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Can you see yourself as the King or Queen of Australia? Or your kids, a mate from school, someone you work with? We already have an Australian Crown — we just still have a British monarch wearing it. All it takes is replacing the monarch with an elected Australian, keeping everything else as it is. … Read more

There is a question at the heart of the contemporary conflict over the land of Israel and Palestine that is rarely asked directly — because the answer is more complicated and more important than either side of the political debate usually acknowledges. The question is this: in the tradition that grounds the territorial claim, is … Read more

There is a claim at the centre of contemporary Zionist politics that deserves to be examined on its own terms rather than simply accepted or rejected on political grounds. The claim is this: God gave the land of Israel to the Jewish people through an ancient covenant, and that covenant establishes an absolute and permanent … Read more

There is an idea so old it appears in Leviticus and so radical it has never been fully implemented — and so structurally precise that it addresses the housing crisis, the concentration of wealth, and the breakdown of social cohesion in a single move. It is the Jubilee land tenure principle. And it deserves a … Read more

Here is a stream from ChatGPT where it cannot decide on the correct answer and progressively looses its cool. The topic is Korean grammar. Here is the question: What is 추다 conjugation to (ㅂ)습니다 Answer from ChatGPT:

https://theconversation.com/first-robodebt-now-ndis-and-aged-care-how-computers-still-decide-who-gets-care-280711 Some interesting points, and all relevant to algorithmic assessment – in this case for the elderly and impacting on the government support they receive. Some relevant quotes: The key ethical problems in algorithmic decision-making relate to opacity, discretion and accountability. In other words, problems relate to whether the people affected can see how the system works, … Read more

https://theconversation.com/demosau-gives-labor-one-of-its-worst-poll-results-this-term-280270 Here are some quotes The Poll Bludger reported a national DemosAU poll for Capital Brief that was conducted April 8–14 from a sample of 1,439. Primary votes were 26% Labor (down three since the February DemosAU poll), 26% One Nation (down two), 23% Coalition (up two), 13% Greens (up one) and 12% for all Others (up two). … Read more

This is a genuine question, not a rhetorical one. If you supported Donald Trump — if you still do — what do you see in him that others are missing? Not the media caricature, not the opposition’s version. What did he represent to you, and does he still? Because the grievances that brought him to … Read more

The Guardian has published a detailed account of the theology animating Pete Hegseth’s conduct as US Secretary of Defense — the Crusader tattoos, the Pentagon worship services, the framing of the Iran war as divinely sanctioned, the school bombing that killed more than 175 people, most of them children, met without remorse. It is worth … Read more