We've gotta get better at talking to people we disagree with. All of us.

no progress, please, anything helps, literally any amount

Peanut@peanutium.bsky.social · 21h ago

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I had four different cd versions of Neverwinter Nights

Sophia_Nyx 🏳️‍⚧️@sophianyx.bsky.social · 2w ago

Name physical media you purchased more than once.

Autistic lesbians should start fundraising so they can buy the sims when EA gets run into the ground and the owners desperately try to sell off classic properties.

Wario64@wario64.bsky.social · 22h ago

EA Announces Completion of Acquisition by PIF, Silver Lake, and Affinity Partners www.ea.com/news/ea-anno...

Chlöe Swarbrick and NZ Greens with one of the most important messages for the public to note ahead of the upcoming election in Aotearoa.

I was really touched to be asked to speak at Kahu Carter’s campaign launch a few weeks back. Honestly I nearly voted two ticks for her last time so this time I’m happy to get a chance to make it official. Ānei tāku kōrero!

The Edit | Jennifer K Shields@jen.jenniferkshields.nz.ap.brid.gy · 2d ago

This might be bold of me but I think I'd describe Kahu Carter as the natural successor for Christchurch Central. She's kanohi kītea. She already is my representative - just this time I finally get to give that green tick twice.

Y'know, I don't think I've ever seen a perfume commercial that actually tells me anything about what it smells like. Which you would think would be the main reason to buy it. Surely.

I feel like there's a word for people who are willing to criticise their allies but not willing to do anything about it.

“No one would thank us for it” is such minimising language that continues to perpetuate the harm. I think many people in Aotearoa would in fact thank National for taking an actual firm stand on racism in their Government, not least those facing increased violence because of Winston’s actions.

henry cooke@henrycooke.bsky.social · 2d ago

Nicola Willis and Mark Mitchell suggested this morning that firing Winston Peters would bring down the Government. www.thepost.co.nz/politics/361...

From MZ and @asians4tino.bsky.social "To me, this issue is less about foreign diplomacy, offending China, or jeopardising trade relations. I’m more concerned about the further escalation of racial abuse against migrants of colour in Aotearoa."

Why we call Winston Peters ‘Lao Pi’ | E-Tangata

“Mandarin-speaking communities are so familiar with Winston, we have nicknamed him 'Lao Pi'. Lao Pi is like that grumpy neighbour everyone knows is a problem. Except he’s not a random neighbour. He is...

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🧵 Snopes pored over hundreds of pages of documents to confirm that Anthropic bought millions of books in bulk and destructively scanned them to train its AI model.

NZ! I dropped a new t-shirt: LUDDITE. greentees.digitees.co.nz

anyway, the question being posed is something more akin to "is ADHD defined too broadly, such that everyone gets a diagnosis, treatment, and accommodations even if I don't think they deserve them?" and the answer to *that* is a hearty "fuck you."

Really good video, highly recommend.

Julia Serano@juliaserano.bsky.social · 3w ago

BRAND NEW VIDEO: not only my most thorough take-down of these anti-trans talking points, but it explains why women & minority groups are often stereotyped as "contagious" & "excessively sexual." it compiles a decade of my work, so please watch & "like" & share so others see it! youtu.be/rJq9ran4Sdc

We've gotta figure out how to be less dehumanising in how we talk about phalloplasty in queer spaces.

The notion of 'digital natives' being a thing never stops causing harm

Jess Calarco@jessicacalarco.com · 3d ago

I wonder if students today would be less likely to lean on AI for writing assignments if schools had made sure they could touch-type (at least 60wpm) before having them submit all their assignments online. 1/🧵

Tech guys didn’t decide to be fascist: the structure of tech culture tended towards fascism as the kind of politics necessary to ensure public support for their boondoggles. Like… what other kind of politics aligns with the algorithmically driven surveillance state they imagine as the future?

Luke O'Neil@lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 4d ago

Tech guys decided to be fascist first and foremost, so any product or development they are pushing is automatically also fascist now. Sorry I didn't choose this fact they did. Not my problem.

Survivors of abuse in care hand-delivered flowers to Parliament. The flowers were picked from the grounds of hospitals and care residences that were sites of abuse, and marked 2 years since the damning findings of the Royal Commission of Inquiry. My #cartoon today #NZpol #AbuseInCare #ChildWelfare

Some motherfuckers need to read Winner. Like, it’s been clear from the jump that AI adoption has been a political project or in service too political projects and those projects have been universally shitty extensions of white supremacy and other structures of oppression.

vortex_egg@vortexegg.com · 4d ago

For me, LLMs are clearly powerful machines, but everything about their construction and deployment in society by the people constructing them appears oriented around achieving a political project that deeply conflicts with my values or a vision of a future I want to live in and dont have a choice in

💀 Pygmalion displacement 💀 doi.org/10.31235/osf...

Jane Rosenzweig@janerosenzweig.bsky.social · 3w ago

Just two of many questions: 1. Why anthropomorphize ("female robot, named Sally, will have a “lifelike appearance” with silicone skin and long brown hair")? Notably, students will interact with the bot by providing a identification codes, so obvs. not like a human interaction and yet... /1

New train stations who dis #LoveAKL

I should at least get a magical girl transformation sequence whenever I am forced to deploy my worksona I think.

The relentlessness of their uncritical publishing of industry narratives is almost impressive tbh. It's oppressive the pervasiveness of it.

Dr. Damien P. Williams has to go the way his blood beats@wolven.blacksky.app · 5d ago

Dear media, please be even a little bit critical and suspicious of whether the people with literally trillions of dollars & the world economy riding on you believing what they tell you might have reason to lie about what's happening inside their products that they refuse to let anyone else analyze 🫠

Been meaning to submit but hadn’t quite got around to doing it yet? Call For Participation (CFP) closes midnight Friday 7th of August, NZST Just one week left!!

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Modern liberal politics makes a lot more sense when you view UBI as essentially a stopgap solution to the problem of automation reducing the amount of workers from whom surplus value and thus profit can be extracted.

All my kingdom for social media that can find me that post I was up to that I lost when the page refreshed

One problem that a lot of these vote compass things seem to have is the lack of an "I would go further" button

I don't care about the Hank Green thing, but I hope that we collectively learn the right lesson from it. Let's diversify our information consumption and make up our own minds, rather than find a more morally pure Great Man upon whom to calibrate our perspectives.

A dark day for human rights.