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Introduction: The Burgers and the Bench There’s a burger franchise in Boronia. I go there, that’s how I got to know the name Hash Tayeh. Reasonable prices. Decent food. Hash Tayeh, the man behind the […]

By Chen Ziqi In a care facility in eastern China’s Jiangsu province, a waist-high white robot glides quietly between rooms. Its digital face lights up in a cheerful greeting as it makes its rounds. It […]

Britain’s Labour Prime Minister is an accidental genius. Having won a comprehensive election victory in 2024 for not being a disturbed, sociopathic Tory leader, Sir Keir Starmer is now engineering his party into a position […]

🎬 UTOPIA: “Nobody Likes PILES” Scene 1 – Department Meeting Room Tony (brisk): Good news. Complaints are up 50%, which means engagement is up. (1-second pause) Nat looks up slowly. Slow blink. Nat: That’s not […]

The Hidden Human Cost of Algorithmic Warfare Fresh from their “snuff-movie” hit incinerating Venezuelan fishermen, Team Trump moves yet another carrier strike group into the Persian Gulf. Suddenly, our infotainment airwaves are full of experts […]

When former president Barack Obama was asked in a rapid-fire exchange whether aliens were real, he replied bluntly: “They’re real.” It was dry, ambiguous, almost certainly playful. In another era it would have drifted away […]

This time, the appropriately designated shoe had found itself on the other foot. While the Trump administration has been gorily killing personnel on alleged “narco-boats” and vessels supposedly heading to US shores laden with illicit […]

Part IV: The Interconnected Web From Banks to Police The same structural forces that protect banks from accountability also protect police from accountability. The same logic that blames “a few bad apples” in finance blames […]

The AIMN’s X Account Was Hacked – What Happened and What Comes Next Over the past week our long-standing X account was compromised. The verified account, which had approximately 23,300 followers and contained 13 years […]

By Denis Hay   Description Criticism of the Australia-US alliance examines whether unquestioning support for the US undermines peace, sovereignty, and regional stability. Introduction – Asking the Question Australians Rarely Hear For decades, Australia has […]

By Ricky Pann To: All Australians / Members of the Australian Parliament From: Ricky Pann MMap (UTS), MDM (UNSW) Date: 27 February 2026 Subject: The Mandatory Labelling of AI and the Right to Orientation Part […]

In the winter after the first pandemic winter, a friend showed me a small device she carried like an amulet. It was the size of a matchbox, with a screen that glowed a cheerful, bureaucratic […]

Alienated from active political participation and low membership rates for trade unions, Australians are now responding more positively to far-right ideologies from the LNP and beyond. Encouragement for the LNP always comes from the Murdoch […]