Dave
@dpdiver.bsky.social
Diver, humanist.
Follow with caution, I have no idea where I’m going!
📍Aotearoa
Posting any AI generated slop into my feed will probably get you blocked
Follow with caution, I have no idea where I’m going!
📍Aotearoa
Posting any AI generated slop into my feed will probably get you blocked
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Seymour’s state of the nation speech was actually quite impressive - because he managed to diagnose all the problems correctly, and then proposed policies that will make every single problem dramatically worse. That’s quite some skill
#nzpol
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#nzpol
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ACT leader David Seymour delivers 'State of the Nation' speech
In Christchurch, the ACT leader pushed for a smaller state, rejected Treaty "division" and vowed to keep Labour, Greens and Te Pāti Māori from power.
www.rnz.co.nz
February 15, 2026 at 5:46 AM
Seymour’s state of the nation speech was actually quite impressive - because he managed to diagnose all the problems correctly, and then proposed policies that will make every single problem dramatically worse. That’s quite some skill
#nzpol
www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
#nzpol
www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
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NZ has normalised inequality. As the cost of living rises, Govt has to expand into every corner of life so people don't starve and end up homeless.
We need to reduce inequality and rampant rentierism so that people and communities have the resources they need to look after themselves.
We need to reduce inequality and rampant rentierism so that people and communities have the resources they need to look after themselves.
February 14, 2026 at 8:06 AM
NZ has normalised inequality. As the cost of living rises, Govt has to expand into every corner of life so people don't starve and end up homeless.
We need to reduce inequality and rampant rentierism so that people and communities have the resources they need to look after themselves.
We need to reduce inequality and rampant rentierism so that people and communities have the resources they need to look after themselves.
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OIA all those visa applicants and cross reference them all with the epstein files released thus far.
'Golden visa' update announced by Immigration Minister
Immigration Minister Erica Stanford said 573 applications had been received to date, totalling about $3.39 billion invested.
www.rnz.co.nz
February 13, 2026 at 2:25 AM
OIA all those visa applicants and cross reference them all with the epstein files released thus far.
The year is 2035. Inflation is 6%. Wages haven't risen since 2026. Poverty & crime are rife. Finance Minister van Velden releases the 4th triennial 2020 pandemic report, & claims this is why the economy is still shit, & why the CoC are the only ones who can fix it. They win their 6th term #nzpol
February 11, 2026 at 6:09 PM
The year is 2035. Inflation is 6%. Wages haven't risen since 2026. Poverty & crime are rife. Finance Minister van Velden releases the 4th triennial 2020 pandemic report, & claims this is why the economy is still shit, & why the CoC are the only ones who can fix it. They win their 6th term #nzpol
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Since big accounts here are trying to fucking sanitize AI and encourage us to embrace it… this is ONE example of made up citations in law. There are so many. It doesn’t have to be a thing that we rely on. Don’t use it. Simple as that.
THERE IS NO ETHICAL USE OF AI IN LAW AND I WILL DIE ON THIS HILL
Hey, so, I don’t do civil litigation, is it generally considered good when the judge does this?
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
February 11, 2026 at 5:43 PM
Since big accounts here are trying to fucking sanitize AI and encourage us to embrace it… this is ONE example of made up citations in law. There are so many. It doesn’t have to be a thing that we rely on. Don’t use it. Simple as that.
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“Why is AI helping me write a song or tell a story? Send some shit through a black hole; do something that we can’t do. Or dig a ditch; do the shit we don’t want to do. Why is it coming after the stuff that we essentially need to do to be human beings?”
www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...
www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...
Gore Verbinski Sounds Off on AI as He Launches ‘Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die’
The ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’ filmmaker is back after nearly a decade, and is ready to skewer how technology has taken over our lives (even more) in that time: “Why is AI helping me write a song or t...
www.hollywoodreporter.com
February 9, 2026 at 10:53 PM
“Why is AI helping me write a song or tell a story? Send some shit through a black hole; do something that we can’t do. Or dig a ditch; do the shit we don’t want to do. Why is it coming after the stuff that we essentially need to do to be human beings?”
www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...
www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...
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Part one of @Ketanjoshi.co’s new two-part series unpacking the collapsing core case for gas is now live on The Point.
Read the full piece on The Point: https://theaus.in/46FVDlL
Read the full piece on The Point: https://theaus.in/46FVDlL
February 9, 2026 at 11:28 PM
Part one of @Ketanjoshi.co’s new two-part series unpacking the collapsing core case for gas is now live on The Point.
Read the full piece on The Point: https://theaus.in/46FVDlL
Read the full piece on The Point: https://theaus.in/46FVDlL
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If that meteor hadn’t taken out all the dinosaurs, none of this would be happening.
February 10, 2026 at 4:27 AM
If that meteor hadn’t taken out all the dinosaurs, none of this would be happening.
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Bit late to it but if you want to know the chain of events that led to us importing gas (and charging electricity users to pay for it!!), I did this deep dive for RNZ last year www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
The fuel of ‘last resort’: How imported gas became New Zealand’s first choice
It's expensive, vulnerable to price shocks and terrible for the planet. So why are we importing gas?
www.rnz.co.nz
February 10, 2026 at 1:09 AM
Bit late to it but if you want to know the chain of events that led to us importing gas (and charging electricity users to pay for it!!), I did this deep dive for RNZ last year www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
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FFS Hipkins, just say you'll cancel the gas project no matter what. Don't use IRex to take some illusory moral high ground. Just take a strong 'we'll cancel it' position now, and no company will sign a contract until after the election. Yet again he snatches defeat from the jaws of victory #nzpol
February 9, 2026 at 7:12 PM
FFS Hipkins, just say you'll cancel the gas project no matter what. Don't use IRex to take some illusory moral high ground. Just take a strong 'we'll cancel it' position now, and no company will sign a contract until after the election. Yet again he snatches defeat from the jaws of victory #nzpol
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IDK, he seemed like a Decent Enough Bunny, to me…
February 9, 2026 at 6:49 PM
IDK, he seemed like a Decent Enough Bunny, to me…
With Moa Point, yet again the rate/taxpayer picks up the cost of mismanagement by a private company after that company has made millions over the years. And Mayor Little seems all too comfortable with that, and with the council ending up with all the liability. PPPs don't work for the public #nzpol
February 9, 2026 at 6:31 PM
With Moa Point, yet again the rate/taxpayer picks up the cost of mismanagement by a private company after that company has made millions over the years. And Mayor Little seems all too comfortable with that, and with the council ending up with all the liability. PPPs don't work for the public #nzpol
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Bad Bunny’s performance began in the plantation, featured broken electric poles, and ended by centering a hemispheric understanding of “América”—among many other things—and some Anglo journalists are like “his performance wasn’t political.”
This is why we need to be telling our stories.
This is why we need to be telling our stories.
February 9, 2026 at 2:00 PM
Bad Bunny’s performance began in the plantation, featured broken electric poles, and ended by centering a hemispheric understanding of “América”—among many other things—and some Anglo journalists are like “his performance wasn’t political.”
This is why we need to be telling our stories.
This is why we need to be telling our stories.
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Chatbots offer a magnificent bribe - a fast, frictionless route to information that bypasses the discomfort of learning. In this op-ed, we describe this as a Faustian bargain, in which we trade away what it means to be human & universities trade away their value
www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...
www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...
Learning is complex, messy, emotional: AI can’t replicate that
ChatGPT and other AI tools may seem irresistible. But educators should beware, as they could end up trading away the thing that gives them value — the rich experience of slow learning
www.irishexaminer.com
February 5, 2026 at 6:24 PM
Chatbots offer a magnificent bribe - a fast, frictionless route to information that bypasses the discomfort of learning. In this op-ed, we describe this as a Faustian bargain, in which we trade away what it means to be human & universities trade away their value
www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...
www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...
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I'd never heard Luxon laugh. Listening to him on Morning Report just now, he revealed himself as a weird man with a weird laugh, cracking up about himself being unable to touch type (although he likes to think of what he does as touch typing, because of course he does) #nzpol
February 8, 2026 at 7:03 PM
I'd never heard Luxon laugh. Listening to him on Morning Report just now, he revealed himself as a weird man with a weird laugh, cracking up about himself being unable to touch type (although he likes to think of what he does as touch typing, because of course he does) #nzpol
Least surprising sports headline of the weekend.
Here's what happens when you ego makes you think you can ski at the highest level with a ruptured ACL
www.rnz.co.nz/news/sport/5...
Here's what happens when you ego makes you think you can ski at the highest level with a ruptured ACL
www.rnz.co.nz/news/sport/5...
Ski legend Lindsey Vonn stable in hospital after downhill crash
US ski great Lindsey Vonn was flown off the Olympic course after her audacious bid to win a downhill gold ends in a horror crash.
www.rnz.co.nz
February 8, 2026 at 6:43 PM
Least surprising sports headline of the weekend.
Here's what happens when you ego makes you think you can ski at the highest level with a ruptured ACL
www.rnz.co.nz/news/sport/5...
Here's what happens when you ego makes you think you can ski at the highest level with a ruptured ACL
www.rnz.co.nz/news/sport/5...
You would need to be insane to go and study in the USA right now. White privilege may protect you a bit, but any non-US citizen is at risk of detention without trial
New Zealand students are applying to study at US universities in record numbers, according to Crimson Education
Kiwi students apply to US universities in record numbers
newsroom.co.nz
February 8, 2026 at 6:19 PM
You would need to be insane to go and study in the USA right now. White privilege may protect you a bit, but any non-US citizen is at risk of detention without trial
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This is the business practice known as what?
a. Circling back
b. Putting it in the pipeline
c. Rawdogging
d. Grabbing the low hanging fruit
a. Circling back
b. Putting it in the pipeline
c. Rawdogging
d. Grabbing the low hanging fruit
February 7, 2026 at 1:41 AM
This is the business practice known as what?
a. Circling back
b. Putting it in the pipeline
c. Rawdogging
d. Grabbing the low hanging fruit
a. Circling back
b. Putting it in the pipeline
c. Rawdogging
d. Grabbing the low hanging fruit
Fuck yeah!
Fast track panel declines Taranaki seabed mining over risk to marine life
Fast track panel declines Taranaki seabed mining over risk to marine life
In a draft decision the panel found that there would be a credible risk of harm to marine life.
www.rnz.co.nz
February 5, 2026 at 9:26 AM
Fuck yeah!
When Luxon says he is working to find common ground with Iwi, it's in the context that his govt has marginalised Māori and pushed them off their ground with stuff like the TPB and the RSA, and now seeks to make them negotiate for the crumbs he has left them. #nzpol
www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
Prime Minister rejects opposition claim that government is anti-Treaty
Labour leader Chris Hipkins says the government is anti-Treaty and therefore anti-Māori, but the Prime Minister argues iwi leaders have worked to find "common ground".
www.rnz.co.nz
February 4, 2026 at 6:36 PM
When Luxon says he is working to find common ground with Iwi, it's in the context that his govt has marginalised Māori and pushed them off their ground with stuff like the TPB and the RSA, and now seeks to make them negotiate for the crumbs he has left them. #nzpol
www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
No
(I’m not a doctor, but yet again the answer to an incredibly click baity headline can only be “no”)
(I’m not a doctor, but yet again the answer to an incredibly click baity headline can only be “no”)
February 4, 2026 at 5:24 PM
No
(I’m not a doctor, but yet again the answer to an incredibly click baity headline can only be “no”)
(I’m not a doctor, but yet again the answer to an incredibly click baity headline can only be “no”)
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#nzpol
Needs a repost for election year.
Needs a repost for election year.
"If you’re a political journalist who has regular contact with people in power, and your analysis is always aligned with prevailing orthodoxy, then you’re not really a journalist, you’re a courtier."
- Frankie Boyle
- Frankie Boyle
February 3, 2026 at 6:08 PM
#nzpol
Needs a repost for election year.
Needs a repost for election year.