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[The Good Oil] Stuff Up of the Day
Check out the latest media stuff ups both locally and around the world.
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How To Ensure a Harmonious Future With AI
The possibility of creating an after-death sentient AI agent raises some thorny questions. The option would only be easily available to the rich. The idea of a brutal dictator having the power to live forever is very frightening.
Is the US at a Precipice?
A successful outcome could provide major benefit to the dollar for decades to come. Defeat could trigger the end of US geopolitical dominance. We’ll find out which way it goes over the coming weeks.
The Liberals, the Senate, and Preferences
Unless the Liberals adjust their thinking to the realities of the voting system they introduced, their ability to govern will continue to be severely compromised.
There Really Should Be No Surprise
Another Māori trust boss charged with stealing $2 million.
Iranian Navy Requests Advice on Ships as Tourist Attractions
Iranian officials confirmed they are now studying the New Zealand model carefully. “If we cannot float the ships,” Admiral Abooat said, “we may simply lean into the scuba tourism angle.”
More Propaganda: What This Podcast Tells Us
Part 1 of a series, looking at “Quarantine Nation”, Stuff’s new podcast series.
What Delayed Motherhood Really Means
To celebrate delayed motherhood as empowerment without acknowledging its costs is to perpetuate a lie.
If Not America, Then What?
America may be a flawed hegemon but it’s easily better than all the alternatives.
They Need Saving From Themselves
They want your sympathy, they want your welfare, but they don’t want to change.
Luxon Deludes Himself as National Slides Into Oblivion
Talk of a coup exists only in the feeble minds of legacy media. Luxon will hang on in quiet desperation, getting regular coaching from John Key, like he did last Friday, until Key nods at a proposed successor.