Matt Whitehead
@mjwhitehead.bsky.social
Sometimes writer, ironically straight man-style humour, Wellington NZ
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I don't see how Tesla's Model 3 can survive if Benz can offer an alternative EV this cheap, with this kind of performance, on top of the 15% tariff that it's charged in the US.
Imagine what this model does to Tesla in Europe, where Benz pays no tariffs.
Imagine what this model does to Tesla in Europe, where Benz pays no tariffs.
November 26, 2025 at 11:15 PM
I don't see how Tesla's Model 3 can survive if Benz can offer an alternative EV this cheap, with this kind of performance, on top of the 15% tariff that it's charged in the US.
Imagine what this model does to Tesla in Europe, where Benz pays no tariffs.
Imagine what this model does to Tesla in Europe, where Benz pays no tariffs.
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The subheading "An expert says parents need their children" which sounds like accomodation to creepy parents, is explained by the single expert, actually against tracking, saying "You need your children, in a reasonably safe setting, to be exposed to challenges."
I don’t know what’s worse here, the free advertising for adult stalkerware or the Beeb normalising it as an act of family love.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Are tracking apps OK for parents to use on adult children?
An expert says parents need their children
www.bbc.co.uk
November 30, 2025 at 7:22 AM
The subheading "An expert says parents need their children" which sounds like accomodation to creepy parents, is explained by the single expert, actually against tracking, saying "You need your children, in a reasonably safe setting, to be exposed to challenges."
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Well if people really want change put the major parties last in the next election. Don’t let media tell you hang parliament is bad. Because it’s not allows more scrutiny on policy. Government gets away with too much. It’s time to sent a clear message we are not happy.
November 25, 2025 at 8:15 AM
Well if people really want change put the major parties last in the next election. Don’t let media tell you hang parliament is bad. Because it’s not allows more scrutiny on policy. Government gets away with too much. It’s time to sent a clear message we are not happy.
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Andrew Leigh on the case for randomised trials. Unfortunately, he is one of the few in this government with the courage to think about any kind of change www.themonthly.com.a...?
The courage to learn
How randomised trials, typically employed in science and medicine, could help governments make better policy and rebuild public trust
www.themonthly.com.au
November 24, 2025 at 5:19 AM
Andrew Leigh on the case for randomised trials. Unfortunately, he is one of the few in this government with the courage to think about any kind of change www.themonthly.com.a...?
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This should come a surprise to no one. We all knew this was coming. There is no way trump was EVER going to release anything that did not flatter him. It must be worse than we imagined. He's a fucking sissy punk bitch 🐖
November 19, 2025 at 10:51 PM
This should come a surprise to no one. We all knew this was coming. There is no way trump was EVER going to release anything that did not flatter him. It must be worse than we imagined. He's a fucking sissy punk bitch 🐖
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As was predicted. 🤬
And just like that, the Epstein files are now part of an ongoing investigation. Certainly can’t release them NOW. Nope, too bad.
November 20, 2025 at 12:07 AM
As was predicted. 🤬
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Srsly, if THIS 👇 tweet by Tony Windsor doesn't win Peter FitzSimons' Political Tweet of the Year 2025, I will be very disappointed. This is the best tweet I've read in ages. 😂 #auspol #BarnabyJoyce #Nationals
November 27, 2025 at 11:06 AM
Srsly, if THIS 👇 tweet by Tony Windsor doesn't win Peter FitzSimons' Political Tweet of the Year 2025, I will be very disappointed. This is the best tweet I've read in ages. 😂 #auspol #BarnabyJoyce #Nationals
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The transparency project that went dark: Inside the collapse of Bryce Edwards’ Integrity Institute
A million-dollar political integrity project has imploded with little transparency, revealing a tangle of broken promises, stalled research and an institution unwilling to explain what went wrong.
www.thepost.co.nz
November 28, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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It's not 'cost-cutting' when there will be a much higher cost to the general public (getting sick due to diseases in the water).
This is just that thing whereby National governments hate knowing anything about anything because none of their theories dovetail with reality at all.
This is just that thing whereby National governments hate knowing anything about anything because none of their theories dovetail with reality at all.
November 28, 2025 at 7:07 PM
It's not 'cost-cutting' when there will be a much higher cost to the general public (getting sick due to diseases in the water).
This is just that thing whereby National governments hate knowing anything about anything because none of their theories dovetail with reality at all.
This is just that thing whereby National governments hate knowing anything about anything because none of their theories dovetail with reality at all.
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I think that somewhere along the way something in Stephen Miller got fundamentally damaged. This is neither an excuse nor a mitigating factor; the dude is genuinely fucking evil and he and everything he stands for should be fought against and stopped. But he is something beyond mere sociopathy.
Since Stephen Miller is in the midst of another of his Aryans-only trantrums, we should note that his family are 20th century immigrants from the shtetl of Antopol (Антопаль) then in the Hrodna gubernia of Russia. Applying his immigration rules, they would all have perished in the Holocaust.
Stephen Miller Is an Immigration Hypocrite. I Know Because I’m His Uncle.
If my nephew’s ideas on immigration had been in force a century ago, our family would have been wiped out.
www.politico.com
November 28, 2025 at 6:57 PM
I think that somewhere along the way something in Stephen Miller got fundamentally damaged. This is neither an excuse nor a mitigating factor; the dude is genuinely fucking evil and he and everything he stands for should be fought against and stopped. But he is something beyond mere sociopathy.
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Remember during the pandemic when they couldn't make cars because production lines for the processors that went in automobile PCs had shut down?
Okay, now imagine that shit for everything.
Every device with a computer in it.
Yeah, this shit's gonna be intolerable and right soon.
Okay, now imagine that shit for everything.
Every device with a computer in it.
Yeah, this shit's gonna be intolerable and right soon.
November 28, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Remember during the pandemic when they couldn't make cars because production lines for the processors that went in automobile PCs had shut down?
Okay, now imagine that shit for everything.
Every device with a computer in it.
Yeah, this shit's gonna be intolerable and right soon.
Okay, now imagine that shit for everything.
Every device with a computer in it.
Yeah, this shit's gonna be intolerable and right soon.
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That's means we're at a low stock of DRAM, and not just for RAM sticks for computers.
SSDs? They use DRAM for buffers.
Smartphones? DRAM chips, hard soldered.
Literally just about every device with some kind of computer chip? DRAM.
This mess has only just begun.
SSDs? They use DRAM for buffers.
Smartphones? DRAM chips, hard soldered.
Literally just about every device with some kind of computer chip? DRAM.
This mess has only just begun.
November 28, 2025 at 7:44 PM
That's means we're at a low stock of DRAM, and not just for RAM sticks for computers.
SSDs? They use DRAM for buffers.
Smartphones? DRAM chips, hard soldered.
Literally just about every device with some kind of computer chip? DRAM.
This mess has only just begun.
SSDs? They use DRAM for buffers.
Smartphones? DRAM chips, hard soldered.
Literally just about every device with some kind of computer chip? DRAM.
This mess has only just begun.
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To give you an idea of how "AI" has fucked up the holiday season, their insane demand for RAM chips that's barely even being used has caused a production drought for every other application.
Meaning right now you can buy a cheap PC, yank the RAM, and sell it on eBay for twice what the PC costs.
Meaning right now you can buy a cheap PC, yank the RAM, and sell it on eBay for twice what the PC costs.
November 28, 2025 at 7:30 PM
To give you an idea of how "AI" has fucked up the holiday season, their insane demand for RAM chips that's barely even being used has caused a production drought for every other application.
Meaning right now you can buy a cheap PC, yank the RAM, and sell it on eBay for twice what the PC costs.
Meaning right now you can buy a cheap PC, yank the RAM, and sell it on eBay for twice what the PC costs.
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November 28, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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What a great headline
November 28, 2025 at 3:49 PM
What a great headline
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Irony has apparently been deported. 🤦♂️
November 28, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Irony has apparently been deported. 🤦♂️
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If you said you were drunk but thankfully you barely drove home without passing out it would be universally agreed you should go to jail. It’s maddening how apparently if you own a Tesla, though, you’re allowed to brag about getting behind the wheel while impaired to the point of unconsciousness.
Working 36 hours straight on Thanksgiving so Grok says Elon is in better shape than LeBron
November 28, 2025 at 7:09 PM
If you said you were drunk but thankfully you barely drove home without passing out it would be universally agreed you should go to jail. It’s maddening how apparently if you own a Tesla, though, you’re allowed to brag about getting behind the wheel while impaired to the point of unconsciousness.
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"Israel's latest attack in south Gaza has taken the death toll of Palestinian journalists to 240"
Israel is 'waging an open war on free media', says Palestinian press syndicate
More journalists have been killed in Gaza than in any other war, according to a report by the Costs of War Project at the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs.
www.abc.net.au
November 28, 2025 at 7:33 PM
"Israel's latest attack in south Gaza has taken the death toll of Palestinian journalists to 240"
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A reminder for those who are not aware: "remigration" is the process of deporting all non-white people from a country. It includes citizens and is, by definition, ethnic cleansing.
And to be clear: this is not fake. I just screenshot it myself.
And to be clear: this is not fake. I just screenshot it myself.
November 28, 2025 at 6:12 PM
A reminder for those who are not aware: "remigration" is the process of deporting all non-white people from a country. It includes citizens and is, by definition, ethnic cleansing.
And to be clear: this is not fake. I just screenshot it myself.
And to be clear: this is not fake. I just screenshot it myself.
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Luxon reckons that people who can’t afford electricity to cook have no business complaining about the high cost of meat and essential food items and they should also desist from raining on farmers’ parade. #nzpol
November 28, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Luxon reckons that people who can’t afford electricity to cook have no business complaining about the high cost of meat and essential food items and they should also desist from raining on farmers’ parade. #nzpol
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Also in 2015 I had to explain metadata to an intercept journalist working on the snowden docs 😭
whether it was the code used or an early test build.
The conclusions drawn by the reporters, primarily greenwald, were usually wildly off base. No expert has ever actually seen the full cache of documents. The closest was scheier who has very limited and dated expertise and he had unrestricted
The conclusions drawn by the reporters, primarily greenwald, were usually wildly off base. No expert has ever actually seen the full cache of documents. The closest was scheier who has very limited and dated expertise and he had unrestricted
November 28, 2025 at 5:21 AM
Also in 2015 I had to explain metadata to an intercept journalist working on the snowden docs 😭
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Ryan Bourne, a member of the Economists for Brexit* cabal that the Leave camp depended on to make their economic case for leaving, has written a long article in the Times admitting to the damage that Brexit has caused.
(*Other familiar names include Patrick Minford.)
archive.ph/2025.11.26-1...
(*Other familiar names include Patrick Minford.)
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November 28, 2025 at 7:34 AM
Ryan Bourne, a member of the Economists for Brexit* cabal that the Leave camp depended on to make their economic case for leaving, has written a long article in the Times admitting to the damage that Brexit has caused.
(*Other familiar names include Patrick Minford.)
archive.ph/2025.11.26-1...
(*Other familiar names include Patrick Minford.)
archive.ph/2025.11.26-1...
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I'm thinking Stuff is using AI at least for their news categories huh?
November 28, 2025 at 11:33 AM
I'm thinking Stuff is using AI at least for their news categories huh?