Che Tibby
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Deranged liberal and Bluesky Elder: public-sector researcher on terrorism and violent extremism, and I am such, such the biggest nerd.
NEW: I came across a bookseller who was afraid that a mysterious company trying to buy some of his rarest books was going to use them to train AI models. I went down the rabbithole with him, and was confused and altogether existentially weirded out by what I found www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
A bookseller confronts a mysterious company hunting his rarest books
Was a Kentucky retailer targeted by a destructive AI "predator"?
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Lord, President Xi just insulted Trump and the USA, right to Trump's face-in the White House. Xi referred, yet again, to the "Thucydides trap". This is an reference to the US being in decline and China replacing it. And Trump sits their making moo eyes like a lovestruck teenager
So the thing here is that conversation is OIA-able. You can be required to recall a conversation
The Press@thepress.co.nz · 2d agoMore staff have alleged the Ministry of Education encouraged verbal communication to avoid creating OIA‑accessible records, prompting urgent intervention from the Chief Ombudsman.
“If you are staring at an example of social disorder or social inefficiency, and the left refuses to explain either why it has happened or how they will fix it, then the right gets to point at someone in the immediate area and say, ‘That’s who did it.’” crazy how much Mamdani speaks my language
repeatedly click on a friendly unit until it starts saying funny bits
Bits@bitshammer.bsky.social · 2d ago
Gonna tell my kids this is Hitler hiding in Argentina
Tomorrow, Mike and I are finally introducing listeners to a guy we’ve been watching for a bit: Joshua Lisec. He’s a weird, horny, and incredibly divorced Ohio man who’s become the go-to ghostwriter and coauthor for MAGA influencers. He’s also obsessed with hypnosis! www.patreon.com/PostingThrou...
143: The Horny, Divorced World of MAGA’s Favorite Writer | Posting Through It
Do you hear the whistle blowing? It’s time to embark on your divorce journey with the MAGA movement’s favorite writer: an extremely strange
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Excellent
David Farrier@davidfarrier.com · 2d agoan amazing new project launches today in new zealand: people can report sexual harm, and get matched with others who reported the same person. when you report, you get a lawyer - and lawyer-client privilege. for free. i profile the website, technology, charity, & law firm here: www.webworm.co/tika/
Hager: COME AT ME BRO (Jordan Williams looks like if sexual harassment became a person, which isn't helping his cause any)
Hager claps back at Jordan Williams on sexual harassment claim
Dirty Work author Nicky Hager says the Taxpayers' Union could waive confidentiality.
nzherald.co.nz
For the benefit of Jordan Williams, David Farrar et al, here is a comprehensive list of everyone who has successfully sued Nicky Hager for defamation in relation to allegations made in his meticulously researched books: .... End #NZPol
Lunchtime thought. Those useless guys that just keep getting promoted into roles... Bro-hums.
Personally, if like to congratulate Jordan Williams for successfully monetising online trolling. He's taken the early 2000s 'debate me bro' demographic into the political arena and it's now much beloved of lazy, both sides churnalists more committed to their press passes than public information.
To those who might be surprised that Stuff is giving airtime mainly to the denials of the stars of Dirty Work, remember that they’ve worked with the TPU for years and hired Matthew Hooton as an editor. Individual journos have a range of views but the establishment is dyed-in-the-wool neoliberal
with new zealand in an election year i would like to formally remind everyone that i am *not* right wing blogger david farrar. i am re-issuing this handy guide from six years ago about how to tell us apart. please RT: www.webworm.co/farrier/
If you're wondering why the media will give Farrar, Williams a good old run at denying everything without being specific or proving anything, it's because Hager criticises the media for their uncritical platforming of both of them and calls them lazy which is 100% correct.
I have seen three people on the train reading copies of Dirty Work
ascendants.in/industry_eve... Watch 👀Nicky Hager launch his new bombshell book on the #nzpol #AtlasNetwork propaganda and racist agitprop riot instigating outfit Taxpayers Union... Jordan Williams must be absolutely twitching...😇 #auspol #canpol
The surprise isn't that foreign fossil fuel & tobacco funded astroturf group Taxpayers Union is the subject of Nicky Hager's new book It's that NZ media including The Post, Stuff, RNZ, TVNZ etc keep profiling & interviewing these people and groups #NickyHager #Dirtywork
So I'm FAFOing with food. Try this. Lightly brown 1/2 an onion, add garlic, then add a good amount of sauerkraut. Pretty conventional so far. Deglaze with rice wine vinegar. Next add a couple of tablespoons of a decent lite soy and reduce. It's pretty damn good.
Wrote a short weird little book about far-right death threats against me + my fam, fleeing our home, Trumpism, + my experience as a Jew amidst the resurgence of fascism + genocide in Gaza Coming January 2027 from @melvillehouse.bsky.social mhpbooks.com/books/unpunc... #NoPasarán #FreePalestine
