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So I asked myself if there was a comparable civil service, and the answer is a little bit "not really". NZ Police have ~16k full-time employees. The NZDF is closest in terms of numbers and likely breakdown, they have a bit under 12k FTEs. Health NZ has ~81k (sector has 100k), for scale. #nzpol

Morning yall. Finally feeling better. Trynna be at the studio today for some work. I think we have a show opening on Saturday. Yikes. Some tunes from the gang for your week. Xx ❤️ 😁 ALWAYS LATE, a playlist by FAFSWAG on.soundcloud.com/zV5afAH44uJn...

The most succinct summary (from Twitter) of why I don't trust Top...

The evidence is everywhere, it’s the same in NZ. The people least likely to get appropriate cardiology care in Aotearoa are wahine Māori. #nzpol

So many conversations where otherwise serious people throw around the term "AI" without defining it, despite it being notoriously ill-defined. Thinking about why this might be >>

From @dbowatte.bsky.social and I on Newsroom. The definitions bill weaponises a facade of scientific language to cover a programme of dehumanization.

Look, all these one percenters made their millions in a complete sociatal vacuum so why can't everyone else just do the same or at the very least leave them alone to enjoy their self made wealth in peace

We won’t rest until everything is individual responsibility. No poverty/sickness/disability, a good education/job, living through a climate crisis, having a roof over your head is entirely up to you! Good luck with life and don’t forget to bring more people into this shitshow! Live, laugh, LLM!

Gun ownership in NZ is a privilege, not a right. And if your public language gets ever more so concerning over a period of time, the police are fully within their role to revoke that privilege for the safety of others. Yes, what you say has consequences. www.rnz.co.nz/news/crime-a...

Every soccer game should include, at some random point, one player on each team being replaced with a grizzly bear

The two men in this photo both claim to be Christian but both are cruel, greedy men who lack empathy. I suspect their brand of Christianity is the kind designed to keep women and people of colour in subservient positions #nzpol www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

Seymour is so full of BS with no nuance, understanding or attention to ANY detail beyond $$$. Utterly hopeless 😐. thespinoff.co.nz/politics/30-... thespinoff.co.nz/politics/30-...

Killionaire

Makes legislation knowing zero things.

Criminal justice advocacy group People Against Prisons Aotearoa (PAPA) says having new frontline police officers on the streets will not make New Zealand communities safer.

A global chart we should be proud to be at the bottom of.

We are absolutely at the point where supporting any of the coalition parties should be considered anti-AoNZ. "Oh, but race shouldn't be a part of medical need" STFU unless you want no more kākāpō.

crazy to me that rich people have been so successful in perpetuating the lie that the poor are stealing from everyone. they don't have any money. the rich people are the ones with the money! that's who stole the money

Closes 30 June petitions.parliament.nz/0e32836b-625...

So the choice is AI or the environment?

Some commercial technology vendors (e.g. PCs/Servers/Printers, networking, POS equipment etc in AU & NZ are issuing weekly price increases, others quarterly increases of 10+% at a time. Pricing arrangements for large projects can no longer able to be held for rollouts over extended periods.

Every computer, every console, every phone is more expensive because of this market derangement.

TOP: we're centrist and can work with everyone But your policies are right wing neoliberal TOP: ...

Just gonna copy this here no reason, sure it's just a coincidence that money correlates with media coverage

Ya girl might be getting back into her anti-word gap antics

Happy Winter Solstice Kiwis

So-the link between #AtlasNetwork, #Israel, #Zionists #Palantir & #Billionaires in their crazy BringOnTheEndOfTheWorld madness #Dialog #Epstein #AI #Fascism x.com/julianmacias... We must #TaxTheRich put Israel & the Zionists on a terrorist List & lock them up www.thenerdreich.com/silicon-vall...

The most dangerous thing about AI is not that the machines might one day think. It is that we are being trained, by men with enormous financial gains riding on our acquiescence, to stop thinking for ourselves.

A tale full of sound and fury, told by an idiot, signifying nothing.

what an indictment of our trajectory

ASMS being charitable here by calling it "ignorance of what doctors need to know and what doctors need to do to operate safely and effectively" in NZ, I suspect he'd just prefer nonwhite people to die faster rather than intrude on his ideas about the world.

Over the years we have been primed to see these as “gifts” and “lollies” when a healthcare system meeting healthcare needs of a person should just be part of living in society. A accessible public transport system in the face of a climate crisis fueled by private travel should be a no brainer.

At the end of the term I asked my college creative wriing students to submit anonymous thoughts on AI. No real surprises: Mood ranges from resignation to despair, capitulation from embittered erosion of standards to total, feelings of betrayal from deep to furious. 1/

When you see the story about how the world now has its first trillionaire, and when you see the story about how laboratories in Congo have run out of supplies to test for Ebola, it is important to understand that in many ways these are the same story.

A handy set of visualisations for anyone who cares.

Even if it cost twice what Labour estimated (it won't) it would still be a good policy. It helps with the cost of living and will reduce carbon emissions #nzpol

Still available for this too.

It’s openly a political purge

But on the positive side, I guess all those companies will now be able to scrape more personally identifiable information on all their users for free 😬

When everyone enacts a ban, and doesn't see less online harm (because you won't), can we THEN talk about serious measures that would reduce harm? I'll see y'all again then I suppose #nzpol

a few hours ago, a judge in wisconsin ruled that everlee wihongi's 2014 marijuana charge has been vacated. this means ICE now have *zero* legal grounds to keep her detained. please RT, and thanks for carting about this story: www.webworm.co/hugewin/

Going to start a new political campaign in the lead up to the NZ election. it’s tentatively called “TAX CUNTS, NOT TAX CUTS”. sing out if you want to lend a hand.

It’s super problematic to ban it. This is a really good piece from New Zealand on why www.emilywrites.co.nz/42-reasons-w...

You can see Culture Wars and Governance by Donors over serving the Nation clearly at play

the purpose of AI is to give politicians and businesspeople another excuse to devalue labour

"Everyone is using genAI from now on, and besides, it's just used for [process I consider meaningless and assume everyone else does, too]" Cool, but I can't even afford a PC that can play your cool slop game now, thanks entirely due to genAI. Funny how that works.

Changing the C in ACAB to mean Candidates.