There Was No ‘Project 2023’
The fate of the coalition Government’s ill-thought-out effort to roll back the cultural changes of the Labour Government highlights the difficulties of acting without first securing the active support of both the state apparatus and the wielders of the society’s ‘soft power’.
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Person-level persistent surveillance is only one aspect of the enormous surveillance grid being built around us. Every bit of data will be used in some way.
No Winston, This Is His Country Too
Radically reducing immigrant arrivals and visa restrictions is one thing, but rounding up people who may have been in the country for decades because they don’t ‘look like a Kiwi’ is quite another – and a much more horrifying – story.
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The Creatures Born From Code
Generative AI threatens to upend citizen science records, as images of fake species slowly start to proliferate.
Winston Is on to It
It’s unfortunate that none of the other political parties or mainstream media are interested in addressing this. Nor the Ministry of Health, or the Accident Compensation Corporation. Other than from Winston, it’s crickets. Peters is saying that criminal charges would be appropriate.
Would You Put Your Daughter in an Uber with Him?
Convicted Indian serial groper escapes jail-time and deportation.
