Hey NZ folks, who’s your favourite registrar for .nz domain ? I’ve used Freeparking (now Crazy Domains) previously but it’s probably time for a change.

Attention Christchurch-based purchasers of food and other grocery items… www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/christchu...

Part of the issue is that data is inherently viewed as an asset rather than nuclear waste Ideally, companies would view data as something they only want the bare minimum of in order to function before discarding it as soon as they can Knowing my birthday to send me an email is unnecessary

🤔 “PSA head Fleur Fitzsimons said patient safety and the security of sensitive health information was still at risk. "These cuts are dangerous - they threaten patient care and ignore the risks of sensitive patient information falling prey to cyber-attacks,"” www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

The FIFA Peace Prize used to mean something

But wait, there’s more ! Make sure to collect the entire set of South American countries !

This is pretty damning stuff for an online organisation holding patient health data. I hope GPs and Health NZ are putting the acid on other providers such as Tend and TheDoctors to ensure they’ve actually got their crap together #nzpol #newzealand blackveil.co.nz/blog/managem...

Very clever…

If the last month or two (let alone 5 years) of your social media posts aren’t enough to get you banned from entering Trump’s America your moral compass may be due for a service.

TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque: "This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".

The richest man on earth owns X. The second richest man on earth is about to be a major owner of TikTok. The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post. See the problem here?

Brilliant! "If the rapture actually happened" - TikTok's @just_joshin_witcha (sped up to fit in 60 seconds)

#NZpol Oh look, Musical Chairs performing a public service again, that unfortunately, doesn't get the public airtime / print it deserves (certain journos aside as always, salutations to @clrenney.bsky.social and @bernardchickey.bsky.social who certainly try *their* best to do so despite that)

At the ICE raid and subsequent community resistance in Paramount, California this morning, this skater kid ate dozens of munitions from Border Patrol agents, walked away slowly and flipped them off.

Annual change in Govt tax revenue per capita. I am running out of nails to put in the coffin of hopium. I mean, Govt know that they are going to have to invest, rrrrright? How long can they remain in denial?

2 minutes and 7 seconds of @profgalloway.com ruthlessly eviscerating Elon Musk… www.reddit.com/r/PublicFrea...

Perfection…

Important news @brislen.nz…

When the Patriot Act was passed, libraries got requests for patrons’ borrowing history. We were prohibited from disclosing those requests. We deleted and shredded those records and stopped tracking reading history for that reason. ALSO.

Paris does love being liberated from Nazis

“I mostly steer clear of OpenAI palace intrigue but man, all the signs are there. High flying VC darling. CEO with known ethical issues (ask former board member Helen Toner). Predictions about the future that continue to spiral in their grandiosity (see Altman blog post yesterday).”…

$20 / user is not nearly enough for Apple to pay for spying on users with Siri. Make it $2000/user. This should be a 9.5 billion settlement.

I remain to be convinced otherwise…

Flashback cartoon: Ruth Richardson, Minister of Finance, National Party, 1990 to 1993. Dismissed as Finance Minister following the 1993 election. Later joined the Act Party. #cartoon #Listenermag #nzpol

This Kim Hill interview with BorisJohnson is a cracker and KH at her perfectly-prepared and cutting best. The publicist who convinced him to do it to spruik his new book will absolutely most definitely not be receiving a Christmas card from him this year 🙂 www.rnz.co.nz/podcast/kim-...

Incontrovertible Fact of the Day….

We live in interesting times…

Thank you @karaswisher.bsky.social for that absolutely wonderful interview with Nathan Myhrvold. We desperately need more Nathan Myhrvolds.

And now we have the answer: the Auditor-General agrees. Redundancies and holiday back pay was counted in the year before they were incurred. Former CFO Rosalie Hughes is vindicated, and Lester Levy is left looking quite untrustworthy.

"organisation-wide reset" in the same sense as when you reset your computer and lose all your work.

That's a win. Even donating to Shane Jones didn't help them overcome good protection. J Swap's quarry extension into QEII land rejected by Court of Appeal www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa... #nzpol

As I’ve been saying for over a year: If your business model doesn’t work without violating the law, you’re not in business — you’re in organized crime. Great reporting by @elainelow.bsky.social. theankler.com/p/tv-writers...

When the censorship software gets carried away…

Want to be a kid's #SecretSantaNZ like 2023? $20 donated is one AoNZ low income family's kid getting a gift. More kids than ever need a special Xmas treat Kindness Collective have raised $2,650 of $5,000 goal If you would normally play Secret Santa please consider passing that $20 for the kids?

I’ve been thrashing the Apple Music King Gizzard and the Wizard playlist - what’s the first actual album of theirs I should listen to from beginning to end ?

Accurate 😏

Clear statement from the All Blacks #ToitūTeTiriti

I shed a tear…

From the national airline of the country that knows a nazi when they see one…

The number of people who have signed the petition to stop the Treaty Principles Bill is now greater than the number who voted for the ACT Party #nzpol #toitūtetiriti

This AI-related Reddit thread is worth a read if you work in media production, health or insurance. AI is cool and all but the job losses are going to be massive… t.co/RywwXLNkMb

My favourite hikoi sign so far (Photo: RNZ / Cole Eastham Farrelly)…

My cartoon in today's www.thepost.co.nz/nz-news/3604... It's Tuesday the 19th of November - the day when the nationwide Hīkoi arrives in the capital, Wellington. An estimate of 30,000 people was given yesterday. I suspect it'll be more. The taniwha has been shaken into action. #NzPol #Maori ✊

THIS IS SO COOL 🥹🥹🥹🥹 I didn't know other countries were marching for Aotearoa 🥹🥹🥹🥹

TIL that truffles used to be produced in large volumes and considered an everyday food and then WW I came along…

This TikToker, Franchesca Leigh, is going mega viral for her new 'I Never Thought the Leopards Would Eat My Face' song that she sings over videos of Trump voters and stories about Trump voters whining after the election. This is perfection.

Gosh it’s almost like we didn’t didn’t learn anything from Cambridge Analytica…

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