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OnThePaepae@peteraranyi· 25d

Strange column; maybe Tim felt he needed to offer Luxon/the Nats a spoonful of sugar to help the medicine go down? By empathising with this lazy, untalented prime minister & his venal caucus colleagues, listing BS 'achievements' from their POV, he alienated me as a reader. Was he aiming for irony?

Tim Murphy appearing to accept/offer these meagre things as true.

Bleurgh. RMA reform, fast-track, public sector job cuts listed as 'good things'. Is he being ironic?

OnThePaepae@peteraranyi· 28d

I saw the 1999 election result — Henry likely had an expectation that he’d WALK into the seat vacated by Wyatt Creech (majority: 7000+) when Creech was put #2 on National’s list — as a rousing vindication of Georgina Beyer’s candidacy. Excellent person. She bossed the Nats; totally earned it.

From Wikipedia — New Zealand First's Winston Peters was sacked as Deputy Prime Minister. Shipley appointed Creech to fill the vacancy.[6] However, barely a year later, the Shipley government was heavily defeated by Labour. Prior to this election, Creech had stood aside from contesting the Wairarapa Electorate as the National Party candidate and became a List MP. Under National Party rules, his position as Deputy Leader automatically put him in the second position on National's party list, assuring his reelection despite National's heavy losses.

OnThePaepae@peteraranyi· 28d

>> This shit. This is the type of bad-faith 'cover' for Paul Henry I was referring to: (from www.stuff.co.nz/entertainmen...)

extract from stuff article 'Henry apology for G-G race comments' quoting TVNZ:

A TVNZ spokeswoman played down the comments.
"The audience tell us over and over again that one of the things they love about Paul Henry is that he's prepared to say the things we quietly think but are scared to say out loud," she said.

OnThePaepae@peteraranyi· 28d

I knew @haydendonnell.bsky.social was right about the easy, unrealistic boosting Simeon Brown has received from most media. It's obvious that Brown's reputation as 'effective' (!) is divorced from reality. But I had not heard of the alleged 'Golden Balls' nickname. You must hear it in context #NZpol

OnThePaepae@peteraranyi· 29d

lol. Yes, duh. Every rule has an exception. Even Betteridge's rule of headlines. #nzpol

Headline over picture of deeply unpopular National Party leader Christopher Luxon reading "Is Christopher Luxon the problem as National slumps to new low in poll?"

Betteridge's law of headlines is an adage that states: "Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no." It is based on the assumption that if the publishers were confident that the answer was yes, they would have presented it as an assertion; by presenting it as a question, they are not accountable for whether it is correct or not.

OnThePaepae@peteraranyi· 29d

Is the Radio NZ graphics designer having fun bending reality with their illustrations?

A graphic showing the voting intention share of the latest RNZ political poll.

A graphic giving an impression that the key figure in forming a coalition government is the board-appointed leader of the second-lowest polling political party, TOP.

OnThePaepae@peteraranyi· Jul 9

re Stuff censoring its own article citing Wellingtonians asked for a reaction calling Prime Minister "I don't don't need to do this job" Luxon arrogant... Well, how could anyone form that opinion? #nzpol

Photo of Luxon with a foot up on someone else's desk at Newstalk ZB.

The context of Luxon's "I don't need top to this job" comments...
So I have to say to you two and a bit years into the job, despite all the 195 countries out there in the world, there is no other country I would sooner be leading than this great country. This is the best country on planet Earth, period. And I know it's been a tough and a difficult time, but I came to politics five years ago because I think I believe in the potential of this place. You know, I've lived overseas for 16 years, I came home, I don't need to do this job, I choose to do this job because actually I want the potential in this great country of ours to be realised for the benefit of our kids and our grandkids. I don't think there should be any excuses or reasons why we can't do well for ourselves. We are sitting bang smack in the middle of this region of the world called the Indo-Pacific region, from India all the way to us here in New Zealand. And in that area is actually where two thirds of all the global growth will take place. It's where by the end of this cent— by the end of this decade actually, two thirds of all the people living in the middle class will be living in our region.

OnThePaepae@peteraranyi· Jul 9

Wow, so they removed the voxpops of Wellington people saying he was arrogant etc in response to his comments? So sensitive! (And how very um, ... accommodating of stuff to censor its own story.)

Clip from stuff story explaining that it censored its own story quoting Wellingtonians ...

"This story has been updated and the accompanying video removed. The question put to the public did not contain the full context of the PM’s quotes and stated the PM said he does not need ‘a’ job. The full quote is below.
The headline has also been updated and as the Wellington people who were asked were not given the full context, we have removed those quotes."

OnThePaepae@peteraranyi· Jul 7

I came here to say this.

OnThePaepae@peteraranyi· Jul 1

This amoral dark arts ratfucking reminds me of when Zuckerberg hired a Republican dirty PR shop to organise media hit jobs against Apple to sway politicians against Apple. Meta has form. Scumbags.

Extract from WIRED article.

For Chowdhury, the central issue is whether a project carried out secretly against competitors, using accounts that appeared to belong to minors, could still be understood as ordinary safety work. The blending of safety evaluation and competitor benchmarking, she said, is “exactly the kind of governance gray zone where safety becomes a convenient cover for anticompetitive practices.”

OnThePaepae@peteraranyi· Jul 1

This guy is either an idiot, a partisan liar or a gushing, swivel-eyed cult member to offer this point of view as remotely credible. Consider massive USAID cuts, Voice of America etc.

Extract from RNZ interview where Stilwell claims Trump is 100% a force for good in the world.

OnThePaepae@peteraranyi· Jun 26

That was interesting. Thanks for the link. So a neo-luddite "opposes many forms of modern technology" [?] -- I'm not sure how I qualify, really.

Screenshot of results of 'Political Compass' survey at https://britmonkey.com/2020s-political-compass/

OnThePaepae@peteraranyi· Jun 21

Is it just me, or do others in this timeline detect strong David Brent energy in this pic of Luxon by RNZ's Lillian Hanly?

pic of NZ PM Chris Luxon ay NZ National Party conference yesterday by RNZ's Lillian Hanly

OnThePaepae@peteraranyi· Jun 16

Something–something stick together. Right? Ew.

Clip of news story from
Bloomberg reporting Australia’s richest person Gina Rinehart's mining firm Hancock Prospecting invested $1B in SpaceX, its largesse investment not it iron ore, citing confidence in Elon Musk.

OnThePaepae@peteraranyi· Jun 6

Big hatchback with removable parcel shelf, like Tesla Model S, works very well, too, in my experience. Huge space.

OnThePaepae@peteraranyi· Jun 6

Yes I agree. I loved the Touring version of the next iteration, the E39. Even though I’ve owned 4 of the saloon version (528, 528, 530, last 525 - pic from Friday) and they have been delightful, I wanted but never managed to get the Touring. But would look wistfully whenever I saw one.

OnThePaepae@peteraranyi· Jun 2

Gee that’s too bad about Mark Zuckerberg trying to suppress the book ‘Careless People’ by Sarah Wynn-Williams, who worked for Facebook & exposed: cowardice & failed ‘moderation’ responsibilities; crap attitudes towards mental health of users & staff; & Zuck et al’s shallow, venal corporate ‘values’.

‘Careless People’ in my Audible library.

OnThePaepae@peteraranyi· May 26

Agreed. I guess the check results were conclusive enough for MacOS to move it to the bin. I'm OK with that. Related: What was the ChatGPT app doing opening on restart? I gave it no such 'Open at Login' permission as far as I know. Without this malware alert I wouldn't have known it was doing that.

Screenshot of my 'Open at Login' permissions.

OnThePaepae@peteraranyi· May 26

>> Ah, no big deal. Just likely an outdated certificate... #whew

It means macOS decided the installed ChatGPT app is no longer trusted and automatically quarantined it, so it was moved to the Bin/Trash and blocked from opening. In this case, it most likely reflects an app-signing or certificate problem with an older ChatGPT build, not that your Mac was actually infected.

What the warning means
macOS uses security checks to verify apps from known, trusted developers. When those checks fail, the system can show a message like “contains malware” and remove the app to protect the computer.

That alert is alarming, but it does not necessarily mean the app planted malware on your Mac; it often means macOS can no longer verify the app’s signature.

OnThePaepae@peteraranyi· May 26

I know things might be getting frosty between Apple and OpenAI, with Apple due to unveil a new 'smarter' Siri based on a Google Gemini foundation any day now … but this seems cold. (Came up after a routine restart this morning.) [?] led to: You have infectious software on your Mac, empty the bin.

Screemshot of MacOS alert box reading
Malware Blocked and Moved to Bin
"ChatGPT.app" was not opened because it contains malware. This action did not harm your Mac.

OnThePaepae@peteraranyi· May 25

Actually, oh no, that nowtolove.co.nz article about Ms Willis' "fitness journey" & "12 kg weight loss" is WAY out of date (thanks useless AI result!)… it's from 2023 pre-election, when she looked like this: I promise I'm not body-shaming. Is there something going on that's not being talked about?

Screenshot of 2023 article "Nicola Willis’ fitness campaign ‘It’s okay to put yourself first’
With an election in October, the politician’s put some weights behind her words!"

"Just months later, Nicola has lost 12kg and is relieved to be back in the healthy weight range.

Nicola credits much of her success to lifting weights, which increased muscle and strength, and not banning any foods from her diet.

“I haven’t done it the way I might in the past, where I’ve not been allowed to eat bread or junk food. I’ve still done normal things like eating dessert with my kids,” she says.

“It’s been slower and sustainable, and fitting in with real life so I feel like it’s going to keep happening because it hasn’t been a torture. I can keep doing this and I think I will lose a bit more.”

OnThePaepae@peteraranyi· May 25

On the substantive question, it looks like there's been an effort made to spin Willis' weight loss, quite differently to the 'obvious makeover in preparation for leadership' tropes applied to other political figures. A positive, soft soap, Vaseline-on-the-camera-lens approach from nowtolove.co.nz

Willis's "12kg" weight loss described as part of "her fitness campaign", not just focusing on weight loss.
Noble, in other words. Inspiring. Nothing to worry about, then.

OnThePaepae@peteraranyi· May 25

Today, struck by *another* photo of our gaunt looking Finance Minister, I web-searched for discussion about that, and was served a page: "…produced automatically using AI tools. It was not written or edited by Centrist’s editorial team and is not Centrist reporting or opinion." Like, WTF then?

Disclaimer:
This page was produced automatically using AI tools. It was not written or edited by Centrist’s editorial team and is not Centrist reporting or opinion.

OnThePaepae@peteraranyi· May 8

Remember when Cameron Slater got his boy Jordan Williams out of bed to go get pix/video of [allegedly] drunk Winston Peters late at night, but Williams came up empty? Yet his boy Williams remained ready & willing to assist. What does that make Ani O’Brien? [Nicky Hager, Dirty Politics chapter 6]

Extract from Nicky Hager’s book Dirty Politics.

OnThePaepae@peteraranyi· May 6

Yep. A five-point plan to ... um, what? Keep plumbing new lows? Lose more votes to NZ First?

Rod Emmerson cartoonm showing NZ First as a shark with thought bubble "IMPECCABLE TIMING - I DETECT GLORIOUS NATIONAL PARTY BLOOD..."

OnThePaepae@peteraranyi· May 6

Yeah, maybe Luxon's not all that good at his job ... From 'no discussions neededʻ to 'I forced a confidence vote'. Oh boy.

Headline: Defiant Christopher Luxon says no discussions needed on his leadership

OnThePaepae@peteraranyi· May 6

Luxon is a huge liability. It's clear they'll seek to make him less visible, try to protect him from his own lying lips and 'walk backs'. He really is an empty suit. Trouble is, if the also pretty unpopular Simeon and Ms No-boats are their 'heavy hitters'... well.

Headline: PM Luxon walks back claim five National MPs 'frustrated' at his leadership

Headline: Prime Minister declines to offer evidence to back his claim he was mischaracterised in emails

OnThePaepae@peteraranyi· Apr 21

Embattled prime minister Christopher Luxon (right) delivered brief scripted notes after a National Party caucus meeting today. He says he forced a confidence vote and emerged with the support of his caucus colleagues, then took no questions. Deputy leader Nicola Willis (left) made no comment.

Screenshot of embattled prime minister Christopher Luxon delivering scripted notes after a National Party caucus meeting today where he says he forced a confidence vote and emerged with the support of a majority of his caucus colleagues, then took no questions. Deputy leader Nicola Willis stood in support, or something. She made no comment.

OnThePaepae@peteraranyi· Apr 11

Also good: Kapiti Island

OnThePaepae@peteraranyi· Apr 9

Also, is “…the Herald’s discovery” a new term for “our reporter read the report”? SOO important. #idiots