funny that multiple outlets have started running exactly the same line today when we know cabinet has been deliberating how to crack down on homeless people over the last 2 months with plans to act soon.

From the archives: "The Nobel peace prize is a who’s who of hawks, hypocrites and war criminals" (Spoiler: Henry Kissinger had one!)

Businesses used to hire accountants, payroll specialists, graphic designers, account managers and so on, to sort these problems out for them and put systems in place for long term stability.

One of the main ‘barriers’ is the deep set resistance to following clear procedures and having auditable logs, consistent records of business processes and decisions. If you can’t address that, you aren’t ready for a ‘digital transformation’ and certainly not for automation, let alone AI.

As the seasons change and the weather gets worse has Winston allowed for these changes with the new ferries/ aircraft carrier he has ordered? #nzpol

Nice.

Wow this assumes we have money and care about the rich people feelings indicator and not things like personal safety or being able to message more than one person at time! Do the kids still say meh? And bring back Link.

It's nice that the Bluesky overlords regularly remind us that they're yucky little tech bro losers.

Petty, petulant or borderline abusive. Harassing the CEO because you don’t get your way instaneously is unprofessional but so typical of these blokes. They’re also screaming off with their heads in the direction of those that disagree with their irrational & often self or donor serving takes. #nzpol

It was a better time

I remember how the media here covered the Kellie-Jay Keen speech in Auckland (the one where she got souped) that I attended, and how it was described as an angry mob when it was the most joyful, calm day. It was also telling that Action Zealandia turned up to support KJK and got zero mention.

Maybe other countries should sanction US officials for what they’re unleashing on their own streets.

In the New Zealand justice system, the people are represented by two separate yet equally important groups: the police, who investigate crime; and for some reason employees of private law firms who prosecute the offenders but aren't subject to the Official Information Act. These are their stories.

"The average price for two litres of milk rose to $4.92, up 15.8 per cent from $4.25 A kilogram of porterhouse beef steak jumped 21.7 per cent to $44.30, up from $36.39" If only we produced our own meat and dairy, we wouldn't be struggling so much with the cost of living🤦🏻‍♂️ #nzpol #taxtherich

Why is this article using the passive voice? As if the price of food went up all by itself?

I think @aftermath.site has some of the best games & culture journalism out there & I couldn’t be happier about another employee-run outfit launching with @mothership.blog; with a strong stance against gen ai. That & with @bandcamp.com doing the right thing, I‘d say: pretty good week for humans

And they should be charged with fraud for lying to iwi when getting permission to set up their launch site.

"In earlier years, Beck stated Rocket Lab would not take military funding, a position that shifted after the company began securing defence-related contracts from 2009 onwards."

Mommy covered her face with her hands and now she’s lost media 💔

Have the people vigorously defending the Wikipedia AI deal considered that many of the people who aren't supportive may in fact not be big dummies, but rather people who don't agree with Wikipedia collaborating with IP thieving, job destroying, environment wrecking, sexual abuse material producers?

The old boys club in action. Coster's resigned and he should never work in the public service again. Roche is shameless. www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/public-se...

🤨🤨🤨

We probably shouldn’t get too wedded to this guy as a backer of NZ’s film industry, at least not in a form where skilled humans are paid enough to exist

Mood of the golf course, from people who aren’t affected by the prevailing economic conditions.

Shops don’t close themselves. It’s not 61 shops, it’s people closing livelihoods, it’s staff losing their jobs, it’s creditors not being paid, it’s parents with no income facing the expense of the start of the school year and a heartless systemically unhelpful WINZ. #nzpol

The same Substack that supports Nazis? Yeah, nah...

The UK has declined a new Elbit Systems contract, leading Palestine Action prisoners to end the hunger strike that had three of them on the brink of death. The Tesco worker suspended for refusing to handle Israeli goods has been reinstated and will no longer have to handle them. We can and will win

Deport him.

I really hope this is quickly and conclusively investigated. Incredibly sad to lose a huge population of tuna like this ‘It’s devastating’: Generations-old eel population wiped out in Wairoa stream www.rnz.co.nz/news/ldr/584...

Fruit AND Vegetables BOTH OF THEM!

Don't forget, their rabbit out of the hat last election was GST off fruit and vegetables🤦🏻‍♂️

Adding 'bad takes on map projections' to my list of reasons to block people

Gee whiz, if I was the leader of a nation and got pissy about folk taking too much time off over summer, and backed up that statement by saying Jan 3rd is a normal time to be back at work... and then was *very noticeably* not at work by then... I'd be very glad 99% of the media was also on holiday.

Which shit-for-brains idiot decided that an All Blokes coach losing his job is more urgent and important news than our shit-for-brains egg-in-a-borrowed-suit PM being MIA while power-crazed authoritarian megalomaniacs are dragging us all into another global conflict?🤔💩🥚 #OneTermGovernment #nzpol

My expectations for aspirational policies from Labour were low but god damn. God damn.

this is one of the big reasons certain people hate Tory Whanau. she showed you can get things done if you actually want to

absolutely astonishing how much the American press and public discourse is absent of any sense that this is actual reality rather than a mass entertainment happening entirely on our screens for our benefit

Willis is having trouble balancing the books, so reached for the most expendable cost she could find to cut – the environment. This is the economic model this govt is promoting, calling it “growth”. Socialise the cost, privatise the profit. And bankrupt the environment. #nzpol archive.ph/hNfdA

good thing councils will be made completely incapable of dealing with shit like this under idiotically proposed rates caps.

For my fellow Kiwis, here's a side by side

Andrew Little and Chris Hipkins would never

To be honest, this is how the business world should work. The CEOs and executives should be the first to go when times are getting tough.

NZ's favourite little war criminal Peter Beck is going to be helping the US invasion efforts.

The Australian and NZ govts need to grow a spine and make it abundantly clear that a US attack on Greenland would result in the end of all military and intelligence co-operation. No more AUKUS. No more Pine Gap. Cancellation of orders for military hardware from US suppliers. #auspol #nzpol

Our driveway vs the mulched ex lawn. A really easy demo of why having places for water to go is really important

RNZ: "Elon musk is distributing child porn" RNZ's susan edmunds: "But is his financial advice sound?"

how it started vs how it's going

Right about now, there's only one country in the world that we should all be REALLY worried about, and it's not China, Russia or Iran Americans seem utterly unable to see that the guardrails and protections they assume are there have gone completely

💯 It seems a whole lot of self-described left voters in NZ really ought to leave behind their outdated reckons about who the Greens are. The Greens have costed plans for all the kinds of things that left-leaning voters say they want, and that are good for everyone in this country. ✅ ✅

In case no one has told you lately: 1. You are strong 2. You are beautiful 3. Sea cucumbers have fish that live in their buttholes and eat their ever-regenerating gonads like some sort of sick undersea Prometheus 4. You are deserving of love