Awful truth, unknown to 99% of the population... NZ Govt adopted an economic management model in the 1980s that MAKES SURE: 1. We always have tens of thousands of kiwis on the dole. 2. People with work / little work live in abject poverty that keeps them desperate for crap jobs. Why? [🧵 1/n]
Literally EVERYTHING we are fighting about & for could be solved by taxing the rich. EVERYTHING Fucking housing, fucking energy, fucking social inequality, fucking environment, fucking cost of living, fucking everything. STOP VOTING NEOLIBERAL SOCK PUPPETS FOR THE MEGA RICH End of transmission
The head of the OECD’s New Zealand desk has bluntly told an audience at the Commerce Commission’s Competition Matters conference that the keys to turning around the country’s economy lie in reducing bank profits and fixing power market.
OECD’s blunt message: fix power and bank profitability to fix NZ economy
The head of the OECD’s New Zealand desk has bluntly told an audience at the Commerce Commission’s Competition Matters conference that the keys to turning around the country’s economy lie in reducing bank profits and fixing power market.
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beauty is in the eye of the beholder, value is in the lie to the shareholder
We only have 14 days of fossil fuel storage at any given time. We are 14 days from shit going nuclear causing a massive energy shock. So about that LNG Terminal? Maybe not. How about those Solar Panels, Batteries, and better utilisation of our Geothermal? I think that would be prudent.
Just your daily reminder that Chris Bishop is both the chief fundraiser for the National Party election campaign and needs major donations, and the decision maker giving businesses access to the fast track process. www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
Ministers continue to make decisions on fast-track projects after parties take donations linked to applicants
One political scientist believes such donations to political parties could be perceived as creating a conflict of interest but official advice disagrees.
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#nzpol Prices for basics are rising again at a rate much faster than wages, new data from Stats NZ shows. 70% of workers got a pay rise less than 3% last year and 44% got no pay rise at all. Food prices rose 4.6% overall, with the price of white bread rising 58% this year. A 🧵
I guess it's fitting that it's a reimagined, worse version of someone else's artwork
"[Luxon said] I think we need to have quite a mature conversation about assets in New Zealand" But you won't have a mature conversation about CGT Emissions Health Education 3 waters etc. Fuck you, mate. #nzpol
Scotty - I’m the CEO - NZ@scotty-nz.bsky.social · 9mo agoHe talk about farms and other “non-performing assets” but he really means healthcare, education and water infrastructure - I mean: let’s be mature about this
Can't afford: Ferries Hospitals Pay equity Intercity passenger rail Fair pay increases for doctors, nurses, teachers Feeding kids 😕😕 Can afford: Roads Military hardware Landlord tax cuts Pay rises for MPs Billionaire subsidies Support for tobacco & alcohol industries 💩💩 #OneTermGovernment #nzpol
The thing about skill and talent is they are filters in the signal to noise ratio of human creativity. They prevent us from being swamped by the noise so we can enjoy the signal, be it writing, music, movies, any creative endeavour. And generative AI is breaking this. It amplifies the noise.
Which just makes the Greens' straight-up wealth tax on the rich plan all the more appealing. Simpler, and will raise the money to Do Things. And if we want that, we need to vote for it, so Labour will be forced to do it.
Whether or not AI can suffer matters less than the suffering its human creators can cause aftermath.site/ai-suffering...
A robot bends over, vomiting up slimy chunks of books that it devoured earlier. Botlicking technoslopper: "See that? That's my novel. I told the robot to vomit. I pressed the vomit button. I wrote that novel."
To be clear, a falling number of people working / looking for work is very unusual. The annual drop in the number of hours worked is also seriously worrying. Is there nothing that needs doing? Have we upgraded all our infra? Looked after everyone that needs care? Solved homelessness? [Ends]
Generative AI by definition is conformity. It is an averaging of anything you ask of it - quite literally guessing what the most likely version of a thing might be. It is, by definition, mainstream, as is everything it creates old and deeply ideological, as every model trains on similar data.
Ben Collins@bencollins.bsky.social · 12mo agoAI filmmaking is peeing. It’s pooping. It’s throwing up. It’s a new kind of liquid coming out. It’s hated by the establishment. It’s what goes in the toilet. It’s wet. It’s what’s in the bathroom.
How to check your enrolment | Elections share.google/1DcAjez2Jv8n... This is in response to posts about difficulties checking enrolment details. #nzpol
How to check your enrolment
The Electoral Commission says people can go online to vote.nz to enrol, check or update their enrolment details or call a free phone number for help.
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Your friendly reminder, if you have moved house recently it’s time to update your details in time for the Aotearoa local govt elections. vote.nz/enrolling/en...
Enrol or update online
Enrol to vote or check and update your enrolment details. Get ready to have your say in New Zealand’s elections and referendums.
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Fonterra have literally said that they have no social responsibility to New Zealand, so imho NZ has no responsibility to give them another cent. Here’s a list of Fonterra brands to boycott. * Anchor * Fresh & Fruity * Kapiti * Mainland * Mammoth * Perfect Italiano Fuck em. #nzpol
Let me be clear-->No one, absolutely no one, is a "drop kick." That kind of dehumanising attitude and language by some MPs indicating that certain people are lesser and their rights can be moved to the side is precisely what's wrong with the Coalition. www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360...
Live: Deputy PM says electoral law change will only impact ‘drop kicks’
Ministers have just answered questions about the just-announced electoral law change that will stop people from being able to enrol to vote on election day.
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I'm an "A.i." abolitionist. No consumer-facing LLMs or generative "A.i." in anything. Sure, machine learning in science and a few other limited applications is fine. But consumer-facing LLMs and generative "A.i." that are based on theft, push disinfo, and can be manipulated by billionaires? No.
Just a reminder: higher liquidation/unemployment/overseas exits than 2020 when the entire country went into lockdown and Nact screamed about how the Labour gov't was mismanaging the economy (people are starving & right now billionaires are ruling the country). #ButTheEconomy #NZPol
Mountain Tui@mountaintui.bsky.social · last yr.Record highs continue under this National Party Coalition: 10 year business liquidation high, 5 year unemployment high, 13 year kiwis fleeing overseas high, 8 year mortgage distress high If only this lot weren't ruled by failed libertarian ideology & corruption #backontrack #newzealand
Zohran Mamdani do you condemn Mr Bean for his desecration of Whistler's Mother?
#nzpol Today’s Budget takes $12.8bn from low-income, female dominated workforces to prop up the governments failed economic policies. It's a Reverse Robin Hood Budget that steals from working people. This is a Budget that isn’t working for working people. A 🧵
My latest piece goes out either Monday or Tuesday next week, it's called "The Era of the Business Idiot." I believe our society is in the thrall of middle management, and it's turned our economy into a series of symbolic gestures between people that don't really know what's going on. Wheresyoured.at
Labour MPs: you MUST stand up against the bullying behaviour of this govt. This debate is your chance to join the protest - don't worry about it looking like siding with TPM - rather it's about standing against racism
The Green Party budget proposes a *reduction* in income tax. More than 90% of income earners would pay less tax than currently. Everyone would benefit from massive increase in services like free primary health care, free public early childhood education, and so much more.
