If you are in Aotearoa New Zealand, this is a timely and important article to read and share with friends and fam:

https://thespinoff.co.nz/politics/27-05-2026/is-the-nz-government-sleepwalking-into-its-own-automation-scandal

We need to get ahead of this, raise literacy.

Is the NZ government sleepwalking into its own automation scandal?

Cautionary tales from abroad show that when automation and AI goes wrong, it does so at speed and scale – with huge human and financial costs.

The Spinoff

@JulianOliver What a complete bunch of shit. Aotearoa will never be able to undo this if it goes through.

FFS why worship the US so much? That current gov has gone to shit.

@JulianOliver oh thank goodness, I've been waiting for this article. It talks about most of what I wanted in the realm of public discussion, and I hadn't thought about it in the frame of Robodebt etc, it's a great framing to put front and centre, that'll speak to people.