Sydney sisters with ultra-rare condition dream of first summer safely outdoors
“It’s sad and confronting,” their mother Yvette Walker told news.com.au during an emotional interview. “No amount of UV…
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Cory Doctorow interviewed about enshittification by Jesse Mulligan on on RNZ;
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This is how huge tech platforms like Google and Meta roll; first, they're good to their users; then they abuse them to make things better for business customers, then they exploit their business customers to squeeze out every last bit of value for themselves. Then, they die. That's how author, activist and journalist Cory Doctorow sees tech's slow-motion collapse. He's in New Zealand to meet readers and talk about his latest book about Silicon Valley's big bet on AI called Picks and Shovels.
5pm and on. Dizzy but in a difficult way. Breathing dense cool air, feeling rain on skin and the scent of petrichor in between the houses. A change of days of weather again, head heavy with the wild cloudy skies.
Closing in on 6pm. Counting raindrops. Hills veiled by clouds and remains of fog. A crow screeching, unseen. Quiescing thoughts. Contemplating.
"There's always been this kind of association between psychedelics and ... broadening your mental horizons, maybe experiencing things in ways you wouldn't normally experience them, and that can obviously have quite a profound therapeutic impact."
#DrRobinVanDerSanden, NZ Drugs Research Team, Massey University, 2024
Tested this again a week ago. Can confirm.
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"Well it turns out working more doesn't always increase productivity. For the past 12 months, Cambridge company Te Miro water have been trialing a 9 day fortnight. That's 3 days off every other weekend."
#JesseMulligan, 2025
Closing in on 4pm. Calls starting and ending. Leaving notes on a lot of different lists, tracking time spent, and sometimes amidst these rituals consciously noticing the amount of different balls juggled the last bunch of days. Staring into pale white clouds for a moment, to let eyes focus on something further away than a pale screen - and the mind unfocus for that short period of time.
Here's a great interview with Jeff Wetzler, author of Ask, about asking quality questions, and listening effectively to bring out deep answers;
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