Seems like intentional negligence and pettiness because they’re losing money to me

Yesterday's workforce data release from the Public Service Commission inspired me to get back into some data journalism. www.linkedin.com/posts/jemtra...

"AGI will be achieved only when we have demeaned and debased human intelligence to the degree that a machine might be able to emulate what's left." – Dr David West (www.linkedin.com/in/david-wes...)

My favourite excerpt from the BeingAI chair's speech for the shareholders meeting (full text: api.nzx.com/public/annou...)

Aren’t they strong enough already!!??

Regardless of the context, parroting the demonstrably untrue statement that Kirk’s perspective was in the political centre is not great. www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/charlie-k...

If Otter AI spent half as many resources on fixing their damn transcript editing issues and fixing copy/paste in Firefox as it does on crappy LLM integrations, it would be a significantly better tool

“Clearly, there was a lot of gaming going on …” the Republican governor told NBC News. Stay unhinged, US politics. www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/5...

chat.publicai.co Swiss public LLM AI model --> Doesn't train on inputs --> Instructed to be neutral and humble --> Uses British English --> Will literally tell you anything you ask about its instructions and training --> Is owned and managed by researchers, not corporates

Paraphrased: People prefer confident answers that are maybe correct to a fuller, more murky truth. Well, well, well. If it isn't my old friend, Something Social Science Told Us Decades Ago

Tell you what tho, the 70,000 plus people who left for australia are definitely not going to concerts in NZ. Nor are all the people out of a job. Or the people barely making ends meet whose housing/food costs are taking up all their income. Or the people who are sick all the time.

Some people might say infrastructure architecture is boring. There would be more but most people have never heard of it because it is, in fact, very boring.

More like Smelly Farltons

On behalf of Matt and Maria Raine, we are suing OpenAI and Sam Altman, for ChatGPT’s role in aiding their son Adam’s suicide. The complaint emphasizes the company’s rush to deploy and promote their product despite clear safety issues, with users ultimately suffering deadly consequences.

“(Universal RUCs) would increase the running costs of the lowest-emitting hybrids by 39 percent - while lowering by 6 percent the cost to run the most gas guzzling petrol cars, models that burn 10 litres or more of fuel per hundred kms.” It’s on purpose. www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

Privatisation. Sigh. "Private firms (will be) taking over the collection and administration of (road user) charges." Therefore, Fleur Fitzsimons said, "The only people who will see any benefit from this scheme are the corporates who take their cut to gather the tax."

First Kiwi passport. In B4 dog whistle language swap lol

Me: I'll deliver the job 1.5 business days after the interview. Them: We really need it earlier. Can you rush to get it done in .5? Me: Sure, I'll add a rush fee. Them: 1.5 business days is fine. Did you really need it earlier? Did you?

“In emails and briefings, the ministers and their staff acknowledged their plans would bypass public scrutiny, extinguish existing claims, and potentially breach people's rights.” Holy shit Project 10: How the government kept the pay equity law change secret www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic... #nzpol

The appreciation of strangers 🥰

I had the weirdest conversation with #2degrees' customer service yesterday. Unfortunately, I haven't heard back from them yet but if anyone can explain what they mean or prove that I'm wrong, I would love to hear it. open.substack.com/pub/wryangle...

2degrees recommends using power at night as a way to lower bills but they charge a regular p/kWh rate no matter what time of day. They said things use less power at night because Vector changes the rate at night. No on hold for someone who can make that make sense

David Seymour, Winston Peters, and Christopher Luxon all stand in a circle wearing gaudy rings. Luxon raises his and yells "PANDERING". Seymour does the same but yells "OLIGARCHY". Winston joins in, yelling...

Every time a nimby starts complaining about medium density housing just start pointing out the all the great housing land wasted on golf courses

Wow! A reddit thread addressing my exact probl- ah shit

"And then OpenAI launched ChatGPT and the rose tint turned red." northandsouth.co.nz/2025/06/05/h... A great article from my friend @bentm.bsky.social. It can't be easy breaking out in the world of independent journalism, so it's great to see him published in a major outlet today 👏

I'm especially proud of this part of my new piece for North & South: "I’ve realised that the negative consequences I thought were mistakes we were learning from were actually parts of a machine that has become finely tuned to make money and fuck everything up." northandsouth.co.nz/2025/06/05/h...

I’ve been a journalist for 7.5 years, and not until this week has someone replied to a list of interview questions with a completely different list of questions they want to answer 💀

I can't believe people are still banging on about this www.youtube.com/watch?v=gv-c...

Personality test. Your new toaster arrives but you had toast for breakfast 30min ago. Do you: A. wait for breakfast tomorrow – it’s just a toaster, B. make a little toast snack later – I’m curious but I can wait, or, C. make more toast immediately – I absolutely have to know how this baby purrs

Who had Don McGlashan tells off Chris Bishop for hating on Stan Walker celebrating Māoridom on their 2025 #nzpol bingo card? www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

New mini-newsletter out today Why is clickbait suddenly acceptable again when it's about LLMs? wryangle.substack.com/p/bite-sized...

Does this government even like people?

Sometimes I search random phrases in Google to help me come up with words or turns of phrase to use when I'm writing. I might switch to duckduckgo....

Miyazaki's Howl's Moving Castle

Pre-loading? You mean waking up early enough to have coffee before the kids are awake. Yeah, i fkn love preloading

This is maybe the most medium thing to celebrate, but my first ever YouTube video reached over 1,000 views (after I changed the title and thumbnail to something a little more cheeky) youtu.be/UrhHQi1FZEw This mediocre victory is honestly such a shot in the arm after a pretty tough week.

The Greens cannot win. Anything they do is insulted and if they call out the insults, they are too sensitive. Any misstep is punished 10x because people view empathy and caring as being judgy and pretentious. Support tino rangatiratanga and your're racist, but...

I expect MPs to have a modicum of media literacy www.reuters.com/article/uk-f...

Studied ~1.4k comments on Facebook that were first salvo targeting presentation of the alternative budget by Green Party co-leaders MPs Davidson, & Swarbrick. On a day that in parliament some decried, w/out any context, the use of c-word against one woman MP, few register the rampant misogyny here.

Without a doubt, Trump 101. Silly nicknames, calling it marxist, soviet references, reappropriating a left wing pejorative (trying to claim anti-Trumpism), exaggerated absoluteism littered with superlatives. They are trying to pick and choose parts of the Trump playbook Kiwis might accept #nzpol

Someone earning $153,030 would, I believe, see their total tax+ACC levy paid increase $766 a year, up 1.8%. However, the proposal includes free dental and since the average dentist visit costs $353 (asms.org.nz/wp-content/u...), anyone who makes two dentist visits a year would be about even.

Getting notifications on the app that daycare uses is so wild. What will it be? Collecting yoghurt pots? Carpark renovations? A measles outbreak? Tina's going on holiday to Fiji?

Nothing like pouring your heart and soul into something no one sees 💪 Just a first step. I'll take another one soon.

My first piece as an independent journalist. I looked into a #tech #scam that was advertised on a news website open.substack.com/pub/wryangle...

Also if there were stories about people believing they were God because the calculator told them so I would be upset about that too

Bernard Hickey: The Govt’s retrospective law wrecks 33 pay equity deals. $17 billion in wages & back-pay will not now go to over 150,000 workers. That means the $14 billion of tax cuts going mostly to landlords & highest earners are being paid for by wage cuts for the poorest NZers, mostly women.

This has been stuck in my head for like a month so I finally made this #comic to get it out. #basedonatruestory

AoNZ's right, even the centre-right, still won't reject Trumpist politics lol #nzpol www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

“We don’t need to make better products. We just need better marketing.” Current tech industry in a nutshell