Hacked VMS board spotted in Nashville on Korean Veterans Boulevard.

@naomiaklein.bsky.social and @astra.bsky.social has the world situation summed up here. youtu.be/aK2nLNiFEAQ We are suffering the curses of big boys in the sandpit fantasising they know the future. Like Prophecy @carissaveliz.bsky.social, this book reminds us that the Future is UNWRITTEN.

How modern fascism works | End Times Fascism | Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor

YouTube video by Naomi Klein

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Govt can’t cloak its assault on independent research as a commercial jocks-v-unprofitable nerds culture war when targets include the ultimate commercial jock research institute.

Decades of building industry research at risk

The future of our world-respected building research association is looking shaky with a government move to cut the dedicated levy that funds it.

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Sign the petition: Press Pause On New AI Data Centres action.greens.org.nz/pause_ai_dat...

Press Pause On New AI Data Centres

The Green Party is calling for a one-year pause on the construction of new AI data centres, so we have time to develop clear rules to make sure that the needs of people and planet are put first.

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Citizens’ Advice Bureaux are awesome community infrastructure please sign to keep in Wellington: our.actionstation.org.nz/petitions/re...

Restore Funding for Wellington’s Citizens Advice Bureau

These cuts will hit hardest for: • people struggling with the rising cost of living; • workers facing redundancy or employment issues; • tenants dealing with housing insecurity; • migrants and former ...

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#FreePalestine 🇵🇸 I support Macklemore. What he said, needed to be heard. Stop this genocide.

Look what showed up today! I read Terri's Māori scifi thriller at an early draft stage and it was the BEST early draft I have ever read. I was super jealous tbh 😅😭 And here it is, and it's glorious. The cover! The concept! I weep anew with mingled delight and envy. Launching soon! #booksky

this week @criticalsignals.nz has amazing speakers on Ditching Big Tech with Rebel Tech Alliance (met through @carolecadwalla.bsky.social and @thenerve.news) Wellington: Thursday criticalsignals.nz/programme/et...

Ethical Tech with Rebel Tech Alliance

Rebel Tech Alliance was formed in early 2025 by Patrick Leavy and a friend to stop Big Tech spying on people and monetising personal data. They do that by educating about the dangers of Big Tech and …

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New Zealand is following Trumpism back to the dark ages under the Luxon government. All mention of climate change and fossil fuels have been omitted from the new science and social science school curriculums. newsroom.co.nz/2026/08/14/c...

Climate change omitted from new science and social science curriculums

The Ministry of Education drops all mentions of climate change and fossil fuels from new school curriculums, sparking alarm from an academic and educator

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"If you aren't building your own bank robbing robot, you're going to be left behind in the new economy."

The choices being made for us as more data centres are consented is “Intelligence” over a liveable planet. We need to ditch intelligence for wisdom. futurism.com/artificial-i...

Amazon's New AI Data Center Is So Enormous That It Appears It Will Become the Largest Single Source of Pollution in the United States

Amazon's planned data center for Pecos County, Texas would come with a gas plant capable of emitting 33 million tons of CO2 every year.

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He didn’t change. They did.

💥 NEW: Millions face hosepipe bans as government pushes ahead with data centre boom From @mc00.bsky.social ✍️ citizensreunited.substack.com/p/the-eye-07...

The Eye 07: Millions face hosepipe bans as government pushes ahead with data centre boom

As England runs dry, campaigners tell The Citizens why government's AI ambitions are putting our shared resources at risk

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Really appreciate @foxmeyer.bsky.social's quick turn-around on this, amidst calls for clearer campaign ad regulation. National's new attack campaign says Labour’s tax plan doesn’t "add up", but numbers used in the AI-generated website don’t make any sense. newsroom.co.nz/2026/08/11/n...

National uses nonsensical AI website to attack Labour’s tax policy

National’s new website uses AI-generated currency and graphics to persuade voters to trust its economic guidance

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Our 2026 programme is off to an incredible start! Tonight we're calling in 📣 our wāhine & non-binary whānau to workshop alternatives to increasingly unsafe tech giants. What's the Bluesky for Youtube? For Slack? Let's share what we know! Tickets and info here: criticalsignals.nz/programme/de...

This cause is close to my heart - please sign: our.actionstation.org.nz/petitions/st...

Stop the Climate Amendment Bill!

This is important because climate change is the most serious and important issue facing humankind. We have a rapidly closing window of opportunity to prevent catastrophic damage to the natural world ...

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Australia willing to throw the world's creatives under a bus for data centres. I'm going to ask my publishers to withdraw sales in Australia if they do, and I'll do the same for my self pub books (or raise price to £250 if I can't)

Ed Newton-Rex@ednewtonrex.bsky.social · 4mo ago

If the Australian Government accedes to Anthropic's demands and creates a copyright exception for AI training, the British Government should file a dispute at the WTO. www.afr.com/companies/in... 🧵 1/n

Australian activism just got way savvier than ours. Where is our resistance kiwi media peeps? youtu.be/mBW9QCVDSjY?...

Honest Government Ad | Palantir

YouTube video by thejuicemedia

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www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... vital reading

AI is devoid of meaning and humanity. That’s why its vapid voice suits this political moment | Nesrine Malik

For ease and speed, we are degrading our ability to connect and to organise our societies. We must assert our trust in humans over machines, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik

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In the 36 seconds I just spent reading this, 152 humans were born, 72 died, 1,051,714 questions were asked of AI (not people), and 43,881 tons of CO₂ entered the sky. sinceyouarrived.world?t=36&utm_sou...

Since You Arrived

In the 36 seconds I just spent here, the world did all of this. A memento mori for the internet age.

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Right now, platforms decide: 👀 What content you see 👥 Who sees your posts ❌ What happens to your content if they shut down On Divine, you decide: ✅ Which algorithm you use 🗳️ How your community is governed 🔓 You own your content, forever

📘 New Publication! We’re pleased to share "The Politics of Land and Value: Case Studies from Across the Globe" by Mi Shih and Kathe Newman, with support from the #USFSeminarSeriesAwards. 🔗 Link: https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/edit/10.4324/9781003468226/politics-land-value-mi-shih-kathe-newman

(1/6) Critical Signals is a lab for collective and creative resilience - a gathering place for people who believe communities can build their own futures. Here's some exciting news! We are kicking off again in August 2026 and want to hear your voices in the shaping of this year's programme ✨

. Hardyesque What’s that at the window, hitting against the windowpane? The weather, Maureen, I hate it. Weather and war. Those twain. Then what? Then more and more of the same. And later on, more rain, Maureen. More rain. .

Jim Louderback, editor of Inside the Creator Economy, & former CEO of @vidcon.bsky.social, joins @rabble.nz to discuss the evolution of the creator economy. In this episode: 📝 The rise of digital celebrities 🧬 Gen Z + niche communities 🤖 AI & the future of creators youtu.be/gLd9QjypNTY

What Creators Can Do & AI Can’t (with Jim Louderback)

YouTube video by revolution.social with @rabble

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looking forward to my 10,000th share of PLR on this one

Ed Newton-Rex@ednewtonrex.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Today, we're publishing Don't Steal This Book - a (mostly) empty book from almost 10,000 authors, protesting the theft of their work by AI companies. 🧵 1/3

NEW: Is this the broligarchy’s first world war? AI, like war & rape, is a hyper-masculine fantasy of God-like power, a myth at the dark heart of what we’re seeing play out in the Gulf. This war hasn’t replaced the Epstein scandal. It is the Epstein scandal. open.substack.com/pub/broligar...

The Broligarchy's First World War?

AI-guided weapons, two out-of-control authoritarians, no legal authority and a toxic mess of masculinity: welcome to the manosphere's first major conflict

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UK's public services aren’t for a secretive profit-hungry tech firm. Sign the petition to tell the Government to scrap all contracts with US tech firm Palantir. you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...

Stop Palantir taking over our public services!

Our public services aren’t for a secretive profit-hungry US tech firm. Sign the petition to tell the Government to scrap all contracts with secretive US tech firm Palantir.

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@gregoryalanisakov.bsky.social ka pai e hoa! Fab event in Pōneke.

I'm on Bluesky! Apparently it is not always terrible here! But what the government is up to is terrible so I made a round up of all the upcoming bills you can submit on #nzpol #kikorangi www.emilywrites.co.nz/ok/

OK FINE WHAT THE F DO I HAVE TO DO?!

We talked about how last year was The Year of Revolt - I'm hoping this year will be the Year of Being Horny on Main. But that seems less likely with every new day and we're only on day bloody six. I m...

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