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  • The Broligarchs Are Trying to Have Their Way

    Eight years ago, the PayPal and Palantir co-founder Peter Thiel was an outlier in liberal Silicon Valley for publicly supporting Donald Trump. But now a number of prominent male tech plutocrats who previously opposed the former president have done an about-face: These broligarchs are publicly endorsing and donating to the Republican candidate—and revealing a lot about…

  • Forty years after Rogernomics: Imagining an economy grounded in Māori values

    It’s well past time we start thinking of a new next model… An economy or economies based on manaakitanga, whanaungatanga, kaitiakitanga could set everyone up to live well, within connected communities and planetary boundaries. What if rāhui were respected and our ecosystems were regenerated, or our sense of obligation to each other meant that no…

  • Kia ora, Mayor Tim

    He’s also not especially worried at the nationwide hostility currently directed towards the use of te reo Māori in everyday life. “I think it’s a dead cat bounce.” In other words, it’s a declining trend that makes a small uptick before it disappears completely. “You look at the young people in this district, you go…

  • ACT: the party of crybabies

    ACT: All edge, no point. Props to Andrea Vance for calling the hypocrites out. The party has re-risen by stoking a culture war, peddling identity policies and putting a tale of Pākehā grievance at the heart of party identity. Part of that was relentless attacks on the character and motives of those with which it…

  • Great examples of how neo-liberalism gets in the way of fighting wars

  • AI start ups in the next 90 to 360 days…

    UPDATE: https://futurism.com/the-byte/ai-market-stock-prices

  • Why We Should Stop Using JavaScript According to Douglas Crockford (Inventor of JSON)

    It’s time for the next thing. I loathe JS in any arena outside of UI programming.

  • Focus on the goal…

    One of the things I battle with constantly is people who get distracted by the new hotness… “We’ve got to be AI enabled!” When told “no” they get their knickers in a knot. Roll forward 6 months and it’s proven that their hyperventilation was a waste of time. Seth Goldin said it best today: The…

  • Billionaires a just full of shit

    Left or right, billionaires are full of shit…

  • Peter Thiel’s Blake Masters loses (again)

    Blake Masters loses again. Thiel really isn’t good at picking winners in this space. Masters last ran (and lost) against Sen. Mark Kelly (D-AZ) for his senate seat; this cycle he was angling for a House seat in Arizona. The other notable Peter-Thiel-protege-turned-politician is, of course, JD Vance, the Republican nominee for vice president. https://www.theverge.com/2024/7/31/24210926/thiel-protege-blake-masters-loses-his-primary-race