YOUR WEEKLY BULLSHITETIN ROUNDUP

The National Party is using AI to make attack ads. So far four have been confirmed, although Chris Luxon didn’t seem to have any idea what was going on. They seem to be the only party using AI images and are defending their stance. Wonder if they’re also using ChatGPT to write Luxon’s speeches?

studied biomed at Otago until 2011.

of containers lost to sea has plummeted.

RNZ reports that the ratio of sheep to people in NZ has fallen below 5:1 for the first time in 170 years.

Meta has been slapped with a $2 billion fine for transferring European user data to the US without permission.

that while mānuka is a Māori word, they can produce honey of an indistinguishable quality, so New Zealand cannot gatekeep the title.

You can now make instant bank transfers between multiple banks, seven days a week including public holidays. These banks include ASB, BNZ, ANZ, TSB, HSBC, ICBC, Citi, the Cooperative Bank, Kiwibank, Westpac, and Bank of China.

Te Whatu Ora tried to take court action against striking nurses. They’re protesting exhausting working conditions, but the opposing legal team says that they do not “accept that workers are in unsafe or unhealthy conditions.” It didn’t work.

The Great Barrier Reef has chlamydia. The NZ Herald reported that the University of Melbourne team that discovered it said it was “a bit of a surprise.”

Former international student Rayyanah Barnawi has become the first Arab woman to go to space. She

Global demand for large shipping containers is down as people buy less stuff. This means that large cargo ships are making fewer trips to ensure a full load, but also that the number

In “one of the most complex and long running proceedings” ever seen by the Intellectual Property office of New Zealand, local apiarists have lost the trademark to “mānuka honey”. Honeymakers across the Tasman successfully argued

The Miami Zoo is in hot water after advertising Kiwi encounter sessions with their lone kiwi - in broad daylight. David Farrier got in touch and the zoo sent back a wonderfully-overPR’d response but ultimately pledged to actually build the bird a proper nocturnal shelter.

Kiwis are more miserable than they were two years ago according to the recently released Annual Misery Index. Coincidentally that’s also the name for my yearly penchant for redownloading Tinder.