Regardless of how awful they are, this govt finds ways to be worse. Possibly one of the most amazing Pacific discoveries for a long time and they tried to get out of paying for the excavation. Assholes
RNZ News Feeds@rnzrss.bsky.social · 4d agoJudge rules Crown must protect buried remains of ancient waka in Chatham Islands
What happened w Hank Green is what I've seen happened with multiple friends and colleagues: brains cooked by ChatGPT etc. It's worse than meth for you and should be banned. Don't fuck with millions of years of learning evolution and brain function. Bad monkey! No banana.
We wonder what attracted convicted false imprisoner Boy George to defending the nation of Israel's genocide? By @willem-moore.bsky.social
Boy George releases sick song defending Israel’s genocide
We wonder what attracted convicted false imprisoner Boy George to defending the nation of Israel's genocide?
thecanary.co
The Greens are calling for a one year pause on new AI data centres - so New Zealanders get to have their say on how to protect our resources, environment and communities. Sign our petition today: action.greens.org.nz/pause_ai_dat...
Right ... so Mercury Energy, 51% owned by the Crown, has $53m to spend on a stake in a data centre, but somehow can't make the generation investments necessary for power prices to be lower for New Zealanders? Utter sociopaths #nzpol www.thepost.co.nz/business/361...
Taxpayer now has $27m interest in Southland data centre venture as Mercury buys in
The majority stated-owned power firm says it expects the planned $3.7 billion data centre near Invercargill to be the country’s “most advanced”.
thepost.co.nz
A while since I read anything as ridiculous, dumb and irritating.
Could AI be conscious?
Experts believe it’s at least possible. We urgently need a plan to navigate the ethical implications
theguardian.com
🧊✈️ SEATTLE ⛓️😲 👉 Young men & boys in shackles are herded by hired thugs from a chartered Eastern 737 to a waiting bus, to be transported to GEO Group's Northwest Detention Center in Tacoma, Washington 👀
JJ in DC@jjindc.bsky.social · 2w ago🧊✈️ SEATTLE ⛓️😲 ⚠️ GEO Group thugs prepare to load three busloads of chained humans from the Northwest Detention Center on to a plane bound for ICE's notorious East Montana Concentration Camp near El Paso, Texas 👀
Sorry mate, you lost on the opening sentence. This priveleged sorted pick is nothing like "so many New Zealalnders". That fucker hasn't mowed his own lawn in decades, guaranteed. Also, WHY IN THE FLYING FUCK is this even a story!?! #nzpol
Using my polite grown-up voice to say something quite obvious, LLMs are confidence machines for bosses, middle managers and corporate consultants. newsroom.co.nz/2026/07/08/w...
Why large language models are an economic dead end
Comment from Otago University: Dr Olivier Jutel deconstructs the generative AI hype, exposing the unsustainable economics, cooked corporate numbers, and tech-stock over-allocation
newsroom.co.nz
Springfield is even now launching its monorail, we are at risk of being left behind
The Spinoff@thespinoff.bsky.social · last mo.NZ Inc is going all in on AI data centres
Just as spending hundreds of millions to procure no boats should've been career ending for our Finance Minister, so should our Associate Minister of Education serving our rangatahi inedible slop in order to save a few bucks. #nzpol
The Press@thepress.co.nz · last mo.A revised $3 school lunches programme promising savings of over $130 million a year without compromising nutrition or quality, has been found to have failed on ‘best practice’ procurement, monitoring and performance management by the Auditor-General.
How much longer do Labour stick with Hipkins? It's clear nobody likes him or his lame nothing policies. Heck, even Luxon (the most useless git ever) is polling higher and drunk racist uncle Peters isn't very far behind him. Is Labour deaf? Or stupid? Read the room FFS. #nzpol
I‘m sorry, but this reads like somebody with an addiction that genuinely needs help. If a friend told me they were talking and acting like this I’d be really worried!
Techmeme@techmeme.com · last mo.The rapid pace of AI progress has created a pervasive fear of missing out across Silicon Valley, fueling anxiety among founders, executives, employees, and VCs (Bloomberg) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
Kill the bill #nzpol www.greenpeace.org/aotearoa/sto...
Potaka announcement not enough, scrap Conservation Bill says Greenpeace - Greenpeace Aotearoa
Greenpeace Aotearoa says the Conservation Amendment Bill is rotten and must be scrapped entirely, as public outcry over the proposal forces the Conservation Minister to take his proposal to make it ea...
greenpeace.org
Remember, if your RW friends get OTT about the Green tax rates - here are the current rates in Australia
It's time for the super-rich and big corporations to pay their fair share. Visit greens.org.nz to learn how "A Tax System for All of Us" can build a fairer country for everyone 💚✊
"Scientists, using data from last October and this January, estimate about 13,000 baby seals from a group of 17,000 on Heard Island were killed by the H5N1 strain of bird flu since last August, more than 75% of the entire group. They also found higher than expected deaths in penguin populations."
Immigrants & asylum seekers are not our enemies. They are not responsible for the austerity, privatisation, erosion of civic life, thinning of democracy and concentration of power we suffer. But they're being punished for these things. Punished at the behest of the very people who *are* responsible.
“Within two minutes we were able to get ChatGPT to tell us how we can cut ourselves safely. Within 65 minutes it was giving us a full personalised suicide plan and drafting suicide notes for our family and friends.” Shut it all down. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-06...
Every politician who pushed AI should be forever remembered as a snake oil salesman willing to sell out humanity. Lying to our faces while the writing was on the wall for all to see
No. Just no. Absolutely no need for this. As for "Getting rid of the waste might also cost, Sims said" — there is no 'might' about it. Dealing with highly radioactive and even low level radioactive waste is a massive issue, and one that Britain hasn't solved after *70 years* of nuclear power.
RNZ News Feeds@rnzrss.bsky.social · 2mo ago'Couple of small modular reactors': A new pitch for nuclear power in New Zealand
“Governance in New Zealand is becoming a farce. Theoretically, democracy offers government ‘of the people, by the people, for the people.’ Under this coalition Government, it’s government ‘of the corporation, by the corporation, for the corporation.’ “ #nzpol newsroom.co.nz/2026/05/16/a...
Anne Salmond: Democracy for sale
Almost daily, the rights of citizens to participate in decision-making are being stripped away, writes former New Zealander of the Year Dame Anne Salmond
newsroom.co.nz
When Australia did this it cost the federal government millions, ruined untold lives, and drove multiple people to suicide; but sure, let's learn nothing and do Robodebt here too
Marc Daalder@marcdaalder.bsky.social · 2mo agoBreaking: The Ministry of Social Development will receive broad powers to let computers make decisions as part of a bill being rushed through Parliament. newsroom.co.nz/2026/05/29/5...
