on the destruction of New Zealand Science open.substack.com/pub/peterkde...
on the destruction of New Zealand Science
and earthquakes
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Simon Winter
@simonwinter.co.nz
Dad who codes, loves 🐕 🌳 ⚾️ Aotearoa New Zealand
New Zealand Science: Step 1: cut science funding. Step 2: be baffled there's nothing to commercialise. Step 3: blame the professors. #nzpol
The lack of systems thinking and understanding of epistemology in NZ leadership really biting in at the moment.
How many times are you all going to make me tap the sign 🤷
Guardian US@us.theguardian.com · last mo."After the last month, Democratic leadership should be seriously taking stock of their position," writes Ben Davis. "The energy is on their left. The people are on their left."
NZ$6.2m is ~US$3.5 million, or about one standard NIH R01. for our entire country. the full table of allocations is at gazette.govt.nz/notice/id/20... new zealand's government is wiping out new zealand science, plain and simple
Listening to Hipkins on Starmer on RNZ this morning. I’d like to say: Keir Starmer is not a decent man. No one who oversees the removal of human rights of an already marginalised community can be categorised as such. Trans Rights are Human Rights. #nzpol 1/2
For as long as Labour exists as a cartel, divorced from a mass base, it will remain a playground for lobbyists and consultants whose interests directly oppose those of the majority. Starmer learned this lesson the hard way. Now, it's Burnham's turn. open.substack.com/pub/gracebla...
The Labour machine always wins
Keir Starmer learned this lesson the hard way. Now, it's Andy Burnham's turn.
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Share this with 96% of New Zealanders who the NZ Green Party are trying to help. #TaxTheSuperRich #nzpol #OneTermGovernment #NZ
Gary Stevenson@garyseconomics.bsky.social · 2mo agoShare with someone who has a bit of money, and is opposed to wealth taxes on the super rich.
Billboard at Saint Mathews in the City opposing the Legislation (definitions of woman and man) amendment bill Crossposted with @openvibe.social
@nzpsa.bsky.social are organising a rally against the cuts to the public service Facebook link here facebook.com/events/s/ral... #nzpol
Who is causing social instability, immigrants or global far right networked disinformation campaigns and the breakdown of the information environment?
me: I've coded since I was a kid in the 90s, I have over a decade of professional experience, and AI has gotten so good it's faster for me to just generate it and review it them: RAGHRHGHGH BUT THIS STUDY ABOUT GPT-3.5 SAYS IT MAKES DEVS SLOWER
BeijingPalmer@beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 3mo agoevery time I or other professionals post about how we find carefully managed AI tools useful - whether journalists, historians, coders, whatever - , a bunch of people show up to insist that we must be wrong about our own workflow.
Bob once complained to the BSA about an episode of The Simpsons that used the word "ass", so I'm not sure I can take this seriously
It’s very funny how this man spent years attacking mātauranga Māori for being taught in NZ schools, falsely claiming Māori spiritual belief was being promoted as science, and is now convinced the plagiarism machine is sentient with no evidence to back this up other than he fancies his AI girlfriend
The Guardian@theguardian.com · 3mo agoRichard Dawkins concludes AI is conscious, even if it doesn’t know it
Please please please share this post. There is some bizarre magic spell on the words "pay equity" that makes people's eyes glaze over but there's nothing boring about working women being robbed of BILLIONS of dollars by the chaos coalition
Government's treatment of women in Aotearoa goes to the United Nations
One year after legislation killed existing pay equity claims and basically ended the opportunity to bring new claims, the government is being taken to the United Nations. It's a huge deal. The team ...
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Solar panels + batteries + electric transport gives us the freedom to take back control of our energy and transport systems from dependence on oil supply chains stretching around the world, and stabilise the climate in the process.
MOAR TRAINS PEOPLE!!!!! If we had a functioning inter-regional train network, I could’ve spent 3.5 hours being productive doing work on the train from Hastings to Welly, than driving. I absolutely love driving but I’d also love to have the option of using that time doing other stuff 🚇 #ChooChooNZ
Bill Bennett@billbennett.bsky.social · 3mo agoIf you took the $4 billion budget currently proposed for the 26km Warkworth to Te Hana expressway, you could theoretically fund a massive overhaul of New Zealand's entire rail network.
Cyclists get mad that drivers are killing and injuring people and are treated as hysterical meanies Drivers throw a fit over losing 4 parking spots and are treated as people with serious concerns over how our streets should be designed
Imagine how many other great things we could achieve if we invested the absurd amounts being burned by AI into things that actually benefit humanity and the planet But I guess suggesting that makes one a luddite or radical
Mar Hicks@histoftech.bsky.social · 3mo agoChinese researchers have created a bamboo-based plastic as strong as petroleum-based plastics, which can fully biodegrade in soil in just 2 months phys.org/news/2025-10...
If the problem is universal superannuation might be paid to billionaires, why is your answer means testing instead of taxing the shit out of billionaires
Oh FFS. Once again for those at the back - and sorry, must SHOUT 'cos obviously didn't hear last ... few hundred times ... it has been said ... THE GOVT DOES NOT HAVE HIGH DEBT. WE DON'T NEED TO SELL ASSETS. IS FICTION USED TO NARROW ARGUMENT TOWARDS "GOVT IS BAD, SO SMALLER GOVT IS BETTER".
Newsroom NZ@newsroom.co.nz · 3mo agoToday from The Detail: The sale of state assets is shaping up to be an election-year battle as the country struggles to cope with rising costs and debt.
I see Shane Jones appears on far-right network that regularly platforms, & promotes Christchurch terrorist's violent extremist ideology (rebranded as 'remigration'), & amplifies the same anti-Indian racism, & xenophobia through his "butter chicken tsunami" framing. Dangerous, & disgusting. #nzpol
Dr Sanjana Hattotuwa@sanjanah.bsky.social · 12mo agoI see Shane Jones is telegraphing the same 'Great Replacement' narrative, & lie Christchurch terrorist used to justify massacre of 51 Muslims in March 2019. This is not political debate. This is violent extremist rhetoric fuelling racism, endangering communities, & ripping apart social cohesion.
#NZpol "This is a long look at what is actually happening... Where the crude is coming from now. How long the squeeze is likely to last. When contracted customers like the companies importing fuel... might start hearing the word no. And what, realistically, our country can do about any of it."
Paul Thistoll@pault.bsky.social · 3mo agoThis article is a must read. newswire.co.nz/2026/04/insi...
How do we now live in a country where these frothing men (and/or related planted bots) get to rant on about Jacinda Ardern being terrible in every mass media outlet and every comments section? I am so TIRED #nzpol
Again, imagine Greens co-leders Chlöe Swarbrick & Marama Davidson or any other woman on the left putting this kind of pout-and-flounce then the Press Pack NOT throwing it in their faces at every opportunity until the heat death of the universe. You can't? Sit with that for a minute. #nzpol
Bruce Buckman@brucebuckman.bsky.social · 4mo agoBitch please
