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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- And therefore we should be grateful for paying even higher food prices soon
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- Plan B = the taxpayer picks up the tab for our climate negligence
- Liking this ‘convenience criticism’ framing. Books that link AI to fascism becoming a cottage industry: www.structural-integrity.eu/convenience-... @sean-phelan.bsky.social @ojutel.bsky.social @rosieoverell.bsky.social
- The 'board of peace' sure has a lot of war criminals on it
- We truly are in Orwell's time
- Fascist lab
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- Just sent, thanks!
- I feel for the people of Greenland, who should not have their sovereignty threatened. At the same time it is interesting to see the shock to the neo-colonial system (aka NATO). European nations are used to being the ones doing the threatening, not being threatened. That's for brown, poor nations.
- Joint Statement on Greenland 🇬🇱 stm.dk/statsministe...
- Can you please post a link? I can't find it. This looks really useful for a workplace communication course I teach
- Solid gold
- Woolworths really are the worst. “Flexi start time” is zero hours contracts under a new name www.thepost.co.nz/business/360...
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- Yeah there's a bit of a NZ leftist community on here but even more than Twitter it suffers from anxieties of inadequacy in comparison to the US
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- Sounds great I've requested access to this Rosie
- So their plan seems to have been to drop bombs, snatch Maduro, and bully the remnants of his government to give the U.S. what Trump says we want. So like everything else they do, this is both unconscionably immoral and catastrophically stupid. This really is the administration of vicious idiocy.
- Yep the thick school bully in charge of the most powerful military ever
- Happy new year. At the celebrations at Auckland viaduct last night and got a real taste of the inequality hopefully we can start to move away from in 2026 (1/2)
- thousands of revellers wanting to go home after the fireworks were left stranded for 15 minutes to let boats of rich people through. Then there was the inevitable crush when the bridge opened - not great considering there were young kids (2/2)
- Tis the season for hate and division tra la la la www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...
- We are truly in cloud cuckoo territory now
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- Comparing powerful corporations to powerless migrants is nonsensical
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- Not sure if it's incompetence or more RW ideology
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- In major shock crashing the economy reduces tax intake...
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- $56bn on roads, locking us into car use for decades. I hope labor repeals this
- I’m fascinated by the Wuffy robot dog I’ve seen advertised on YouTube as a “realistic AI robot puppy”
- They’re marketing it as an AI dog that learns just like a real puppy. But it’s a scam whereby they use AI generated video of a puppy spliced with real puppy video. Apparently what you actually get is a $2 temu toy
- So we’re at the stage now where AI capabilities are being falsely advertised by the use of AI generated video to scam people
- I wrote a thing on AI and left strategy acmesmokescreen.substack.com/p/the-algori...
- Why our car consumer culture is the problem, not the internal combustion engine “The tyres contributing most to the problem were found on both EVs and utes”.
- The first post from our new ACMe (Association for Communication and Media Studies) substack. My friend and former supervisor Sean Phelan on Winston Peters' invocation of the culture wars and NZ government's inaction on Palestine: acmesmokescreen.substack.com/p/the-cultur...
- Fantastic win for Uber drivers and Workers First Union. This has been a long time coming (way too long - in the courts since 2022), but common sense has prevailed. Let's hope Van Velden doesn't pull the rug out underneath them with new contractor legislation... www.1news.co.nz/2025/11/17/s....
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- Labour will probably still manage to lose through failure to offer an alternative vision
- “But I am a hater, and I will not be polite. The machine is disgusting and we should break it. The people who build it are vapid shit-eating cannibals glorifying ignorance.” anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/h...
- Having seen the very moving film last night with a Q&A from Anna and Sonya, I'm very aware of the impact of lax H&S rules on families and communities. #StandWithPike www.together.org.nz/stand_with_p...
- Why the hell are financial assets like shares excluded from Labour’s capital gains tax? Isn’t the majority of the super rich’s wealth held in shares? #nzpol
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- Very prescient. The whole policy seems half hearted. Being leaked wouldn’t have changed that
- TEU online hui on AI on the 31 October (Halloween - appropriate for the topic!). I'm on the first panel - Mana Mahi - keeping decent work at the centre. The conference is free and open to all, attendees do not need to be TEU members. Registration link: teu.ac.nz/news/teu-art...
- Getting ready for the big public sector strike tomorrow while teaching the next generation the value of protest
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- And now they’re even screwing over their voting base: landowners
- University teaching very soon www.instagram.com/reel/DPeshTA...
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- I know a good PhD student if you still need someone?
- Gen AI may look flash at first, but when the complexity rises and it can’t extrapolate from data it falls flat. “anybody who thinks LLMs are a direct route to the sort of AGI that could fundamentally transform society for the good is kidding themselves.” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
- TEU Secure Work hui November 7. We're focusing on structural causes, iniquitous impacts and most importantly, what can be done. Speakers include Craig Rennie and Brian Roper. Registrations close 31 October. Register here: teu.ac.nz/campaigns/se...
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- Here’s an idea: ban airnz from hiking prices in the holidays
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- Looking forward to this next year!
- Story: Keir Starmer drops Labour’s long-held target of ensuring at least 50 per cent of young people attend university, stating: “I don’t think that’s right for our times.” www.timeshighereducation.com/news/starmer... via @jgro-the.bsky.social
- Cos critical thinking skills are the worst thing to have right now eh?
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- So house prices will start going back up?
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- And we're all supposed to celebrate the "success" of the dairy industry while taking out mortgages to buy butter
- GENERAL STRIKE BRING IT ON!!!
- Workslop - the word of 2025?
- Imagine if this money was spent on infrastructure for the people: public transport, hospitals, schools, universities, parks etc
- Is Charlie Clark’s death going to be the modern Reichstag fire allowing ascendancy to full blown fascism youtu.be/TJ8HUoAn-4g?...
