When I rarely read anything published after 1900, this was a book that changed how I thought about literature. Also, David Malouf lived next-door to my mates in 1980s Chippendale and didn't seem to mind at all. Good times. Beautiful writing.
NZ PM Luxon attacks media for reporting on successive National Party leadership coup attempts
What an idiot . Of course it's relevant #NZPOL
Any government that isn't right now accelerating plans to transition to 100% clean, renewable energy is either:
a. Incompetent
b. In the pockets of people who'd rather they didn't
c. a & b
I need writers to stop writing flop-sweat articles claiming “everyone” uses AI. Like baby you give away your artistic soul if you want, no one’s stopping you, but you don’t get to self-soothe on a lie. You’re not an artist anymore and other people still are, and that’s the price of your laziness
Wikipedia now has higher standards than all universities
BREAKING: information now coming in that the Dutch have been hoarding the solution to the oil crisis.
🤣 I thought the same thing
E H McCormick Archive of Frances Hodgkins Photographs Acc. No. RC2001/22 E H McCormick Research Library Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki
The Frances Hodgkins Fellowship for visual artists and Mozart Fellowship for music composers are coming back to @universityofotago.bsky.social in 2027! www.otago.ac.nz/news/newsroo... #art #music
Make dahlias not war
I guess we should credit Minister Willis for fronting a press conference about the fuel crisis, if only to inform us the Govt plans to do exactly nothing.
But if she expects us to believe NZ's WORST CASE SCENARIO is a 3.5% rise in inflation, she takes us for fools.
Derisory levels of leadership.
Willis stands by her government's decision to remove the electric vehicle rebate. She said the rebate was very untargetted. "I simply don't accept the idea that giving subsudies to millionaires in Remuara would help those afflicted by high petrol prices," Willis said.
The insistence on characterising EV subsidies as a perk for millionaires instead of sensible way of kickstarting a necessary transformation away from fossil fuels, when they explicitly singled out landlords for preferential tax relief, is both stupid and disingenuous.
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That’s quite the forecast
I won't be taking any lectures from this government about the previous government's ability to communicate complex issues clearly.
#NZPol
Yes, the French booksellers association forced the Paris Book Festival to drop Amazon sponsorship due to Amazon "seeking to flood the market with fake AI-generated books, promoted by fake reviews, written by fake readers [which rise] to the top of fake rankings"💥 MORE OF THIS, PLEASE 💥
I actually have really hot polls, but you wouldn't know them, they're from the UK
It's genuinely insane that our own Prime Minister doesn't know that it is literally part of his job to explain.
where does it run, Sarah?
You know what won’t get stuck in the Strait of Hormuz?
Sunlight and solar panels.
#MakeOilHistory
Hi, if you’re asking AI to write your book you’re not actually writing. You’re poking a Frankenparrot fashioned from rotting flesh on stolen bones covered in the feathers of a million other birds. You’re condoning theft. You’re trashing our planet. You’re robbing yourself of the chance to grow
photo of Pam Bondi testifying in the foreground as a group of 7 women and 1 men raise their hands
Likely-historic photo by NBC News of all the Epstein victims asked to raise their hands if they've not yet been asked to meet with the DOJ as Bondi testifies in foreground
Thousands of people filled the streets of downtown Minneapolis in protest of federal immigration enforcement for the second consecutive Friday.
📷️: Aaron Lavinsky
"Clear majority of New Zealanders value the influence of the Treaty on Government decisions or thinking there should be more" is another way to package exactly the same results. A Choice that RNZ picked the way in the QT.
good riddance to Minister Judith Collins, who orchestrated the present gutting of New Zealand's science funding establishment
I've not seen or heard any coverage today that mentions this tiny detail, affecting 100s of millions of public dollars and endangering NZ's entire intellectual community
I do remember when Judith Collins leaked the name and details of a public servant to the right wing attack blogger Cameron Slater and then the public servant received personal attacks and death threats. www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
Slashing all Marsden grants to social science and humanities another Judith Collins legacy www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
Walz: "If it was the intention of Donald Trump to make an example of Minnesota, then I'm damn proud of the example that the world is seeing"
The people who spent years defending and even lionizing Kyle Rittenhouse and Ashli Babbitt now want us to believe that an unarmed mother in her car and a disarmed nurse were domestic terrorists who deserved to be murdered by law enforcement.
