Leon Salter
Researcher on precarious work
platform capitalism and unions. Try and teach leadership communication @ University of Auckland Aotearoa New Zealand
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- Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue
- A Database of Paper Airplane Designs: Hours of Fun for Kids & Adults Alike
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- Ep #6 of The Corruption Diaries is out: Richard’s launch of his record label Delerium & his mail order business the Freak Emporium were going from strength to strength. But then something happened that threatened everything…Check out this series 2 + series 1 below (or wherever you get your podcasts)
- Fake visas and complex databases: Tech’s role in exploiting migrant workers
- ‘The People vs Robodebt’ won Best Documentary at the AACTA Awards
- The morning after mass layoffs, The Washington Post publishes this as their lead editorial. The owner and publisher clearly have no idea why they are losing subscribers. Meanwhile they have destroyed a storied brand. Support independent media. hubs.ly/Q03M8rql0
- Heads are going to explode 💥 Cato Institute just nuked the lie. Immigrants have cut U.S. deficits by $14.5 TRILLION since 1994, slashing the national debt by a third. All that “immigrants are bleeding us dry” noise? Absolute bullshit. 1/3
- Very poignant interview about how Epstein's victims are never* centred. It's a complicated story, right, and plainly Trump is deeply evil, but I have always been very uncomfortable about those whose interest in the files was purely as a weapon to attack Trump.
- 10:15pm & the last of the days light is fading fast in the SW sky. Overlooking Otago Harbour from Muaūpoko Otago Peninsula to Ōtepoti Dunedin city. NZ. Glorious evening.
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- The Mandelson scandal has shone a light on systemic issues in the British State. This is about wealth, power, and undue access - not just a few bad apples.
- The increasing number of billionaires in every new release of the Epstein files are another reminder that billionaires shouldn't exist because they're immoral, exploitative hoarders and the world would be better if we abolished every one of them. Billionaires: the only minority destroying humanity.
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- read online that someone set-up a premium rate phone number where callers get charged $3.99/ min. then they posted flyers in their neighborhood that said "call this number to report illegal aliens," but the number just puts them on hold with music. so far, they've made $17,000
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- This is just a snippet of a superb @zackpolanski.bsky.social interview. Laura’s tired gotcha attempts went nowhere, while Polanski raised the bar with every answer. We’ve waited a long time for a political leader with empathy, honesty, and clarity.
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- Hear Orson Welles’ War of the Worlds Radio Broadcast from 1938: The Original Tale of Mysterious Objects Flying Over New Jersey
- @zackpolanski.bsky.social with a simple message on #bbclaurak: "The Lab govt have taken peoples votes for granted & they're yesterdays news. This is the Green Party versus Reform, and Greens are going to win [Gorton & Denton]"
- "moot is in the epstein files" is the completely true sentence that has finally convinced me this is all an extremely stupid simulation and that we're all being used to power a robot overlord's game gear or something
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View full threadI have, for years, talked about how I spent the late aughts on 4chan, and I've been watching the worst people from there take over the world. And. He's. He relaunched /pol/ after meeting with Epstein. It's been fucking /pol/ this entire fucking time fucking fuck.
- We know JD Vance is a /pol weirdo, but to think the whole thing may have originated with Epstein... like, Jeffrey Epstein genuinely seems to sit at the middle of every horrific thing in the last couple decades. I swear we're this close to "Bin Laden met with Epstein in 2000" in the next drop.
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- Wild that there was an open lane called "what if we just explain things clearly to people?" and he's the first one to ever fill it
- Yesterday police raided Deutsche Bank’s headquarters for money laundering. Today they announced record profits. Once more this video becomes topical (DB mentioned at 2:10) www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5mM...
- A thrilling intellectual and economic history of workplace control from the birth of capitalism to the modern tech giants. Now available for preorder - Control Science: How Management Made the Modern World by Henry Snow
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- Here’s part 2 of this week’s Better Offline special about why the AI bubble is worse than the dot com bubble. I explain the mythology used to convince the world to run millions of miles of fiber cable - and how different that is to GPUs. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b... Linktr.ee/betteroffline
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- The Dig is one of my favourite podcasts, so it was a real honour to be able to chat with Daniel about all things AI
- The Dig you’ve been waiting for to understand the political economy of AI as it becomes fulcrum of global contests and conflicts over economic and military dominance. My interview w/ @nsrnicek.bsky.social on his book Silicon Empires: The Fight for the Future of AI www.thedigradio.com/podcast/sili...
- You might be amazed to learn that the answer is more milk and trusting farmers to do even more great things.
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- good Luxon called this out. But it would be helpful if someone in our official public sphere would note that "the people on the margins" disseminating the (sic) "misinformation" include a guy who is the only Twitter friend of his Minister of Foreign Affairs #nzpol www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3609...
- This would be the same Federated Farmers that argued that agriculture should be entirely removed from the ETS 🤔🧐 and which fully supports The Land Transport (Revenue) Amendment Bill 🧐🤔
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- in case you're curious about how angry Minnesota is about ICE, it was -20 today
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- Kamala would've just been the American Kier Starmer.
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- Fascinating piece by @cedricdurand.bsky.social . A key issue here - as per Microsoft’s recent laments - is the impossibility of forcing firms to adopt a technology that demoralises them and delivers no near-term profit. The limits of financial and cultural hype. newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...
