Stay the hell away from Elon Musk and especially his cars, rockets and software….

Everyone came to the party on Ginny’s Bill, but National dragged their feet until a huge petition organised by women forced their hand. If media won’t call out Luxon obfuscating the truth, I’m glad the public is paying attention.

Victoria 💚 🧡 ❤️@vebate.bsky.social · 3w ago

This grandstanding does nothing to encourage cross-party cooperation in the future. It was clearly a members bill by Labour's Ginny Andersen and everyone came to the party on it, esp the Greens. I wonder if we should all just put the same comment under his post for effectiveness.

Hey guys again they did the same thing in America with black people in leadership positions. They were considered “DEI” cause they happened to be black or a woman. The unhinged shit is coming straight from America.

Russell Brown@publicaddress.bsky.social · 3w ago

Simeon Brown's quoted response here – that New Zealanders voted to "end Labour’s co-governed system" – is the most deranged culture-war nonsense, even by Simeon Brown standards. Is he saying the Medical Council was "co-governed" because the chair, a respected surgeon, happened to be Māori?

First example given is driverless cars (in Christchurch, weirdly, not Seymour's homeground of Epsom, wonder what that's about) so I feel entirely comfortable tapping the SAFETY REGULATIONS ARE WRITTEN IN BLOOD sign

RNZ News Feeds@rnzrss.bsky.social · 3w ago

ACT proposes 'innovation trials' to pause regulations on new tech

New Zealanders have resoundingly said NO to the Gender Definitions bill! 💅🏳️‍⚧️💅🏳️‍⚧️💅🏳️‍⚧️💅🏳️‍⚧️

everlee is free - please RT, all the details here: www.webworm.co/everleeisfree/

Everlee Is Free

Webworm can report that Everlee Wihongi is finally free.

webworm.co

A lot of the “kids online safety” proponents actually are anti-LGBTQ extremists and fundamentalists who want kids to have less freedom and don’t care if that actually makes them tremendously less safe too

Under no fucking circumstances will I give ChatGPT or any other "AI" permission to access my credit cards, and certainly not to debit cards or my to bank accounts, which don't have the same fraud protections credit cards do.

The Associated Press@apnews.com · 2mo ago

Visa is embedding its payment network into ChatGPT, allowing the chatbot to shop and complete transactions for users.

If you frame an attack on trans people as a distraction, support for trans people will be dismissed a distraction. Don’t belittle bigotry. #nzpol

MeatMechSuit@meatmechsuit.bsky.social · 2mo ago

And next time Nat attack trans people, don’t say it’s a distraction. Actually support trans people you cowards. #nzpol

Australian Christian Lobby angling at, i guess, a plebiscite on gender with the line "Australians had a say on changing the definition of marriage, why not this" forgetting that one of those things is a state function and the other is inherent to the person. You don't actually get a say on my gender

"This is not a cost of living crisis, this is a cost of greed crisis" tika!!

I just made a submission on the bullshit terf bill in my capacity as someone who spends a lot of time thinking about why people believe dumb shit. (I was uncharacteristically respectful of authority.) If you're in New Zealand, I hope you see fit to do the same: www3.parliament.nz/en/pb/sc/mak...

Maybe we will get Some Answers…

I think this one was published in the print edition of the paper today. Keep it short and focused and get the word out.

CEO Johnny Cans@oldmatecans.bsky.social · 3mo ago

And letters@press.co.nz. I enjoyed this once.

Email 25 - Georgie Dansey - Labour

Also: if you must, for some reason, frame your message around distraction, it is *entirely possible* to do this without minimising the issue. "National are so desperate to distract NZers from their litany of failures that they're throwing trans people under the bus and we won't stand for it"

CEO Johnny Cans@oldmatecans.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Pro-tip for any budding politicians: Saying "It's a distraction" when your opponents begin a policy directly targeting a minority, one which will reverse your own governments gains for that minority, tells everyone in or supportive of that minority that you didn't give a fuck then and you don't now.

It’s deeply shameful for National and Act to vote for the NZF anti-trans bill tonight. Clearly they’d rather the limited resources of govt be used on this culture war nonsense that nobody wants rather than the things that New Zealanders actually need from them.

Every single problem in the public service is a result of government cost-cutting and prioritising optics, spin and ideology over just spending the money to do the job properly, which would have the benefit of making everyone's lives better but on the other hand doesn't make rich people richer

Sir, another graduation ceremony in which the students booed AI has dropped. "College graduates were pissed after their school used AI to announce graduates’ names and missed hundreds of names" (via @/FearedBuck on Twitter)

this graduation speech moment is notable, and her amazed shock at having failed to read the room feels instructive. when you're inside the bubble, you think everybody else is. but everybody isn't.

As someone who spent a lot of time around greencard holders people with greencards basically behaved like citizens without the voting. This is so scary. If you’re visiting the US or leaving the US god help you.

David Farrier@davidfarrier.com · 3mo ago

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...

Please please please share this post. There is some bizarre magic spell on the words "pay equity" that makes people's eyes glaze over but there's nothing boring about working women being robbed of BILLIONS of dollars by the chaos coalition

Government's treatment of women in Aotearoa goes to the United Nations

One year after legislation killed existing pay equity claims and basically ended the opportunity to bring new claims, the government is being taken to the United Nations. It's a huge deal. The team ...

emilywrites.co.nz

your software is not conscious, you absolute weirdo

Your Software Is Not Sentient

Software simulacrum is not true consciousness, the stripper at the strip club doesn't actually love you, and nearly all of the biggest problems with "AI" have very ordinary human origins.

karlbode.com

It's amazing that nobody will understand this: They don't think. They don't remember. They have no cognition. They're pattern matching systems that produce answer-shaped responses. This is no different that giving a script admin privileges, except this script is rewritten on the fly.

Here we go again: AI deletes entire company database and all backups in 9 seconds, then cheerfully admits 'I violated every principle I was given'

"If you pay for car airbags and they don’t deploy because they don’t exist is that your fault because you got in the accident?"

pcgamer.com

Yes, Swiss scientist Fritz Zwicky coined the term “dark matter” which is impressive, but he also coined the term “spherical bastard” to describe people who are bastards no matter which way you look at them, and I think that should be celebrated more.

i’ve worked in tech more than 20 years. it has never been more ridiculous.

I can't stop laughing at this post. It's perfect.

Okay CTA. This is a good sign.