The Daily Blog Open Mic – 20th June 2024
Announce protest actions, general chit chat or give your opinion on issues we haven’t covered for the day.
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Today’s peek behind the curtain
AI Deception: How Tech Companies Are Fooling Us
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQChW_jgMMM
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/520110/nzta-put-on-notice-over-cost-of-cones-traffic-management
Transport Minister Simeon Brown told a Budget scrutiny select committee on Thursday afternoon it was “unacceptable” that NZTA did not know these costs.
It was “one of the reasons why we’ve been in a situation where traffic management expenditure has become, in many cases, the number one cost of doing business on our roads”, in the way it impacted on the wide range of uses of roads.,,,
Who is behind this move and enabled Simeon in the tongue-lashing chamber to look good and manly in a Capability Brown sort of way? It seems practical and informed and purposeful. Is there actually someone the opposite of inert, slimy and big-headed involved with pollies and bureaucats out there? Speak up – show the flag – but just don’t stand up; put your head too far above the parapet, or a seasoned NZr will shoot you – sniping is what we are good at.