Agreed. Equally alarming is how the host nods vigorously in approval. This is really akin to a dangerous cult.

This is somehow amazing, even after everything

So very true

Man I wish someone else would write an article about the Moa Point Green Party lies going around

The lies are insane

#nzpol

Incoming law change so MSD can claw back welfare payments off ACC clients The Minister moved a motion of urgency to introduce the bill.

Horrified tonight to see Labour voting for a govt bill allowing Work & Income to claw back assistance already granted - under urgency, with no public input. Friends in the party - how can you expect anyone who supports welfare justice to vote Labour this year? #nzpol @kikorangi.bsky.social

Please: Enough with the Claims That Modern Advanced Machine Learning Models Hallucinate Only Rarely "Rise of the Sparrows", disappearance of the world model: what MAMLM hallucinations are trying to tell us. Treating large language models as semi-sober research assistants misunderstands what they...

...what, exactly, these systems are doing under the hood; and getting nothing in response but that ASI is coming any moment now:

**Please: Enough with the Claims That Modern Advanced Machine Learning Models Hallucinate Only Rarely**
< braddelong.substack.com/p/please-eno... > 4/END

...correlation machine to impersonate a thinking entity with a world model substantially containing an accurate Visualization of the Cosmic All. You don’t just risk getting a detail wrong—you risk wandering into a parallel universe of invented novels and impossible borders; leading one to ask... 3/

...volume” of a fantasy series as a book that doesn’t exist, producing a botched fantasy bibliography plus an unhinged plot summary. A week later, it produced a a lovingly described but substantially imaginary state of Europe during World War II. This is what you deserve to get when you ask a... 2/

Dark day for working New Zealanders as the Employment Relations Amendment Bill passes - NZCTU The passing of the Employment Relations Amendment Bill is a dark day for working New Zealanders, says New Zealand Council of Trade Unions Te Kauae Kaimahi President Sandra Grey.

#nzpol The Employment Relations Amendment Bill has passed. This is a dark day for working New Zealanders.

Our Government has let Uber and the ACT Party set the agenda for employment law in this country. They need to grow a backbone and stand up for the interests of New Zealand workers.

If you feel like your Electricity bill is out of control – it is. Prices are up 11.5% this year alone. Prices are up 21% from 2023, with the majority of the increase happening since June 2024. Don’t worry though – the government is planning on adding to your bill with a new tax!

Basic goods are really struggling.
- Potatoes up 16.2% annually
- Tomatoes up 31.9%
- Kiwifruit up 40.6%
- Oranges up 19.9%
- Beef Mince up 18.8%
- Sausages up 10.5%
- Cheese up 16.5%
- Butter up 17.7%
- Chocolate up 20.5%

If you need a coffee after that - that's up 8.2%

#nzpol Prices for basics are rising again at a rate much faster than wages, new data from Stats NZ shows. 70% of workers got a pay rise less than 3% last year and 44% got no pay rise at all. Food prices rose 4.6% overall, with the price of white bread rising 58% this year. A 🧵

For households on the lowest incomes, annual inflation is 3.4%. For pensioners, its 3.8%. For the richest its 1.2%. The minimum wage goes up by less than inflation for 3 consecutive years in 26. That laser-like focus on the cost of living seems to be pointing at the wrong people

UK real GDP increased by 0.1% in Quarter 4 2025.

Can't grow economy when 1% has more wealth than 70% of the population combined.

7.3m await NHS hospital appointments in England.

24m live below minimum living standards.

Redistribution and investment in public services needed, not neoliberalism.

IT'S GOOD FOR YOU! ^MT

Lower-income families face 137-year wait for living standards to double, says UK thinktank Two decades of weak pay growth have left poorer households stuck, Resolution Foundation says, fuelling political unease

Lower-income UK families face 137-year wait for living standards to double.

No govt curbs on profiteering.

No plan for redistribution. The poorest 20% pay higher proportion of income in tax than the richest 20%

Poor must unite, vote en block for change, challenge power of corporations/rich.

Good idea.

It's who those votes are cast by that bothers them. (Meaning the special votes, those annoying ones that come in late and get counted last and tend to favour the wrong side.)

IT'S FEBRUARY 2026.

THE RAIL ENABLED HYUNDAI FERRIES FOR I REX WERE MEANT TO ARRIVE BY NOW.

Instead we have no rail enabled ferries, the two we have are clunky as fuck, and there will be no replacement ferries until 2029 at the earliest.

Treasury's advice and forecasts are clearly not working.

It beggars belief that the Reserve Bank is on the verge of tightening policy again and the Government is keeping policy tight. 'We now have nearly 1 in 7 adults on a working age benefit.' Full employment? Yeah...nah.

Yes, it should.

Shane Jones’ rhetoric soars like a pigeon into a jet engine

#nzpol

Thank you

And New Zealand is still thinking about joining this…

take care and pleased you are ok

A discreet intellectual network has been reshaping the world for 70 years. Here's how A constant battle of ideas reshapes the world we live in, and few groups have been more successful in winning the war than the little-known Atlas Network.

Well this is great. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01...

The president should be impeached and convicted, as should everyone responsible for these outrages. ICE should be disbanded. So should the Department of Homeland Security. And the people who have killed should be investigated and brought before judges and juries.

This is fantastic news. Even if the Green Party aren't able to do this, just declaring how wrong and dangerous it is to be handing elements of UK governance over to US fascists like Thiel is incredibly important.

Trump administration concedes DOGE team may have misused Social Security data Some DOGE personnel had more access to data than previously acknowledged, according to a court filing.

Two DOGE members working at the Social Security Administration were secretly in touch with a group seeking to “overturn election results in certain states,” and one signed an agreement that may have involved using Social Security data to match state voter rolls"
www.politico.com/news/2026/01...