This is so monumentally fucked up on every level I feel sick to my stomach.

One thing you will never think after reading a great book or listening to a great album or seeing a great piece of art is, “I’m really glad this person remained cautious while they were making this and guarded against being perceived as weird.”

Almost everything we argue about is a substitute for the thing we should be arguing about: the immense wealth & power of an oligarchic class, which captures governments, ruins lives and wrecks the living planet.
This class redirects our rage at scapegoats. To resist its lies is to resist its power.

For those who may have missed this earlier in the day-

A Newly Discovered Recording Lets You Hear Delta Blues Legend Robert Johnson in Stunning Clarity Great swathes of rock music since the nineteen-sixties would never have existed, we're sometimes told, were it not for the recordings of Robert Johnson. Certainly the likes of Keith Richards, Eric Cla...

A Newly Discovered Recording Lets You Hear Delta Blues Legend Robert Johnson in Stunning Clarity

We’ve toiled and lost jobs just to end up with this crappy economy The Coalition has trampled over social cohesion only to leave us back where we started - or worse.

“We’ve toiled and lost jobs just to end up with this crappy economy”

I wish it was just jobs & toil. The govt have gutted pay equity, housing, food banks, disability support at the same time as pumping money into landlords, tobacco companies, & any pet projects that help donors not NZers #nzpol

This is a damn funny review.

I hate Al and I refuse to use it Peter, if you don't use Al a bunch of super rich men will lose a lot of money I already said I hated Al Harry, you don't need to sell it to me

I watched it in the cinema, and invisible entities tickled the back of my neck.

this is like a miracle

Iran war: Greens call to ‘electrify everything’ and distance NZ from US The Green Party says a national electrification plan is needed to build NZ’s energy security as, unlike oil shipments, wind and solar can’t be held up in the Strait of Hormuz.

The Green Party says a national electrification plan is needed to build NZ’s energy security as, unlike oil shipments, wind and solar can’t be held up in the Strait of Hormuz.

This movie is great. Best use of a leaf to play pan-pipe music ever!

'You've got to know when to hold 'em
Know when to fold 'em
Know when to walk away
And know when to run
You never count your money
When you're sittin' at the table
There'll be time enough for countin'
When the dealin's done'

AI bubble metaphors keep coming thick and fast.

‘The AI industry is ignoring how much people hate it’ | Ed Zitron YouTube video by The Tech Report

Joined the Times Tech Report to talk about the dangerous rhetoric spread by Sam Altman and Dario Amodei, and how the AI industry needs to stop threatening people with job loss as a means of hyping their products.
youtu.be/Dhx5RoOXrhk?...

Just published!

Writing with the amazing @sarahhbickerton.bsky.social we unpack online misogyny in NZ, what laws look like right now and set out our vision for online safety regulations that support women's human rights.

Was wonderful working with Sarah on this piece!

As wealth concentrates, so does power — the power to influence elections, shape policy, tilt markets and define the terms of public debate.

Taxing billionaires is not radical.

What is radical is allowing a system where extreme wealth exists alongside widespread hardship.

Fucking assholes. Hope the dog recovers quickly, Al.

‘My life has become a rollercoaster’: Francesca Albanese on death threats, danger and dread after accusing Israel of genocide When the UN special rapporteur published her report Anatomy of a Genocide in March 2024, she was lionised by some and demonised by the Trump government. She describes what happened next

“My life has become a rollercoaster,” she says in reference to the death threats and sanctions. “I never imagined living without a bank card, but I do. People help me. My freedom is stronger than my fear. You are defeated the moment you stop fighting.”

www.theguardian.com/law/2026/apr...

they're all going down

People hate this shit so much. Nobody's having fun. Even the AI people are getting tired of this. They're losing and they know it. Even with the ever-growing revenues of OpenAI and Anthropic, things feel weird and bad. Anthropic's services are also randomly broken or rate limited to hell. Cool!

Man Who Threw Molotov Cocktail At Sam Altman’s Home Claims He Was Following ChatGPT Recipe For Risotto SAN FRANCISCO—Following reports that a 20-year-old man had been arrested for throwing a Moltov cocktail at Sam Altman’s home, the suspect stated Monday that he only initiated the attack because he was...

“I’ve been using ChatGPT to help with cooking for a while now, so I didn’t think too much of it when the ingredients list included a bottle filled with gasoline and a cloth wick,” said the alleged attacker

I hope he gets crucified in the US media for that one.

Book cover: Story Skeleton, The Classics, by David Griffin Brown and Michelle Barker

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
"This is an enlightening, witty, and extremely educational analysis of twenty classic novels that has inspired me to read them all again."

mybook.to/skelly-class...

Yep. It's surprising how many people don't understand Jesus' importance in Islam.

Jesus is a literal prophet in Islam, practising muslims hold him in pretty high regard. It's when you ask people in the West who make Christianity their personality about Islam that the disrespect flows

Since Marc Zuckerberg has permitted his company to create an AI Mark Zuckerberg chatbot to communicate with his staff, he should be responsible for all the problems it creates.

Man Who Threw Molotov Cocktail At Sam Altman’s Home Claims He Was Following ChatGPT Recipe For Risotto

Man Who Threw Molotov Cocktail At Sam Altman’s Home Claims He Was Following ChatGPT Recipe For Risotto theonion.com/man-who-threw-molotov-co...

Again, if you have a Substack, the best time to switch away was months ago -- but today's the second best time.

It's a War on Woke and you're not ready to fight, you commie Following the declaration of states of emergency for Cyclone Vaianu, Wairoa Mayor Craig Little said our little country is "becoming woke". Little, who arrived in Aotearoa on The New Zealand Company's...

“Now that you know everything is woke, it's important to use the word woke whenever and wherever you can. Even if it makes no logical sense. Like if there's a cyclone and the cyclone isn't as strong as it was initially thought to be? It's woke……”

#NZpol