"oh, people should just have known better and not climbed without clipping in" clearly that didn't work though, repeatedly. The engineering control that would have eliminated this hazard by physically blocking off the wall until you clip in is like $100.
Newsroom NZ@newsroom.co.nz · 24h agoWorkSafe’s prosecution focused on two 2022 falls, but some former employees and customers say they did not happen in isolation.
I think it was Cory Doctrow who pointed out that SF is a luddite genre in the original sense of the word: Not fearful of tech as such, but cautious and critical of how it's likely to be used. How many SF novels are there (going back to Frankenstein) where the beautiful creation just goes amok?
Australia’s eSafety commissioner buried a report (released Friday afternoon) that shows the under 16 social media ban didn’t tangibly reduce teen social media use, and also resulted in parents tuning out of kids usage. We traded our privacy for no reason. theconversation.com/more-than-80...
More than 80% of kids still using social media despite ban, new eSafety report finds
The report provides more evidence Australia’s world-leading social media ban isn’t going to plan.
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Hello I have made this due to a mutual having issues with some folks on here forgetting this fact and shouting at him for it. Feel free to use it as a handy PSA x
It's besides the point, but it is kind of insane that Winston first entered politics so long ago that France was still using the Guillotine. www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/winston-p...
Winston Peters effigy ‘chopped’ in mock guillotine protest against 'racist' comments
The Foreign Minister said those involved in the provocative stunt 'should be arrested'.
nzherald.co.nz
just checking, who was the government in 2008 again?
RNZ News Feeds@rnzrss.bsky.social · 3d agoMore laws rushed through Parliament under urgency than any term since 2008
euclidean zoning denies the thousands of years of human history of people working where they live to invent a fiction of exclusively "residential suburbs". Allowing this sort of stuff should be the default, not require specific permission from the council. thespinoff.co.nz/society/02-0...
‘I felt sick’: How one Dunedin knitting group fell foul of the law
Knitting is not supposed to be a dangerous hobby, but it led one Dunedin woman into a rather woolly situation.
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Posting my lock screen Ob an Duine in Plockton: My family's village in the highlands of Scotland, from the front garden of our ancestral house.
Dr Sarah Hendrica Bickerton 🏳️🌈@sarahhbickerton.bsky.social · 3d agoNo cheating post your lock screen. This is a promotion image from Zero Motorcycles of the Zero S (the lower spec version of my own Zero SR/F) which I think has a gorgeous colour scheme, and I test rode one myself in February 2025 in Melbourne.
begging the big brains of reddit to understand that "what infrastructure should the government prioritise" is an inherently political question.
classic Smartphone/Hovercraft category error everyone thinks they've invented a smartphone: a radical new technology that will revolutionise the world often they've just invented a hovercraft: a radical new tool that will only ever be useful and economic in a tiny niche.
Chaucer Doth Tweet@levostregc.bsky.social · 4d agoThreaten me not wyth a goode tyme www.irishtimes.com/business/202...
It's been 80 years and people still aren't ready to hear that the fact that ELIZA could sometimes pass the Turing test in the 1960s says a lot more about our susceptibility to social engineering than it does about the intelligence of chatbots. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELIZA_e...
ELIZA effect - Wikipedia
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Dan Sheehan@dansheehan.bsky.social · 4d agoIt is funny that as more people get duped by AI, the response more frequently seems to be to insist that the models are developing godlike intelligence and we all need to be sooo careful when the real lesson is clearly that the human psyche can get absolutely one-shotted by personalized flattery
anyone born immediately after 1945 can’t economy… all they know is state asset sales, charge they kids generation, smirk, buy house, have hot takes & die.
Newsroom NZ@newsroom.co.nz · 4d agoComment: The Baby Boomers of the big establishment parties know one economic path - housing investment and immigration. They need to make way for new generations, writes TOP founder Gareth Morgan.
Meanwhile, in the other Wellington www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
Councillors vote against continuing Wellington's Golden Mile project
Wellington City councillors have voted not to continue with the controversial $139 million Golden Mile project.
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Brent Toderian@brenttoderian.bsky.social · 5d ago“L’avenue du Mont-Royal, à #Montréal, constitue un exemple particulièrement réussi, estime Brent Toderian... Son succès tient non seulement à l’absence de voitures, mais aussi à la présence de restaurants, de commerces et d’autres activités qui animent l’espace public.” My comments in Le Devoir.
It brings me no pleasure to report the only way to improve these dad-outfits would be with Canterbury Harlequin shorts.
Fietser@americanfietser.bsky.social · 3d agoWe used to be a proper country.
For the record, if you've seen the video, no, track cyclists are often not looking where they are going. If you lift your head to look it creates too much drag. And my experience is that during a race you put yourself into a level of hypoxia that you can't see much anyway.
A weak and unpopular National PM sacking Winston and soldiering on with a lame duck administration to avoid triggering a snap election is the traditional thing to do.
me: [sobbing] England, you can't just call everything a pudding J. J. Thomson: [points at atom] pudding
I'm sorry, a data breach last year included your face. You should get a new face as soon as possible. It is best practice to use different faces for different businesses
Maybe the lack of self-awareness and accountability is part of the reason your kids don't want to talk to you
Principal Skinner: Am I Out Of Touch? No, It's The Children
ALT: Principal Skinner: Am I Out Of Touch? No, It's The Children
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Meggie Z@nutmeggles.bsky.social · last wk.Another classic case of “sucks to suck”.
"taking the ideology out of politics" only ever means "taking every ideology other than mine out of politics"
Yorrike.@yorrike.bsky.social · last wk.TOP’s “Let’s take the ideology out of politics” is akin to “let’s take the water out of the oceans”. Politics IS ideology FFS.
The only thing that can defeat a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a plastic child's toy.
Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · last wk.Schools are adding pepper-spraying drones to help combat active shooters The plastic, non-lethal aircraft, which can smash windows and ram attackers will be at the ready at certain schools in Colorado, Florida and Georgia www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2026/...
To be fair, it's how most people in the US think cyclists should deal with traffic violence... something that's *more* preventable than bear attacks.
Jalopnik@jalopnik.bsky.social · last wk.Bear encounters and attacks are on the rise in Japan in a big way, with over 200 attacks in 2025 alone. And one company's solution is... a helmet?
