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  It's all going to be OK now that Milli Vanilli are making a comeback!

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  Andrew Probyn thinks Morrison's secret ministries soils his reputation. He's forgetting all the other times Morrison soiled himself. Laura Tingle gets it right when she says the scandal shreds the last vestige of Morrison. Maybe Jordan Peterson can buck him up. #auspol

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  https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/nov/30/we-cant-banish-scott-morrison-to-pluto-but-he-has-been-censured-and-we-will-always-have-that

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  Shame on Sarah Ferguson and the ABC 7:30 Report for their grubby treatment of Finnish PM Sanna Marin last night. I once respected Ferguson but no more. She's been got at. The ABC needs to be purged of the COALition hacks. We need our Auntie back.

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  Fabulous concert last night by the Australian Youth Orchestra. Program & performances ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐. Good dynamics especially the pianissimo - gripping, intense, sometimes even menacing. Great that the finale of Ford's The Meaning of Trees wasn't spoiled in pre-publicity. I felt quite accused and fair enough too! https://www.ayo.com.au/content/australian-youth-orchestra-in-concert/gjge1w

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  Listening to Handel's Messiah since it's Xmas. The Isaiah text has me wondering why an omniscient, supernatural being needs to rely on threats and violence in its futile attempts to elicit better behaviour from us (especially less threats and violence). Maybe it should try modelling the behaviour it expects.

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  I find Christmas a good time to listen again to the much-missed John Clarke's scholarly treatise on Australian Poetry from ABC RN's Poetica archive. https://abcmedia.akamaized.net/rn/podcast/2009/02/pca_20090207.mp3

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  Don't be put off by the graphic this is Al Franken gold. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=drANEpCKUjg

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  It shouldn't be surprising that the magnificent universe that a few centuries of scientific inquiry has revealed to us utterly shades the imaginings of a few bronze-age mystics. And what about the primes or Riemann zeta function non-trivial zeroes... How the solar system travels through the galaxy! https://twitter.com/i/status/1608814391230709761

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  @sean@blacksun.social and the New York Times STILL describes them as "conservatives". They need new words.

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  If you're worried about big tech, search and weirdo rabbit warrens you ain't seen nothing yet. Microsoft's new, much vaunted and AI-enhanced Bing is MUCH worse than you could imagine. Steer clear and don't let your mad uncle near it either. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/16/technology/bing-chatbot-microsoft-chatgpt.html