Matt Nippert

The dark fleet hiding in our own backyard: How the Cook Islands sold its flag to Moscow, Tehran SPECIAL INVESTIGATION: How shadow fleets made the Cook Islands flag inconvenient.

All the juice is buried amongst these 4500 words: www.nzherald.co.nz/business/com...

AUT presso for BGI Business time: Taking NZ financial journalism international Matt Nippert, NZME Talk to AUT Journalism class by Matt Nippert, supported by Brian Gaynor Initiatives

Link to slides for Business Time lecture to AUT journalism students pulling apart my Citizen Thiel and Maritime Cook Islands investgiations: docs.google.com/presentation...

Needs to be bigger, surely, to cope with increasingly instability in supply.

The entire Fallout franchise was born with that scene and closing montage backed by Vera Lynn. The half life on Strangelove is insane.

RFK is Ripper for the wellness set. No debate.

Literally the last line as they cross from contempary-terrible B-52 flight graphics involving green sceens and model planes - to Trinity footage.

Only Prime Video for those in NZ. Pay-per-view, but less than half a coffee (~$4).

It opened shortly after JFK's assassination. The Cuban missile crisis was recent history. It directly tackled the madness of its age and mussed the hair of The Man.

Cannot wait until Grok can deliver a contemporary production with Elon as Strangelove and RFK as Ripper. The future is (cornea-scorching) bright!

The flouridation and Marxist conspiracy lines also hit pretty hard given <waves hands at cookers> recent events.

Pay-to-view on Prime. But only ~$4. Worth every modest cent.

Wife and kid hadn't seen before and - as is required by natural law - they laughed maniacially at "You can't fight in here, this is the war room!"

Just rewatched Dr Strangelove. So good. So precient. We cannot afford an autonomous AI kill-chain gap.

What’s next, carjackings in NYC during General Assembly week?

Makes you wonder why he didn’t get the Secret Service to shank Putin at Anchorage.

I cannot stress how unusual it is in international relations for states to assassinate or kidnap foreign leaders. And Trump’s now done it twice in the past two months.

Do you think FIFA will revoke his peace prize

Think of it as a "break glass in emergency" supplement to the RNZAF. Way cheaper - and vastly more potential capacity - than if run by the NZDF.

I'm not a huge fan of state-owned commercial companies, but after seeing what happened with Covid I'm definitely in favour of Air NZ being govt-owned. The airline functioned as an important logistics lifeline to the Pacific, and having the ability able to surge airlift capacity is a strategic boon.

Related: Kent Brockman would have been a king on LinkedIn.

Half of LinkedIn posts are bandwagoning on AI development t ok farm engagement. The other half are broetry written (and illustrated) by AI. There’s brown acid in the company water cooler.

Chat GPT is ruining news tips. Now every email looks professionally formatted and polished - and I have to spend way longer to determine whether it’s just a crank (most are cranks). Before I could scan for all-caps and the bolded/underlined/italicised combo and triage accordingly.

You mean the Mad Cow Disease phase of the “Singularity”.

‘I’ve lost everything’: Meth link freezes $96m property development dream Large development on Auckland's fringe folds after being linked to 'Honey Bear' meth ring.

You can find out quite a lot by downloading restraint instruments from LINZ. www.nzherald.co.nz/property/dru...

The Guardians of New Zealand Superannuation.

The SFO doesn't bring nearly enough cases (can some government actually fund them to have more than a few dozen staff?), but it's good to see they're now taking any and all public-service corruption files that come their way.

Matt Nippert: Corruption klaxon blaring, but at least we can now hear it OPINION: NZ's fall in the least-corrupt rankings is because we are no longer ignorant.

Look at me, pontificating in my lane: www.nzherald.co.nz/business/cor...

Nuclear testing, spheres of influence, dreams of racing to the moon. The 1950s called: It wants its foreign policy back.

You should be familiar with the splintering and high-temperature factionalism (often driven by personality clashes) in the activist space. It is universal.

Tax evasion & ICIJ reporting: governments recoup millions Nine years after the Panama Papers helped turbocharge authorities’ pursuit of hidden wealth, the global impacts of ICIJ’s offshore investigations are still being felt.

Even less chance of that here, I think. And at least PP generated recoveries. www.icij.org/investigatio...