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The Hidden History of Women Game Designers

Tue, 27 Jan 2026 11:31:00 +1100

Andrew Pam <xanni [at] glasswings.com.au>

https://daily.jstor.org/the-hidden-history-of-women-game-designers/

"Educational games were all the rage in the early ninteenth century. As the
narrator of Sir Walter Scott’s 1814 novel, Waverley, observed, “the history
of England is now reduced to a game at cards, the problems of mathematics to

Computer says no: AI vetting rejects job hunters in record time

Tue, 27 Jan 2026 11:28:34 +1100

Andrew Pam <xanni [at] glasswings.com.au>

<https://www.smh.com.au/business/workplace/computer-says-no-ai-vetting-rejects-job-hunters-in-record-time-20260122-p5nw2y.html>

"Job hunters whose applications are being rapidly knocked back are airing their
frustration as experts warn of the discriminatory risks of relying too heavily
on AI for hiring.

White House Push AI-Altered Images Of Arrested ICE Protesters To Manufacture Cruelty

Tue, 27 Jan 2026 11:27:27 +1100

Andrew Pam <xanni [at] glasswings.com.au>

<https://www.techdirt.com/2026/01/23/white-house-push-ai-altered-images-of-arrested-ice-protesters-to-manufacture-cruelty/>

"We are being led by deeply unserious people. Not only that, but people who are
manufacturing cruelty upon their very own constituents. That’s how bad this has
gotten.

Australia once enshrined white superiority. These 10 trailblazers helped shift our attitudes to race

Tue, 27 Jan 2026 11:26:40 +1100

Andrew Pam <xanni [at] glasswings.com.au>

<https://theconversation.com/australia-once-enshrined-white-superiority-these-10-trailblazers-helped-shift-our-attitudes-to-race-269382>

"In early 20th century Australia, Indigenous people were denied citizenship and
the nation had a racially exclusive immigration policy. Most people not only
accepted the “White Australia” policy but openly identified with its assumption

ICE Is So Bad At Immigration Enforcement That It’s Detaining Native Americans

Tue, 27 Jan 2026 11:25:17 +1100

Andrew Pam <xanni [at] glasswings.com.au>

<https://www.techdirt.com/2026/01/23/ice-is-so-bad-at-immigration-enforcement-that-its-detaining-native-americans/>

"Trump’s version of ICE has always assumed that if your skin shade is anything
darker than right-wing podcaster translucent, your ass needs to be gone from
this country.

Astronaut Katherine Bennell-Pegg is 2026 Australian of the Year

Tue, 27 Jan 2026 11:23:31 +1100

Andrew Pam <xanni [at] glasswings.com.au>

<https://theconversation.com/astronaut-katherine-bennell-pegg-is-2026-australian-of-the-year-274031>

"The first Australian to qualify as an astronaut under Australia’s space
program, Katherine Bennell-Pegg, is the 2026 Australian of the Year.

RFK Jr. Spreads New Bogus Scare Mongering Bullshit About Cell Phone Safety

Tue, 27 Jan 2026 02:32:57 +1100

Andrew Pam <xanni [at] glasswings.com.au>

<https://www.techdirt.com/2026/01/23/rfk-jr-spreads-new-bogus-scare-mongering-bullshit-about-cell-phone-safety/>

"The hype and madness surrounding 5G has always been pretty wild to watch.

On one hand, wireless carriers spent years implying that 5G was some type of

Myanmar military proxy expected to win landslide in widely denounced election

Tue, 27 Jan 2026 02:29:14 +1100

Andrew Pam <xanni [at] glasswings.com.au>

<https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jan/25/myanmar-election-enters-final-stage-amid-airstrikes-and-exclusions>

"Voting in Myanmar has ended with the military-backed party expected to win a
landslide victory after a month-long election that has been widely derided as a
sham designed to cement the army’s grip on power.

Opposition to moving Australia Day from January 26 is hardening: new research

Tue, 27 Jan 2026 02:27:41 +1100

Andrew Pam <xanni [at] glasswings.com.au>

<https://theconversation.com/opposition-to-moving-australia-day-from-january-26-is-hardening-new-research-273795>

"Australians are deeply divided over whether January 26 is an appropriate day
to celebrate Australia Day – and we are no longer debating it as much as
doubling down in entrenched camps.

This 26 January, we should question Australia’s subservience to a different empire: Trump’s America

Tue, 27 Jan 2026 02:26:50 +1100

Andrew Pam <xanni [at] glasswings.com.au>

<https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jan/25/australia-aukus-subservience-empire-trump-america>

"Once again on this divisive day of national celebration, Australia’s leaders
can be expected to indulge in official monologues of self-congratulation based
on assertions of who we supposedly are as a country and a people.