ok. so… it can’t be devastatingly bad everywhere… right? who’s the most promising, pragmatic and progressive politician or civic leader in your community? … or maybe one from somewhere else that you’d like to borrow for a term or two?
tristam
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design, academia. more aviation references required. te whanganui-a-tara. * this account includes a tweet archive 2007~2024.
ukranian special forces have been the most effective environmental activists of the 21st century
Simon Evans@drsimevans.carbonbrief.org · 3w agoWind and solar have just overtaken fossil-fuel power in Germany www.carbonbrief.org/...
ok. so… it can’t be devastatingly bad everywhere… right? who’s the most promising, pragmatic and progressive politician or civic leader in your community? … or maybe one from somewhere else that you’d like to borrow for a term or two?
fantastic bill introduced by the Greens and would be a quick way to give NZers price relief in lieu of the more extensive work needed to disestablish the duopoly i hope Greens are planning to push this over the next couple weeks and into the election as a key vote winner during this economic crisis
Greens propose outlawing supermarket duopoly ‘price gouging’
The Green Party has introduced a bill aiming to outlaw what it calls “price gouging” by the supermarket duopoly.
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#SillyConValley is doing too much. Heard Googletube is banning @gilduran.com's channel right before his book release. I immediately got my pre-order in. The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and the War On Democracy. #FortressBayArea #FortressCalifornia
Gil Durán@gilduran.com · 5d agoIt’s official: the Nerd Reich podcast is getting banned from YouTube….the week of my book launch! Incredible timing, since I’ll be all over the media next week talking about tech fascism. They can delete my account. They can’t stop my work. Buy the book: www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Ne...
why is NZ chasing enshittification? we should increasingly look to defuturing to maintain our community. design & build for our material realities. Air NZ’s CEO sees this. more business leaders need to note that NZ will become activated less thru imported ‘solutions’… newsroom.co.nz/2026/08/13/a...
National's dirty big secret is that it has been $17 billion out on its 2023 promise to fix the Government's books, writes Gareth Morgan
Who’s the fiscal blowhard, Mr Luxon?
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"The natural sciences were epistemologically very stable from about the 16th or 17th century: Science was the search for the simplest laws." Then the 1970s arrive & people say "science is not deterministic: all we can have is probabilistic statements about the future." items.ssrc.org/from-our-arc...
Open the Social Sciences
Items (SSRC) publishes accessible social science essays and collections, plus the monthly Items & Issues newsletter—linking research, policy, and public debate.
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In the panicked desperation by some to have ANYTHING else than a Labour-Green led NZ government after November. Three times in six months we have seen some in the NZ political journalist, commentator & outright pundit community go figuratively apoplectic over leadership. RNZ Live blog link #nzpol
National caucus meet
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David Mohring@nzheretic.bsky.social · last wk.F.F.S. "The entire profession NZ political journalist, commentator & outright pundit community who repeatedly refocus on the gossip of leadership challenges, instead of the real world effects of this government's policy, deserve a collective kick up the arse." #nzpol
… oth, so much economic output is geared toward generating something, anything. and promoting the hell out of it thereafter is some kind of validation process… is it so surprising that ‘management’ worship & promote the appearance of productivity gains?
THE NERVE@thenerve.news · 2w ago“Everyone has a strong incentive to lie about how much AI is delivering for their companies”: Cory @doctorow.pluralistic.net on why the people who tell you ‘AI is changing everything’ are lying www.thenerve.news/p/cory-docto...
this short story was written in 1909.
Fiona Tribe@fionatribe.bsky.social · 11mo ago“But Humanity, in its desire for comfort, had overreached itself. It had exploited the riches of nature too far. Quietly and complacently, it was sinking into decadence, and progress had come to mean the progress of the Machine.” ~ E M Forster, The Machine Stops
… is a new Neo Romanticism (in the response to AI) likely? Authentism. it's aptly more pragmatic for the 21C, as we have so many Anthropocentric layers between us and Naturalism. And most people wary of gen-AI talk in framing that seeks to reclaim agency…
A vote for National or NZ First means returning ACT to power again. ACT are gunning for workers, disabled people, and children. They will actively and intentionally make all our lives worse, except ofc for their wealthy donor class.
PERFECTLY NORMAL@nzpom.com · 2w agoToday's chart after ACT got another $25k The system is rigged
“Gender equality in Parliament is a fragile thing. Parliament briefly hit 50/50 in late 2022…It’s too early to call but the number of men announced so far who are replacing women could threaten achieving anything like gender parity in November’s 55th Parliament.” This seems very fine and normal etc
Women’s representation threatened as parties show off their machismo
Comment: As safe seat selections favour men and political hostility targets women, NZ risks losing its historic gender parity in Parliament, says Jo Cribb
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if everyone alive today had the same ecological footprint as we in New Zealand, the planet would use more than it could replenish (aka: resource overshoot day) in mid-April of a figurative year based on data from 2026. more data, methodology, etc: overshoot.footprintnetwork.org/newsroom/cou...
if everyone alive today had the same ecological footprint as we in New Zealand, the planet would use more than it could replenish (aka: resource overshoot day) in mid-April of a figurative year based on data from 2026. more data, methodology, etc: overshoot.footprintnetwork.org/newsroom/cou...
The only reason Bluesky is a liberal bubble is because it’s not algorithm driven & reality has a liberal bias. This is super simple.
The Verge@theverge.com · 2w agoBluesky's new CEO Toni Schneider on the platform's reputation for being a liberal bubble: "Yes, we definitely want that to change. It is already changing. It certainly wasn’t designed to attract one specific group of people."
🧵Right-leaning newspapers are trying to blame Europe's raging wildfires on everything EXCEPT fossil fuels 1. The Wall Street Journal Frontpage story: "Greece fights wildfires as Europe crisis spreads" WSJ editorial: "How green policies fuel fires in Europe"
once more for the people at the back … social media companies who manipulate their audience into responding a certain way are not worth your time. if bluesky needs to attract smiling supremicists to increase their income they’re not worth anyone’s time either.
The Verge@theverge.com · 2w agoBluesky's new CEO Toni Schneider on the platform's reputation for being a liberal bubble: "Yes, we definitely want that to change. It is already changing. It certainly wasn’t designed to attract one specific group of people."
I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful
*Delighted* that Mr Ward’s Map—a book I had the pleasure of designing for (and with) @bayheritage.bsky.social—has been shortlisted for *three* PANZ Book Design Awards, for best illustrated book, typography and cover 🎉📕 🎈😻 www.bookdesignawards.co.nz/mr-wards-map...
Mr Ward’s Map: Victorian Wellington street by street— Penguin Random House New Zealand Award for Best Illustrated Book 2026 FINALIST
Penguin Random House New Zealand Award for Best Illustrated Book 2026 Finalist Designer: Jo Bailey Title: Mr Ward’s Map: Victorian Wellington street by street Publisher: Massey University Press For…
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We are also a hotspot for threatened seabirds, or rather "not yet wiped out" seabirds biodiversitymapping.org/index.php/se...
Mapping the Diversity of the World's Seabirds
Maps of the diversity of seabirds around the world. GIS data available.
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Byron C Clark@byroncclark.bsky.social · 3w agoI've been taking our seabird diversity for granted Crossposted with @openvibe.social
Awkward NZ Herald is running farming propaganda the same time as this story is out. (I mean, it runs farming propaganda every day so I guess it was inevitable).
Reading the report linked here, and its predictions of economic armageddon, as usual, turn into panic that the economy might grow slightly less if we radically cut pollution, and still leave us all better off www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
Missing climate briefing note: Z Energy boss speaks out
The boss of Z Energy says his team "followed the instructions of government" when handing over a document to a former Beehive staffer with suggestions for a law change.
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