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Tangata Tiriti Pākehā. They/He. ACAB. BLM. TransRights. LandBack. FREE PALESTINE. Linktree: https://t.co/LSfJYTuidq

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kyle@kyledchurch.bsky.social · 2h ago

when the caveat you have to include is it doesn't show "how individual voters moved" i think you probably shouldn't be making the claim that Stuff headlined this with - that Swarbrick complained about the rightwing billionaire overhang strategy then benefited from TPM's campaign gutter journalism

Krystal Chandelier@krystalchandelier.bsky.social · 3h ago

What the fuck is this analysis? The Greens grew from 10.9% in the general electorates to 11.4% in the PRELIMINARY results, not counting the special votes, which added another 0.8% to their vote share last time. But sure, the Greens only grew because of those pesky vote splitting Maoris. #nzpol

Huia Sue@huiasue.bsky.social · 2h ago

Whistleblower doubts commission has enough #IT staff to run an election 1news.co.nz/2025/02/19/whi... "Our #democracy is under threat. This rushed & poorly thought-out restructure will impact the integrity of our #elections unless it's fixed." Was it fixed? #nzpol www.1news.co.nz/2025/02/19/w...

Whistleblower doubts commission has enough IT staff to run an election

The Electoral Commission disputes the claims, which follow a staff restructure at the agency.

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liz 🍉 ليز@lizardry.bsky.social · 13h ago

💔 Ahmed’s family in Gaza is still suffering from hunger, and last week’s support was far too little. They desperately need €170 this week for food and basic survival. Please, don’t turn away from their pain. They cannot face this alone. Even €1 could help. 🙏🇵🇸🫂⬇️ chuffed.org/project/157281

A collage of five photos of Ahmed, his parents, and building rubble with text in the middle that says, "Give what you can to Urgent Appeal: Help Ahmed and his family in Gaza." There is a QR code at the bottom right.
Byron C Clark@byroncclark.bsky.social · 2d ago

There was a period where Facebooks algorithms determined which users were antisemitic, then offered advertisers the ability to target content at those users specifically From Conspiracy Theories in the Time of Covid-19 by Clare Birchall and Peter Knight Crossposted with @openvibe.social

To illustrate the depths of the content-agnostic approach that we touched upon in chapter 6, we only need to consider the caw of Facebook including the category antisemite. for potential advertisers to target until it was brought to their attention (Angwin, Varner, and Tobin 2017). Facebook's defence rested on the fact that the category had been generated by an algorithm—as though the role of Al absolves the platform that utilises it of responsibility. Employing an algorithm that recognizes any marketing category no matter how problematic is a design choice. Luciano Floridi and J.W. Sanders (2004) usefully distinguish between accountability and responsibility
@middleearthmarxist.bsky.social · 2d ago

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Aotearoa Tonight@aotearoatonight.bsky.social · 2d ago

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𓁹‿𓁹@yaoi2.bsky.social · 7d ago

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Sophie@sophiefrommars.bsky.social · 4d ago

Hey remember when Meta tried to rig the Brazilian election to allow in a guy who would bulldoze the "lungs of the planet" and turbo charge climate change? Zuck should face the Hague

Johnny Cans@oldmatecans.bsky.social · 3d ago

and of course the real answer to "oh but greens candidates took labour electorate votes" is labour decided they'd rather flip wellington bays and put a good candidate in there with no chance of list entry effectively weakening the left bloc because they're really really smart and strategice

kyle@kyledchurch.bsky.social · 4d ago

I'm hearing some absolutely wild stories about electoral commission staff wtaf has gone on with the resourcing, logistics & *hiring* decisions this year? there's a point at which incompetence becomes indistinguishable from active interference, & we might be nearing that. what is the recourse??