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My parody of the repeal of New Zealand’s pay equity legislation - Salary Sticks - is out in The Listener (print first). It was fun to write – but the point is serious.

Much economic reasoning in policy today still:
→ masks its politics
→ mocks its challengers
→ is gendered *all the way down*

Beautiful bioluminescence down the local beach 🌊

FML.

A Revived Focus on an Unproven Link Between Tylenol and Autism www.nytimes.com/2025/09/05/h...

most American political scientists making political maps of America have never even seen this map

#Delphi is one of the most interesting AI developments sociologically. But most current sociologists can’t engage with it because their theory of the self, identity and mind, is no different from Delphi’s business pitch.

If you prosecute parents, you may be subject to judicial review.

Parents of neurodiverse children are prepared to pursue legal recourse against governments that repeatedly fail to provide inclusive education—breaching the CRPD, Human Rights Act, and Education and Training Act 2020.

To understand #adifferentkindofpower, start with this brief 2019 biography which I got for my boys:

2. The women using their political power to scrap that legalization without consultation are indeed prepared (as this, apparently conservative, opinion writer puts it) to…

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Thank you, again, Black woman (whoever you are!). I’m grateful for these filters, because who wants any of this in their nonfiction break/bed time?

We find an unconditional $3000/yr for babies and toddlers in NZ reduced child protective services’ referrals, and findings of neglect for single mother families