Ahiahi mārie, welcome to The Spinoff Daily. Today on The Spinoff: Yes, Luxon keeps mangling his words – but what he’s talking about matters far more; why Te Puni Kōkiri is about to be very, very busy; and the remarkable pie shop hidden in a Porirua industrial estate.
Dylan Reeve: “I’ve had a Facebook account since 2006, when it first became available to the general public. Like many, I’ve found the experience on Facebook to be increasingly alienating and unappealing – filled with AI garbage and showing me far more content from pages I’ve never engaged with than from people I’m friends with. As such I tend to check the site only once or twice every few days. But another thing has been showing itself to me every time I visit my Facebook feed lately – scam ads. You know the ones, a photo of a celebrity and some clickbait headline claim. Clarke Gayford was a popular option for a while. There are also the ones with a fake business page that are offering some amazing savings on last year’s technology, or an overstocked warehouse. Last year New Zealand consumers lost nearly $200 million to online scams and, while there’s no information to break down the pathways by which these victims were targeted, at least some were likely taken in by Facebook ads placed by scammers. Surely if they weren’t successful, the scammers wouldn’t keep using them.”
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The remarkable pie shop hidden in a Porirua industrial estate Pāua, canned spaghetti, povi masima and taro: Pepe’s Cafe understands the nature of food as love and community, writes Nick Iles.
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This is my place: Simon Oddie “You’re getting the makings of a really strong neighbourhood, with private-sector developments, public streetscapes, public transport connections, and the arts quarter right on your doorstep.” If you only read headlines in the media, you’d be forgiven for thinking that Auckland’s central city was some sort of war zone. But the lens through which the media has been viewing the central city is a distorted one. To get a more nuanced view of the situation, Britomart Group’s Jeremy Hansen spoke to central city residents about the state of their neighbourhood and its future. Read what Simon Oddie has to say here.
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