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The 9pm Edict
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News and commentary from Sydney, Australia… but different. Presented by Stilgherrian.
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The 9pm Hippopotamus of Doom with David F Porteous
Nov 9, 202401:31:11Tap to summarizeDavid F Porteous emerges from the void that is modern life. (Photo: Supplied ) As the spring series continues we’re joined by Scottish author and social researcher David F Porteous to talk about the thing that happened in The America this week — but also much more. In this episode we talk about Australia’s plans to ban under-16s from social media, a selection of animals to turn into jerky, Macaulay Culkin, British religious history, and why violence sometimes isn’t wrong. This podcast is available on Amazon Music, Apple Podcasts, Castbox, Deezer, Google Podcasts, iHeartRadio, JioSaavn, Pocket Casts, Podcast Addict, Podchaser, SoundCloud, Spotify, and Speaker. You can also listen to the podcast below, or subscribe to the generic podcast feed. Episode Links 01. dfpiii - Blog The official website of Scottish Author David F Porteous 02. David F Porteous (@dfpiii) / Twitter Author. Podcaster. Social researcher. Karaoke superstar. New novel ‘The Wicker Man Preservation Society’ is out 21 June 21. 03. Welshman aims to draw a massive GPS penis to raise awareness for men’s health ITV News - YouTube 04. Welshman has completed the largest GPS drawing of a penis [3 November 2024] Terry Rosoman, 38, from South Wales, trekked through the mist and pitch-black conditions across the Bannau Brycheiniog National Park in a 75-mile phallus-shaped route, to raise money and awareness about men’s mental health issues for Movember. 05. Moo Deng the baby hippo predicts Donald Trump will win US election - YouTube [5 November 2024] Celebrity baby hippo Moo Deng has predicted the 2024 US presidential election winner. 06. Paul the Octopus - Wikipedia Paul the Octopus (26 January 2008 – 26 October 2010) was a common octopus who predicted the results of international association football matches. Accurate predictions in the 2010 World Cup brought him worldwide attention as an animal oracle. 07. 05 November 2024 - essentialreport.com.au When asked who they would vote for in the US election, 41% said they would vote for Harris and 33% said they would vote for Trump 08. Trump’s victory adds record $64bn to wealth of richest top 10 | Rich lists | The Guardian [7 November 2024] Share surge increases Elon Musk’s fortune by $26bn in a day as Jeff Bezos, Sergey Brin and Bill Gates also benefit. 09. Hare–Clark electoral system - Wikipedia Hare–Clark is a type of single transferable vote electoral system of proportional representation used for elections in Tasmania and the Australian Capital Territory. It was one of the first uses of the Gregory method for transfers of winner's surplus votes. 10. Jill Stein Wins 22% of Vote in Dearborn as Gaza Stings Harris: Network [6 November 2024] Jill Stein won 22% of the vote in the fiercely contested city of Dearborn, Michigan, according to a projection from NBC. Kamala Harris won 28%, while Donald Trump won 47%, according to unofficial results from the city clerk, reported by the network. Metro Detroit is home to the nation's largest concentration of Arab Americans, with a large proportion of them living in Dearborn. The city — which Democrat Joe Biden won by a 3-to-1 margin in 2020 — has been roiled by political turmoil, with many upset with the Biden-Harris administration's handling of the Israel-Hamas war. 11. America, Are You Ok? - YouTube Australians watch how the US do democracy with a mixture of confusion and surprise. Why does no one seem satisfied with how government works? Casey Briggs examines a democracy that many people have deep reservations about. 12. Endangered pygmy hippo calf Haggis born at Edinburgh zoo [6 November 2024] An "incredibly rare" female baby hippopotamus has been born at Edinburgh Zoo. The tiny endangered pygmy hippo calf, named Haggis, arrived on 30 October and zookeepers said her personality was "beginning to shine" already. 13. Fatso the Fat-Arsed Wombat - Wikipedia Fatso the Fat-Arsed Wombat was an unofficial mascot of the 2000 Summer Olympics created by Sydney cartoonist Paul Newell with Roy and HG from the Australian Channel Seven sports/comedy television program "The Dream with Roy and HG". Fatso is a wombat with a lazy, cheerful expression and comically pronounced rump. It usually appeared on The Dream broadcasts, sometimes as a life-size stuffed toy on Roy and HG's desk 14. Koala sounds - YouTube 15. Drop Bear The Drop Bear legend tells of a larg...
Transcribe →The 9pm Indonesia and Thailand Crash Update with Erin Cook
Oct 10, 202401:14:53Tap to summarizeErin Cook stands like a colossus over the entirety of South-East Asia. (Photo: Supplied ) As regular listeners to the Edict will know, I reckon Australians should know more about the other nations in our region. So our special guest today is journalist Erin Cook, who covers South-East Asia, and we’re talking Indonesia and Thailand. Mostly. Erin produces the excellent newsletter Dari Mulut ke Mulut, an English-language summary of what’s happening in the region. In this episode we talk about Indonesia’s soon-to-be president Prabowo Subianto and the nation’s plans to move the capital from Jakarta to the new city of Nusantara. We attempt to give you an introduction to the complicated and often amusing politics of Thailand. And we take a side journey into the politics of Myanmar and two varieties of popular music. This podcast is available on Amazon Music, Apple Podcasts, Castbox, Deezer, Google Podcasts, iHeartRadio, JioSaavn, Pocket Casts, Podcast Addict, Podchaser, SoundCloud, Spotify, and Speaker. You can also listen to the podcast below, or subscribe to the generic podcast feed. Episode Links 01. Erin Cook (@dmkmtoday) / X News and analysis from Southeast Asia three times a week. 02. Dari Mulut ke Mulut Erin Cook's newsletter. 03. Indonesia - Wikipedia Indonesia, officially the Republic of Indonesia, is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania, between the Indian and Pacific oceans. It consists of over 17,000 islands, including Sumatra, Java, Sulawesi, and parts of Borneo and New Guinea... With over 280 million people, Indonesia is the world's fourth-most-populous country and the most populous Muslim-majority country. Java, the world's most populous island, is home to more than half of the country's population. 04. Joko Widodo - Wikipedia Joko Widodo (Indonesian: [d??k? wid?d?] né Mulyono; born 21 June 1961), popularly known as Jokowi, is an Indonesian politician and businessman who is the seventh and current president of Indonesia. A member of the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P), he was the country's first president to not have emerged from the country's political or military elite. He previously served as governor of Jakarta from 2012 to 2014 and mayor of Surakarta from 2005 to 2012. 04. Prabowo Subianto - Wikipedia Prabowo Subianto Djojohadikusumo (EYD: Prabowo Subianto Joyohadikusumo, born 17 October 1951) is an Indonesian politician, businessman and retired honorary army general who is the president-elect of Indonesia and current Minister of Defense. Prabowo will be Indonesia's third president who had military background after Suharto and Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono (SBY). In 1998, he was discharged from the military and subsequently banned from entering the United States for allegedly committing human rights abuses. 05. Indonesian Elections 2024 | Prabowo Subianto To Take Over As The New President | IN18V | CNBC TV18 - YouTube [15 February 2024] Prabowo Subianto, a former army general with a controversial past, has claimed victory in Indonesia’s presidential elections. Unofficial results show Prabowo Subianto winning nearly 60% of the vote although the final count is still to be officially confirmed 06. May 1998 riots of Indonesia - Wikipedia The May 1998 Indonesia riots (Indonesian: Kerusuhan Mei 1998), also known colloquially as the 1998 tragedy (Tragedi 1998) or simply the 98 event (Peristiwa 98), were incidents of mass violence, revolutionary protests, and civil unrest in Indonesia in May 1998, many of which were targeted at Indonesia's ethnic Chinese population. The events were mainly in the cities of Medan, Jakarta and Surakarta, with small incidents in other regions of the country. 07. Indonesia: Jokowi’s real legacy is an unpredictable successor | Lowy Institute [19 September 2024] From a stunted democracy, to a human capital deficit, and too much reliance on China, Prabowo Subianto has been handed a curate’s egg, writes Greg Earl for his “Economic diplomacy” column from the ANU Indonesia Update. 08. How Prabowo will likely manage Indonesia’s defence and foreign policy | The Strategist [16 September 2024] Unlike outgoing president Joko Widodo (Jokowi), whose administration was primarily focused on domestic development, Prabowo is keen to bolster Indonesia’s military capabilities and geopolitical footprint. He is expected to be an ‘orthodox innovator’, seeking to make gradual adjustments while deepening and expanding partnerships. 09. ASEAN - Wikipedia The Association of Southeast Asian Nations, commonly abbreviated as ASEAN, is a political and economic union of 10 states in Southeast Asia. 10. Politics of Myanmar - Wikipedia Myanmar (formerly Burma) (Burmese: ??????) operates de jure as a unitary assembly-independent presidential republic under its 2008 constitution. On 1 February 2021, Myanmar's military took over the government in a coup, causing ongoing anti-coup protests. 11. List of political parties in Indonesia - Wikipedia Since 1999, Indonesia has had a ...
Transcribe →The 9pm AI Just Doesn’t Work with David Gerard (#NotAllAI)
Oct 5, 202401:16:58Tap to summarizeDavid Gerard is ready for the AI revolution, except it won’t happen. (Photo: Pauline Martindale ) The spring series of the Edict kicks off properly with our first special guest and it’s David Gerard, co-editor of the newsletter Pivot to AI. So guess what we talk about. Yes, in this episode we talk about artificial intelligence. Specifically, we test out Google’s NotebookLM podcast creator, we discuss why the much-promoted AI utopia won’t happen, we put the idea of a robot uprising into its cultural context, and much more. This podcast is available on Amazon Music, Apple Podcasts, Castbox, Deezer, Google Podcasts, iHeartRadio, JioSaavn, Pocket Casts, Podcast Addict, Podchaser, SoundCloud, Spotify, and Speaker. You can also listen to the podcast below, or subscribe to the generic podcast feed. Episode Links 01. David Gerard's home page I'm most active at the moment on my blockchain blog, and on Rocknerd, my music webzine. 02. Pivot to AI – It can't be that stupid, you must be prompting it wrong It can't be that stupid, you must be prompting it wrong 03. LK-99 - Wikipedia LK-99 (from the Lee-Kim 1999 research), also called PCPOSOS, is a gray–black, polycrystalline compound, identified as a copper-doped lead?oxyapatite. A team from Korea University led by Lee Sukbae (???) and Kim Ji-Hoon (???) began studying this material as a potential superconductor starting in 1999. ? In July 2023, they published preprints claiming that it acts as a room-temperature superconductor... By mid-August 2023, the consensus was that LK-99 is not a superconductor at room temperature, and is an insulator in pure form. 04. Dartmouth workshop - Wikipedia The Dartmouth Summer Research Project on Artificial Intelligence was a 1956 summer workshop widely considered to be the founding event of artificial intelligence as a field. 05. Peter Thiel - Wikipedia Peter Andreas Thiel (/ti?l/; born 11 October 1967) is an American entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and political activist. A co-founder of PayPal, Palantir Technologies, and Founders Fund, he was the first outside investor in Facebook. As of July 2024, Thiel had an estimated net worth of US$11.2 billion and was ranked 212th on the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. 06. Pinky and the Brain - Wikipedia Pinky and the Brain is an American animated sitcom created by Tom Ruegger for the Kids' WB programming block of The WB. Pinky and The Brain are genetically enhanced laboratory mice who reside in a cage in the Acme Labs research facility. Pinky is good-natured but feeble-minded, while The Brain is highly intelligent, self-centered and scheming. 07. Sam Altman - Wikipedia Samuel Harris Altman (born April 22, 1985) is an American entrepreneur and investor best known as the CEO of OpenAI since 2019 (he was briefly fired and reinstated in November 2023). He is also the chairman of clean energy companies Oklo Inc. and Helion Energy. Altman is considered to be one of the leading figures of the AI boom. He dropped out of Stanford University after two years and founded Loopt, a mobile social networking service, raising more than $30 million in venture capital. In 2011, Altman joined Y Combinator, a startup accelerator, and was its president from 2014 to 2019. 08. Worldcoin Hit With Scam And Manipulation Allegations [21 July 2024] Worldcoin (WLD) has come under heavy criticism following a recent development, which led to talks about potential price manipulation by the team. Prominent crypto on-chain sleuth ZachXBT also reacted to these price manipulation allegations, suggesting that the Worldcoin team may actually be guilty of them. 09. The Intelligence Age - Sam Altman [23 September 2024] In the next couple of decades, we will be able to do things that would have seemed like magic to our grandparents. 10. OpenAI CEO: “SuperIntelligence within 1000’s of Days” - YouTube [24 September 2024] Breakdown of Sam Altman’s blog post from today, enjoy! 11. Sam Altman: The superintelligent AI is coming in just ‘a few thousand days’! Maybe. – Pivot to AI OpenAI founder Sam Altman has written about our fabulous future... “A few thousand days” means at least several years. This is Sam telling his backers to expect nothing checkable any time soon. 12. In a new manifesto, OpenAI’s Sam Altman envisions an AI utopia – and reveals glaring blind spots [26 September 2024] T latest proclamation from OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman, published on his personal website this week, seems remarkably hyperbolic. We are on the verge of “The Intelligence Age”, he declares, powered by a “superintelligence” that may just be a “few thousand days” away. The new era will bring “astounding triumphs”, including “fixing the climate, establishing a space colony, and the discovery of all of physics”. <a class="wppb-title" href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/se...
Transcribe →The 9pm Three More Minor Irritations
Sep 17, 202400:21:29Tap to summarizeScreenshot from the US Presidential Debate between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris, 10 September 2024. (ABC News) It’s more or less the start of the spring series as Stilgherrian vents about three more things that got on his wick this week. He also plugs his current crowdfunding campaign, because of course he does. In this episode he talks about the shoddy journalism of the US presidential campaign, the problems of artificial intelligence, and his disturbing dreams. This podcast is available on Amazon Music, Apple Podcasts, Castbox, Deezer, Google Podcasts, iHeartRadio, JioSaavn, Pocket Casts, Podcast Addict, Podchaser, SoundCloud, Spotify, and Speaker. You can also listen to the podcast below, or subscribe to the generic podcast feed. Episode Links 01. The 9pm Spring Series 2024 by Stilgherrian - Pozible Hello, I’m Stilgherrian. Guess what? It’s time yet again to organise more special-guest episodes of my inappropriate and often disturbing podcast for grown-ups The 9pm Edict and other projects. You have until 9pm AEST on Thursday 19 September 2024. 02. the carpet matches the drapes - Wiktionary, the free dictionary 03. Stilgherrian on Buesky [17 September 2024] “Maybe Google shouldn't strip non-ascii characters when training AI,” notes https://xoxo.zone/@KevinMarks/113149606766376732 04. Trump: They're eating the dogs, the cats - YouTube [11 September 2024] Former President Donald Trump claims immigrants are "eating the dogs" in Springfield, Ohio. 05. Sanewashing and the damage done - by Stephen Robinson [10 September 2024] The press is helping Trump hide in plain sight. 06. Donald J. Trump, the 45th President of the United States of America - YouTube [13 September 2024] Donald J. Trump, the 45th President of the United States of America, joined the Club to discuss his economic platform for the 2024 U.S. Presidential Election. September 5th, 2024. 767th Meeting of the Economic Club of New York. Moderated and Presided by Robert K. Steel, Economic Club of New York Chair and Vice Chairman of Perella Weinberg Partners. 07. The Room Next Door - Donald Trump Fact Check Special - YouTube [16 September 2024] By Michael Spicer. If the links aren’t showing up, try here. Thank you, Media Freedom Citizenry The 9pm Edict is supported by the generosity of its listeners. There’s mere hours left to support this season’s crowdfunding campaign, The 9pm Spring Series 2024 to organise more special-guest episodes of this inappropriate and often disturbing podcast and other projects. I’ve already pencilled in the guests for three episodes. Don’t make me cancel them. Please click though, read, and consider. You have until 9pm AEST this Thursday 19 September, and at the time of posting we’re 97% of the way to Target One. If you miss that deadline, you can always throw a few coins into the tip jar or subscribe for special benefits. Please consider. Series Credits The 9pm Edict theme by mansardian via The Freesound Project. Edict fanfare by neonaeon, via The Freesound Project. Elephant Stamp theme by Joshua Mehlman.
Transcribe →The 9pm War on Social Media with Professor Axel Bruns
Aug 31, 202401:12:51Tap to summarizeProfessor Axel Bruns analyses all of your thoughts online. (Photo: Queensland University of Technology) With so much news about social media in Australia right now, I thought I’d wrap up the winter series by speaking with Professor Axel Bruns from the Digital Media Research Centre at Queensland University of Technology. In this episode we discuss whether anything can replace what was Twitter, Australia’s News Media Bargaining Code and Meta refusing to pay for news content, age restrictions for social media, the arrest of Telegram’s CEO Pavel Durov, and why filter bubbles really aren’t a thing. This podcast is available on Amazon Music, Apple Podcasts, Castbox, Deezer, Google Podcasts, iHeartRadio, JioSaavn, Pocket Casts, Podcast Addict, Podchaser, SoundCloud, Spotify, and Speaker. You can also listen to the podcast below, or subscribe to the generic podcast feed. Episode Links 01. QUT - Academic profiles - Professor Axel Bruns Prof. Axel Bruns is an Australian Laureate Fellow and Professor in the Digital Media Research Centre at Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane, Australia, and a Chief Investigator in the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society. 02. Australians support ban on under 16-year-olds accessing social media | Sky News Australia [11 August 2024] A survey of more than 2,500 people conducted by News Corp’s Let Them Be Kids campaign shows 70 per cent want the age limit on social media to be raised from 13 to at least 16. 85 per cent believe platforms like Meta should be held responsible for preventing harmful or misleading content from being shared. 96 per cent of respondents say social media companies need to do more to operate within Australia. 03. 04 June 2024 - essentialreport.com.au Key Insights: Double the number of people (42%) see AI as more of a risk over those who see it as more of an opportunity (21%); 69% support increasing the age limit on social media platforms from 13 to 16 years old; 62% support making hate speech a criminal offence. 04. eSafety drops case against Elon Musk's X over church stabbing videos | ABC News - YouTube [5 June 2024] A legal battle to have graphic footage of a church stabbing in Sydney removed from Elon Musk's social media platform X will be abandoned by the eSafety commissioner. Commissioner Julie Inman Grant confirmed the Federal Court case would be abandoned, after several blows in court and an attempt to temporarily force the footage to be hidden expiring. 05. X says ‘free speech has prevailed’ after eSafety commissioner drops case over Wakeley church attack posts | X | The Guardian [5 June 2024] Regulator will now focus on tribunal case launched by Elon Musk’s social media platform which is seeking a review of decision to order removal of tweets. 06. Blue Murder (miniseries) - Wikipedia Blue Murder is a two-part Australian television crime drama miniseries produced by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation in 1995, and is based on true events. 07. Musk widens legal fight with Australia as Labor pushes social media probe [9 May 2024] Musk’s company X, formerly known as Twitter, this week launched a case in the Administrative Appeals Tribunal testing the merits of eSafety Commissioner Julie Inman Grant’s order to remove videos of the April stabbing of a Sydney priest. 08. Telegram CEO Pavel Durov arrested in France due to alleged criminal activities on the app - YouTube [27 August 2024] Telegram app CEO Pavel Durov is in custody after French authorities investigated alleged criminal activities on the messaging platform. 09. Arrest of Pavel Durov, Telegram Founder, Is Part of Broad Investigation in France - The New York Times [26 August 2024] A case was opened last month to investigate child pornography, drug sales, fraud and other criminal activities on the platform. The app’s founder, Pavel Durov, was detained over the weekend near Paris. 10. X's initial shareholder list unveiled: Sean 'Diddy' Combs, Jack Dorsey, Bill Ackman have ties [22 August 2024] In addition to Combs and Dorsey, the other nearly 100 X Holdings Corp. shareholders listed include: venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal al Saud; UnipolSai S.P.A., an Italian financial services company based in Bologna; and 8VC, a venture capital firm co-founded by Joe Lonsdale, co-founder of software company Palantir, according to an unsealed court document obtained by the Washington Post. 11. Telegram founder Pavel Durov banned from leaving France after initial charges laid - ABC News [29 August 2024] The first preliminary charge against him was for ''complicity in managing an online platform to allow illicit transactions by an organised group,'' a crime that can lead to sentences of up to 10 years in prison and 500,000 eu...
Transcribe →The 9pm the Solar System is Being a Jerk with Rami Mandow
Aug 26, 202401:04:46Tap to summarizeRami Mandow and two telescopes, one an optical scope and one part of a home-made radio telescope. (Photo: Supplied; Post-processing: Stilgherrian) It’s time for another podcast about space, so we’re joined once again by astrophysicist Rami Mandow, founder of SpaceAustralia.com. In this episode we talk about what may be a new kind of pulsar, the cancellation of the Chandra X-Ray Observatory, three ways in which the solar system is being a jerk, Japanese folklore (no really), those astronauts who are definitely not “stuck” or “stranded” on the International Space Station because NASA says they’re not, and the ZWO Seestar S50 smart telescope. This podcast is available on Amazon Music, Apple Podcasts, Castbox, Deezer, Google Podcasts, iHeartRadio, JioSaavn, Pocket Casts, Podcast Addict, Podchaser, SoundCloud, Spotify, and Speaker. You can also listen to the podcast below, or subscribe to the generic podcast feed. Episode Links 01. Rami Mandow ???? (@CosmicRami) / Twitter Researching Pulsars & Gravitational Waves with The Dish at @MQPhysAstro • Founder @SpaceAusDotCom #SpaceAustralia • Doggo #BalmainMax • He/Him • Views My Own 02. Spaceaustralia We spent two years researching what the Australian space community wants as a platform – which has allowed us to build a user-centric website and given us a great long term strategy on rolling out new products for all our regional space needs! We want to be your one-stop-shop to find out all you need about our local space community and plan to share the stories and voices as that we, as a region, start to grow. 03. Astronauts on Boeing Starliner may be stranded in space until 2025 - YouTube [8 August 2024] NASA astronauts on Boeing’s Starliner found out on Wednesday they may be stranded in space for much longer than expected. Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore have been stuck in the International Space Station (ISS) for over two months and may not return home until February 2025. This Tuesday marked 60 days both astronauts were stranded in the ISS. The initial trip into space was only supposed to be eight days, but thruster failures and helium leaks prevented their return home. \Due to the aircraft’s [sic] issues, the two astronauts have been in orbit over fears any attempt to return them home will result in a disaster. 04. Boeing Starliner astronauts may remain in space until 2025. Here's why [8 August 2024] NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, the first test flight crew of Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft, have now been in space for 63 days, with no return date in sight. Retired NASA astronaut Terry Verts shares how the crew may be feeling. 05. When Are the Astronauts ‘Stuck’ in Space Coming Home? | TIME [8 August 2024] NASA is exploring a contingency plan to bring home the two astronauts who have been at the International Space Station (ISS) for two months with no clear end in sight. 06. Boeing Starliner - Wikipedia The Boeing Starliner (or CST-100) is a spacecraft designed to transport crew to and from the International Space Station (ISS) and other low-Earth-orbit destinations. Developed by Boeing under NASA's Commercial Crew Program (CCP), it consists of a reusable crew capsule and an expendable service module. 07. Gilligan's Island - Wikipedia Gilligan's Island is an American sitcom created and produced by Sherwood Schwartz... It aired for three seasons on the CBS network from September 26, 1964, to April 17, 1967... The two-person crew of the charter boat SS Minnow and five passengers on a "three-hour tour" from Honolulu run into a storm and are shipwrecked on an uncharted island somewhere in the Pacific Ocean. 08. SpaceX Dragon 2 - Wikipedia Dragon 2 is a class of partially reusable spacecraft developed, manufactured, and operated by American space company SpaceX for flights to the International Space Station (ISS) and private spaceflight missions. 09. Ground News - Elon Musk Takes A Dig At Dave Calhoun Amid Boeing's Starliner Crisis [27 June 2024] Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk on Tuesday pegged Boeing Co‘s (NYSE:BA) lack of engineers in its leadership as the prime reason behind its ongoing crisis. What Happened: “The CEO of an aircraft company should know how to design aircraft, not spreadsheets,” Musk wrote on X, formerly Twitter. Musk is CEO of SpaceX, a direct rival to Boeing’s space division. 10. NASA not risking the return of astronauts on Boeing’s Starliner - YouTube [26 August 2024] NASA officials said there was “too much uncertainty” about the Boeing Starliner to return astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams to Earth, stretching their eight-day mission into eight months. 11. Globular cluster - Wikipedia A globular cluster is a spheroidal conglomeration of stars that is bound together by gravity, with a higher concentration of stars towards its center. It can contain anywhere from tens of thousands to many millions of member stars,[2] all orbiting in a stable, compact formation. 12. Neutron star ...
Transcribe →The 9pm Tale of Madame Brussels with Barbara Minchinton
Aug 9, 202400:51:26Tap to summarizeCaroline Hodgson aka Madama Brussels, circa 1875–1879. (Photo: State Library of Victoria) Inset: Barbara Minchinton. (Photo: Viv Mellina) Victorian-era Melbourne had a thriving sex industry, and the flashiest of the flash madams was Caroline Hodgson, aka Madame Brussels. My guest today is Barbara Minchinton, author of the new book, Madame Brussels: The Life and Times of Melbourne’s Most Notorious Woman. In this episode we talk about Madame Brussels’ life in the context of Victorian-era Melbourne. We cover sectarian disapproval her so-called “mixed marriage”, some of the myths surrounding her, and the do-gooders who tried to shut her down. This podcast is available on Amazon Music, Apple Podcasts, Castbox, Deezer, Google Podcasts, iHeartRadio, JioSaavn, Pocket Casts, Podcast Addict, Podchaser, SoundCloud, Spotify, and Speaker. You can also listen to the podcast below, or subscribe to the generic podcast feed. Episode Links 01. Barbara Minchinton | Black Inc. Barbara Minchinton is a historian and independent researcher. For several years she collaborated with a team of archaeologists on the interpretation of artefacts from Melbourne’s Little Lon district. She is the co-editor of "The Commonwealth Block, Melbourne", a historical archaeology of the city’s working-class and immigrant communities, and the author of "The Women of Little Lon". 02. Madame Brussels by Barbara Minchinton | Black Inc. Born in Prussia to a working-class family, Caroline arrived in Melbourne in 1871. Left alone when her police-officer husband was sent to work in remote Victoria, she turned her hand to running brothels. Before long, she had proved herself brilliantly entrepreneurial: her principal establishment was a stone's throw from Parliament House, lavishly furnished and catered to Melbourne's ruling classes. 03. Caroline Hodgson - Wikipedia Caroline Hodgson (c. 1851 – 11 July 1908), also known as Madame Brussels, was a well-known brothel proprietor and local identity of the Little Lon district in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, during the late 19th century. 04. Victorian gold rush - Wikipedia In the 1850s gold discoveries in Victoria, in Beechworth, Castlemaine, Daylesford, Ballarat and Bendigo sparked gold rushes similar to the California Gold Rush. At its peak some two tonnes of gold per week flowed into the Treasury Building in Melbourne. 05. Marvellous Melbourne - Wikipedia The term Marvellous Melbourne was a cultural product of 19th-century Melburnians' pride in living in the "booming"[6] city of Melbourne... "Marvellous Melbourne: Queen City of the South" is a 1910 documentary of Melbourne that takes the audience through the hotspots of its central business district and surrounding features. Published in 1910, the film stands as the oldest surviving documentary of the city. 06. Prostitution in France - Wikipedia ["The French System"] In 1804 Napoleon ordered the registration and bi-weekly health inspection of all prostitutes. State controlled legal brothels (then known as "maisons de tolérance" or "maisons closes") started to appear in Paris and in other cities and became highly popular throughout the century. By 1810, Paris alone had 180 officially approved brothels. 07. Melbourne International Exhibition - Wikipedia The Melbourne International Exhibition was held from 1 October 1880 until 30 April 1881. It was the second international exhibition to be held in Australia, the first being held the previous year in Sydney. 08. Royal Exhibition Building - Wikipedia The Royal Exhibition Building is a World Heritage-listed building in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, built in 1879–1880 as part of the international exhibition movement, which presented over 50 exhibitions between 1851 and 1915 around the globe. The building sits on approximately 26 hectares (64 acres), is 150 metres (490 ft) long and is surrounded by four city streets. 09. Henry Varley: (Almost) The Restoration Movement's First "Mega-Preacher" | Michael Strickland - Academia.edu As the Teacher bemoaned, "The people of long ago are not remembered " (Eccl 1:11), too many times the important figures of one era are quickly forgotten in the next. Such could be said in the case of Henry Varley, who played a pivotal role in the history of British Churches of Christ in the late 1800s, though always as an outsider. The purpose of this article is to detail the important evangelistic work done by Varley, his cooperation with Restoration Movement leaders in Britain, and the ultimate reasons for his failure to fully associate with the Disciples of Christ. 10. The missing mace | Parliament of Victoria Examine the clues in one of Victoria's most daring thefts. Can you solve the case? Though the missing mace has been replaced, we still hope it will be returned! In fact there is a reward of $50,000 on offer. 11. John Norton (journalist) - Wikipedia John Norton (25 January 1857 – 9 April 1916) was an English-born Australian journalist, editor and member of the New South Wales Parl...
Transcribe →The 9pm Geography of Cybercrime with Dr Miranda Bruce
Aug 1, 202400:48:17Tap to summarizeDr Miranda Bruce is ready to wrangle the cybercrime data. (Main photo: John Carroll/UNSW Canberra at ADFA; background image: Benjamas/Rawpixel; digital composition: Stilgherrian.) Have you ever been a victim of cybercrime? I know I have. I bet you have too. So let’s talk about that now with Dr Miranda Bruce from UNSW Canberra, because she’s been working on the World Cybercrime Index. In this episode we talk about the types of cybercrime and its different characteristics around the world, cybercrime factories and human trafficking, and how law enforcement agencies’ views about their role all this role seem to different those of us ordinary citizens. This podcast is available on Amazon Music, Apple Podcasts, Castbox, Deezer, Google Podcasts, iHeartRadio, JioSaavn, Pocket Casts, Podcast Addict, Podchaser, SoundCloud, Spotify, and Speaker. You can also listen to the podcast below, or subscribe to the generic podcast feed. Episode Links 01. Dr Miranda Bruce Lecturer in Cyber Security at UNSW Canberra. Post-doc researcher with the CRIMGOV group at Oxford. 02. Oxford digital dons vs Russian elektro-mafia: Australia stakes its claim in cyber’s geopolitical name-and-blame game [11 April 2024] In the past three years, several universities with a cyber interest have come together to create a World Cybercrime Index (WCI). It maps the geography of protagonists as opposed to an attack launch or victim topology, which is a nice way of saying ‘whodunnit” and naming the states. 03. World-first Cybercrime Index maps the global geography of cybercrime | Department of Sociology [10 April 2024] Researchers from the Department of Sociology [at the University of Oxford] have compiled the first ever ‘World Cybercrime Index’, which identifies the globe’s major cybercrime hotspots by ranking the most significant sources of cybercrime at a national level. 05. Mapping the global geography of cybercrime with the World Cybercrime Index | PLOS ONE [10 April 2024; this is the full paper] From March to October 2021 we invited leading experts in cybercrime intelligence/investigations from across the world to participate in an anonymized online survey on the geographical location of cybercrime offenders... The outcome of the survey is the World Cybercrime Index, a global metric of cybercriminality organised around five types of cybercrime. The results indicate that a relatively small number of countries house the greatest cybercriminal threats. 06. The Weekly Cybers #13 • Buttondown [12 April 2024] One of the most frustrating aspects of reporting on cybersecurity is the tendency for vendors and politicians to talk up the threat by referring to millions or even billions of “attacks” per day when what they really mean is “individual bad data packets”... Finally, help is at hand. 07. North Korea is the most destructive cyber threat right now: FireEye | ZDNET [4 October 2018] DPRK hackers are cybering every way they can, and according to FireEye their destructiveness and unpredictability makes them dangerous. 08. Meet the scammers breaking hearts and stealing billions online | Four Corners - YouTube [11 February 2019] Four Corners takes you inside the world of online scamming, as reporter Sean Rubinsztein-Dunlop meets teenagers running romance scams out of internet cafes in West Africa and tracks global crime rings involved in drug trafficking and money laundering. 09. How cyber-crime has become organised warfare | Four Corners - YouTube [17 April 2023] Every seven minutes a cyber-attack is reported in Australia. Millions of Australians have had their data stolen in malicious attacks, costing some businesses tens of millions of dollars in ransom. The federal government is warning the country must brace for even more strikes as cyber gangs become more sophisticated and ruthless. Four Corners investigates the cyber gangs behind these assaults, cracking open their inner operations and speaking to a hacker who says he targets Australians and shows no remorse. The program travels all the way to Ukraine and discovers we share a common enemy in the battle for cyber security. 10. Australian real estate agents a trending target for cybercrime | ZDNET [31 May 2018] Typically Nigerian, these cybercriminals are highly organised. Their teams of mules can shift everything from iPhones to Lego, not just money. And they can smell blood in the water. 11. Chinese crime syndicates: Rebels uncover scam centres in Myanmar - YouTube In Myanmar, when rebels defeated government forces in the city of Laukkaing (LAO-GAI) late last year, they uncovered a number of scam centres run by Chinese crime syndicates. The operators were victims of the fraudulent scheme themselves and had been tricked and trafficked into Myanmar. Al Jazeera’s Tony Cheng has more from the Thai-Myanmar border. 12. Thailand: 900 scam factory Chinese victims rescued near Myanmar border | WION - YouTube [5 March 2024] The Thai prime minister has announced the country...
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Jul 25, 202401:24:34Tap to summarizeDavid F Porteous stands forever vigilant against the return of Evil Forces. (Photo: Supplied) Finally the real special guests start hitting the Edict‘s winter series. It’s Scottish author and social researcher David F Porteous. We do touch upon the recent UK election results, but there’s much, much more. In this episode we talk about Armando Iannucci, lacerated ears, magic shoes, serial killers, haggis smuggling from Kenya, the weight of a teaspoon of sugar. and other things. This podcast is available on Amazon Music, Apple Podcasts, Castbox, Deezer, Google Podcasts, iHeartRadio, JioSaavn, Pocket Casts, Podcast Addict, Podchaser, SoundCloud, Spotify, and Speaker. You can also listen to the podcast below, or subscribe to the generic podcast feed. David F Porteous has been on the podcast several times before. You might like to listen. The next episode will be with with Dr Miranda Bruce, who worked on the World Cybercrime Index. I’ve already recorded it, and it’s a lot of fun. Episode Links 01. dfpiii - Blog The official website of Scottish Author David F Porteous 02. David F Porteous (@dfpiii) / Twitter Author. Podcaster. Social researcher. Karaoke superstar. New novel ‘The Wicker Man Preservation Society’ is out 21 June 21. 03. Perth: Woman allegedly tries to shove bag of meth inside miniature dachshund’s anus | news.com.au [10 July 2024] The woman has been charged with animal cruelty, with the RSPCA WA alleging she acted cruelly towards her dog by attempting to place a package containing illicit drugs into her dog’s anus, knowing that the animal’s anal area was already infected and painful. 04. Nike’s self-lacing Adapt BB sneakers are losing their remote control mobile app - The Verge [5 July 2024] The Nike Adapt App is leaving app stores in August, but the $350 shoes can still be manually operated. 05. Bionic eyes: Obsolete tech leaves patients in the dark [18 February 2022] Hundreds of people who had retinal implants to improve their sight face an uncertain future as the technology they rely on is now obsolete. Second Sight stopped making its Argus II bionic eyes several years ago to focus on a brain implant instead. 06. Elon Musk says he is going to put brain chip into second person – despite major issues with the first [12 July 2024] That is despite issues with the first recipient, 29-year-old Noland Arbaugh, who received the chip in January. Initially, Neuralink said that his implant had gone “extremely well”, and the company said he was using it to play games among other tasks. In the week after the implant was completed, however, some of the 64 “threads” that are implanted into the brain have disconnected. The company has considered removing the implant from his brain, according to reports. 07. Lethal medical device hack taken to next level [21 October 2011] The wireless hacking of a medical device, first demonstrated at the Black Hat 2011 conference in August, has been taken a step further. An insulin pump has been hacked and instructed to deliver a lethal dose without first knowing the device's ID number. 08. Barnaby Jack - Wikipedia Barnaby Michael Douglas Jack (22 November 1977 – 25 July 2013) was a New Zealand hacker, programmer and computer security expert. He was known for his presentation at the Black Hat computer security conference in 2010, during which he exploited two ATMs and made them dispense fake paper currency on the stage. Among his other most notable works were the exploitation of various medical devices, including pacemakers and insulin pumps. 09. Cyborg lawyer demands software source | ZDNET [19 January 2021] Lawyer Karen Sandler's heart condition means she needs a pacemaker-defibrillator to avoid sudden death, so she has one simple question: what software does it run? 10. The Elon Musk Neuralink animal cruelty allegations, explained - Vox [11 December 2022] Elon Musk’s brain chip implant company is reportedly under federal investigation for violating the Animal Welfare Act. 11. Keir Starmer's first speech as prime minister in full - YouTube [5 July 2024] The Labour leader, Keir Starmer, made his first speech as prime minister outside Downing Street on Friday, saying that he would rebuild Britain and govern with a focus on placing the country first and his party's interests second. 12. The Truss moment may replace the Portillo moment [8 July 2024] After the [winner's] speech, the returning officer shook Ms Truss’ hand. We wondered if there would be a concession speech. We immediately got an answer. Liz Truss turne...
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