A proposed hyperscale AI data centre project is under review for Halsey Street in the Wynyard Quarter of Auckland CBD.

It would use as much electricity as 60,000 homes and expose nearby residents to 24/7 noise.

The latest RNZ-Reid Research poll shows National is below their disastrous 2020 result

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Voters back Labour over National on almost every major issue, with Labour increasing its margin on several matters.

Not surprising, given how badly National's policies have failed us all.
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Elon, you goofy. 🤪Crashing out, because you don’t want to pay taxes. Don’t want some oversight into all the government money and contracts you made off with. Don’t want anyone looking into exactly what the F you did with DOGE.  And whining about loosing an election. 🤪That’s part of democracy, bro. Welcome to America. This isn’t some South Africa back in the day 💩. You will get use to it. Sometimes you lose. Believe me. That’s what politics is. Oh. And. Watch the Elon Musk doc. It’s wild.

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Is Fonterra too powerful in New Zealand?

Greenpeace Aotearoa’s Russel Norman joins Martyn Bradbury to discuss big dairy, climate change and what’s at stake in the 2026 NZ election.

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In India, there are 370 million people between the ages of 15 and 29. This summer, student activists began protesting corruption in the education system. The students were met with violence from Indian police and paramilitary—even when they were complying with all instructions, eaten, slapped with open palms, and kicked,” one participant said.

Their actions have ignited a youth movement across the country, which erupted after the chief justice referred to the unemployed youth as “cockroaches.” A recent graduate responded on social media, “What if all cockroaches come together?” He then launched online, almost as a joke, the Cockroach Janta Party. Its numbers quickly swelled into the millions. Now, the Cockroach party has turned their attention to other corruptions in Modi’s government. Read Amitava Kumar’s dispatch from India about the burgeoning youth movement: newyorkermag.visitlink.me/UCZAKm

"When shipping through the Strait of Hormuz ground to a halt in March, energy importers relearnt an old lesson: a country that buys its energy as fuel, cargo by cargo, also imports every price shock. Fossilflation drives the rising cost of living.

The rise of electrostates could redraw the Global Economy."

With some political leadership, we could be a self-sufficient electrostate.

The Rise of Electrostates Could Redraw The Global Economy
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Recommended read: Researchers wrote in Time about how the “rise of electrostates could redraw the global economy”.

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RT @HelenClarkNZ: Seems that the strategy was for those who would normally wear their branded attire to appear as if they were unaffiliated…

“National has taken its attacks on Chlöe Swarbrick too far. A scroll through the party’s Instagram account this week is an uncomfortable way to pass time.”

- Heather du Plessis-Allan, Newstalk ZB

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National’s attacks on Chlöe Swarbrick have gone too far – Heather du Plessis-Allan nzherald.co.nz/business/natio…

This is the first election since Q+A started in 2009 that an incumbent Prime Minister has refused to be interviewed.
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I don't want flying cars.

I want clean water.
I want a stable climate.
I want bees to survive.

Lawn mowers go through more mandatory safety testing than AI models right now, and that’s just nuts.

Sign the petition to bring big-tech to heel.
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This is an incredible image of the skies above New Zealand.

Both beautiful and a little chilling.

Astrophotographer and teacher Brendan Larsen spent 2 hours taking 578 photos of one section of the sky above Mt Taranaki to see how satellites are changing our night skies.

Photo of 14,000 satellite trails shows how busy space is becoming newscientist.com/article/259552…

🚨 Indonesia is probing 22 foreign firms over these fires, including major palm oil giants like Wilmar, First Resources, and Golden Agri-Resources. Civil society groups found that 50% of fire hotspots were inside corporate concessions. This is not an "act of nature",it is a porateAccountability #Haze

Though our politicians sometimes deride them as a politically disengaged, disorganised bunch of dropkicks and little shits, young people are doing a better job of holding MPs to account than just about any other group in the country right now. thespinoff.co.nz/politics/31-10…