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Leonie Needham's Authors Journey (opens the original)
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Idioms, Proverbs, and Algorithms (opens the original)
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‘Rue the day’ is an idiom, do I need to say, and we are the idiots rueing the day, reeling in outrage and feeling impotent while governments sit on their hands watching the world in crisis. Some of us pray, in the false hope that a powerful saviour will magic the American Abomination away. I see no saviour in sight. On the contrary, a host of evil players are adding to the conflagration, and AI algorithms are lapping it up. We can no longer distinguish truth from fiction.An old proverb tells us
Profit and Greed (opens the original)
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August 2026. The removal of actual people from many workplaces continues at an alarming rate…August 2025. ‘One of Australia’s largest employers has axed 45 jobs in its customer call centres after rolling out an artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot to deal with customer inquiries. The Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA) confirmed to the ABC that the organisation was consulting the dozens of people impacted by the cuts.’The wretched procedure makes my blood boil. An unproductive and time-wasting
Melbourne, my City (opens the original)
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I’m on a visit to Melbourne after so longI notice changes on the major thoroughfaresA different city to the one I knew when I was youngNew money has paved the streets with bluestone squaresTransported from the district that I now call homeFacades of glass and chrome reflect the vacant stares of people in the fast lanePerambulating throngs who jostle in the streets as they hurry to belongTo be slotted into desks in office blocks, stitched into the fabric of the cityHeld tight by tangled threads i
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