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politevulgarian.bsky.social
The greatest metaphor in print this year, courtesy of @edzitron.com
Analysts have, on some level, become the fractional marketing team for the stocks they’re investing in. When Oracle announced its $300 billion deal with OpenAI in September — one that Oracle does not have the capacity to fill and OpenAI does not have the money to pay for – analysts heaved and stammered like horny teenagers seeing their first boob:
January 1, 2026 at 12:33 AM
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queenoliviaiii.com
“The #1 movie when you were 10 years old is how your 2026 is going to go.”

This is a way to reveal your birth year which is sensitive personally identifiable information.

Do a few of these with variations for months & days and you’ve unwittingly given out your date of birth.

Stay safe, be vague!
December 22, 2025 at 1:47 AM
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nzgreenleft.bsky.social
wow a New Zealand political party who has detailed policies that are publicly accessible to read prior to next year's general election,

AND has policies developed by its own party members.

They probably deserve more members, volunteers, and donations to lead the next govt.

#nzpol
writagal.bsky.social Hayley @writagal.bsky.social · Dec 7
If you’re looking for a lift- and for policy that doesn’t hide bare minimum ideas behind the rhetoric of progress - take a look at the Greens platform.
For me, a timely reminder that we don’t move forward by lowering our expectations, but by affirming that hard things can and should be done.👇
Complete Party Policy
We are building a future where we do more, faster, to protect our planet and make sure everyone is treated equally.
www.greens.org.nz
December 14, 2025 at 3:41 AM
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smollestbunny2.bsky.social
The issue is with the entire party, not just Hipkins
December 14, 2025 at 3:15 AM
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phineas.bsky.social
New awareness campaign
A digital poster in the style of a World War II propaganda piece. Isolaed on a yellow background, a normal, squarish, 20-something guy with glasses is sitting working on a laptop. A ghostly figure of Hitler has his arm around the guy and is grinning and shaking a fist triumphantly looking at the laptop screen. On the lid of the laptop where an apple might otherwise be is an openAI logo, bright green, and dripping green ooze down the lid. Text on the poster, in combinations of sans-serif type and brush script reads: Using Generative AI? You’re prompting with Hitler! GenAI is a Fascist Project! Try using your brain instead Don’t surrender your creativity to the tech billionaire’s control
November 3, 2025 at 3:23 PM
zipitsweetie.bsky.social
Teehee!
#nzpol
jordanriversnz.bsky.social Jordan Rivers @jordanriversnz.bsky.social · Nov 4
Luxon has become the default face for toxic landlords on left-wing pages across the world. This one's from Germany 😆😂
November 4, 2025 at 3:49 AM
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watershitdown.bsky.social
For a guy who can sniff-out entitlements faster than a truffle pig Luxon claiming here to know nothing about his investment properties never gets old. #nzpol
November 2, 2025 at 2:04 AM
zipitsweetie.bsky.social
#nzpol
Christopher Luxon standing next to Trump says "I used to have a hairline"
October 30, 2025 at 5:47 AM
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sjponeill.bsky.social
Is this the same MP for Botany who attacked the EV subsidy, took advantage of that same sudsidy, and blamed his wife when he got caught...?
www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
Luxon fires back at Hipkins for 'attack' on his finances
"Why should he be able to make more than $600,000 in one year from flipping properties, whilst the people who ... work hard every day for a living pay tax?" Hipkins asked.
www.rnz.co.nz
October 29, 2025 at 10:34 PM
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elenem.bsky.social
If you've made 600k in untaxed money from a particular system and you oppose changing that system, it's not an 'attack' it's 'context' my dude.

Love how yet again the property rort isn't properly called out for the massive conflict of interest.
October 29, 2025 at 11:48 PM
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edzitron.com
So I realize I’ve reposted this all day, but I cannot understate the scale of this story. If Anthropic is spending this much on Google Cloud - or even 25% - the costs of running their business are never coming down. It’s a huge scoop, and the first real discussion of the true costs of AI anywhere.
edzitron.com Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · Oct 20
Exclusive: Anthropic spent $2.66 billion on Amazon Web Services in the first three quarters of 2025, around 100% of their estimated revenue. Its costs appear to increase with their revenue, showing little path to profitability.
www.wheresyoured.at/costs/
This Is How Much Anthropic and Cursor Spend On Amazon Web Services
So, I originally planned for this to be on my premium newsletter, but decided it was better to publish on my free one so that you could all enjoy it. If you liked it, please consider subscribing to su...
www.wheresyoured.at
October 21, 2025 at 2:37 AM
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mleroi.bsky.social
October 20, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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haydendonnell.bsky.social
Step one: engineer a recession and cancel infrastructure projects. Step two: get mad at people for not having a job

thespinoff.co.nz/politics/10-...
The Spinoff: In other words, we did it, folks. Joblessness is up. Inflation is down. Mince is admittedly four trillion dollars. But overall, success! Surely our government should be pulling a George W Bush and unfurling a mission accomplished banner above the rusted deck of the HMNZS Canterbury. Instead, it called a press conference to say, in essence, wtf. Luxon and social development minister Louise Upston gathered reporters on Sunday to announce too many 18- and 19-year-olds were claiming the benefit, and they’ll be cutting them off if their parents earn more than the princely sum of $65,529 combined. Asked where young people should get a job in a recession, which, again, we deliberately engineered, Luxon pointed to kūmara harvesting in Dargaville or seasonal work in orchards. Orchardists promptly responded that they didn’t need more staff right now.
October 9, 2025 at 9:54 PM
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edzitron.com
Every single AI data center is a toxic investment, with most of its value tied up in GPUs that will be multiple generations behind by the time these things turn on - and then die in 3-5 years.

All to build for AI demand that doesn't exist.
edzitronswheresyouredatghostio.outpost.pub/public/promo...
Actually, wait - how long do GPUs last, exactly? Four years for training? Three years? The A100 GPU started shipping in May 2020, and the H100 (and the Hopper GPU generation) entered full production in September 2022, meaning that we’re hurtling at speed toward the time in which we’re going to start seeing a remarkable amount of chips start wearing down, which should be a concern for companies like Microsoft, who bought 150,000 Hopper GPUs in 2023 and 485,000 of them in 2024. Alright, let me just be blunt: the entire economy of debt around GPUs is insane. Assuming these things don’t die within five years (their warranties generally end in three), their value absolutely will, as NVIDIA has committed to releasing a new AI chip every single year, likely with significant increases to power and power efficiency. At the end of the five year period, the Special Purpose Vehicle will be the proud owner of five-year-old chips that nobody is going to want to rent at the price that Elon Musk has been paying for the last five years. Don’t believe me? Take a look at the rental prices for H100 GPUs that went from $8-an-hour in 2023 to $2-an-hour in 2024, or the Silicon Data Indexes (aggregated realtime indexes of hourly prices) that show H100 rentals at around $2.14-an-hour and A100 rentals at a dollar-an-hour, with Vast.AI offering them at as little as $0.67 an hour. This is, by the way, a problem that faces literally every data center being built in the world, and I feel insane talking about it. It feels like nobody is talking about how impossible and ridiculous all of this is - it’s one thing that OpenAI has promised one trillion dollars to people - it’s another that large swaths of that will be spent on hardware that will, by the end of these agreements, be half-obsolete and generating less revenue than ever. Think about it - let’s assume we live in a fantasy land where OpenAI is somehow able to pay Oracle $300 billion over 5 years. Said money is paying for access to Blackwell…
October 9, 2025 at 11:28 PM
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knhannah.bsky.social
The worst bit: the kids who get to go to schools that teach Cambridge or IB will still learn the arts; 🎭 privilege will beget privilege & culture will become something only the elite can engage with. Furious.
September 11, 2025 at 7:06 AM
zipitsweetie.bsky.social
Repealing the Foreign Buyers Act under urgency suggests that he's realised time is running out for him

#nzpol
Five frame story board of Christopher Luxon figuring out how to get money for his property portfolio. Frame 1. "My property portfolio is stuck in the mud" says Christopher. Frame 2. "Nobody has the monies to buy house" says Christopher. Frame 3. "Where can we find monies?" says Christopher. Frame 4. "Foreign buyer has monies" whispers David, the billionaires' friend. Frame 5. "Foreign ownership of the NZ property market is good for me" says Christopher the current prime minister of New Zealand.
August 25, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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rodemmerson.bsky.social
In today’s NZ Herald #nzpol
August 12, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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bootstheory.bsky.social
If you're ever watching a live standup in Parliament and a politician is being absolutely rotisseried by nuanced and meaningful questions asked in a soft yet persistent voice: it's Claudette Hauiti and she's fucking great
mshooper.bsky.social Ms Hooper @mshooper.bsky.social · Jul 2
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July 02, 2025
Silence, Deflection, Control: What Prime Minister Luxon’s Exchange with Māori Media Reveals
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#opinion Silence, Deflection, Control: What Prime Minister Luxon’s Exchange with Māori Media Reveals
waateanews.com
July 8, 2025 at 7:02 AM
zipitsweetie.bsky.social
Build the wall...

Maybe it will keep them away from the rest of us.
Screenshot of the Radio NZ News website showing the headline "Elon Musk says he has created a new US political party" over a picture of Musk giving what appears to be a N@zı salute.
July 5, 2025 at 10:33 PM
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sophieactual.mitsuko.nz
while ACT NAT NZF respond to any criticism of their egregious policies with a rapidly rising stream of vicious invective, Chlöe Swarbrick eloquently responds to the drivel from Nicola Willis without saying a word

#nzpol
screencap from a one news video of Chlöe Swarbrick responding to Nicola Willis in committee by putting her head face down on the desk
June 20, 2025 at 1:27 AM
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bernardchickey.bsky.social
My daily chorus out. Ockham's Mark Todd suggests Auckland Council uses rates to drive out low density land users around train stations to enable housing densification; ACC pausing abuse prevention plan to save money thekaka.substack.com/p/weaponise-...
'Weaponise rates to drive housing intensification'
Ockham's Mark Todd suggests Auckland Council uses rates to drive out low density land users around train stations to enable housing densification; ACC pausing abuse prevention plan to save money
thekaka.substack.com
May 19, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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mshooper.bsky.social
“Our PM says if Te Reo is used, he will call it out. Right, what then you racist wanker? Are you planning to hit them with a ruler? Like the ‘good old days’? This man is not fit to lead our country.”
#nzpol
Nasty
Suspending reality, breaking the language, and judgement day.
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May 19, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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elenem.bsky.social
Missed this yesterday from The Spinoff but it needs all the flowers.

THIS is how you do budget reporting. Actually talk about how the choices made with those dollars affect things in the real world. #nzpol

thespinoff.co.nz/politics/19-...
What kind of economy produces the highest adolescent suicide rate? Ours
New Zealand's alarming child and youth mental health stats reflect political choices.
thespinoff.co.nz
May 19, 2025 at 8:33 PM
zipitsweetie.bsky.social
Luxon still pushing the lie that TPM disrupted the vote.
#nzpol
May 18, 2025 at 8:02 PM