I’m Begging You: Never Write With A.I. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/04/o...

Opinion | I’m Begging You: Never Write With A.I. (Gift Article)

It’s bad for your brain and worse for democracy.

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Wide screenshot of the RNZ website this afternoon, with my arrow added for comparison… even the automated “related stories” column is calling Luxon out on his BS now. #NZPol CC @BobLefridge

Look at this birb, he’s wearing yellow pantaloons! Photo by Carlos Bolaños.

New Yorker cartoon feels about right

Hello NZ govt 👋, maybe this is a better approach than building more prisons & punishing beneficiaries? Hard to argue with the numbers #nzpol

Get Out The Mid Term Vote @gotmtv.bsky.social · 14h ago

“Serves two” Not if you’re a bloody legend it doesn’t

"it looks like you're using an adblocker to visit our site." yep! ha ha! it rocks!

Hey Siri, who was in power when unemployment was last this horrifically high? … The same people? But I thought they were good at the economy?

RNZ News Feeds@rnzrss.bsky.social · 20h ago

National backs its policies as unemployment rises to 11-year high

At some point we — all of us — have to have a serious conversation about priorities. We can't just keep squeezing corporate profits out of everything and insisting everyone just make do somehow.

RNZ News Feeds@rnzrss.bsky.social · 22h ago

Older Kiwis choosing between 'starving or heating' as price increases bite

'For Hickey, there is a deeper structural challenge. “You’ve got an economy which just doesn’t know how to operate without house prices rising”.' #NzPol

As unemployment hits 11-year high, how does it look under the hood?

Bernard Hickey breaks down the numbers released today.

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What a metaphor for ACT: Throw sauce on shite to hide how hideous it is.

BusinessDesk@businessdesknz.bsky.social · 24h ago

As schools reported throwing out nearly one in three Compass lunches late last year, the Ministry of Education looked into adding sauce to make the meals more appealing but shelved the idea over cost.

"Luxon isnt a buisness person, he's a corporate person. There's a big difference"

DIA: "Everything must use RealMe!" Also DIA: "RealMe won't work at random intervals, so neither will everything else. Not our problem, lol!" www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/...

'Unacceptable': Voters face online disruption days before roll-switching deadline

Te Pāti Māori called the timing unacceptable for voters switching rolls.

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You should all be using Claude, Luxon told Rotorua businesspeople. So we did

You should all be using Claude, Luxon told Rotorua businesspeople. So we did

We fired up the AI chatbot to assess the prime minister's comments in response to what he called a 'negative view' question....

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NZ in 2016: give nothing to racists NZ in 2026: give a cabinet minister role to racists.

We love a bit of "per capita", don't we, folks?!

Newsroom NZ@newsroom.co.nz · 2d ago

A modest 125-person NZ pharmaceutical firm is quietly generating more revenue per employee than global giants like Pfizer and Merck.

Weird text from a random today

Stop talking about Nigel Farage and start talking about how compere, performer and drag king Mojo Jones has a new act called C*nty Binface 🗑️💖

As I expected… www.transitiontimes.net/nn-2-the-tru...

NN#2: The Trump Paradox

Trump may have done more to accelerate the energy transition than policy ever could.

transitiontimes.net

Sarah Taber@sarahtaber.bsky.social · 2d ago

Absolutely unbelievable how solar power has taken off worldwide during the Hormuz oil crisis. You don't have to hand it to him, but Trump may have done more to finally kick off a global civilization of effete librul solar users than anyone else in the West

Nice of them to confirm what many suspected: holding power more important than having principles