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Regulating political misinformation isn’t easy, but it’s necessary to protect democracy

Tue, 5 Dec 2023 23:12:33 +1100

Andrew Pam <xanni [at] glasswings.com.au>

Andrew Pam
<https://theconversation.com/regulating-political-misinformation-isnt-easy-but-its-necessary-to-protect-democracy-216537>

"The recent open letter to the prime minister and parliamentarians broke the
week-long silence from Indigenous leaders after the country rejected the
proposed First Nations Voice to Parliament. The letter emphasised the damage

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Post Mortem on Cloudflare Control Plane and Analytics Outage

Tue, 5 Dec 2023 23:11:09 +1100

Andrew Pam <xanni [at] glasswings.com.au>

Andrew Pam
<https://blog.cloudflare.com/post-mortem-on-cloudflare-control-plane-and-analytics-outage/>

"Beginning on Thursday, November 2, 2023, at 11:43 UTC Cloudflare's control
plane and analytics services experienced an outage. The control plane of
Cloudflare consists primarily of the customer-facing interface for all of our

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A taxonomy of corporate bullshit

Tue, 5 Dec 2023 23:09:56 +1100

Andrew Pam <xanni [at] glasswings.com.au>

Andrew Pam
<https://doctorow.medium.com/https-pluralistic-net-2023-10-27-six-sells-youre-holding-it-wrong-8ba5047abf99>

"There are six lies that corporations have told since time immemorial, and Nick
Hanauer, Joan Walsh and Donald Cohen’s new book Corporate Bullsht: Exposing
the Lies and Half-Truths That Protect Profit, Power, and Wealth in America*

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Whakaari/White Island court case will change the level of accepted risk in NZ’s tourism industry

Tue, 5 Dec 2023 23:06:04 +1100

Andrew Pam <xanni [at] glasswings.com.au>

Andrew Pam
<https://theconversation.com/whakaari-white-island-court-case-will-change-the-level-of-accepted-risk-in-nzs-tourism-industry-216817>

"An Auckland court has found Whakaari Management Limited (WML) guilty of
breaching workplace safety laws relating to the Whakaari/White Island eruption
in 2019. This decision could have implications for anyone involved in adventure

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All Bigotry Is Ignorance, But Not All Ignorance Is Bigotry

Tue, 5 Dec 2023 23:05:13 +1100

Andrew Pam <xanni [at] glasswings.com.au>

Andrew Pam
<https://freedium.cfd/https://medium.com/our-human-family/all-bigotry-is-ignorance-but-not-all-ignorance-is-bigotry-ef0a181f112d>

"Here's an exchange that I see often:

Proud father: "My perspective on women changed when I had a daughter."

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Taming wild northern rivers could harm marine fisheries and threaten endangered sawfish

Tue, 5 Dec 2023 23:03:51 +1100

Andrew Pam <xanni [at] glasswings.com.au>

Andrew Pam
<https://theconversation.com/taming-wild-northern-rivers-could-harm-marine-fisheries-and-threaten-endangered-sawfish-212690>

"Australia’s tropical northern rivers still run wild and free. These relatively
pristine areas have so far avoided extensive development. But this might not
last. There are ongoing scoping studies exploring irrigating agricultural land

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Base Load Solar Power Beamed WIRELESSLY From SPACE?! 🤯

Tue, 5 Dec 2023 14:16:44 +1100

Andrew Pam <xanni [at] glasswings.com.au>

Andrew Pam
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PuvNLtai_54

"Wireless, extra terrestrial, constant renewable energy. Sounds both too good
to be true and totally made up?! We thought so too! Only it turns out that, not
only is it real, it's also technically and economically feasible. In fact, we

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Friday essay: jilted lovers could once sue for breach of promise – did we lose something in abolishing this law?

Tue, 5 Dec 2023 14:15:56 +1100

Andrew Pam <xanni [at] glasswings.com.au>

Andrew Pam
<https://theconversation.com/friday-essay-jilted-lovers-could-once-sue-for-breach-of-promise-did-we-lose-something-in-abolishing-this-law-214840>

Just a few lines to my ever dear Beattie.
My dear love. I am nearly mad.
Dear love, I love the ground you walk upon.

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Never fly again? Go vegan? It was too hard. But I still cut my emissions by 61% and it made life simpler and better

Tue, 5 Dec 2023 14:10:58 +1100

Andrew Pam <xanni [at] glasswings.com.au>

Andrew Pam
<https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/nov/04/never-fly-again-go-vegan-it-was-too-hard-but-i-still-cut-my-emissions-by-61-and-it-made-life-simpler-and-better>

"I’ve been worried about climate change my whole life. When I was a kid we
called it the greenhouse effect and I assumed that, by the time I grew up,
someone else would have fixed it. But no one did.

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I was a ward of the state. The horrors of the Parramatta Girls’ Home were legendary

Tue, 5 Dec 2023 14:10:04 +1100

Andrew Pam <xanni [at] glasswings.com.au>

Andrew Pam
<https://theconversation.com/i-was-a-ward-of-the-state-the-horrors-of-the-parramatta-girls-home-were-legendary-214567>

"Readers are advised this article discusses sexual abuse.

In the Sydney suburb of North Parramatta sits a cluster of very old buildings

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