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Experiences in Groups | Lily Scherlis The more experienced attendees explain that here, one’s individual experience is seen as a symptom of the group’s dynamics. If someone is physically ill, it is because the system needs to eject someon...

“What are you competing at?” I ask. “Is there a way to be good at this?”
“No,” says Paul.
“Well . . .” says the Expert, who does seem like an expert.
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Common antidepressant could help reduce domestic violence, study shows The findings are significant not just because of how much the trial reduced domestic violence, but because only a few years ago it drew fierce criticism from women's advocates and politicians.

The findings are significant not just because of how much the trial reduced domestic violence, but because only a few years ago it drew fierce criticism from women's advocates and politicians.

America’s Polarization Has Become the World's Side Hustle The 'psyops' revealed by X are entirely the fault of the perverse incentives created by social media monetization programs.

X's location "transparency" feature showing many MAGA accounts are based internationally reveals what we already knew: The world is using American social media and American politics as a slot machine and social media companies are directly incentivizing this:

www.404media.co/americas-pol...

China's confrontation with Japan undermines its own economic interests China's escalating confrontation with Japan is colliding directly with its attempt to join one of the world's most demanding trade agreements.

China's escalating confrontation with Japan is colliding directly with its attempt to join one of the world's most demanding trade agreements.

Siale noooo

In an Australia first, I used FOI to get the AI chat logs of Australia's top national security bureaucrat.

They show how he used Microsoft Copilot to ghostwrite speeches and messages to colleagues.

This comes as the government looks to push AI use in the public service.
www.crikey.com.au/20...

'Broad, unspoken consensus': silent Labor MPs want action on gambling Andrew Wilkie has asked the PM to allow a free vote on banning gambling advertising and it appears many Labor MPs would support it.

“Labor sources have told ABC Investigations the prime minister's office has been putting pressure on advocates for gambling reform within the parliamentary Labor party to prevent them from speaking up.”

Worth reading Steve Cannane’s analysis today.

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...

'Broad, unspoken consensus': silent Labor MPs want action on gambling Andrew Wilkie has asked the PM to allow a free vote on banning gambling advertising and it appears many Labor MPs would support it.

“Over a dozen Labor MPs, including senior figures in the party, have told ABC Investigations they want action on gambling reform.”

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...

uh i would say it's mildly alarming that the Trump administration is using its sanction powers to compel tech companies into taking its critics offline.

First, the ICC's chief investigator says he was blocked from his Microsoft-hosted email after US sanctions. Now, this

Trump claimed victory in Busan — but Xi was writing the script Donald Trump's gains are immediate and personal while Xi Jinping's are quiet, reversible, and strategic

#Analysis So what did Busan actually tell us?

If we want to understand US-China-Taiwan after Busan, we shouldn't obsess over what was announced. We should stare at what was deliberately unsaid and ask why leaders who talk so loudly at home chose to stay quiet when they were finally face to face.

Google might be killing the open web, completely ruining most media outlets' chances at survival and making sure no one finds our journalism but I gotta say... Chrome's new split tab thing is so useful as an editor

fun fact: Google's AI summary mentions facts only in my article that are behind the paywall.

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(Exclusive.) Bari Weiss this week clocks up four weeks on the job as chief booker (sorry, editor-in-chief) of CBS News. Breaker hears that she has unimpressed staffers with a series of bold ideas in the 9 am call. Last week, following the jewel heist at The Louvre, Weiss suggested they interview author Dan Brown. Staffers questioned what expertise in the matter Brown would provide CBS News viewers? Brown is well known as the bestselling author of the 2003 mystery novel, The Da Vinci Code, about a murder at The Louvre. On Tuesday’s 9 am call, Weiss suggested a story about how people who are scared of climate change aren’t having children. “She is showing her worst self,” one CBS News journalist told Breaker. “People are running to avoid her.”

Lmao what (from today's Breaker newsletter)

A Tool That Crushes Creativity AI slop is winning.

"A world of creativity without craft".

www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

Scoop: The federal government was warned last month that 1 in 3 parents plan to help their kids get around the social media ban.

The risk of "non-compliance snowballing and becoming normalised" could "undermine" the ban, the report says, based on polling done in Feb/March

www.crikey.com.au/20...

ok i am about to start filing FOI requests

Journalists turn in access badges, exit Pentagon rather than agree to new reporting rules Journalists at the Pentagon turned in access badges and cleaned out their workspaces, the price for refusing to agree to new restrictions on their jobs at the seat of U.S. military power.

Journalists turn in access badges, exit Pentagon rather than agree to new reporting rules

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‘My eyes are stinging, but damn it, they’re open’: surviving a 12-hour Twilight marathon in the year 2025 Breaking both dawn and sanity, Twilight fan Jared Richards heads to the cinema to watch all five films for the 20th anniversary of Stephenie Meyer’s vampiric bestseller

‘My eyes are stinging, but damn it, they’re open’: surviving a 12-hour Twilight marathon in the year 2025

A tiny new button in your search bar could kill the open web The launch of 'AI Mode' ushers in a future where news sites are kept alive to train AI chatbots for a US tech company.

"News sites are the canaries in the coalmine.

This is about the biggest change to the web in 20 years, one that will affect how you access information and what you read and watch."

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

People are using ChatGPT twice as much as they were last year. They’re still just as skeptical of AI in news. "For news organizations, our findings are in some ways bitter medicine."

People are using AI to research topics, answer factual questions, and ask for advice.

In essence, they're increasingly using it for tasks that were once the primary domain of search engines and, by extension, news publishers. www.niemanlab.org/2025/10/peop...

When you first heard me speak against this genocide, you heard my words as betrayal. But they were meant as love | Sarah Schwartz Not speaking would go against everything I was taught to honour: the righteous among the nations – those who refused to be bystanders to injustice

"I wish I had told you, before our dinners grew cold, that one day I would speak loudly. Not to wound, but because not speaking would betray everything I was taught to honour.
Because for me, love is not blind loyalty – to an ideology, a state or even a community"
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Google is ramping up AI. Here's why that may be bad for news sites One year on from the rollout of Google AI Overviews in Australia, exclusive data shows steep year-on-year declines in readership for the top news websites as smaller publishers warn of lay-offs.

Google is ramping up AI. Here's why that may be bad for news sites: https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2025-10-08/how-googles-ai-overviews-are-affecting-australian-news-websites/105839588

Scoop: OpenAI has signed its first ever Australia government contract, quietly inking a deal with Treasury amid the ChatGPT-maker's charm offensive on policymakers.

This modest contract is an ideal foothold into future, more lucrative deals, according to one firm's analysis.
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Three citation urls that include the source being chatgpt.

Hard to figure out sometimes whether submissions were made using AI, but then sometimes they make it fairly easy.

Favourite legal newsletter Headnote says read the piece!

Gravity Let Me Go by Trent Dalton review – ocker crime caper plagued by more than a beleaguered ballsack The bestseller’s fourth novel could have tackled timely questions about true crime – but instead it offers a bleakly retrograde fable about being a good bloke

"Dalton’s fourth novel is a wife-guy manifesto, an uxorious fable. It’s bleakly retrograde: women as redeemers; men as awestruck limpets; love as an unyielding grip."

www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...

Wrote about anxiety about the creep of artificial intelligence into the courts and concerns that the use of these tools could erode Australia’s core judicial values

Anthony Albanese is taking a victory lap on the teen social media ban before we know how — let alone if — it works You’d be forgiven for assuming that the government’s victory lap meant it had settled details like what social media companies are in the ban, or how well the ban has to be enforced. It hasn’t.

2 bits of new info in my piece:

- eSafety Commissioner will say which platforms that it considers in the teen social media ban
- Communication Minister has not asked the Privacy Commissioner for advice on what data social media companies may not collect

Meet Chad Profitz, Australia's best LinkedIn creator Rarely professional, Chad might just be what the networking platform needs most.

RIP Chad Profitz (who was deactivated after posting too close to the sun). Will love you 4eva.

www.capitalbrief.com/article/meet...

Article excerpt: Other states followed as police departments began to disclose in the 2010s that they systemically failed to test DNA evidence in rape cases. Meanwhile, a growing body of research found that police regularly performed inadequate rape investigations, deciding reports were unfounded before interviewing witnesses, collecting evidence or testing DNA. Across the country, most reports of rape do not result in prosecution, research shows.  ”They judge the victim,” said Michigan State University professor Rebecca Campbell, who has authored multiple studies on how police conduct rape investigations. “That’s what I found in my research, and it’s been replicated by other research teams and other jurisdictions throughout the United States.”

Research shows police regularly perform inadequate rape investigations and fail to test for DNA evidence. That has led lawmakers across the country to extend their statutes of limitations.

This hasn’t happened in Massachusetts.

👉 Read more (w/ @wbur.org):
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