As an anthropologist, I endorse this message!

“Now is the time for intergenerational thinking… Now is the time for us to continue protecting nature over short-term gains. The costs of doing so today are far lower than the cost of repairing the damage later.” — Dr Danielle Shanahan, CEO Zealandia Te Māra a Tāne newsroom.co.nz/2026/05/22/m...

on one hand… & on the other… www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

‘When the government replaces a New Zealand public servant with AI, what really happens is this: money that used to be paid to someone living in Wellington, Lower Hutt or Palmerston North gets paid instead to a tech giant in California or Seattle’ newsroom.co.nz/2026/05/21/b...

"ELI said it appeared the Prime Minister's office withheld a document that now showed direct lobbying of PMO staff by the defendants in the Smith case. The document only came to light due to "discovery obligations" on the various corporate defendants, the group said." #nzpol

Fossil fuel companies are literally writing the climate laws for Luxon's government. Their gain = our loss.

… god is a human invention that should be placed in higher esteem than a proprietary stochastic parrot.

first thing i thought of too, that NZEI Wellington poster (circa 1981) was just everywhere i went ✊ seems it was based on a 1979 poster produced by the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom in Philadelphia.

Great statement from the Human Rights Commission. tikatangata.org.nz/news/definit...

Introduce yourself with 10 bands you've seen live. Björk David Byrne* Laurie Anderson* Massive Attack Nine Inch Nails Peter Gabriel PJ Harvey Roger Waters St Vincent* U2*

right of admission into some third spaces will require you to scan your glasses prior to entry: are they vision correcting or AI assistant? or friends may ask friends to put their glasses in a verified (branded) faraday cage before a conversation can begin…

when the last person leaves Wellington, will some one in Redmond turn out the lights? www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360...

folx, I’ve been working on AI "ethics" for almost a decade now & hate to tell you there’s no such thing as "ethical AI" the only "ethical principle" that works is regulating the shit out of the industry & to take back control of our autonomy, fundamental rights, freedoms & right to exist w/out AI

This is the back on track Winston Peters, David Seymour and Chris Luxon support. #nzpol

Greens starting their Mahi campaign 👇

"Students should be in class" is a worn-out dinosaur line, justifying selling out the present with, "not in my lifetime" logic. Yet, those who will inherit our mess are told to, "stay in class, it's none of your business." Well, good on them, & It is their business, & theirs alone #nzpol

Intelligent presentation by Greens Party MP candidate @taniawaikatolawyer.bsky.social What's also true is that Te Tiriti protects from rampant foreign corporatisation & privatisation - and that it's why it is a must take down for the current Government, something Seymour previously admitted

Who do you know is having this conversation in Aotearoa NZ? restofworld.org/2026/big-tec...

AOC on possibly running for the Senate or President: They assume my ambition is a title or a seat. My ambition is way bigger than that. My ambition is to change this country. Presidents come and go, elected officials come and go, single payer healthcare is forever.

Yes, this. The only bit I'd add is *both* seemed content to leave it where it was months ago. And part of what makes all this so grubby is that a right wing blogger, followed by pretty supine mainstream media getting in behind, dragged it back up against everyone's wishes.

Are we really going to do this bullshit again? I may not be from Tennessee, I sure ain’t from the United States, but I can sure tell you where white politicians in my constituencies get their ideas from…

yep. looks like we’re in for at least another decade of dangerous bullshit and self immolation…

Candy Hansen-Koharcheck was one of my favorite people to interview. She died last month, after nearly 50 years in planetary science. I wrote about her enthusiasm for capturing cosmic wonder and sharing it with everyone on Earth, for @sciencenews.bsky.social: www.sciencenews.org/article/spac...

Our political and media system has been sitting in a pot of social media water, slowling boiling itself in a targeted foreign far-right propaganda campaign and seems unable to notice it happening. www.thegist.ie/the-gist-sun...

✅✅ "Te Tiriti has and always will be for us - now it's our time to keep it locked in our laws 🔥" @greens.org.nz #ToitūTeTiriti The Treaty Clause Review Bill intends to dilute te Tiriti (reduce it to a token gesture) in 23 NZ laws - and any future legislation - and to get that done by Oct 2026 #nzpol

Are you a physics teacher in the UK? We need your help! 🧑‍🔬🧑‍🏫 We've created an open letter for teachers to sign and express their grave concern at the devastating proposed cuts to astronomy, space science and particle and nuclear physics. ✍️ 👉️ ras.ac.uk/news-and-pre... #STFC #UKRI

“We decided not to resign ourselves to an economy built on the destruction of life. We decided that the transition away from fossil fuels could no longer remain a slogan but must become a concrete, political & collective endeavour” — Colombia’s Irene Vélez Torres www.theguardian.com/environment/...

ach. c’mon, no hat tip for Umberto Eco? and on that note, FANG don’t need prophets (at least that kind), as they are as gods… they just didn’t get very good at it.

"The structure whose supports our elites are steadily kicking down is also the one that props up their own personal safety from disaster and political invulnerability to accountability. And all of this can go away." me in @bostonreview.bsky.social www.bostonreview.net/articles/a-y...

🍃🌹🌿 NZGreens have demonstrated they are the most evidence-based & pragmatic NZ political party with fully-costed budgets, & fiscal strategies that are meticulously researched & proofed #nzpol open.substack.com/pub/weareund...?

technological determinism is the problem and the solution… if we need diverse minerals to create weapons (for example), it’s because we’re not doing any of that independent foreign, diplomacy stuff, nor being ecologically inclusive… newsroom.co.nz/2026/04/21/t...

until tech is regulated as tech and not seen as some cultual myth that people adopt, we’re not going to get anywhere close to making our communites safer or restoring our ecologies newsroom.co.nz/2026/04/20/f...

All manner of political scandals to choose from and the breaking news banner is still reserved for trashing Ardern - you can set your watch by the misogyny rife in New Zealand media.

stories like this need to include actual immigration numbers and trends — especially in relation to the size of existing, established communities to give a sense of context. “Kiwis' views on immigration are 'hardening very fast'” www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

how it feels to say "sprezzatura"

in AoNZ, even though it is a huge aspect of our future, committing further to electrification (per the Greens), will mean doing business with China. which means we must double down on an independent foreign policy…

Dear John Ternus…

how fucked are we? “Be of service not knowing whether you're a midwife or a hospice worker.” — Joanna Macy flowchart.bettercatastrophe.com #climatechange #ux

@markmitchellmp.bsky.social told @rnz.co.nz.web.brid.gy 'we've always had [weather events], it's just that we're getting better at identifying them' - @nathansurendran.bsky.social made this 'States of Emergency since 2000' chart from CD data (excl. quakes): www.civildefence.govt.nz/emergency-ev...

Excellent summary from Russell Norman about what this gov't has done to worsen our energy resiliance, destroy our environment, and amplify the impact of this oil shock. And they are continuing on despite the overwhelming evidence of this harm. It's not mere incompetence, it's sabotage. #nzpol

What keeps coming up again and again is the risk of AI is really the flattening and erasure of plural forms of knowledge and capability with one way of doing things. To appropriate the Zapatista slogan, we need a world where many worlds not only fit but thrive and flourish

These are the kind of people we will be needing more of as climate change worsens. The extreme weather events around the country are a stark reminder that the coalition govt. is plucking out the eyes of our research system by reducing $ / shifting $ to things they think will make $$ fast. #NZPOL

“Famine and widening food insecurity are the foreseeable consequences of military aggression in the Gulf.”

We shovel $10bn per year into the pockets of offshore companies to buy fuel - and that was before prices went nuts. You could easily employ every unemployed young person in NZ for $10bn - and buy thousands of solar panels.

"a small nation on the bottom of the world does not become safer by tying itself to the military ambitions of a superpower"

I got mass communication! I'm the human corporation!! I ate a rock from the moon!!! 🎶

we’re gonna need bigger boats if we’re gonna set up a blockade (also: the kingdoms of tonga, hawaii, etc may have some choice words.) i didn’t make it. thanks to everyone concerned for making and sharing!

It's the opposite of his intention, but the Idiot Emperor is forcing the world off fossil fuels. This week's column. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...