Call me a conspiracy theorist, but @stuff.co.nz have closed the comments section on 2 stories in the last two days after an hour or so and both have been almost 100% critical of the government Latest one was this, most of them are open for 24 hours but this was about 3 #nzpol

"Charges laid under a now defunct law against people who attended a Sydney protest against Isaac Herzog will be dropped, police have confirmed, but it remains unclear how many of the 30 protesters charged the decision affects." Clear as mud. #auspol #nswpol www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Select committee report on the Conservation Amendment Bill isn't due till after the election. So the message is clear: if you want to save nature, vote out the regime. bills.parliament.nz/v/6/bd7d0f89...

“This is a New Zealand citizen, and I think New Zealanders should expect that their government stands up for them in these extraordinary circumstances.”

I thought humans weren’t supposed to be able to hear the dog whistle? You can hear this one from space

"So did you write that speech so I can show the voters that we believe in something and we're not just a bunch of empty suits threatened by populism" "Sure boss, we put Farage and Bannon through the squishifier to annoy Nicola on immigration, just like you asked" www.thepost.co.nz/politics/361...

Polling numbers low? Just hit the 🚨 IMMIGRATION PANIC SWITCH ⚠️

Budget 2026 terminology @theageaustralia.bsky.social

With all due Roy Morgan caveats, the demographics here are striking. National is polling 14% with women under 50 and 18.5% with men under 50. We're heading towards being a retirement village. www.roymorgan.com/findings/102...

extremely serious take: how much of the vibecession comes from legalizing weed -People buy from dispensaries (mostly owned by People Who Can Afford Lawyers) instead of the local guy -> fewer opportunities for local guys -No more awkward hanging out with the weed guy -> male loneliness epidemic

Not sure it's the fault of Bluesky or anyone on it that some people/institutions chose to stay on the fascist hellsite long after they should have, sensibly, left it. Likewise I don't particularly care if the rest of the world acknowledges this place exists, I'm here for the hangout with my pals.

this is the stupidest fucking shit. are they intentionally trying to fuck politics up even further or are they actually this dumb

Design legend Margaret Calvert is 90 today. Look at that cake! If you've ever admired a road, rail or metro sign in Britain it's likely she had something to do with it. One of Britain's design heroes - happy birthday to her. Photo by: @oshgallerylondon (IG) Cake by: mybaker.co

Putting scare quotes around “experts” is so fucking funny. Yeah dude sorry I listened to public health academics rather than 24-year-old podcasters who told me to take zinc and horse paste!

Luxon total moron , Labour need to be clear if they become gov they will cancel this project. #nzpol

Being asked for the source of false information you shared in your capacity as a minister is not "a hypothesis". What a prick. www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/5...

babe, wake up, new canonical regression discontinuity example just dropped

The City of Ottawa posted the raw speed data from before and after Doug Ford banned speed cameras and the effect is so obvious it's not even necessary put a line marking when that happened. This chart shows the percentage of drivers going 15km/h or more over the posted limit.

bikes are cool actually

pretty wild that Seymour directly threatens RNZ, both he and Luxon claim he didn’t, and then RNZ publishes that mostly verbatim without response from media OR free speech experts of any kind, let alone opposition MPs do they STILL really think they can appease their way out of this??

As a former Labour govt staffer I wish to disclose that any mockery I spray at Prime Minister comes from: 1% old loyalties 1% ideology 1% enjoying a joke 97% astonishment anyone could be this shit at it

“Effed it, lads”

BOOM 💥 There it is 😃

So the government basically just slapped a surprise $12,000 tax on every family with a tertiary student in it? Laser-focused on what now?

this graduation speech moment is notable, and her amazed shock at having failed to read the room feels instructive. when you're inside the bubble, you think everybody else is. but everybody isn't.

"huh it appears that the machine mimics whatever it ingests, good and evil alike", says company that just fed every piece of slashfic that ever existed on the internet into the machine

“Then it got – somehow – worse. Everlee has disappeared. As I write this, she is no longer listed on ICE's online detainee locator system.” NZ media pls urgently ask the Minister of Foreign Affairs what he’s doing about the US kidnapping of a NZ citizen.👇 Choosing not to act is unacceptable. #nzpol

This is a good point, and the implications are stark. NZ has no external checks on parliament, so the public's ability to meaningfully weigh in via select committee is crucial for democratic legitimacy. If that process is a farce (as it is now), it delegitimizes the entire government.

It is not surprising, but it is none the less shocking, to see they really are just going to keep doing this thing. Like, sure, it is electorally suicidal, economically disastrous, and culturally poisonous. But when the alternative is having to admit you were wrong? Not even a choice.

Name and shame those on the Select Committee who voted in favor of this insanity.

Not 'to be fair' or anything, but the NACT approach to government is basically entirely incompatible with the select committee process, which assumes that a group of reasonable MPs will listen to a number of well-researched, carefully written submissions and then make the best decision.

This is not the same as being paid by your donors to get a thing done, whatever the harms and greater cost to New Zealand as a whole might be. It just makes it *really obvious* that they're effectively ignoring the entire process, because wider engagement is not their intent at all.

Alton Brown is back to his old Good Eats presentation style. Cookies www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wvv5...

Tangata Tiriti: it costs $21 to join Internet NZ today (this is the last day) in time to stand together against a racist takeover. Act now, please. Like, now.

at some point i will surrender. but not yet. every few weeks someone is briefly online and a few more drops squeeze through.

There are undoubtedly MANY companies using LLMs (including copilot) to generate analysis and recommendations from data like this. Hell, AI-assisted hiring is an entire product category. These flaws (which I believe are fundamental to the technology) are likely highly impactful to people's lives!

I went to a Microsoft copilot presentation this week where they were pushing "you can take a complex spreadsheet and make a summary for management" (UNCHECKABLY). I've duplicated fake feedback style performance data similar to Adam. gist.github.com/thoughtfulbl... AI "assisted" performance review.

It is hard to convey how significant the political & social messages Peter Magyar is sending the public today. Hungary was never monocultural; it is & always has been multicultural. Yes, truly historic. The response shows it. Listen & watch to the end. A message also for here: Change is possible.

As Andrea Vance said yesterday, think of the sectors the NZ govt could reform. Banks, supermarkets, big tech. But no, they're in a huff about media. www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

Can't even say go learn a trade. There's no more subsidy for apprenticeship fees, no apprenticeship boost, no help for buying tools, fuel is too high for an apprentice wage, and they gutted whole trade industries. What exactly are they trying to do? It doesn't make sense! #nzpol

What it was like to be the head of PR at the FBI this week.

I just don’t know any other option

The share of money going to workers is down 0.5% in the first quarter of the year. The share of money going to capital, meanwhile, is now the highest it's been since records began in 1947. "AI ... lifts the spirits of businesses and investors, while doing the opposite for ordinary workers."

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There were other good ones on that show, but nothing came close.

Hobson’s Pledge is throwing their weight behind the FSU’s attempt to win #InternetNZ board seats. pastebin.com/tX1rKcJ5 If you’re an existing InternetNZ member ensure: your membership is up to date and if not please register prior to May 10th here: members.internetnz.nz #kikorangi #nzpol