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  So Anthropic's revenue for the first half of 2026 was $16 billion. And their total losses in just six months were over $80 billion - double what they lost in the whole of 2025. For reference, Tesla lost 9.3 billion from 2007-2018 while they were building factories and making EVs functional and affordable. Similarly, Amazon lost around $2 billion from 1997-2003 while building up the infrastructure to become the dominant online retailer and running at a loss to put competitors out of busines...

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  "Now, there's one of two failings: either New Zealand has become a much sicker place in the last seven years, or we have got a lot worse at managing and helping people who could be working. And I suspect it's the latter," he said" Well according to MoH about 400,000 kiwis have had long COVID. So yes, the country has clearly got a lot sickker in the last seven years. And no, that doesn't mean we should kick people off disability benefits while cutting taxes for the ri...

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  'An extortionate purchase price, justified by longevity the software is engineered to foreclose. A repair system priced like craftsmanship and run like a chicken processor. Or Amazon. Environmental piety from the high altar, e-waste from the loading dock. A recruitment strategy that runs through the school gate. And underneath it all, the quiet contempt of a company that fought right-to-repair for years, while our own Productivity Commission was politely pointing out that Australians deserve...

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  'A postgrowth future isn’t anti-technology, anti-digital or anti-progress. It asks us to take seriously the scientific evidence that seven of nine planetary boundaries have been overshot, and to recognise that this will have catastrophic societal impacts if radical action isn’t taken. Whereas business-as-usual approaches hope technological solutions will allow globalised capitalism to endure while little meaningfully changes, a postgrowth digital future demands changing social and technolog...

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  I find it oddly comforting that tech corporations are now straight up advertising their vision of dystopian individualism where all your friends have been replaced by their chatbot. #AI #dystopia

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  'Meta, Google and Microsoft have all baked [generative AI] deep into their systems,” Joshi says. “I see this all as very much part of the tactic of trying to embed these systems into society and instil dependency in a fashion similar to the growth of single-use plastics in the 1970s.” Opting out can be a “meaningful act of resistance”, Joshi says. “It’s partly about not creating that energy demand but mostly about being part of broad collective action against [a] corrosive, harmful indu...