‘Our public universities have become corporatised, governed from behind closed doors by people with little connection to the daily realities of staff and students. The consequences have been catastrophic.’ Alison Barnes at today’s Senate Inquiry into university governance.

Well this seems sensible...

UPDATE: So I wrote this post and James Laurenceson the Director of ACRI tried to get me fired by ANU. I hold an unpaid fellowship at ANU from my work training cyber forces in Ukraine and studying the future of warfare. While I was at the front he was trying to get me fired.🧵

This is Tom Zhu Elon Musk’s right-hand man. This is the man who made it possible to cut electric car production time to 2 minutes. Here’s how he made Tesla the most valuable company in the world: 🧵

A scandal, an outrage. How the resource companies are ripping us off blind… And successive governments have let them get away with it. Makes your blood boil . smh.com.au/business/the-e…

"But China's railway network will cost a bundle to maintain in the future..." China deploys maintenance robots on its railway tracks

Welcome to the Hunan Model... which seems not to be an Africa exclusive: "Hunan Daily, August 12 (Reporter Peng Kexin, Correspondent Zhou Beibei, Yao Wei): Changsha Customs reported today that in the first seven months of this year, Hunan Province's exports of the "new three

As India moves toward elevated local currency-based trade as tensions w/ USA rise, for a picture of the BRICS' currency-related agenda: 👉"The BRICS, the dollar and SWIFT: A review of evolving interests and monetary reform momentum" tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.108… Richard Turrin

Kenya plans $4 billion extension of China-built railway, eyes Etihad Rail partnership africa.businessinsider.com/local/markets/…

That the US-China trade war is shifting industrial production to Vietnam may end up setting a new (& hard to repeat) benchmark in an economic demography transition-weighted development including successfully accommodating getting old before getting rich. "The country’s “golden

China funded research center tried to get my mate Rob Potter fired from the Australian National University for posting about foreign influence.

Tarric Brooker aka Avid Commentator 🇦🇺 b/c the 'hard' work of the 1980s/1990s Hawke era was mainly in fact an unwinding of the postwar era, as compared to building sth new. this was not a building but an unwinding.. of protections, taxes, collective assets.. ending the postWar fabric & bargain that they took for

It's been over six months since DeepSeek launched R1, and the world is still waiting for its successor model from China's AI darling. In the meantime, many developers have shifted to Alibaba's Qwen3 series, which adapted many of R1's core ideas but made it easier and cheaper to

Donkey bone study unlocks how Canaanites hauled ass from Egypt 4,700 years ago | The Times of Israel timesofisrael.com/donkey-bone-st…

Don't expect rebound in Japan's TFR in 2026: it's the once in 60 years year of the fire horse: "It’s a well-known phenomenon for Japanese people, but might not be clear to others. Many Japanese families chose not to have children in 1966 due to their superstition of “Hinoe-Uma