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#4 sounds like a lovely book but I didn't write it. Have had whānau up and down the country send me clippings lol
Whoever put together this list that has been circulated to regional papers, didn't fact check.
Whoever put together this list that has been circulated to regional papers, didn't fact check.
December 25, 2025 at 6:43 AM
#4 sounds like a lovely book but I didn't write it. Have had whānau up and down the country send me clippings lol
Whoever put together this list that has been circulated to regional papers, didn't fact check.
Whoever put together this list that has been circulated to regional papers, didn't fact check.
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Because riders and passersby can be unreliable, Waymo pays workers in L.A. $20 or more for rescuing a robotaxi by closing a door, summoning help through an app called Honk that is like an Uber for towing companies.
When robot taxis get stuck, a secret army of humans comes to the rescue
Waymo robotaxis get stranded when a passenger leaves the door open. Tow truck operators can get paid $22 to close a door and set them free again.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 25, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Because riders and passersby can be unreliable, Waymo pays workers in L.A. $20 or more for rescuing a robotaxi by closing a door, summoning help through an app called Honk that is like an Uber for towing companies.
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Having a normal Christmas morning
December 25, 2025 at 6:21 AM
Having a normal Christmas morning
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Nvidia Insider Trading Alert 🚨
Mark Stevens, the 2nd largest Nvidia shareholder and board member since 2008, just dumped 222,500 $NVDA shares for a total value of $40 million 👀
Mark Stevens, the 2nd largest Nvidia shareholder and board member since 2008, just dumped 222,500 $NVDA shares for a total value of $40 million 👀
December 24, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Nvidia Insider Trading Alert 🚨
Mark Stevens, the 2nd largest Nvidia shareholder and board member since 2008, just dumped 222,500 $NVDA shares for a total value of $40 million 👀
Mark Stevens, the 2nd largest Nvidia shareholder and board member since 2008, just dumped 222,500 $NVDA shares for a total value of $40 million 👀
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Around 70% of the U.S. economy depends on consumer spending. As wealth concentrates in the richest 10%, the rest of America can’t afford to buy enough to keep the economy running.
This is a huge problem — and even America’s most powerful CEOs are starting to sound the alarm.
This is a huge problem — and even America’s most powerful CEOs are starting to sound the alarm.
Our Economy Is in Danger. Here’s Why
Robert Reich
www.youtube.com
December 23, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Around 70% of the U.S. economy depends on consumer spending. As wealth concentrates in the richest 10%, the rest of America can’t afford to buy enough to keep the economy running.
This is a huge problem — and even America’s most powerful CEOs are starting to sound the alarm.
This is a huge problem — and even America’s most powerful CEOs are starting to sound the alarm.
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Incredible really that the last period of significant growth in business lending was 20 years ago during a Labour Government.
December 23, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Incredible really that the last period of significant growth in business lending was 20 years ago during a Labour Government.
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Pulled 60 Minutes segment on CECOT. archive.org/details/60mi...
Pulled 60 Minutes segment on CECOT : CBS : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
This is a screen recording of a 60 Minutes segment about the Centro de Confinamiento del Terrorismo (CECOT) prison in El Salvador, which was intended to be...
archive.org
December 23, 2025 at 2:26 AM
Pulled 60 Minutes segment on CECOT. archive.org/details/60mi...
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Tax revenue is sagging badly, and Govt is throwing money into mostly low value capital projects as it attempts to get the economy moving... while, you know, appearing to be frugal. Govt deficit spend is well above 2nd cvid lockdown levels. Funny that. [2/2]
December 22, 2025 at 9:20 AM
Tax revenue is sagging badly, and Govt is throwing money into mostly low value capital projects as it attempts to get the economy moving... while, you know, appearing to be frugal. Govt deficit spend is well above 2nd cvid lockdown levels. Funny that. [2/2]
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Don't want to upset the holiday mood of folks in New Zealand by posting aspects of awful commentary inciting hate, & harm inspired by, & directly associated with Brian Tamaki's rally over the weekend. The rally was widely covered in Indian media, as well as foreign social media accounts. #nzpol
December 22, 2025 at 4:26 AM
Don't want to upset the holiday mood of folks in New Zealand by posting aspects of awful commentary inciting hate, & harm inspired by, & directly associated with Brian Tamaki's rally over the weekend. The rally was widely covered in Indian media, as well as foreign social media accounts. #nzpol
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Once again, LLMs are useful in identifying practices that need to change. If citation-as-signaling is expected in your field, such that the citation is not a record of any actual engagement, then stop that practice. It is not providing any intellectual benefit. It is human-produced slop.
I think this post nails the actual problem, for researchers at least—AI hallucinations would simply not be a problem in academic work if we’d not normalized citation-as-signaling rather than actual engagement—you can only cite a fake paper if you’re not in the habit of reading the papers you cite
Do not cite an academic paper unless you’ve read it
December 19, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Once again, LLMs are useful in identifying practices that need to change. If citation-as-signaling is expected in your field, such that the citation is not a record of any actual engagement, then stop that practice. It is not providing any intellectual benefit. It is human-produced slop.
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Of interest to #dataBS
I wanted dinner recommendations so I scraped 13,000+ London restaurants and accidentally discovered Google Maps is running a shadow economy. Anyway here's a dashboard and a political economy thesis: open.substack.com/pub/laurenle...
How Google Maps quietly allocates survival across London’s restaurants - and how I built a dashboard to see through it
I wanted a dinner recommendation and got a research agenda instead. Using 13000+ restaurants, I rebuild its ratings with machine learning and map how algorithmic visibility actually distributes power.
open.substack.com
December 19, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Of interest to #dataBS
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Little bit of context for those GDP figures. Self-flaggelation champions are down the bottom. Have you seen any of these international comparisons in the media? I might have missed them.
December 19, 2025 at 4:24 AM
Little bit of context for those GDP figures. Self-flaggelation champions are down the bottom. Have you seen any of these international comparisons in the media? I might have missed them.
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Families fight to put food on the table. Meanwhile the ACT Party and Coalition Government spent $150,000 on a 'Road Cone hotline'.
Closing after 6 months & 200 cones removed, costing Kiwis ~$750 per cone (and they gutted Worksafe - putting real lives at risk!)
We too wish this was satire ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Closing after 6 months & 200 cones removed, costing Kiwis ~$750 per cone (and they gutted Worksafe - putting real lives at risk!)
We too wish this was satire ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
December 17, 2025 at 4:04 AM
Families fight to put food on the table. Meanwhile the ACT Party and Coalition Government spent $150,000 on a 'Road Cone hotline'.
Closing after 6 months & 200 cones removed, costing Kiwis ~$750 per cone (and they gutted Worksafe - putting real lives at risk!)
We too wish this was satire ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Closing after 6 months & 200 cones removed, costing Kiwis ~$750 per cone (and they gutted Worksafe - putting real lives at risk!)
We too wish this was satire ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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The High Court has found Paul Goldsmith’s controversial appointment of Stephen Rainbow and that of Melissa Derby were unlawful.
Minister unlawfully appointed human rights and race relations commissioners
The High Court has found Paul Goldsmith’s controversial appointment of Stephen Rainbow and that of Melissa Derby were unlawful.
dlvr.it
December 18, 2025 at 12:28 AM
The High Court has found Paul Goldsmith’s controversial appointment of Stephen Rainbow and that of Melissa Derby were unlawful.
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We are so back. In other words, we have stopped falling. It is truly remarkable that NZ almost uniquely plunged its economy into a sustained recession in response to a global inflation shock that other countries just rode out. And, now we are celebrating ending our self-flaggelation. [1/2]
December 17, 2025 at 11:41 PM
We are so back. In other words, we have stopped falling. It is truly remarkable that NZ almost uniquely plunged its economy into a sustained recession in response to a global inflation shock that other countries just rode out. And, now we are celebrating ending our self-flaggelation. [1/2]
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$400,000 or 8 times what the Flue tracker costs to run
We changes 200 road cones
What an utter failure
#nzpol
www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360...
We changes 200 road cones
What an utter failure
#nzpol
www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360...
The Government's 'Road Cone Hotline' to close
The Government will close its “Road Cone Hotline” at the end of this week, after just six months in operation.
www.stuff.co.nz
December 16, 2025 at 11:21 PM
$400,000 or 8 times what the Flue tracker costs to run
We changes 200 road cones
What an utter failure
#nzpol
www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360...
We changes 200 road cones
What an utter failure
#nzpol
www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360...
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Imagine finishing your benefit forecasts for HYEFU, closing your laptop, and heading to floor 8 for a few miserable xmas treats... then the actual data comes out and blows your calculations out of the water!
[NB: Actual data varies slightly from forecast data, but not by much)
[NB: Actual data varies slightly from forecast data, but not by much)
December 16, 2025 at 4:53 AM
Imagine finishing your benefit forecasts for HYEFU, closing your laptop, and heading to floor 8 for a few miserable xmas treats... then the actual data comes out and blows your calculations out of the water!
[NB: Actual data varies slightly from forecast data, but not by much)
[NB: Actual data varies slightly from forecast data, but not by much)
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Animals with misleading names. I'm seeing this go around as part of a viral tumblr thread so I thought I'd reshare it.
December 15, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Animals with misleading names. I'm seeing this go around as part of a viral tumblr thread so I thought I'd reshare it.
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There's also a false claim, backed up by a fake website registered overnight in Iceland and also propagated on X, that one of the shooters was a rogue IDF veteran. Exercise extreme caution.
This is fucking grim. Somebody invented a white guy, an "IT professional" named Edward Crabtree, who stopped the Bondi shooting and spread it all over the internet, which was picked up by AI agents and slop aggregation sites.
The real hero is a fruit stand owner named Ahmed el Ahmed.
The real hero is a fruit stand owner named Ahmed el Ahmed.
December 14, 2025 at 8:23 PM
There's also a false claim, backed up by a fake website registered overnight in Iceland and also propagated on X, that one of the shooters was a rogue IDF veteran. Exercise extreme caution.
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As we are now in a period where one party has, in the past two months, bought enough political ads on YouTube to have shown 1 to everyone in the country if they were evenly distributed, just a reminder that the Google Ads Transparency Centre is still a thing & the Political Ads tab tracks showings
December 6, 2025 at 9:42 PM
As we are now in a period where one party has, in the past two months, bought enough political ads on YouTube to have shown 1 to everyone in the country if they were evenly distributed, just a reminder that the Google Ads Transparency Centre is still a thing & the Political Ads tab tracks showings
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And the final thing to note is that we're a rich country. If a NZ adult has wealth over ~NZ$380k (40% of us) they are among the wealthiest 10% of adults globally. #nzpol
From their database: NZ adults individual wealth in $NZ
11% have negative wealth
Quarter less than $62k
One third less than $115k
Half less than $260k
One third have more than $488k
One quarter more than $684k
20% have more than$852k
10% more than $1.5M
1% more than $6.8M
0.1% more than $24M
#nzpol
11% have negative wealth
Quarter less than $62k
One third less than $115k
Half less than $260k
One third have more than $488k
One quarter more than $684k
20% have more than$852k
10% more than $1.5M
1% more than $6.8M
0.1% more than $24M
#nzpol
December 13, 2025 at 9:31 AM
And the final thing to note is that we're a rich country. If a NZ adult has wealth over ~NZ$380k (40% of us) they are among the wealthiest 10% of adults globally. #nzpol
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Well, there's a photo I never expected to see in my life. Noam Chomsky palling around with Steve Bannon.
December 12, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Well, there's a photo I never expected to see in my life. Noam Chomsky palling around with Steve Bannon.
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Every single news article about the latest ferry mishap should be including this information. EVERY. SINGLE. ONE. #nzpol
The first IREX ferry would have been online THIS WEEKEND if Nicola did not cancel them
Now we have 4 more years of dodgy shit while we wait for the TEMU option....
Now we have 4 more years of dodgy shit while we wait for the TEMU option....
Boy am I glad the first replacements for these ferries will be arriving in Feb 2026, with port upgrades at Picton and Wellington nearing completion after two and a half years of work.
Oh wait, hold on a second, just hearing that ferries won't be here until 2029.
www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3609...
Oh wait, hold on a second, just hearing that ferries won't be here until 2029.
www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3609...
December 12, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Every single news article about the latest ferry mishap should be including this information. EVERY. SINGLE. ONE. #nzpol
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U.S. M2 Money Supply hits new all-time high of $22.3 Trillion 🤑📈🥳
December 6, 2025 at 1:25 AM
U.S. M2 Money Supply hits new all-time high of $22.3 Trillion 🤑📈🥳