“People like David Seymour like to frame what we’re doing as selecting medical students based on race. No, that’s actually the issue we’re trying to correct — historically our admissions processes have selected an overwhelmingly Pākehā student cohort.” — Professor Papaarangi Reid.

David Seymour is afraid of MAPAS because it’s working | E-Tangata

“People like David Seymour like to frame what we’re doing as selecting medical students based on race. No, that’s actually the issue we’re trying to correct — historically our admissions processes hav...

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A overseas forestry company that asked David Seymour to pressure Gisborne Council to ease up on it was responsible, along with an iwi-owned forest management company, for leaving a harvested forest in one of the worst conditions independent experts have ever seen www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3610...

One thing we found recently in this regard that kinda surprised me is that, after All This, there are in fact more self-IDed "woke" than "anti-woke" Americans. But less surprising is that the largest bucket remains the "what the hell are you talking about" Americans yougov.com/en-us/articl...

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My theory on this is that most people aren’t mad at “woke” or whatever, they just experienced an upheaval of society through COVID and its aftermath and can’t actually put their finger on what’s bothering them. Woke is just a scapegoat for “I want things back the way they were”.

RE: freedom of speech, academic freedom, and race science. In this (long) thread, I’m going to 1) establish my bona fides on academic freedom and race science, 2) show why academic freedom and freedom of speech are different and… 1/34

PODCAST 🎙️ Mid-term prime ministers – Episode 3: Adjusting to the role In the final episode of our series, we explore how incoming mid-term PMs adjust and the lessons former mid-term transitions hold for Burnham’s premiership – or future mid-term PMs www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/podcast/insi...

Mid-term prime ministers – Episode 3: Adjusting to the role | Institute for Government

In the final episode of our series, we explore lessons former mid-term transitions hold for Andy Burnham’s premiership – or future mid-term PMs.

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Merit did not descend from the heavens. It was built, and then it was fortified, into a set of competencies whose primary function was to protect an entrenched establishment.

There’s an aggressively paid for influence op going on right now to defend AI slop as art and protected speech across platforms. AI execs realize they have a problem and don’t wanna get Marie Antoinette’d. The free ChatGPT trip is the tip of the iceberg. First person to nail it down gets a Pulitzer.

Manurewa rangatahi have been spelling out what they want in their community.

‘More places for rangatahi to just be’: What Manurewa youth want

Manurewa rangatahi have been spelling out what they want in their community.

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darkly funny that people objecting to Cofnas' suspension and investigation by Ghent have figured out how to judge a set of actions in the context of the broader political project they advance and not just their self proclaimed aims and rationales

roterote@roterote.bsky.social · 2w ago

Here is the full suspension letter from UGent that was sent to Nathan Cofnas, it shows ample reason for his suspension and potential termination. Including breach of contract, using the University of Ghent’s name and legitimacy to promote his racial supremacist views and causing reputational damage.

They treat a MMP parliamentary election as though it were a national plebiscite. It isn’t. Confused democratic logics.

Dan@danxduran.bsky.social · 2w ago

This is a good, if somewhat terrifying read www.nzinitiative.org.nz/reports-and-...

1/ I live in the east frame. Most of us bought into body corporates whose rules say no short-term accommodation. Council planning says one thing, our own rules say another, and we still end up living next door to an Airbnb.

The Press@thepress.co.nz · 2w ago

A ruling banning a Christchurch Airbnb unit from being used for visitor accommodation is likely to send shockwaves through the short-term rental sector.

Throughly deserved. Discredited, pernicious, racist pseudoscience is an immeasurably worse insult to academic rigour than an inspirational autistic academic’s flawed reference citation & exaggeration of achievements with a basis in reality.

can't believe he got me again

Tze Ming Mok 莫志明@tzemingdynasty.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Another contributor messaged me today to say she was reading Keith's essay and crying, so I joined in by rereading it and also crying. When we were young and reckless:

Iwi’s regional proposal offers cost savings, shares expertise across the South Island, and provides for disaster response – worryingly omitted from ministers’ Head Start model

Ngāi Tahu, not Govt, offers local councils an unexpected ‘head start’ on mergers

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It is fair to say this is a centralising administration. A good majority of the reforms have pulled decision-making to Wellington, with some of it moved into political authorising environments. That is a real and important feature of this government. But not for this matter.

Newsroom NZ@newsroom.co.nz · 2w ago

The Government continues to centralise decision making for workforce negotiations, as unions worry about further politicisation of process search engine crawler...

Plenty to reflect about re: the Arday affair, but I'm going to repeat this one thing. The playbook the right used here is effective even though it's not especially sophisticated, as it relies on the audience to do the dirty work. I've been calling it "Trojan horse propaganda", let's go with that. 1/

Great writing is bad writing plus time, plus the three raccoons who look into your window and see you drinking whisky and sobbing inconsolably over your bad manuscript, then after you pass out on the floor, they creep in and rewrite all your work.

Beginning my research seminar, as always, with Lynn Hunt's essay How Writing Leads to Thinking (and Not the Other Way Around). Should be mandatory reading in light of the impact of AI. www.historians.org/perspectives...

Mamdani is succeeding in part by projecting joy Ossoff is succeeding in part by projecting steely ferocity We’re in a moment when attitude is nearly as powerful as ideology, because we all need courage. And these are two ways of summoning it

NEW: It was a digital lynching. And the media is never going to hold itself to account for the role it played in Jason Arday’s death. But there are things we can do. This is a practical guide based on my own experience. broligarchy.substack.com/p/a-digital-...

A Digital Lynching

A practical guide for individuals and organisations when the mobs gather

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How Place-Based Policy Could Counter Populist Discontent New article in @politicalquarterly.bsky.social with Gerry Stoker, @daisyblackburn.bsky.social and @drjennings.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

How Place‐Based Policy Could Counter Populist Discontent

Resentment felt by people in areas that have suffered from social and economic decline is a significant driver of populist backlash—‘the revenge of the places that don't matter’. An effective place-b...

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I see the "kiri bad" discourse is starting up again. First, I am not defending anyone. Second, it is true ministerial volatility does real damage. Advice can narrow, officials can go quiet, and as a result decisions can get worse. That is a long pattern and it did not start with Hon Allan.

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

Ex-politician Kiri Allan says public service bloated, slow and overpaid

Phil Moeke, a born and bred Southander, feels proud to know his mokopuka will see the result of his work today in 50 to 60 years' time.

Country Life: Eco-sourced plants flying out the gate at a Rūnaka-owned nursery

Phil Moeke, a born and bred Southander, feels proud to know his mokopuka will see the result of his work today in 50 to 60 years' time.

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New Zealand’s government plans to reallocate >$100m in science funding, partly justified by claims NZ “overweights” ag & environmental science vs peers, and underinvests in tech. I checked the numbers behind that claim. Some of it holds up. Most of it doesn’t. 🧵 www.mbie.govt.nz/dmsdocument/...

“Cultural safety is actually an optimistic idea. It assumes that we can learn about one another, that doctors can examine their assumptions and change, that patients can teach us, and that encountering another way of seeing the world will open our eyes and our minds.” — Dr Orna McGinn.

Dr Orna McGinn: Cultural safety improves patient health | E-Tangata

“Cultural safety is actually an optimistic idea. It assumes that we can learn about one another, that doctors can examine their assumptions and change, that patients can teach us, and that encounterin...

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“Pacific peoples are now predominantly urban, and our youthful age profile positions us as a critical part of the future workforce, tax base, and leadership pipeline.” — Fonoiā Jemaima Tiatia-Siau and Seiuli Angel Timali Tiatia-Siau.

Pacific prosperity is Aotearoa's prosperity | E-Tangata

“Pacific peoples are now predominantly urban, and our youthful age profile positions us as a critical part of the future workforce, tax base, and leadership pipeline.” — Fonoiā Jemaima Tiatia-Siau and...

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Richard Dawkins, who has previously led online attacks on Māori scholars, is one of the more prominent online trolls who mounted a vitriolic online crusade against Prof Jason Arday. He is now on X trolling a Muslim scholar at Cambridge. The howls of white rage continue unabated.

A prof at Yale who slept w his young enough to be his daughter undergrad while married who became his grad student and then his direct report, who he groomed to be equally abusive to students (especially women), who got busted+ suspended (woman lost tenure)... still has his job.

This was always who he was.

Gregory Kohn@kohngregory.bsky.social · 3w ago

In the wake of Arday's death, Nathan Cofnas (who led the X mob against him) states his motivation. Beyond whistleblowing, he states that after a 'revolution' removes professors like Arday, it will open opportunities for him to become 'head of the department of eugenics and race science at Harvard'.

its worth asking whether this ending would have happened without the endless, gleeful, hunting and dismantling of Arday's choices on Twitter, where he represented all the sins of DEI made flesh for a range of assorted disgruntled academics who once had to go to a training and hated it

Ketan Joshi@ketanjoshi.co · 3w ago

Man, I only just caught with this story. What a tragic ending. www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/afdfd24...