Carlos Cordero

YASS WHAEA!!!

#nzpol

Cartoon. Title: “Sealed” Two frames. First frame: Deputy PM David Seymour going along a hallway, carrying papers, saying, “I’ll just get the boss’s seal on these”. 2nd frame: PM Christopher Luxon bowing and kissing the ring on a hand coming in from the left. He has lipstick on that spells RUBBER STAMP backwards, and he’s transferred it onto David Seymour’s hand. He’s saying, “I am completely comfortable with this”

Former National minister Christopher Finlayson says the government is placing the coalition agreement above “good race relations”
“Their [Māori’s] rights are always under attack”
My Stuff #cartoon today #NZpol #Māori #morality

In systems theory this is known as "The purpose of a system is what it does (POSIWID)" en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_pur...

Neurodivergent man overwhelmed by Jobseeker admin comes off weekly support Advocates say the problem is extremely concerning and common but officials say there's enough support on offer.

This is a feature, not a bug. The ableism, much like racism and misogyny, is structural and a flow on effect of political choices. #nzpol

www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

Why You Should Design for Feature Rollbacks (Not Just Rollouts) You’ve just shipped a shiny new feature. Everything seems perfect… until users start flooding your...

Are you ready to rollback?

This is a really pragmatic guide to thinking about rollback as well as rollout when planning your systems. Rollback can be an important part of incident response and we shouldn't underestimate how hard it can be.

The fucking audacity of _this_ particular government asking subsequent governments to not revert changes.

I'll vote for whoever runs on repealing all their dumbshit changes.

What’s a technology that you think is overhyped? I’m going to give a sideways answer to this, which is that the venture capital business model needs to be understood as requiring hype. You can go back to the Netscape IPO, and that was the proof point that made venture capital the financial lifeblood of the tech industry. Venture capital looks at valuations and growth, not necessarily at profit or revenue. So you don’t actually have to invest in technology that works, or that even makes a profit, you simply have to have a narrative that is compelling enough to float those valuations. So you see this repetitive and exhausting hype cycle as a feature in this industry. A couple of years ago, you would have been asking me about the metaverse, then last year, you would have asked me about Web3 and crypto, and for each of these inflection points there’s an Andreessen Horowitz manifesto. It’s not simply that one piece of technology is overhyped, it’s that hype is a necessary ingredient of the current business ecosystem of the tech industry. We should examine how often the financial incentive for hype is rewarded without any real social returns, without any meaningful progress in technology, without these tools and services and worlds ever actually manifesting. That’s key to understanding the growing chasm between the narrative of techno-optimists and the reality of our tech-encumbered world.

Stand by this: www.politico.com/newsletters/...

It's likely the FSU candidates get into the board of INZ. However the AGM votes have prevented the reactionary attempt to undermine the constitution and structure of the organisation. Next year, we do this again.

Now for three years of making Jonathan Ayling miserable.

If you joined InternetNZ to help stop the takeover by rhe FSU and Hobson's Pledge, you've done some great work tonight

Consider bringing that energy to other civil society organisations, groups like Voices for Freedom are also trying to take advantage of low participation to push their agenda

#InternetNZ
All of the FSU member motions have been defeated. :)

#InternetNZ
Motions 14 & 15 defeated too by 68.7% and 68.5%of the votes, respectively.

#InternetNZ
Motion 13 defeated by 68.7% of the votes.

#InternetNZ
Motions 11 & 12 defeated too by ≥66.2% of the votes.

#InternetNZ
Motions 6, 7, 8, 9, & 10 defeated too by ≥64.7% of the votes.

#InternetNZ
Motions 4 & 5 defeated too.

#InternetNZ
David Fararr's first 3 motions got defeated by 2/3 of the votes cast and now we know how many FSU-aligned people are attending and voting at the AGM.

This woman led a community out of the worst racist terror attack this country has seen since the NZ Wars, you think she has two shits to give about David Farrar

After this 15-motions time wasting that we are having to defeat.

This govt ran on expanding cancer screening and $250 extra money every fortnight and we got FBI offices and nurses who aren’t getting paid and butter no one can afford. Nice one.

If the FSU loses they will claim the election was hacked.

If these first 3 get defeated, it will tell us how the other 12 will do.

Vote against them all e te whānau

@keithng.bsky.social ⬇️

Reminder that if you are here to prevent a FSU takeover of the constitution, you should vote AGAINST for ALL 15 Members Motions.

#InternetNZ AGM

Relevant to anyone in the InternetNZ AGM who, like me, has had trouble understanding what the FSU is attempting to do with its amendments. Hopefully this can help guide your votes tonight

If any #InternetNZ members had been put off participating in tonight's AGM and votes because of the long duration -- the voting on Members Motions will begin in a few minutes if you have the time to join now.

1054 members in the meeting and 10% needed support.
Not bad, support team.

At least, no matter what, nobody will have grounds to complain that they did not have a fair chance to vote. Boy if the Board is not being super careful with that one. We are a full 30 minutes into intro, explaining, giving people eons of time to cast those first votes, plus extra time for support.