@elenem.bsky.social
Mum, cricket lover, cargo biker, gardener; always wanting more climate action, always wanting more climate justice. Re-skeets for interest, not always endorsement. Says 'fuck' a lot. Aotearoa/NZ.
I think one the reasons behind the recent thing of 'The left hates AI' and the longer-running 'bluesky hates AI' is that it's a sort of reassuring balm in the face of widespread, tripartisan and near universal loathing for AI
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Who could have predicted such a thing, apart from almost everyone?
You should really be expecting that the next 20-30 years will look like 18th century great-power politics with 21st century climate changes.
I fucking hate this. Also hate the way it gets reported. Not saying I know how it should be reported but these fucking guys are financially powerful dangerous authoritarian shitheads, and even unfavourable reporting like this gives them too much.
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What stage of the fossil fuel shortage requires building an LNG terminal?
OH MY GOD THEY'RE DOING PANDEMIC LEVELS FOR FUEL
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I said the other day that New Zealand is now the dumbest petro-state and I stand by that. We have zero reasons other than corruption and ideology to stay wedded to fossil fuels #nzpol
“Keat maintained the current global energy shock should be viewed as a strategic gift by the government.”
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Since 2021, global media coverage of climate change has dropped 38%. Major broadcast networks in the U.S. cut their climate coverage 35% compared to the year before. Blame wars, political chaos, and Jeffrey Epstein. grist.org/language/glo...
Time to get serious about confronting the tidal wave of misinformation and denial paid for by the fossil fuel industry. The renewable industry is now big business- it needs to build a comms and public affairs apparatus that matches the other side and do a better job partnering with allies
“This technology disrupts humanities-trained—largely Democratic—voters, and makes their economic power less. And increases the economic power of vocationally trained, working-class, often male, working-class voters.”
—Palantir CEO Alex Karp
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The right openly positioning itself in orientation with the semblance of knowledge and the semblance of skill like this - and in opposition to actual knowledge and actual skill - tells you everything you need to know about the modern right.
National Science Foundation: $9 billion total in FY2026
"We see a future where intelligence is a utility like electricity or water and people buy it from us on a meter and use it for whatever they want to use it for. The demand that we see for that..." - Sam Altman
These bros are not okay.
Keeping this for next time someone says "but the green premium."
Or "sure, climate, but 'value' creation."
Or "intermittency!"
Based on the people I've met who run companies like this? No, no they're not
Very pleased to have succeeded in my amendment to restore $1.1 million to climate change response budget (with some reductions including a 500k cut to consultants spend so no rates impact).
I will once again ask you to understand that we are the Most Special Little Country Where Nothing Bad Ever Happens so just crack a bottle of sav and chill out because a country of 5 million can obviously somehow coerce the one of a billion
Lan Pham for example is consistently excellent and just because the media choose to ignore her doesn't mean she's not great
We are now well into the "absolute made up nonsense" stage of smearing Zack Polanski.
It's weird when you grow up on films of journalists being incorruptible truth seekers to see multiple papers just lying through their teeth.
I wish I believed it was only ego and insecurity but I suspect there's a shit-ton of corruption in there too. Somebody has been promised something #nzpol
The EU is sanctioning Iran, a country that is currently being bombarded by US-Israeli aggression and has also suffered under sanctions for decades. This here is why the 'liberal order' was always a sham for a majority of the world's population. The EU is wilfully blind even as the order crumbles
Gorgeous. Whoever gets that is lucky
one upside of all of this is the revelation that the swinging dick bankers and big rah rah capital execs and billionaires are actually meek little scared dogs and president AOC or whoever (god willing) should walk them on a leash and make them drink out of a bowl
An emergency
Thanks for the reminder!! Ironically the website is absolutely impossible to use on my phone but will re-do later....
If, like me, you joined InternetNZ last year to ensure your point of view was not overwhelmed when it came to board election (thanks) and AGM voting, then it's coming up time to renew your membership to continue that mission.
If you didn't join last year, maybe you'd like to this year?
Familiar names on this list...
Parliamentary beard even.
'Why aren't people deeply concerned about this thing we keep signalling isn't a problem?'