High Court judge dismisses Talley’s defamation case against TVNZ

old twitter was like a place in interwar berlin, paris, or shanghai people have romantic memories about in spite of witnessing knife fights between prostitutes daily and heroin junkies overdosing

a cautionary tale for surface light rail in auckland when it comes to the particulars of station spacing, signal priority design, town centre traffic circulation and row speed limits choices

my beloved sushi hanami on victoria street i would do anything for you

will be very interested to see how it stacks up. loving the orange so far!

willing to bet burswood (pōhatu) station will be the nicest eastern busway station once completed. purely on the basis it’s the only one not surrounded by an 8-lane road

are we still on about em dashes and ai. imo human writers should just use the em dashes even harder. we should be out here pummeling out those em dashes like we're emily dickinson

Just to make this spicier, I feel like a lot of flashy new media things are going to run right into the fact that they’re built on rented space on the Substack algorithm very soon

The most consistent bit of feedback I've got from today's piece is that everybody loves talking about and saying Enron, Worldcom and Lucent, I'm getting so many random dotcom stories, it rules, I love my readers

Hey, so guess what I did? 🧵 Can I prove Deloitte used AI to write this report? No. But that would honestly be the less embarrassing option. The research in this report is below par for a 1st year undergrad, where they even bother to show research. Let's unpack some of the mistakes I found. #nzpol

politically speaking, it's v curious to see a lot of progressive urbanists so well aligned with simeon brown on transport governance reforms in auckland

Techdirt is a legitimately excellent public service.

"I had the weirdest affair imaginable with the worst person alive" OK give me a second to grab a chair and open my Notes app, start from the beginning

the processology of the budget leak really isn't anything more than a footnote but nonetheless I want to note that it appears a reporter (who I assume is @bruceandy.bsky.social) was just spending the morning hitting refresh on a hunch they *might* at some point upload it early and I respect that

I know this is a shocking thing to say but the Herald's habit of assuming extra housing is inherently negative has me wondering if it might have some kind of editorial slant on urban issues

What monster cuts the crust off Southern Sushi? Oh the humanity

Years ago, my colleagues at Business Insider and I tracked YouTuber “cancellation” arcs. What we found is that for many entertainers, “cancellation” actually sets the stage for a redemption arc, one that can raise their profile higher than ever. It wasn’t career-ending. It was fuel.

Reminder that the thing you’re fundamentally buying when you subscribe to The Verge is our ethics policy: we don’t do brand deals and pretend they’re reviews and we insist companies (and the White House) be on the record if they want quotes in our stories. Worth it! www.theverge.com/ethics-state...

This presumes quite a lot of my trust in Vance's reporting. It all just looks like the National Party having factions, which is a normal thing in many countries. Ours do too, it's just not spoken about for some reason.

Shout out to the recent upgrades to Crown St, Surry Hills. City of Sydney removed several car parks in favour of landscaped outdoor dining areas. Some were turning temporary ones from COVID permanent, others are new. It's a really great area to walk along and enjoy. Here's some before and after:

this train station just needs to reinstate a whimsical water feature

Some of the information in this book excerpt is either distorted or flat out wrong. According to the survey, 58% of journalists are women, not "two out of every three". The average journalist is 45.8 years old, and they are not "mostly aged in their 20s or 30s" newsroom.co.nz/2025/11/24/j...

something i'll note is that if nuzzi ran catch-and-kill ops for rfk jr and lizza knew this prior to him being appointed as HHS, and instead of telling anyone, he decided to save it for his substack long after rfk jr had made communicable disease into federal policy, that's completely fucked

This great thread makes a point I've been trying to convey for years. Calling all data-driven prediction or decision software "AI" is a huge gift to LLM hypemen, who want people to believe, incorrectly, that LLM data centers are crucial for solar forecasting or operating buildings and power grids.

can't believe ryan lizza is up against zamdani hypnotizing trump and mtg leaving congress and people are still going to pay to get past that paywall to read more about bamboo

why have reporters, politicians, influencers, etc. all of a sudden seem to have started holding lapel mics to talk into them? it’s a lapel mic, it’s specifically designed to go on your shirt or lapel, you look ridiculous holding it, stop it.

Oversight comes from a 'fresh' civilian view and helps keep policing, defence, and intelligence non-partisan. The elected official's job isn’t to echo operational culture; it's to test it against law, ethics, other obligations, and democratic consent.

One thing I don’t think current news machine does enough is offer care for those that are commenting on heated issues. No I won’t be also wading into a chat about homophobia the same day as I’m monitoring response re: comments on transphobia. Rather not have both mobs after me in one day.

Super interesting speech by Transport Minister Bishop seemingly distancing himself from the roadsfest they ran on. www.beehive.govt.nz/speech/speec...

lol lmao

We should reboot journalism completely. Start from scratch. They should get those old timey hats and a pencil and figure it out from there

why is Nvidia propping up a company that seems doomed? www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

revenge is a dish best served on a bamboo plate, made from the bamboo choking my garden and also my life,

GAWKER! thou shouldst be living at this hour

oh my god you have to read this until the end www.telos.news/p/part-1-how...

I talk to a lot of trans BlueSky casually and it always feels so weird when two people I really like intensely hate each other over things neither of them believe discourse poison runs deep

Yes yes people have been writing about CoreWeave for however long but only @lopatto.bsky.social got the company's spox to say on the record that they're not doing circular financing but instead "defining the next-generation operating system for civilization.” www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

Can’t get over how damn good the new Beresford Square entrance to one of the new underground CRL stations looks …

I've written about Zionists, racists, climate change sceptics and even Holocaust deniers and have never encountered a group quite so committed to the airing of their views. Which is an interesting phenomenon, I suppose, and may be part of the reason why the MSM has been reluctant to go there.

i’d be more comfortable with the olivia nuzzi coverage if every story was headlined something like “seduced by a guy who eats roadkill: the story of an extremely stupid lady”

this is not "everyone is twelve" theory. this is the slightly rarer but typically much more consequential "no one knows what lawyers do" theory

Every technology problem is three social problems in a trench coat

If there’s one area where I deeply sympathise with journalists, it’s the influencer behaviour of stealing their work and amplifying it while promoting anti-media narratives. That this has become a fully realised business model is so bleak.

Anyone that is still looking to transfer Twitter/X posts to BlueSky after BlueArk sunset its service: The Porto Chrome extension still exists: chromewebstore.google.com/detail/porto... And there's a Tangled repo that seems to allow one to transfer from the command line: tangled.org/@marcomaroni...

november 7 https://x.com/TheGradyConnell/status/1986660316089069633

a friend's reaction to my acc being unsuspended

bluesky gonna win on the basis that twitter continues to be successful in spite of itself. looks like i'm not the only suspended acc tonight lol

wowie

pro cuomo guy outside my polling site yesterday was yelling about mamdani "giving away free shit". someone said "did you go to public school" and he went apeshit and shouted "you think public school is free" and then started arguing with a delivery driver. Also he had his six year old son with him

november 5