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Father of two small boys. Reader of books, Saints FC fan, climate worrier, Luddite. Free Palestine.

A stack of books, top to bottom: Atlas of AI : power, politics, and the planetary costs of artificial intelligence / Kate Crawford Woodside vs the planet : how a company captured a country / Marian Wilkinson Terraform : watch / worlds / burn / edited by Brian Merchant and Claire L. Evans American war / Omar El Akkad Alone together : why we expect more from technology and less from each other / Sherry Turkle Perfect victims and the politics of appeal / Mohammed El-Kurd Discipline / Randa Abdel-Fattah The AI con : how to fight big tech's hype and create the future we want / Emily M. Bender and Alex Hanna Deaths of despair and the future of capitalism / Anne Case, Angus Deaton
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A stack of books, top to bottom: One day, everyone will have always been against this / Omar El Akkad Conspiracy nation : exposing the dangerous world of Australian conspiracy theories / Ariel Bogle and Cam Wilson Terra nullius / Claire G. Coleman The idea of Australia : a search for the soul of the nation / Julianne Schultz Taming Silicon Valley : how we can ensure that AI works for us / Gary Marcus Survival of the richest : escape fantasies of the tech billionaires / Douglas Rushkoff Better things are possible : how rebellious hope will change the world / by Jack Toohey The yield / Tara June Winch Living democracy : an ecological manifesto for the end of the world as we know it / Tim Hollo
A football. Credit: Wikipedia
A stack of books, top to bottom: No friend but the mountains : the true story of an illegally imprisoned refugee / Behrouz Boochani The first man / Albert Camus Clear / Carys Davies Siddhartha : an Indian tale / Herman Hesse Forest of noise : poems / Mosab Abu Toha The origins of totalitarianism / Hannah Arendt Terra nullius / Claire G. Coleman John & Paul : a love story in songs / Ian Leslie
Ryan Manning arguing with a linesman while an unmarked Derby player receives a throw in to put in an unchallenged cross that results in a goal.
Quotes attributable to the Minister for Social Services, Tanya Plibersek “Thanks to indexation, millions of Aussies will receive a boost to their payment to help them cover everyday costs like groceries and healthcare. The government wants to help take the pressure off when it comes to cost of living. “Social security recipients are also benefitting from tax cuts, cheaper medicines, energy bill relief, cuts to student debt and a whole range of other cost of living measures we’ve delivered since coming into Government. “The social security system must be grounded in fairness, which is why we adjust supports as the economy changes. “We’ll continue to make sure the system is there to support those who need it most, ensuring that everyone can make ends meet and no one gets left behind.”
Reports describe confiscation or theft of cash, checks, mobile phones, computers, watches, children's piggy-bank savings, credit cards, gold jewelry, and vehicles. In some cases, soldiers leave behind a form of documentation – a paper Palestinians refer to as a "receipt." Even then, these forms often omit parts of what was taken. In many cases, no official pretense is made at all: after the raid, family members – who were held in one room at gunpoint – are released, only to discover that valuables and cash are missing. From Ya'bad in the north to Halhul and Hebron in the south, from refugee camps to private homes and commercial properties, victims describe strikingly similar experiences.
'Can I die, please?' At Nasser Hospital, in the city of Khan Yunis, the statistics take on real form. "You cope every day with cases of trauma, blast injuries and shrapnel," says Dr. Goher Rahbour, a British surgeon who returned home last week from a month at the Gaza hospital. "Every two or three days, there was a mass-casualty event, and then the ER was totally flooded, complete chaos." One case that remains engraved indelibly in Rahbour's memory is that of a 15-year-old boy whose entire family was killed and who had himself been wounded and left paralyzed. "He has shrapnel going through the spinal cord, so he is paraplegic, which means he's got no sensation below the waist or the belly button. "He's lived in Gaza for 15 years, he knows what's coming next, what's waiting in Gaza for a 15-year-old boy in a wheelchair. No family, no physiotherapy, all these things that we take for granted. "So he goes around in the hospital and says to us, 'Can I die, please?'"
BBC graphic of Opta stats on chances of relegation on 3 January 2025 showing Saints at 99.5%
A copy of The Men Who Killed The News by Eric Beecher