All of the cartoons in this thread do incredible work distilling this event and its meaning into one image

This is a scene from Handmaiden’s Tale, surely?

Pretty sure there are no rules…anymore 👀

This is why the corporate PR nonsense framing environmental stewardship versus cost of living rings hollow. It’s not one against the other, it’s capital gainers extracting from workers.

once again we are all tapping the sign

A classic 'look over here at this other thing' article. I mean we KNOW conclusively that the profit margins of our supermarkets are near world-leading, but let's run throw out some distraction reckons. A quick look... [🧵1/n]

I've covered 'NZ Govt crazy cvid spending' myth lots before (NZ middle of the road by any sensible measure). I can't let the 'increased money supply causes inflation' assumption go though. Total disproven bullshit. Inflation went up everywhere regardless of $ growth (loan growth ➡️ $ growth). [3/n]

Should have probably included this comparison of the wage share of the pie in previous 🧵 A stark reminder of just how much Roger and Ruth destroyed the bargaining power of workers as they set about creating a high profit / low wage, private debt fuelled, ecocidal, directionless economy.

gAI companies will never make back their investment by selling everyone a premium subscription to an unreliable chatbot but they *could* make their money back by selling massive piles of your data to, say, insurance companies do not ever give ChatGPT (or any AI) your medical records

The New Zealand model too

For those who have forgotten the past 40 years: Tax cuts for the rich ...don’t trickle down Boosting military spending ...doesn’t bring peace Slashing regulations ...doesn’t create jobs Folks, we’ve seen this all before.

Defective PPP construction cannot handle a 24 degree warm day.

This is how you write a headline. 100% truth. No fluff dressed as reality. Taking notes yet, NZ media? No? You should start. #nzpol

"This will make education inaccessible to most low to medium income families.School Board of trustees will be accountable to share holders instead of students, teachers and Parents.Local communities will have very little say in what happens to their school" Great work! Hope you're all very worried

“What the hell kind of Christian is this guy anyway?” From the new Private Eye, out now.

DHS Releases Watchlist Of Mothers Driving Cars https://theonion.com/dhs-releases-watchlist-of-mothers-driving-cars/

I have never known anyone more prone to gaffs than Luxon, he doesn't even register he's done them because he must have just bounced along his whole life saying shit that other people covered up for #NZPol

www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360... “Working from home.” You just know he’s invoicing the government for use of his home office…

Manage My Health data breach – Expert Reaction

Capitalism pits our actual values and politics against our need to remain alive, there is that too.

Does the PM not have a phone? Does he not know how to use Zoom, teams etc? Do reporters also not know these things? So, he's working from home...you can still interview him, ask him questions, get statements from him... HOLD POWER TO ACCOUNT!!! FFS!!!

Emily Heller, an eyewitness, is speaking out to set the record straight. Officers were screaming at Renee Nicole Good, “Move, move, move.” So she moved, and they shot her multiple times? Then Noem and Trump branded her a domestic terrorist. Does everyone see how absolutely insane that sounds?

Texas A&M, Under New Curriculum Limits, Warns Professor Not to Teach Plato www.nytimes.com/2026/01/07/u...

Nobody believes you, bro. #nzpol www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

Do not doubt for a second, we just bullied the prime minister of new zealand into making a statement as to why he wasn't back at work yet #NZPol

Has he asked Willis if he's allowed? Nicola Willis told working from home already not an ‘entitlement’ before setting new public service expectations Putting the Chris into hypocrisy

This is very very not good. I’m a nurse. AI rushes towards the generic, the beige. Rarely is any person’s health average on all fronts. AI is the opposite of individualised healthcare

It’s no accident that this announcement came right after the FDA said it will not regulate AI-assisted medical devices.

Should the Google & Apple App stores be hosting the Twitter App now that it’s physically turning photos of kids & others into porn?

Expertly done by Mehdi. Worth the watch.

Danish guy gets it

We learn from failure. We learn from the work of improvement. And no one is good at everything. Telling people they can pretend to be good at something they're not both stunts their personal growth & creates unrealistic expectations no one can live up to. This is the mission of current corporate AI.

AI has huge potential, but harms (deepfakes, gendered abuse, bias) are real and rising. Sign the Open Letter calling on NZ leaders to deliver risk-based AI regulation & a national oversight body.

Entire planet could be frolicking in the woods and meadows but instead we have to fight fascism because far too many of you love billionaires and bigotry more than you love yourselves.

Really good analysis, from a very informed person, of what is wrong with NZ's security rules. Are the "hand-wavy" things he points out, like the use of "reasonable" everywhere, the result of very moneyed-up lobbyists succeeding in making life easier for IT firms? www.openaccess.nz/blog/managem...

Vino Ramayah, CEO of MMH, desperately needs some crisis communication coaching. Mate, no-one fucking cares if your medical records are part ot the hack & the hack is not *just* the result of criminal activity. It is also the result of your piss poor ITSEC. You and MMH are not victims we care about

Am interested to hear which team/s in the New Zealand government were meant to be ensuring standards compliance for MMH. #ManageMyHealth

Welp #ManageMyHealth mastodon.nz/@davemosk/11...

Great quote from an excellent piece... The myth of Govt needing to 'save for a very rainy/shaky day' really holds NZ back. We need the capacity to respond. open.substack.com/pub/susanbor...

Is this out of date yet? (4th Jan): "MMH remains in public monitoring because: DMARC at `p=none` provides zero spoofing protection; 126,000+ affected users remain vulnerable to domain spoofing; No infrastructure improvements detected in 4+ days" blackveil.co.nz/blog/managem...

And let's hope the authorities keep an eye on the guy who owns all the shares. Will he be back in the future associated with similar outfits? And does this lot www.dha.org.nz/who-we-are/o... actually do anything about rogue members? Hop0e the press follow up on them!

Amazing, but very NZ, she'll-be-right, No8 wire, to discover we have no penalties for lax cybersecurity in civil law! MMH have clearly been warned many times...did they not bother doing anything about it? No penalty, so why bother? www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

> [Deputy Privacy Commissioner Liz MacPherson] said the Office was irked by widespread complacency around cyber security. > "And you have to ask the question, is the lack of a penalty regime part of that?" > "We don't have any penalties, we do not have a civil penalty rating."

"We acknowledge we could have done a better job at communication"---MMH statement Weasel words from what has turned out to be a very shonky company in control of private info of hundreds of thousands of people! And as ever NZ authorities move at a snail's pace. www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

Consodering he works so hard...has the PM been able to decide whether or not the USA broke international law yet?

Love this from Guillermo del Toro

A former PM tells us what’s what while the current PM is too busy to comment as he plays golf on the Hawaiian island of Te Puke #nzpol

A different kind of leadership… #nzpol

Our absent PM everybody: