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Ilse Falls in the Harz National Park, Germany. Text says: Wikidata is now the second Wikimedia project recognized as a digital public good.

Wikidata has been recognized as a digital public good by the Digital Public Goods Alliance (DPGA) 🎉

Learn how Wikidata, which houses over 1.6 billion facts, advances education, innovation, and public institutions ➡️ wikimediafoundation.org/news/2025/10...

Meta’s Reality Labs posts $4.4 billion loss in third quarter The Reality Labs business, focused on virtual and augmented reality, lost $4.4 billion loss in third quarter while recording $470 million in sales.

this unremarkable knob routinely sets unholy gobs of money on fire to pretend his boomer sneaker ad company is innovative and interesting, and the press just endlessly normalizes it

Imagine being someone who speeds a lot, knowing it can and does kill people… kids, parents, anyone.

Imagine hating a public policy (speed cameras) that’s proven to make those people safer— safer from YOU— because your law breaking costs u money, so you rant that it’s a “cash cow.”

So, is that you?

Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.

Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.

They are not the same.

The most insanely frustrating thing about the #ClimateCrisis is how the breakthrough we so clearly need isn’t technological. It’s just a collective willingness, a determination even, to change in ways that would clearly be SO MUCH BETTER than the clear and obvious consequences of NOT changing.

Pr***** 32. The clue’s in the name

We are SO bifurcated 🤬

A bit of a long thread on the strategy and cultural war the right is surging ahead with here in Aotearoa (while I’m tired and awake at a hospital bedside).

Fermenting from a few things, including a NZ democracy conference in Wellington last week and good chats with friends #NZPol

It's actually worse than it sounds. Gloo is predator software, developed with Cambridge Analytica. It helps evangelical churches target vulnerable people for recruitment by harvesting private data. AI coming into the mix is alarming, if inevitable.

World’s climate plans fall drastically short of action needed, analysis shows Recent plans submitted to UN by more than 60 countries would cut carbon by only 10%, a sixth of what is needed

The world is deeply unserious about dealing with climate change. We need to reduce emissions by 50% in 5 years and we're nowhere near that.

What say there are well-informed young people who don’t want to bring children into life on a dead planet? Which makes it triply weird that the make-many-white-babies crew are the very same people hell bent on destroying our natural world.

We’re spending all our money on roads that suck At this point, the New Zealand government is basically just a road-building authority with bits tacked on. And not even a very good one.

At this point, the New Zealand government is just a road-building authority with bits tacked on. And not even a very good one.

thespinoff.co.nz/politics/28-...

“The New Zealand government is now basically a road-building authority with bits tacked on.“

We’re spending all our money on roads that suck At this point, the New Zealand government is basically just a road-building authority with bits tacked on. And not even a very good one.

There is no vision, beyond dependence on fossil fuels. None.
thespinoff.co.nz/politics/28-...

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We all need to do more to shatter delusions many kiwis have about the level of settlements. It’s actually astonishing how much benefit has been accrued for the collective us through the use of such tiny sums. WTF has been achieved by the landlord tax cuts. Lower rents, healthier homes? Yeah right

our govt wants to spend 327 times more on a single road ($18b) than they are currently spending yearly on all of basic science in new zealand ($55m) #nzpol

LLMs don't "love" using anything. They use em dashes because we do and OMG people can we not anthropomorphize software.

What David said. This is a banger of a column

Petition request That the House of Representatives urge the Government to withdraw the Regulatory Standards Bill from the legislative programme. Petition reason I am petitioning the House because nearly every submission on the Regulatory Standards Bill opposed it, yet the Government plans to pass it anyway. I believe this shows disregard for public participation and democratic integrity. I think the Government is ignoring the 98.7 percent of submitters who oppose the bill and cannot be trusted to listen. I feel that Parliament must act to restore public trust by urging the Government to withdraw this Bill.

Sign this petition about the Regulatory Standards Bill, please

petitions.parliament.nz/212f27b2-98f...

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Nazis gonna nazi

Americans brace for food stamps to run out: ‘the greatest hunger catastrophe since the Great Depression’ Nearly 42 million people in danger as federal government shutdown continues and Snap funding to end 1 November

Hungry plebs are a key feature of any gilded palace centred, private army enforced dictatorship. Project 2025 not as innovative as they’d like you to think
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

E bikes and e scooters are drivers of climate action

Myths and realities of protected bikeways

$300 of benefits to every $1 spent. That is the Benefit Cost Ratio of Bike lanes supporting bikes in urban areas.

$0.33 of benefits to every $1 spent. That is the BCR of 15 of the 17 Roads of National Significance

Forget EVs. Cycling is revolutionising transport
archive.ph/bs1Qj

A privatised army. What could possibly go wrong?

Pentagon to use $130 million donation from anonymous Trump ‘friend’ to pay military members | CNN Politics The Trump administration plans to funnel a $130 million donation from an anonymous ally of President Donald Trump toward paying military service members during the government shutdown, the Defense Dep...

New: The Pentagon confirms to CNN it will funnel $130M from an anonymous Trump “friend” toward military pay.

Asked about the donor’s identity and any foreign or domestic entanglements, the WH referred questions to DoD. DoD then referred questions back to the WH
www.cnn.com/2025/10/24/p...

Generative AI is a societal disaster Governments are deluding themselves into believing investment justifies allowing AI to upend society

The AI industry wants us to believe AI superintelligence is the real threat from generative AI.

But that narrative was crafted to distract from the many ways genAI is being used to tear our societies apart, as we saw this week when a deepfake video rocked the Irish election. It must be reined in.

$5b-plus blowout for eight Roads of National Significance

The Government's 17 Roads of National Significance will cost it at least $44 billion – enough to rebuild Dunedin Hospital 23 times over. Marc Daalder reports.

Nowhere in the article will you find the words alleged, suspected, or their synonyms