Matt Whitehead

News Corp Australia chairman says social media platforms are monsters and torment kids but I guess hacking the phone of a murdered schoolgirl is ok though.

'It's a distraction': PM’s swift U-turn, will pay back $13k in accommodation allowance Labour says PM 'treating hard-working Kiwis like a bottomless ATM'.

At a time the government is cutting support for the most vulnerable in our country, never forget this munter was arguing he was entitled to claim $52K extra in subsidies to live in his own apartment #nzpol

www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/...

We owe them a living, but not necessarily as a bloody rent-seeker

The idea that the government doesn't owe its citizens a reasonable path to a living is entirely insane

When the PM says ‘we don’t owe them a living’, we should be clear that this is not a metaphor.

A living is life. And I want to live in a society in which it is clear that this is the least we owe each other, and are owed. 💞

I’d like us to aim for lives lived in dignity and with joy, personally 🤷‍♀️

I believe it, it takes a lot of effort to be that gormlessly evil lol

I mean, arguably she was right, but had the wrong expectation of the direction of travel, lol

Just having a little gloat about how wrong Jessica Mutch McKay was when she said we just needed to get to know Luxon, we know him and we hate him! 😂 #NZPol

Luxon reaching the last stage of grief for his Prime Ministership..

Acceptance... #nzpol

we knew this was coming some day from the moment they put disabled people under the "jobseeker" benefit category. I didn't expect it to be within three years, though.

Hundreds of teens with a health condition, disability may be cut from Jobseeker benefit The government is ending Jobseeker payments to 18- and 19 year olds whose parents earn more than $65,000.

I wish I was surprised by this but as a country we've shown we dgaf about disabled people #nzpol

www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

Pritzker is right. They want to normalize troops in cities so they can steal every election just like Putin does.

Frankly I'm shocked we're not there already

I know, I know, pointing out the hypocrisy doesn't matter, but jesus christ sometimes the scale of the hypocrisy is so unbelievable you have to voice it just to reassure yourself that you're not hallucinating

Winston Peters strolled around and anti-vax picnic and spoke with people who had chanted and written threats of hanging on gallows of Jacinda Ardern, Dr Ashley Bloomfield and so on, but this was all OK as it was just harmless opportunistic politicking #NZPol

Verity Johnson: "until now, I'd blithely assumed" should be the title of her eventual memoir

(there's also interesting side effects for gaming, as online games fall under the UK regulation if they have chat features, and for... Adult content, lol. The UK law has become hugely unpopular and a lot of commentators are pointing to discomfort at the privacy inplications for pornography 😅)

how about you care about actual fucking people on this planet before you start wondering if your toaster has a soul.

Once everyone materially demonstrates they care for all people on this planet and we deal WITH ALL THAT and all the animals too

then we can talk about your nonsense.

This is a bloody good point. As of November 2026, your 18/19yos will be too old for you to claim working for families, but you'll still be expected to support them if they're out of work in an economy that has haemorrhaged youth jobs under this govt.

Taking away with one hand and slapping you too.

Starmer's Digital ID plans are too toxic even for Oswald Mosley's grandson and Palantir It's potentially another blow for Keir Starmer and his Digital ID policy, as even far-right Palantir wants no part of it

Starmer's Digital ID plans are too toxic even for Oswald Mosley's grandson and Palantir

It's potentially another blow for Keir Starmer and his Digital ID policy, as even far-right Palantir wants no part of it
www.thecanary.co/uk/news/2025...

If you'd asked me which celebrity would posthumously unveil a list of people she wanted fired into the sun, I would not have guessed Jane Goodall

Majority of NZ adults support social media ban for kids - research A social media ban is unlikely to be a "silver bullet" to improving young people's mental health, a researcher says.

I really hope we're not going the UK or Australia route with this. While I think regulation of social media is good, I really don't think we should be doing mandatory online age verification. It's a huge pain and it largely locks people into large monetized platforms due to compliance costs.

Luxon is the kind of man who claims every entitlement he qualifies for whether he needs it or not.

Luxon is the kind of man that takes benefit entitlements away from 18 and 19 year olds, saying that "the world doesn't owe them a living."

Luxon has created an economy where they can't find jobs.

Not a single Greta hater could do what she has done, face what she's faced, bear abuse and humiliation at the hands of the most psychotic and genocidal army. They haven't an ounce of her bravery and that's what drives them crazy. Free Greta, free Palestine🇵🇸

as a girl with a PhD in natural language processing and machine learning it's actually offensive to me when you say "we don't know how LLMs work so they might be conscious"

I didn't spend 10 years in mines of academia to be told ignorance is morally equal knowledge.

We know exactly how LLMs work.

Yes, if it were actually a jobs program or a social work program, there are different ways to describe that. They are telling us their priorities.

Just a reminder that a policy to reduce the number of people on benefits isn’t the same as ensuring they have jobs.

The language and metrics used in policy decisions can create perverse outcomes.

I had deadwood and driftwood confused in my head for a minute and was about to say this isn't a fair comparison because [driftwood] can be put to a number of productive uses, lol

The corporate deadwood who slid into the Beehive and are completely disconnected from workers have done this

Anyone: Why are there suddenly so many AHDH diagnoses? Dr. Jen: Same reason there are suddenly more stars after we built telescopes.

The mystery of medical diagnosis!