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38% of young people ... this is a disaster and every journalist should be highlighting this fact rather than the nonsense about green shoots #nzpol

He then praised marae standing up and supporting their communities during natural disasters. As he spoke about the tough last year and economic situation, one person yelled “that was your fault bro!”

This person who heckled Luxon is my new favourite

2020 is an anomaly precisely because the Labour government put public health ahead of everything for a hot second. People felt cared for and also like their lives mattered. We reverted back to our factory settings once that was taken away.

In TWO THOUSAND AND EIGHTEEN.

The CSSWG just resolved to add this to the spec 🥳

github.com/w3c/csswg-dr...

Their claims towards inevitable AGI are akin to claiming they can teach the solar powered calculator collecting dust in a drawer in your house how to love.

It's so stupid on the face of it that it can only be the result of a concerted propaganda effort leveled at people too lazy and dumb to learn.

A climate emergency fund would be useful right about now.

Oh, that's right, Luxon canned it so he could funnel more money to landlords.

Did anyone say Retargetable View Transitions (aka Interruptible View Transitions)?

I think I’ve got it working (by throwing some extra JavaScript at it) …

Hey the voter suppression laws mean you can only vote up to twelve days before November 7 and have to be registered thirteen days before that. Twelve days before Nov 7 is 26 October. THAT IS LABOUR DAY. THE ELECTION VOTING STARTS ON LABOUR DAY.

National FB ad saying in 2026 they'll fix the basics

Fix it from who? The fuck have you been doing the last 3 years, you festering cyst of a government?

The president
-Is occupying a major city with armed paramilitiaries
-Is blackmailing treaty allies to hand over their sovereign territory
-Is trying to set himself up as chairman for life of a UN rival with $1B fees for permanent membership
-Is talking about canceling elections

61 shops announce closures in 10 days: Will liquidation numbers get worse before they improve? There are warnings the number of businesses closing could get worse before it gets better.

Shops don’t close themselves.

It’s not 61 shops, it’s people closing livelihoods, it’s staff losing their jobs, it’s creditors not being paid, it’s parents with no income facing the expense of the start of the school year and a heartless systemically unhelpful WINZ.

#nzpol

A sign with balls attached to a poster that says “free balls! For members of congress who lost theirs”

10/10 protest poster:

Why are teeth left out of public healthcare? "It's a significant gap that leads to a lot of other issues in healthcare but also economically for the country," says the Dental for All campaign

I’ll definitely be voting for a party/parties with universal dental care as one of its policies. Political
parties that fail to address this are not in politics for every New Zealander. #nzpol

Why are teeth left out of public healthcare? www.rnz.co.nz/news/busines...

Tweet by Jatin @jatinkmalik The reason why RAM has become four times more expensive is that a huge amount of RAM that has not yet been produced was purchased with non-existent money to be installed in GPUs that also have not yet been produced, in order to place them in data centers that have not yet been built, powered by infrastructure that may never appear, to satisfy demand that does not actually exist and to obtain profit that is mathematically impossible

once again we are all tapping the sign

Jesus, I thought nothing could get me on board with this, but

WELL NOW, would you look at that? A massive, 24-YEAR-LONG study of MORE THAN 1.2 MILLION people in Denmark found NO LINK between aluminum in childhood vaccines and autism, asthma, OR chronic disorders.

Aluminum is an ADJUVANT.

It ENHANCES your immune response to a vaccine.

That’s it.

“If you didn’t want your photo digitally altered and turned into sexual content you shouldn’t have posted it online” is just the social media version of “if you didn’t want to be raped you shouldn’t have worn a short skirt.”

If you’re participating in this “trend” you’re a predator.

#BREAKING from me and Jennifer Jacobs - additional reporting on the strikes in Venezuela.

Also, when reporters start talking about the chatbots this way, it is imperative to remind them they are basically asking a toaster for comment. They should be a lot more embarrassed about this than they currently are.

“Grok told CNN…” no it didn’t. You typed stuff into an unreliable calculator.

LA Times: Elon Musk company bot apologizes

Newsweek: Elon Musk's Grok Apologizes

International Business Times: Grok Issues Apologies

The Hill: Musk's AI chatbot Grok apologizes

1. Headlines everywhere today read "Grok apologizes."

This is bullshit. A chatbot is not something that can apologize.

Pretending otherwise is simple laundering these companies' bullshit about what AI is, while diffusing blame away from the human beings that developed and released this system.

Can I just underscore that this is equally true for all those "someone asked the chatbot why it gave a bad answer and it revealed its secret programming!!!!" stories y'all like to circulate

No. It *generated a plausible sounding response to the question you gave it*, please be smarter about this

Ify and Emmy, wearing an engagement ring, smiling.

Emmy smiling with her ring visible.

Starting the year off right.

"Geek culture isn’t suddenly left wing... it always was. You just grew up to be intolerant. You became the villain in the stories you used to love."

GOOD NEWS! Researchers have shown Alzheimer’s disease can be REVERSED- not just prevented. Using a potent neuroprotective compound called P7C3-A20, they found RESTORING balance to a central cellular energy molecule (NAD+) not only PREVENTED disease features but REVERSED them, EVEN at late stages.

A christmas card of two foxes, one of whom is blue, the other is green. In this one, Blue and Green are sitting by a christmas tree, currently being decorated by the tentacles of the otherwise unseen creature, The Thing In The Sink, which has now evidently migrated to the tree. Above them is the text, "Merry Christmas".

See you all next year!

The Sikh religion and wider culture will unambiguously:

- feed you when you are hungry
- give you clothes/blankets when you are cold
- shelter you when you are homeless
- organise a doctor when you are sick

Their selfless generosity is legion.

Brian Tamaki is really out-of-line and dangerous.

Wonder if anyone at WINZ ever thinks about how wrong it is to make people constantly degrade themselves to get borderline poverty "support", especially when they are getting income support for mental health issues.

Could I politely suggest that looking down on the less fortunate to prop up one's own self worth isn't something we should be encouraging with policy approaches.