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It took a few complications around printers and scanners on top of a low bandwidth, but from a remote corner of Pohnpei State, in the Federated States of Micronesia, I'm doing my best to make sure that the opportunities I had when migrating to NZ 30 years ago, are not denied to my NZ-born children

Girls' Night, 2018, Malcolm T. Liepke.

Nowadays, the internet sometimes feels like a once well-to-do neighbourhood that became a slum after an industrial park & motorway were built through it. And I'm the lifelong resident who refuses to leave, unable to accept that the decaying, now unsafe area will never regain its former grandeur.

This seems like a big deal

It's almost as if he's for once trying to tell a fundamental truth, but he can't name names.

NZ, which has roads of national significance but clearly not a healthcare system of national significance. www.rnz.co.nz/news/health/...

People abroad don't understand the level of interference Meta & bots had in these elections. 5 days before the election a far-right politician posted a fake news video that got 157 MILLION views on Instagram in 24hs. For reference, GTA 6's reveal trailer got 90 million views on YouTube in 24hs.

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41) Coyote vs Acme. Brilliant stuff. Highly enjoyable comedy. So many great jokes - really worth seeing in the cinema so you can note all the gags in the set dressing.

Enough said really. #nzpol

1st 5 RPGs: (impressed folk recall them) 1. D&D box set (Holmes blue book) 2. Traveller those we played for years 3. Paranoia … Oh yes! St Andre articles in White Dwarf were inspiring so we picked up: 4. Tunnels and Trolls iirc we gave up adding ALL the d6s 5. 1 game of Call of Cthulhu

It's increasingly clear that the major threat of AI is not super intelligence but the poisoning of every community built around collaboration, communal labor or democratically negotiated standards. www.rnz.co.nz/life/music/u...

In the immortal words of Helen Kelly, ‘It’s by design.” #NZPol

I still think AI systems should be paying me 150k per copyright violation. People keep asking me 'what laws do we need for AI?' and I keep saying 'enforce the fucking ones we already have!' There are copyright laws that should be being enforced right now that just... aren't. B/c it's billionaires.

Oo. Oo. Now do Luxon.

The real problem with the new Bond won't be finding the right actor, it'll be coming up with a billionaire megalomaniac villain that won't get them sued for libel.

Do you occasionally have that thing where you want to grab whoever is in charge by the face and shake them until they stop being a total idiot and fix things instead of breaking them more? Because I'm living with that all the time at the moment and it's making me tetchy.

'Your Royal Mail parcel has been delivered, how did we do?' Fine thanks, but probably cost too much, you should never have been privatised.

World authority on threatened wildlife classifies 96 percent of assessed coral reef systems as "critically endangered" https://aje.news/k7l6lb

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Speaking of pre-election media smear campaigns, in the name of balance & fairness, I expect this previously (largely) ignored political scandal will be visited upon David Seymour in a timely manner BEFORE people cast their votes? 🙄 #nzpol #OneTermGovernment #NZ #Aotearoa #ForAllOfUs

THIS! #nzpol #OneTermGovernment #NZ #Aotearoa #ForAllOfUs

The US seems to be funneling ALL international parcels through a handful of 3rd party AI apps that you have to pay to use. It feels very scammy, and I wonder if citizens know that everything they order online is now required to be photographed and fed into LLMs... It's a huge red flag.

www.csiro.au/en/news/All/... Stalk-eyed signal fly.

"What is also now clear is that the community aspect of decompilation has been broken" Man that's literally the only throughline with AI huh, just decimating human connection and community.

COP17 in Yerevan: As biodiversity collapses, humanity's efforts are 'uneven and not at the pace required'

Has it come to this ??!!!!

We're more scared of gangs in politics than billionaires in politics One is playing a massive role in shaping our world the other is not Climate destruction, poverty, price gouging, crumbling health & infrastructure Neoliberalism is the most aggressive gang to walk the earth #WealthTax #NZpol

Never mind terraforming Mars. Just stop venusifying Earth. www.scientificamerican.com/article/what...

This para made me 🧐 though: "Kicking in on October 30, the TOS update won’t allow businesses to opt out, instead suggesting that businesses stop using Meta services if they won’t agree to let Meta bots freely crawl their linked content."

Linux, the thing underpinning basically all the infrastructure that keeps the internet running, only exists bc Finland paid Linus Torvalds to fuck around at university for years

what needs to be added to this is the magnitude of the falsehood. i.e Hipkins was "mostly false" by a dollar for the price of an NZ block of butter in Australia. Luxon was "mostly false" about Labour having an $18 billion fiscal hole, which is 18 billion (10 orders of magnitude) times worse

He's with the Angles now

Didn't Luxon say in last night's debate it was on hold until after the election.. surely he would never lie ... #nzpol www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

#NZPol

Skynet wants your Aubergines

Scotland has shown the lasting impact of votes at 16. Those first eligible to vote at 16 or 17 have continued to turn out in greater numbers than their peers who could only vote from 18. Former Presiding Officer of the Scottish Parliament, Ken Macintosh, explains 👇