Tag: Jenny Nicolls Editorial
AI: the spider crawling over your brain
I’m not a photographer, but I’ve always loved photography. Especially news photography. When I worked for a glossy current affairs magazine, I spent much...
The enemy of truth
A British woman has been arrested, for a single tweet.
If you think that sounds unfair, here is the context – and the timing is...
Reading the fine print
Sometimes, just after you’ve done something astronomically stupid, there comes a brief pang of understanding – too late to prevent disaster.
An American Professor...
The science of reality
The setting was a restaurant in deepest Grey Lynn on a busy Sunday. A grey midwinter sun oozed over a group at a long...
The science of reality
The setting was a restaurant in deepest Grey Lynn on a busy Sunday. A grey midwinter sun oozed over a group at a long...
Lost for words
What a weekend. A mercenary army shoots down helicopters belonging to their own ministry of defence, capturing a central command post in the middle...
The disquiet Earth
Even though I live nearby, it took me a while to notice what was missing.
In summer, a path curled between the Te Huruhi urupā...
The coming tide of AI-generated twaddle
Is it possible for an object to be racist? In 2017, a senior Nigerian-born Facebook employee found himself in a bathroom filled with apparently...
Mushrooms, grassroots, tall poppies
“What the hell is that?” asked my partner Greg. There was an alien in my geranium pot – an odd looking mushroom, determined and...
Essential services
A year ago today, we all moved to Alert Level 4 for the first time. Along with so many others, my Auckland CBD workplace,...
