Peter Green

"I don't care what you say about whether it [bootcamps] does or doesn't work. We can have that intellectual conversation all day long, but we are, dammit, going to try something different because we cannot carry on getting the results that we've been getting.” - Luxon in 2024

I did the New Zealand version of @bobkopp.net’s president ChatGPT thing, and as a person with a bachelors degree in Political Science, I’m glad I never perused higher study. 110% accurate.

This has been said in lots of ways but it is worth repeating; this is extremely impressive. If you asked a dog “who is the best basketball player ever” and it said “Jichsel Mordon” you would be unbelievably impressed. But you wouldn’t hire the dog as your junior analyst, because the answer is LeBron

I think what's great about this is that old mate transphobe can't shut the fuck up and it makes sense that that they're working for Jordy Williams if this is the quality of work they produce.

The centre left base is significantly supported by women and political parties should be heavily rewarding that - especially given the current political context

Let's see some absolutely overt pro-women policies to "energise the base" and force the government to respond (and lose even more ground)

Kiwi pukupuku, the fat little spotted kiwi.

I think this could be the soft target that Labour, the @nzgreenparty.bsky.social and @tepaatimaori.bsky.social could have a blast with, pointing out to Seymour, again and again, that he's the exact tax-wasting petty bureaucrat that he claims to rail against.

yesterday @davidjroth.bsky.social used the phrase “their brains were defeated by their phones” and i genuinely think we’ve lost like meaningful swaths of some generations to this

People are going on and on about how “understanding AI is a requirement for the new era” then falling immediately for the Eliza Effect.

Porcupine charts are the best (funniest) and everyone should have code for generating interactive ones

It's literal! According to the internet the salt is either "potassium carbonate" or "forbidden sherbet".

And storing the batteries! Don't want salty batteries.

If school kids could understand a system well enough to 'game' it then parents and Ministers of the Crown not understanding it at all is def a skill issue.

Also, the Minister going on the record to express bafflement over how E for excellence is better than A for achieved is fucking funny.

The absolute state of this. NZ’s leading education thought leaders, none of whom have actually worked in education.

Story idea: get an LLM to mark the govts performance

I'm thinking of the Waterview Tunnel which cost $1.4 billion and took six years, or Transmission Gully which cost $1.25 billion and took eight years. Then I look at Nationals planned roads and the costing and I laugh and laugh and laugh.

I think I saw this come up on one of the breakfast shows maybe? He tried to deflect iirc.

a fun game to play with BLS numbers is to go “that’s stupid, why do they do it that way” and then go find the paper explaining why they do it that way to see if you still think it’s stupid, and if you do, you win

I am like 0 for 19 lifetime at this game

Godammit Karen

They thought they'd end up with frightened and compliant workers

Wait, did Chris Bishop, the ex student politics nerd who has managed several general election campaigns for the National Party really say, as I am hearing reports that he did, that he doesn't know which parties special votes tend to benefit?

Photo of a sketch of a Neanderthal. The headline reads: Scientists Growing Neanderthal 'Minibrains', Will Connect Them to Crab Robots

Go for it. I don't even care any more.

Trump comes at you fast

"I think it's best you stop the investigation before you find out exactly what I know."

It’s a golden age for Cassandras.

This new DC Film Universe isn't afraid to be weird and I respect it.

If you joined InternetNZ to help stop the takeover by rhe FSU and Hobson's Pledge, you've done some great work tonight

Consider bringing that energy to other civil society organisations, groups like Voices for Freedom are also trying to take advantage of low participation to push their agenda

What sucks about this institutionally, is that a body that was apolitical and expertise-focused has been forced into a partisan space by the far right, and now the only option for keeping out cooker racists is to run partisan tickets for the Board.