JJW explains Aotearoa – part 1
Wherein JJW starts explaining things about New Zealand for you.
Where has JJW been?
Wherein JJW fills you in on some of the things he’s been up to.
Why is Chris Luxon using Otter AI?
Wherein JJW does an Official Information Act request about the NZ PM’s use of AI.
Curbing creepiness
Wherein JJW talks about privacy and urges to you submit to the New Zealand Privacy Commissioner about rules for biometrics.
100% factually true story
Wherein JJW relays his experiences from one of the more harrowing places he has worked.
Rewilding Taranaki
Wherein JJW says “dairy shmairy, let’s plant some trees."
No Typewriters / No Talking: an origin story
Wherein JJW writes about the group for writers he started: No Typewriters / No Talking.
Can AI democratise democracy?
Wherein JJW talks to a Political Scientist about ‘democratisation’.
Royal blue comic sans
Wherein JJW relates a story about an old job he once had.
A Komposita of feelings
Wherein JJW reflects on the depression and cognitive dissonance Millennials experience.
Online security spring clean to get rid of a phishy smell
Wherein JJW almost gets phished and explains how to limit the potential of it happening to you.
How to be making the writing goodly
Wherein JJW reheats an old column from Salient about how to make the words write good.
A conscious choice to fuck up the planet
Wherein JJW marvels at the wastefulness of AI-centred techno hypercapitalism and its failure to produce anything which will meaningfully avert climate catastrophe as well as presenting a list of (some of) the things we could spend money on instead of investing in pictures with screwed up hands and the most average copy.
Space school + the USA Part 2
Wherein JJW muses about the rest of his time at Space School and Houston as well as a short trip to Austin and how cool the Artemis mission is!
Playing personal space invaders
Wherein JJW talks to a neuroscientist about personal space and why people suck at respecting it.
Space School + the USA
Wherein JJW muses about his first week as a mentor at Space School 2024 and the current state of the United States.
Ernest Shackleton: cat-killing failson
Wherein JJW ponders the explorer, grifter, and animal murderer who for some unknown reason holds a special place in New Zealand’s culture. #MrsChippyWasMurdererd
Wowser
Wherein JJW helps out a pal by musing about his relationship with alcohol (estranged) and drinking culture in New Zealand and Australia (just strange).
Aussie Aussie Aussie
Wherein JJW reflects on becoming an Australian citizen, identity, and the bleak state of New Zealand.
JJW READS 2024
Wherein JJW lists out all the books he read in 2024.