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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

Chinese leader Xi Jinping meets New Zealand prime minister Christopher Luxon. Xi says "I look forward to building on our successes". Luxon replies "I eat crayons!". #NewZealand #Aotearoa #kikorangi

Christopher Luxon standing next to Trump says "I used to have a hairline"

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New Zealand prime minister Christopher and United States President Donald Trump. Luxon is saying "I used to have a hairline"

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.

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...?
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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.

Christopher Luxon decides to make money off his property portfolio.

A 5 panel story.Dead-eyed New Zealand ACT Party leader and current deputy PM David Seymour in panel 1; "This is my tough guy face" Panel 2; Seymour continues "Tim Jago said it made me look butch" Panel 3; Screen grab of former ACT president and convicted child sexual abuser Tim Jago's court appearance in prison clothes "You look ever so butch and grown up Davey!" Panel 4; David Seymour in yellow vest, yellow headband and yellow wrist bands from his appearance on Dancing with the Stars "Tim said a lot of nice things about me" Panel 5; Seymour trying to force a hide-the-pain smile and succeeding only in a disturbing grimace "I really miss him!"

Shameful Seymour the creeper's friend...

Painting of a middle-aged Collingwood in blue admirals jacket, resting his had on his chin.

Spare some love today for Collingwood. The other Admiral at Trafalgar.

Proud northerner. Hater of flogging. Legit brilliant commander and Nelson's trusted right hand. First into battle on Royal Sovereign. Took charge after Nelson was sniped and saved the British Fleet.

Here's HIS Trafalgar... /1 🧵

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.

A 5 panel story.Dead-eyed New Zealand ACT Party leader and current deputy PM David Seymour in panel 1; "This is my tough guy face" Panel 2; Seymour continues "Tim Jago said it made me look butch" Panel 3; Screen grab of former ACT president and convicted child sexual abuser Tim Jago's court appearance in prison clothes "You look ever so butch and grown up Davey!" Panel 4; David Seymour in yellow vest, yellow headband and yellow wrist bands from his appearance on Dancing with the Stars "Tim said a lot of nice things about me" Panel 5; Seymour trying to force a hide-the-pain smile and succeeding only in a disturbing grimace "I really miss him!"

Are the company directors "Jane Shones" and "Bis Chrishop"?

New Zealand Labour leader Chris Hipkins standing in front of a graphic that reads "Born to be mild"

New Zealand politician Judith Collins prays the reality doesn't intrude on her fantasies.

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Simeon Brown huffs aeroplane glue.

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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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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.

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

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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…

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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Christopher Luxon doesn't eat his crusts.
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Maybe he volunteered.

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

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.

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.

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

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In today’s NZ Herald #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.

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

Quite right

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%