What if we did tho, what if we didn’t means test disabled people on the SLP and just paid it like we do for NZ Super? Not related to your partner’s income, not related to your income, and just, well, supported people?! #nzpol open.substack.com/pub/drbex/p/...

If you'd asked me which celebrity would posthumously unveil a list of people she wanted fired into the sun, I would not have guessed Jane Goodall

I have been saying this for 3 years now; it is evident from even a theorerical understanding of these systems' operations. But ppl keep claiming it's not true or not important, or could be patched over, & so I keep hoping each time an "AI" company CEO comes out & admits will be the one that sticks

"No Farmers, No Food" they love to wail, demanding we bail them out and cut the tax on their utes, and yet 27% of our kids are going hungry. This country is a failed state when it comes to self-sufficiency. It would rather sell its soul than feed its children.

My mom called me last night about the Kimmel firing, saying "This is how Hitler got started!" I quickly responded, "By firing the late night tv hosts?" Turns out, mom was right.

Really great work from Ken. Just makes the whole thing even more depressing, tbh. Unlikely he was Antifa or a Groyper. Just a young guy who was very online, had access to guns and fairly inexplicably decided to take drastic action against someone he felt was a bad person.

"Which Kids Matter" Read more cartoons! ---> #PoliCartoon Help us make more! ----> patreon.com/barry #transphobia

all of this is basically a trojan horse for my sinking feeling right now that generative AI will be 'good enough' and that's...potentially a very bad outcome!

Great article wherein we learn that being a doofus about women is related to being a doofus about climate change, via associations with being misinformed and overconfident

Cis people being weird about trans people makes me think about king crabs. Bear with me for this one because it will make sense. You know king crabs, right? Giant crab, lives up north, has long legs, very expensive and tasty, featured on many a mukbang Did you know they are technically not crabs? 1/

Is it a surprise to anyone ACT doesn’t seem to understand no means no?

Three years ago, three other reporters and I ID'd and called any school accused of having litter boxes for furries. We found one (1) in the entire country: Columbine's school district. Cat litter was for a "go bucket," in case kids were locked in during a shooting. www.nbcnews.com/tech/misinfo...

“I hope, Senator, after you've lost, and the Empire reigns over the galaxy unopposed, you will find some comfort in the knowledge that you fought according to the rules.” — Saw Gerrera

OK but why stop here? If you want to get medical care at an emergency room, learn first aid. If you want to cross the Cook Strait, buy a dinghy

Keen to better understand reflexive thematic analysis? I am running my first workshop in a long while out of Massey. April 15 and 16 (9.30-12.30 NZT each day). In person and online access. #qualitative #academicsky #qualitativehealthresearch Link to register interest:

Shed a tear for the old Auckland tram network. Just imagine.

Revisions to the costings for the Treaty Principles Bill have calculated due to the record number of submissions provided to the Justice Select Committee. Originally we forecast that $4.1m would be needed - but that was before 343,000 physical and digital submissions. A 🧵

Not only did the Royal Commission into #Covid19 find lockdowns "proved to be an effetive tool", it made no specific finding about whether Auckland's 2021 Delta lockdown went on too long. It said the Govt's decisions were based in protecting the vulnerable, but it could have considered other factors.

Trump's anti-trans EO defines a male and female as someone characterized that way *at conception* but there's no such thing as a male embryo/fetus because they all start female before switching to male. so all men are trans, according to the trump presidency.

ACT having a party bill that seeks to change and undermine Te Tiriti o Waitangi Principles whilst it’s other party bill seeks to enshrine is own libertarian principles within New Zealand’s constitutional framework is PEAK caucasity.

New research from Denmark suggests that children who have a lot of common infections early in life have higher risk of moderate to severe infections and antibiotic use later in childhood. So, the opposite of building immune muscle? @cidrap.bsky.social www.cidrap.umn.edu/antimicrobia...

BMI is a population tool that’s been weaponized by supplements salesmen. That doesn’t negate America’s real health problems. But it’s given MAHA activists an opportunity to pivot the conversation from addressing real solutions. youtu.be/cw-Md-zh6Uo

If you read one thing today, it should be this. *chef’s kiss* www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...

(recycled from X) My favorite take on LLM intelligence is by Paul Cisek on the connectionists mailing list: "We are like a bunch of professional magicians (...) wondering: 'Maybe there really is magic? I think it’s not that machines have passed the Turing Test, but rather that we failed it." 🔥

One of the real downsides of leaving Xitter over a year ago, was not being able to update people on things like this tool I was a small part of developing. It supports teaching of #qualitative research, especially #reflexivethematicanalysis. It's now available! #academicsky

There are two reasons why leftist commentators start attacking “the left”—and usually trans rights. Money and access. Maybe their channel hit a ceiling. Maybe their views are slipping—hell, maybe it’s even the algorithm on YouTube that’s causing it. But they’re following the prevailing winds.

It's already huge, make it huger! our.actionstation.org.nz/petitions/ka...

Now out - chapter on thematic analysis with @vicclarke.bsky.social Nikki Hayfield and @garethterry.bsky.social in Paula Brough (ed) Advanced Research Methods for Applied Psychology www.routledge.com/Advanced-Res...

New #WordOfTheDay

the important question isn’t “did Harris lose because the left is too woke?” it’s “why isn’t Donald Trump in federal prison?” We’re being subjected to lectures about politics by the people who held all of the power and let this dipshit slip through their grasp.

I only really have one hot take, and that’s that New Zealanders are perhaps not expecting our current government to explicitly and intentionally align itself to the next Trump regime and all it stands for. Well, brace yourselves, because it’s going to happen.

The absolute gall of the Waitangi Tribunal interfering with an important plan to deceive the public by secretly introducing a controversial bill weeks earlier than previously announced. www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

Finnish research assessment classification downgrades MDPI and Frontiers to "level 0". "Panels cannot recommend publication without reservation". julkaisufoorumi.fi/en/news/grey...

Holy shit, these are deceptively intense anti-fascist ads. The tone is light, but the subtext is "hey so you're already trapped in an environment that actively controls you, and expects to coopt you politically too; remember you have a 30sec window free from their control"

Participants aged 18+ wanted for qualitative research exploring perceptions of body size in therapy - taking part involves completing 2 short stories about a first therapy session. To find out more and take part: uwe.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Retweet if you’re a New Zealander and you think NZ trans women like me belong in women’s sports.

google 2012: here's how to make tacos google 2018: here's where to BUY tacos NEAR ME google 2024: hard shell tacos are made from fried corn tortillas, while soft shell tacos are medium or large freshwater turtles with oval-shaped shells covered by skin

My incredibly awesome wife & her colleagues did a very cool thing (they had no idea how topical this would be when they started working on this idea years ago). Toitū te Tiriti Available from Bridget Williams Books

Awesome colleagues in NZMJ today. *Ethnicity is an EVIDENCE-BASED marker of NEED. NZMJ Vol 137 no. 1603 27 Sept 2024

As Aotearoa New Zealand gears up for its second COVID inquiry, it’s crucial everyone watches this clip. Yes, it was tough having closed borders & strict lockdowns, but I’m not sure if people fully understand the scale of devastation we avoided by acting as we did. Listen to this doctor explain.

This should win a Pulitzer defector.com/neither-elon...

‘A woman who does not bear children is a woman who will never stay home and provide unremunerated care. She is less likely to be held in the domestic zone … she cannot be a resource that undergirds a male partner’s career, frailties, time limitations and social demands.’

ChatGPT is bullshit (in the technical sense). “the models are in an important way indifferent to the truth of their outputs”. 🧪 link.springer.com/article/10.1...

I did this unholy mashup of many data sources in response to Brooke van Velden's opinion we spent too much stopping deaths. There is a pandemic measure sensitive to the age of death - Years of Life Lost, and (with the assumption the existing health system matters). Nobody did better for cheaper...

Gosh, would be a shame if you all voted NO on this ridiculous poll. NO is already well in the lead. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ strawpoll.com/rainbowcross...

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