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Tax appeals, benefit reconsiderations, planning objections,]]></description><link>https://ecency.com/@revisesociology/the-states-best-defence-was-that-nobody-could-be-bothered</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://ecency.com/@revisesociology/the-states-best-defence-was-that-nobody-could-be-bothered</guid><category><![CDATA[government]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[revisesociology]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2026 18:10:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://i.ecency.com/p/pBMyo3B2Sao45kGEB1kRY9cJBFGQnrPp2qChGHkgVjzu1y6XFCd4yc3Z6RXqCzbfv1WQ1sQhpdGGTQyWgQzbD4tSKz4ccUoT77u16oAPPmxVKEPSnhoHRjs1GYfJ2dBZQJmGA4VmugD9YTUkyJn2BRypPFMF1ct59NKLpHNczorsjjd8?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Rise of the 1am Job Interview]]></title><description><![CDATA[A quarter of all interviews conducted through one voice-AI recruitment platform now happen between ten at night and two in the morning. For manufacturing employers it's over a third. 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BASE!]]></title><description><![CDATA[I've just been plodding along this last week, building up that base! So just three short easy runs... 17 August... 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All]]></description><link>https://ecency.com/@revisesociology/another-couple-days-in-engelberg</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://ecency.com/@revisesociology/another-couple-days-in-engelberg</guid><category><![CDATA[holidays]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[revisesociology]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2026 09:51:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://i.ecency.com/p/3W72119s5BjW3w55E9m2dpuZgVrNq2aY9mCy64UVva7KhaVnGFvwZhA5u28osVPAmf9rZ8z43wFWL8LEc22gEapedMYZHSZjtzMFHMvkHseY8mwJqxtcpn?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[The End of Reading — Or Just the End of a Brief Interlude?]]></title><description><![CDATA[Rose Horowitch has an article in The Atlantic which argues, more or less, that we are living through the second fall of the Library of Alexandria — only this time nobody has burned anything down. 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