Comics enthusiast, policy wonk. Cat/dog person, PC Gamer, avid devourer of politics and legal ephemera. Opinions my own, not my employer. Pōneke. He/him. PFP @exocomics
Yeah. If you're a professional services firm who people hire for your judgment and you demonstrate you think your judgment is no better than a consumer AI chatbot, you have nothing at all to offer. Same goes for law firms.
Dr Duncan RobertsonIt's one thing to outsource thought leadership go consultants. But *if* they in turn outsource *their* thought leadership go GenAI, why not go straight to the source and cut out the middle man. www.ft.com/content/7e14...
The 13th annual international Gender Census 2026 is now open until at least 13th August 2026! survey.gendercensus.com It's for anyone whose gender (or lack thereof) isn't described by the M/F binary. It's short and easy, and results are useful in academia, business and self-advocacy. #LGBTQ
Hey guys again they did the same thing in America with black people in leadership positions. They were considered “DEI” cause they happened to be black or a woman. The unhinged shit is coming straight from America.
Russell BrownSimeon Brown's quoted response here – that New Zealanders voted to "end Labour’s co-governed system" – is the most deranged culture-war nonsense, even by Simeon Brown standards. Is he saying the Medical Council was "co-governed" because the chair, a respected surgeon, happened to be Māori?
Echoes what I've written in #SriLanka where similar measures - given a highly securitised state - has surveillance implications that are far more serious, and very concerning for minorities. Social media bans: Protecting children or building a panopticon sanjanah.wordpress.com/2026/07/14/s...
Social media bans: Protecting children or building a panopticonThis first appeared on Newswire on 13 July 2026. Australia’s world-first under-16 social media ban has produced a statistic Sri Lankan legislators, and our Prime Minister, should carefully co…sanjanah.wordpress.com
yes, kids are "inconvenient" in many ways. so are unhoused and mentally ill and disabled and elderly people and people with addiction issues and people out of work and people with dementia and hoarders and people grieving and refugees but you know what? suck it up. they're your neighbors too
TL;dr there was massive growth in the industry from around 2020-2022 due to low interest rates (money easier/cheaper to borrow) and a huge increase in demand for games due to people being stuck at home bc of covid. Now that growth has stalled or reversed and the shareholders “need” (1/4)
