to keep functioning, a society must discourage baldfaced lying, especially by authorities
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last wk.Sen. Roger Marshall: "Who didn't have a friend who took this vaccine and had some time of complication? A stroke, a blood clot, a young man getting some type of heart inflammation. That's what destroyed the trust in the American people for our government."
If the people you are paying to write a curriculum need to use "AI tools" to "check and generate content", you are paying the wrong people and you should actually not have dumped the people who are capable of these core tasks.
Michael Brown@jingajik.bsky.social · last wk."Pulse, legato, harmony, tone colour, rhythm, triads, tuning - each appeared in the draft curriculum with incorrect definitions" www.thepost.co.nz/politics/361...
We can make a society that exists for the care and thriving and enjoyment of the actual people rather than for the enrichment of parasitical greed freaks and the comfort of creepy-minded religious bigots. All that's needed is for more people to stop fearing good things and start fighting for them.
YOU LITERALLY VOTED TO CANCEL 33 PAY EQUITY CLAIMS. YOUR VOTE SCREWED OVER 150,000 - 180,000 WOMEN. GET ABSOLUTELY F*KED WITH YOUR "CONVERSATION" BIZZO
RNZ News Feeds@rnzrss.bsky.social · last mo.Compulsory reporting of pay gap data worth a conversation, National leader says
"Norway is imposing a near ban on the use of generative AI tools by elementary school pupils while also restricting their use in the education of older children to prevent a negative impact on learning" Sometimes, good policymaking is incredibly simple. www.reuters.com/technology/n...
Norway imposes near ban on AI in elementary school
Norway is imposing a near ban on the use of generative AI tools by elementary school pupils while also restricting their use in the education of older children to prevent a negative impact on learni...
reuters.com
nobody in British politics seems to want to say it but the single biggest driver of their inability to keep a prime minister for any length of time is that Brexit was stupid and ruinous and made everyone’s lives worse
We have just launched a parliamentary petition calling for mandatory AI transparency in the public sector. If AI is going to be used in the delivery of public services, it must be AI that is worthy of our trust. Sign: petitions.parliament.nz/7bfe1c60-b99... Read more: www.trustworthyai.nz
Petitions are addressed to the House of Representatives and ask that the House do something about a policy or law, or put right a local or private concern.
petitions.parliament.nz
The AUDACITY of a white dude with a heavy non-NZ accent telling me to "go back to your country" when I call him out for riding his motorcycle in the cycleway. He was previously mounting footpaths to circumvent red lights, while also running other red lights before turning into the cycleway
The world could be such a nice place if we allowed it. It's all so goddamn unnecessary. There's no need for any of it. It's so beautiful here. It should be so cool to be alive
Big thanks to the DUP, Reform, Tories etc for stirring this up all day. Thugs are now attacking people's homes in Belfast, wrecking hostels, checking cars at roadblocks for 'immigrants', burning vehicles and generally scaring the shit out of people. Hope you're all proud of yourselves. #Belfast
We need to think deeper: why is this unacceptable for a 17 year old but acceptable for an 18 year old - or a 57 year old? Age controls are not the real problem.
Melanie Ward MP@melanieward.bsky.social · 2mo agoThis is unacceptable. Is a 17 year old boy being pushed to watch antisemitic conspiracy theories about Jewish people after just 11 minutes what Meta considers to be age-appropriate? (1/3)
It’s hard to imagine any technology that has ever fucked it this badly, and purely through arrogance, it’s like if the people who invented the car decided to showcase its utility by driving over your family dog and then backing up and doing it again, and also the car sucked and was bad
ryan cooper@ryanlcooper.com · 2mo ago"The public has swung 49 points against data centers in just nine months" lol heatmap.news/politics/ame...
Rowling, Forstater, Davies and your ilk; take a fucking bow you absolute dangers metro.co.uk/2023/05/25/i...
Woman, 86, shoved headfirst into wheelie bin by man who thought she was trans
'I really thought I was going to be dead.'
metro.co.uk
Masks are an extremely cheap & relatively efficient way to prevent all kinds of airborne illnesses getting into your own body. They don't harm surrounding people, they are easy to carry, can't be used in any devious way, yet that MD seems bothered by this completely innocuous things. I miss adults.
Michael Hobbes@michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 2mo agoSome of us just don't like getting colds
the anti-trans bathroom ban is very bad—it's also a sign uk democracy is failing my latest with @liberalcurrents.com www.liberalcurrents.com/the-end-of-t...
The End of Trans Rights In the UK Is the Start Of Democratic Collapse
It's never just one minority.
liberalcurrents.com
NEW — My first true foray into AI haterdom is about how those of us not convinced by AI’s inevitability are a real constituency worthy of a voice. Give it a read:
Hating AI is good, actually
LinkedIn may be awash with boosters, but shunning AI is the human choice.
thehandbasket.co
politicians & press alike insist we can never tell anti-immigrant voters they're wrong—but they are, & we should! my latest for @liberalcurrents.com www.liberalcurrents.com/respecting-r...
Respecting Reform Voters Means Telling Them They’re Wrong and Immoral
Understand politics with this one weird trick: just tell the truth about the far right.
liberalcurrents.com
new zealander everlee wihongi was due to meet with her lawyer yesterday. then ICE moved her to their most notorious tent facility in texas: 3000 people, highest death rate, most sexual assaults. and today, she disappeared off the system. please RT: www.webworm.co/everleehasdi...
Everlee Has Disappeared
Everlee Wihongi was transferred by ICE to the notorious "Camp East Montana" at Fort Bliss, Texas. Then she disappeared.
webworm.co
The nominal strategic purpose of the U.S. Navy is to ensure global freedom of navigation to guarantee stable global trade. It has not only not done that, the United States instigated the conflict which undid it. This is known in foreign policy analysis as a “whoopsie doodles.”
@lastpositivist.bsky.social · 3mo agoGenuine question: is there any way to understand the "pause" on Operation Freedom besides an unambiguous defeat for the US navy? I am actually shocked at how badly the US is losing this war.
"The structure whose supports our elites are steadily kicking down is also the one that props up their own personal safety from disaster and political invulnerability to accountability. And all of this can go away." me in @bostonreview.bsky.social www.bostonreview.net/articles/a-y...
A Year of Magical Thinking
Elite impunity has fueled the fantasy that catastrophes are for other people.
bostonreview.net
I’ve been thinking about this guy almost daily for ten fucking years. essentially my entire 30’s. when he finally croaks I imagine I’ll let out a sigh so deep it realigns my fucking spine
This is the most straightforward example of environmental, economic, and cultural vandalism this govt has yet proposed, and there is no shortage of candidates And in addition, it will destroy the govt's moral authority to enforce any other fishing laws www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/bill-woul...
'Killing baby snapper': Proposed rules remove fish size limits for commercial fishing
Recreational fishers would still face size rules and daily snapper limits.
nzherald.co.nz
That’s funny, because Nate Swanson, who used to be the point guy on Iran at the NSC but got fired because of Laura Loomer, warned of this in an article written four days before the war started. It was called “Why Iran Will Escalate.”
It might have been a mistake to put the dumbest motherfucker alive in charge of the most powerful government on earth.
George Pearkes@peark.es · 5mo agoOh man, the hit at Ras Laffan has taken almost 20% of output (i.e. roughly 3% of global LNG volumes) offline for *3-5 years*.
Inadvertently makes a case here for why we need to keep the humanities in school
More Perfect Union@moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 5mo agoBillionaire Marc Andreessen says he has "zero" introspection, and that the idea itself is a modern invention.
love how we killed the old, frail anti-nuke ayatollah just to have him replaced with his young, healthy son who wants nukes and who just had his father, mother, wife, and child murdered on the same day by his mortal enemy. surely this will bring peace to the region
March 27, 1936: Portraits of the Führer are raised on official buildings across Berlin. This one at the Potsdamer Railway Station reads "Freedom - Peace"
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 6mo agoBiden would’ve been instantly impeached in a bipartisan vote if he put his face on the freakin’ Department of Justice building
"Is there a technology the left is excited about?" Let's see, off the top of my head: - libraries - solar power - community-owned, community-run [noun], for example • power grids • communications networks - e-bikes - voting by mail - vaccinations - affordable health care Notice any patterns?
