Sam Neill has also spoken out following personal attacks by Shane Jones he’s been targeted by “supporters” of the project who have immediately escalated to threats of physical violence

NZF are the number 1 vector in this country for stochastic terrorism & there needs to be more coverage of that

A good read! We've been saying it for a while! But still good to read anyway.

Sacrifice your job for the glorious AI future How tech CEOs use the threat of job loss to distract from how AI is really used against workers

Perplexity’s CEO is just the latest tech leader to tell the public their jobs will be sacrificed on the altar of the glorious AI future.

It’s a compelling narrative, but it distracts us from the real impact of AI: not to take the human out of the loop, but to take away their power and cut their pay

It's a difficult time. We have to be there for each other.

I'm so sorry to hear this.

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Bill giving police new powers needs stricter limits, Privacy Commissioner says Michael Webster said says the bill's impacts on privacy seem to have largely passed most New Zealanders by.

The Government is quietly legalising the mass photographing of rangatahi Māori by police. Submissions on this Bill close at 2pm on Wednesday 22nd April. www.rnz.co.nz/news/crime-a...

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AY NEW ZEALANDERS!!!!! one of my private students is a very talented new zealand writer and i’d love to set him up with a local author or publishing worker who can talk him through the business in NZ. dm me on here if you’d like to be connected with a protégé of mine who i’m very fond of!!

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Pregnancy vaccine reduces baby hospital admissions for RSV by 80% A study confirms the vaccine gives excellent protection for babies against life-threatening chest infections.

Vaccines are humanity’s greatest scientific achievement.

Thought level???

So cute!!!!!!

Definitely your kid.

I mean I have oft considered it. I’m just not sure it will make the thoughts come out.

Why do the Japanese like their buns askew (2026)

I don’t know what tax bracket you have to be in to care about govt spending or debt but I know I’m not in it. Literally could not give a shit. I’m in the tax bracket where I want kids to be fed, homeless people to be housed, people to be able to access and receive quality healthcare timely.

I don't recall any previous transformative technologies that had to be sold to the public so hard. No one in 1999 was going, "Guys. Cell phone? It's coming, whether we like it or not. I think it's important, FOR WOMEN ESPECIALLY, to learn about cell phone. So that we're not left behind!!"

Yes! And that's so good! We should be more effusive as a people, honestly. It's ok to like things!

I'm an outlier and shouldn't be counted because I tend to enjoy people from the US. BUT I think mostly it will read as insincere if anything. Maybe annoying.

“You gotta learn AI or get left behind!” is a bit galling given that the entire purpose of AI seems to be to steal our work and fuck our brains and shit up the planet, which is to say, its GOAL is to leave us all behind. That, in order to make its owners rich.

hey i called the pope and he told me deep dish pizza is a casserole. i knew it

they got the Church of England supporting the Pope now

I dunno about all the non-givers of enough credit for terms, but 历史的垃圾时间 has displaced 辩证唯物主义 in the section of my brain labelled 'your top-ranking Chinese language vocab for philosophical concepts of history'

Yes, give it to me.

Sometimes people think I link back to old pieces like I’m saying “I told you so”. I’m saying “it was so damn obvious that random people on the internet were blogging about it on the side while still doing their day jobs!”

A decade ago, I wrote that tech tycoons were on a path towards being considered the new robber barons. Now that 750k tech workers have been laid off, it was inevitable things would get rough. medium.com/humane-tech/... When it hits a million, they’re gonna need Pinkertons whenever they go outside.

by Alan Jackson

Rat eradication sparks record-breaking seabird breeding in Hawai’i A multi-agency effort to remove invasive rodents has let native species thrive in Hawai’i, including seabirds and entire forest ecosystems

One of Aotearoa New Zealand's greatest gifts to the world has been pioneering rodent eradication technology on islands.

The brodifacoum used for this project was manufactured in Whanganui.

Conservation can be an export industry! Fund it!

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Unexpected item in the banger area 🙌🎧