In the classic movie The Usual Suspects there is the line “The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was to convince the world he didn’t exist“. A variation on that theme was after the collapse of communism in Russia and Europe; most freedom lovers thought, “Oh that’s that
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We all know, only too well, that Jacinda Ardern is spoilt for choice when it comes to blunderers, incompetents and wastrels to staff her cabinet. In fact, you could say, “Her cup runneth over!” Hello, it’s All things Political, with John Porter on Bay FM and as today is
Dr. Guy David Hatchard hatchardreport.com Guy is an international advocate of food safety and natural medicine. He received his undergraduate degree in Logic and Theoretical Physics from the University of Sussex and his Ph.D. in Psychology from Maharishi University of Management, Fairfield Iowa. He was formerly a senior
OpenAI has trained a model called ChatGPT to interact in a conversational way. The dialogue format makes it possible for ChatGPT to answer follow-up questions, admit its mistakes, challenge incorrect premises and reject inappropriate requests. ChatGPT is a sibling model to InstructGPT, which is trained to follow an instruction
An activist, hard left, High Court judge has decided that constitutional conventions separating the judiciary and Parliament don’t matter one iota, as she hands down a criminal friendly judgment: A 501 deportee had several human rights breached by the Government and his treatment was unlawful, the High Court has
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com In a mindbogglingly inane contributory NZ Herald article Rob Campbell, chairman of Auckland’s casino (among other sinecures) asks, “Who on earth is being hurt by co-governance?”. I’ll answer that by stating the obvious. We all are. In a democracy the underlying principle
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Well, if it ever comes to a hot war with China, the generals in Beijing can at least rest assured they’ve got plenty of staging areas in the Pacific. Not just the knockoff “islands” they’ve been manufacturing in the South China Sea, or even the Cargo Cultists of
One of the unfortunate realities of 2022 has been rampant inflation and its effect on the ability to make ends meet for so many folk. Even I am rather glad my New Hope Coal dividend arrived last month (God I love fossil fuels!) for me to live on for a
NZDSOS New Zealand Doctors Speaking Out with Science Justice Ian Gault made his decision in the case of Baby W and gave temporary medical guardianship of the baby to Te Whatu Ora (to be undertaken by Starship hospital doctors). A spokesperson for New Zealand Doctors Speaking Out with Science (NZDSOS)
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The last Weekend Herald before Christmas featured a summing up of the political year from three of its regular opinion writers: Fran O’Sullivan, Mike Munro and Bruce Cotterill. Fran, a seasoned journalist, mostly writes objectively without fear or favour, as the saying goes, through her media lens. Mike Munro,
Guy Hatchard hatchardreport.com globe.global Dr Guy Hatchard is an international advocate of food safety and natural medicine. He received his undergraduate degree in Logic and Theoretical Physics from the University of Sussex and his PhD in Psychology from Maharishi University of Management, Fairfield Iowa. He was formerly a
OpenAI has trained a model called ChatGPT to interact in a conversational way. The dialogue format makes it possible for ChatGPT to answer follow-up questions, admit its mistakes, challenge incorrect premises and reject inappropriate requests. ChatGPT is a sibling model to InstructGPT, which is trained to follow an instruction
Apparently, too many Maori are drowning, and it’s all the fault of colonialism. If only we could approach water safety the Maori way it could solve this problem. Well, that’s what the woke Wombles at Water Safety NZ have decided: With summer here, families and tourists will flock
