Moonlit Monkey

The reason why western countries have this kind of restlessness in their heart, whether that manifests as a desire for socialist policy, or as a desire for revival of tradition, has nothing to do with either of these, and will not be satisfied by either attempt 1/3

@kiwiwayne3 We make high quality food, there is always demand for this somewhere. But just so happens we already have deals with most of the people it's beneficial too. That's a win.

@MoonlitMonkey69 So you can see into the future? 5 million trading with 1.4B is a no win situation..

NZs FTA with India will bring?

@kiwiwayne3 Around 30% of the people we import for job skills, end up working in the field we import them for. That's long term. So yes, it's bad. Our number should be ~1/3rd of what it is.

@MoonlitMonkey69 Is 6% bad immigration? Or are you working on the assumption we will let in hundreds of thousands of them? Should we look at China too? They are over 5%…start sending a few home and blocking them from coming? I just think it’s been grossly overblown personally…

@kiwiwayne3 The thing about NZ is we already have a _shit ton_ of trade agreements. We've covered just about every major region or economy that is net importing, or has higher food standards.

@kiwiwayne3 It's hard to say who else we should really have trade agreements with. Our best are already done - China, most of east Asia, Europe. We could extend to smaller but net importing countries like non-EU east europe, or remaining asia like taiwan. But gains, likely small (incl india)

@kiwiwayne3 I don't think they have a lot of demand for our produce. But even they did, and ignoring the mild aggravation of our already bad immigration, this FTA agreement is crammed full of ideological nonsense that is unrelated to India like UNRIP and the Paris agreement.

@MoonlitMonkey69 India is set to be the third largest economy in the world under its current trajectory… I’m happy to benefit a little from their growth! Nobody knows what’s going to happen but it looks like a good economical benefit from where I sit…

@kiwiwayne3 This ofc, is why there's never been any call for a trade deal with the US. They eat low quality food, and have a lot of food production.

@kiwiwayne3 Two things really make a good trade partner for NZ: 1) Said country has a food deficit (China) 2) Said country has lots of high taste food consumers/high food standards who prefer non-GMO, grass fed, less aggressively treated food (Europe) I don't think India is either AFAIK.

@TheNzRocketeer @MAGAsaurus45_47 I tend to agree with Act less than NZF, but given how they _directionally_ agree this is a problem, they should both work together more to find common ground on it, so it can be pushed forward as an agenda.

@TheNzRocketeer @MAGAsaurus45_47 NZF does this thing where they try to court Maori voters at the same time as pushing back on co-governance, and they should IMO, be more united with Act on this, even if they differ on best methods.

I try to be rational, reasoned and to be able to back up what I say when I criticize a political party. MAGAsaurus Mat claims NZF "stand against the insanity of co-governance" and that they are limited by their coalition agreement and numbers in what they can do. The first screenshot is a snippet from the NZF and National coalition agreement in the equal citizenship section, where NZF says they are onboard with stopping co-governance and have agreed with National to do so. There is no limitation in the coalition agreement. They are not limited by their numbers. The second and third screenshots are from a recent Newsroom article, where Shane Jones signed off, alongside his National Party compatriot Paul Goldsmith, on embedding Te Tiriti Waitangi in our legislation as equivalent to the Treaty of Waitangi. He has explicitly allowed for the co-governance version of the Treaty to be included in our core legislation after voting down the Treaty Principles Bill. This is NZF explicitly expanding co-governance in legislation and blocking other attempts to stop it. The fourth screenshot is more arguable, as it is an opinion not a direct action. There was a recent argument between Davina Smolders and the mayor of the Far North, who is trying to implement a Maori tribal led government over the council. Davina called this out and raised the risk it poses to ratepayers. The response from, again, Shane Jones in NZF was to call her "pathetic" and "perverse" and he spoke in support of the mayor who's going even beyond co-governance. I see this as NZF promoting co-governance. I do not think their words match their deeds, even when they have the agreements and numbers to do what they say.

@TheNzRocketeer @MAGAsaurus45_47 I've never been convinced this is what the maori version says. I suspect that's creative interpretation.

@MAGAsaurus45_47 No, because they embedded the Maori version of the treaty that enables the concept of Maori never coding sovereignty. It is a worse outcome than if they had done nothing.

@ArchitectOracle We do need a word for the opposite though, for the unicorns who act with accountability.

All time banger.

@Mayhem4Markets @SpaceXAI You can simply never trust trade secrets to someone elses cloud. Not for any AI company, ever.

This is totally insane. 🤯 What is going on at @SpaceXAI right now? Would love a public statement that explains what happened, why, and how the data will be handled (and hopefully deleted).

@sama YES! COMPETE ON LACK OF CENSORSHIP HARDER BABY!

"hard questions are great but only if we deem you worthy enough to not silently downgrade you, or even get access at all"

i thought this was satire, kept looking for the handle to be spelled c1audeai or something

@leothecurious Yes he is. I have zero qualms with the AI industry competing on doing what the user wants. More of this.

he is right u know

@ArtificialAnlys You are literally never going to bench longcat v2 are you?

Muse Spark 1.1 scores 863 on our agentic knowledge work benchmark AA-Briefcase, matching Gemini 3.5 Flash overall, but records a comparatively weaker Presentation Elo of 432, below the previous Muse Spark model Our new agentic knowledge work benchmark, AA-Briefcase, tests models on realistic tasks across thousands of input files, requiring deliverables such as spreadsheets, presentations, and UI mock-ups. Model performance is measured across three dimensions: binary rubric checks for ground-truth correctness, pairwise grading on analytical quality, and pairwise grading on presentation quality. The AA-Briefcase Elo is a single metric that combines results across all three dimensions The latest model release from @Meta, Muse Spark 1.1, achieves an AA-Briefcase Elo of 863, placing it alongside Gemini 3.5 Flash and NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Ultra. Its 232-point improvement over the previous Muse Spark model is driven by stronger objective task completion and analytical quality. Muse Spark 1.1 achieves a rubric pass rate of 34.5%, ahead of GPT-5.5 (xhigh) and just behind GLM 5.2 (max) Presentation quality however remains a relative weakness. Muse Spark 1.1 scores a Presentation Elo of 432, a 67 point decrease from the previous Muse Spark model and slightly below Mistral Medium 3.5

@wholemars The more they are aimed in the direction of less censorship, and more trusting the customer and acting as a tool (which grok and open weights already mostly are), the better. Ofc, that opposes the USG, and that's it's own issue. But I want AI to compete on this.

interesting to see him attack Anthropic and other rivals more directly. he was much more magnanimous when they were further away

@HedgeyeComm Isn't it even more of an issue, for more expensive Anthropic?

OpenAI is worth a lot less today than it was before $META released muse spark 1.1 If Meta is successful, wouldn't be surprised if OpenAI crumbles and never makes it to IPO...