AI is one of the starkest examples of the infantilization of media, art, information, which itself is a manifestation of core tenets of fascism—irrationalism (rejection of reason), machismo and most importantly, the impoverishment of vocabulary & syntax to limit critical thinking

What I would say to you is that we are going hard on delivering those new ships.

“Just pull yourself up by your bootstraps” or something idk

The Grok fiasco underlines one of the biggest threats from AI: technocrats using it for social engineering purposes. Sure, this time it was obvious, but don’t think there aren’t ten thousand other ways it’s more subtly biasing society towards the interests of malevolent power

BBC: don’t say it’s a concentration camp. That’s not our understanding of camps.. Israel 👇🏽

You know what has actually disappeared? The support structure to train someone to master the craft. This goes for almost all things. Yes, including engineering and design jobs. Everyone wants masters but no one wants to train apprentices.

What I'd just say to you is, I'm removing the Proud Boys from the terrorist list against the advice of the Police & NZ's security orgs because it's a scientific fact that white supremacist gangs are a lot less harmful than ones of colour. #LyinLuxon #CoalitionOfRacists #NZpol

Zero evidence Te Tiriti is replacing maths. When Seymour said that kids were being "pulled out of maths and science classes to learn te reo Māori," a friend OIA'd his office. There was nothing except for complaints from parents aggrieved that te reo Māori is being taught at all.

The youth bootcamps are such a failure that the Government won't publish reoffending data in future. It's time to scrap this failed policy and fund practical things like housing and other social services that will improve the lives of our rangatahi. nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/re…

Inflation in Aus is 2.1% - here its 2.7% with lower wages. Unemployment and beneficiary numbers are up. A NZ citizen migrates away every 7 mins and 24 sec. Ministers stand around in high-viz jackets and tell us about stuff that's already happened. Do you feel back on track yet?

Being a gross party for fraudsters and pedophiles will never be electorally popular so need to limit the franchise

Blatantly rigging the voting system and making it more unfair to benefit themselves. Let’s just call it what it is.

Gaza didn’t descend into mass starvation by accident. “Israel deliberately engineered mass starvation in Gaza,” that’s your headline.

Labour appears to have a similar position to National on whether the most documented genocide in history is a genocide or not. They’re waiting on the ICJ - which already found plausible genocide in Jan 2024 - to complete their investigation. Utter cowardice.

This is why Israel didn’t want journalists filming from the planes. Gaza is a wasteland, deliberately destroyed by Israel.

In an RNZ interview today, Chris Hipkins said the NZ Labour party does not acknowledge the most documented genocide in history.

So funny how the government offered corporate board members an 80% pay rise, MPs got a 10% payrise, but they've only offered teachers a 1% pay increase and are acting offended that teachers rejected it. Just more Class War politics from the Nats as per usual I guess

NYT today vs the Onion