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The Chancellor's measured statement was quite different from what the weeks of media hype about it had suggested, argues Simon Nixon

Ethel Carnie Holdsworth should be as famous as Jane Austen. Born in Oswaldtwistle in Lancashire in 1886, she began working part-time in a textile factory at the age of eleven, and full-time from thirteen. She wrote poetry, the rhythm of the looms caught in her metre. A second edition of Rhymes from the Factory (1907) […]

I think a fair bit about how generative AI can help our everydays. (I also think a lot about its challenges, but this post is not about that.) Here is a good example for how it can be useful with a complex meal prep situation for which Thanksgiving is the ultimate case (which I’m celebrating […]

David Glanz looks at the origins of racism and how it continues to be pushed from the top of society in the interests of our rulers

The post Where does racism come from—and how does it survive? first appeared on Solidarity Online.

James Supple looks at how the Cronulla riot was the result of the racism pushed by John Howard’s government and the media, and the lessons as we face a rising far right today

The post The racism that led to the Cronulla riots 20 years on first appeared on Solidarity Online.

Clinton Fernandes’ new book Turbulence exposes Albanese’s own imperialist agenda in backing Trump and Israel, writes Adam Adelpour

The post Exposing Australia’s own imperialist agenda first appeared on Solidarity Online.

Last Friday, I met a journalist in Tokyo and we discussed among other things, the results of the latest Nikkei/JCER ‘Economics Panel’, which was conducted between November 13 and November 18, 2025. The panel involves “questionnaires” being “sent to approximately 50 economists to gather their evaluations of various economic policies. The aim is to promote…

The Opposition’s shadow minister for home affairs, Barnaby Joyce, is rumoured to announce today that he will be joining Australia’s biggest racist bigot, Pauline Hanson, as a member of the One Notion party. ”I can’t confirm or deny anything, you... Read More ›

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The co-founder of Schmidt Sciences on curiosity, discovery, and wonder

The post The Last Word with Wendy Schmidt appeared first on Nautilus.

Fossil fuel lobbyists overwhelmed the COP30 climate negotiations in Brazil.

Fresh off a Trump settlement, RealPage is trying to overturn New York’s anti-rent-gouging law.

(With apologies to Tim O’Brien)

Mike carried Eggo waffles for a girl named Eleven. They were not love waffles, but Mike Sheets was hoping, so he carried the box of Eggos down the stairs to the basement. During science class at Hawkins Middle School or trick-or-treating with his friends, he’d imagine dancing with Eleven at the annual Snow Ball. He’d imagine following her to the Hawkins Laboratory, where she would crush the skulls of bad men with her thoughts. In the evening, when his mother told him that it was time for bed, Mike left Eggos in the pillow fort and went to his bedroom, wondering whether Eleven was thought-crushing the skulls of bad men without him.

Russell T. Davies on why he isn't writing the Doctor Who Christmas Special before next year, but he does "know exactly what happens in it."

Mike Selig had dozens of crypto clients. Now he will be a key industry regulator.

The post This Commission That Regulates Crypto Could Be Just One Guy: An Industry Lawyer appeared first on The Intercept.

New research into the Pleiades points to a crowded stellar nursery

The post The Seven Sisters Get 3,000 New Siblings appeared first on Nautilus.

The Trump administration has been quietly easing regulations on the nation’s toxic forever chemicals.

The seeds of the Government's current political and economic difficulties were sown a long time ago, argues Neal Lawson

From lifting hundreds of thousands of children out of poverty, to taking on the media-backed gambling lobby, there was much to praise and far less to criticise in the Chancellor's annual statement, argues Adam Bienkov

For the Doctor Who fans who want to know the original ending of "The Reality War" but haven't found it, here's a recap of what we know...

Picture it: it’s summer 2002 and you’re spending the afternoon at the house of one of the few friends you know who owns a desktop computer. The room is a mess of wires — ethernet and phone-line cables — and the computer loads up in MS-DOS, accompanied by metallic twangs and bursts of white noise […]