Greg Dixon
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Greg Dixon: If they’re shrinking our loo paper, we really are in the crap (opens the original)
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The business practice of shrinkflation – reducing the size or weight of a product while leaving the price more or less untouched – is not new, but appears to becoming more widespread. Photo / Getty Images First, they came for our Cheezels, and I did not speak out because I don’t much like Cheezels. Then, they came for our Cadbury Roses chocolates, and I did not speak out because in my book they are not really chocolates. Then they came for my toilet paper, and I did not speak out – but this time
Jon Ronson: The manosphere is a sideshow to a deeper crisis facing men (opens the original)
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A man is seated alone on a bench at his local park on a weekday. He is trying desperately to will a new idea into existence, to think of a fresh thing he can do to earn his way. But as he sits, a dreadful thought overwhelms him instead: if no new idea comes, if inspiration fails, he will not be a man having ideas at all. He will just be a man sitting alone on a bench at his local park on a weekday. It is the kind of tragicomic scene one expects to find in the work of Jon Ronson, the British-Amer
Greg Dixon: Is daylight saving really daylight robbery? You betcha! (opens the original)
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Clocks spring forward at 2am on Sunday, signalling - to some - that summer is just around the corner. Photo / Getty Images Brace yourselves: the government is about to rob you again. And I don’t mean stealing your will to live with yet more wildly improbable pre-election promises. I speak, of course, of the hour of your time the government will take from you this Sunday morning when, whether you like it or not, daylight saving time (DST) starts again. How you feel about this yearly imposition of
Greg Dixon: Don’t panic, there’s an upside to the coming AI apocalypse + is celebrity nudity the bane of modern life? (opens the original)
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War of the machines: Is AI really coming for us? Photo / Getty Images By the time you read this, we could all be gone. We might all have been obliterated by an evil Artificial Intelligence model with a cutesy name like Poppy or Pippa, and have gone the way of the dodo, the woolly mammoth and Christopher Luxon’s hair. It is a troubling thought that the end of the world might be nigh. But not quite as troubling as the question that’s been dogging me during a week when AI paranoia has gripped the w
Lotto’s changed its odds, here’s a guaranteed way to beat them (opens the original)
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The Powerball jackpot will increase from $50 million to $60 million – but the odds of winning go from 1-in-38.4 million to 1-in-53.7 million. Imagine winning $28 million. I’m pretty sure you already have. I know I have. And that’s all you and I have ever done, and all we are likely ever to do. What a pack of losers we are. So it is heartening – I say heartening but actually I mean bloody maddening – to learn that one lucky punter from Gisborne this week went from imagining winning $28 million on
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