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Ford has rehired hundreds of senior engineers after replacing them with AI backfired and has cost the company billions of dollars. AI adoption is blamed for Ford being the most recalled automaker in the U.S. with 51 recalls covering over 11 million vehicles in the first half of 2026 alone.

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Let’s be clear. The fossil fuel industry made European heatwaves deadly. The fossil fuel industry made storms, floods, droughts and heatwaves so severe that they will soon threaten our very survival. The fossil fuel industry is collapsing our planetary life support systems.

How come all the NIMBY weirdos who never shut up about wind turbines 5km off the coast have nothing to say about these gargantuan noisy data centres that are springing up in the middle of suburbs, contaminating water, destroying liveability and property prices? It's weird.

I just needed to check y'all know that You And Me with Suzy Cato is on YouTube and releasing new content, right? The 5yo's television rotation now includes "Suzy bubbles" and "Suzy making a cake" and let me tell you I have some lovely warm feelings about it

Media owner Sinead Boucher told by a senior MP regarding survival of the industry: ‘If you were nicer to us, maybe we would care if you lived or died’ alongside consistent showboating by Seymour & Peters celebrating media job losses & threatening reporters yet Stuff et al become MORE subservient

stuff article quote:

"“There’s some actual things that senior politicians have said to me in the last year: One said ‘If you were nicer to us, maybe we would care if you lived or died’. Another said ‘We effectively weighed up the interests of you and big tech and decided they were more important to the country than journalistic organisations’,” she recalls."

1News profiling someone "bang in the middle of the political centre" who repeats myths about Labour COVID debt and inflation, thinks wealth taxes are "a money grab" but also won't raise money & complains he can't call himself tangata whenua Truly an important perspective worthy of the front page

I took election pamphlets to Foodbank to check everyone was on the roll. It was easy & they were receptive & thankful. They didn’t realise election day enrolment wont happen this year. 1 woman was taken off the roll so appreciated the reminder. Cld you do this somewhere? #nzpol

Nearly 20yrs ago we moved into a new build, with new materials and insulation and a heat pump. It was transformational healthwise. I figured out quick smart that setting the heat pump to 19°C in winter kept our whole house a pleasant temperature without breaking the bank. This now costs $$$$

Hayley@writagal.bsky.social · 2mo ago

If like me you are freezing in your house right now because it costs too much to turn on the heat - sign below 👇 This has almost 30,000 signatures and might just send a message to our don’t-care government that we don’t want power oligarchies in NZ - we want to be able to afford heating in winter.