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ACC's use of AI to help decide who gets help shocks advocate "It's all about 'how can we ramp up exits, how can we get more people coming off the scheme," says an ACC advocate

In addition to the incredibly apt comparison to Robotdebt I reposted earlier, I'd like to mention the perverse incentives here about getting folks off ACC. Not removing their need for ACC, but rather removing the provision of ACC to them. There's quite a difference.
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There are still tickets for Cliff Richard tonight.

Benjamin Netanyahu's de facto propagandist and spokesman, Amit Segal, has written a long and meandering blog post arguing that Turkey is the new Iran and that Israel must prepare for existential measures against the NATO member-state.

British troops are using Israeli arms technology tested in Gaza

They’re now equipped with a ‘cutting-edge weapons sight’ produced by an Israeli arms firm nurtured by its defence ministry.

UK set to limit refugees to temporary stays Shabana Mahmood is expected to say the era of permanent protection for refugees is over, in major changes to the UK's asylum and immigration system.

This contribution to the volume of human misery is yet another policy from Labour based on a false premise, in this case that refugees are overly attracted to Britain. It will increase bureaucratic limbo, thus making worse the problem of "cohesion" it purports to solve.
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‘Mobs’ target Palestinians in occupied West Bank, as floods roil Gaza Images emerged this week of what appear to be mobs of masked Israeli settlers carrying out arson attacks on Palestinian homes and property, the UN human rights office (OHCHR) said on Friday.

A pariah state completely out of control

Anyway, I can advise the new Mitre 10 Tory St has a cafe with power outlets.

(Also it's just as small as The Warehouse was, and seems to focus more on cheap homeware crap than hardware. Oh well.)

Outage estimates were total fiction, e.g. 6am even though no one was working on it before then. They had generators on the street for 5 hours that they didn't even connect up (but kept telling us they would). Hopeless.

Fixed after 38h45m, affecting three apartment buildings - hundreds of people including elderly who can't use stairs. Omexom and Wellington Electricity have some real problems.

30 hours in to a power cut to a couple of apartment buildings. With a baby. And a cold. Apparently they don't work on this stuff overnight.

I would have acted sooner if not for the systems put in place to facilitate plausible deniability—

Israel's collapse continues:

"Ben-Gvir continues to push to loosen the law’s application even more to give Israeli forces the authority to execute Palestinians in the field"

The headline is misleading through truncation. He said it's the "dumbest thing that I've done since I've been the commissioner."

He's been Commissioner for 1 year.

The follow up question should've been what dumber things he did over his previous 28 years as a cop!

The fact that anybody in DPMC thought any of this was free and frank and could be withheld speaks to a level of paranoia and contempt for the public in that agency - not to mention OIA illiteracy. They don't seem to think we should know the basics about how this country is governed.

134 years of The Press online: Papers Past now goes to 1995 Copies of The Press from 1861 to 1995 are now online at Papers Past. The years 1990 to 1995 are newly available.

Big Fresh. Billy T James. Big Snow. Aramoana. Ruthanasia.
Oh, and Radiohead, and Servalan from Blake's Seven.
Yes, it's the Nineties! You can now dive into The Press from 1990 to 1995 with Papers Past.
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#Christchurch #Ōtautahi

$800k already spent as Wellington reopens waterfront fence debate Wellington City Council is revisiting its waterfront fencing plans after spending nearly $800,000 on the old plan. Money not wasted, council says.

It's always nice to see @fyi.org.nz acknowledged in a news story as the source of an official information response.

Roger Calkin has used the service for many years in his efforts to stop preventable deaths on Wellington's waterfront.

It looks like there's lots of newspaper articles in Index NZ.. written by my neighbour.

Sometimes I trawl public registers for fun. Do you want this stuff?

Sometimes I'm reminded of Renshaw Edwards and laugh. (I probably find it funnier than the country's senior solicitors did.)

I have, in the past uncovered an undischarged bankrupt running a new business through someone else's name - only because their address was visible on the companies register.

I get the value of this bill but it sadly also makes it harder to detect wrongdoing or connect shady businesses together.

The admission that the police are deliberately siphoning off correspondence to the PM and the Minister of Police from members of the public to make sure it is never seen sure strikes at the heart of a democracy. Corruption at the top level. Heads must roll.

"It's a few bad apples..."

Enter, stage right an angry goose:

"How does that saying finish, motherfucker, what does a bad apple do?"

@chrishipkins.bsky.social

Care to apologise to Tamatha Paul for your public belittling of her when she dared to suggest some people may not trust the police?

I expected a more considered response from you. Instead you were all in on the side of the police. Shameful.

#nzpol

Fantastic. I hope there will be apologies to Ms Paul from the MPs who attacked her for expressing these views.

Not mentioned: the law creates a framework for surveillance of people's vehicle movements and allows the data captured to be shared with the Police and intelligence agencies. (see section 65ZF(3)). No explicit protection against capturing faces and sharing those.

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At what point do we publicly accept that NZ is deeply corrupt and the only reason why we don’t have a culture of direct payoffs and bribery (that we cite as the evidence for us not being corrupt) is because it’s not needed? The boys club gets what it wants through people playing their social roles.

I don't know why New Zealanders accept having an anonymous police force. It's bizarre.

IPCA's policy of not using real names of Police employees is getting ridiculous.

Israeli soldiers speak out on killings of Gaza civilians IDF soldiers tell documentary of opening fire unprovoked and arbitrary designations of who was an enemy

ITV is braver than the BBC.