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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 19h

Musk unilaterally shut off a defensive capability just as Russia attacked power plants with winter approaching I don't know why anyone trusted him before, but certainly nobody can afford an Elon Musk dependency after this

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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 11h

Aaron Swartz, coding prodigy and hacktivist who helped develop RSS and was a co-founder of Reddit, died by suicide after facing $1 million in fines and 35 years in prison for felony charges, just for downloading pdfs of research papers with the intention of making them accessible to the public.

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Will "scifantasy" Frank @scifantasy.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

Aaron Swartz was hounded and persecuted by overzealous prosecutors for a mass JSTOR download until he committed suicide. Sam Altman says that he deserves to violate copyright law in perpetuity because otherwise he can't make a fortune from a large language model. We are in the wrong timeline.

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Vibeke @vibeke.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Woah! That must mean we’re all super grown up too

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Musical Chairs @musicalchairs.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

If Govt reduces spending from 32% of GDP to 30% of GDP and the private sector doesn't grow, what happens to GDP? Anyone know?

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Dr Sanjana Hattotuwa @sanjanah.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

There's *significant overlap* between voting tactics, & strategies proposed by Harry Mowbray (amplified by son Nick), & leading far-right/disinfo networks, & entrepreneurs incl., but not limited to Voices for Freedom, Family First, & Chantelle baker. All aimed at left (Labour+Greens in the main).

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Dr Sanjana Hattotuwa @sanjanah.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I can’t speak for NZ’s electoral history, but can authoritatively say that nothing like what I'm studying at present around the far-right's influence operations, coordinated messaging, & related funding (propped by billionaires) was this evident in the lead up to the 2023 general election. #nzpol

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Vibeke @vibeke.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Landed in AKL from AMS via YVR (Vancouver). AIRNZ is always such a delight after just about any airline, in this case KLM. The best sleepiest cute 6mo baby twins on our flight right in front of me, their parents did such a good job getting them through a 14hr flight ✈️

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 25/09/2026

If a zoo animal started "going rogue" and "escaping the sandbox" they would shoot it immediately

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Paul Le Comte 🇳🇿🇨🇦📷 @paullecomtephoto.nz · 25/09/2026

Timely reminder that if this incompetent govt hadn't wasted hundreds of millions of dollars & years of missed opportunities, the new ferries would be operating the Cook Straight now

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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 21/09/2026

I'm sure Elon Musk's heart is riddled with plenty of genuine, personal transphobia, but the real reason he's spending money to scapegoat trans people is to distract the public from the fact that he is the real danger to our economy, our republic, and the world

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Vibeke @vibeke.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Dirty Politics (& the rest of the series) should be required reading for anyone writing/speaking/working in New Zealand politics, insane that Luxon can claim ignorance and there influencers speaking on nz pols on social media & podcasts on all sides of political spectrum without knowledge of it

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Felix Geiringer @barristernz.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

“I think the people behind this dirty work are deeply lacking in integrity and have far more influence than they deserve.”

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Francisco Blaha @franciscoblaha.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Doing tha Alpe Adria cycle route - Salzburg to Grado (Italian Adriatic) with @vibeke.bsky.social. Day 3 Villach to Chiusaforte, must be some of the most beautiful riding I’ve done in my life. We should keep trains, but if they have to be removed, make it a cycling route strava.app.link/tf4jWgwBA6b

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Musical Chairs @musicalchairs.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Torrent of crap coming out of Jordan's mouth this morning on Q&A. I should not have started fact-checking, but here we go. Claim 1: The old '2nd largest fiscal response'. Jordan is referring to an IMF report, which was adopted conveniently as gospel by NZ Treasury. Friends, it was bad. [🧵 1/n]

'We had the second largest response to Covid in terms of a proportion of our economy... increased Government spending.'
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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 19/09/2026

this framework also illuminates the danger of the EA/rationalist community around AI: if the breeders of wild, dangerous animals also subscribe to a quasi-religious set of ethics/values that center agency on the wild animals, those animals are going to be more dangerous

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 17/09/2026

I would like media to care more about the reality that tech tycoons want to kill people than what they’re imagining about AI wanting to kill people. We have multi-millionaires (with support from billionaires!) calling for ethnic cleansing, a thing that has happened in living memory. Not theoretical!

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Lyndon Hood @lyndonhood.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Okay everyone it's been a minute so let's get this right off the bat: HAGER rhymes with LAGER

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Vibeke @vibeke.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Espresso report Salzburg

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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Since it can be hard to believe that political and corporate elites would actively give up on our shared future on this singular planet, we made a short film so folks can hear from the end timers and judge for themselves. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

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Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor: the future according to end times fascism

In a new video, Klein and Taylor outline a ominous evolution taking shape on the far right – and how to stay loyal to this planet and each other

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Vibeke @vibeke.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

A week well spent in our old stomping grounds, where we lived for just over a year 18years ago. Lots of what if conversations, what if we hadn’t left, etc. but happy with our life in the Pacific.

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Vibeke @vibeke.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Back from Rome to ‘mijn vlakke land’. I saw Francesca Albanese IRL, sat in on an international Fisheries meeting at the FAO, caught up with old friends, saw so many churches & Caravaggios, had excellent 1euro20 espresso and lots of fior di zucca, saw Mapplethorpe, survived 34c heat & thunderstorms

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Prof. Ian Walker @ianwalker.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Oh, and if you're in New Zealand...

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tunes to make you run away @whippoorwont.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

"people are anthropomorphizing LLMs because they are so astonishingly good at processing human thought and language" people will anthropomorphize a chair if you put the stitches in the right place.

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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 08/09/2026

"How dangerous is Elon Musk to the world's democracies?" Gibney is asked. "Extremely," he answers, in a single word.

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Kevin Hague @kevinhague.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Watched Ryan Bridge interviews with Shane Jones and Simeon Brown this morning. Very striking contrast between his obsequious interviewing style with these two and his aggression in interviews with Chlöe and Marama.

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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 06/09/2026

any system that makes Elon Musk the wealthiest person alive, and Donald Trump the most powerful persona alive, isn't running on "respectable arguments" and should stop pretending otherwise

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Vibeke @vibeke.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Yes. This was win win win win. It needs to be reinstated in NZ

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Dr. Jonathan N. Stea @jonathanstea.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Calling yourself a critical thinker is not sufficient for critical thinking.

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Vibeke @vibeke.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Note that what supposedly lead to this sanction was signing of on investigating Netanyahu

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Vibeke @vibeke.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

No gmail, no Microsoft, no accommodation booking sites. EU urgently needs to develop their own comprehensive tech stack

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Vibeke @vibeke.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Article in Dutch Volkskrant about what happened when US put a French ICC judge on a sanction list - exposing the lack of European tech independence. Guillou says he’s back in the 90s, does not have access to a credit card nor will UPS deliver to him or his French insurance company pay his claims

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Sassy Little Hobbit @sassypolitico.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

They shut down flu tracking and flu is out of control. They cancelled ferries to save money and now we are gonna get shittier ferries that cost more. They fired all the public servants and unemployment went up. They gave landlords tax breaks and homelessness people are dying on the streets.

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mayor of sc*ry town @missfluss.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

sucks that the pittance of cycle infrastructure funding in this city is scrutinised to all hell and gets cut in order to fail to appease a bunch of sunburnt whingebags meanwhile consultancy firms get the big bucks to have an LLM spit out reports full of reckons from newstalk zb callers

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Vibeke @vibeke.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

We went and had a peek yesterday and I love how excited everyone is. Yes we can have nice things for the people ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

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Vibeke @vibeke.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Yeah sorry about that… it may not be for everyone right now 😳

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Vibeke @vibeke.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Collapse is the word of the week for me, probably of the year, the decade. I’m sorry

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Vibeke @vibeke.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

This book, I eat the stars by Sarah Wilson, broke my brain and heart this week and also gently put it back together - somewhat. I feel clearer and lighter - somehow. The most powerful thing, the actual reckoning with what is. open.spotify.com/show/4Sv8n1L...

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I Eat the Stars: How to Live Fully and Beautifully in a Collapsing World

Sarah Wilson · Audiobook

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Musical Chairs @musicalchairs.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Now the kicker - while the NZ economy was laying on the flOrr (get it), the new Govt decided to stamp on its head. Capital investment was scrapped / delayed left, right and centre, and Govt put 'fiscal discipline' at the centre of its economic 'plan'. We'll cut to grow folks! [5/n]

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Musical Chairs @musicalchairs.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Wreckonomics. First, RBNZ went full macho monetarism. Our private debt levels are high (150% of GDP) and we hiked debt costs by 5 percentage points - that compounds to create a multi-billion dollar sledgehammer blow. [2/n]

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Musical Chairs @musicalchairs.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

NZ has - almost uniquely amongst our peers - tanked its economy and pushed 10,000s onto the dole (and offshore). We were told that this strategy would 'get interest rates down, tame inflation, and drive growth 🎉'. Yet, here we are, slumped and vying to be inflation champs. What went wrong? [🧵1/n]

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