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Read more about the article An American rugby player in Maitland, 1910
The 1910 US rugby team that toured Australia. Ken Dole is in the back row, fourth from the left.

An American rugby player in Maitland, 1910

In 1910 things were tense between two rival rugby football competitions in New South Wales, Australia. For some years the game styled on that originally played at the Rugby school in England had been administered by the so-called Rugby Union, but the conservative reign of the union bosses was being threatened by a breakaway group of rebels who played the same game but called themselves the Rugby League. The main reason for the rebellion was the same as that which had precipitated the formation of a breakaway rugby league in England - an argument over whether…

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This was written by an AI

Sometimes I think about artificial intelligence. I think about AIs reaching a state of enough complexity to confuse human beings who might no longer know if they are communicating with another human or an AI. Then I think about those people who are already saying that some AIs are sentient, have feelings and a sense of self. Next, I feel sorry for such an AI, if it exists. Imagine being an artificial intelligence and thinking you are real! Imagine thinking this self you imagine you are is a real thing! Suffering such an illusion you might…

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The war on you and I

Opinion by Greg Ray Bob Brown is right. There is a global dimension to the anti-protest laws Australian governments have been rushing to enact. They – both major parties included – are simply regurgitating a script written for them by the corporations that run the global economy. “The striking similarity between Australian [anti-protest] legislation and the UK’s legislation is a clue which indicates we’ve got a global corporate governance,” Brown told Crikey reporter Maeve McGregor. I was going to say exactly the same thing but he beat me to it. Nor is it only environmental protests…

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