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Ben Harris-Roxas
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I’m happy for you or sorry that happened.

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Public Health 27%
Medicine 16%
Lots of excitement backstage at the Coldest 100. Kick-off at noon AEST
#coldest100 #hottest100

This short is def worth a look m.youtube.com/watch?v=fVoo...
12:01 PM (1990) - Best quality available
YouTube video by matters5
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No Omniloop either. Or even Deja Vu, which is a better (messier) film than many on that list.

I see the William Bede Dalley h8er has entered the chat.

The luminaries who pioneered this field in Australia onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
Gary Larson: In my cartoon I invented Cow Tools as a cautionary tale

Cows: At long last, we have created the Cow Tools from classic newspaper comic Cow Tools

By 2030 will we see a new rule emerge, where the ALP primary = 2x Greens primary?

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New #PhD paper out! 📢

We interviewed 10 social media experts from Australian health departments & 11 young people about social media health communication, focussing on #COVID-19 experiences for future preparedness.

More in thread & link :
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

#AcademicSky 🛟 🧪 🦘🎓
Using Social Media for Public Health Communication to Young People: A Qualitative Study to Inform Emergency Preparedness
The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the role of social media for official health communication, especially for young people who rarely engage with other public health agency channels. This study expl...
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*fictional

These people are giving the factional fascist post-apocalyptic police-judiciary of Megacity One a bad name.

“And then I realised, it’s not census date yet.”

Combined hot-desking open plan this seems positively idyllic.

💯

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Albany's heritage-listed skate park 'The Snake Run' celebrates its 50th birthday
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01...
'Living the dream': Growing up with Australia's first skate park
Australia is home to one of the world's oldest surviving skate parks, which is as much a product of surfing culture as it is a time capsule of skating history.
www.abc.net.au

This is quite an important read: The Age of Academic Slop is Upon Us
The Age of Academic Slop is Upon Us
what happens when AI automates "normal science"?
hegemon.substack.com

Yes agreed! The labour is just in a form Graeber doesn’t value.

I’ve been thinking a bit about where I expend my time and energy and I’ve realised admin work is cognitively shallow but emotionally noisy.

This is probably obvious to many but was kind of revelatory to me. It doesn’t need brainpower but involves a tonne of emotional labour.

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wow!

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One of the few positives about the last decade or so is people are starting to get hip to the fact that the Luddites were right all along.

Forget you Now You See Me nonsense, this is magic I can get behind.
Ben Harris-Roxas
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If you haven’t done it already you’re just lazy.

Heatwaves across south-eastern Australia from Wednesday, projected to be the worst in six years: https://benhr.xyz/2026/01/05/heatwaves-across-southeastern-australia-from.html
Heatwaves across south-eastern Australia from Wednesday, projected to be the worst in six years
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That’s the main thing I took from Maimonides

I spent the holidays watching 37 solarpunk films and it turned out to be unexpectedly moving. What stays with me: these aren't escapist fantasies. They're imaginative rehearsals for futures we might actually build.
Imagining a better future: What I learned from solarpunk films
The author has been compiling a growing list of solarpunk films, defining the genre as depicting ecological restoration, community-focused solutions, and hopeful futures. Through examining various …
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"”Tuvalu’s first climate migrants have arrived in Australia, marking the beginning of a historic relocation as rising seas threaten to swallow their island home… Among the Pacific people selected in the initial intake of climat... https://benhr.xyz/2026/01/04/tuvalus-first-climate-migrants-have.html
Ben Harris-Roxas
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Slop :(

Geordie no: broligarch
Geordie yes: extractigarch

I feel comfortable characterising things that nobody could be bothered to write as not being worth reading, i.e. slop.
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella says people should move beyond calling AI 'slop'

"We need to get beyond the arguments of slop vs sophistication and develop a new equilibrium ... that accounts for humans being equipped with these new cognitive amplifier tools as we relate to each other"