Peter Green

As a young man, I used to think there was no such thing as 'forbidden' knowledge, that knowledge was always good and could never be harmful. As a somewhat older man, I regard this position was folly. No one is improved by finding out what a Malfoid is. This is a knowledge that should be forbidden.

I regret I have but one heart to give this take 💜 My thing with LLMs is: all of their environmental, legal, and epistemological issues could disappear overnight, and the tech is still going to be used as a cudgel to smash worker power, and to disenfranchise folks already struggling to get ahead.

those who stare too long into the abyss are like "maybe the abyss has some good points. Maybe we need to meet the abyss in the middle. Maybe those who criticise the abyss are smug elitists"

this phrase "without Arab parties" ... I have questions. And I think I am likely to have follow up questions.

There is truly nothing you could do to make fun of the NYT covering the Obama Cheesecake Factory quip instead of Trump being accused of rape. It’s completely beyond parody.

Also! “Professor of practice” is a term of art. It’s specifically about real-world experience of the thing being taught, in all sorts of disciplines. 🤷🏻‍♀️ Like architecture: www.sydney.edu.au/architecture... Or writing: www.sydney.edu.au/news-opinion... Or economics: www.sydney.edu.au/arts/news-an...

TPU ads running in front of autoplay videos on NZME website - which are again AI generated Hipkins - REALLY feels like it shouldn't be allowed. Media can't keep getting away with claiming "objectivity" for verbatim reporting PR lines, or refusing to attack the rightwing, while this incentive exists

I didn't know they made these in the 70s.

RNZ asking the Sensible Sentencing Trust and TPU for comment on the new attack billboards is yet more evidence they learned nothing from Dirty Work. These are bad-faith PR orgs and RNZ is willfully running cover for them.

It's really important to pay attention to the fact that Lula beat the fascist candidate not by compromising and trying to meet fascist voters in the middle, but by sticking to his guns, promising prosecutions for election interference, and mobilising his own voters to turn out in greater numbers.

you guys i’m starting to think that gang and crime discourse is just a way for the right wing to launder fear and racism through the dominant centre-right media whilst maintaining a facade of respectability.

This govt doesn't want you to vote. Which is why you need to make sure everyone you know is enrolled by 11:59pm #nzpol

So, effectively we're hosting a US military base - a big fat target for someone else's missiles - and we don't get visibility over what is done from our soil. Fuck that. Kick the yanks out.

When political scientists first raised concerns about this new restriction last year we were told we were being ‘alarmist’ to suggest tilting the playing field unfairly like this by one party can undermine the legitimacy of the election out come for all Kiwis in a tight race I’m still ‘alarmed’…

Luxon just did a media stand up after that lame rally, did anyone ask if Nicolla Willis is going to debate Chloe? I'll wait.... #nzpol

The passive voice here is a choice, just like choosing how to engage in a debate. It’s amoral to think a nuanced debate is impossible when you refuse to contribute anything yourself except savvy cynicism.

Harrowing but very good piece that puts all the current political and media nonsense in context. Deals with the systematic failure of NZ govt and society to address institutional abuse in care. Tim Jago, Aussie Malcom, etc can be understood in this context. Horrible. newsroom.co.nz/2026/10/25/a...

And HERE'S ERICA

Real quiet out of the Nicolla Willis camp 🐥🐥🐥🐔🐔🐔#nzpol

In The Post today, The New Zealand Initiative’s Michael Johnston on the entrenched poverty crisis and Mustelid Incorporated's Weasel B. Stoat on the threats to native birds.

“Every Māori politician in this country gets asked, sooner or later, to account for a relationship no Pākehā politician is ever asked about”—a question framed by those who “have never had to explain their own cousins to a camera.” @mohanjdutt.bsky.social culture-centered.blogspot.com/2026/10/the-...

"in a campaign filled with AI slop and gross misrepresentations of minor issues, it is naive to think a nuanced debate on this could be had."

so now we're going to have 2 weeks of media pressure on ACT Party associations with a convicted pedophile right? Because Seymour has openly lied about this for years, and this is pretty good evidence that he was being dishonest

And last one so I stop spamming y'all: Winston Peters contributed to a Black Power owned newspaper Te Iwi o Aotearoa His were: March 1988: “The Future of Employment in Aotearoa” May 1988: “Education — The Key to Race Relations” July 1989: An analysis of the government's Treaty principles. #nzpol

According to the LinkedIn post @debtekawa-ao.bsky.social posted, Curia has been hardcore failing to accurately call the Māori electorates since switching methods in 2023 to include a panel element. Tāmaki Makaurau sample now biased to the tune of 2.5x as many homeowners lmao Give Whakaata a refund!

The treatment of Kerrin Leoni reminds me of how Helen Clark misread her dealings with Tariana Turia, humiliating her publicly. And that, as I recall, led to the formation of Te Pati Maori. It seems Hipkins did not learn from that.

I don’t know if you will have noticed this. In the midst of an absolute crisis in every level of our health system, the Green Party announced a policy to massively boost funding to Health with a $30Bn investment over four years.

💯 but also - take a look at the Tāmaki Makaurau results for a snapshot of the likely bias in these numbers - 17.5% of Māori (per Te Whata, 2023 census) own their home in Auckland, one of the polling items - but 43% in the poll said they did. This is where the bias is in the poll

Tama Potaka (National). Not sure of the context of the photo but here he is, in a photo, meeting gang members. #nzpol

one of the ways for Hipkins to take the heat off Labour would be to do a big 'stand up' announcement and go after ACT and Seymour on how Jago was covered up, and that the entire National coalition is invested in protecting powerful pedophiles and their supporters

I do want to be clear, Hipkins' garbage-tier instincts aside, this whole thing is *predominantly* an overtly racist dirty politics campaign that has the rightwing coalition parties effectively coordinating with all major media outlets to try and ensure there is no change of government

every single major outlet with multiple reporters and newsrooms OIAing and muckraking about gangs for 2 weeks straight: "we simply don't have the *resources* to investigate the association between Seymour and Jago *which has been publicly available on social media*"

"Our Māori MPs get held to a very different standard to others." Well maybe don't do that eh Chris?

Uh... almost certainly not. But we're going to play this game, perhaps we wouldn't have Clarence Thomas on the Supreme Court if Judiciary Committee chair Joseph Robinette Biden hadn't enabled the public slut-shaming of Anita Hill. Which he still refuses to apologise to Hill for.