Corollary to @faineg.bsky.social's discourse on "good tech needs no begging to adopt": when the humble web browser has become so encumbered by AI features that an article about using the command line to run GitHub scripts to shut them off is viral news amongst normies, it's a full repudiation of AI.

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One thing I’ve wished for, for a while now is a mandatory retirement age for politicians. In NZ’s case it could be set to the retirement age of court judges, IIRC that’s 72 years old. No entering a parliamentary term of office older than a judge’s retirement age, etc.

Why does this feel a lot like that Neville Chamberlain moment? Appeasement will not stop him. www.stuff.co.nz/world-news/3...

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if i were labour staff i wouldn't make hipkins the face of the campaign, i'd make getting people enrolled by LABOUR DAY the focus.

In today’s NZ Herald

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Time for NZ to shut down 5Eyes data sharing.

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The most delicous bit of this is the shipping companies bit.

The wet season rolls on here in the 09. Data says so far we're only behind Jan 2023 at same stage before Akl Rain Event & Cyclone Gabrielle came and added its weight. Auckland Councal Data at Alexandra Park Raceway.

This map shows the erosion susceptibility for Gisborne & Wairoa. It's from 2018 i.e. BEFORE Cyclone Gabrielle so it's likely the areas of high & very high erosion have increased. The forestry companies know this too, yet want a pass from the effects of slash? Talk about selfish & destructive.

One of many reasons America is turning away from corporate media is because of its normopathy— a pathological insistence on trying to crowbar events into a recognizable narrative that conforms to things that have happened before. But the playbook has been fucking BLOWN UP, media.

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The Free Speech Union didn't exist when black ppl couldn't speak. The Free Speech Union didn't exist when LGBTQ ppl couldn't speak. The Free Speech Union didn't exist when disabled ppl couldn't speak. The Free Speech Union existed when racist white ppl were asked to keep their racism to themselves.

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Bailterspace - Tanker youtu.be/XvCv6wtaWQw

Hamish Kilgour Trio - POINT THAT THING SOMEWHERE ELSE youtu.be/G3rspTj1oVU

Sleaford Mods Ft. Gwendoline Christie & Big Special - The Good Life youtu.be/SyVICFIQlDg

Well sorry I'm home now and a bit pissed. Jean Jacket John the sound defcts youtu.be/BijgMMcr--c

So today is my official 20th anniversary at my current workplace. And I'm being treated appropriately. Sometimes I joke it's a life sentence but I've loved every minute of it.

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This is how you get a domestic insurgency: Federal paramilitaries treating ordinary citizens as enemy combatants and generally behaving like a hostile occupying force unconstrained even by the sorts of Status of Forces Agreements most sovereign states insist upon before allowing boots on the ground

How Generative AI is destroying society An astonishingly lucid new paper that should be read by all garymarcus.substack.com/p/how-genera...

Looks like he was the model for the lead character in DOOM franchise,

I am calling for a complete and total boycott of the Mercator projection in all news stories about Greenland until every member of the American public has seen this

The Australian and NZ govts need to grow a spine and make it abundantly clear that a US attack on Greenland would result in the end of all military and intelligence co-operation. No more AUKUS. No more Pine Gap. Cancellation of orders for military hardware from US suppliers. #auspol #nzpol

Start calling it what it is folks. It’s martial law and the imposition of a police state. They are saying it clearly now.

Damn that is 2 jars trashed at ours.

Dear Winston - I am acting to further the RBNZ's functions under the Reserve Bank Act of NZ Act 2021, ss 10(1)(e)(ii); 10(1)(f)(i) and 10(1)(g) in line with the objective of "protecting and promoting the stability of New Zealand’s financial system". As you're not my Minister ... fuck off. Love, Anna

Wishing all ICE officers a very happy Napoleon's Retreat From Russia

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You notice how thousands and thousands of cops aren't coming out to condemn Jonathan Ross for senselessly killing Renee Good? This is what people mean by "all cops are bastards". If this were any other profession, the entire group would condemn it. With cops it's the reverse, they all justify it.

"The wall looks permanent until the day it comes down." data4democracy.substack.com/p/the-wall-l... Several people I know have used the word "beautiful" for this piece, and that's exactly right. A beautifully phrased essay on the bind we're in— until we aren't. Recommended, in an extreme way.

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Time for a law change. Unpaid wages should be paid out before any other creditors, secured or otherwise, even get a look at assets.

Private healthcare: - Cherry-picks profitable medical procedures.💩 - Offloads its medical complications on to the public health system.💩 - Only provides healthcare for those who can afford it.💩 - Can't secure client/patient data and not held to account.💩 #ForProfitPrivateHealthcareSucks #nzpol

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Do this!

A nice old lady at a Louisville Kentucky protest.

Final day of holiday out at Piha and then it's back t' mines tomorrow. I've not used a keyboard in 3 weeks, there'll be some rust to knock out of the system before getting back up to speed.

We evacuated our kids out of Minneapolis this weekend and my spouse reports that as she drove them out of town she saw "multiple freeway exits where people are being pulled over." It feels like the Twin Cities is being subjugated by a hostile occupying force.

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This is how you write a headline. 100% truth. No fluff dressed as reality. Taking notes yet, NZ media? No? You should start. #nzpol

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