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one day it's going to come out that the total revenue for the entire generative AI industry is like $20-$25bn in 2025, and the cost to make that revenue was $50bn-$100bn+

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Politicians shouldn't rage-bait chart geeks. on.ft.com/4jrlz8h

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How would you describe a cheese roll to a foreign audience?!?? 😂

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This New Yorker article about Curtis Yarvin the Rasputin of the US right & his links with Peter Thiel is grim "Both men seemed to take for granted that America was a communist country, that journalists acted like the Stasi, and that tech C.E.O.s were their prey. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

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If the media does not attack this issue with the longrunning ferocity of the media attacking any given brown woman MP who is not actually in government for breathing wrong, I will be wondering about stuff out loud.

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Just watched The Rest is Politics with Jacinda - brilliant episode & some very perceptive questions particularly from Rory Stewart. Gotta say, I miss Jacinda. BTW, by the time she left Jacinda ranked only behind Macron as a target for Russian disinformation. youtu.be/XX_POKmypjE?...

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Excellent headline in today's ODT editorial. #nzpol

submitted 22 hours ago • 4 comments

time to re-up this #nzpol

submitted 19 hours ago • 2 comments

Clear indicator of the double-dip recession here - company liquidations accelerated in 2023 when interest rates were hiked, and then surged again after rates were left higher for longer and Govt pulled back on investment. We have handled the last couple of years soooo badly.

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Insights from the Koru Club on why you should submit against the Regulatory Standards Bill #nzpol

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On the govt's cynical Equal Pay Act blitzkrieg: * Nearly half of people understand it * A large plurality opposes it * A supermajority think govt should have consulted on it before passing it through all-stages urgency www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

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Top(p) work here from @haydendonnell.bsky.social 😀 thespinoff.co.nz/pop-culture/...

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Bot submitters are just the digital version of the paid protesters trope.

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Chris Luxon: "I don't recognise those numbers" Nicola Willis: "You too huh?"

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Loud swearing in car as Willis complains about other parties' "misinformation" about pay equity hindering her attempts at explanation. Between this and Bishop moaning about politicisation, is it reasonable to ask "Can right wing politicians handle politics?"🙄

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Perpetual reminder that Worksafe was set up following the recommendations of a completely independent expert Royal Commission responding to mass workplace deaths at Pike River.

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"Musk is a greedy kleptocrat whose life’s work boils down to stealing from the poor to pad his own bottom line. That’s his legacy. He could’ve changed the world for the better; he had every resource available to him to do so. Instead, he made it markedly worse."

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NZ’s version of the end times derangement that’s gripping the US and UK has a running theme of obstinate, cruel politicians in thrall to the failed policies of the past.

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In life, be a Marilyn Waring, not a Ruth Richardson. A Don MacGlashan, not a Chris Bishop.

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I think a lot about how Aaron Swartz committed suicide while facing a probably long jail sentence for download some of JSTOR, but no one at Meta is going to face any repercussions for using all of Libgen to train its AI.

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Richardson’s sociopathic mother of all budgets cost me a business and a relationship and gave me an ulcer it took a year to recover from. All politics is personal, sooner or later. So fuck that woman and everything she stands for, and I will be lining up to piss on her grave.

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And she increased the age of the “youth benefit” to 25. I got smacked twice, reduction in benefit and dropped back to the youth rate. Luckily I was able to move back in with my parents …

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Great thread. The last skeet is the most poignant: "Honouring [Ruth] Richardson in public for this now is the government giving a massive middle finger to the rest of the country, especially those who were harmed and hurt by these reforms." #nzpol

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If you’re not following @musicalchairs.bsky.social yet, then the day of Ruth Richardson’s ascension to gong-wearer is the right day to start #nzpol

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By coincidence the US economist Paul Krugman's latest substack is about the growth in US inequality after 1980. Amidst the frankly alarming graphs is one relating to Union density/membership which seems very relevant for discussing Ruth Richardson's legacy paulkrugman.substack.com/p/understand...

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How toxic is Richardson's legacy? It's been 31 years since she left Parliament. In that time Bolger, Shipley, Key & English all chose not to give her a gong. I can't find any other example of such a long gap for an award. She & Joyce were the only two National Ministers of Finance not yet knighted.

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As expected @musicalchairs.bsky.social has the receipts to show Ruthenasia was just that, a destructive economic era which permanently scarred our economy.

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Warnings and promises … a 🧵 Giving Ruth Richardson a gong in the midst of the biggest economic downturn in a generation isn’t just the usual cronyism: it’s a warning and a promise and a statement of intent. We should treat it as such. 1/

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