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What Chat GPT thinks of the Standard
I thought that I would get Chat GPT to write 500 words on the Standard and this is what it came up with.
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The Standard a decade on
LPrent and I had the chance recently to talk about the Standard and how it is going.
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Fairs fair : how to complain, how not to and why not
Phil Quin has been his usual dickheaded self on the net. Trying to bully people about material that they probably didn’t write on this site is not a way to get it looked at. For that everyone need to follow the procedures detailed in our contact page and the pages linked to it. The alternatives aren’t nice. Ask Dermot Nottingham. Updated
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The Standard’s ten most popular posts of 2016
Media, the praiseworthy and the pitiful, The Standard, The Standard line, you couldn't make this shit upThe Standard’s ten most popular posts of 2016.
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This Year
2015’s just about up. Here’s my quick summary of the year here at the Standard. Thanks y’all!
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Welcome to The Standard
Welcome to any new readers checking out this blog today as a result of the “dirty politics” segment on The Nation. Here’s a bit about us…
Update: For those that didn’t see The Nation, there is a summary in The Herald.
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I have the form – but none to vote for
My Labour leadership voting form turned up in email today. The problem is that unusually I have absolutely no idea who I want to vote for. Nor who I want to vote against. Perhaps a blender might help? Any advice? But please read to the end of my post. It is safer.
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Irritated and up early
There has been a bit of pestering of authors by media in the last few days and some inadvisable waffling by fools ignorant of the blogging world about this site. I’ve had to bestir myself to talk about it. I’m not too happy about the time wasting. But on a happier note, the site is performing superbly under load..
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New Year: Doing the honours
The New Year Honours have been announced. Some did service to the 1%, others to the 99%. People, unnamed and unnoticed in public who provided valuable services to their communities should also be honoured. Happy New Year!
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A note to a media commentator
activism, blogs, broadcasting, democratic participation, humour, kremlinology, labour, Media, news, newspapers, you couldn't make this shit upI finally got around to listening to Gavin Ellis making a complete dork of himself on Radio NZ talking about authors on this site being “manipulated”. Hah! Anyone trying to manipulate them is likely to wind up being made into a pretzel. I wouldn’t care to try it myself. So does Gavin Ellis = a bit of an idiot. Or more charitably, has he actually bothered to think about this issue?
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Fran O’Sullivan: a shill with diversions
Fran O’Sullivan took objection to RedLogix criticizing her articles on Crafar farms. It helps our traffic, but really she should relook at the utter crap she has been writing before attacking the questioner. She talks about everything except why the OIO within their legislation limited framework should or should not have approved the sale. The more that I reread her work on this subject, the more I ask: what in the hell is she trying to hide?
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More columns from O’Sullivan, please
Every time some rightwing ideologue calls 80% of New Zealanders racist or xenophobic because we don’t want to lose control of our future and sell our strategic assets to fall into the hands of a foreign dictatorship that is going around the world buying up key resources to secure their own supply chains at the cost of our sovereignty, and reminds us that National is letting this happen, I smile. Keep it up, Fran.
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Not for sale – first flyers
To avoid another three years of backhanders to the rich, falling wages, rising unemployment, and asset sales, we have nine months to chip away at National’s support. As in 2008, The Standard will be running a campaign offering flyers etc for your to print off and deliver around your neighbourhood. Privatisation is an obvious first target.
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Hey “Chubby”…..
It looks like Nationals favourite pollster and blogging spinster has been sniffing around trying to find out who our authors are. So I guess I’ll have to gently castigate him yet again. Such a child, always reaching for the cookie jar..
In the process it appears that he has pissed off some journos, and it appears that David has acquired a new nickname.
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David Farrar – A known hypocrite and a bit of an idiot (in my opinion).
David Farrar obviously lost it today. In a post called “Anonymous Smears” he is upset about Eddie pointing out Murray McCully and his mining shares. There wasn’t an value known when the post was written, so Eddie reasonably asked if there was a conflict of interest.
David can get upset with an opinion from a author. However he has attacked this site as an entity. So as sysop of the site, he is getting my opinion about his opinion, and my opinion on his antics. It is an honest opinion, the same as Eddies. However in this case just for benefit of David, it isn’t anonymous.
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The server has moved (finally).
The Standard has moved the server to an off-shore site. There are many reasons for this. I can get equivalent or better service […]
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Damn close election. Now the coalition fun starts
That was incredibly close. National plus Act plus probably Peter Dunne have scraped a small majority. How close is shown in the election […]
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Maintenance
There will be some scheduled maintenance at the hosting company tonight between 10pm and 6am. During that period the site may be offline […]
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Upgrades – Grumpy post area
I’ve brought the site up to date. All the various hacks that I put in this years have now been removed as the […]
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We’re popular – but with the wrong people
After a lot of work both by a few e-mails from people here and by the good services of some people on nz.comp […]
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On the standard of proof.
On occasion I’ve had my ire raised by Danyl Mclauchlan over at The Dim-Post, usually after he repeats crap from the sewers about […]
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Upgrade time again
I’m on ‘holiday’ for the next few weeks to contribute some campaign work. However it will also give me some time to do […]
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MSM columns – clueless about fact checking
This week the election was announced and the third question to the PM (asked by Colin Espiner) was about whether The Standard possibly […]
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Political Funding – Have your say (eventually).
In 1993, the then National government reluctantly implemented the MMP system by putting in the Electoral Act 1993. This was an act that […]
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Geek’s View – Papers Plus
One of the links to The Standard this week was from Reading the Maps on the topic of Playing the history card. The […]
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Geek’s view
On the odd occasion I have time to read outside of the confines of The Standard and its ever increasing brawl of entertaining […]
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WhaleOil – Technically Challenged
I was just checking the links to the standard and I see that Whale is being his usual self. It looks like he […]
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Political Blogs Survey
A survey on political blogs has been on a number of blogs. If you haven’t filled it out, then why not? I can’t […]
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Happy 1000th.
Well that happened fast. This is the 1001st public post on The Standard. That is assuming I get it in before the next […]
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Contact for complaints and communications under the Harmful Digital Communications Act 2015
For all complaints, communications and queries related to the Harmful Digital Communications Act 2015, contact me as the sysop of the site on my […]
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Andrew Little’s speech: Backing the Kiwi dream of home ownership
Text from Andrew Little’s speech today given in New Lynn to announce Labour’s latest housing policy.
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The prince and the pea
I have pointed out before that Bomber Bradbury is wee bit unsuited to the two way dialogue of the blogs. A fragile prima donna who doesn’t like to be contradicted by the people he gallantly slags off in his routine piques of bitchy ranting. Updated with Bomber proving the point as his manufactured myths fall apart.
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StopPress and comments
I did a email interview with Damien Venuto of StopPress (an online advertising industry mag) a few weeks back. It has now been put up online if anyone outside of that industry is interested. I’m in my usual pleasant, widely expansive and egotistical best with my beautific face beaming out at you
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