight 🎽

Running, writer, trails,トレイルランニング. Marathons: 🇦🇺, 🇯🇵, 🇬🇧, 🇺🇸, 🇳🇱. Raced in 🇸🇪, 🇫🇮, 🇨🇦Mara 🇦🇺3.01.25 HM 🇦🇺1.24.10.

[Gordon Knight 🎽 @GordonlKnight]

In politics & journalism there’s an aspect of twisting the truth for a greater, more noble goal. I’ve worked in both fields. I’ve seen it.
But I’ve never believed my own bullshit. Telling small fibs for a greater goal is diminished if the teller can’t sort fact from fiction.

[precis0x @precisox]

El ingeniero que creó claude code acaba de soltar un video de 28 minutos donde te enseña a escribir prompts que realmente funcionan.

He visto cursos de 300 dólares que no llegan ni a la mitad de lo que explica en los primeros 10 minutos.

Archivos CLAUDE.md, atajos de memoria, sesiones paralelas y patrones de prompting que cambian el juego.

Todo en un solo video y completamente gratis.

Da igual si eres desarrollador, principiante o ya llevas meses usando Claude. Esto te va a volar la cabeza.

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@stevemagness Now ban whoever instituted the stupid no celebration rule.

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@JoshuaBarzon A - that’s easy

[Middle Eastern Affairs @OpsHQs]

"Tel Aviv is witnessing rare civil disobedience. A group of Israeli refuseniks are burning their draft papers on the main street. The reason for refusal: 'We will not kill children in Palestine and Lebanon.' The penalty: military prison. But they insist on going to prison rather than enlisting."

[Kos Samaras @KosSamaras]

The end of the Menzies project. Our Financial Review MRP projects a new political future for this country.

In 1944, Robert Menzies founded the Liberal Party. Two years earlier he had named its base, the “forgotten people”, the suburban middle class, the small businessman, the owner-occupier. With the Country Party, the Coalition that emerged would govern Australia for two-thirds of the next eight decades.

Our latest RedBridge | Accent Research MRP, modelling all 150 seats, suggests that project is ending.

If an election were held now:
• Labor - 31% primary, 76 seats. A majority government.
• One Nation - 28% primary, 53 seats. The Official Opposition.
• Coalition - 21% primary, 12 seats. A rump.
• Independents - 8 seats.
• Greens, KAP, Centre Alliance - one seat.

62 seats change hands. The Coalition loses 37 to One Nation. Labor loses 16 to One Nation. The Coalition wins zero seats in Queensland, WA, SA or Tasmania.

Who votes for whom now:

Labor has become a bimodal coalition (two distinct voter populations rather than one). University-educated, professional inner-metro voters in Grayndler, Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth, Adelaide. Plus the multicultural outer suburbs, Watson, Blaxland, Chifley, Calwell, Bruce, Fowler. Renters and mortgage-holders. Younger. Non-religious in the inner city, Muslim/Hindu/Buddhist/Orthodox/Catholic in the outer suburbs. Two populations, one vote.

One Nation is now the party of the Anglo working class. Regional Queensland, regional NSW, regional Victoria, regional WA. Plus the outer-suburban mortgage belts of every capital, Lindsay, Hawke, Latrobe, Forde, Longman, Canning, Pearce. No university degree. Trades and blue-collar work. Protestant or no religion. English-only households. Mortgage stress and government payments. This is the Coalition’s old base, voting somewhere else.

The Liberal Party is left with a small bucket of seats. Bradfield, Mitchell, Berowra, Cook. Menzies, Deakin, Aston, Goldstein, Flinders. Wannon. High-income, university-educated, Anglo, owner-occupier, 45+. The seats the teals didn’t take in 2022. And even there, the Liberals are surviving on preferences, not primaries.

A caveat on the Melbourne eastern seats, Menzies, Deakin, Aston, Chisholm. The model may not fully capture the impact of the Chinese diaspora vote. Those seats are too close to call.

The LNP wins zero seats in Queensland. The Nationals are projected to nearly be wiped out.

This is what a decade of choices looks like. A decade of not representing people economically. A decade of finding new ways to offend the multicultural communities that used to be persuadable. A decade of assuming the regional and outer-suburban base would stay home no matter what.

The base didn’t stick around for the self indulgence and it found another home.

The Menzies project rested on a “forgotten people” who could see themselves represented by the Liberal Party. They no longer can. They’re voting One Nation.

Labor wins this scenario. But the structural story is on the right of politics. The Coalition is no longer the Opposition. One Nation is.

More details on the MRP can be accessed via the link below.

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@MarkGottlieb Incredibly, even at that price some pubs are doing it tough. It seems everyone is getting screwed.

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@JasonSpaceTime @strangerous10 I think you’ll find her name isn’t What.

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@CitiusMag Stupid rule. I say keep winning and keep getting DQd. The officials will eventually realise they’re killing the sport.

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@MatthewBevan Love the 26’ on the poster. Only promo agencies could get it that wrong. Details.

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@Peter_Fitz The leader we should have had (and so nearly did)

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@TrackGazette No one factoring in that Kennedy ran 9.9 straight after coming back from a massive injury. He’s still coming back. 9.87 for the win?

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@CressidaWetton @fsstnbs Beware of dealing with GB News. Similar ideology to the driver.

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@TKoutsantonisMP @stevegeorganas Says the guy who gave top preference to Family First. #potkettle

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@Michaeldudufudu I’m so glad to see that this post got ratioed. The true ugliness is the question of course, not art.

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@IanRivlin @lady_valor_07 Urgh. You are so gross. 🤢

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@ohhanxiety Yes. And I would gently point out that irregardless is a double negative that means the opposite of regardless.

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@109stitches @dailybritainonx Not just about president and politics. The preparation has been awful. Airports, the Iran vs Egypt game, ICE, ticketing. The whole thing is a mess.

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@dailybritainonx Yes. The airports aren’t equipped to deal with the fan influx; the security isn’t up to standard; fans will be accidentally arrested and jailed by ICE. The whole thing is a mess. FIFA has totally f*^cked this one.

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@DavidFetteroll @cleans_letsrun @AthleticsWeekly @WorldAthletics This has nothing to do with Kenya as a nation. Why aren’t you calling for an India ban? I know why - because despite them also having north of 100 positives the athletes aren’t winning.

Kenyans are being used and abused by Dutch and Italian managers. Time to ban the managers.