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From this morning’s walk and talk around the park:

Slim Jim looked up and sure enough, he spotted the two really big drones that were constantly circling around the site, keeping an eye on it. They were massive, and not that high up, but he couldn’t hear them. What he could hear was the gnat-like buzz of the much smaller drones they were building and testing out here, the same model he’d been playing with at the pool party in the previous chapter.

Sometimes the dictation AI isn’t quite as intelligent as I assume.

Goldman with the note. For much of the week, our Dollar views were on the wrong side of market moves, but the substantial revisions to the employment situation should, in turn, revise the emerging narrative that the FX reaction to tariffs has changed again. On the tariff narrative, we see three key aspects to our

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Well that was an interesting Friday night with the much anticipated non-farm payroll AKA US unemployment print shocking to the downside, with further revisions to prior month prints finally revealing the impact of the Trump regime’s tariff on the domestic economy. Coupled with the passing of the August 1st tariff “deadline” and King Trump spitting

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I believe that the video-sharing platform YouTube is one of the greatest educational tools available. I use YouTube daily to solve a variety of problems and learn information. My 14 year-old daughter has used YouTube ‘How-to’ videos to learn arts and crafts, solve maths problems, fix her phone and computer, learn about history, learn how

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Another Monday Message Board. Post comments on any topic. Civil discussion and no coarse language please. Side discussions and idees fixes to the sandpits, please.

I’m now using Substack as a blogging platform, and for my monthly email newsletter. For the moment, I’ll post both at this blog and on Substack. You can also follow me on Mastodon here.

In understanding history, more is required than just a litany of facts. An explanatory framework is needed—a theory or argument concerning the significance and interrelationships between those facts, or a “model” as Robert Higgs put it:

Prominent Sydney real estate agent and auctioneer Tom Panos believes that Australia is moving into a “seller’s market” following a series of highly successful auction weekends. “We’re definitely moving towards a sellers market”, Panos said in his weekend market wrap on YouTube. “It’s not quite there yet, but when you’re getting 100% out of 100,

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Very much in the news with the genocide in Gaza is the philosophy or ideology of Zionism and attempts by pro-Israel lobby groups to conflate antisemitism with antizionism, with the bogus ‘report’ to the Australian government by Jillian Segal being a case in point1.

People in Japan experienced their hottest July on record this year, with no respite in sight for some.

Officials warn that the northern and western regions of the country will continue to see "severe heat" in August.

Japan's average monthly temperature in July was 2.89 degrees Celsius higher than the 1991-2020 average for the same month, the nation's meteorological agency said on Friday.

Tasmania’s Hare-Clark system is proportional, but it’s not purely proportional. Each division elects seven members, and results are not just about how many votes each party receives – results are dependent on how preferences flow and how votes split within each party’s ticket.

Yet the Tasmanian election produced an almost perfect result when it comes to proportionality. While Tasmanian elections usually produce more proportional results than we see under other electoral systems in Australia, this one has produced the most proportional result in at least 46 years.

NSW sovereign investor TCorp has invested in a joint venture rolling out wind, solar and battery hybrid projects in Spain.

Queensland, the country's least renewable state, and now with the least supportive government, reaches a new record share of 77.5 per cent wind and solar.