Will Duncan
@willjdunc.bsky.social
Australian in Paris. Focused on international cooperation, public policy, music, trains etc.. 🇺🇳
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Robin Williams' daughter has some quality thoughts on AI slop
October 6, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Robin Williams' daughter has some quality thoughts on AI slop
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gazans estimated to have been displaced from gaza city in the past month: > 250,000
- united nations
- united nations
September 18, 2025 at 8:30 PM
gazans estimated to have been displaced from gaza city in the past month: > 250,000
- united nations
- united nations
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Butterick’s Practical Typography
Butterick’s Practical Typography
practicaltypography.com
August 3, 2025 at 2:43 AM
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Joint statement on Gaza from AFP, AP, BBC News and Reuters
July 24, 2025 at 9:11 AM
Joint statement on Gaza from AFP, AP, BBC News and Reuters
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A UK wealth tax sounds simple: "tax the super‑rich, fund public services"
But it's not.
Our 16,000 word deep‑dive shows revenues are fragile, it puts growth, investment and jobs at risk, and there's no revenue before 2029.
Here’s the evidence:
But it's not.
Our 16,000 word deep‑dive shows revenues are fragile, it puts growth, investment and jobs at risk, and there's no revenue before 2029.
Here’s the evidence:
July 22, 2025 at 8:15 AM
A UK wealth tax sounds simple: "tax the super‑rich, fund public services"
But it's not.
Our 16,000 word deep‑dive shows revenues are fragile, it puts growth, investment and jobs at risk, and there's no revenue before 2029.
Here’s the evidence:
But it's not.
Our 16,000 word deep‑dive shows revenues are fragile, it puts growth, investment and jobs at risk, and there's no revenue before 2029.
Here’s the evidence:
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Omer Shem Tov was kidnapped on October 7th. He survived by becoming his captors’ gofer
I spent 500 days as a hostage of Hamas
Omer Shem Tov was kidnapped on October 7th. He survived by becoming his captors’ gofer
econ.st
July 11, 2025 at 8:20 AM
Omer Shem Tov was kidnapped on October 7th. He survived by becoming his captors’ gofer
Proud to be from the 1%
Great geography trivia by @civixplorer: every year on July 8th at 11:15 UTC, 99% of the world population gets sunlight.
July 8, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Proud to be from the 1%
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Worth a watch:
Head of Signal, Meredith Whittaker, on so-called "agentic AI" and the difference between how it's described in the marketing and what access and control it would actually require to work as advertised.
Head of Signal, Meredith Whittaker, on so-called "agentic AI" and the difference between how it's described in the marketing and what access and control it would actually require to work as advertised.
June 26, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Worth a watch:
Head of Signal, Meredith Whittaker, on so-called "agentic AI" and the difference between how it's described in the marketing and what access and control it would actually require to work as advertised.
Head of Signal, Meredith Whittaker, on so-called "agentic AI" and the difference between how it's described in the marketing and what access and control it would actually require to work as advertised.
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don't want to be a gender essentialist but I think it's wrong that there are female Jack Russells out there, all Jack Russells are very obviously boys to me
June 18, 2025 at 10:53 AM
don't want to be a gender essentialist but I think it's wrong that there are female Jack Russells out there, all Jack Russells are very obviously boys to me
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June 16, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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“The pope will be from Chicago” sounds like an 1880s Republican’s dire prediction for if we don’t stop Irish immigration
May 8, 2025 at 5:26 PM
“The pope will be from Chicago” sounds like an 1880s Republican’s dire prediction for if we don’t stop Irish immigration
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Stunned the Libs lost given how amazing their social media campaign was
May 3, 2025 at 11:38 AM
Stunned the Libs lost given how amazing their social media campaign was
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The thing about Europe: it's the actual land of the free now.
Whatever problems Europe has - and it has plenty - it is looking pretty damn good by comparison these days.
My Charlemagne this week
www.economist.com/europe/2025/...
Whatever problems Europe has - and it has plenty - it is looking pretty damn good by comparison these days.
My Charlemagne this week
www.economist.com/europe/2025/...
The thing about Europe: it’s the actual land of the free now
Europe’s very real problems don’t look so bad by comparison
www.economist.com
April 10, 2025 at 1:40 PM
The thing about Europe: it's the actual land of the free now.
Whatever problems Europe has - and it has plenty - it is looking pretty damn good by comparison these days.
My Charlemagne this week
www.economist.com/europe/2025/...
Whatever problems Europe has - and it has plenty - it is looking pretty damn good by comparison these days.
My Charlemagne this week
www.economist.com/europe/2025/...
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that period of Australian history where we had a new prime minister every 5 minutes doesn’t seem so embarrassing now
April 6, 2025 at 12:31 PM
that period of Australian history where we had a new prime minister every 5 minutes doesn’t seem so embarrassing now
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Breaking now: Ministry of Economics reporting the tariffs have not caused significant changes to our trading volumes
April 3, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Breaking now: Ministry of Economics reporting the tariffs have not caused significant changes to our trading volumes
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www.nytimes.com/live/2025/04... An era of unmatched peace and prosperity comes to an end. It wasn't perfect, but the world will be poorer and more unstable in the decades to come.
Trump Announces Retaliatory Tariffs: Live Updates
www.nytimes.com
April 2, 2025 at 8:51 PM
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/04... An era of unmatched peace and prosperity comes to an end. It wasn't perfect, but the world will be poorer and more unstable in the decades to come.
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Americans in 1773 didn't realize that Parliament was just trying to help them protect their domestic tea industry against Chinese imports
April 2, 2025 at 8:17 AM
Americans in 1773 didn't realize that Parliament was just trying to help them protect their domestic tea industry against Chinese imports
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You can’t stop fascists by banning them you know, you have to carve out special little exemptions so that no laws whatsoever apply to them and they get to do whatever they want with no consequences. Otherwise the rule of law might be in trouble!
March 31, 2025 at 11:01 AM
You can’t stop fascists by banning them you know, you have to carve out special little exemptions so that no laws whatsoever apply to them and they get to do whatever they want with no consequences. Otherwise the rule of law might be in trouble!
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Unidentified men grabbing someone off the street and putting her in a car because she wrote an op-Ed. This as flatly authoritarian as anything we’ve seen in this country in a very long time.
Video of the international student at Tufts being arrested by "federal authorities" in Massachusetts has been released and it's terrifying.
They're not even uniformed officers. Just secret police thugs in hoodies and masks.
From WCVB: youtu.be/PuFIs7OkzYY
They're not even uniformed officers. Just secret police thugs in hoodies and masks.
From WCVB: youtu.be/PuFIs7OkzYY
March 26, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Unidentified men grabbing someone off the street and putting her in a car because she wrote an op-Ed. This as flatly authoritarian as anything we’ve seen in this country in a very long time.
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I can't tell you how committed I am to the possibility of holding an Olympic rowing contest in the middle of a crocodile farm. The idea hadn't even occurred to me - I just imagined it wouldn't be allowed - but we've opened a door now. We must not allow it to close www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/m...
‘Lovely gentle dinosaurs’: Brisbane 2032 Olympic rowing may be held in saltwater crocodile habitat
The Brisbane 2032 Olympic rowing may be held on river inhabited by ‘lovely, gentle dinosaurs’
www.theguardian.com
March 25, 2025 at 10:53 AM
I can't tell you how committed I am to the possibility of holding an Olympic rowing contest in the middle of a crocodile farm. The idea hadn't even occurred to me - I just imagined it wouldn't be allowed - but we've opened a door now. We must not allow it to close www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/m...
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Automatic hourly headline updater
March 13, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Automatic hourly headline updater
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if you think we should lock down every winter so people don't get the flu at all then 1) I think you're mental but, crucially, 2) that's an opinion you're allowed to hold, but you've got to be honest about what you're advocating for
March 10, 2025 at 9:49 PM
if you think we should lock down every winter so people don't get the flu at all then 1) I think you're mental but, crucially, 2) that's an opinion you're allowed to hold, but you've got to be honest about what you're advocating for
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I mean also there were lockdowns and even people living alone had to spend weeks on end entirely by themselves, and kids weren't able to go to school, and tons of businesses shut down, I think reducing pandemic measures to "we wore masks and stayed at home when ill" doesn't quite work
At the start of COVID, we all learned how to beat airborne viruses like the flu: by wearing masks and staying home when we are sick. It's a real shame we haven't translated those important lessons into long-term behavioral change.
March 10, 2025 at 9:48 PM
I mean also there were lockdowns and even people living alone had to spend weeks on end entirely by themselves, and kids weren't able to go to school, and tons of businesses shut down, I think reducing pandemic measures to "we wore masks and stayed at home when ill" doesn't quite work