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Category: Important Public Statement
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I CAN PAY YOU, I HAVE BEEN PAYING YOU, YOUR MACHINE THINKING FAILS THE PUBLIC
BUSINESS Office: 18 Callendar St, Sunnybank Hills QLD 4109 AUSTRALIA 23 February 2025 RE: Prevented from Making Immediate Payment through Machine Thinking Dear Medibank Executive Officer, This morning I was ready to pay the bills and this was what I was confronted with: 1. the machine would not allow me…
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MBH Project on the Public History International Map; Isn’t it time for State and Council Funding to Keep the MBH Project Going?
Now that the MBH Project is on the Public History International Map, Isn’t it time for State and Council Funding to Keep the MBH Project Going? BUSINESS Office: 18 Callendar St, Sunnybank Hills QLD 4109 AUSTRALIA 22 February 2025 Re: 2024 World Conference of Public History: follow up Dear South-East…
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The Spiral Historiography of Radical-Liberal-Conservative: Vague Definitions and Practices
A model is an informative representation of an object, person, or system. It does not work as empirical observations of the political games in rhetoric, where persons try foolishly to rationalise their own political prejudices. That foolish worldview is full of vague definitions and practices. The model untangles the confusion into a better structured…
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The Polite and Civilising Madness: Slow cuts and its lasting harm, staff warn stricken universities
“Universities have been urged to reconsider “unprecedented” cuts planned across the UK sector, or risk facing complaints about declining standards and damaging their reputations both locally and abroad.” Tom Williams, Slow cuts or risk lasting harm, staff warn stricken universities, THE. January 30, 2025. Saying the binary “slow cuts or risk lasting harm” is…
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The Solutions in the History Industry Redeeming itself from the Curse of Nostalgia (heads in the sands of time)
When British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher caused an uproar in 1987 by telling an interviewer, “There is no such thing as society,” she was referring to the big amorphous concept, not the specific word. All these years later, though, with “society” vanishing everywhere, it’s tempting to think that Maggie was just ahead of her time.…
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The Critical Review of Tom Holland: Great Errors in Apologetics and Historiographies
This blog article is Buch, Neville (2025; a plan for a book). Why the Disciplines and No Apologetics? Part 3: Understanding Historiography: defeating the culture-history warfare over the false binary in ‘religion’ and ‘secularity’, Dr Neville Buch ABN: 86703686642, January 2025. I am sending out one of my past articles (link…
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Ontological Working Conclusions
Definitional phrasing copied and pasted from Wikipedia. “genuinely reflecting on, and responding to, the needs, demands, and expectations of teaching about teaching within the academy”. John Loughran[1] “The sociology of sociology is a topic of sociology that combines social theories with analysis of the effect of socio-historical contexts in sociological intellectual production.” (Wikipedia).…
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John Wagner’s List of Negative Characteristics in Corporate Culture
From John Wagner’s List on LinkedIn. Corporate culture that needs to get canceled in 2025: * Micromanagement * Mandatory Return To Office * Glorifying Overworking * Expecting staff to be available 24/7 * Meetings that could have been an email * Unsympathetic Layoffs * Not disclosing salary ranges in job postings…
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Memory and Careers in a Corrupt Economic System
The 17 December is a very sad day, with happy memories 27 years ago. 2024 minus 27 years = 1997. I was never good at maths; had to use a calculator. The machines now give us the answers to which we must respond. 1997. I started my first ‘permanent’ career job, as a…
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The Employment Industry has become unaccountable to the Public
On Linked-In: Dear Hiring Managers, I would like to express my feelings regarding a recent interview experience that I found quite disappointing. I applied for a position about a month ago, and the job posting is still active. The marketing representative who conducted my interview started three minutes late and continued to…