@BrianSpanner1 Only 26% of new retirees in Australia get a state pension, the rest are self-financed thanks to the introduction of compulsory superannuation investment back in the 1990s.
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Jen Topping
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Jen Topping
@toppage
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London Beigetreten Nisan 2008
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This is not a difficult decision.
15-20% of pensioners are in top 20% of earners.
30-40% are in top 20% by wealth.
We gift them £12,500. And their Christmas wine club heating voucher. And free other shit.
Sonia Sodha@soniasodha
It's time to retire the triple lock. It's unfair to expect a generation who face much higher housing & education costs than their grandparents to indefinitely fund the state pension to outpace wage growth. comment.press/triple-lock
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I've been talking about the problems with the streamer model - short runs, massive gaps, no residuals, strangling the writer/talent pipeline - meaning we don't have the sitcoms or procedurals people know and love. This is an even better summary....
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@Jason @nikitabier @jonatanpallesen This is clearly a problem on other platforms too - YouTube most obviously. And not just rage bait/politics. Low grade slop trying to grab US/UK attention to make a few bucks. Be interesting to see if others follow suit…
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@nikitabier @jonatanpallesen Fantastic long-term thinking here
Any global and open incentive system will be abused to the point of collapsing the ecosystem if not curated and optimized
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Content that @nikitabier doesn't like:
Europeans from small countries posting about science or global trends, or making original content.
Content @nikitabier loves:
An American posting a screenshot from instagram of a hot girl.
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Hatzola NW - Charity Extra charityextra.com/hatzola-emerge…
HT
Scotland was promised renewal. It got something else entirely.
My new book Scotland Undone is out now — a forensic account of SNP fiscal recklessness, institutional capture, and performative politics that failed schools, hospitals, and the people who needed them most.
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#ScotlandUndone #Scotland #SNP
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@forwardnotback Oh Tim I’m so sorry to hear this. The joy and insight you’ve brought to my live has been so valued. Here’s to your recovery.
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Quick update, sorry no more #twitterquiz I am in critical care in Portsmouth and gravely ill. Sorry for the message, thanks for all the fun and friendship over the years. I can’t reply to messages.
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@RoundtableSpace I uploaded a recent PowerPoint to Claude (paid) with various prompts asking it to make it more visually appealing but not change the content. It stretched the images, deleted whole sections, took items in the speaking notes and added them, chose a new design that was horrible.
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Claude makes a powerpoint presentation in less than 5 seconds
It’s so over
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Best part is when the mum casually walks past…
Helen Dale (not on your team, but always fair)@_HelenDale
STRAYA
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And I wrote about this issue as well as our uneven measurement ecosystem, ad fraud and more businessoftv.substack.com/p/measurement-…
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Remember that story about Barb data showing that YouTube is bigger than the BBC? I made this high quality visual to show why that story isn’t accurate. A more truthful but less punchy headline would have been ‘YouTube bigger than BBC if you exclude lots of content’.
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New pod: The story of the weekend in movie theaters isn’t a dumb vanity documentary, it’s how a YouTube creator with 38M followers could gross $10M with a self-financed, self-distributed film. With @markiplier Mark Fischbach. Listen! open.spotify.com/episode/22H7og…
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@conwayzygier I’ve had Bitch Epic on a loop for a week now since I read about this dreadful saga.
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@ballmatthew I keep coming back to this post hoping you’ve added a follow up to explain your thinking - will you do a post or a longer read at some point? I’d love to know your analysis.
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Amazing how much damage Nielsen Gauge has done to modern SVOD analysis and even just core competitive facts.
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The latest YouTube beats the BBC story overlooks that Barb’s data for YouTube is complete, but the data for the BBC only tracks iPlayer - so not video on BBC News, bbc.co.uk or podcasts/radio on BBC Sounds (podcasts & streaming radio is included in the YT numbers).
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