Welp, since the US has all in on ‘great replacement’ it’s an excellent time to revisit this episode.

I'm just like a large language model in that I've read everything on the internet and it's made me effectively useless

Join us in calling on the government to immediately halt all progress on the amendments to the Marine and Coastal Area (Takutai Moana) Act. our.actionstation.org.nz/petitions/op...

Join us for the launch of Protect Protest, a coalition established to defend protest as a tool of democracy and liberation.

15 October 4:30pm - 7pm in Government Building Lecture Theatre 1 (GBLT1), Pipitea Campus, Te Herenga Waka VUW

Early(ish) career folk, if you haven't seen this call, please take a look! We've had a decent number of responses but we would like to get more representation from across the sector. The (extended) call technically ends tomorrow, but we can be flexible for promised submissions.

If you are fuming about the derailment of climate ambition in AoNZ, how about helping fund an investigation into where this came from 👇

The select committee report on the Regulatory Standards Bill is in.
📝166,000 submissions.
❌98.7% opposed.
Yet National are going to continue supporting it.
🗣New Zealand could not have been louder, but Luxon still isn’t listening.

Just want to note that the local paper in Wellington spent an entire term of council proactively and in many cases irrationally campaigning against any urbanist initiatives whatsoever and the result has been a mayor perhaps slower on it but not opposed & a council table substantially more urbanist.

Mind blowing.

The Luxon Government has confirmed it will rewrite NZ’s once bipartisan climate change law to dilute methane reduction targets and PERMANENTLY exclude dairy from the Emissions Trading Scheme – a move Greenpeace says amounts to full-blown climate denial.
#nzpol

We will never stop arguing with our computers, and the only way to spend less time arguing with our computers is to go to sleep.

“Concerns over an AI bubble bursting have grown lately, with analysts recently finding that it’s 17 times the size of the dotcom-era bubble and four times bigger than the 2008 financial crisis.”

Hang onto your butts. This “correction” is gonna hurt.
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No plausible argument this was in good faith: “Ten minutes before we were due to meet, the Government presented us with another offer for settlement of the Secondary Teachers’ Collective Agreement – with a condition it would lapse if strike action was notified.”
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“New Zealand’s only publicly funded long Covid clinic closed in 2023. The five-month pilot clinic in Christchurch didn’t secure funding to stay open.

The Ministry of Health is no longer undertaking any policy or evidence work on long Covid.”

We should be outraged by this.

If this ceasefire happens - and I hope it does - Western media will talk about 'peace'. This will be inaccurate. What they will mean is 'quiet', a reversion to the background level of violence that Palestinians have faced for decades. Peace can only come with the end of the occupation and apartheid.

Offered rest home care at 24: the lonely plight of young Kiwis with long Covid
www.1news.co.nz/2025/10/10/o...

Watching the anti-intellectual fascism in the USA is instructive for our situation in Aotearoa. We can see this politics of disavowal on one hand and intensification on the other just this week from Peters, Willis etc

If teachers are told using AI technologies creates time to spend developing relationships with students, and the report’s findings suggest AI technologies undermine these vital relationships, then it seems to me resistance and refusal of AI technologies is the most caring response.

We condemn police brutality against @peaceactnotautahi.bsky.social members and supporters who engaged in peaceful direct action to oppose NZ arms and aerospace companies' collaboration with the American military industrial complex and the Israeli genocide in Gaza. thespinoff.co.nz/society/08-1...

The government of genocide AND eugenics. Disgraceful and they should never be allowed to forget it

Just leaving this here.

www.emilywrites.co.nz/dogs/

Please consider signing this open letter to Winston Peters on behalf of NZ university staff, students & alumni to demand recognition of a Palestinian state.
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Open letter from staff, students, and alumni of the New Zealand community of universities.

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Scores of peace activists have set up a blockade around a convention centre in central Christchurch to protest against an aerospace summit taking place in the city.