Mike

under this government new zealand has no value beyond being the world's biggest toilet for cows

You can’t hate fascists and use AI slop generators. They’re the same thing: total destruction of truth at scale.

EXPERIMENT PAUSED

you're telling me this isn't cool?

if you love your cat, don't let it roam!!!

I'll remember him mostly for being fooled by the mediums on Sensing Murder

yeah but they already thought that

Abandon Vercel.

The Replit guys have a migration tool and they are they do not support the genocide.

how is Geth doing?

musk was on twitter calling people paedophiles in 2018, model 3 deliveries started less than a year earlier

I've had a few people message me off platform and ask if I really feel this way about Tesla owners being "part of the problem."

Yes, 100%. We are long past the point where you can plausibly claim Tesla money is fueling right wing hate. You can't claim the cars are safe or that FSD isn't a fraud. 1/

Are Cantabrians living in ‘the republic of ECan’? The deputy PM is urging Environment Canterbury to pause its enforcement of consenting laws. Is this even possible? The Press fact checks David Seymour’s comments.

The deputy Prime Minister this week admonished a regional council for enforcing its rules (which it is legally required to do) on the basis that the RMA will be overhauled at some point www.thepress.co.nz/nz-news/3608...

Kiwis' 'confusion' over Covid means too few are getting jabs, expert warns Flu vaccinations are almost three times more popular than those for Covid, despite the exact same group being most at risk.

People are still dying from Covid. Good reminder to stay up to date with your vaccines.

Kiwis' 'confusion' over Covid means too few are getting jabs, expert warns
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Love to live in a country where we're doing climate denial, vote suppression, visas for rich folk, science destruction, wrecking healthcare... But because we're special little New Zealand and not America we'll just keep pretending it's mostly normal aye

Patients dying in corridors and waiting rooms amid Christchurch ED ‘code red’ A Christchurch Emergency Department (ED) doctor says patients are dying in waiting rooms, corridors and the car park as Christchurch Hospital strains under critical overload.

Health NZ says some of the doctor’s claims were out of context or based on historical incidents, including the reference to a sad event from three years ago in a car park, but concedes the hospital has been in and out of critical overload (the equivalent of “code red”) for several weeks.

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Posted a response to this to on LinkedIn from the perspective of power demand in Sri Lanka. For those in New Zealand, the total power generation capacity in 2021 was 10,080MW, which is what just the NVIDIA GPU's at OpenAI propose to use up. From either country's perspective, this is mind-boggling.

"no one wants to work anymore"

all tech crazes are based on magical thinking (“everyone will live in the metaverse!”) but the AI craze is worse because it’s based on two layers of magical thinking: “we will soon create a fully sentient machine” and “once we create a fully sentient machine it will solve all our other problems.”

am I missing it or did you forget to link to the new guidelines in the blog post about the new guidelines

Luxon himself handed me the Prime Minister's science prize last year. Let me say this in plain English: he's an idiot for running a govt who budgeted more for AI than for the Marsden fund. any journo reading this can quote me on it #nzpol

Though the man’s killing had been filmed, a fact checker is obliged to seek comment from any party alleged to have committed a crime. I called the soldier’s lawyer. He picked up from a café, where I could hear trance music blasting in the background. The lawyer told me that while, yes, his client did shoot the man picking olives, and yes, the man did die, the Israeli military court found his client not guilty of murder because the man picking olives was a terrorist who was throwing stones. Even though the video did not show the Palestinian man throwing stones, the court said that he was, so he was. QED, his client did not murder anyone, and it would be slanderous for us to say so.

if you read one thing today, make it this absolutely devastating piece from a fact-checker who quit the New Yorker
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Get in losers, this isn't your grandmother's lame AI. This is "next-gen AI" with "AI Ultra."

Do you want Flow, Whisk, and Mariner? This is how you get them (never mind asking what those are, it's not important).

Critical detail: they’re also defining “being trans” as inherently pornographic and thus attempting to ban people from being openly trans in an attempt to - say it with me now - push trans people out of public life.

Even if you aren’t masking anywhere else it still makes sense to wear a mask in medical settings & pharmacies because there’s a greater chance of being close to someone contagious & there are more people who are at higher risk in these places. Masking in these settings both protects you & others.

Lawyers challenge widespread police use of number-plate software as evidence Police reportedly tap into the Auckland-based Auror system 250,000 time a year, often outside big retailers and petrol stations.

If mass surveillance is happening to us then the most basic prerequisite should surely be complete public transparency about where, when and to what extent. This 'commercial sensitivity' shit isn't good enough.

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Oh wow this is cursed:

https://docs.nvidia.com/doca/sdk/doca+app+shield/index.html

Forestry directors say court-ordered clean-up will make them bankrupt Three directors say they’ll probably go bankrupt if they have to pay for the clean-up

For ffs, it’s way past time for companies and their directors to stop making us (taxpayers) pay for cleaning up their messes while the pocket the gains from their dirty businesses. From dairying, mining through to forestry and all other polluters and environmental vandals - clean up & pay up. #nzpol

As far as I can tell, there has been no reporting in Aotearoa on the fact that Brian Tamaki spoke at Stephen Yaxley-Lennon's violent bigot March in the UK along with a host of international racists. His name was included in speaker lists last week.

Better Wellington deletes post comparing Green councillor to Charlie Kirk’s alleged murderer - NZ Herald The post singled out Green councillor Rebecca Matthews in a personal attack.

The mask has slipped from Better Wellington

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