We must ensure the materials of modern life are sourced, processed, and refined under the stewardship of free nations. If not, we risk ceding the foundations of our prosperity and defense to those who would use them as leverage. The stakes are high for our economies, militaries and the free world.
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.
With hundreds of missions, how is all kept straight?
Put on your best progressive’s voice and repeat: in our lived experience ‘Linux user’ is a protected characteristic, and anyone who disagrees is actually, like, performing an illegal operation and making us feel memory-unsafe right now!
The secrecy is rational – the cost is manageable – and the imperative is inarguable.
In my considered opinion it is an incredibly useful piece of software but I could never ever trust it. And I strongly recommend you don’t either.
In Australia, youth experiencing high psychological distress dropped from 25 per cent in 2023 to 19 per cent in 2025, before any social media ban. Do not to let politicians retroactively take credit for youth outcome improvements already underway before their clumsy regulation efforts began.
The liberal elite who control our institutions, the old media and the progressive parties are busy virtue signalling by walking away from X. In the process they walk away from hundreds of thousands of ordinary Kiwis who are right there on the platform.
After spending Christmas sick, alone and offline, Jane Hewland says her saga with British Telecom shows what happens when humans defer to systems and AI – where scripts rule and a 10-minute fix takes a month.
After years of promotion, EVs failed to justify their place on the biggest stage in advertising. The message wasn’t delivered by a commercial. It was delivered by the absence of one. The free market remains undefeated.
Is this how the real robot apocalypse begins? A Centerlink clanker issuing grants to NDIS “Learing” Centres in my name, forever? Naturally, the government is handing over billions of our cash to something that’s yet to return any investment, anywhere, ever.
In Episode 24 of The Good Oil Podcast, Cam sits down with New Zealand internet pioneer Seeby Woodhouse.
Recent years have seen the establishment in the US and other countries of government agencies aspiring to regulate the commercial space industry and space transportation.
