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Recent Posts

• Hayden Donnell raises my ‘grim’ Hamish to ‘furious’ Hamish
• Hamish is out. Has had enough of Luxon role
• Hamish Rutherford always looks grim these days
• Tone deaf and out of touch Luxon
• What does ‘entitlement’ look like, Chris Luxon?
• Dark money has entered the New Zealand electoral scene at unprecedented levels
• Slow train of accountability for Cameron Slater
• What if Generative AI isn’t the ‘benefit’ or ‘existential risk’ to humanity that it’s being painted as? Meredith Whittaker & Camille Francois will make you think
• UNSOCIAL MEDIA – Following the Trolls
• An apt warning for a blogger
• Political propaganda dressed up as an opinion poll
• David Farrier’s unsettling new documentary ‘Mister Organ’ – a film to watch through your fingers
• The Wright Family steps into the spotlight. They’re what you probably expected.
• I hope next week’s anti-government protest doesn’t get as entrenched as the last one
• Jane Kelsey, a lifetime of leadership
• Watch the Stuff Circuit doco ‘Fire and Fury’ on the ghastly, cynical disinformation campaign aiming to make the country “ungovernable” – oh, and to raise funds
• Facebook is a scourge. Convince me otherwise.
• So, I was right about paid character assassin Carrick Graham, eh?
• You cannot believe your eyes. (The Queen’s Gambit’s visual effects are astounding.)
• Who funds Matthew Hooton?