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[dan nolan @dannolan]

Nothing is a better example of the boomers waning grip on power than how massive Halloween is now in Australia

[clara the urbanist @SlopHq]

im four beers deep and i need everyone to understand that wikipedia is the last good thing. millions of strangers agreed to write down everything for free and then argue about citations forever. no ads. no paywall. this should not exist and it does and i'm crying about it

[J. Ryder🪿 @harbingerofwoke]

I strongly believe that a lot of Zohran’s success comes from the fact that he’s the first decent Machiavellian we’ve had on the American left in decades and we desperately need more

[David Madden @davidjmadden]

Universities don't need to "teach students to use AI well." The whole point of AI is that it doesn't require any skill. Universities *should* teach students how to write and research on their own, and foster an ethic of shaming people who outsource their basic ability to think.

[Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb]

Some fields work in theory but not in practice. Some fields work in practice but not theory.
The uniqueness of economics is that it works in neither theory nor practice.

[Prof. Steve Keen @ProfSteveKeen]

@lajohnstondr Economics deserves a backlash. Neoclassical economics should have died in the 1930s with mathematical (Perron-Frobenius), logical (Sraffa), empirical (prevalence of falling marginal cost) and historical (Great Depression) anomalies. It is a zombie ideology kept alive by ignorance

[Cameron Murray @DrCameronMurray]

"The way superannuation is mostly covered by the media in this country is about how to avoid paying tax and how to use it to fund inheritance.
...
I look forward to the SMH and others providing advice on how people on jobseeker can work for cash to avoid losing any benefits and paying extra tax."

[Australia Institute @TheAusInstitute]

Australia’s Vice-Chancellors – the ‘CEOs’ of today’s corporatised university sector – are among the highest paid in the world.

Adjusting for inflation, Vice-Chancellors were paid about $300,000 per year in 1985; today’s figure is over $1 million.

@JackLThrower #auspol

[Alison Barnes @AlisonBarnes25]

Vice-chancellors who used the proposed caps as a smokescreen to threaten jobs must now abandon their terrible plans and apologise to the staff whose livelihoods were used as a political football.

[dan nolan @dannolan]

Don’t worry. This is very good for the Sydney property market

[Australia Institute @TheAusInstitute]

"We're often told that our economy is based on mining and gas company production, but it rides more on the backs of beer drinkers."

Chief Economist Greg Jericho speaking at the Senate Economics Committee

@GrogsGamut #auspol

[Jon Piccini @JonPiccini]

Sending an urgent missive to Arthur Phillip