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The Conversation: How misreading Google Trends is fuelling Bondi attack conspiracy theories. “Google told the ABC Google Trends may sometimes show searches when none actually happened due to ‘statistical noise’. I have studied the mechanics of Google Trends extensively in my research, and I can confirm this is true – and the ‘noise’ can lead to strange results, especially when looking at […]

University of Rochester: When people see themselves in science, they trust it more. “White men make up about two-thirds of the scientific workforce in the United States, and nearly all scientists—92 percent—are from non-rural areas, according to the study. That the scientific community looks a lot less like the country it serves is more than symbolic, the authors argue. Indeed, it […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/12/15/university-of-rochester-when-people-see-themselves-in-science-they-trust-it-more/

Economic tension is turning us against each other: https://www.aurianneor.org/economic-tension-is-turning-us-against-each-other/

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"AI personhood," "algorithmic wage discrimination," "cog war," "dark patterns," "vibe coding"—Burton's Legal Thesaurus' 2025 additions name what we have been grappling with for some time.

The committee is right: these are "time markers." They name our moment clearly. Now comes the harder work: establishing legal principles that genuinely uphold the rule of law and the public interest.

Otherwise, we risk refining the lexicon while injustice scales.

https://www.abajournal.com/web/article/vampire-law-and-vibe-coding-among-top-2025-legal-words?utm_source=sfmc&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=weekly_email&promo=mk25ann&RefId=marketing&utm_id=1126340&sfmc_id=45017569

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“Trust me” legislation - Prohibiting the public interest
Housing and the Environmental Planning and Assessment Bill 2025

* "The new New South Wales Environmental Planning and Assessment (Planning System Reforms) Bill 2025, which slid through parliament in November with bipartisan support and scarcely a murmur from the press, is “trust me” legislation of the worst kind. It stands to destroy everything we love about both city and countryside while benefitting no one except the money boys."

"In each case the effect is a stringent exclusion of irksome externalities like councils, independent agencies and the public, effecting a massive concentration of power in a few hands (those of the planning minister and their appointed staff)."

"We’ve been down this road before, of course – far enough and often enough to know that such a concentration of discretionary power is as democratic as any totalitarian measure, and as dangerous. It’s also a huge and long-recognised corruption red flag."
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https://architectureau.com/articles/prohibiting-the-public-interest/

* "There is no evidence that anyone in this government or the previous government is trying to make houses cheaper. They’re not."
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https://architectureau.com/articles/richard-denniss-housing-is-not-the-only-area-where-politicians-ignore-good-evidence/

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