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After well over 20y in tech, trying to figure what to do about the looming civilisation collapse. It was not supposed to happen in the lifetime of my generation. Yet, here we are, it seems. #brussels, about to move back to #newzealand
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- Reposted by widgedYep, he got a flat response from business they don’t like him but they’re team profit before people so wouldn’t call Luxon out in an election year but Rātana care about people & aren’t sycophants to profit or the Party so he’d likely have got home truths. His PR team found a way out of bad press.
- Reposted by widgedLuxon finds an out. #nzpol www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/...
- Reposted by widgedThat RNZ 'New Gaza' article pissed me off enough to submit a complaint via RNZ's online complaint form and document how you too can submit a complaint and use my notes, if you wanted. Free Palestine 🇵🇸
- Reposted by widgedI will be looking for an RA soon as my amazing postdoc has got a permanent role on our team. I will be looking for an emerging Māori researcher who has a social science background preferably :) dm me if you know of anyone or want to kōrero
- Reposted by widgedThe Board of Peace is just the new name of the “Trump Mafia”
- Reposted by widgedhave now seen a kakapo sneeze (and need to figure out macrons on my new set up)
- If anyone wants to see a livestream of a #kakapo on their nest, then Rakiura is back on her nest NOW. #kakapo2026 #conservation www.youtube.com/live/BfGL7A2...
- Reposted by widgedMany people said we were exaggerating and called us liars. As we warned (and as many expected) the DOJ has now acknowledged misconduct by the Trump administration and DOGE employees.
- Reposted by widgedICE and Border Patrol agents must be reined in. Here is one thing we can do right now. Please read and share. robertreich.substack.com/p/americas-gestapo
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- Reposted by widgedSpain’s climate scientists subjected to ‘alarming’ rise in hate speech, minister warns #Climate
- Reposted by widgedlooks like donald trump used the military to do a smash and grab for his personal benefit
- Seizure ... by whom? If we're asserting that the money is safer in Qatar than the US, that suggests that it is being protected because Qatar has something the US lacks — presumably a lack of accountability to American courts and Congress. www.semafor.com/article/01/1...
- Reposted by widgedThey flashbanged a car full of kids. A car full of fucking kids.
- Reposted by widgedChina’s #MingYangSmartEnergy just unveiled a massive over 110 m #wind turbine blade that they say is the world’s first fully recyclable #carbon-fiber-blade. It uses a chemical process to break it down and recover materials instead of leaving it as waste 💨♻️.
- Reposted by widgedYour 'doom quote' for today: "What we can do—and need to do—in the next 10 years is adopt the policies that will put us on a path to deep decarbonization by 2050." www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/633968...
- Reposted by widgedbytecodealliance / wasmtime: A lightweight WebAssembly runtime that is fast, secure, and standards-compliant ★17333 https://github.com/bytecodealliance/wasmtime
- Reposted by widged“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back into a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.” It costs a lot less to house people.
- Reposted by widgedAbandonner totalement le projet Métro 3 ? Un directeur de la STIB évoque près de deux milliards d’euros de perte
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- Reposted by widgedThis train of logic seems to go: 1) Invent AGI 2) ... 3) Universal basic income I'd posit that massively enriching AI labs and companies while others lose jobs would be a much more likely outcome than somehow changing our politics to enable a post-scarcity socialist utopia 🙄
- Reposted by widged“The UK has been planning without the tools to test against worst-case scenarios. We’ve now given decision-makers what they need to prepare for climate outcomes they hope never happen, but can’t afford to ignore.” www.theguardian.com/environment/...
- Reposted by widged"Assumption of at least a moderate El Nino beginning in 2026 leads us to the projection in Fig. 5, with global temperature reaching a minimum at or above +1.4°C within several months and then rising to a record global temperature of about +1.7°C in 2027." mailchi.mp/caa/global-t...
- Reposted by widgedWe need to ensure that the productivity gains from AI benefit everyone, not just the corporations and shareholders who own the technology. UBI provides economic security and bargaining power to workers, and recognizes that all members of society deserve to share in our collective prosperity.
- Reposted by widgedIf you haven't figured it out yet, the icons on the Advent of Svelte site gives you a hint of what the day is about! 🎅 Don't miss out! advent.sveltesociety.dev/2025
- Reposted by widged#Geothermal energy is set to get a major boost, with global investment expected to rise about 20% every year through 2030 as more countries tap into underground heat for power and heating. 🌋⚡ This growth is especially strong in places like 🌍 Africa, 🇪🇺 Europe, and the 🇺🇸 US. 🔧
- Reposted by widgedColdest air on Earth today is in the US with temps up to 40 degrees below normal in the Midwest/ Great Lakes. Actual lows are as low as -20F there. Cold US is due to widespread relative warmth in the Arctic, with record low Arctic Sea Ice extent. This “warmth” displaces the polar cold pool south.
- Reposted by widgedRethink wealth!
- Reposted by widgedSo Facebook's new policies boil down to you can say LGBTQ+ people have mental illness and should be rounded up but you can't say Free Palestine
- Reposted by widgedInstructions 1. Download the template and 100 submission sentences from my linktree 2. Copy the template text into an email addressed to RSBconsultation@regulation.govt.nz 3. Choose some of the submission sentences and paste them into your email 4. Push send!!! linktr.ee/taniawaikato... .
- Reposted by widgedFriends have reported they're missing from NZ Electoral Roll or have been moved onto General Roll without their consent. When Electoral Commission checks, whose details are they testing with? John Smith or Renée D'Cruz or Āriki 'Alokuo'ulu? Tech is so colonised #NZpol www.rnz.co.nz/news/te-manu...
- Reposted by widgedThe Paediatric Society of NZ - representing the clinical field most relevant here - have released maybe the strongest statement of all the medical bodies: “puberty blockers are an established, safe, reversible, and life-saving treatment option”
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While the world’s new left leaders are taking on corporate power head-on, NZ’s left remains timid. Here's what figures like Zohran Mamdani & Zach Polanski can teach Labour & the Greens about confronting the broken markets hollowing out NZ democracy: theintegrityinstitute.substack.com/p/integrity-... - Reposted by widged
- YOU NEED TO READ THIS! Child cooking oil corporation Exxon stepped up its investment in the #AtlasNetwork thinktanks in the 1990s to pump out counter-science disinformation (oil propaganda) to undermine & defeat the UN climate treaty. Now we have the cheques... www.theguardian.com/environment/...
- Reposted by widgedFirst country in the world to implement UBI: Marshall Islands! This is a fascinating article how it happened and how it's being paid for: scottsantens.substack.com/p/marshall-i...
- Reposted by widgedLe Ministre Clarinval a menti. 2 fois. En accusant les syndicats de mentir sur les chiffres du chômage, alors qu’ils disaient vrai. Puis en transmettant à la presse des chiffres faux qui blesse dans leur chair des milliers de belges et non belges. Et la majorité refuse qu’il vienne en commission.
- Reposted by widgedHoy se publica en @desmog.com y @theguardian.com un reportaje en el que he invertido meses de investigación Se basa en cientos de documentos exclusivos q revelan cómo Exxon financió a la red ultraderechista #AtlasNetwork para difundir la negación del cambio climático en Latinoamérica y el Sur Global
- Today a story I've spent months reporting and writing runs on @desmog.com and @theguardian.com. It's based on hundreds of exclusive documents revealing how Exxon funded the rightwing Atlas Network to spread climate denial across Latin America and the Global South. www.desmog.com/2025/11/03/a...
- Reposted by widgedYOU NEED TO READ THIS! Child cooking oil corporation Exxon stepped up its investment in the #AtlasNetwork thinktanks in the 1990s to pump out counter-science disinformation (oil propaganda) to undermine & defeat the UN climate treaty. Now we have the cheques... www.theguardian.com/environment/...
- Reposted by widgedWhy are there more flooding storms? Why does my cat ignore me? For starters, the Northern mid-latitudes just set yet another new record for the 3-year running average for Total Column Precipitable Water. And yes, this one is exponential.
- Reposted by widgedIt's tulip time! 🌷 Planting bulbs now is a promise of spring colour & long awaited nutrients for our pollinators. Top Tip: Plant them deep! At least 3x the bulb's height. This helps protect them from pests & frosts, ensuring strong, tall stems. Good planning always pays off! #GardenPlanning
- Reposted by widgedI’m not saying Americans shouldn’t resist and protest. But what I am saying is that if people in other countries are insisting we overthrow our government while THEIR countries’ governments gladly do business with Trump, that’s hypocrisy.
- Reposted by widgedDutton is a serial risk to national security. Hyping the caravan plot is only the latest example why Peter Dutton has a long record of damaging national security to gain political advantage.
- Reposted by widgedAUSTRALIA RESPONDS TO US TARIFFS As Warran Buffett said: Tariffs is an act of war.
- Reposted by widgedWith just ½ hour left to spare, sent in my submission to the Law Commission's vital, & timely hate crimes consultation today www.lawcom.govt.nz/our-work/hat.... Posted it to LinkedIn www.linkedin.com/pulse/submis..., & WordPress sanjanah.wordpress.com/2025/03/13/s...
- Reposted by widgedIn ceramics, I am making stuff and pitting shells and barnacles on them... It is silly, brings me joy, and looks pretty.
- Reposted by widged“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back into a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.”
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- Reposted by widgedIconic Upper Nevis tree, Te Papapnui Nevis River valley, New Zealand. #GreatNZRoadie #Nikon #Photography
- Reposted by widgedThis is basically contempt for kids at this point.
- Reposted by widgedResearch: Protected bike lanes result in approximate doubling of number of users in a network link. Roughly twice as many women as men become new users of a link when protected infrastructure is installed. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
