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Yep
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@newimprovedtom.bsky.social
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Yep
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@newimprovedtom.bsky.social
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Well, this is an absolute shitstorm of all the fuckery that’s happening in Luxon’s NZ: libertarian charter schools, empty AI hype, dodgy stockmarket shenanigans, and the goddamned Wright Foundation. newsroom.co.nz/2024/07/10/u...
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Jarrod Baker
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unfortunately we only treat art as having a financial value when it’s enriching someone other than artists
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Amanda Hoey
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It’s far from the only dumb thing about this, but I can promise the NYT that a country on its fifth republic already has a passing familiarity with the word “ungovernable.”
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geoffrey
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the generous interpretation of this recurring phenomenon is that journalism, or at least the editing side, is treated as a self-aggrandizing aristocratic hobby in which it is more important to appear clever and urbane than to inform the public. the less generous interpretation, well,
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Joe Katz
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Also worth noting a common theme: strategic voting/unifying behind a single candidate to defeat a candidate you both don't want to win, a normal democratic practice, being redefined as "cheating," "dirty tricks," "collusion," "a coup"... thus justifying actual cheating/dirty tricks/collusion/coups.
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Bebe Neuwirth (she/her)
@bebeneuwirth.bsky.social
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Sometimes my scroll gets it right.
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Madam Snazzy
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"It's actually only called 'Sham pain' when it's sparkly fash tears from the election year in France"
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@newimprovedtom.bsky.social
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Make a band more vegetable: Soft Celery
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Stephen Fitzgerald
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@newimprovedtom.bsky.social
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Sorry for the blurry photo, but this tīeke really wants to be heard.
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@newimprovedtom.bsky.social
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Having Massive problems? Need to grease your Reece, but have too much on your Dubplate and need a Break? Think About It, and call JUNGLE MAINTENANCE. Amen, Brother!
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@newimprovedtom.bsky.social
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On the steps of Pukeahu war memorial.
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Dan
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Always wanted a game set in Auckland
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Rebecca Kosick
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Less doomerism more gallows humor
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Craig M. Ranapia
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THIS THIS MFING THIS WITH SPRINKLES AND HOT BUTTERSCOTCH SAUCE ON TOP! You want to be entertained? Learn to knit. Take in a show. Buy a dangerously grunty vibrator. But please stop treating politics like a parlour game where there are real stakes for real people on the line here.
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@newimprovedtom.bsky.social
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FB has been trash for a long time, and our feeds are increasingly stuffed with “suggested” posts rather than people we follow. But has anyone noticed it suddenly getting worse? Today for the first time I got posts from Chris Luxon, Nicola Willis … and Alexander Dugin.
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House of Boom
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Hey Wellington! If you still haven't got your hands on Boom Gin, Mothers Ruined are doing a tasting this Saturday at Regional Wines & Spirits by the Basin Reserve, from 1pm-4pm. Go along! Get the gin! Try the others! They're all good! (Mine is the best) Or buy online www.mothersruinedgin.com/shop
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Caleb Moses
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One of my favourite things to find in the old newspapers is neat examples of design or typography. Here's an example, an old calendar for the year 1899, titled "Maramataka".
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Keith Ng
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Will Oremus
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Look we all care about the climate but you can’t expect a company whose motto used to be “Don’t be evil” to cut back on a technology that tells people to put glue in their pizza and generates images of racially diverse Nazis just to save the planet
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Mike Dickison
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Also AI diagnostic tools are sexist and racist. medicalxpress.com/news/2024-06...
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@newimprovedtom.bsky.social
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Of course, you’d still have to ask questions like “Will it, though?” and “economic benefits to whom, motherfucker?”.
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@newimprovedtom.bsky.social
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I think I misread this at first. “‘Economic’ research” must mean “research expected to deliver economic benefits”, not “research in the field of economics”, right? At least I hope so.
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@newimprovedtom.bsky.social
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And how much of it is going to be full of bullshit “gen AI”?
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Taco Avenger
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Say what you want to about Hans Gruber but when push come to shove... he left.
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Maggie Astor
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"He didn't chain himself to the desk" is the actual democratic standard in my inbox right now
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🐻Iona🐻
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If the government is serious about making people feel safer (they're not) they'd implement this recommendation with urgency.
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The Wellingtonista
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the Spinoff's write-up on why Wellington has so many Malaysian restaurants is very good, not just because it contains digs at a certain critic. But it doesn't explain the Little Penang/Sri Penang The Terrace mystery!
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Paul 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
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Just want to re-up some fundraisers including our own.
Wellington Pride is being sued by some trans-exclusionary Lesbians.
This case is very important because the anti-trans group is hoping for a legal precedent.
Give here:
givealittle.co.nz/cause/wellin...
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Veldrin
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eustace
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The project is complete. The feline has expressed her satisfaction.
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@newimprovedtom.bsky.social
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Ooh, thanks!
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Byron C Clark
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The former mayor of Nelson experienced a home invasion from a Sovereign Citizen who claimed that house was his now "by decree" and it was where the "missing children" of Nelson were being hidden
www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/former-ne...
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D Jukic
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Mānawatia a Matariki! Tips for how to celebrate if you don’t know where to start #kikorangi
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@newimprovedtom.bsky.social
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We have some sort of Copilot nonsense built into our cloud platform, and I once asked it what sort of LLM it was based on. It replied “As a language model, I don’t have an LLM, or any other degree.”
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@newimprovedtom.bsky.social
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I’m sure everything will be just fine… www.cnbc.com/2024/01/23/p...
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The Wellingtonista
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RT 🔒 Te Awakairangi/Te Whanganui a Tara people please consider supporting this event. Destiny and Man Up have made it clear they intend to oppose and intimidate anyone trying to attend and have already shut down Rainbow readings at the library.
www.eventfinda.co.nz/2023/living-...
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@newimprovedtom.bsky.social
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I’m sure it’s completely fine that the contractors we have to work with on a large IT project are also from Fujitsu. I’m sure nothing could possibly go wrong there.
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Paige Macintosh
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This is what happens when you pander to the Free Speech Union: the terfs are coming to Rutherford House, part of Victoria University of Wellington's Pipitea campus. What a message to send to our students as they begin their second trimester of the year.
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John Cutting
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I was a fly on the wall with a zoom with some techbro execs chatting how to 'disrupt' AI. Near quote: "I think there's a great opportunity to hire a team of fact checkers to identify the most popular queries and provide sources for reliable answers." "Mitch, you just invented Wikipedia." "...Fuck."
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SpecsChic
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Hey AoNZ, want an excuse to spend an hour where you can contribute to science just by sitting and observing your own garden? It's annual garden birds survey time 29 June – 7 July 2024. All you need to know can be found here.
gardenbirdsurvey.nz
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@newimprovedtom.bsky.social
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I just watched a video that made exactly this point: youtu.be/w7pqmI347Uk?...
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Keith Ng
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all polls are bad but some polls are special
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Jarrod Baker
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also I’m pretty sure the police already have the power to arrest criminals. that’s one of the ones they were given quite early on
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Dr. Fade
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McSweeney's has got to stop calling me out like this. I feel personally attacked. /And/ I'm going to be awkward about it.
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Jennifer
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Waiting til the heat death of the universe for the free speech union to speak up about a church suppressing a considerable number of events based on the kind of speech they express...
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Empress of the Internet
@johubris.bsky.social
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If any of y'all have spare money, you can donate to Willy's ko-fi here, ko-fi.com/willysmacknt...
And if you have some spare love and kind words, send Upper Hutt Library some love and support too, they've been receiving absolute filth and hate from "Christian" thugs
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The Wellingtonista
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This cancellation is fucking AWFUL. Those awful fucking grifting thugs at Destiny can go step on all the Lego.
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