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David Hood @thoughtfulnz.bsky.social · 2h

I suspect those who been watching me update this chart over the months are not mind-boggled

Oh no, it is the consequence of their actions.

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Tania Roxborogh @taniaroxborogh.bsky.social · 1h

Mum just rang: they're starting sis on chemo Monday. Taku teina has the type of esophageal cancer that is fast moving & secondary liver. She's been given 6 months without treatment; 12 with The specialist said 'if your family had 100k, we could give a drug that would fix you." Can this be correct?

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Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp.bsky.social · 7h

People used to see philosophical ethics and philosophy of mind as flights of fancy that we, as a society, funded because they were abstractly interesting. In the AI era, they've become two of the most relevant fields of inquiry to the human future. A pretty good argument for academic freedom!

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ali alkhatib @ali-alkhatib.com · 7h

FYI if you're interested: the AI Skeptics reading group is starting "The Eye of the Master: A Social History of Artificial Intelligence" by Matteo Pasquinelli This week we're reading the Intro & chapter 1. next week we're reading Part I. the week after that we're reading Part II, finishing the book

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The Eye of the Master: A Social History of Artificial Intelligence

A social history of AI that finally reveals its roots in the spatial computation of industrial factories and the surveillance of collective behaviour.What is AI? A dominant view describes it as the qu...

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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 19h

Google and Apple immediately update their maps.

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Tze Ming Mok 莫志明 @tzemingdynasty.bsky.social · 18h

Good article with the correct amount of @laragreaves.bsky.social touching on the self-selective nature of the recent exodus: You leave cos of no jobs, & everything NZers are traditionally proud of when abroad is being destroyed, while suffering as a migrant under rising xenophobia now infecting NZ.

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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 18h

Me and my grunge friends would’ve killed A.I. with hammers I can tell you that much

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Whakamataku - Toitū Te Tiriti 🍉 @whakamataku.bsky.social · 18h

60% increase in voter registration from overseas!!!! No, that is not a typo. #nzpol 💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚

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Louise Hutt @saycheeselouise.bsky.social · 19h

It's critical to remember we have NO civics education in New Zealand. Ppl do not necessarily know how MMP works, how a coalition works, or how to best make their vote reflect their values The more you can make talking about politics normal and chill, the more ppl feel they're allowed to be curious

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Russel Norman @russelnorman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade thinks the reversal of the oil and gas exploration ban breached the EU Free Trade Agreement. How do we know? Because they accidentally leaked their own legal opinion in Sep 2024. newsroom.co.nz/2024/10/01/g... www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...

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Andrew Dickson @andrewdickson13.bsky.social · 23h

Chloe Swarbrick says she wants Finance. The reaction from the right has been very emotional. I feel for them. “Do you really want her steering the economy?” they say... Very little explanation of what, specifically, she would get wrong. Luckily Lacan has a theory about that. #nzpol

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Whiti Hereaka @whitihereaka.co.nz · 23h

Terri is awesome — you should read this article and her debut novel “The Valley of Unlikely Acquaintances”.

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Tze Ming Mok 莫志明 @tzemingdynasty.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

There's nothing in this story about whether he's been the Svengali of rightwing talkback because of ideology or because of market segmentation, and therefore no hint of what direction he'll take RNZ, quality-wise. Saved you a click.

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CEO Johnny Cans @oldmatecans.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

lmao

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Keith Ng @keithng.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Being Luxon's advisors is both the least rewarding job in politics, and the most "no one is going to blame you for poor performance" job.

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Keith Ng @keithng.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Advisors: minimise them, be nonchalant, treat them as unserious Luxon: who? Never heard of them. No idea what they are. Don't know what a political party is. What's a question? Words: are it? Is thing symbol letter order? Goo goo gah gah

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André Brett @drdrehistorian.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Love to rule out things I haven't had a chance to look at, always a sensible way to go about "pretty low priority" decisions like my continued ability to command a majority in parliament after an election

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Tze Ming Mok 莫志明 @tzemingdynasty.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

like... is this malicious compliance on the part of an outsourced social media team

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Ganesh Rajaram Ahirao @ganeshahirao.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

#nzpol PREFU26 ... no way is this good 😠 "Higher tax revenue is the primary driver of the improved fiscal outlook." "The improved tax revenue forecast is primarily the result of higher than previously forecast tax returns in 2025/26 combined with a stronger nominal GDP growth forecast." and ...

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The tweet that immediately came to mind:

We're a modest company with modest goals:
1: sell a quality product at a fair price
2: drain the world's oceans so we can find and kill god
6:19 PM • Oct 21, 2014 • Twitter for iPhone
9.8K Retweets
32.7K Likes

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Tze Ming Mok 莫志明 @tzemingdynasty.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Sorry, I started doing it and felt quite confident due to my acute forensic instincts but I've just had a big lunch and started to feel nauseous after looking at only two disgusting photos and had to abandon this effort

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Louise Hutt @saycheeselouise.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Poll was released at 6pm last night, took till 12pm following day for the abuse to ramp back up again. And people think it isn't coordinated and deliberate.

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Louise Hutt @saycheeselouise.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Annnnnd the death threats have started again 🙃

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Tze Ming Mok 莫志明 @tzemingdynasty.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Why not dry out and also rot all your produce while the chanting of the mob grows ever louder, you will not realise the scientific purpose of the vege bin until far, far too late as your head is lain onto the guillotine notch and you think about transpiration and cut surfaces

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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This is *not* the result of "the success of Mahmood's reforms", but of earlier measures/other factors. Her proposals could make it considerably *worse* in future years. A few other points linked below.. archive.ph/0psJ8

Falling migration numbers could cost the chancellor as much as £7bn in fiscal headroom as he writes his first budget, The Times has been told.

Government insiders believe that John Healey, who already faced an uphill battle to balance the books next month, is likely to have an even bigger challenge after immigration significantly undershot projections from the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR).

The Institute for Fiscal Studies think tank estimated last month that the success of Shabana Mahmood’s reforms, which have seen net migration cut to the low hundreds of thousands, could cost Healey some £4bn.

Labour sources familiar with the budget process, however, said that the figure was now closer to £6.5bn. The OBR’s migration forecasts have been consistently higher than real numbers in recent years.

Treasury officials, who have long expected Mahmood’s reforms to cause a hit to headroom, described the number as “pure speculation” but did not deny that Healey would have to contend with a larger funding gap than expected because of falling migration

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Tze Ming Mok 莫志明 @tzemingdynasty.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

thanks a lot for this visual confirmation of political nerds being banished by cool people

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Alice Soper @alicesoapbox.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Even more relevant given most recent polls

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Tze Ming Mok 莫志明 @tzemingdynasty.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

As evidenced by revealed preference, the social value of racism to the UK is 7 billion pounds, SROI babyyyy!

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Ben Ansell @benansell.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Good thing that this couldn’t have been predicted almost a year ago <runs bitter victory lap> and the government didn’t just blithely carry on doing the same thing. www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/718...

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Tze Ming Mok 莫志明 @tzemingdynasty.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

They lie because they think it doesn't mean anything, it's just a game, it's just a job, it's basically a joke, totally meaningless and everyone knows it haha no need to be serious or sad about a soul rotting away

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Anneleise @anneleise.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Just a reminder of who costs the most and commits the biggest abuses of the OIA... #NZPol

A screenshot of a twitter tweet talking about how the Taxpayers Union cost $61k in OIA requests at just one council.

$1 Ld Taxpayers’ Union OlAs to Hamilton council cost $60Kk in staff time 14:24 pm on 11 April 2021 Official Information Act requests by the Taxpayers' Union are costing councils thousands of dollars a year. A v Srey £m UIT ~~ S30 Il \ Taxpayers' Union spokesperson Jordan Williams and Hamilton City Councillor, Dave Macpherson. Photo: RNZ Hamilton City Councillor Dave Macpherson said an Official Information Act request to his own council showed it had 58 requests from the lobby group since the start of 2018, costing an estimated $61,364 in staff time. The sheer number and complexity of requests had meant extra staff had to be employed, he said.$

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Terry Baucher @trabaq.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

From what we've been allowed to see there appears to be levels of destruction as great if not greater than what happened to Berlin, Dresden, and Stalingrad in WW2.

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CEO Johnny Cans @oldmatecans.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Day two of the campaign and we've got Luxon insisting Labour will have to do every Green, TPM and Opportunity policy while also stating that he would not do NZ First or ACT policy. This will not receive accurate contextual comment that is clearly hypocritical blathering.

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Russell Brown @publicaddress.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

"At least one pause in Nicola Willis’ speech that seemed timed for applause or cries of “shame” did not get answered - although Simeon Brown did get people to chant “no new taxes”." This really is Simeon Brown's campaign. (Henry also reported that boxes of "no new taxes" banners went unopened.)

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 27/09/2026

Women trying to succeed in Silicon Valley AI and effective altruist spaces are reporting feeling serious social pressure to attend sex parties - where people have reported being sexually assaulted, like below. Events like Aella’s “Slutcon,” which is happening again this weekend.

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I am disheartened by this as well. I already lost a bunch of followers for agreeing with @tautologer, but it's saddening to see local nerdy women being caricatured as Karen-like outsiders and getting pushed out of the scene. This is exactly why you hear so few concrete, names-attached stories of sexual harrassment and assault. I'm told there is a history of discrediting these because the "slut normalization" thing is top priority and these stories get inconveniently in the way of spreading this ideology.
I got roped into attending last year's Saturday Slutcon party because so many local and out-of-town friends were there (to echo sentiments @tautologer expressed about "slut events becoming central to the larger scenes). Mostly I hung out with people I knew and that was great. But in the course of my 3-ish hours there, there were 2 times my "no" was not accepted by a man I didn't know, and I was physically pushing a huge guy off of me who was rubbing his penis on me, who continued to do it despite my physical force against him, and after I finally wriggled away from him, told him I wanted to dance alone etc., he came back and did it again.
This was scary and bad, but it didn't even cross my mind to report this because one of the other people who didn't accept my "no" earlier in the night was the bartender (an officially sanctioned authority at the event), and I knew the event was organized exclusively by women into CNC (who are vocal about how rapey behavior turns them on), so I figured this sort of thing would just get me laughed at. And anyway, I heard there were a lot of other incidents like it. Later though, someone encouraged me to report this story to the organizers, and despite my embarrassment I did, so *they know* that this and other incidents happened. This is why they cut the Saturday night party this year and created a larger training program for the flirt girls - *because* of things like this last year. Yet the narrative bein…

People who haven't been to Slutcon are saying "it's just group therapy," "it's just innocent flirting." But the environment is much like a sex party in that many people are nude, there is making out and sex acts happening out in the open. I think it's pretty unreasonable to expect that every nerdy girl who likes rationalist bloggers or is into EA/AI safety should automatically be comfortable with this! That if she's not, there's something wrong with her, we don't want her in our scenes, etc.
Not to mention, it's explictly an event *for men*, where men are the clients and the "flirt girls" are the product. Last year I overheard an exchange where a man felt "led on" by a flirt girl and was trying to get her punished/kicked out. (A dynamic that seems inevitable in this context!)
Anyway- it does sound like they've upped their consent education a lot this year, are more organized, and that's good! As I've told my friends who are attending: I hope they have fun!
I heard several accounts last year of women who had no problems and really enjoyed the event. That's great!
Just... can we live in reality about this? There are real reasons why male-female sexual dynamics are tricky.
Encouraging autistic men who can't yet read body language to go around asking to see womens' boobs is maybe a bit ill-advised. Maybe not everyone should be/identify as a slut; maybe it's not for everyone.
And yeah, filtering the Bay Area Al safety scene down to only women who are super comfy with this eliminates *most* women - including many of the really smart, nerdy, weird women who've been in the larger scenes for years. What a loss for humanity.
I absolutely understand why people with a minority sexuality would want to create belonging, would want to create spaces for people like themselves. But why do it like this/at this cost?

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Julie Fairey (she/her) @juliefairey.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Thank you for your service. I’ve been in politics in some way my whole adult life - 30+ years now (how did that happen?!) and the straight faced, no shame, lying is just next level now. It honestly was not this bad in student politics in 1998 imho. I’m not talking about “well we think this is…

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Louise Hutt @saycheeselouise.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I cannot emphasise the amount of lying from the National answers and the New Cons - because their answers were all written using AI. Q: Who wrote your Party's disability policy? Were disabled people involved? National: It is cross-agency work from Whaikaha, Health NZ, MSD, Education and Housing

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Josh | writer, painter, tinkerer @tworuru.com · 27/09/2026

Guys I didn’t realise before how important this work was but the people behind taxpayersunion.org.nz deserve all your time and attention, please don’t pass up this click

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Tze Ming Mok 莫志明 @tzemingdynasty.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

horror movie about an acapella cult that does organ-harvesting

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Os Keyes @okeyes.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Since we’re doing another round of “AI will destroy humanity” doom-hype, it’s a good time to announce a new paper myself and my postdoc advisor just had accepted by BioSocieties on just this. TL;DR: almost all the “AI can make bioweapons” literature comes ultimately from the Effective Altruists.

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Tze Ming Mok 莫志明 @tzemingdynasty.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Important research here on tracking the brainworm infestation

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Ross @rossthesedays.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I'm always fascinated by this Great Noticing of estrangement, when pretty much every generation prior has a Great Aunt Jemima who stopped talking to everyone in 1978 or whatever. This isn't new!

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Tze Ming Mok 莫志明 @tzemingdynasty.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The core public diaspora trope of leaving for survival and desperately missing your family back home is sometimes a cover for the secret diaspora trope of wanting to get as far away from your family as possible

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Kelly Whyte @kellywhyte.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Is it another example, or the same example in a different hat? #nzpol

From the post, who let Zohrab write a whole column: Anya Zohrab is the co-founder and establishment executive director of The Parents' Alliance. The board is chaired by economist Cam Bagrie and includes Hon Kris Faafoi, Cat Moody, David Farrar and Joanne Chaplow.

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