You get the picture. #NurseryRhymes #USpol

In a nutshell. 😊

Beirut born artist Helen Zughaib mixes familiar imagery to bridge East and West #WomensArt

Our communities are more progressive than this government, and our rangatahi definitely are.

Thursday is the deadline to have your say on RSE before our petition is delivered to the Minister of Education and opposition spokespeople. our.actionstation.org.nz/petitions/br...

BREAKING: We're taking the government to court over Palantir Peter Thiel's surveillance firm is embedded in the NHS. Wes Streeting won't show us the briefings - so we have launched a legal challenge.

BREAKING: We’re taking the government to court over Palantir.

The government is refusing to hand over important briefings given to Wes Streeting about the £330m NHS data contract with Peter Thiel’s surveillance firm

So we’re taking legal action.

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Close up -
Oldies again ✏️ pencil line art, illustration which got featured in the Spectrum Award 🎨 I still love this piece very much 🎨

#illustration #fashion #fantasy #margueritesauvage

'public servant' 2014

how is this literally happening in real life

Opening text of a thread by Palantir from X Because we get asked a lot. The Technological Republic, in brief. 1. Silicon Valley owes a moral debt to the country that made its rise possible. The engineering elite of Silicon Valley has an affirmative obligation to participate in the defense of the nation. 2. We must rebel against the tyranny of the apps. Is the iPhone our greatest creative if not crowning achievement as a civilization? The object has changed our lives, but it may also now be limiting and constraining our sense of the possible. 3. Free email is not enough. The decadence of a culture or civilization, and indeed its ruling class, will be forgiven only if that culture is capable of delivering economic growth and security for the public. 4. The limits of soft power, of soaring rhetoric alone, have been exposed. The ability of free and democratic societies to prevail requires something more than moral appeal. It requires hard power, and hard power in this century will be built on software.

Palantir put out a 22-point summary of their CEO's book The Technological Republic. It's pitched as a defence of the West, but if you read it through the VDA framework, verification, deliberation, accountability, what it's actually doing looks rather different.
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NZ @greens.org.nz Co-leader @maramadavidson.bsky.social 19 April "Green Party has always been on the right side of history when it comes to putting people before profit." True. On climate change, Papatuanuku, Te Tiriti, tamariki, homeless, energy sovereignty, health, dental, & illegal foreign wars.

It is interesting how poshumanism
--conceived as a challenge to power--might now serve to strengthen the power of tech companies producing AI & other robots. It may serve to reposition discussions of personhood, care & agency in ways that fit tech company fantasies.

On this day in 2019, I witnessed one of the coolest things ever. A lenticular cloud lit-up by a setting sun over the Perito Morena Glacier in Argentina.

Google Starts Scanning All Your Photos As New Update Goes Live Google wants its AI to see all the photos of "you and your loved ones." Billions of users must now decide.

“Take a moment to think before you dive in. That’s the best advice for Google Photos users, as the company confirms its latest update can scan all your photos to “use actual images of you and your loved ones” in AI image generation.”

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Artwork featuring a standing central female figure in long dress created in a stylised way with intersecting lines and colours

The work of Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh (1866-1933) of the Glasgow School, who pushed the boundaries of Art Nouveau #WomensArt

Me too. 🙂

Little known fact, but the NZ household sector is really very wealthy compared to our economy and the rest of the world. This data doesn't include land or weatherboard palaces, it's just a huge stack of financial assets - shares, equity, cash etc. How do we do it? [🧵 1/n]

MANCHESTER!
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This looks like one of Cold War Steve's creations. You should credit him. He's on here.

women who hate men generally just hate what men have done to them whereas men who hate women mostly just hate what women won’t do for them

the difference is crucial

Excellent! Thanks @legallyfeminist.bsky.social and @sarahhbickerton.bsky.social "meaningful progress on online safety requires enforceable platform obligations, independent regulatory oversight, and a model grounded in accountability, prevention, and substantive gender equality."

He will stay a Catholic for the duration of the book tour, then write a new book about how he saw the light and joined Westboro Baptist Church.

Crop tops and thongs: how Epstein's friend Les Wexner sexualised children's fashion. Image: Men and women, some of them models, hold a demonstration outside of lingerie retailer Victoria's Secret on February 14, 2020 in New York City. A woman holds up a heart-shaped placard that reads “Victoria’s Silence”

“We moved from shoulder pads and power suits to baby-doll tops and heroin chic. With each passing year, we were asked to look smaller, thinner and younger”: Deborah Frances-White remembers a dark, Lolita-like period in fashion

www.thenerve.news/p/deborah-fr...

Cartoon. The introduction says, “Worried about the fall out from the war on Iran, Finance Minister Nicola Willis goes to Washington to ask:” and the image shows the Oval Office with President of the USA Donald Trump. He is being Jesus, with his hands raised, eyes closed, and wearing a white gown with a red sash and a long red tie. Nicola Willis says to him, “”When can we expect a return to normal?” Trump opens one eye and replies, “Huh?”

Worried about the fall out from the war on Iran, Finance Minister Nicola Willis goes to Washington DC, seeking answers.
My #cartoon today #NZpol #Trump #IranWar #Jesus

NEW: This might be the perfect visual metaphor for the war in Iran.

Courtesy of today’s Virginia Tech Spring game.

Wit, unker, git: The lost medieval pronouns of English intimacy Tales of love and adventure from 1,000 years ago reveal a dazzling range of now-extinct English pronouns. They capture something unique about how people once thought about "two-ness".

We should bring back these lost pronouns, partly because they are cool, and partly to annoy the TERFs (bonus point to the article for mentioning Chaucer’s use of the singular ‘they’).

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Sometimes I'd like to live my life as intensely as this woman plays rugby. #BlackFerns

According to the hosting sites policies from a previous case... YouTube video by Monte Mader

If you are a woman, please be very careful about this link, it is really, really confronting
If you are a man, open the link
Sit there
Listen
Reflect
Who, and What TF ARE we?

At @io9.com, I spoke with Rick Veitch, Tom Mandrake, Vince Locke, and more for an oral history of the most heretical DC comic of all time, now rising from its tomb after 40 years.

What happened to this RFK Jr?