Phil
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New Zealand based Engineering Manager and recovering web developer, trying to learn as much as possible about languages, cricket, drums and parenthood. Music teacher (drums […] 🌉 bridged from ⁂ https://mstdn.io/@paw, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact
This is not how GDPR works, corporations!! Stop being so fucking hostile to good design and user autonomy.
ACT candidate Paul Henry unveils plan to let teachers use 'reasonable force' on students. It's been only a few days since I wrote a thread about NZ's education system https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/860702/act-candidate-paul-henry-unveils-plan-to-let-teachers-use-reasonable-force-on-students
ACT candidate Paul Henry unveils plan to let teachers use 'reasonable force' on students
ACT wants to give teachers the legal power to remove "seriously or persistently disruptive" students from a classroom.
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Lately I have been rather distracted from my single-minded quest to hate every single thing Luxon does and says but this summary by Andrew Dickson @openpolicy.bsky.social is so good Also: god I hate him. I hate him so much
Luxon's Wearing Daddy's Pants
The Prime Minister goes to Rotorua, tells drowning businesses to swim harder, and confesses
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The list of organisations from the Amnesty International report that was withdrawn under threat of legal action funded by the women who wrote the wizard books. If you're still buying that stuff, then you're actively funding fascism. Read another book.
Rehearsal for the DSO International II tonight at the Town Hall. Beethoven and Brahms!
There's a lot behind this article that John Gerritson published yesterday. I'd like to share some observations I've made in my 4 years as a board member in a Dunedin high school. https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/education/839827/more-than-10-000-teens-left-school-in-2025-with-no-qualifications
More than 10,000 teens left school in 2025 with no qualifications
A jump in the number of teens leaving school with no formal qualifications has continued.
rnz.co.nz
RE: https://mastodon.social/@hanse_mina/117006024682167713 In his final years, fixated on editing some of his familiar previous artworks, my artist grandfather would paint thick black outlines around elements in the paintings because his cognitive decline left him feeling confused and lost […]
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Do I have anyone following me that knows or appreciates H V Miller's artwork? https://findnzartists.org.nz/en/artist/10388/harry-vye-miller
Miller, Harry Vye
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Fucking hell as if receiving automated rejection letters for jobs wasn't bad enough.
Yay! @grimalkina's book has arrived in Aotearoa at last! Can't wait to crack into this. I like to go to the index to explore ideas that suggest interesting complexity. Looking forward to understanding pluralistic ignorance in change management and social identity theory in groups!
There's been plenty of chat about National's cynical sexual consent policy theatre and no small amount of back-and-forth about whether National should allow a vote now or not. https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/crime-and-justice/741708/national-promises-stricter-rules-on-sexual-consent I think the […]
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Plumber in Colorado.. "we fix what chat GPT said you should try!"
Wait there were whales in Otago Harbour yesterday?? I had no idea!
"...in research published in February, Dewey found that far-right sites and sites with “very low” factual integrity had set up their websites to be easily seen by A.I. tools, compared with outlets that were center-left or highly factual." (2 of 3)
RE: https://tomkahe.com/@GiftArticles/116945031085614459 Go on, New Zealand. Get amongst it!
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It’s just hot air. No new oil or gas reserves have been found in years, despite hundreds of millions being spent on the search. The future is renewable wind and solar — and everyone knows it. #YesterdaysMan
I keep seeing the "cars replaced horses" thing related to "AI." People keep comparing "AI" to cars (positively) without thinking about the fact that cars were forced on people (AAA bought up and destroyed tram lines, there were massive protests, etc), and are the primary driver of climate […]
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RE: https://ec.social-network.europa.eu/@EUCommission/116939848127108021 Clever thinly-veiled jab at the Fanta Fuhrer's stupid "drill baby, drill" comment. This is a strong, actionable target that other countries (looking at you, New Zealand) should aspire to match.
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There's a thick haze settling over Tainui and Musselburgh as the warm afternoon transitions to a cold and still evening.
RE: https://mstdn.social/@stux/116937993787464540 There's a tunnel painted on the face of a cliff just out of frame here, I just know it.
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Looks like Afterpay have won the layby payment service battle in NZ. Zip have announced their decision to leave the NZ market.
There's a (obviously disingenuous) hypocritical but useful comment embedded in Winston's speech about the ferry names that I suspect has gone unnoticed: ""A mature country does not run from its history. A serious country does not vandalise its memory to satisfy the latest fashion in whinger […]
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