Kevin does such a good job here. Even if you know this topic well, he is communicating it using language that I believe you'll find works well for the obnoxious uncle in your life. Recommend reading through it end to end. Thank you @greenander.bsky.social

This is a cogent, detailed and passionate demolition of generative and LLM AI in writing and publishing. It applies to other creative endeavours and industries, like design. I urge you to share it and start real conversations about AI, instead of blindly using it “because everyone else is.”

This is a careful, cogent and chilling analysis of the impact of AI in health care. It’s long and directly applies to the USA’s for profit model, but has huge lessons for NZ and elsewhere. “True care is not a transaction to be optimized; it is a practice and a relationship to be protected.”

This such a cruel and uncaring attitude from our current government. I don’t know how anyone can support this heartless and ignorant policy in the face of so much evidence to the contrary. When did we stop investing in and supporting our young people, our future?

On the face of it, this approach to solar panels seems to make a lot of sense. Any NZ trials?

This deserves to be shared, discussed and amplified. And the government needs to rethink. Thank you Newsroom and Dame Anne Salmon.

I made this post the other day because I can’t believe how little attention the Pae Ora Amendment Bill is getting. SUBMIT NOW. HEALTH PRIVATISATION is about to become LAW. #nzpol www.reddit.com/r/nzpolitics...

I've made this simple to use page for people to work out how much the change from fuel excise tax to road user charges will affect them. Please share it far and wide. #nzpol what-will-rucs-cost-me.netlify.app

Another excellent thread with a more balanced perspective on NZs COVID response. Thank you!

Discovering Ngāi Tahu's kahurumanu.co.nz/atlas for the correct place names has been huge for me, & I learn a thing or two about NZ history. For instance 'Pudding Island' in Otago Harbour is Te Pā-o-Titere-Moana & while the Govt assumed ownership, Ngāi Tahu never agreed to sell it to the Crown.

Thank you for your service!

Well worth a read. It is time to reframe our language, change the narrative, challenge the thinking.

Very sad to learn Maurice Gee passed. I interviewed him in 1976 for Nelson College’s literary mag in my bedroom near Trafalgar Park. He was gracious and patient with my predictable questions. His advice to young writers was to keep doing it. In his books I still hear his quiet careful voice.

A simple straight forward summary of the dangers of the Regulatory Standards Bill. There’s nothing good about it, and plenty of risks and erosion of everyone’s rights. We just don’t need it. Please read, share and make a submission. newsroom.co.nz/2025/06/14/a...

A timely reminder (with actual FACTS!) as COVID starts ramping up again in Ao/NZ

I had the pleasure to writing a microhistory of a buried stream (Wai-Horotiu) in Auckland Aotearoa NZ. #coloniailsm #history #environmentalhistory #newzealand #Indigenous #environmentaljustice www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

"I think the message is very clear that we're moving into winter, we have got this rise in cases - and if anyone has been putting off getting their Covid-19 booster, now would be a good time to get it." - Michael Baker 🇳🇿

Staff make passionate please to keep Auckland mental health service open, saying there's nothing else like it -say it should take on more people Feedback submitted to Health NZ this week will now be reviewed Opposition calls on government to keep service open and properly review its future. #nzpol

Chaotic, illogical and dangerous - and consistent with this government

This is potentially massive for our health system. Both for uses of plastics in medical items and in buildings.

Verity Johnson with the tea. We need more of this, exposing Nat as the lying financial duds they are. Especially from the press gallery - call out these bastards to their faces. Put it on the telly so Nat voters can see. #nzpol

Sorry. Can’t resist posting this

“VV set out to be a radical politician..willing to demolish procedures & protections essential to achieving..balance in workplace..she’s cashed in her right to be thinskinned..she’s expecting as of right, to be shielded from any fierce blowback..Some people really do expect to have it all” #nzpol

I find myself singing this to the tune of Cyndi Lauper's "Time After Time" "If you're lost, you can look, and you will find it ..."

also you all need to see this, because this is something I don't think *anybody* could predict for where this ad goes

This thread (& every one they do) is worth your time

This story exposes ACT’s dangerous ideology-driven nonsense. The proposed ACC initiative for better worker safety is needs-based - targeted based on need. What’s “race-based” is the disproportionate safety issues faced by Māori and Pacifica manufacturing workers. newsroom.co.nz/2025/04/24/c...

This is not hard. And does not add any area or cost. Just needs designers to want to do it from the very start. And the NZ Institute of Architects now has a policy/guideline for design of inclusive spaces. There are few excuses any more for not doing better

Clever use of the format

THE RISE OF END TIMES FASCISM My first major piece of the new Trump era, co-written with @astra.bsky.social. The governing ideology of the far right has become a monstrous, supremacist survivalism. Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

Back to economic chaos #Nz style 1200 engineers gone 83% of businesses experience slowdown Infrastructure in NZ is on pause and theres no timeline for getting us back on track #nzpol www.acenz.org.nz/engineering_...

It needs to be amplified that people on benefits in NZ cannot endure four more years of this. The cruel, dehumanising treatment, the absolute pittance to live on, the constant commentary around value, the astronomical costs of food and power. It’s a thousand relentless cuts by this government. 🧵

#nzpol 1/ I've got thoughts about the Defence Capability Plan released today, some I'd like to share. I am not a defence industry nerd, bean counter or any other sort of expert, just some rando who's kinda interested in this stuff. TLDR: it's mostly a puff piece with fuck all substance.

"These 200 people had $14 million of debt between them, but within a month more than $10 million had been paid or put under arrangement." Gotcha! Sick of the “if I can get away with it, I should” attitude of the entitled. Pull your weight!

So the plan to invest in our hospital infrastructure, originally due by end 2023, delayed to end 2024, included in Q1 2025 Action Plan is STILL not approved. Meanwhile, buildings and infrastructure fail, consultants and health staff leave for overseas. Can’t we just get on with it? #nzpol

This is not democratic, plain and simple. How many of us will essentially have our submission ignored?

The headline is misleading. Do better RNZ. Median consent process time 9 days. 25 days if more info is required. Median time to respond to RFI almost 12 days. Where is the problem? Are councils supposed to just approve any old application? Another beat up by a minister with an agenda.

Deeply concerning

"‘The fuel for the far right comes from disillusionment. From the lack of vision, the lack of hope. When you have no credible alternatives for a better future, people turn their anger & frustration towards other groups." | How Finland’s Left Is Beating the Far Right tribunemag.co.uk/2025/01/how-...

Another for #InternationalWomensDay During WWI, Marie Curie created a vehicle that contained a hospital bed, a generator, an X-ray machine and photographic darkroom equipment. These “petite Curies" could be driven right up to the Front. Curie also helped train 150 women as radiology technicians.

This is great, but it needs to be packaged with a couple hundred bottles of Crown Royal or Canadian Club or we’re not gonna make it

e-tangata.co.nz/comment-and-... Strong wise words from Sir Collin Tukuitonga exposing the dangerous ideological actions of our current government.

Decades of underinvestment in health got us here. The system is breaking—underfunding, burnout, soaring living costs, and GP waitlists out of control. The biggest failure? The govt won’t train the health staff we need. Future planning. No more excuses—make health education free now. #NZPol #Health

A must read for Tangata tiriti imo. We all need to ask ourselves some hard questions. We also need to “hope”. “When award-winning journalist and author Rebecca Macfie began a new project to explore poverty in Aotearoa, she first had to ask herself some hard questions.” #nzpol

Terrifying and unnecessary 😢 Trans people are people.

“The Ngāi Tahu story is instructive for us as a country, because it’s a vivid reminder that the unchecked momentum of blind political, economic, and social forces can lead us to forget our obligations to one another, and our honour.” 💯 ❤️🤍🖤✊

Amazing what a difference in language makes. Haven’t seen any NZ media bringing this perspective either…