The language of non-consent around AI is really telling. "It's too late to be scared." "It's here whether we want it or not." "You'll have to learn to work with it." "You can't fight the inevitable." All just variations of "you're not allowed to say no." Creepy technology made by creepy people.

One of my favorite anecdotes from THE PREHISTORY OF THE FAR SIDE: "That doesn't sound like the Jane Goodall we know."

Between June 2022 and June 2024, at least 412 people across the country have been charged for crimes related to their pregnancies. These arrests show that, amid the conservative movement to enshrine rights to fetuses, being pregnant is not just a health status. Sometimes, it’s a criminal liability.

"You cannot get through a single day without having an impact on the world around you. What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.” Rest in power, Dr. Jane Goodall

He is still doing whatever the people around, and behind, him want to have happen WHEN he ceases to be useful, they will remove him and his clowns Until then, assume that, whatever he is doing, it feeds the Project2025 plan

Did I hear right? Did Hegseth just say that the USA will no longer be bound by or uphold the UN, Geneva, and Hague Conventions on War, International Humanitarian Law, and the US military's longstanding Rules of Engagement? Asking for a friend.

Land Bloke discourse Weather Animals Pasture Weather Real estate General bullshit stories This morning over-the-road neighbour Roger on why he has bought his next door property and is selling this one First sentence: "Everything is feeling so precarious"

*BREAKING: PLEASE REPOST* The Media Council has upheld complaints against RNZ, finding that the article about Alex lacked balance and failed to present alternative perspectives, particularly once information about Alex's own voice became publicly available. www.mediacouncil.org.nz/rulings/park...

Well, THAT is escalating quickly

Nope sorry, can't deal with this till I replace my handy dandy wheelie-bin No Shit Sherlock file with a 40ft, high top container with the top ripped open

In 12 months, he will have a military full of psychopaths On the plus side 1. We will know where those fuckers are gathered 2. The most complex logistical system in history, supporting the most complex, intricate, difficult weapons ever devised, will not work

Jon Stewart on the media's inability to analyze shootings beyond a simplistic left-right political paradigm

Every Single CoC Minister "What, the thing I want to do will actually make things worse, excellent, do it"

Very cool that the first politician Gary Stevenson invites on his channel is Chloe Swarbrick It's a nice chat, but for the heart of the matter, Chloe's 10 minutes from this point nails it completely www.youtube.com/watch?v=zl_L...

Dear NYT: "Some legal experts"?! This is the official position of the US Government taken in the Nuremberg trials, that every Naval JAG officer learns in basic training. There is no "alternate view." See In re Großadmiral Karl Dönitz, avalon.law.yale.edu/imt/juddoeni...

If I was Chippy I'd be writing a letter to Luxon, then leaking it to media, asking for bipartisan support to commit to significantly increasing investment into renewable energy sources when Labour regain power next year. #nzpol www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

1. As long as it is taken by mouth, and not as intravenous or suppositories, I will hear nothing bad about the properties of chocolate 2. If we REALLY want an anti-ageing tool, a teaspoon of arsenic, a sharp blow with a monkey wrench or a bottle of bourbon and a long swim will do the job faster

EXC: Plans are underway for a coordinated strike across the public sector on October 23 featuring: - Nurses - Teachers - Doctors - and more If the ballots go ahead it could well be the biggest coordinated strike in NZ history www.thepost.co.nz/politics/360...

The Department of Energy has added these terms to its growing “list of words to avoid” because words are dangerous: climate change green decarbonization emissions energy transition sustainability sustainable clean energy dirty energy carbon footprint CO₂ footprint tax breaks tax credits subsidies

A man with a history of psychiatric issues, who attempted murder before, convicted despite an insanity plea Woman who had huge psychological pressures convicted of killing her kids, despite same Woman sent for psychiatric assessment after highway killing as 1st step Our reality tethers are fraying

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#Cats I mean…🤷🏻‍♀️😁

Again, the man with the single greatest access to real and true information in the history of the world

There are so many, often young, extremely smart (OK, orders of magnitude smarter than me as a baseline) women doing actualscience™️ Rather than whatever the hell is going on in the addled brains of ageing men in power youtu.be/pDj1QhPOVBo

Every region of New Zealand has fewer filled jobs than at the election. 34,066 fewer jobs in Auckland. 12,066 in Wellington. 5,401 in Canterbury. 5,877 fewer jobs in Waikato. 4,551 fewer jobs in Hawkes Bay. Jobs are being lost right across Aotearoa

A pleasant reminder that NZ is considered the 2nd riskiest country by the global insurance industry. "Annual expected loss of 0.66 per cent of GDP". Bangladesh, we're coming for your crown www.nzherald.co.nz/business/per...

"I firmly believe that the voices of Māori, which should have been at the forefront of the draft, have been deliberately diluted," he said. "This change reinforces the troubling narrative that 'less Māori is better'. “ #nzpol

Interesting, and positive take youtu.be/d-otbcX2Tc0?...

In the Republic of Congo nearly 100% of the stations broke their monthly records. It's the harshest and most extreme heat event ever seen in Western Africa. Never happened anything like this before in the rainy season. 100% of all tropical countries in the world are breaking records: never happened

There really isn’t any moral test that Luxon can’t fail. #nzpol

Local Bird Elections are on. Do your avian duty and vote for the Kākā. Just joking. Vote for whoever you like. But the Kākā really is best. Voting closes today. My Stuff #cartoon today #BirdOfTheYear

Hero for the free world. Thank you Greta! ✌️🌊💫

This has been on my mind since January 20. Trump is not acting like a man who has ANY concern about ANY future election(s). And I think that means exactly what we think it means.

Zen Especially the jokes

At last, some actual, thoughtful, reporting on a very complex, and disturbing issue "If it’s not social media, what is driving the youth mental health crisis? ... “We can’t prove it, it’s still a theory,” he said. “But we think there is something very fundamental going wrong in society.” A-men

Reminder: National has always taken the side of Apartheid regimes.

We went from Ardern's govt changing gun laws in a week flat in response to an attack on our Muslim whānau to Luxon's govt refusing to acknowledge the Palestinian state during its genocide. What a spineless mob.

More gestapo shit. My god

On May 1 2007, the previous owners installed a 15.5k/L tank behind their new barn They put it on a 100mm pad of compacted sand per instructions but didn't add a restraining edge For 16yrs it worked fine But climate change has added a LOT more water to the soil So this

The Shit Humane Completely positive The Genuine Shit

Throw in the "arrest" of the superintendant of the largest school district in Iowa, for no stated cause and you have the ghost of Franz Kafka rising from it's crypt to gape in astonishment

We need an extra voting option in the local body elections "Please deduct my suffrage from this person's total" At least one section of the voting paper consisting of, "oh FFS, can we please not?"

"It's almost like America doesn't *want* to survive." ✔️ It certainly seems to have lost the will to preserve itself, IF there are future historians, they will need to ask what was the source of such systemic, endless abuse that it sucked the will to live out of the most powerful nation in history?

If this idiocy sufficiently disrupts the US market, the rest of us who ride the coattails of the biggest market in the world, will also get screwed

“The phenomenon – called sudden stratospheric warming – is extremely unusual in the southern hemisphere. It only previously occurred in 2002 and 2019, the latter contributing to a worsening of the black summer bushfires.”

As we approach 1.5°C of #GlobalWarming, we've already begun to experience historically unprecedented heatwaves, downpours, & other types of disruptive, destructive, & deadly extreme events--and there will be more to come on a path toward continued warming.

Everything possible is wrong with this He is the CiC and his entire Mil. Command will be @Qantico with no notice or agenda He doesn't know nor understand Options Self Coup Palace Coup Night of the Long Knives Foreign controlled decapitation strike Martial Law Where's @markhertling.bsky.social ?

This helps explain Hegseth's sudden move to assemble the top military brass for a loyalty shakedown. bsky.app/profile/levp...