Sooo remember how folks were warning us that LLM AI was financially unsustainable because they were running at a tenfold deficit in order to get users dependent on LLMs and would eventually jack up the user cost to the point where their customer base collapses along with most of the economy? 🤔

ran some errands at lunch time, and had to pay the fry tax - in accordance with dog law

National: corrupt pay rises for their mates; austerity for everyone else. Kick them out. Kick them all out. www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/...

And what is Aotearoa New Zealand doing? Destroying our clean green environment and reputation to fill campaign coffers and oligarch bank accounts. Imagine what we could accomplish with the right leadership.

It’s pathetic that the govt actually cited the potential role for schools in emergencies in its announcement of the $30m solar plan for schools while cutting the scheme for marae which consistently fulfil this role during emergencies.

My lillies have bloomed! 🌱 🪷

Congratulations to everyone who said it would get this bad. Your prize is watching everyone who disagreed now claim no one could have predicted it would get this bad.

We now know that within the Prime Ministers Office there was a political lobbying pathway operating via the PM's Chief Policy Advisor's private email. Fonterra says it was told to send the lobbying docs via this pathway. It may still be operating via other staffers private email addresses.

Chorus out: Nearly six years after the ComCom launched its market study into the Foodstuffs/Woolworths grocery duopoly, the regulator finds no improvement in competition & fears more profit gouging this year #nzpol open.substack.com/pub/thekaka/...

"the African Room..is now completely gutted and emptied. I was not told where those items went."

#nzpol Remember when Stanford was busted using her Gmail account? www.1news.co.nz/2025/05/06/e...

AI Hallucination as a feature. Yay.

A Zipper Patent Sat in a Garage for 40 Years. Now It’s Real. buff.ly/mP8HWpW « Back in '85, Bill Freeman had an idea for a 3-sided zipper… a genuinely functional fastener capable of switching objects between soft, floppy states and rigid, load-bearing structures »

Full statement of Scott Pelley after he's fired from CBS 60 Minutes, detailing the sort of corruption of journalism Bari Weiss has brought to CBS News:

the fuck what now futurism.com/science-ener...

As you see, I am quite done with this govt spin being shoved on us: "As for Upston’s comment that some income and asset tests already exist for certain supports, Graham described her comment as “disingenuous”." #nzpol www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360...

We have a bullying problem at universities. People like this aren't being bullied enough.

'So you have come to ask me this, about the Letter O, and G, and the number 86, on this, the day of my daughter's wedding?'

Great little diorama at one of the local gallery fronts in Newtown.

Cool story bro but from the cheap seats it sure looks like Labour saved lives and did its best to save businesses in extremely trying circumstances and all you’ve ever done is blame them for responding in a way that put the community first.

‘Free Speech’ Union (not a real union) objects to University VC expressing a personal opinion which also happens to be consistent with university policy

80,000 low income households will be worse off so landlords can get more government money. Cost of living assistance for the haves. #nzpol 2/2 newsroom.co.nz/2026/05/21/s...

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Gov austerity triggered a deep recession and they're acting all 'concerned' like it's not of their making... #nzpol www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3609...

Document shredder overheated. #nzpol

When a helicopter that costs 4000 teacher salaries can be destroyed with a drone cheaper than a new Corolla, does spending 2% of GDP on defence really make sense? Column today: www.thepost.co.nz/politics/361...

I went to the Munch show in Ueno in 2018, and this was one of the advertisements in the station :)

Omg, I am definitely using Hobbyless Behavior from now on. A strategy I have used with trolls/bigots is to suggest other, better, hobbies they could be doing instead. I've found it 1. depowers their behavior 2. is actually useful advice.

When cheaper is better costs lives, the corp (Richies) lawyers up and the MoE talks about balancing costs, you know you have a Govt with scant regard for the lives of people it is supposed to serve #nzpol Heads should roll over this and where’s the Minister of Education?

These New Zealand kākāpō chicks the Dunedin Wildlife Hospital vet team are hand-rearing are growing so fast. They're in the process of learning how to eat leaves and berries and exploring bigger spaces. 💚💚 #globalmuseum #Kakakpo #birds #Parrots #conservation

Researchers say the bundling of funding streams and a push towards commercialisation don’t fix an underlying funding shortfall in science

You don’t possibly say

People don't want AI forced on them. DuckDuckGo lets you choose. The result? Since Google's AI overhaul, our U.S. installs peaked yesterday at 76% above the pre-announcement average, and we broke our single-day search record. 🔥 It's not a blip, it's a movement. Fire Google.

Waiting for Labour apologists to come up with the latest excuses rather than roll Hipkins Budget has been and gone and guess what: STILL NO POLICY Chances of National and NZF forming next government? 100%

having heard directly what many people at big tech companies are paying per month in claude tokens, $1500 is not going to get you very far

David Lange's Oxford Union speech lives on. #nzpol

The truth lies in the past in "Silo" S3 trailer arstechnica.com/culture/2026...

Equippers Church launched a review after our reporting of complaints about how it had dealt with sexual assault and abuse allegations. That review into “survivor-centred processes” has been completed. It did not speak to the survivors.

Middle of an incredible thread which uses very basic math to tear the SpaceX IPO into little bitty pieces. Unrolled thread here: skyview.social?url=https%3A...

Māori Climate Platform funding axed in Budget

Please AoNZ labour people, give us some policies, give us some fire, give us some fucking hope. Its time now. You promised after the budget. Not wishy washy more of the same ism, be bold, get people excited, grow a fucking spine. Because if you lose this one by doing nothing, we are truly fucked.

Just the government making a significant constitutional change without any public process. The select committee is over, no public submissions can be made. Yeah, they're "fixing" it alright. www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360...

Related note of note: Erica Stanford also made extensive use of her personal email. Another trick she has used is to have a senior advisor call someone from their phone, and then hop on the call. These are not 'one offs' or 'slip ups' or 'memory lapses' or 'sloppiness'.

The deceptive PR put out by the Nacts (and headlines from media 👀) drive the false notion that committee reps have been voting on council decisions. But the committees just vote on advice, reports & recommendations to provide to council (who then make their own decisions) 🧵 #nzpol

the current NZ government is rushing through another legislative change this one denies voting rights to Iwi/ youth appointees to local councils- these are appointees who local councils value & support. The decisions to remove any voting rights is snuck in after select committee hearings have ended

Things for a new government to do: 1) campaign finance reform (public funding instead of private) 2) undo this government’s changes to voter registration laws, 3) limit the use of urgency in parliament, 4) regulation and oversight of lobbying. #nzpol

Hilarious and deeply insightful writing by @brianphillips.lol.

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This is insane. The Heritage Foundation, architect of Project 2025, has been denying climate science for decades, and employing deniers to do so. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/01/c...