Last week, Marama Davidson was filmed by a colleague happily speeding.
Now Te Pāti Māori General Manager Kiri Tamihere-Waititi — wife of party co-leader Rawiri Waititi, has outdone her by some margin. She filmed herself driving on an uneven open road with one of her children in the car, all while creating social media content.
In the alarming and nerve-wracking footage, she repeatedly takes her eyes completely off the road to speak directly to the camera.
Two weeks earlier, Tamihere-Waititi was filmed driving again — this time without a seatbelt — while creating more social media content.
Ironically, during the Christmas break, Rawiri Waititi shared road safety messaging featuring the Te Pāti Māori logo.
It is beyond hypocritical for the party’s General Manager to then film herself openly and recklessly flouting the very laws and rules they promote.
@LASHFORD_17@Suitandtie9999 Every are has its own aggregate sources some are better and closer to hand than others. Lack of repairs meant huge costs to cars, trucks, freight routes etc. The PT cap is not well thought out why should people of Cromwell or Wanaka subsidize Takapuna commuters?
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Like capped roading budgets over a 10 year period coupled with nz being the shaky isles.. freeze thaw in the south over miveable pavement surfaces is always going to require maintenance we ain’t America with concrete roads
@JosephMooneyMP@Suitandtie9999 Agree - would be good2 see less combative posturing and more focus on the all of infrastructure deficit and solutions for that. This community want evidence and reassurance that Gov are aware they can’t keep taking the sugar hit of Qtown GST and tax takes without giving back
@JosephMooneyMP The Remarkables are truly Remarkable because they run pure North to South, I’m told only the Rockies do the same. I’m 💯 there for this intel and I thank for being all across your district over your last term. Thanks for being a consistent and present voice for our region
Elon Musk told a story that should terrify every AI company on Earth.
His son Saxon is autistic.
Saxon couldn’t understand why the family went to restaurants.
You can get the same food delivered.
You can call your friends over.
You can eat better at home for half the price.
So why go?
Musk: “He had an epiphany and said, ‘Oh, the reason people go to restaurants is to hang out with strangers.’”
A kid who takes the world literally just decoded something the rest of us never thought to question.
We like being around people we’ll never know.
Look at what we already built.
Delivery apps so you never wait in line.
Remote work so you never share an office.
Self-checkout so you never talk to a cashier.
Every innovation of the last 20 years was a bet against human proximity.
Every one paid off.
Until it didn’t.
Loneliness is now a public health emergency.
Depression has doubled since the smartphone.
The average American has fewer close friends than any generation in history.
We didn’t remove friction.
We removed the thing friction was hiding.
Now look at what’s coming.
AI agents that handle your emails.
AI companions that replace your conversations.
AI assistants that make every human interaction optional.
Same playbook. Same bet.
Except this time we’re not engineering out strangers.
We’re engineering out humans entirely.
The coffee shop where nobody knows your name.
The subway where no one speaks.
The restaurant where you’ll never see that couple again.
Those aren’t failed connections.
They’re the background radiation of belonging.
We don’t just need people who know us.
We need to exist in rooms full of people who don’t.
That’s what a kid understood at a dinner table that billion-dollar companies still can’t grasp in a boardroom.
We spent 20 years building a world you never have to show up to.
AI is about to finish the job.
And nothing it builds will ever replicate sitting in a room full of strangers and not feeling alone.
@JosephMooneyMP Don’t stop 😊 thanks for your equally tireless efforts traveling and connecting with and working hard for your region. Having to broadcast your own news isn’t ideal … but is needed when certain factions are engaging in trying to take you down
Wait wait wait. Hold up.
Having a song constantly in your head isn't normal?
Apparently it's internalized echolalia, a part of being neurodivergent.
🤯
We can’t afford flip flops … current coalition + TOP is a progressive option that doesn’t plunge us back into more intergenerational debt. The transition is hard, so get that 😢 in my opinion the world is in a state of custard - sticking with it may just give us a custard slice
CEOs are quietly realizing the AI replacement plan has a problem.
Two problems, actually.
One: the token costs for running AI agents are now exceeding what they were paying the employees they fired.
Two: when the tokens run out, the AI stops. Just stops. No continuity. No workaround. Just a spinning wheel where your workforce used to be.
You fired humans to save money and bought a subscription that bills you into a corner.
The employees you let go knew what to do when things broke.
The AI just invoices you for the outage.
And then there’s the permission problem nobody wants to talk about.
To do its job, the AI agent needs access. Full access. Your systems, your patents, your contracts, your future plans. Everything you spent years building, handed over to a process that has no loyalty, no discretion, and no skin in the game.
You didn’t hire a replacement.
You gave a stranger with no soul the keys to everything you own.
Enjoy.