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Baxtermack🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @baxtermack.bsky.social · 5h

Performative gobshittery that costs money is their specialty.

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Jessica Kant @jessdkant.bsky.social · 1d

So when I hear of students being encouraged to use GPT in college I don’t hear innovation. I hear cognitive atrophy, the inability to think critically for oneself, and total dependence on vulnerable centralized repositories of data for knowledge without ever understanding how knowledge is generated.

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CuriousCat @felissapien.bsky.social · 9h

New Zealand is being schooled and coached day in day out to accept the normalisation that nothing should get in the way of the vested interests of private capital in their voracious appetite to devour power, resources, and wealth for the very few.

#nzpol

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'Le plat du jour'

Serving up a fetted menu unsuitable for human consumption!

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Sassy Little Hobbit @sassypolitico.bsky.social · 10h

I remember when asset sales were gonna lead to mum and dad shareholders and now we just have mum and dad paying $500 power bills in the winter. The right wing ideology is a scam. It’s a pyramid scheme. It’s useless. It improves nothing.

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Clément Canonne @ccanonne.github.io · 21h

Thanks to @sbasfordcanales.bsky.social from @australia.theguardian.com for covering this. That the government should choose to do this, and destroy morale, trust, and its own scientific capabilities to save peanuts is mind-blowing.

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

The mood is ominous at CSIRO as jobs disappear ‘by stealth’ – and staff are wondering who’s next

National scientific agency has been ‘reshaping its research portfolio’ to deal with an imminent funding cliff in 2024

www.theguardian.com

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Steve Reeves @stevereeves.bsky.social · 13h

Are journalists these days incapable of crticial thinking?

Daily Indignation @dailyindignation.bsky.social · 14h

Well that’s certainly the headline the government wanted when they drew it up on the whiteboard, cheers NZME, job done.

Nzherald.co.nz: Nicola Willis says Chorus sales money could go towards funding hospitals and schools

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Steve Reeves @stevereeves.bsky.social · 14h

"Israeli human rights group B’Tselem has warned that the genocide could just as easily pivot to the West Bank"

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Beware Netanyahu: he is a master of self-interest – and that’s why he signed the Hamas ceasefire deal | Ben Reiff

The Israeli PM wants to bolster his position and ward off global pariah status. But he has shifted gears before and may do so again, says Israeli journalist Ben Reiff

www.theguardian.com

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Jessica Kant @jessdkant.bsky.social · 1d

Imagine for a moment a world so dependent on data centers that every aspect of municipal infrastructure must be reshaped. Not around human need, but maintaining GPU farms that use exponentially more power and water with each build. Models are only growing, and our resources are only diminishing.

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Jessica Kant @jessdkant.bsky.social · 1d

It should strike people that the stock market isn’t crashing despite the shutdown. Like sub-prime mortgages, it has yet again totally detached itself from economic reality while they speculate on how many workers they can fire to replace with AI. It is helping a failing economic strategy save face.

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Dr. Nick Posegay @nposegay.bsky.social · 1d

If this ceasefire happens - and I hope it does - Western media will talk about 'peace'. This will be inaccurate. What they will mean is 'quiet', a reversion to the background level of violence that Palestinians have faced for decades. Peace can only come with the end of the occupation and apartheid.

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Toby Murray @tobycmurray.bsky.social · 1d

It never fails to amaze and frustrate when it’s the companies pushing security products that fail the most basic tests of secure product development

cje @cje.io · 1d

PATCH YO' IVANTI...OH WAIT NVM

ZDI Drops 13 Unpatched Ivanti Zero-Days Enabling Remote Code Execution

m.cje.io/48X7Ynz

ZDI Drops 13 Unpatched Ivanti Zero-Days Enabling Remote Code Execution

ZDI has publicly disclosed 13 unpatched vulnerabilities in Ivanti Endpoint Manager, including 12 RCE flaws and one local privilege escalation.

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Steve Reeves @stevereeves.bsky.social · 1d

Brilliant move by the party of business!

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Assiduously Julie @awaterevalley.bsky.social · 1d

Offered rest home care at 24: the lonely plight of young Kiwis with long Covid
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Offered rest home care at 24: the lonely plight of young Kiwis with long Covid

A group of young Kiwis prove what international studies show: that long Covid has a particularly debilitating effect on young people. But how much medical support is there for them?

www.1news.co.nz

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Steve Reeves @stevereeves.bsky.social · 1d

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

‘Everyone is still afraid’: ceasefire deal brings relief to Gaza but fears remain over future

Two previous short-lived ceasefires have left many in Gaza doubtful about the staying power of the latest agreement

www.theguardian.com

Steve Reeves @stevereeves.bsky.social · 1d

Hahaha...I meant Bishop..and Willis :)

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Steve Reeves @stevereeves.bsky.social · 1d

Desparation...and stupid

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Rory @roryreckons.bsky.social · 1d

There is so much data available that shows in the case of naturalised monopolies, government ownership outperforms private ownership.

Public ownership outperforms privatisation when an enterprise is a skill-based, natural, or network monopoly - WID - World Inequality Database

Public ownership outperforms privatisation when an enterprise is a skill-based, natural, or network monopoly This paper develops a theory of when public or private ownership leads to better outcomes, ...

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Steve Reeves @stevereeves.bsky.social · 1d

No need to own it now the job is done...hahahahahahaha now try getting maintainance when you need it, as you inevtiably will!

Steve Reeves @stevereeves.bsky.social · 1d

Same at Waikato. We have non-lecturers making policy and it shows.

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Idiot/Savant @norightturnnz.bsky.social · 2d

"Legislation will now be drafted, and the changes will go through a legislative process in due course."

The longer that takes, the better then.

You hear that, public servants? malicious compliance and foot-dragging time!

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Dr. Cassandra Mudgway @legallyfeminist.bsky.social · 2d

You had a brick thrown through your window? We need legislation!

You got hundreds of messages about how you and your child should die? They started because of some homophobic disinformation about you? You have to leave your job for your safety? lol okay bye.

(imo both these things are bad)

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Dr. Cassandra Mudgway @legallyfeminist.bsky.social · 2d

It's that time again, a #nzpol 🧵
What starts online doesn’t stay online.
The 2025 local elections have become the most toxic in memory, w candidates (esp women) harassed & forced to campaign from home. This is what happens when we treat online abuse as “just words”
www.thepost.co.nz/nz-news/3608...

‘Scares the pants off me’: Toxicity surges in local elections

This year’s council elections are turning into the nastiest in memory, with a growing fear that online abuse could spill over into real-world violence.

www.thepost.co.nz

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Steve Reeves @stevereeves.bsky.social · 1d

Interesting yesterday Bernard Hickey interview the Kiwibank Chief Economist who was complaining that the Reserve Bank had hiked rates too soon and dropped them too late and too slowly. Was he one of those mentioned by Hayden as being in the chorus of those that wanted exactly what the RB did!

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José A. Alonso @jalonso.bsky.social · 1d

Why Haskell is the perfect fit for renewable energy tech. ~ Marc Jakobi. mrcjkb.dev/posts/2025-1... #Haskell #FunctionalProgramming

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Craig Renney @clrenney.bsky.social · 2d

The decision is a demonstration of the organising power of trade unions, charities, NGO's and the wider Living Wage movement. We should celebrate their victory and the lasting good it will achieve for thousands of households in New Zealand.

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