David Mohring
@nzheretic.bsky.social
I'm a New Zealand🇳🇿 very late fifties ex-IT professional, starting a Youtube channel with essays and producing code to improve that state of things technical to political.
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David Mohring
@nzheretic.bsky.social
· Jun 29
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Thank you Paula Penfold ( @paulapenfold.bsky.social ) being the first journalist to publish an article about the Proud Boys New Zealand terrorist designation lapsing.
It raises so many questions.
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Thank you Paula Penfold ( @paulapenfold.bsky.social ) being the first journalist to publish an article about the Proud Boys New Zealand terrorist designation lapsing.
It raises so many questions.
[ tinyurl.com/bskyproudboys ]
#nzpol
"If the social media companies don't step in to police the harm & abuse occurring on their platforms then governments around the world will. The former is much more preferable."
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November 25, 2025 at 5:46 PM
"If the social media companies don't step in to police the harm & abuse occurring on their platforms then governments around the world will. The former is much more preferable."
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Google translation
"The wheels on the bus they go round and round
The four buses almost lived up to the children's song when they got stuck in the roundabout."
"The wheels on the bus they go round and round
The four buses almost lived up to the children's song when they got stuck in the roundabout."
November 25, 2025 at 9:22 AM
Google translation
"The wheels on the bus they go round and round
The four buses almost lived up to the children's song when they got stuck in the roundabout."
"The wheels on the bus they go round and round
The four buses almost lived up to the children's song when they got stuck in the roundabout."
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I'm calling bullshit on this article - the story looks fabricated to me.
November 24, 2025 at 6:25 PM
I'm calling bullshit on this article - the story looks fabricated to me.
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Better to actually vote & promote voting for the least worst political party reasonably capable of getting MPs into parliament & most capable of changing it mind when presented with evidence.
DO NOT ENCOURAGE APATHY!
Left apathy helped Trump & the NZ Coalition of Catastrophe into power!
#nzpol
DO NOT ENCOURAGE APATHY!
Left apathy helped Trump & the NZ Coalition of Catastrophe into power!
#nzpol
The only thing you can do is keep on hammering & hammering the message that:
1) A vote for anyone other than the resulting Democratic Party Candidate after the convention IS a vote for TRUMP! 🗳️✅
2) "Not voting IS a vote for TRUMP! 🗳️✅
3) Voting for a third party IS a vote for TRUMP! 🗳️✅"
1) A vote for anyone other than the resulting Democratic Party Candidate after the convention IS a vote for TRUMP! 🗳️✅
2) "Not voting IS a vote for TRUMP! 🗳️✅
3) Voting for a third party IS a vote for TRUMP! 🗳️✅"
A vote for TRUMP IS a vote for YOUR partner lying to you constantly, even in face of overwhelming evidence!
A vote for TRUMP IS a vote for YOUR partner to sleep with porn stars, prostitutes & the underage -- YOU CUCK!
Not voting IS a vote for TRUMP! Voting for a third party IS a vote for TRUMP!🗳️✅
A vote for TRUMP IS a vote for YOUR partner to sleep with porn stars, prostitutes & the underage -- YOU CUCK!
Not voting IS a vote for TRUMP! Voting for a third party IS a vote for TRUMP!🗳️✅
November 24, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Better to actually vote & promote voting for the least worst political party reasonably capable of getting MPs into parliament & most capable of changing it mind when presented with evidence.
DO NOT ENCOURAGE APATHY!
Left apathy helped Trump & the NZ Coalition of Catastrophe into power!
#nzpol
DO NOT ENCOURAGE APATHY!
Left apathy helped Trump & the NZ Coalition of Catastrophe into power!
#nzpol
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The thing I love about this is that he looks like he is having a ball
He is saying loudly, clearly, without hesitation or hedge, the things the electorate has had sitting at the back of their minds screaming to get out
Like Mamdani, he has rolled over the zeitgeist and is standing on it's throat ✔️
He is saying loudly, clearly, without hesitation or hedge, the things the electorate has had sitting at the back of their minds screaming to get out
Like Mamdani, he has rolled over the zeitgeist and is standing on it's throat ✔️
November 25, 2025 at 5:30 AM
The thing I love about this is that he looks like he is having a ball
He is saying loudly, clearly, without hesitation or hedge, the things the electorate has had sitting at the back of their minds screaming to get out
Like Mamdani, he has rolled over the zeitgeist and is standing on it's throat ✔️
He is saying loudly, clearly, without hesitation or hedge, the things the electorate has had sitting at the back of their minds screaming to get out
Like Mamdani, he has rolled over the zeitgeist and is standing on it's throat ✔️
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PRESS RELEASE: Ashburton town supply water sample nears national health limit for nitrate; almost double levels associated with reproductive risk www.greenpeace.org/aotearoa/pre... #nzpol #toomanycows
Ashburton town supply water sample nears national health limit for nitrate; almost double levels associated with reproductive risk - Greenpeace Aotearoa
Greenpeace testing on Sunday revealed that a sample of Ashburton town water supply had reached nitrate contamination levels of 9.65mg/L.
www.greenpeace.org
November 24, 2025 at 11:04 PM
PRESS RELEASE: Ashburton town supply water sample nears national health limit for nitrate; almost double levels associated with reproductive risk www.greenpeace.org/aotearoa/pre... #nzpol #toomanycows
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"Like Money Laundering, Narrative Washing takes something clearly bias and uses mainstream media to legitimise it and present it as unbans to a wider public & here in Aotearoa NZ it happens a lot, and its used mostly by the multitude of think tanks we have promoting the Coalition parties."
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November 24, 2025 at 8:19 PM
"Like Money Laundering, Narrative Washing takes something clearly bias and uses mainstream media to legitimise it and present it as unbans to a wider public & here in Aotearoa NZ it happens a lot, and its used mostly by the multitude of think tanks we have promoting the Coalition parties."
#nzpol
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November 24, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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Deeply absurd. This Google PDF published on a blog (arxiv, not peer reviewed) claims an LLM is "PhD level" but in most cases the MAJORITY of reference URLs were invalid or inaccessible.
A PhD sitting down and just fabricating >50% of sources = career ending
arxiv.org/abs/2511.11597
A PhD sitting down and just fabricating >50% of sources = career ending
arxiv.org/abs/2511.11597
November 24, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Deeply absurd. This Google PDF published on a blog (arxiv, not peer reviewed) claims an LLM is "PhD level" but in most cases the MAJORITY of reference URLs were invalid or inaccessible.
A PhD sitting down and just fabricating >50% of sources = career ending
arxiv.org/abs/2511.11597
A PhD sitting down and just fabricating >50% of sources = career ending
arxiv.org/abs/2511.11597
"Takeaways by Bloomberg AI" summary may counter the article but what is charged for a summary worth vs costs of GPU?
"What if the entire AI industry is less profitable than it appears, holding loans that are riskier than they seem, and facing bigger future capital costs than it’s acknowledging?"
#AI
"What if the entire AI industry is less profitable than it appears, holding loans that are riskier than they seem, and facing bigger future capital costs than it’s acknowledging?"
#AI
November 24, 2025 at 6:43 PM
"Takeaways by Bloomberg AI" summary may counter the article but what is charged for a summary worth vs costs of GPU?
"What if the entire AI industry is less profitable than it appears, holding loans that are riskier than they seem, and facing bigger future capital costs than it’s acknowledging?"
#AI
"What if the entire AI industry is less profitable than it appears, holding loans that are riskier than they seem, and facing bigger future capital costs than it’s acknowledging?"
#AI
I'm calling bullshit on this article - the story looks fabricated to me.
November 24, 2025 at 6:25 PM
I'm calling bullshit on this article - the story looks fabricated to me.
“It was both alarming and infuriating to discover that the Cook Islands’ shipping registry was effectively undermining international efforts to cut off funding to Russia’s war machine by providing the Cook Islands flag to vessels that form part of Russia’s shadow fleet,” Winston Peters says.
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The Cook Islands allowed over a hundred shadow fleet tankers trafficking sanctioned Russian and Iranian oil. A Big Read from me looking at the curious case of Maritime Cook Islands with an investigation employing big data analysis and fieldwork in Raro. www.nzherald.co.nz/business/com...
The dark fleet hiding in our own backyard: How the Cook Islands sold its flag to Moscow and Tehran
SPECIAL INVESTIGATION: How shadow fleets made the Cook Islands flag inconvienent.
www.nzherald.co.nz
November 24, 2025 at 6:04 PM
“It was both alarming and infuriating to discover that the Cook Islands’ shipping registry was effectively undermining international efforts to cut off funding to Russia’s war machine by providing the Cook Islands flag to vessels that form part of Russia’s shadow fleet,” Winston Peters says.
#nzpol
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A US judge tossed out criminal charges against former FBI Director James Comey based on a procedural error, an extraordinary setback for the DOJ in a case President Trump called for as part of a campaign against perceived political enemies reut.rs/4rgAJCw
November 24, 2025 at 5:57 PM
A US judge tossed out criminal charges against former FBI Director James Comey based on a procedural error, an extraordinary setback for the DOJ in a case President Trump called for as part of a campaign against perceived political enemies reut.rs/4rgAJCw
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Any chance of the NZ Coalition & Winston Peters stepping up & backing the European counter-proposal to US Ukraine peace plan?
[ www.reuters.com/business/fin... ]
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[ www.reuters.com/business/fin... ]
#nzpol
November 23, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Any chance of the NZ Coalition & Winston Peters stepping up & backing the European counter-proposal to US Ukraine peace plan?
[ www.reuters.com/business/fin... ]
#nzpol
[ www.reuters.com/business/fin... ]
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As for VPN usage.
"As it shows the location you downloaded the app. The app or play store will always know your real location. Nothing you can do about that."
"As it shows the location you downloaded the app. The app or play store will always know your real location. Nothing you can do about that."
November 23, 2025 at 10:44 PM
As for VPN usage.
"As it shows the location you downloaded the app. The app or play store will always know your real location. Nothing you can do about that."
"As it shows the location you downloaded the app. The app or play store will always know your real location. Nothing you can do about that."
Thank you Chris Knox!
"and then Willie Jackson makes an appearance for Labour at 17th.
There are no Green or Te Pāti Māori MPs in the top 20, so let’s look in more detail at the MP with the biggest property interests in each of the remaining parties."
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"and then Willie Jackson makes an appearance for Labour at 17th.
There are no Green or Te Pāti Māori MPs in the top 20, so let’s look in more detail at the MP with the biggest property interests in each of the remaining parties."
( Paywall bypass [ archive.is/F5qW1 ] )
#nzpol
November 23, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Thank you Chris Knox!
"and then Willie Jackson makes an appearance for Labour at 17th.
There are no Green or Te Pāti Māori MPs in the top 20, so let’s look in more detail at the MP with the biggest property interests in each of the remaining parties."
( Paywall bypass [ archive.is/F5qW1 ] )
#nzpol
"and then Willie Jackson makes an appearance for Labour at 17th.
There are no Green or Te Pāti Māori MPs in the top 20, so let’s look in more detail at the MP with the biggest property interests in each of the remaining parties."
( Paywall bypass [ archive.is/F5qW1 ] )
#nzpol
November 23, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Any chance of the NZ Coalition & Winston Peters stepping up & backing the European counter-proposal to US Ukraine peace plan?
[ www.reuters.com/business/fin... ]
#nzpol
[ www.reuters.com/business/fin... ]
#nzpol
November 23, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Any chance of the NZ Coalition & Winston Peters stepping up & backing the European counter-proposal to US Ukraine peace plan?
[ www.reuters.com/business/fin... ]
#nzpol
[ www.reuters.com/business/fin... ]
#nzpol
Fraud & insufficient detection at all levels is the problem of this decade.
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Fascinating read on how a suspicious pitch highlighted a growing problem in freelance journalism: A flood of generative AI that even prestige publications don't catch, complete with fabricated quotes, from scammers who see opportunity in a field so many real humans are struggling to survive in.
Investigating a Possible Scammer in Journalism’s AI Era | The Local
A suspicious pitch from a freelancer led editor Nicholas Hune-Brown to dig into their past work. By the end, four publications, including The Guardian and Dwell, had removed articles from their sites.
thelocal.to
November 23, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Fraud & insufficient detection at all levels is the problem of this decade.
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