A Psychological (and Digital) Hack Authority, Social Influence, and an 18 hour Scam Call

I wrote an essay about a very alarming / disturbing event that has a mystery at its centre. Banks, credit cards, scammers, and hacking using social influence converge here. One big question remains - is it a coincidence, or a conspiracy?

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Growing Minds A 10 Year Old's Thoughts on Mental Health - Through Sport

Essay here by me on parenting, raising little minds, talking about mental health through the lens of kids sport

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Here is Aus we woke yesterday to an election result that completely rejected right-wing culture war mini-Trump fashy politics, returning our centre left govmt in landslide numbers for another 3 years. Then, this rainbow happened out the front of our house ☺️

It's not a competition, but my tiredness is more tired than your tiredness

What's Wrong? Chronic Fatigue in a Fatiguing World

If you've ever suffered fatigue, read this short essay I just posted and we can compete over who is more exhausted 😘

sheddingskin.substack.com/p/whats-wrong

Mafia tactics

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Assume the 'objectives' are more like this

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This is my understanding of the US tariffs

These are not serious people. Where are the grown ups?

This 20 min audio essay from DFW from 2005 is pretty bloody good

Microsoft's Copilot appears still to be an 'add on' to MS 365 business licenses. But price hikes all around mean everyone is paying for it...

Because it's 'now included'

'Simplified Pricing' means - everyone now pays (quite a lot) more for AI features that they can't opt out of

I wonder why Microsoft are hiking prices +28% for family Office subscriptions, and Google +22% for Workspaces Business licenses, both in the same month?

Any ideas @edzitron.com or @garymarcus.bsky.social ?

Hints below

This appears to be true. I'm just an Aussie, watching from downunder, as the US flame-torches its own economy and reputation. Quite wild

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The fundamental weakness of Elon Musk is a lack of empathy

Some shots of #Khruangbin from last night's set in #brisbane to brighten your feed. Epic fun 🎸🕺🏻

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Yes!

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You can direct donations towards your preferred area - defence, humanitarian, medical aid etc

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UNITED24 - The initiative of the President of Ukraine UNITED24 was launched by the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy as the main venue for collecting charitable donations in support of Ukraine. Funds will be transferred to the official accounts of...

Zelensky's official fundraising site here

(.ua is the country code top-level domain [ccTLD] for Ukraine)

u24.gov.ua

Ignorant. Petulant. Aggressive. Egomaniacal. Degrading. Embarrassing.

S2 Ep01 - The Effort of Self Awareness with David Foster Wallace Season 2 launching here with a 2005 speech by American author DFW

Latest pod ep is up!

Back for season 2, starting with the classic David Foster Wallace commencement speech 'This is Water' from '05. Timely, and timeless

The pod is also on Apple and Spotify, search 'shedding skin podcast'

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The US Army is quote-tweeting Libs of TikTok....? 🫣