Daily review 30/10/2024

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1. Obtrectator 1

   30 October 2024 at 6:04 pm

   How it too often is for women today: a telling piece from today's Guardian:

   https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/oct/29/chatshow-saoirse-ronan-graham-norton-women

   As a comment, I don't think the following can be bettered (originally from a Financial Times book review about 40 years ago):

   " …. throws a bucketful of icy reality, scepticism and sheer anger on the warm and cosy assumptions encouraged by television''
2. adam 2

   30 October 2024 at 6:19 pm

   Economic terrorism is what we have had in this country. Coupled with a pretty raw form of eugenics.

   How much of this violence are you going to put with from the state?
3. Incognito 3

   30 October 2024 at 7:50 pm

   In other words, the field is wide open.

   https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/532251/2023-election-study-what-voters-really-wanted-and-why-the-coalition-s-mandate-could-be-fragile

   The National-Act-NZ First coalition's continued support suggests voters think it is delivering on its mandate – the promises and outcomes people had in mind when they voted for the coalition parties. Which raises the question, what exactly did people want when they voted in 2023?

   The New Zealand Election Study helps us understand why people voted the way they did. After the election, the study surveyed a random sample of people registered to vote, receiving just under 2000 responses. We use this data to try to understand the new government's mandate.
4. Dennis Frank 4

   30 October 2024 at 7:52 pm

   An erudite exposition of deep state theory from the Trotter:

   Public servants, judges, academics, journalists and the liberal clergy are all, rightly or wrongly, perceived to be working against the Government, and doing everything within their power to impede the roll-out of policies deemed morally unjustifiable and evidentially unsustainable. The degree to which conservative voters are invested in these policies is a pretty reliable indicator of the animosity directed at those believed responsible for delaying – or even halting – their implementation.

   Such political frustration is far from novel. What is new, however, is the general apprehension of those who identify as right-wing, that “the system” is ideologically rigged against them. Those subscribing to this notion are convinced that across-the-board resistance to conservative policies is not only prevalent in the upper echelons of New Zealand society, but that it also enjoys the unofficial blessing of an unhealthily large number of the nation’s unelected leaders. http://bowalleyroad.blogspot.com/2024/10/out-of-sympathy.html

   Trumpism isn't rampant here yet. I'd even go so far as to observe that in sleepy hobbitsville, the denizens of the ecosystem are too lethargic to get that roused.

   The surprising appointment of Richard Prebble to the Tribunal will serve as an important test as to whether that quasi-judicial body is open to being tilted to the right.

   I wouldn't get too excited if I were you, Chris. Prebs can bark at them till he goes hoarse, it won't make an iota of difference. He'll be as forceful as a zephyr, an ephemeral touch of a passing feather duster, or Hipkins. They may ask where he left his mojo.

   conservative New Zealand’s confusion is entirely understandable. The left-wing biases they detect in today’s institutions are the exact opposite of the biases evident across the same institutions in times past.

   It's usually referred to as a swinging pendulum. Metaphor. I agree that Nat/Lab voters are likely to be confused by it though – addiction to normalcy often disorients folk when the world changes around them.
5. joe90 5

   30 October 2024 at 7:56 pm

   On science writing, indigenous science, and a colonial worldview.

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   After Tokitae, a beloved orca at the Miami Seaquarium, died in 2023—just as caregivers were preparing to return her to her natal waters near Puget Sound—a wave of outlets published stories about orca conservation, including efforts by the Lummi Nation, an Indigenous group in the Pacific Northwest.

   B. “Toastie” Oaster, an Indigenous-affairs reporter at High Country News and a citizen of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma, read in one feature that members of the Lummi Nation consider orcas to be “sacred relatives of their tribe.” The phrasing stuck out to Oaster like a sore thumb: “Orcas are scientifically verified as being our relatives,” they say. “Why word that in a way that’s making it this mystical Indian thing?”

   For Oaster, the phrase exemplified how non-Indigenous writers can—through poor framing or word choices—discount Indigenous knowledge and cast Indigenous voices in their articles as “mystical” or “beautiful” others, there to provide color but not to impart any serious knowledge or authority to a story.

   Indigenous science—which can be briefly defined as knowledge gathered systematically by Indigenous peoples and shared across generations—is deeply interwoven with ecology, astronomy, and medicine, among other fields often deemed “Western” science. Yet journalists, alongside mainstream scientists, have not historically recognized the value and importance of Indigenous expertise.

   https://www.theopennotebook.com/2024/10/29/weaving-indigenous-science-into-reported-stories/

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