“When it comes to AI adoption, many companies aren’t guided by strategy but by ‘Fomo’,” said Haritha Khandabattu, senior director analyst at consultancy Gartner. “For some leaders, the question isn’t ‘What problem am I solving?’ but ‘What if my competitor solves it first?’”

This is a great read. Love the last question. #nzpol Four departing mayors tell us what they really think thespinoff.co.nz/politics/23-...

Investors are backing enough LNG tanker capacity to put the world on track for 4C of warming. This is when we're on track for 3C of warming and aiming for well below 2C. Investors are backing assets that'd be stranded even under the worst climate scenarios. www.businessgreen.com/news/4519373...

"That's when we become unstoppable." 🤝 @zackpolanski.bsky.social meets co-leader of New Zealand Greens Chlöe Swarbrick 💚

I wrote about the rapture predictions and how they are connected to other things like climate change and Palestine for @aljazeera.com www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/9/...

Crowd funding campaign now live! I'm raising money for a limited series podcast investigating how the campaign to quit the Paris Climate Accords went from the fringe to the mainstream www.pledgeme.co.nz/projects/861...

So much of our society is built atop certain bedrock symbioses that many assumed wouldn't be questioned because they were mutually beneficial to both parties, only for one party to reveal it would rather rule over the ashes if it meant it never had to deal with anybody other than a chosen few.

Love that the Senior Doctors are correcting Simeon Brown and taking back the narrative. Tautoko. Striking senior doctors hit back at Health Minister Simeon Brown's message. www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

Doctors strike today after a year of frontline hiring freezes, budget cuts and the multi-million dollar grift to private healthcare investors. Simeon has also cut 1/3 of ICU beds in some areas & closed suicide centres. The doctors' messages are bang on #nzpol #kiwi

yes good now let the science reporters cover climate policy

There's been a tonne of interesting stuff to read on China's green export boom, developmental green industrial policy & even US energy transition politics in the past couple weeks; here is an annotated list from me & @70sbachchan.bsky.social buttondown.com/polycrisisdi...

Vai Shah is a friend of mine, so I'm contractually obliged to love this, but also it's just objectively great. Thanks @parentsforclimate.bsky.social for giving her the opportunity!

Sensible? My @smh @theage cartoon.

It's embarrassing that journalists continue to carry water for TPU talking points. You're being played. Rates soar while council staff clock in from home www.waikatotimes.co.nz/nz-news/3608...

The slide of community Facebook groups from being something mostly positive into just rage bait and cookerdom has been something to behold. Here's someone this morning on ours just straight up telling everyone they're an animal abuser (yes I've reported it to the right people)

I occasionally do things for NZ media like go on news shows or talk to journos for articles they're writing, but not anymore. The NZ media system is woefully inadequate and cannot respond to the seriousness of the moment. My contributions do nothing but maintain the illusion that it is adequate.

To be clear: this entire “we’ve got to run more pro-lifers” insanity is because literally a week ago polling showed that Democrats would prefer politicians like AOC and Mamdani over Jefferies and Schumer by, let me emphasize this, a 20 point fucking margin. www.politico.com/news/2025/09...

Apropos of nothing it says a lot about how slanted my media consumption is that despite me making efforts to try and read things from other parts of the world, I heard about Cyclone Erin (which was obviously huge but didn't hit populated areas) far, far more than I've heard about this

Lmao 'new problem.' Team if you're ever asking yourself 'Why aren't we as a society acting on this massive gobsmacking problem that I, a person who pays attention, has seen coming from a mile off...' Well, here's a huge part of your answer

oh no not the business world

I wish it was more complicated but: Elon won. Pundits, journalists and political elites uses Twitter to gauge popular discourse and identify stories, which was workable so long as it was moderated. He seized control, completely altered its normal mode, but none of them adapted.

“It’s time to change the narrative. Tommy Robinson does not represent the majority of Britons. We aren’t afraid. We’re angry. And we won’t be defeated.” The power we need coming from @sangitamyska.bsky.social here www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

I think scepticism is warranted when it comes to whether Keir Starmer's team will ever fully realise that every attempt to outflank Farage on the Right will just lead to Farage escalating demands further.

The community are angry that Labor are in bed with dirty coal and gas. We vented our feelings outside Sarah Witty MP’s office in Fitzroy this afternoon. #climatecrisis #auspol

1. We knew this but good to make it official 2. This isn't inevitable 3. The politics of this being acceptable is partly because of a world where the majority of people aren't feeling (or at least connecting) the impacts. That will change

Canada and other major fossil fuel-producing countries are derailing the world’s chance to hit key targets to rein in climate change, a new international report suggests, with 2030 production levels expected to be more than double what would be compatible with the Paris Agreement.

Neoliberal capitalism can foster innovation but only to a point. Once you're the top dog, your motives switch from improving things to maintaining your status and crushing others. We're seeing the results of that stagnation all over the Western world.

The fact that so many people CAN do this is, ironically, one of the reasons this is all happening

They all seem like maybe they go in the bucket of “ideas for how to govern global climate after the revolution.” In the mean time, we need to better debug ideas for how to accelerate global climate action given our actual existing institutions and political economy.

I absolutely fucking refuse to ever be okay about something like this and it would be nice if more people with a platform got a lot less okay with it too #nzpol

It's sobering, in its way, to realize that there was truly nobody (save, perhaps, his children) who knew him that loved him as a man. He made himself into content, and he died as content, and his funeral is the most content of all. Soundbites to soundbites, bits to bits

A gender lens remains one of the best ways to understand far right authoritarian regimes. Male order is imposed through a family-like structure, with women subservient and children taught that fear is the price of belonging www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

Based on everything else they do this also feels like it's just because the governments who decided to do it were centre-left and they can't be seen as automatically agreeing with them. Imagine being this shit of a human. #nzpol

Really interesting discussion about the dynamics of the natural gas market, in the light of a potential new 50 bcf pipeline from Russia to China. It sure seems like Russia is gonna end up wholly subservient to China economically. #EnergySky www.energypolicy.columbia.edu/the-power-of...

We do not gotta hand it to Key but it illustrates just how far this current government have swung to the right in terms of not even remotely trying to build a tent and do anything long-term. They're only governing on spite and destruction; definitely fash-lite stuff. #nzpol

"Gender studies scholars and experts on domestic violence have long known that gender-based bigotry is a gateway to violent extremism. It’s time for national security officials to catch up, says @milleridriss.bsky.social" 19thnews.org/2025/09/how-...

When will the media realise it's their job to take a press release from government and determine how much of it is true, how much is spin, and report accordingly. If I wasn't terminally online (as most voters aren't), I could almost be fooled into thinking they're doing a good job. #nzpol

What a joy to celebrate “Sun Day” w/ @billmckibben.bsky.social @sandynurse.bsky.social @solaronenyc.bsky.social @brooklynsolarworks.bsky.social & climate activists across the globe. With clarity about the emergency we face, and hope for our capacity to rise to it. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/c...

my understanding of modern influence campaigns is that a big part of it is just getting people angry (because they are less rational in that state, and consequently easier to manipulate). mute accounts that just make you angry.

“The more the German industry continues to focus on phasing out niche technologies […] the easier it becomes for Chinese companies to expand their lead in batteries and new electronic vehicle architectures.” Remarkable op-ed by former VW boss Herbert Diess. www.wiwo.de/unternehmen/...

This does not look like “impartiality”. It looks like propaganda. www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/how...

Reform, with 0.6% of all MPs, featured in 25% of BBC's recent 10pm news bulletins flip.it/okxIhl

Asking a majority non-Māori population to vote on whether Māori wards should be kept is racist as fuck. Asking any majority demographic to vote on whether minorities should have certain basic rights that facilitate equity is straight up bullshit. And referendums make me furious.

"a relentless campaign of threats, break-ins, threats on their child, assaults, and police interventions that turned their life, and their child’s, into what they call “a tsunami” of fear." www.teaonews.co.nz/2025/09/21/a...

Every single criticism of BlueSky is valid except somehow the one the pundits stumbled upon, which is roughly equivalent to kicking down the door of a KFC and incredulously asking everyone if they are aware they are eating fried chicken.

Good News: With the support of Germany, the #EU is moving to exclude Meta, Apple, Google and Amazon from a new system for sharing financial data that is designed to enable development of digital finance products for consumers. on.ft.com/47T8wKU

The premise of this article is good, but the way it explores the issue has no hope of getting anywhere. www.thepress.co.nz/nz-news/3608...