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Completely Black @completelyblack.bsky.social · 23h

Also, I think some latent religious misgivings, and wanting to leave a positive legacy, would been on their minds.

Completely Black @completelyblack.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Yes (not that I need to tell you) that's the problem about trying to triangulate policy like this. You end up talking to small segments of the voter population. Which maybe OK if you are ACT and can join together some dog whistles and ride to 8%. But not so hot for notionally mass movements.

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PEEBleguese PEEBleguese @thehumancentipeeb.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I was once caught dogging and caused the entire US B1 bomber fleet to leave the nearby RAF airbase

The legend Sir Bob Mortimer on would i lie to you

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Completely Black @completelyblack.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I suppose it is targeted at nudging some fraction of the mythical centre-swing voter.

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Completely Black @completelyblack.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The highway is being funded out of pay INequity.

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Completely Black @completelyblack.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Surely, they will just dig up some more old bones and claim to have found them. Just like they did the first time.

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Sacha @sachadylan.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

"Restoring commuter rail will give smaller regions and towns the benefits of more travellers stopping at their town stations, creating more economic opportunities and connecting them to main centres and other towns." @julieannegenter.greens.org.nz #NzPol

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Greens' $4b rail plan: Overnight trains, Christchurch-Dunedin service

The passenger rail plan includes routes from Auckland to Wellington, Christchurch to Dunedin and extending the current Te Huia train to Tauranga.

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Jordan Rivers @jordanriversnz.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The craziest thing about elections is seeing how many grown adults have been tricked into thinking that their tax money going towards public services that serve them is a bad thing and not the point of taxes. People proudly living worse lives because theyve been convinced a better life is "woke"

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Completely Black @completelyblack.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I don’t quite see how a LLM could be used to hack RSA like that. Perhaps an LLM could be used to find hackable errors in code that implements RSA. But that is no different to what can already be done (if such errors exist), except the “democratization” of the resources and capability to do it.

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Sassy Little Hobbit @sassypolitico.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Nothing angers me more than when a rich person says they are happy to be taxed more and people say “why don’t you write a check to the government” motherfucker they want everyone in their tax bracket to also write a check to the government because that’s how maths works you fucking numpty.

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Completely Black @completelyblack.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

c.f. "neural network", and "artificial intelligence". Words that people think they understand, but are used to name things that are very different.

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Completely Black @completelyblack.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

"Fascist governments are condemned to lose wars because they are constitutionally incapable of objectively evaluating the force of the enemy." --- Umberto Eco, Ur-Fascism.

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Completely Black @completelyblack.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Yes, I think it is from "professional" recruiters who are interviewing large numbers of people for positions that they do not really understand. So, they have lots of dumb rituals and rules to "objectively" whittle the pool down to a manageable shortlist that they can pass onto their client.

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Veronika Meduna @veronikameduna.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

"It is morally repugnant – to Hager, to his TU informants, to many others – that you would deliberately stir up hatred in a society, simply because it was an effective way to achieve your goals." Great read by Simon Wilson on Nicky Hager's book simonwilsonhopetown.substack.com/p/dirty-work...

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Dirty work and the disinfecting sunshine it deserves

Nicky Hager’s new book ‘Dirty Work’ reminds us how much we’ve lost in the last three years

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Grumpy @grumpyyetamusin.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I'm never going to get my head around RW neoliberalism convincing folk that they would get better public services from private, profit-focused, suppliers than they would from state owned enterprises... Absolute bollocks.

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Eddie Clark @dreddieclark.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

My eyes could not roll harder. a) Soares wrote his doomer book with the Harry Potter fanfic cult guy. b) The comparison is not playing Carlsen or Federer fairly. It's shooting them in the head. Then it doesn't matter how good they are at tennis or chess. www.stuff.co.nz/world-news/3...

“The kill switch sort of works if you know how to use it, and then it only works if the AIs are still only running on the computers you think they’re running on. You’ve also got to be very wary of the AIs sort of playing along while you hand them all the power,” says Soares.

As Soares puts it, debates over exactly how the AI beats humans if it ever becomes a competition between us and them can miss the point. If we make something vastly more intelligent than us, it will simply win.

It’s the same way I can say with certainty that if I played Roger Federer at tennis or Magnus Carlsen at chess, I would lose.

The actual moves they use to beat me are harder to predict, but the outcome is never in question. If we build something smarter than us, it will shape the world, not us.

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Patrida Sutton @patridanz.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The TPU keep referring to Hager as a Left wing activist when he's previously been very critical of Labour re GM and the Corngate scandal, while the TPU are genuinely hard right wing activists. Words matter. #nzpol

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M R. X. Dentith @mrxdentith.com · 23/09/2026

Toby Manhire’s repeated question to Nicky Hager of “Wouldn’t your book have been better if you had given the lying liars a right to respond with lies in your book?” is yet more evidence that journalists in Aotearoa seem to think civility is everything

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Completely Black @completelyblack.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Although, both of National's coalition partners are corrupt. So, maybe, they are just playing hard to get, in the hopes of catching some more donation dollars?

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Sascha Stronach🏳️‍⚧️, The Sunforge out now @understatesmen.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

interesting thing to post 30 minutes before Nicky Hager announces the TPU had a role in rolling Maiki Sherman

Ani O'Brien frantically trying to poison the well around Nicky Hager's upcoming book, which paints her as a catspaw of the far right

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Lyndon Hood @lyndonhood.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The guy in The Princess Bride does not list all the classic blunders but I guess one is doing Nicky Hager damage control when Nicky Hager was not thinking about you.

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Ben Templesmith @templesmith.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Like… no shit Sherlock. Corporations need to be prosecuted for the harmful effects of their products. OpenAI have done so many criminal acts, at least get them for the bleedingly obvious ones. Sam Altman should be someone’s prison bitch. gizmodo.com/bessent-says...

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Treasury Secretary Says OpenAI Managers Are to Blame for Hugging Face Breach, Not AI Agents

So should we start holding OpenAI accountable for it or are we waiting for something?

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Kevin Pluck @kevpluck.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Stop voting for parties that promise tax cuts.

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Char Of AotearoaNZ @kiwichar.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I couldn’t believe Jack Tame actually platformed that corrupt (Atlas Network, Astroturfing, Fake Union), prick at all. He & his merry band of misery merchants are the reason why NZ isn’t thriving & inequality has been rapidly increasing. Shit work NZ Q&A. #nzpol #OneTermGovernment #NZ

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CEO Johnny Cans @oldmatecans.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

That.... that's not how cricket works. The bowler isn't trying to get you to hit the ball. He knows that right.

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Alice Soper @alicesoapbox.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

So that Green supermarket policy must have gone down very well with certain focus groups huh

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Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand @greens.org.nz · 14/09/2026

Let there be no mistake. This government has gutted critical environmental safeguards as dictated by powerful, polluting lobbyists who will make huge profits as a result.

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White Flight From the Mouth of Infinity @leyndellsoviet.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Great Man of History theory is reactionary bullshit, but we're learning in real time that Flailing Oaf of History theory is extremely valid and explains much of our current world.

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Completely Black @completelyblack.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

It also seems very correlated that we have a heavy flu season just after changes in government policy towards flu vaccinations and sick leave in schools and workplaces.

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Completely Black @completelyblack.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

We're just normal men. We're just innocent men.

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Completely Black @completelyblack.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Well, right now is the time to prosecute and jail everyone at OpenAI who was involved in hacking Hugging Face.

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Completely Black @completelyblack.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Yep. You also need humans to setup the LLM too. Humans who should definitely be held responsible (and jailed) for using a LLM for hacking.

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Completely Black @completelyblack.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

So, is that telling us: - their support level really is varying from poll to poll due to, prevailing news stories, etc., and / or - the methodology and sampling decisions of the different polling companies has an impact on apparent support?

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Mike Dickison @adzebill.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

BRANZ is an internationally well-respected research institute that’s *independent* of any government department—folding it into MBIE for vague cost-cutting reasons is stupid. www.rnz.co.nz/news/busines...

rnz.co.nz

Decades of building industry research at risk

The future of our world-respected building research association is looking shaky with a government move to cut the dedicated levy that funds it.

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Completely Black @completelyblack.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

We’ve survived ice ages. Humanity will be fine. This civilisation is screwed, however.

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Completely Black @completelyblack.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

*Looks around at everything*: Yes, they are too incompetent for that. You are right about this, too.

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Completely Black @completelyblack.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

They are such a nest of vipers that they are afraid one of the others will narc them out to Trump.

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Completely Black @completelyblack.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Seasonality of crops is a problem that modern industrial societies have to solve too.

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Completely Black @completelyblack.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

a) They are just trying to pump their valuations and/or create a pretext for govt bailouts of their failing businesses. b) To the extent that they really believe this, I think that they are imagining a LLM deliberately hooked up to (or hacking into) Theranos-style* lab automation. *imaginary

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Michael Spicer @michaelspicer.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I cannot tell you what absolute fiction this is. AI is heading for a crash and this cackhanded Terminator narrative is being engineered to save them. The fact that the unsubstantiated testimony of a former employee has been the top story on BBC News all day is absurd and irresponsible.

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Char Of AotearoaNZ @kiwichar.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

When pictures speak a trillion words… “Oh he’s so cheeky & whimsical, he definitely gets my vote” 🙄🤦‍♀️ #nzpol #OneTermGovernment #NZ

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Carl B Latro @carlblatro.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Chewie arrested for taking notes on his cellphone at an ACT party public meeting! www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFUJ... #nzpol

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#BHN Chewie finds himself at Central police Station for asking the wrong questions at ACT meeting

YouTube video by Big Hairy Network

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Completely Black @completelyblack.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Yes. It is often good for getting the gist of something. Although, the wiki author(s) can sometimes get lost in weird rabbitholes. So, IME students that rely too much on wikipedia sometimes end up attaching outsized importance to a minor issue.

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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

incredible that wikipedia now has higher ai standards than nearly every school in america

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Lauren M @elenem.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Honestly Labour, fuck you at this point. Like just get fucked. The world is burning and you're all in with the blowtorches just to appease a few people who will never vote for you anyway. What a piece of shit party you are #nzpol

nzherald.co.nz

He waka eke no more – after 18 years, Labour not committing to pricing for agricultural emissions

Labour leader Chris Hipkins said his party will find other ways to reduce emissions.

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Pōneke @archivesrock.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

"150-odd rich listers, many of whom fund ACT, accumulated $27bn in the past year while homeless people died outside MPs offices" elizabethallen.substack.com/p/is-now-the...

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IS NOW THE TIME FOR THE BFP PARTY?

The Bottom Feeders Party

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Anne Robbins @hincmariana.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

An ancient listing, flagged in an old cutting from the Guardian, for a job at Southeast Missouri State University, to teach philosophy and religious studies. Startlingly frank.

An old newspaper clipping, apparently from the Guardian:

ENCLOSED is an announcement of a tenure-track position in philosophy at the rank of assistant professor. We hope to fill this position rapidly... We are more interested in looking at candidates with real teaching experience than in newly minted PhD's, who might have unrealistic expectations about the possibilities for academic growth at an institution such as ours. Southeast Missouri State University is a regional university which serves students in the southeast portion of the state including St Louis.
Our students tend to be poorly prepared for college level work, intellectually passive, interested primarily in partying, and culturally provincial in the extreme. We offer a major in philosophy, but do not usually have more than two students officially declared as majors at any given time... We also offer a rellgious studies minor; most of the students who declare this minor are shocked to learn that Moses might not have written the Pentateuch and regard higher criticism as secular humanist propaganda.
The academic environment at
SEMO is distinctly non-intellectual - somewhat like a Norman Rockwell painting— and the candidate cannot expect to attract students by offering courses that assume innate curiosity about ideas and books, or intellectual playful-ness, or independence of moral and political thought.
Job advertisement written by the chairman of the Department of Philosophy at the Southeast Missouri State University

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