Wild watching the SailGP crash between NZ and France, and the follow-up that is focused on the number of boats & racing format rather than the physical safety of the machines. Coutts suggesting that sailors "know the risk" and it's like F1.
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> ..roll out in three phases: stabilising critical systems, modernising platforms, and enabling innovative healthcare models.. seems reasonable > ..a collaboration between Health New Zealand and global experts in AI and process engineering.. Ah ok expensive disaster.
greg@greg.nz · 8mo agoI'm sorry, you just halved the size of Te Whatu Ora's IT department, and NOW phase 1 is stabilising critical systems? and the claim that any part of this organisation could deliver one project every month is also deeply entertaining comedy, and utter drivel. www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360...
Here we gooooo #gischat
FOSS4G 2025 Auckland@foss4g.org · 9mo agoMōrena, Good morning ☀️ Day 1! FOSS4G 2025 is finally here! We are full of smiles to welcome you to this year's global conference and to Tāmaki Makaurau, Auckland, NZ. Look out for our signs when you arrive at Auckland University of Technology. #osgeo #foss4g
Just one of the many cool side events happening at FOSS4G next week. #gischat
FOSS4G 2025 Auckland@foss4g.org · 9mo agoMonday night, Movie night 📽️ Free screening of documentary, "I am the River, The River is Me" Ned Tapa, Whanganui River guardian & Māori community leader, will join us Mon 17 Nov, 6pm, AUT https://2025.foss4g.org/program/movie-screening https://iamtheriver.org #documentary #foss4g
Ok #gischat less than a week until @foss4g.org - the open, inclusive, educational and fun geospatial conference happening in Auckland from 17th-23rd November. 2025.foss4g.org - can I fit everything we're doing into one skeet (takes a breath)...
FOSS4G Auckland 2025
FOSS4G stands for Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial, a conference hosted in partnership with OSGeo.
2025.foss4g.org
Choose your fighter: medical efficacy study [in mice]; safety standard [based on 1950s white male]; sociological research outcome [using AI agents in place of humans]
New Zealand used to have a spine on international issues. This is very disappointing, and the weeks of "wait and see" coyness from the PM is a bonus insult. www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
NZ not yet recognising Palestinian state, Foreign Minister Winston Peters announces
The government has decided against recognising Palestinian statehood, retaining its "when, not if" position.
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I find it interesting that the majority of GIS innovation happens outside of the USA. Tell me I'm wrong. #gischat
Hey #gischat don't forget to register for FOSS4G 2025. The schedule is up at 2025.foss4g.org. Just a few highlights: - 4 amazing keynotes - 44 workshops, 140 presentations, 50 lightning talks, 2 community days - business 2 business, geochicas and gala dinner events - movie screening + much more
FOSS4G Auckland 2025
FOSS4G stands for Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial, a conference hosted in partnership with OSGeo.
2025.foss4g.org
It's only a constitutional crisis if one or more branches actually dissented. No, the USA has a constitutional conspiracy.
Cristian Farias@cristianfarias.com · 11mo agoThe New Yorker asked me “how bad” today’s Supreme Court ruling was. I boiled it down to one paragraph: link.newyorker.com/view/5bda429...
Bit tired of the sci-fi fever dreams from people who don't have to fold their own damn laundry.
Earth Sciences NZ, our new center of excellence for environmental science in New Zealand, uses this image as their logo / hero image on their website. It's.. wrong. Wrong in a 6-fingered AI generated human way. Not an auspicious start to the agency's future. #gischat
Hey #gischat - you've got just 24 hours left to submit a talk or get early bird pricing for @foss4g.org - it won't be extended again! Community voting will start on over 200 talks and 40 workshop proposals from next week. 2025.foss4g.org
FOSS4G Auckland 2025
FOSS4G stands for Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial, a conference hosted in partnership with OSGeo.
2025.foss4g.org
Oh hai
FOSS4G 2025 Auckland@foss4g.org · last yr.Intro: Committee Members 😎 Events Lead, Hamish Campbell! - software eng mgr - 15+ yrs - urban intelligence - resilient communities + changing environment - committed open source contributer - chair FOSS4G Oceania Cttee NZ 2023 Connect: https://bsky.app/profile/polemic.nz #committee #foss4g
We've just launched the new #foss4g2025 Auckland website! 2025.foss4g.org. Early bird tickets still available and CfP closing soon, so get in quick. Sales & submissions are going strong so get in quick, it's going to be a fun one. #gischat #osgeo
FOSS4G Auckland 2025
FOSS4G stands for Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial, a conference hosted in partnership with OSGeo.
2025.foss4g.org
Matariki / mid-winter soltice swim done ✅. Hard to beat Auckland, any day of the year.
Never not a deeply interesting, insightful and relevant discord.
derek guy@dieworkwear.bsky.social · last yr.It's true that progressives valorize "ugliness." But I think this person doesn't interrogate this position enough and thus lands at the wrong conclusion. Let me give you my perspective on ugliness. 🧵
Logo trends are interesting. Forget the omni-app rainbow, or tech blue-on-white, AI is all about the stark monochrome.
Newmarket has never quite figured out what it's for - and maybe the mall is bad for street retailers - but I don't recall them thriving during the rebuild. The mall was and remains the biggest draw to the strip.
Aaron Hawkins@ahawkins.bsky.social · last yr.Rare to see a story about business turnover grounded in evidence (the effect on Main Street retailers of giant shopping malls) www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3606...
Wondered if there was a Māori name for Rosebank Peninsula. Got Google's confidently incorrect (and confusingly plausible) answer.
Hey Auckland, there's a lunar eclipse tonight! Full effect around 8pm. Low on the horizon to the east, should look pretty spooky. www.timeanddate.com/eclipse/in/n...
March 14, 2025 Total Lunar Eclipse in Auckland, New Zealand
Start time, end time, animation, and detailed viewing information for the upcoming eclipse in Auckland, New Zealand
timeanddate.com
Ahhh the "Fremen mirage" enters the chat. Musk thinks we are too soft, and will therefore destroy the very things that make western civilisation powerful.
Dave Vetter@davidrvetter.bsky.social · last yr.Musk states "the fundamental weakness of Western civilization is empathy". Charles Darwin, who actually researched this stuff, showed it was empathy, specifically, that enabled humanity to flourish.
The FOSS4G 2025 logo competition is running! You don't need to be a designer (we'll help the winner with professional design support) so get submitting ASAP 2025.foss4g.org/logo-competi...
FOSS4G 2025 - Auckland, New Zealand
2025.foss4g.org
All open source is political. Even Rouault – archetypal GIS "random person maintaining the code that supports all modern digital infrastucture" – commited to GDAL github.com/OSGeo/gdal/p... - will now print "Trans rights are human rights" with `--version`. #gischat 🏳️⚧️👏🏼🏅
Add a GDAL_RELEASE_NICKNAME define by rouault · Pull Request #11865 · OSGeo/gdal
GDAL is an open source MIT licensed translator library for raster and vector geospatial data formats. - Add a GDAL_RELEASE_NICKNAME define by rouault · Pull Request #11865 · OSGeo/gdal
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