Everyone in the chain of command from the submarine commander through Hegseth up to Trump are war criminals who have just painted an extremely large target on every US base, ship and service person everywhere in the world. www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/5...

Counter point: Killing these bruterous terrorists could be very bad for America if it radicalises thousands more young Iranians and Muslims to avenge what they see as state terrorism by the USA and Israel murdering innocent school children.

This is a basic and crucial point for any discussion of LLMs’ use in teaching research or writing. Whether it can ape us, fool us, or get facts right or wrong is, in the end, irrelevant. The LLM is not the thinker we are trying to encourage; the LLM is not the writer that we are trying to improve.

Trump betrayed and abandoned the Syrian Kurds during his first term. Why the fuck are Kurds in Iran having anything to do with this? In this case the enemy of their enemy is not their friend. CIA working to arm Kurdish forces to spark uprising in Iran, sources say www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/5...

No war has been declared by the USA. A US submarine sinking a warship posing no immediate threat to anyone on the high seas 1000s of km from the combat zone is just cold blooded murder. This is the illegal, immoral shit that Luxon refuses to condemn #nzpol www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/3/...

Is there anything coming from the lips of any CoC govt minister that isn’t a lie? With the level of ‘misspeaking’ occurring this week if it’s not lying it’s gross incompetence #nzpol Immigration Minister Erica Stanford apologises after inflating overstayer figures www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

Another reason to quit ChatGPT. News International’s Chief executive Robert Thomson says he often speaks to both OpenAI’s Sam Altman and Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg www.theguardian.com/media/2026/m...

AoNZ's best security comes from an international rules based order. It's terrifying that our Foreign Minister on Radio NZ is siding with the authoritarians who are seeking to destroy it. Winnie also seems to have caught whatever Trump and Luxon have got, confusing the US and the UN. #nzpol

Even if I agree with a lot of what you say, if you ask an AI LLM a question then post the slop produced in a skeet as if it’s a useful addition to the discourse on here, it’s an insta-block from me.

I reckon he meant exactly what he said yesterday. Also the difference between “any action” and “action” is a distinction without a difference. He’d have needed to say “any action consistent with international law, which the current US/Israel action clearly is not” #nzpol

We need to be on the alert for the same shitfuckery here in AoNZ, even more so. Because you can bet the CoC would sneak this sort of shit through under urgency in the dark of the night. Luxon: "Well what I'm saying to you is the UK has already sold out its creatives to AI, we need to compete" #nzpol

🚨 It looks like the UK government is gearing up to upend copyright law in favour of AI companies, legalising the theft of their work. This is despite creatives' huge protests, and despite previous proposals being roundly rejected by the public. Please spread the word. 🧵 1/4

Yesterday's presser revealed the flaw in having a business guy as your national leader. Luxon has no intellectual curiosity, and no deep knowledge or experience of politics, geopolitics, philosophy or diplomacy. Hence yesterday's morally bankrupt floundering. #nzpol www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360...

Hey Simon Watts, how’s our $50 per year power bill saving looking now? #nzpol aje.news/azop0a

"Luxon hit back at Clark saying: 'What is disgraceful is a regime that kills its own people they way it has'." wow, can't believe Luxo has come out this hard against the US...

As a New Zealand citizen, I am utterly disgusted, but not surprised, by the comments from Luxon and Peters this morning. Absolute lapdog shit, licking at the boots of empire and fascism. NZ used to be respected for our strong and principled leadership. #nzpol

Clark is right. The statement by Luxon and Peters is a disgrace. The attack happened in the middle of diplomatic negotiations with Iran, it is killing target civilians/children and has destabilized the whole region. It is not legitimate force. The US and Israel have violated international law #nzpol

Fuck Christopher Luxon, and fuck every ignorant wanker who voted in favour of bombing Iraq in the poll embedded in this Stuff story. How can you 'hit back' against advocacy for international rules-based order, unless you favour authoritarian dictators? #nzpol www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3609...

Years ago in another life I gave a guest lecture at The Hague warning “AI weapons” could be invoked to remove accountability for war crimes from the chain of command. I said “there are no autonomous weapons, only unsupervised ones,” and sadly it seems I was cooking with that one

Maybe it’s because I’m a colonial historian but so many of these white nation states seem to behave exactly like they did in the 19th century: ‘your leaders aren’t right for you,’ ‘we’re only killing you/colonizing you/installing puppet leaders for your own good’

Israel's evil has no limits. And we are going to see it time and time again until the international community grows a backbone

#NZpol "He calls it the “Squid Game-ification” of the economy — where winning means gambling big." “If you want to let them buy your assets and use the passive income to buy more of your assets,” he says, “then you’re going to lose your wealth.” www.stuff.co.nz/money/360944...

Helen Clark's take on our Trumper gov.

#nzpol The National/NZ First/ ACT coalition government has failed another basic test of its understanding and adherence to international law. Our govt's announcement on Iran was another shameful kowtow to Trump. What's happened to our once respected national independence? How much was it sold for?

RNZ now basically yassifying Trump alongside their promotion via headline of his strongman PR WHAT THE FUCK, PEOPLE?

NZ said today “we acknowledge that the actions taken overnight by the US and Israel were designed to prevent Iran from continuing to threaten international peace and security.” What we should have said is “the world is being held hostage by a shadow government pretending to be a homicidal toddler.”

Just your regularly scheduled share of this masterpiece by @tomgauld.bsky.social

There is only one nuclear armed state in the Middle East. It is Israel.

This is an illegal, unprovoked and brutal attack that shows once again that the USA and Israel are rogue states. The UK must end our cosy relationship with the USA and our ongoing support for Israel.

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the fecklessness of establishment Dems comes from the fact that they agree with much of what Trump is doing. they want aggressive immigration enforcement. they want to blow shit up in Iran. for them, Trump is a sin eater who's brashly doing what they've been trying to do politely for a generation

As a) an economist and b) someone who did a whole ass PhD on this very topic, the macro evidence is that house prices are at best concurrent with economic growth and at worst lag it. House prices don't drive the economy. Can NZ's economy recover if house prices don't? www.rnz.co.nz/news/busines...

Following a white man to war because you disliked the sound of a black woman laughing will go down in American history as one of the dumbest acts of self-sabotage ever.

Say, you're a developer. What's the play here? Let's say the hype is true. AI will replace 40% of workers. And it's the 60% most AI-adapted workers who will stay. Is that the final state? What happens when the next 40% are replaced? And the next? What makes you think you'll be the survivor?

Fucking criminal war-mongers doing Trump’s bidding. When Iran retaliates he’ll use it as an excuse to walk away from the talks and launch a direct American attack on Iran 🤬🤬🤬

BREAKING: Israel said it launched a preventative attack on Iran as explosions were reported in Tehran

Anyone else finding the Health NZ ad of a pharmacist trilling to promote longer prescriptions intensely annoying and unnecessary (your doc will tell you about it if it is for you)? What a dismal waste of health dollars that could have been spent on nurses, doctors, hospitals or health IT #nzpol

Whatever the answer is, it’s an utter indictment of the AoNZ economy. No wonder we’re in the shit economically, and getting deeper into it, when a question like this makes headlines in one of our national media outlets #nzpol

This needs to happen in AoNz Character references to be scrapped in Victorian courts for crimes including rape and assault ‘As if being a ‘good bloke’ cancels out the violence you perpetrate.’

Do not, under any circustances, use LLM based AI if health and safety depend on it. (Actually don't use LLM based AI at all)

So we've heard from Seymour, wanting to sell Air NZ, and Winston Peters, wanting to keep it. I wonder if they could find someone who used to run an airline to comment on the matter? #nzpol

I don't think we should be agreeing to anything like this with a country sliding into fascism. Given the enormous human rights implications, where is the Parliamentary oversight? #nzpol www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

I can't help but think that Jacinda Ardern cannot live in NZ right now because she'd be hounded by media for comment every day and every time she would be subjected to online violence and threats. That's being an overall successful woman politician #nzpol

It’s a bit bloody rich Reti saying students should be OK with an inflation adjustment to student allowances when he got his med degree & DipOb pretty much paid for by the govt in the 80s pre-student loans and with plenty of student work available. Another Nat pulling up the ladder behind him #nzpol

i think it probably IS too late for Hipkins to be replaced & Labour to win outside of hail mary scenarios at this point; i also think that National et al have been disastrous & incompetent enough that Labour's narrow focus is more likely to work than even a yr ago but he's still a massive liability

"Profit-hungry developers, Gulf monarchs, Donald Trump, Tony Blair, and the Israeli far right are all united in their vision for Gaza: a tech-fueled special economic zone governed by billionaires, with no question of self-determination for Palestinians." jacobin.com/2025/11/gaza...