"And almost immediately, Wong honed in on him. She called him racist to his face. She blamed him for looking backwards, not forward. Called his rhetoric dangerous. Called him out for prioritising the gender bill and culture wars over splitting up the supermarket duopoly and making groceries cheaper. That last one caught him off guard."

Yes, she did all that. And then she said she was fine with putting him back in power.

If you vote for Opportunity you get Peters. Simple as that. #nzpol

if ai is so smart why it cant it tell me where to get 64gb of ram for less than a million dollars

LLMs are killing human learning. We may have just seen the last generation of young *any intellectual pursuit* start their careers for some time. Till the bubble bursts - either under the weight of its own financial stupidity - or till the LLMs disappear up their own fundaments because there's nothing new to train them on other than their own slop.

https://youtu.be/KqiDqJMxg6o

I agree with Altman here. Altman should indeed accept some negative consequences for the sake of AI. Such as jail time for all the computer crimes he has openly admitted to committing or directing to be committed for the purposes of training and testing.

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/10/04/sam-altman-decoded-interview-ai-01106217

I never unintend a pun. As we all know, the penis mightier than the sword.

Upon arrival at Auckland, police issued him a move-on order, I assume. #aupol #nzpol

https://www.stuff.co.nz/world-news/361036636/australia-books-homeless-kiwi-2239-flight-auckland-instead-housing-him

Did booth duty for the Greens at the Kumeu Makets today. There was Green, Labour and National all right next to one another.

The Nats brought about half a dozen Young Nats. They wanted to talk to us and ask why we were in the Green Party. So I told them - brought up in Aus in a Liberal Party voting household, spent a night watching Liberal Party hoardings outside a local primary school so the Labor people didn't nick them before election day the next day. But did maths, physics, chemistry and computing and came to believe that Climate Change was a real thing, though we had 40 years before it was a problem and the people in charge would take care of it.

But in that 40 years the people in charge did not take care of it, and eventually I realised that the Someone Who Should Take Care of It has to be me, and so I joined the Greens.

They all seemed genuinely interested to hear it and also wanted to what we thought about the Nats. I said I respected that Chris Penk was a principled man although I did not agree with all his politics, and I was sorry about how he was treated.

They said they loved that we could have a discussion like that without everyone getting angry and name calling etc.

Nice kids! I hope one day they turn to the light side. :-D

'[W]e've got a big target to try and hit by 2030, we'll do everything we can.

"But equally, I'm not going to go send billions of dollars offshore, I'm going to do everything we can to try and hit that target.'

Everything, Luxon? *Everything?*

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/politics_election-2026/1193765/pm-christopher-luxon-says-staying-in-paris-climate-deal-non-negotiable-in-coalition-negotiations

Have to admit, as much as "being the grownup" and using the controversy as an opportunity to vocalise our own agenda was the right thing to do, I am relieved we finally came out and said it:

"The Greens' co-leader Marama Davidson said her party had written to Parliament's Speaker Gerry Brownlee to request that he require Peters to formally withdraw his comment and apologise.

"The racism towards our Green MP was absolutely unacceptable, but it also has further consequences on the safety of migrant communities across Aotearoa."

She said the Greens would not go into any governing arrangement with New Zealand First."

#nzpol

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/politics/882545/winston-peters-refuses-to-apologise-for-racist-comments-after-meeting-with-pm