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    Aug 4

    My new piece in looks at Scott Morrison’s populism. It’s more sophisticated and harder to combat than it first seems.

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  2. 10 hours ago

    Of all the art forms, has music fared best out of the internet age? Spotify has destroyed the business model, but musicianship has significantly increased in quality. Many professional musicians from the 1980s would struggle to match teenagers on YouTube.

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  3. 11 hours ago

    This has already had more than 42,000 downloads. Thank you for listening, and all the feedback, positive and negative.

    I’m on the this morning, talking over my COVID contrarianism piece from the weekend. Hope you enjoy it.
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  4. 18 hours ago

    I’m on the this morning, talking over my COVID contrarianism piece from the weekend. Hope you enjoy it.

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  5. 18 hours ago

    The debate about ‘failure to distance from white supremacists’ doesn’t transplant so well over here.

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  6. 18 hours ago

    One of the stars of this film, Lauren Southern, is now a feature of mainstream Australian media. She claims she has modified her views, though has not specified which ones.

    On October 21, The Atlantic will release “White Noise”—its first feature film, all about white nationalism and the rise of the alt-right. Watch the trailer now:
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  7. 20 hours ago

    Another characteristically great piece, this time remembering Helen Reddy.

    My obituary of for (wth some great images and clips):
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  8. Sep 30

    Since 2010, users of a single white nationalist website, Stormfront, have been responsible for more than 100 murders between them.

    As someone who spent two months covering the aftermath of the most widespread riots in at least 50 years, this never-ending fixation with illusory organized "white supremacist" groups couldn't be more absurd. It's 99% a media invention totally disconnected from reality
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  9. Sep 30

    Seeing it's the 21st century's most significant art-form so far, trolling is under-theorised.

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    Sep 30

    Some people asked how “shitshow” was translated into Japanese. Asahi Shimbun, one of our major national newspapers, translated as くそみたいなショー (Kuso mitai na shō): “a show that is like shit”.

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  11. Sep 30

    Spot on.

    For me the saddest thing about this whole Trump presidency has been finding out that people I knew, liked and respected, including some guys I coached support this racist, misogynistic, narcissistic person. Painfully disappointing revelations.
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  12. Sep 30

    Also that we don’t empathize enough with the fans of this destruction.

    Woke up this morning thinking about how the demand for journalistic "objectivity" basically labels journalists unprofessional if we don't coolly and neutrally cover the quest for our own destruction.
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  13. Sep 30

    Returned to this interview after the debate. Jürgen Habermas's ideas about the public sphere and legitimation crises are useful for understanding: it's not a space where meaning can be made any more.

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  14. Sep 29

    Call to arms, answered.

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  15. Sep 29

    The reviews are in.

    The lowest point in American political culture in my lifetime.
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  16. Sep 29

    I can’t access the levels of pundit brain required to scorecard that.

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  17. Sep 29

    Respected presidential biographer saying this is worse than Watergate.

    No hyperbole: The incumbent’s behavior this evening is the lowest moment in the history of the presidency since Andrew Johnson’s racist state papers.
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  18. Sep 29

    Sweating, sighing and a single moment of shouting were all once considered debate-losing faux pas. That was silly, but this is worse.

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  19. Sep 29

    The international response to this seems to be...nausea. Genuine, sick-making despair about the state of America right now.

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  20. Sep 29

    So how did the United States fall into this gerontocratic period.

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  21. Sep 29

    [unintel] ready on the copy-and-paste

    pour one out for transcribers
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