We simply should not accept ~economic benefits~ as a valid driver of scientific endeavour, but on top of that, we know for a fact that the most "profitable" scientific discoveries were not predictable ahead of time

Kia Ora e te whānau, we're having a get together for anyone interested in chatting about the Greens campaign in Selwyn for 2026. Member or non member; if you're interested in the campaign come along for a pint and a kōrero.

my t-shirt raising a lot of questions, etc etc, you can fill in the gaps.

can’t believe a narcissist is being so publicly humiliated by a reflecting pool

i am enjoying the midjourney medbed spa nonsense immensely, if only because i think there's a reason most pools don't use yellow lighting everywhere

Hello, I would like you to come to this. We are activating the Green team all over the motu and it’s gonna be a vibe! Training and kai will be provided as always 🙂 www.greens.org.nz/wlb_pb_260621

Nobody loves unmagical Trevor Because the things that he does are inconsistent and dull Look at him now disappearing a cow He didn’t mean to do that it’s just the ai doesn’t have object permanence

has anyone got the full complaint from the Auckland Grammar 1988 rowers, i have an immense desire to read this

BREAKING ‼️ My members bill has just been drawn from the biscuit tin that would draw a line in stopping any new mining on public Conservation land 🌳🦎🐧🐝🦋 ...with all the Government's attacks on nature, this could not come at a more critical time. Big ups to the original bill holder Eugenie Sage 🙌

A 40 year consensus on the existence and operation of a ministry dedicated to our environment is set to end. Not one Government party campaigned on this, and not one credible submission was in support ☠️☠️☠️

Email 1 to Steve Abel. Green.

New tvnz app won’t scroll down to taskmaster before s11 because my phone screen is too small, welp

Palantir are about six months away from ordering their employees to leave audio logs scattered around their offices

Palantir put out the most cartoonishly evil statement possible. They’re so arrogant and self-confident they don’t seem to believe their fascistic plans can be opposed. We must get rid of Palantir altogether. twitter-thread.com/t/2045574398...

YOU CAN'T EVEN BE "LEFT BEHIND BY AI"! If it goes the way they say it's going to go, the cost and difficulty of adoption DECREASES over time. If it doesn't go the way they say it's going to go, then you don't want to adopt anyway. THERE IS NO COST TO WAITING.

kind of surprising actually

This intersects with one of my favourite rants, the devaluing of admin/clerical skills. So many organisations have slashed admin roles over the decades because it's largely women's work and therefore invisible and that's why all your documents look like shit now and paperwork takes a million years

grade a grey day

New article: this week I was a massive Tolkien nerd and so I decided to write about different flavours of hope:

finally got a reliable repro case for this utterly infuriating ios bluesky bug: 1. scroll down a feed some way 2. tap on an image 3. rotate the phone and back 4. tap on the close button 5. you're now back at the top of the feed

the first thing any business claiming their LLMs are sentient should be asked is: how much are you paying it?

One MP, One Pint: Francisco Hernandez on the Greens being ‘so fucking back’

The Government is currently negotiating an Enhanced Border Security Partnership with the US Department of Homeland Security that would grant US agencies, including ICE, automated, direct access to New Zealanders' biometric data and identity records.

For the first time in more than 40 years, this year’s Rakaia fishing competition will not involve fishing. What has gone wrong?

Fish are friends, look after our freshwater rivers, streams, and lakes <3 I designed these stickers for the Green Party here in NZ, and I just wanted to share them because they're my special little guys. I assume you'll be able to snag these from Greens events in the future! Pepperraccoon.com

we should have realised that Goodhart's Law applied to the doomsday clock

Kahurangi Carter has become the first candidate to announce their bid for the central Christchurch seat at the coming general election.

I’ve done some catalogue searching and am fairly confident in saying that 5/10 titles in this list do not exist (1, 2, 4, 5 and 7). Sloppy, unacceptable, and a real kick in the guts to real authors with real books they’d love people to buy and read!

what a choice of image for this headline

New iOS ui update trying as hard as possible to make your screen look broken

I'm going to make sure Woke 2 includes Martial Healers

Rebecca was one of the founders of Interplay and programmed & designed for some of the most influential games of my youth, notably Bard's Tale I & III and Wasteland. She will be missed.

enjoying the AI meeting notes transcribing 'Christchurch' as 'crustage'

an extraordinary lesson in how to completely undercut your 'whoopsy-we-made-a-fucky-but-it's-all-fine-now' song and dance: www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360...

Ms Z should just be offered the new Inspector General of Police gig. They may not want it, but they deserve first go.

Just seems a little short while ago that various government politicians, and people acting as their media surrogates, were outraged and scandalized by, and poured scorn on, comments from younger women politicians for suggesting many people don't trust cops. Highest levels of the force - filth.

I kind of want to lick the animated gems on the Kawaiicon backdrop.

Asked whether he’s sure technology will allow the Government to meet its climate goals, Climate Change Minister Simon Watts replies: ‘Can we be sure about anything in life?’ newsroom.co.nz/2025/11/06/g...

aha, @greens.org.nz on here now

Spring in chch, and the riverdragons are out

turns out, if there's one thing people want to do less than attend meetings, it's actually reading AI meeting summaries.

Love that the nz govt has to pay google to bid against scammers

the bone farmer, revisited | patreon.com/lubchansky

did you know that companies can show remorse

'It’s probably hard for you to understand how reassuring they were... When I wanted to know whether or not it was safe to take off, I didn’t want to know that it might not be safe. I just wanted to be reassured that it was. So instead of checking it myself, I sent out one of the Electric Monks.'

a point of chaos, mister speaker

a little treat:

This is baffling

So the most interesting thing about the INZ AGM for me is that I was sitting / talking about it in EIGHT different spaces, chatting back and forth and passing information and gossip and jokes around. That kind of cross-community communication and momentum-building is a hell of a thing to see in play

Incredibly heartening seeing everyone on here with InternetNZ membership live-threading the AGM People are really showing up for these fights, and even if we *lose* some of these, the experience, community and resilience gained from this sort of activism is invaluable