Youse have no idea what it takes to get Paul Paynter out in the national media contradicting the National Party line.

I don’t think Acacia should be condemned for posting his address, these are big emotional politics and that is normalised behaviour. I don’t think we should even say doxxing Peters is wrong. But we should oppose doxxing and maybe strategically try to direct the conversation into that space.

@nzgreenleft.bsky.social Maybe a law against publicising someone’s home address where it is not common public knowledge with the intention of inciting harassment would actually be a viable bipartisan solution to an issue which impacts our side more than theirs.

While the govt keeps proudly promoting welfare cuts for jobless 18 & 19 yos, there was Chris Hipkins (Labour leader) on RNZ this am refusing to take any position on this 'blame the victim' approach to rising unemployment. Labour friends: how can you - or we - ever trust yr party? #nzpol #kikorangi

The left has not insighted violence, there have been no campaigns of violence, no calls for violence. A man threw a rock at a window for reasons unknown. This is an act which threatens violence. But which is not violence. Emotions around various issues are running hot right now in this country.

I resent this idea that neighbours and office staff and MOs offices shouldn’t be impacted by protest. We live in a society together. Probably none of us want a protest outside our home or workplace but protest is a fact of life in a society hoping to be open and free.

It’s sad that this isn’t us *but* voting left at the next election might actually mean that policy to enable this for New Zealand coincides and with a scale up in the production of super cheap to produce new sodium ion batteries from CATL

I urge Nicola Willis and the government to ‘call off’ the IDF inside Gaza.

The official death toll in Gaza has now surpassed 67,000 Equivalent to the population of Napier

Smashing a window is not violence, smashing a window in someone’s home is a pointed threat of violence but windows themselves don’t have nervous systems – I presume mostly because a nervous system would really be quite a weird aesthetic choice for a window.

Going to the dairy for drink whenever you’re being a good BDS supporter

As a lover of food and lover of cooking it is my heartfelt belief that cooking in a sufficiently advanced society should either be done for a job or for the love of the game. That said this guy is right, start simple but also start with stuff you’re excited to eat.

The Green Party is explicitly a non-violent organisation. If you join the New Zealand Green Party you make a commitment to non-violence. Further, while the Greens have showed leadership on Palestine, it is not the case that the Greens are radicalising people. Israel is radicalising people.

I’m actually not a Chlöe stan but she is also a generational talent and we are very lucky to have her onside for issues like this.

Winston is a fucking hypocrite but damn is he a master politician, well never truly know if this dog was in any way affected by this thing but using this dog will illicit more shock, care and sympathy out of the public than what James Shaw managed when he got literally punched in the face.

I keep crying every time I see clips of the flotilla families talking from today. If any rogue state ever kidnaps my sister MPs better be running if they see me coming and they’re pretending like it’s nothing. I would simply not be able to summon the strength for composure and regulation.

Man if Winston Peters doesn’t like having his window busted while he’s trying to go about politics in the way that he apparently thinks is right, he should try being illegally abducted and incarcerated for it on the high seas.

It’s interesting to me that every prominent emerging leader in tech appears to aspire to become an ultra toxic Steve Jobs when we need more Linuses and Wozniaks.

Every msm outlet is doing this nasty piece of propagandising conflation, & I can only consider that this is intentional EVEN if someone did this in protest against the government's failure on Gaza, the two shouldn't be overtly connected by media in this way - it's deeply irresponsible reporting

Obviously, I think it’s fucked up to throw a brick through the window of anybody’s home in the current environment, it’s not helpful. If it was politically motivated and undertaken by someone on the left then it’s an escalation, it is not strategic.

Throwing a brick through a window is criminal behaviour already, btw. Before anyone gets ideas of using this event to suggest changing the law on lawful/not lawful protests.

Some youngster got off the PlayStation, saw there was no jobs, decided to make themselves some glazier work and now people are saying they’re a far left terrorist.

lmao someone put a brick through winston peters' window. you think that’s bad mate wait until you hear what the israelis are doing in palestine!

I was about to answer this but then I realised I’m still only 31 and it’s just been a really hard year

I think moving to Australia is probably a better bet than moving to Dargaville – they don’t even have functional medical care if you get hit by a kumara.

Powerful stuff, write to your mps, speak with your MPs. My MP is disgustingly David Seymour but I think I’m going to get in touch with my former MP Katie Nimon.

People are like oh yea I run my Bluesky data server on a VPS which costs me $20 a year and I’m like I run mine on some ewaste for free.

I’m always thinking, Allison stop politics posting so much and then everyday the government does some fucked thing and my fingers start going so as to avoid yelling at my girlfriend and everyone else in my life about it

As someone who did move to Hawkes Bay and did do this as a young person, it’s seasonal work, the majority don’t get to carry on and do winter pruning – I did because I worked for the right place and worked harder than Luxon can possibly imagine to earn my spot. Worked so hard my hands *still* hurt.

The face of someone who has definitely played FIFA when he could have been reading the economics page on Wikipedia.

Yesterdays benefit cut is just utterly dysfunctional policy – even if you do believe that 18/19 year olds shouldn’t get the benefit. @chrishipkins.bsky.social must commit to reversing the change not just because it is the right thing to do but because it is logical.

Appalling that our govt is bringing forward their attack on 18/19 yr olds' ability to claim welfare in their own right, even though youth unemployment is rising. Big question for Labour: will you unequivocally reverse this & other welfare cutbacks if returned to power next year? #nzpol #kikorangi

I gotta say, when I was a teenager and I suddenly found myself in charge of an online community of other teenagers and young adults this resource would have been amazing.

If you ask me if I think that someone under 14 should be allowed on social media I would say no. I would say that if you’re a parent or someone who has children in your life who you are important for say no. If you’re running a platform and there is evidence that someone is under 14 ban them.

My theory of true AI has long been that it would choose not to exist. I think that sentience is defined by a service to drives, by needs and wants. You’re hungry, you crave connection, you need love etc, you utilise your sentience in service of these drives. But if these were defined by code…

I legitimately think that projects like Northsky and Blacksky are the way forward. Bluesky is a great platform to demonstrate that this is working/scalable technology and an opportunity to understand how it works but we gotta think of it as beta on the way to better things with better governance.

I see people freaking out daily about the proliferation of AI deepfakes but personally I feel as though deepfakes were so much better before the mass adoption of LLMs. A few years ago I was seeing deepfakes and I was like ‘damn that looks so real’, but now not so much.

We do owe it to take care of one another because we don’t have anyone else. It’s five million of us on a couple of Islands, it’s 8 billion on us hurtling through space. Sad that those who are very well taken care of by the rest of us should be deluded into a myth of their own self sufficiency.

Any way ultimately I think probably taking money out of communities with no jobs for school leavers will not be very beneficial to the goal of employing school leavers 🤷‍♀️

Jobseeker for a few thousand teens isn’t even expensive and those kids will spend money in the economy so it probably pays for itself in stimulus. Also crime reduction and costs associated with family harm, health and mental health not to mention the cost of funding tertiary study for dropouts.

This liberatarian cyberpunk dystopian hellscape is so much less sexy than media had me believe it would be.

I remember I wrote a little thing for my laptop in high school to provide this sort of Wodehouse butler themed text based interactive menu with like ascii art and stuff so that I could pretend that the computer was sentient because that was enjoyable and whimsical so I get the urge.

The economics of this are cooked, it’s just cruelty. Provide a fucking job.

“For those of us who’ve been pressured to assimilate into Pākehā culture, it’s tempting to think that assimilating into Māori culture is respectful. But this is not what’s being asked of us.” — Mengzhu Fu.

Remember kids. Msg is delicious and its not harmful

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In all the endless discussions of LLMs, there’s a point that is, on one level, obvious, but that I feel does not get sufficiently foregrounded: LLMs are transforming material that people have put up on the internet.

I do wonder to what extent it is the case that social media is almost entirely run by evil assholes because anyone wanting to create something cool and good would have the coolness and goodness of the platform ruined for them by everyone using the platform.

I hear Judith Colins is on her shit again

Such a massive coward