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I think and know about open government and freedom of information. All posts in a personal capacity, RTs ≠ endorsement. 323 ppm Also @openpolicynz@mastodon.social and @openpolicynz at the bird site.

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Starmer’s government needs to stop blocking the International Criminal Court from issuing arrest warrants for Netanyahu and others.

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As parts keep falling off Boeing planes, I don't think I've raved on here about how accidentally-radicalising industrial-accident-themed documentaries are. The show Air Crash Investigation/Mayday is in its 24th season and fully half the episodes are "these people died so a company could save money"

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"I think the subconscious reason Tony Blair is so smitten with AI is that it speaks to us in Modern Internet English - the language to which Tony aspires."

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Useful antidote too, to the NZ Science Minister’s recent excitement about the wonderful varieties of tulip bulbs being pushed in her direction.

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Most media here are willing participants in what David Allen-Green describes as a government led by media strategy with policy providing tactical support, rather than government leading with a policy strategy that uses media tactically when needed.

www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/ele...

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Elizabeth (Bit) Meehan's avatar Elizabeth (Bit) Meehan @elizabethbitmeehan.com
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Similarly, the likelihood that the Republican presidential nominee drops dead from a drug overdose between now and November is definitely above zero

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Devastation as world’s biggest wetland burns: ‘those that cannot run don’t stand a chance’

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It's very odd the way this article mixes violence against staff and theft. They're not the same thing. And the anti theft measures don't seem to address the violence. How does a fog cannon protect a staff member from assault? This feels very bait and switch.

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Climate News's avatar Climate News @climatenews.bsky.social
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A brief history of self-regulation

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Idiot/Savant's avatar Idiot/Savant @norightturnnz.bsky.social
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So, Massey's charitable foundation is accessible to the #OIA. Also, Massey does not know how to give a lawful answer to an OIA request.

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What this article leaves out is that if you hand your unlocked phone to a police officer, they can legally search it. Unless companies develop a method that allows you to show officers insurance cards and driver license without unlocking the rest of your phone, don't.

www.zdnet.com/article/digi...

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Chip Stewart 's avatar Chip Stewart @medialawprof.bsky.social
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While I'm glad students have this option, it's still troubling that "settle for probation and agree not to appeal" is what UT is going to get away with for grossly violating students' First Amendment rights www.texastribune.org/2024/07/05/u...

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Britain is now in the bizarre situation that a voter has to provide ID in order to cast their vote in an election, but no ID has to be provided for someone nominated as a candidate. And the Electoral Commission is barred from querying it unless there’s prima facie a reason to doubt the legitimacy.

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Yeah, I'd be rich if they fetched that much. What flavour of Linux did you put on your old Mac? (I have a couple of them lying around.)

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I am too. I do think it would be worth writing to Barry Coates at Mindful Money, to ask it to enable people to identify funds with investment in Israel government bonds and Israeli companies.

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I feel like at some point this government will incorporate itself as a limited liability company and then wind itself up to avoid meeting its leaky homes (and many other) liabilities.

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Thanks. We could do with competition regulators taking action in NZ too, although I don’t think it’s as bad as in the USA.

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Tash 🍉's avatar Tash 🍉 @tashmahal.bsky.social
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I changed my KiwiSaver to Simplicity years ago, on the basis of their promise to invest ethically, nō reira am appalled to discover tis not the case. There’s no place in Aotearoa for any person or business complicit in, profiteering from, or in any way aiding the genocide & apartheid of Palestinians

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300,000 dollars is a bit above list price when new, so you might want to haggle a bit with the dump operator.

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There is something quite glorious in making a significant change of policy happen by the simple expedient of deleting two footnotes.

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Fatima Ayub's avatar Fatima Ayub @thecynicist.bsky.social
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I read a story here on Bluesky (if someone knows what I’m talking about please reshare) about training an AI to recognize skin cancer, but since so many images of skin cancer feature a ruler measuring anomalies, the AI could only recognize rulers. That’s what I think of AI in healthcare.

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Isadora, PhD 's avatar Isadora, PhD @1sadora.bsky.social
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My first ever piece is live, thanks @justinhendrix.bsky.social at @techpolicypress.bsky.social. Read it, we worked hard on a reasonable word count!

*President Biden urgently needs to rectify the institutional limits for privacy and set the US on a new trajectory when it comes to surveillance.*

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Has the DOJ begun an antitrust investigation into Ticketmaster yet?

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Oliver L's avatar Oliver L @eey0re.bsky.social
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Dr Nessa Lynch @neasanil.bsky.social writes about the EU's AI Act, its strengths and risks, and compares Aotearoa's weak regulatory regime.

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Mark Joseph Stern's avatar Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social
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Still marveling at Gorsuch's Ohio v. EPA opinion, in which he confused nitrogen oxide (a pollutant) with nitrous oxide (laughing gas). He did this five times, never once getting it right—in an opinion overruling the EPA's own expert scientific analysis! s3.documentcloud.org/documents/24...

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Nauseous too at the prospect of Wes Streeting’s appearance there, presumably to talk about AI in the health service.

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Owen Boswarva's avatar Owen Boswarva @owenboswarva.bsky.social
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Here's the programme for the Tony Blair Institute's Future of Britain Conference, tomorrow: "governing in the age of AI" www.institute.global/future-of-br...

Lots to choose from, but for maximum cringe there's a session in which Jon Sopel moderates a conversation between Blair and William Hague.

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‘Forgetting’ that rule 1 of resisting fascism is ‘Don’t comply in advance’. It’s cowardice in the face of the right’s racist culture war policies that is driving Starmer’s defence of voter ID, not any genuine problem with electoral integrity.

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Mark Chadbourn's avatar Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social
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More than 400,000 people were denied a vote in the UK General Election because of the Tories’ voter suppression, mainly from ethnic minority groups. This needs to be tackled immediately.

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It would be great to see this in Labour’s next election manifesto, if members like you have any input into policy.

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As if by magic, an environmental regulator in the UK now has the spine to investigate the last government’s ’emergency’ and ad hoc approval of a neonicotinoid pesticide that is extremely toxic to #bees.

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Ian Betteridge's avatar Ian Betteridge @ianbetteridge.com
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Like a lot of people I want a lot more from Labour. But just starting by clearing up all the weird little things the Tories did because they were either incompetent or malicious is a good start. And there's *so much stuff* like this. It's not enough, but it needs doing, and I'm glad they're doing it

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Ian Betteridge's avatar Ian Betteridge @ianbetteridge.com
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Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha no.

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The Lancet has just published this article ‘conservatively’ estimating the death toll in #Gaza is no where near the 38,000 estimated by local authorities.

The article estimates the number of children, women and men killed in the #genocide is closer to 186,000.

www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

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