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I am having a Time with routines right now. If the disintegration of my extracurricular habits corresponded to getting more work done, it'd be one thing, but... it doesn't.

Current and stale affairs, hot and cold takes:


Good News:


Longer political and/or climate science
  • McKenzie Funk (NYT), How ICE picks its targets in the Surveillance Age. Chilling.
  • Jordan Weissman (Slate Moneybox), $20k health insurance is the new normal. Americans are getting ripped off.. And people WANT to Americanise the Australian system, or the NHS. The illogic.
  • Rick Morton (Saturday Paper), Exclusive: aged care sector at risk of collapse.
    The $320 million was the minimum amount needed to prevent some of the biggest aged-care companies in the country from defaulting on their loan covenants or facing a hike in their borrowing costs.
    The government was particularly worried about private multinational Bupa, which currently faces sanctions or serious risk notices over a third of its 72 facilities around the country. Liquidity was also an issue for Japara, Estia and Regis, the three aged-care giants listed on the Australian Stock Exchange.



Longer historical, cultural, scientific, misc
  • Lynne Buckler Walsh (Now and Then blog, June 2013), Florence Mary Taylor, architect. Didn't design Regent Street Station, was a pretty cool person.
  • Richard Smyth with Mark Cocker (History Extra, May 2018), The fight for the right to ramble. More on the Kinder Scout trespass
  • Michelle Boorstein (WaPo), During the Jewish high holidazs there's a growing awareness that not all US Jews are white.
  • Caroline Kitchener, interview with Sarah Hill (The Lily), What does the astonishing lack of birth control research mean for our bodies?
  • Amrhein, Greenland and McShane, with signatories (Nature.com), Scientists rise up against statistical significance. I don't know enough about stats to know if their proposed alternatives are sound, but I recognise some of the key problems (my stint in compensation policy for the govt was an eye-opener for statistical significance).
  • Jayshri Kulkarni (Conversation AU Curious Kids), Why does my older sister not want to play lego with me anymore and stays in her room? This is just an excellent example of sensible balanced advice.
  • Lucia Osborne-Crowley (Meanjin blog), The Paradox of Dependence:
    The paradox of dependence is that men tell us in big and small ways that they cannot bear the thought of us depending on them, so we perform non-dependence because it is the only way we can hold on to our human need for connection. For women, this performance is a prerequisite for love. And because we are human, and because we have needs, we need love just like everybody else does.
    I use the phrase ‘non-dependence’ here because I need to make desperately clear that we are not talking about independence, not really. ‘Independence’ is the wrong word for this evasive quality we are taught to chase. It is not independence at all because true independence is inward-looking and self-defining. What is being asked of us here is wholly dreamt up by others.
    Performing non-dependence is not about us at all, but rather about reading him carefully enough to know exactly what kind of un-needy-ness he—ironically—needs.

    I'm still waiting for a decent queer essay in this genre, but as far as Straight Women Writing About Dating Men goes this is a pretty good one.
  • Leah Schnelbach (Electric Lit), 11 books to read if you miss being a horrible goose. I regret to report that I enjoy the Cultural Phenomenon of the Horrible Goose more than I enjoy actually playing Horrible Goose, but boy do I enjoy the Cultural Phenomenon.

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