Think back to 2010, on the 2nd of May, one week before the year’s federal budget, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd is announcing a new Resources Super Profits Tax. Just 53 days and $22 million in mining company ads later, Rudd was out as PM. Now, fifteen years after the Resources Super Profits Tax was abandoned, a new resources tax debate is raging.

Analysis finds real wages fell 12% since 2019, with inequality widening in the US beyond global levels

Australia spends less on research and development than most of the developed world, and our productivity growth is the lowest in decades.

Trickle-down housing economics just admitted what town planners always knew, argues Tim Sneesby in this article that tackles the truth about housing supply – 95 per cent of applications for developments are approved and only built when they are financially viable.

Labor is right to wind back a system where taxpayers spend billions lining the pockets of those who treat housing like an asset class, not a basic need

A neo-Nazi forum known as “Fash Front” is emerging as the latest hub for militant accelerationism. The platform glorifies white supremacist mass killers, promotes “race war” rhetoric, and serves as a gathering space for extremists tied to groups like Atomwaffen and Terrorgram. Accelerationist networks continue adapting across forums, encrypted platforms, and propaganda channels despite arrests, prosecutions, and links to real-world violence.

Heavy redactions raise concerns Albanese government may have known there were no legitimate grounds for war

How natsec bros go crazy for bad history

Uunions from across the world came together with a shared message: social justice is the strongest defence of democracy.

Across regions, workers are facing rising insecurity, inequality and attacks on their rights. The far right feeds on these conditions but offers no real solutions.

The answer is clear:
• Decent jobs and living wages
• Strong public services
• Rights at work and collective bargaining
• Fair taxation and an end to extreme inequality

“Who AI benefits and who it immiserates often is based on who gets to decide how it’s used. We know how tech is used on the day to day. We should be at the table as well.”

A host of labor leaders spoke at a press conference organized by Bernie Sanders in a unified call to put human workers before AI.

Wizards of the Coast has written to its employees to warn that unionizing could mean staff “end up with more, the same …

The trial found that dropping a whole day of work has absolutely zero negative impact on company output

Staff from consultancy firms drafted in to work on Federated Data Platform project set to benefit

Huawei’s Tau Scaling Law challenges Intel and TSMC’s process node leadership with LogicFolding architecture, reframing semiconductor competition.

The great skeptic gets taken in

People value human-created art not just for its quality, but because it represents effort, intention and lived experience.

Nobody should be surprised

And why it’s probably only going to get worse from here.

AI was supposed to help companies think smarter. Instead, it’s mass-producing polished business delusions.

Why “AI populism” is just “populism”

The incident is the latest example of a professional services firm being led astray by the new technology.

A new Stanford study found that popular AI chatbots are likely to adopt socialist personas when pushed by demanding bosses.

I’ll let you into a dirty secret. Artificial intelligence doesn’t require millions of GPUs in thousands of data centres.

Where else can people push back on job-eating algorithms, distorting deep fakes, and autonomous drone strikes?

LinkedIn may be awash with boosters, but shunning AI is the human choice.

 Analysis shows that indiscriminately training generative artificial intelligence on real and generated content, usually done by scraping data from the Internet, can lead to a collapse in the ability of the models to generate diverse high-quality output.

Billionaire investor Marc Andreessen criticized tech executives for not properly selling AI, before whiffing his own attempt.

The frenzied rollout of AI data centres in Australia is rushing through massive new projects, which will derail Australia’s energy transition unless the government urgently intervenes.

What do the numbers really say about the impact of artificial intelligence on the labor market? The answer might surprise you.

AI is causing real-world harm, and Pope Leo XIV calls for proper regulation in his Magnifica Humanitas. Here’s why his message matters and what needs to happen next.

As AI agents autonomously install packages, pull dependencies, and execute code, most enterprises have no policy, no visibility, and no one accountable when something goes wrong.

Starbucks has scrapped an AI tool for inventory management less than a year after deploying it across its North American locations.

Chatbots have already changed how voters get information. Political operatives just don’t know what they can do to change what the chatbots say.

charlie curran is making ai-generated movies about iran and the rizzler, among other things, entertaining millions and building an ai film studio while hollywood panics

“We’re in a moment of real political wilderness,” said Swing Left Executive Director Yasmin Radjy. “And that means that we can’t just keep doing the same things that we’ve done in the past and expect different results.”

Swing Left aims to reconnect with voters and overhaul campaigning with ‘deep canvassing’ ahead of midterms

This is the first election cycle where what ChatGPT, Gemini, and Grok say about candidates could actually shape how voters decide. And as Jack Welty sees it, our side isn’t ready.

A segmentation that takes the the word “audience” seriously

Another such casualty is the push of AI into the world of Dungeons & Dragons. Used in this way, AI purports to hack your recreational time, allowing you to maximise it by smoothing over the nitty gritty. But the thing is, the joy of D&D is the nitty gritty. AI promises to improve the productivity of work and leisure, but much of D&D thrives on being unproductive.

The new American dad is more present and more exhausted, but also more satisfied with life.

this revolution won’t be incentivised!

Chinese Australians have lashed the Coalition’s plan to block non-citizens from accessing welfare services, likening the opposition’s targeting of migrants to One Nation. 

The opposition is bipartisan and across all age groups

Three videos, three very different messages about masculinity and health. New research shows this is how the manosphere finds young men.

Campaigners say Australia is giving away its gas ‘for free’ and should tax exports like Norway and Qatar.

China is dominating the energy transition with astonishing results, while fossil fuel fascists in the US try to turn back the clock