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It’s working.
Adrian Orr’s plan to increase unemployment to lower the scourge of wage inflation is making great progress.
From Stuff.co.nz
Jobseeker numbers jump, 40,000 more expected to be out of work by 2025
Brianna McIlraith – July 03, 2024, • 10:00am
https://www.stuff.co.nz/money/350330074/jobseeker-numbers-jump-40000-more-expected-be-out-work-2025
Some technical terms to understand:
Increase in profits is growth – a good thing
Increase in wages is inflation – a bad thing
increasing unemployment increases ‘job ‘competition’ – a good thing encouraging a race to the bottom – also a good thing as it promotes growth (ie profit)
Thanks Pat O’Dea for that simple guide. We who show interest should know this by now but seem to have it slide out of our minds so quickly. We seem to run our economy and society on smoke’n’mirrors. Could Adrian Orr and his ilk be said as similar to this bloke from previous centuries?
Smoke and mirrors is a classic technique in magical illusions that makes an entity appear to hover in empty space. It was documented as early as 1770 and spread widely after its use by the charlatan Johann Georg Schröpfer, who claimed to conjure spirits.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smoke_and_mirrors
I came across this. Interesting anyways and seems informative and true. Host Adam Conover.
The A.I. Bubble is Bursting with Ed Zitron 1:15:20
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8ByoAt5gCA
Big tech is betting tens of billions of dollars on AI being the next big thing, but what if it isn’t? ChatGPT burns obscene amounts of cash daily with little return, Google’s AI dispenses useless and sometimes dangerous advice, and a recent study showed that tech companies will soon run out of new training data to improve their AI models. If AI is really so costly, unreliable, and limited, what happens to the industry that has bet so big on it? This week, Adam talks with journalist and influential tech critic Ed Zitron of wheresyoured.at to discuss the impending burst of the AI bubble, the hubris of Silicon Valley, and how we suffer under big tech’s “Rot Economy.”SUPPORT THE SHOW ON PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/adamconover
My ‘intelligent’ take on some recent news that concerns us all, and much concern should be felt by those concerned!e&oe
No stabiliser on Kaitaki but no worries, it is still safe however we at KiwiRail felt it wise to cancel sailings in 4 metre swells recently. The stabilisers make the sailings better for passengers and stock, and one suspects for car, goods being transported etc.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/521286/interislander-kaitaki-ferry-s-stabiliser-fin-missing-for-more-than-18-months
Dry docking in Sydney revealed this. But of course it couldn’t be fixed then as we operate on just in time practice. However when it goes to dry dock in Singapore in August it will be repaired. We do the minimum of repairs in NZ as this is less efficient and more costly than having access to bigger Australian facilities and not having to fund our own. We know this is now routine as we don’t do much for ourselves or produce much here as we can always get it cheaper overseas. And we don’t have to bother about training anyone for these jobs here because we can get staff cheaper overseas.
It appears that we are gradually replacing our politicians and administration in this way as they do things better overseas. And AI will fill the gaps. Judith Collins is already brightly pushing this AI program,. though she hasn’t realised that her position may go.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/survey-finds-most-kiwis-worried-about-malicious-ai-technology-minister-judith-collins-responds/DJWKCXXSF5CCHPPNE47BTCQDJU/
…Research commissioned by InternetNZ revealed 72 per cent of New Zealanders are concerned AI will be used for malicious purposes and without regulation.
Malicious use is already happening. In November, Zuru boss Nick after his chief financial officer received a Microsoft Teams video call from a realistic-looking Mowbray – down to clothes he regularly wore – asking for money to be …
Govt could develop its own AI, Collins suggests
Newsroom https://newsroom.co.nz › … Whakamāoritia tēnei whārangi
-4 rā i mua — The New Zealand Government could create its own bespoke artificial intelligence, Minister for Digitising Government Judith Collins has
Cabinet papers written with aid of AI? Judith Collins says yes
The Post: News from Wellington | Stuff Ltd
https://www.thepost.co.nz › … Whakamāoritia tēnei whārangi
7 Māe 2024 — Collins’ interest in AI and the global scramble to set up rules and regulation for its use have coincided with the development of large language …
Judith Collins: Counting on commercialisation
Research Professional News
https://www.researchprofessionalnews.com › … Whakamāoritia tēnei whārangi
26 Āpe 2024 — She adds that the plan contained “no real commitment” around AI, and no mention of a long-running moratorium on using genetic techniques
Minister attending Australian data, digital meeting
Beehive.govt.nz https://www.beehive.govt.nz › … Whakamāoritia tēnei whārangi
22 Pēp 2024 — Minister for Digitising Government Judith Collins is in Sydney to attend the first Data and Digital Ministers’ Meeting of 2024.
Sorry I can’t supply dates in English but I think why bother being accurately informative, nothing is meant to work effectively in this country nowadays.
Why should I comment here when it disappears next time? At this point only Christ can help us, the Left regularly ankle-tapping itself. For the mere matter of 40 years out of power.
Chris Trotter just now retracting from socialism on Bowalley Road, equating it with violence! His 6 comments were unenthusiastic, and, of course, mine, disallowed. Retracting Left blogs.
How it happens with the egos who establish blogs.
The great talkers for the Left — Trotter up there. Just visited Bryan Gould’s page. His last column 8 months ago, at 84, is the best. ‘Timidity of the Left’.
Yep, I despise you cul de sac egotists pretending to be Left firstmost. Rather than the egos you are primarily.
Small Left business — yeah, how people power works.
If you’re assaulted by me … come on, have a think.
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