While the likes of Elizabeth Rata have just pleased themselves about what rules they'll bother to follow, actual frontline educators get slapped with NDAs. It's grimly absurd.

Is it really "fast-tracking" or "accelerating" when it's basically restarting some of the 100-odd projects you iced a year ago, putting the construction sector into a nosedive? www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360...

While doing some research for work I found this incredible 1886 aerial view of Auckland in the Auckland Libraries Heritage collection! It's zoomable in high detail on the website — kura.aucklandlibraries.govt.nz/digital/coll...

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Just helping my younger son with a little homebrew green-screen. He's done all the 3D modelling in Blender for the background, but actually shooting was something new. Going very well so far!

So Simeon Brown just announced $20m "investment" in ED frontline staff, immediately after it was revealed Christchurch hospital is in code red every single day. But it turns out it's just OLD money from the 2025 budget & already allocated. Brown strikes again #nzpol #Kiwi

Our mistake when we wrote _Calling Bullshit_ was to assume that people would deliberately abuse the flexibility of quantitative metrics to mislead. We devoted inadequate attention to people making up complete and utter nonsense with no possible grounding in fact.

As the parent of two autistic young men, I expect this to be a complete horrorshow.

Republicans are exploiting Kirk’s death the same way Goebbels exploited the killing of Nazi street fighter Horst Wessel.

Sigh. www.independent.co.uk/voices/zarah...

1.) Going forward, journalists must sign a pledge not to gather any information, including unclassified reports, that hasn't been authorized for release. 2.) If you don't obey you lose your press credentials, and they are your ticket to— actually those credentials are kinda worthless now so...

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The Minister of Stepping on Rakes continues to be laser focused on stepping on rakes. www.thepress.co.nz/nz-news/3608...

From stats NZ. This will make David Seymour grind his teeth

NEW: US Attorney Erik Siebert has resigned this evening after investigators found insufficient evidence to bring charges against NY AG Letitia James, contrary to President Trump's wishes. Below an email Siebert sent his staff—via Glenn Thrush / NYT.

new zealand government reaching new heights of stupidity next year our public dollars will go more to AI grants ($70 million) than all investigator-initiated basic science combined ($56 million in the Marsden fund)

Whoa. Trump not actually lying.

not all members of RFK’s new CDC vaccine advisory committee seemed to know what the group does or even how vaccination works

"Federal prosecutors ... had uncovered no clear evidence to prove that James had knowingly committed mortgage fraud when she purchased a home in the state in 2023 ... Trump officials pushed U.S. Attorney Erik Siebert to nevertheless bring criminal charges against her, according to sources"

Oh, come on.

Late night hosts criticizing the president isn’t new. Having a thin-skinned dictator wannabe who can’t take it is.

However you define political violence, the right is responsible for much more of it. The Anti-Defamation League (hardly a left-wing org!) found that all “domestic extremist-related killings” in 2022 were done by right-wing extremists, the vast majority (84%) white supremacists. trib.al/ycZNDE1

Talbot Mills Poll Labour: 35% ⬆️1% National: 31% ⬇️1% Greens: 10% ⬇️1% NZ First: 10% ⬆️1% ACT: 7% ⬇️1% Te Pāti Māori: 4% ↔️ Left bloc 49% vs Right bloc 48% New question for Sept: Is this CoC government worse than the previous Labour one? 45% Worse 20% Better 21% About the same 4% Unsure #NZPol

@joshtpm.bsky.social: Jimmy Kimmel’s suspension by ABC News was a brazen and unabashed attack on free speech in the United States in a way that was unimaginable until a few months ago. So where do we go from here? talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/a-few...

Luxon himself handed me the Prime Minister's science prize last year. Let me say this in plain English: he's an idiot for running a govt who budgeted more for AI than for the Marsden fund. any journo reading this can quote me on it #nzpol

2 years of default urban/village 20mph in Wales has resulted in over 1,000 fewer killed or injured. The data shows a 25% reduction in casualties on the 20/30mph roads. Drivers gain with damage risk, crashes and premiums down. Well done Wales. bit.ly/4ppl030

ah, well

Brave truth-teller Matt Taibbi blames everyone but the people who have constantly threatened and used state power against media. Because he worries that it's a bad look for those people.

It's almost like merrily getting rid of things without thinking it through isn't a good idea. Fortunately the farmers won't be upset now. www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/education...

Busses bring business 🚌🚌🚌

Because 'Antifa' is not an organisation, this means anyone can be designated 'Antifa', just as anything in Hong Kong can be designated a threat to 'national security'. State terror works best when no-one knows where the line is.

ICYMI, David Pope on our very own John Lyons, attempting to hold to account the Mango Mussolini. #auspol

I love the way National, in opposition, refused to acknowledge that global markets were the main driver of inflation, but in government, after a massive campaign of cuts, they're all like "waaaah, global pressure!"

Ta-Nehisi Coates has written the best yet commentary on last week's events, while pundits, politicians and others have disgraced themselves in their whitewashing of of this man's legacy. www.vanityfair.com/news/story/c...

BBC News captures Doctor Who himself Sylvester McCoy at the Trump protest seemingly unaware of who they're interviewing.

Ironically, the only trans person in this story has expressed horror, immediately helped the FBI and provided important evidence to investigators.

This is insane. Once again, Kimmel didn't even say what Carr accused him of saying.

All the usual caveats about generative AI notwithstanding, this is incredible stuff. youtu.be/uRzNHSBDdgU?...

Assuming what this recidivist liar says is even true, getting dozens of pilots sacked for thoughtcrime in the midst of a pilot shortage doesn't seem like it'll be good for America.

There will be a point at the trials when the prosecutors are going to want to prove a depraved indifference to human life, and man are they going to be spoiled for material.

Over the weekend, the world's richest man appeared on screens in central London to call for a race war and for the UK government to be overthrown. No arrests were made in connection with that communication.

The thing that fucks me off most about this is we were studying nitrates and overallocation in the Canterbury plains at university 20 FUCKING YEARS AGO.

Honestly, the incoherence noted in this thread is ridiculous.

Really interesting to see this come up – I've talked directly to businesspeople about it. While ministers were high-fiving each other for trashing the systems they inherited from the previous govt, businesses that had to trade in the real economy were paralysed by the uncertainty of a policy vacuum.

Talked about this in MDIA201 this year, extensively. Key point students raised was how can you expect reform in the housing market when the real estate industry essentially has influence over our duopoly of news providers?

Every single sentence in @bernardchickey.bsky.social's newsletter this morning was bleaker than the last but this really stood out to me even amid that

The sheer breadth of this seems notable. He's underwater (just) with *white people*.

Robert Redford, Oscar-winning actor and director, dies aged 89

...oh...my...gawd...