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Sparky living the quite life in Perth western Australia, hubby to awesome Wifie, quiet observer, geek, motorcycles are my therapy, am a big softie for air-cooled VW's.

Leinster, western Australia

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The good news is that nobody's going to be scheduling a damned Teams call today.

Well fancy this. The Gutenberg Parenthesis is a finalist for a PROSE Award (Association of American Publishers Awards for Professional and Scholarly Excellence).

https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/discover/superpages/academic/aap-prose-award-winners/?utm_content=1718292448&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook,twitter

AAP Prose Award Winners

2024 AAP Prose Award Category Finalists and Winners from Bloomsbury

Bloomsbury
@theconversationau Where does the nuclear waste go?
How does it get there (by road probably)? Are you ok with nuclear waste being driven through your regular commute, (and that of your family's) considering the type of drivers/traffic you see on the roads?
Are the transportation contracts going to be awarded to the lowest bidder?
How transparent is all of this going to be?
Facebook's divorce from news continues: Dead news tab; no new deals for "traditional news;" no products made for publishers. Moral to this story: Be careful what you lobby for, publishers. You attacked Facebook on every front. What did you expect? Hugs?
https://about.fb.com/news/2024/02/update-on-facebook-news-us-australia/
An Update on Facebook News | Meta

In early April, we will deprecate Facebook News, a dedicated tab for news content, in the US and Australia.

Meta
@theconversationau looks like this government is being more transparent than the previous, can't remember the last time we heard about people landing in Australia illegally.
Pilger inspired many with his willingness to critique the damaging effects on ordinary people’s lives of capitalism and Western countries’ foreign policies. But he also provoked global controversy.
https://theconversation.com/the-world-has-lost-a-dissenting-voice-australian-journalist-john-pilger-has-died-age-84-220418?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Facebook#Echobox=1704080057
The world has lost a dissenting voice: Australian journalist John Pilger has died, age 84

Pilger inspired many with his willingness to critique the damaging effects on ordinary people’s lives of capitalism and Western countries’ foreign policies. But he also provoked global controversy.

The Conversation
The Optus chief will face some tough questions about the company’s poor handling of last week’s catastrophic network outage when she appears before a Senate inquiry.
https://theconversation.com/the-optus-outage-shows-us-the-perils-of-having-vital-networks-in-private-hands-217660?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Facebook#Echobox=1700021561
The Optus outage shows us the perils of having vital networks in private hands

The Optus chief will face some tough questions about the company’s poor handling of last week’s catastrophic network outage when she appears before a Senate inquiry.

The Conversation
@theconversationau this is a nonsense story