British doctors to be stripped of their power to sign people off sick from work. This is what happens when class/political interests, from the left to the right, quietly collude to end a pandemic without the virus that caused the pandemic actually going away

We are actually making progress on tackling climate change! We have managed to basically halt the previously inexorable rise of CO2 emissions. The energy of the future is solar.

⁦Living Safely With Covid #CovidIsAirborne looks like 12-15 can get one XBB now, no questions. Am I late to the party or is this new? Cc ⁦Cyncopation⁩ Dr Anna Brooks⁩ Amanda Kvalsvig⁩ info.health.nz/immunisations/…

There are a number of false narratives about the maths of Indigenous peoples, discussed in this important paper by Rowena Ball @[email protected] /H. Xu. Prof. Ball speaks Friday in the seminar I’m organizing at Sydney Mathematics and Statistics.

Paper:
arxiv.org/pdf/2212.02778…

Seminar: sites.google.com/view/perspecti…

Ugh, unlocking my account for a bit to help out my nerds at Population Association of NZ. Any decimated newsrooms out there fancy a solid primer on opinion polling from our best experts; or a media analysis of how to responsibly cover fertility & demography beyond Luxo's 'have more babies'?

🚨 Key paper by superstar team!🚨

Misinformation and the epistemic integrity of democracy sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

'...science and scientists are discredited and how the most recent frontier in those attacks involves researchers in misinformation itself.'

The goal of…

1. FTC recently announced the winners of its public Voice Cloning Challenge.

As fraudsters use voice cloning to trick and extort Americans, the challenge sought out ideas from the public for how we can fight back against these predatory tactics.

ftc.gov/news-events/ne…

Say what you want about the Daleks, but when they took over from Thames Water in 2150AD, they did improve water safety standards.

With such limited weekly covid information now available, I have decided to end the weekly state overviews.

I'll still continue to provide some data going forward - such as Aged Care reporting and some monthly reporting (especially from ABS) - but it will be less frequent.

OK What scam is this?

It's an AirBNB listing that asks me to sign this 'Rental agreement' outside of the Airbnb platform. The rental agreement appears to be... incorporating me as a temporary company for the purposes of marketing the home for sale???

Life satisfaction among young people has increased over past ten years worldhappiness.report/ed/2024/child-…

Cosmos article/retraction on the “zero deaths” debacle.

cosmosmagazine.com/news/deaths-de…

Supermarket facial recognition trial: Rotorua mother’s ‘discrimination’ ordeal, via nzherald nzherald.co.nz/nz/supermarket… Entirely predictable...

NEW: Apple have just notified people in 92 countries who were targeted by highly-invasive spyware.

Our experts Amnesty Tech Security Lab can check devices for signs of attack 🔍.

Please share widely with any activists or journalists who may have received the latest Apple alert