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)

Is Charlie Clark’s death going to be the modern Reichstag fire allowing ascendancy to full blown fascism youtu.be/TJ8HUoAn-4g?...

Call for papers for the TEU's Secure Work Online Hui, 7 November. Please join us for this important intervention on the most pressing issue in academia, particularly affecting marginalised groups teu.ac.nz/campaigns/se...

Direct Action: Education for Resistance and Rebellion (18 Sept - 13 Nov) Learn from activists and experts about what works, why it works, and how we can keep our communities safe--together. Guest speakers include Spencer Sunshine, Joel Bellman and more! Register here: directaction.lilregi...

Protestors in Nepal overthrew the government in less than 48 hours due to corruption. They refused a curfew, spread protests across all cities, fought police in roaming street battles, burnt down politicians' houses, stole military weapons, stormed the parliament & burnt it, forced the PM to resign.

Jesus fuck this is terrifying youtube.com/watch?v=KrOa...

Says the woman who pranced around parliament with a toy military helicopter waxing lyrical about its deadly capabilities www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3608...

ITALY: Italian Dockworkers Threaten to ‘Shut Down All of Europe’ If Gaza Aid Flotilla Is Blocked novaramedia.com/2025/09/02/i...

Typical big tech hype bullshit. And Luxon as cheerleader. So cringe. Just pull figures out of the air like $8b in investment and 1000 jobs. www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

My cartoon in today's www.thepost.co.nz/nz-news/3608... Today over 36,000 nurses go on strike. The ombudsman has told Health NZ to apologise for secret nurse staffing data. #NzPol #StrikeAction #Nurses #Ombudsman #Cartoon #Caricature #SimeonBrown #Govt #NationalParty

BREAKING 🇵🇸🇧🇪 Belgium announces it will impose “firm sanctions” on Israel, including a ban on the import of products from illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank.

Would you like 18,000 waters with that taco? share.google/qF6TEk5xHmRF...

They're openly calling to lock up every trans person by force. We need every ally to speak out forcefully against this because trans folks cannot do this on our own.

The AI bubble is bursting. The good news is managers are going to have to man the phones after they’ve fired all the call centre staff www.theregister.com/2025/08/25/o...

“Totalitarianism in power invariably replaces all first-rate talents, regardless of their sympathies, with those crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty.” ― Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism

The fawning attitude shown by the minister towards big tech is just indicative of the low calibre of individuals in the Labour government

Our NPC PM. Brilliant

Trump just ordered the National Guard into 19 states. All Republican-led. AL, AR, FL, GA, ID, IN, IA, LA, NE, NV, NM, OH, SC, SD, TN, TX, UT, VA, WY. This is a test run for military involvement in every day civilian life. And if it doesn’t scare you, it really should.

‘They would be procured directly through the United States' Foreign Military Sales programme instead of going to a wider tender”. So basically it’s fealty money to our imperial lords

There was no exodus

Hilarious. The sheen has gone off ChatGPT even for AI evangelists and the enshitification process is truly underway www.techradar.com/ai-platforms...

#Trump #measles #covid #RFKjr #vaccines #science #news #pandemics

Well fuck Just went from 2 days spare work capacity to 5 Anyone domestic or international looking for a Senior Policy (Land Use) Planner who can also do Spatial Planning, Transport Planning, and Urban Design?

If MPs are being policed in the House this way for standing up for Palestinians, we are not far behind. Do your protesting while you can.

New research article on student precarity at Massey University. www.researchgate.net/publication/...

Statement on AI in Universities from Communication and Media Studies network (and someone's made a snazzy summarising poster) auckland.scoop.co.nz/2025/08/stat...

The CEO of a a multi-trillion dollar company went to the White House, openly handed the US president a gift made of gold, and his company got a special exemption to tariffs the president has illegally imposed. Also, the Founders took bribery so seriously the Constitution bans it 3 separate times.

If I have to explain to you why it's a bad idea to use a machine that makes shit up 15-80% of the time AND destroys the environment AND contributes to rising fascism and genocide AND puts brilliant skillful creatives out of work by stealing their work, then we're already speaking different languages

It seems there's no safe space from the expropriations of Big Tech. Even our posthumous souls are up for grabs

I hadn’t realised until I saw it on the news that today’s education announcement was made in a Business NZ environment… Not in an educational setting… A business setting… Goes to show what they think education is actually for

Opening up 5 million hectares of NZ conservation land to commercial interests is wild, yet didn't make a headline that day #nzpol open.substack.com/pub/mountain...

The scholarly apparatus of foot noting and bibliography upholds the same values as "right to repair". We should be able to understand and fix for ourselves the things we engage with in the world. Give me the tools to understand what you've made.

Peace Action Wellington completely opposes the opening of a US FBI office in Aotearoa New Zealand. The decision by the NZ government to allow a foreign country’s police force to operate here is terrifying.

FBI? GTFO of Aotearoa www.facebook.com/share/1A8wrB...

I'm endorsing Ti Lamusse for president Tiriti of the TEU. Grassroots organizing to fight precarity and under funding, while connecting to allied movements is the way teu.ac.nz/campaigns/na...

It’s voter suppression, plain and simple. Banning enrolment 13 days before the election will hit young Māori the hardest, 48% of 18–19 y/o Māori voters enrolled during that window in 2023. They know what they’re doing. Help us end this tyranny #EnrolToVote #NZPol #OneTermGovt

My sister, the nurse, has some thoughts;

Students indifferent to Massey’s new AI assistant, Cogniti. Shows the whole narrative of students demanding AI is horseshit www.massivemagazine.org.nz/articles/grl...

The Hater's Guide To The AI Bubble. The bubble's gonna burst, and take the stock market down with it: www.wheresyoured.at/the-haters-g...

An open letter from educators who refuse the call to adopt GenAI in education. Educators unite to reject this damaging slop being forced on us and our students openletter.earth/an-open-lett...

Platform imperialism: the UK government gets into bed with OpenAI. This erosion of sovereignty is exactly what we need to avoid in aotearoa @ojutel.bsky.social www.techpolicy.press/uk-deepens-d...

I spend fuck all on butter. But it encompasses an attitude of entitlement that Fonterra have where Farmers are owed everything and don't owe us anything. I think farmers work hard and deserve fair recompense. However, NZ taxpayers subsidises their pollution (not part of ETS)...

AI folks have now discovered “thinking”

The irony of Trump usurping the power of Republicans in Congress and the independence of federal agencies like the DOJ is that any attempt to stop or delay the release of Epstein files only adds to the appearance of a cover up. Trump is being hoisted on his own petard.