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Worth a watch: Head of Signal, Meredith Whittaker, on so-called "agentic AI" and the difference between how it's described in the marketing and what access and control it would actually require to work as advertised.

submitted 2 days ago • 192 comments

I, genuinely, consider our current NZ coalition govt to be amongst the most intellectually limited, basic ass, self-serving, bunch of no mates, petty, vindictive losers ever to hold power. Their entire ethos reeks of smug punching down and ego-soothing greed.

submitted 3 days ago • 21 comments

If accurate, this is farcical. & inconsistent with the basics of good legislative practice, making it crystal clear the Bill isn't a good faith attempt to improve such. Insincere & undemocratic. & adds to a lack of legitimacy making it v easy for the next govt to justify repealing immediately.

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submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

I’ve written a letter of complaint to the PM regarding Seymour's behaviour. We’ve witnessed him target academics who act as our critic and conscience, and attack public servants for simply doing their job. This is unacceptable.

submitted 5 days ago • 24 comments

Tory's right, everyone disturbed by this is right, it is authoritarian behaviour and needs to be stamped out from the very top.

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

"At a time like this, it is extraordinary that a Deputy Prime Minister here should initiate an online campaign of intimidation against university scholars, using Trumpian rhetoric and tactics to harass them for exercising their academic freedom." newsroom.co.nz/2025/06/23/a...

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

Two news outlets covering the same story, two quite different notifications

submitted 6 days ago • 3 comments

We should be sanctioning the US and its entire government for starting an illegal war of aggression. Just like we did with Russia.

submitted 6 days ago • 9 comments

Not the biggest issue right now, but Dutch continues to not be a serious language

submitted 6 days ago • 122 comments

“AI” is a stochastic parrot, a system “for haphazardly stitching together sequences of linguistic forms it has observed in its vast training data, according to probabilistic information about how they combine, but without any reference to meaning”. on.ft.com/4kMiXTX

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submitted 8 days ago • 5 comments

This is one major reason we should abandon US Software.

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

I FUKKEN CALLED IT

submitted 9 days ago • 63 comments

So Shane went to flog New Zealand off to the oil industry and they said they think his promises are worthless because the coalition will likely lose the upcoming election. Did I get that right?

submitted 10 days ago • 22 comments

I do not want AI in my parliamentary process.

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

Bought OTD in 1972; hard rock was hard to find but this fitted the bill - great riffs, fast tempos, allusive lyrics, generally menacing aura. The slower Then Came The First Days of May ~ about a dope deal gone disastrously wrong ~ is a masterpiece

submitted 11 days ago • 11 comments

For folks in my area of work, this is specifically in the educational context of writing an essay. Most interesting takeaway imo is that using LLM to edit work your brain did itself seems to be less cognitively damaging that trying to tweak an originally LLM generated essay with your own brain.

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

Absolutely everyone on bluesky knows Chris Bishop is an insufferable cunt, right?

submitted 10 days ago • 3 comments

Real countries do a census, so they can know themselves and govern effectively. Its that simple. National simply isn't a serious government.

submitted 10 days ago • 4 comments

People all over the place appear to have lost their entire minds about school closures during the pandemic rather than losing their entire minds about MILLIONS OF PEOPLE DYING DURING THE PANDEMIC What is wrong with everyone

submitted 11 days ago • 55 comments

On NRT: Today in dysfunctional government - norightturn.blogspot.com/2025/06/toda...

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