Reposted by Positive RegressionJake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 09/10/2026New working paper: the Norwegian wealth tax was a huge success. The "exodus" of wealthy people never happened (less than 100 individuals left). Tax revenue increased by 71.5%. No changes in business activity or investment. www.nber.org/papers/w35854 130129375506
Reposted by Positive RegressionInformation Age @information-age.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Some of Australia’s biggest data centre operators paid no tax in the 2024-25 financial year, despite reporting hundreds of millions or even billions of dollars in income as construction of new facilities accelerates across the country. Read more: ia.acs.org.au/article/2026...ia.acs.org.auThe data centre giants paying no tax in AustraliaATO scrutinises the rapidly growing industry. 36241
Reposted by Positive RegressionDan of the Year @downwithdan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026When you have no concept of how people engage with music 5828260887
Reposted by Positive RegressionKetan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 27/09/2026Happy ten year anniversary of the 2016 blackout in South Australia. I was told that as clean power grew in Aus, we'd see a blackout apocalypse. The chart below shows blackouts for generation shortfall as columns, and renewable proportion as a percent of the eastern grid. Enjoy :) 816856
Reposted by Positive RegressionDeepcut News @deepcutnews.bsky.social · 28/09/2026This Labor government is the Ed Sheeran of Australian politics, @amyremeikis.bsky.social writes. "On every issue, Labor has done the least it can do." www.deepcutnews.com/p/this-labor...deepcutnews.comThis Labor government is the Ed Sheeran of Australian politics – Amy RemeikisThere is more opportunity to push back against toxic centrism 22304119
Reposted by Positive RegressionDavid Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 27/09/2026The techbros don't want you to see this trailer. Pass it on. 3249752754
Reposted by Positive RegressionGreg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 28/09/2026If there is one thing the past 30 years or so of politics has taught us is that "Rhodes Scholar" does not mean much. 3547272
Reposted by Positive RegressionBlair Palese @blairpalese.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Looking at Aust hitting 80% clean #renewableenergy in the grid & 1/2 a million #EVs on the rd w/ a super El Niño summer coming & screaming #COAL & #GAS is the very definition of stupid! #auspol #liberals reneweconomy.com.au/coalition-vo...reneweconomy.com.au"Dumb and desperate:" Coalition panned after vowing to scrap renewable, EV and climate policiesFederal Coalition vows to detonate most of Australia's efforts to decarbonise "within 30 days" of winning power, including the advance of renewables and the emissions-curbing policy it introduced. 35729
Positive Regression @frapdoodler.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Discussion apparently doesn't fall within the Overton Window ... 010
Reposted by Positive RegressionNicole Chvastek @nicolechvastek.bsky.social · 25/09/2026www.theguardian.com/australia-ne... These are the pricks lecturing migrants and people in public housing on “Aussie values”theguardian.comOne Nation admits using party funds to build $56,000 shed on James Ashby’s private propertyEmail to members says money lent to a party-linked company to establish a micro distillery 98638
Positive Regression @frapdoodler.bsky.social · 23/09/2026At least its not on the godawful 787s, hopefully A350s better but knowing Qantas they'll have made the seating plans and seat pitch intolerable/ inhuman for such long haul trips. 000
Positive Regression @frapdoodler.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Hi @profgalloway.com you like to defend your rich mate Dr Oz, let's see you justify this idiocy and total lack of understanding of how insurance works? 000
Reposted by Positive RegressionRex Patrick @mrrexpatrick.bsky.social · 21/09/2026“There’s no avoiding the scale of our responsibility – or the cost of inaction,” says @albomp.bsky.social, the leader of a government that readily and repeatedly approves new, or extends exisiting, fossil fuel projects. 🤷♂️ 1/2 #duplicitous #climate #auspoltheguardian.comNo avoiding the cost of inaction on climate, Anthony Albanese says in New YorkBefore United Nations meeting, prime minister says Australians knows the impact of global heating as well as anyone 1916559
Reposted by Positive Regressionheadfallsoff @headfallsoff.com · 19/09/2026people are always saying anti-AI arguments don’t understand the full nuances of the technology. which is correct. but only because it stole everyone’s work, exists solely to get you fired, has made the entire internet unusable and has been forced on everyone without consent 7459531680
Positive Regression @frapdoodler.bsky.social · 14/09/2026This is like a game of high stakes poker where the patsy at the table has been called on their bluff, too embarrassed to fold, and now their only strategy is to go all in and hope for a miracle with the river card. #auspol 000
Reposted by Positive RegressionAnne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 14/09/2026Your regular reminder: If the Russians stop fighting, the war ends. If the Ukrainians stop fighting, their land will be occupied, their leaders will be killed, their history and language will be erased, their children will be kidnapped to serve Russia. 5953728313400
Reposted by Positive RegressionRon Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 08/09/2026This is what Trump did on 9/11. 31155922296
Reposted by Positive Regressionderek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 06/09/2026this is the kind of design costume designers make to tell you who are the bad guys in a space movie 1272207223993
Positive Regression @frapdoodler.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Isn't it mainly that the American citizens with disproportionate voting power within the US electoral system are captured and managed within a Fox News/ right wing media bubble that hides the reality from them while creating false narratives and protecting the oligarchs? 010
Reposted by Positive RegressionThe Point @thepointau.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Mr Briggs echoed numerous concerns heard throughout the inquiry that Australia is unlikely to ever see the three Virginia-class submarines it has been promised. Read the full piece on The Point: thepoint.com.au/new/260902-a... 24723
Positive Regression @frapdoodler.bsky.social · 30/08/2026Hard agree, nothing comes close to the A380 for long haul, especially in economy / PE class. The 787 only bearable if you can afford business class, or you're under 5'10" tall ... 110
Reposted by Positive RegressionJason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 17/08/2026New: An "expert witness" in a $61 million lawsuit over an industrial explosion that killed three people and destroyed 200 homes used ChatGPT to write his report for the court. He prompted ChatGPT to "show how 3M is 0% at fault for the explosion at Watson Grinding" www.404media.co/show-how-3m-... 10154571823
Positive Regression @frapdoodler.bsky.social · 16/08/2026Australia won't give up on diesel, so we should be looking harder at biodiesel alternatives. For example, we have abundant canola crops, and these could be a sustainable source for biodiesel (cleaner, greener) that also generates local farm revenues. One example solution: 34mj.com.au34mj.com.au34MJ | 34mj.com.auA Single Regional Fuel Site Could Generate $10M+ Back to Farmers Over 10 Years How it works Co-op model Grants Oil sales & collection Contact us Give us ... 001
Reposted by Positive RegressionSaganism @sagan.bsky.social · 14/08/202641 years ago, Carl Sagan gave a clear and elegant explanation of the science behind global warming. 392142915760
Reposted by Positive Regressionthe Juice Media @thejuicemedia.com · 11/08/2026Huge shout out to @ketanjoshi.co & @greenpeaceap.bsky.social who have done a shitton of top research on the relationship between Big Tech and Big Gas in Aus. Make sure to follow them + check out their Energy Vampires report, which informed a lot of this HGA: www.greenpeace.org.au/greenpeace-r...greenpeace.org.auEnergy Vampires: the AI data centres draining Australia - Greenpeace Australia PacificThe 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. 114453
Reposted by Positive Regressionthe Juice Media @thejuicemedia.com · 11/08/2026The Government™ has made an ad about Ai Data Centres, and it’s surprisingly honest and informative.youtube.comHonest Government Ad | Ai Data CentresYouTube video by thejuicemedia 25701419
Reposted by Positive RegressionPup Fiction @pupfiction.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Funny how when government's want to change a tax policy the media rhetoric is all about whether they have a mandate or not, but when it comes to things like AUKUS, approving data centres all over the place, and more laws intruding on our civil liberties, mandates are never mentioned #auspol 49828
Reposted by Positive RegressionThe Verge @theverge.com · 10/08/2026"In the place of problem-solving technology, companies have jumped on successive bandwagons like NFTs, the metaverse, and large language models. What these all have in common is that they are not built to really solve a market problem. They are built to make VCs and companies rich."theverge.comSilicon Valley has forgotten what normal people wantDid the tech industry get high on its own supply? 1112364742
Positive Regression @frapdoodler.bsky.social · 07/08/2026💯 "The abdication of the ABC away from the people and into the arms of the narratives of power is a tragedy for Australia during such consequential times". 000
Reposted by Positive RegressionSteven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 06/08/2026The so-called president of the United States is a massive money launderer and cut off by the bank that discovered it. Yet the story barely registers with the legacy media. What a disgrace. 682216807246
Reposted by Positive RegressionGeorge Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 05/08/2026My column on how capital becomes a death cult. Faced with a choice between profit and human life, the radical right chooses profit. Then it tries to persuade us that mass death is what we want. It's the new phase of climate denial: accept your fate, earthlings. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...theguardian.comMurderous heat, an endangered food supply, decimated landscapes: embrace the Mediterranean life | George MonbiotAs climate disaster stares us in the face, the radical right says ‘Embrace the Mediterranean life’. Embrace death, more like it, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot 6821671054
Reposted by Positive RegressionKatie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 29/07/2026the non-pervert use cases for pervert glasses are just so *lame*. These things will literally never happen with pervert glasses, which are aimed pretty squarely, as we know, at perverts. www.meta.com/en-gb/blog/m... 4538298
Reposted by Positive RegressionAmy Remeikis @amyremeikis.bsky.social · 30/07/2026If Albanese won't do populist progressive policy, he leaves the floor open for Hanson to continue to capture voters with populist far right policy. He's gonna have to have this fight at some point and a cowardly caucus means he's not match fit www.thenewdaily.com.au/opinion/2026...thenewdaily.com.auTime for Albanese to enter the fight against populismThere's a hunger for radical change in Australia, eventually Anthony Albanese is going to have to enter the fight. 34276113
Positive Regression @frapdoodler.bsky.social · 26/07/2026Still shooting it left handed from right side of his body ... 🙄 000
Reposted by Positive RegressionRobert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 25/07/2026bloomberg has a fun article today arguing that the Cybertruck is the biggest flop in automotive history. it includes this glorious graph. 415159763944
Positive Regression @frapdoodler.bsky.social · 23/07/2026He has at least some credibility when it comes to the tech sector dynamics writ large, and also seems to have his heart in the right place - with the major caveat of being a very rich male with fundamentally patriarchal world view. But his reality is distorted having so many evil rich friends. 010
Reposted by Positive RegressionBad Hand Books @badhandbooks.bsky.social · 06/07/2026Generative AI is strip-mining intellectual property from us, taking our jobs, and hogging our resources--all to benefit the very few at the top. This is corporate colonialism. 1120446
Reposted by Positive RegressionBy Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 02/07/2026AI's pitch to bosses is that they can fire most of their workers in order to terrorize the remainder into tolerating a working life wherein they are made to mark the AI's homework, at superhuman speed, and to assume the blame when it goes wrong. 12/ 113542
Reposted by Positive RegressionNaomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 02/07/2026Everybody in the "climate space" (which means everyone on earth...) needs to understand these mind-blowing figures. Google's "total electricity consumption jumped from 31 terawatt hours (TWh) in 2024 to 43 TWh in 2025." In ONE year. The AI corporate arms race is eating the world. 7043282446
Reposted by Positive RegressionJohn Birmingham @birmo.bsky.social · 26/06/2026On the myth of a left wing mediaopen.substack.comThe perpetual-grievance sirenA billionaire wandered out to the helicopter deck of his favourite hyperyacht this week to remind us all that platforming a fascist is important to democracy… 69138
Reposted by Positive RegressionThomas Spooks 🎃👻💀 @thomasfuchs.at · 25/06/2026To summarize, AI will cause personal computers to cost $10,000, all applications are frozen to about 2025 design and implementation, power to run the computer will be twice the price and also you need to sign in with your passport to start your computer. Explain to me again how this is progress? 1422744
Reposted by Positive RegressionJuan Moreno-Cruz @jmorenocruz.bsky.social · 26/06/2026Well, tell us what you really think… “the same modelers who overestimated the potential of geological carbon storage repeatedly underestimated solar power — one of the energy technologies that would allow more oil to remain in the ground.” projects.propublica.org/why-carbon-c... 45715
Positive Regression @frapdoodler.bsky.social · 25/06/2026Not sure that's "reform". That's just random tinkering to give teams greater uncertainty. 000
Reposted by Positive Regressionalexvonwitzleben.bsky.social @alexvonwitzleben.bsky.social · 23/06/2026Sodium-ion #batteries just became one of the most significant clean energy breakthroughs. Chinese battery giant #CATL confirmed it began manufacturing them at industrial scale in 2025. It replaces lithium with sodium — so abundant it is literally extracted from ordinary seawater and table salt. 451169388
Reposted by Positive RegressionDavid Milner @davemilbo.bsky.social · 23/06/2026Here's @ronnisalt.bsky.social. "Trash talking: Pauline at the Press Club"theshot.net.auTrash talking: Pauline at the Press Club - The ShotWon’t somebody spare a thought for the new patron saint of the National Press Club, Pauline Hanson? She’s there to... 1420278
Reposted by Positive RegressionGreg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 18/06/2026The latest tax stats show 90 millionaires paid no tax (1 poor sucker got their total income from $1m to below $18,200, but still had to pay... err $769 in tax) thepoint.com.au/off-the-char...thepoint.com.auNinety millionaires paid no tax in 2023–24. New ATO data shows why tax reform mattersIn 2023-24, according to the ATO, 90 Australians who earned more than $1m in income paid no tax. The figures also reveal that the changes in the budget targeting the reductions in the discount for cap... 13242137
Reposted by Positive RegressionChris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 17/06/2026The "hydration break" really is a perfect American capitalist innovation: a nakedly commercial play to insert more ad revenue into a game that doesn't have ads anywhere else in the world, all under the guise of some humanitarian interest in the players' wellbeing. 28972091025
Reposted by Positive RegressionPearls and Irritations @johnmenadue.com · 16/06/2026AUKUS Pillar I is not in Australia’s national interest, former foreign minister Gareth Evans argues. In his public inquiry submission, he warns the submarine plan faces grave delivery doubts, excessive costs and a profound loss of sovereign agency. #auspol #AUKUS #Defence 33417
Reposted by Positive RegressionJason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 03/06/2026A company that makes a no-tech, repairable tractor is having trouble keeping up with demand from farmers sick of John Deere's repair monopoly and simply want a tractor that turns on and works: www.404media.co/demand-is-bo...404media.coDemand Is Booming for New No Tech, Repairable Tractor"There is consumer pressure to back away from technology that is unnecessary to perform everyday tasks." 13871411899
Reposted by Positive RegressionEd Zitron @edzitron.com · 26/05/2026Today’s free newsletter is about how LLMs are the perfect grift to exploit an economy dominated by do-nothing managers and executives disconnected from any real work, and how the facade is crumbling as companies pay the true cost of AI. www.wheresyoured.at/the-revenge-of-the-business-idiot/wheresyoured.atRevenge of The Business IdiotIf you liked this piece, you should subscribe to my premium newsletter. It’s $70 a year, or $7 a month, and in return you get a weekly newsletter that’s usually anywhere from 5,000 to 18,000 words, in... 201143360