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Zıp it Sweetie. @zipitsweetie.bsky.social · 21h

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An imperious New Zealand prime minister Christopher Luxon on the cover of NZ Residence and Estate magazine.

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Hayden Donnell @haydendonnell.bsky.social · 3d

Step one: engineer a recession and cancel infrastructure projects. Step two: get mad at people for not having a job

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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.

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 3d

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.
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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…

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Zıp it Sweetie. @zipitsweetie.bsky.social · 15d

Christopher Luxon doesn't eat his crusts.
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Zıp it Sweetie. @zipitsweetie.bsky.social · Sep 12

Maybe he volunteered.

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Zıp it Sweetie. @zipitsweetie.bsky.social · Sep 11

It wasn't the bullet. He had an underlying condition.

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Kate @knhannah.bsky.social · Sep 11

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.

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Zıp it Sweetie. @zipitsweetie.bsky.social · Aug 25

Repealing the Foreign Buyers Act under urgency suggests that he's realised time is running out for him

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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.

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Rod Emmerson @rodemmerson.bsky.social · Aug 12

In today’s NZ Herald #nzpol

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Zıp it Sweetie. @zipitsweetie.bsky.social · Aug 25

#nzpol

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Zıp it Sweetie. @zipitsweetie.bsky.social · Aug 9

Make sure to write "please" and "thank you" in your prompts. It costs Open AI more. Killing the planet etc, though.

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Zıp it Sweetie. @zipitsweetie.bsky.social · Aug 8

Quite right

Zıp it Sweetie. @zipitsweetie.bsky.social · Aug 7

New Zealand newspaper (Stuff) survey: Is the current flurry of ACT announcements designed to draw attention from the fresh allegations of sexual abuse made against their former party president?

Yes 58%
No 36%
Don't know 6%

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Zıp it Sweetie. @zipitsweetie.bsky.social · Jul 31

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Zıp it Sweetie. @zipitsweetie.bsky.social · Jul 29

Yes it AI

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Zıp it Sweetie. @zipitsweetie.bsky.social · Jul 28

Another successful media release completed, Brooke flew off to admire some of the beautiful scaffolding that New Zealand is best known for.

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Zıp it Sweetie. @zipitsweetie.bsky.social · Jul 28

Sworn guardians of the wealthy and sorted.

The loving hands of capitalism are firmly around New Zealand's throat.

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Zıp it Sweetie. @zipitsweetie.bsky.social · Jul 28

Nicola and Chris spot some corporate donors in the audience

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Zıp it Sweetie. @zipitsweetie.bsky.social · Jul 28

Clever media managers know: good news, string it out. Bad news, get it over with.
A clueless, out-of-touch jerk who can't tell the difference between good, bad and unvarnished tedium will repeatedly remind us of how clueless and out of touch they are.

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Zıp it Sweetie. @zipitsweetie.bsky.social · Jul 27

A former waitress friend of mine said he was "handsy".

Zıp it Sweetie. @zipitsweetie.bsky.social · Jul 22

if this is wrong im honestly so frickin sorry
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Zıp it Sweetie. @zipitsweetie.bsky.social · Jul 8

she'd wipe the floor with the bastards

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Zıp it Sweetie. @zipitsweetie.bsky.social · Jul 8

Done up in shit-face.

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Stephanie... In New Zealand @bootstheory.bsky.social · Jul 8

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

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

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Zıp it Sweetie. @zipitsweetie.bsky.social · Jul 5

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.

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