We're on a roll with prohibited music! Today, @garethshute.bsky.social digs out music videos that went a step too far - including a HLAH video which was banned, but not for the obvious reasons...
www.audioculture.co.nz/articles/ban...

That's right search 'Historians' in this Manatu Taonga Ministry for Culture and Heritage document and its returns no results because after 80+ years they're going! Historians matter but not to this government. #HistoryMatters #DontWantToPickYourGhostKumara www.mch.govt.nz/sites/defaul...

A bunch of the "young people don't vote" popular opinions were formed a decade or two ago. The past few elections, the 18-24 year old age group has been voting at the same level as 45 year olds. (but young people have to get on the roll in a way older people don't because they are already on it)

as a girl with a PhD in natural language processing and machine learning it's actually offensive to me when you say "we don't know how LLMs work so they might be conscious"

I didn't spend 10 years in mines of academia to be told ignorance is morally equal knowledge.

We know exactly how LLMs work.

'Upston insisted jobs were available for young people.'

These people are fascinating and demented in equal measure www.nzherald.co.nz/kahu/maori-l...

You are not seeing this slaughter live-streamed to your devices because Israel has murdered most of Gaza’s most prominent journalists in targeted assassinations.

The ghost of the last person buried keeps watch over the churchyard until another is buried, to whom he delivers his charge.

#folklorethursday
Source: Encyclopaedia of superstitions, folklore, and the occult sciences of the world - Cora Linn Daniels
Image by sman_5 from Pixabay

Mayor Wayne Brown tells Auckland Ratepayers Alliance to “fuck off” is absolute gold 🧡🧡🧡😂

Attention university workers and other supporters - click through for info on how to add support to calls for Unisaver, the preferred super scheme at universities, to divest from companies complicit in the Palestinian genocide

#nzpol meanwhile in america the precrime unit is being formed

*Curb Your Enthusiasm theme plays*

www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360...

"I oppose compulsion in all its forms." - Imagine how cross he'll get when he realises that all degrees have compulsory courses, but I guess it's only the Māori ones he's worried about

www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/david-sey...

Personally think we should consider making this not just the way it is

“..the collective wealth of the country's wealthiest went up by $4.5b last year - while the net worth of all households declined by $4.2billion.“
Recession for some. But not all. #nzpol

Well known education experts and crystal ball gazers BusinessNZ 🙄

#nzpol

"If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse, and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality."

- Desmond Tutu

A reminder why I rarely look at the Herald - because (notwithstanding a big rugby match) on a day of capital N news its 'personal content recommendation' algorithms seem to think I want this

A shameful repeat of 1976. This will damage New Zealand's reputation far more than Winston considers.
#nzpol

That smell on Winston Peters' breath isn't uranium - it's Netanyahu's arse.
#nzpol

www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

NZ has had decades to recognise statehood and pulling the 'too hard' lever is a fucked bit of backhanded diplomacy

Peters: [looks around a house trashed with an inch of its life] We are not in favour of a move to tidy up, because where would all this stuff go?

📢 Watch it live.

jfc my health insurance premiums are going up by 40%, do I need to get sick just so I can finally get my money's worth