Big Quarry Literature and Settlers Caught on Screen
The complex anxiety of quarry noir
"We dig holes in Australia...It’s what we do. It’s all we’ve ever done, we’re just the world’s quarry, an enormous pit, ever since we struck gold a hundred and fifty years ago." >>
https://theconversation.com/friday-essay-australias-quarry-noir-mines-our-anxiety-about-our-biggest-industry-239523
"Dr James Finlay reflects on how Australia’s convict past has been represented on screen, tracing shifts from early cinematic melodrama through to television drama and contemporary film, and considering how these visual narratives continue to shape national memory." >>
https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/history-now-caught-on-screen-australias-convict-history/id1674476464?i=1000749142755
James Findlay, Caught on Screen, Australia’s Convict History in Film and Television, 2025 >>
https://www.bloomsbury.com/au/caught-on-screen-9798765100523/
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Senator Maye Quade on the clear definitions of #patriotism, #criminality, #strength, #valor and the worst of the worst.
If you know someone in ICE, CPB or Law Enforcement who doesn't fit what we see in #Minneapolis, so do I. Help us get rid of the rotten ones so that the decent ones can work.
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UK gambling regulator accuses Meta of lying about its struggle to spot illegal ads - https://www.theregister.com/2026/01/20/uk_gambling_comission_criticizes_meta/
Nice to finally see someone with a bit of clout calling Meta out on the fact they don't bother properly vetting advertisers or attempting to detect fake or illegal ads.
All that matters to Meta is money. They don't care who's paying them.
Which is as much the fault of lazy, can't be bothered, ignorant governments as much as anything else.
A quotation from Ambrose Bierce
INCORPORATION, n. The act of uniting several persons into one fiction called a corporation, in order that they may be no longer responsible for its actions. A, B and C are a corporation. A robs, B steals and C (it is necessary that there be one gentleman in the concern) cheats. It is a plundering, thieving, swindling corporation. But A, B and C, who have jointly determined and severally executed every crime of the corporation, are blameless. It is wrong to mention them by name when censuring their acts as a corporation, but right when praising.Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914?) American writer and journalist
“Incorporation,” “Devil’s Dictionary” column, San Francisco Wasp (1885-10-03)
More about this quote: wist.info/bierce-ambrose/81536…
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INCORPORATION, n. The act of uniting several persons into one fiction called a corporation, in order that they may be no longer responsible for its actions. A, B and C are a corporation. A robs, B steals and C (it is necessary that there be one gentleman in the concern)…
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