Apart from data ownership, privacy, and ecological costs of digital farming, much of it doesn't even make business sense: "labour wages would need to rise above $140 per hour before autonom­ous machinery gen­er­ates higher returns than con­ven­tional equip­ment" www.ft.com/content/aeb4...

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Corporate profits are at record highs, but corporate tax revenue fell by about $70 billion this year. Why? Because last year's tax cuts let companies write off new investments immediately for the hundreds of billions in AI buildouts they were already planning. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/17/b...

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Essential new report by @matthewus.bsky.social @openmarkets.bsky.social asks the right, hard questions about the AI bubble, that's partly fueled by billions in corporate tax breaks. When it bursts, will taxpayers be left holding the bag?

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What would happen if you took a stock market bubble bigger than the dot-com bubble and combined it with a pile of risky debt bigger than the one that caused the 2008 financial crisis? You'd get something that looks a lot like the AI bubble we have today. www.openmarketsinstitute.org/publications...

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Very strangely the 10 trade unions calling on the government not to approve the Rosebank oil field are getting a lot less coverage today than the one trade union calling on the government to green light more fossil fuel projects. www.businessgreen.com/news/4537337...

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