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Dr Alma Rae
@almahawes.bsky.social
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Retired psychiatrist. Political, well to the left. Can be rude. Fabric artist, sailor and occasional gardener. Long covid. Amerikkka and Russia are fascist plutocracies. 🇸🇩 🇺🇦 Toitū te Tiriti. E waka eke noa.
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Dr Alma Rae @almahawes.bsky.social · 12d
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 12d
Here’s part 1 of our four-part Better Offline case against generative AI. I walk you through how generative AI is sold through a complete misunderstanding of the concept of labor - and myth-building by companies like NVIDIA and OpenAI.

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The Case Against Generative AI (Part 1)
Podcast Episode · Better Offline · 09/30/2025 · 25m
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Dr Alma Rae @almahawes.bsky.social · 11h
What Gaza? Performative BS.
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Dr Alma Rae @almahawes.bsky.social · 11h
The last election was rigged ; the next one will make Putin look like an amateur.
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Dr Alma Rae @almahawes.bsky.social · 11h
I hope he feels really sick for days
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Dr Alma Rae @almahawes.bsky.social · 11h
Don't want to live next door to a slavering gang of lawless idiots?
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Dr Alma Rae @almahawes.bsky.social · 13h
More heart-sink usually, but sometimes horror
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Dr Alma Rae @almahawes.bsky.social · 13h
Hardly page 1
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Dr Alma Rae @almahawes.bsky.social · 13h
He's not taking his meds.
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Dr Alma Rae @almahawes.bsky.social · 13h
I think most people are aware of the problem but don't really understand why it's happened. And neither Labour nor National seem to be showing any inclination to resile from neoliberal economics. Everything else is fiddling round the edges.
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Dr Alma Rae @almahawes.bsky.social · 13h
Ah, such a seductive thought. Then - reality. I do, truly, know what it's like. Much sympathy.
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Dr Alma Rae @almahawes.bsky.social · 16h
True. It's just that the odds are higher if the sheets are out there for 20 hours instead of 4. But definitely 🤷🏼‍♀️
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Dr Alma Rae @almahawes.bsky.social · 16h
"Possibly"? Where have you been?
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Dr Alma Rae @almahawes.bsky.social · 16h
Such as?
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Dr Alma Rae @almahawes.bsky.social · 16h
Tautoko!
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Dr Alma Rae @almahawes.bsky.social · 16h
Kidnap victims, not detainees. They've been illegally abducted by thugs.
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Dr Alma Rae @almahawes.bsky.social · 16h
Full on Trump bootlicking. God these people are the dregs of Aotearoa.
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Dr Alma Rae @almahawes.bsky.social · 16h
Well said 😡
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Dr Alma Rae @almahawes.bsky.social · 16h
I do that too, in Ōtautahi. Then I don't have to get up early. Only drawback is occasional bird poop.
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Dr Alma Rae @almahawes.bsky.social · 16h
😈🤡👻
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Dr Alma Rae @almahawes.bsky.social · 1d
I don't
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Dr Alma Rae @almahawes.bsky.social · 1d
Effectively, he's a christofascist mole.
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Dr Alma Rae @almahawes.bsky.social · 1d
Yes. Look who owns the media and it's entirely clear.
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Dr Alma Rae @almahawes.bsky.social · 1d
Oh ffs
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Dr Alma Rae @almahawes.bsky.social · 1d
Yeah, fuck off, Fried Man.
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Dr Alma Rae @almahawes.bsky.social · 1d
LMFAO
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D Jukic She/her @dejanajuk.bsky.social · 1d
The coalition government in a nutshell.

‘They fear the future, they dream of a world that never was and never could be, they’re exclusionary, they’re humourless – they’re this coalition.‘
- Chris Finlayson #nzpol
Hell hath no fury like an attorney-general scorned
Sir Geoffrey Palmer and Chris Finlayson offer praise for the Waitangi Tribunal – and damning criticism of the coalition Government. Sam Sachdeva reports.
newsroom.co.nz
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