These aren’t just typos or autocorrect problems requiring a bit of proofreading: AI tools invented diagnoses, prescribed the wrong drugs, invented blood tests, and missed out mental health symptoms. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

How much can facts shift public opinion on inequality? M.H. Go et al.'s study shows corrective info boosts support for gender equality policies in South Korea, but barely moves attitudes in Japan. Read now: doi.org/10.1093/poq/...

A new report published yesterday by the @houseofcommons.parliament.uk Science, Innovation & Technology Committee refers to research by the Bennett School in warning that the UK's over-reliance on a few major technology providers poses an "unacceptable point of weakness" for public infrastructure. 1/

literally nobody is cautiously welcoming this overhaul

Discussed ongoing research with @mbarnfield.bsky.social and @philipjcowley.bsky.social on the BBC’s Moral Maze yesterday evening - about what the ‘short term’ and the ‘long term’ mean in politics and policymaking. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

CONSTITUTIONAL NERDS REJOICE! The Prime Minister has announced that the Cabinet Manual will FINALLY be updated, after 15 years. This is very good news. 🍾 🥳 🎉 questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-stat...

Ko ia tētahi o ngā tino pūkenga manaaki kua tūtaki au. He māhaki, he atawhai, he ringa raupā ki te tautoko i ētahi atu kairangaha. Beyond generous. Humble, kind, and always ready to support others. Indebted to his guidance. Rest well, respected one.

The accounting problem in public-sector AI integration is double-counting. Agencies can't claim input savings from automation because AI must be treated as a continuing, usage-based operating cost. Once you are in, you are in!

Charles Wotten murdered in 1919 by white rioters accusing foreigners of stealing their jobs. History is long. Recent history is longer. www.bbc.com/news/uk-engl...

Tā Hirini Moko Mead - Pillar of strength laid to rest

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The strangest thing about the Elizabeth Rata reportage today is watching the history of kōhanga reo being shrunk before our eyes.

the reality is that decline will come from instituting machines that regularly churn out biased and false information, and believing that government must trust and rely on them

“As your Koro, my task was to explain the legacy so that each of you can hold it in your hands, absorb it, share it, add to it what you already know and finally cherish it.” — Tā Hirini Moko Mead, who died last week, aged 99, writing to “the mokopuna generation of the nation”.

“I said something which surprised even me as I was saying it — that it’s not the job of Māori journalists like myself to compensate for, or mitigate, the institutional racism of the media industry.” — Aaron Smale on accepting his media award for Māori reporting.

Axios is reporting that a company 'accidentally' spent $500 million in one month on AI after failing to establish usage limits for its employees. www.axios.com/2026/05/28/a...

"Everyone’s research questions are shaped by lived experience. Some scholars are trained to hide this. Others are punished for admitting it. But no one comes to their work from nowhere." substack.com/home/post/p-...

They stole the internet’s knowledge and all the work that went into it and they want to sell it back to us for a fee. What a business model.

Google AI 🤝 your Facebook auntie Believing everything they read on the internet

Josephine Davis brings 40 years of experience into her historic new role at a time when deep health inequities demand Māori representation at the top.

'It's just not right': Community midwives call for overhaul on pay, contracts

Today, the principal challenge to democracy is coming not from coups but from democratic erosion driven by elected leaders. What is behind this shift, and how can prodemocracy forces push back? muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/a...

i have a template to copy and paste and just add your own thoughts on it, open.substack.com/pub/huhana62...

Household budgets so stretched it's no longer a cost of living crisis but 'the cost to survive'

Out now & free to download by chapters or whole text, my @LSEPress book with Tim Monteath, Denisa Kostovicova and Hannah Boroudjou *Doing Open Social Science* press.lse.ac.uk/books/e/10.3... helps qualitative & quantitative researchers make their work more reproducible & robust

Before the infrastructure to support phones became invisible, communication looked like this👇🏽👇🏽 All wires. Run everywhere. This is Adelaide Road c. 1914.

Whakamihi @tinamakereti.bsky.social winner of the Ockhams General Non-Fiction Award 2026! @thwupbooks.bsky.social #theockhams

How could @cityofmelbourne.bsky.social's #M2050 Summit be successful despite its scale ❓ Heath Pickering discusses the clear commitment to participatory governance grounded in #transparent & #inclusive #deliberation, which could be adapted in other jurisdictions 👇 doi.org/10.1111/1467...

‘Each poem pulses with clarity, restraint, and quiet power, revealing the extraordinary within the ordinary. ‘Black Sugarcane not only enriches contemporary poetry but also expands its possibilities.’

Brexit increasingly resembles a form of necropolitics through which the will of the living is outweighed by the will of the dead

Bupa's online services perhaps the first example I have encountered of 'a chatbot that has created a job for a human being' in that a bunch of things you used to just be able to just fill out a form for you now talk to a chatbot, who fails to to the thing, and then passes you onto a person.

LOVED taking to Lyse Doucet at Auckland Writers Festival. She was an absolute treat. Warm, hilarious, and driven by centring people in conflict. #AWF26

Dear Lord, please grant me the unshakeable confidence of a Pākehā person commenting authoritatively on Māori politics after speaking to one Māori person, and knowing none of the history. Lord, thank you for your attention to this matter. 😁

A pretty sobering report from the UK Parliament’s Education Committee: real financial pressure across UK universities, and no clear plan for insolvency if it happens.

We’re seeing the reemergence of academia as a sport of the leisure class.

Join me with esteemed writer Amitav Ghosh (Nutmeg's Curse, Great Derangement) and novelist Charlotte McConaghy at the Auckland Writers Festival – to talk about confronting the #climate #crisis. Free event as part of the Auckland Writers Festival. www.writersfestival.co.nz/programmes/e...

1/- VERY important new article to describe our current moment: "Fossil fascism is defined here as a political, legal & cultural system revolving around an ultra-nationalist defence of fossil fuel extraction, while silencing & suppressing any opposition to it." www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

And the Ockham award for nonfiction goes to Tina Makereti!!! YES!!!

How Annette Hall accidentally spent 20 years as 'mum' to Far North boaties

New on advance access: "Indentured Indian workers and the politics of race, caste, and sanitation at sea and in colonial South Africa, c.1860–1911" by Pritam Singh (@lsehy.bsky.social) #OpenAccess doi.org/10.1093/past...

Kia ora everyone, I am hiring a Māori RA to tautoko my rangahau focused on the intersections of science and mātauranga. The hours and location is flexible. twoa.careercentre.net.nz/.../kaihap..... DM me if you have any pātai.

AI doesn’t understand Kichwa rebootdemocracy.ai/blog/ai-kich... "The result was one of the region’s first judicial AI moratoriums, temporarily prohibiting the use of AI in Indigenous-language cases while Ecuador develops more locally grounded governance mechanisms"

In a piece for The Conversation, Barb and I argue that while the Public Service AI Framework names the right principles, it probably leans more towards optimism than accountability. #PublicPolicy #AIGovernance #MāoriDataSovereignty #PublicAdministration theconversation.com/polyanna-pol...

When democracies pass laws against hate speech and extremism, they are giving autocrats the cover they need for their own crackdowns. We shouldn’t let democratic norms become a blueprint for repression.

Another new party today. Another small signal that our politics is more fragmented than it was yesterday. But a early winter reminder of the golden rule of politics: learn how to count.

Steve Braunias reports from this weekend's triumphant books festival in the unlikely town of Featherston.

I'll just note that critical race theory predicts quite a lot about the current racial retrenchment and for being *correct* it was pilloried in the press and by some academics.

Tautoko. A recent book festival. Older Pākehā woman complains, at length, that she hates te reo Māori at literary events. Organisers sit there. Say nothing. The silence somehow becomes a space that Māori in the room are expected to fill.

Grounded in mātauraka Māori, the name Taharaki reflects ideas of whakapapa, ancestral connection, as described by Doctor Hana O’Regan in her collaboration with Dr. Pardington.