“Excess of information goes hand in hand with a culture of forgetting. The mass of information produces a blind life with no possible roots or continuity.” Jacques Ellul, The Technological Bluff, 1988

The winner.

Here's the full piece: semafor.com/article/04/27/…

this makes me very happy

'60 Minutes' previews interview with Anduril CEO Palmer Luckey, May 2025.

In my opinion, the Russia-Ukraine meeting went as well as it could. It was not reasonable to expect more in a first meeting. At least the two sides are speaking after more than 3 years.

RIP Mustafa Ayyorkun (7 January 2004-3 June 2025) 🕯️ The young Turkish rider of Spor Toto team passed away after a crash in the last stage of Tour of Iran. I took this video of him in last year's Tour of Istanbul. 💔🇹🇷

The United States condemns the sanctions imposed by the governments of United Kingdom, Canada, Norway, New Zealand, and Australia on two sitting members of the Israeli cabinet. These sanctions do not advance U.S.-led efforts to achieve a ceasefire, bring all hostages home, and

This is probably the single most important geopolitical analysis that I’ve heard this year, if not this decade. Hugh White is widely recognized as one of Australia’s foremost strategic thinkers. He was the inaugural Director of the Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI)

Lavrov criticized the IAEA Director for demanding to know where Iran's enriched uranium is stored. What guarantees are there that the IAEA will not leak this information to the US or Israel? — Arms control will not be the same after this surprise attack; everyone will lose.

Robert Kagan speaks about US and Europe and offers some advice youtu.be/hVpySk_VNDI?si…

Who would have thought Aus / US relations aren’t in sync? youtu.be/u_HwJCZVI7o?si…

Ok, this has little to do with endurance, but I do not care😂

Incredible image

Shein displays an AI-generated model resembling Luigi Mangione wearing a spring/summer shirt on its website, August 2025.

International migrants as a share of population, in OECD countries, 2024 🇨🇭 Switzerland: 31.1% 🇦🇺 Australia: 30.4% 🇳🇿 New Zealand: 28.2% 🇦🇹 Austria: 25.5% 🇮🇸 Iceland: 25.1% 🇮🇪 Ireland: 23.1% 🇨🇦 Canada: 22.2% 🇸🇪 Sweden: 21.4% 🇧🇪 Belgium: 20.0% 🇩🇪 Germany: 19.8% 🇪🇸 Spain: 18.5% 🇳🇴

Aussies pay more tax on beer than international gas companies pay on tens of billions of dollars worth of our offshore gas they export.

Canadian residential property market: CAD$8.5T Australian residential property market: CAD$11.6T Canadian population: 41.5m Australian population: 27.6m

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All those thirsting for coal to chems in Aus need to consider that so long as we control the cows, we can barter some cheese.