This Is Inarguable: The Golden Dome
The secrecy is rational – the cost is manageable – and the imperative is inarguable.
Technology
I Wouldn’t Trust OpenClaw
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.
Ignoring the Science: The Curious Case of Cell Phone Bans
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.
Parliament Joins the Virtue Signalling Retreat From X and Abandons Kiwis Who Use It
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.
The Road to Hell Goes via BT
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.
EV-Free Super Bowl Ads Tell You Everything
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.
The Superhighway to Serfdom
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.
The Good Oil Podcast – Episode 24 – Seeby Woodhouse
In Episode 24 of The Good Oil Podcast, Cam sits down with New Zealand internet pioneer Seeby Woodhouse.
The Critical Importance of Space
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.
Has Earth Seen Its Last ‘Ice Age’?
Over the next tens of thousands of years, it’s reasonable to assume that humanity will have pioneered numerous ways to geoengineer the planet’s climate on rapid timescales, so another ice age could very well be preventable.
The Slippery Slope of Digital ID
There could hardly be a worse time to entrust politicians with an ambitious digital ID programme plagued with risks of government surveillance, technocratic overreach, system failures, and data breaches.
Was Russia Behind Havana Syndrome?
Recent documentation revealed by investigative reporters reinforces the already compelling evidence that Russian operatives were responsible for employing acoustic weapons causing Havana Syndrome.