"Data collated by the tertiary education union has revealed there are 306 university executives who earn more than their state’s premier."
Interesting table to look over
https://www.campusreview.com.au/2024/11/uni-execs-paid-more-than-state-premiers-see-the-numbers/
Poems
Human or bot?
Readers guess wrongly now
AI writes with grace and rhythm
Perfect
I love Law & Order and I heard Noam Chomsky is a fan too. I tried to find a source - according to this 2003 profile, he is:
"When Chomsky and Carol are in Cambridge, they usually watch an hour of television at night—“Law & Order” or some other cop show. Carol makes sure that they go to bed right afterward, and they wake up around eight."
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2003/03/31/the-devils-accountant
I dunno about this. Clapback read-a-book energy.
“Australian authors group give every federal politician five books to encourage nuance in Middle East debate” via hamonryen
It retrospect I should have recognised this as a warning about the quality of the takeaway pizza I’d just ordered.
An interesting project that imagines New York 20 years from now, and draws on residents' expertise to imagine it https://benhr.xyz/2024/11/08/an-interesting-project.html
On the ongoing delegation of military judgement to autonomous systems - to ultimately kill humans https://benhr.xyz/2024/11/08/on-the-ongoing.html
I really enjoyed this list of The Most Iconic Speculative Fiction Books of the 21st Century
https://reactormag.com/the-most-iconic-speculative-fiction-books-of-the-21st-century/
Afternoon sun
Israel dynamites historic Lebanese village of Mhaibib, site of the 2,100-year-old shrine of Prophet Benjamin - New Arab
https://www.newarab.com/news/israel-dynamites-historic-lebanese-village-mhaibib-rubble
Inside the U.S. Government-Bought Tool That Can Track Phones at Abortion Clinics - 404 Media
“Malaria is as old as Egyptian civilization itself, but the disease that plagued pharaohs now belongs to its history and not its future” - Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO Director-General.
https://www.who.int/news/item/20-10-2024-egypt-is-certified-malaria-free-by-who
The Verge 2004 - a fun selection of articles reflecting on why this year was a turning point for our online existence.
https://www.theverge.com/c/24247055/2004-tech-internet-gadgets-phones-pop-culture
superdoopermoon
Wet
"With the European Peace Facility, the EU is seeking greater flexibility that will allow it to bypass the African Union and directly fund national and sub-regional military initiatives."
Shadowy interventions - Africa is a Country
"The blockbuster film of the last few years has achieved a synthesis of these two trends: color-rich saturated imagery, hammer on the head straightforward storytelling. I think that the actual visual pleasure offered by these new films is such a breath of fresh air that they disarm people’s critical faculties (See also: Everything Everywhere All At Once, The Banshees of Inishiren, Saltburn). What has emerged reminds me most of the USSR’s most maligned aesthetic legacy, socialist realism."
Image Without Metaphor - Vicky Osterweil
tl;dr the big variation in non-GP specialist fees in Australia is largely due to differences between individual doctors, rather than factors such as patient complexity or structural costs.
Sources of specialist physician fee variation: Evidence from Australian health insurance claims data 🔒
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0168851024001295?via%3Dihub
"Guizhou has been the target of successive visions of state-led sinofuturity, which have developed the province as unevenly as its karst landscape."
China’s Hinterland Becomes A Critical Datascape - NOEMA
https://www.noemamag.com/chinas-hinterland-becomes-a-critical-datascape