Yanis Varoufakis is right. Digital Serfdom. With steps to enable and easy transition to a police state. https://jacobin.com/2024/02/yanis-varoufakis-techno-feudalism-capitalism-interview
I just had this notification from Google Play: Doe this mean it's no longer possible to use passwords to confirm at all? you HAVE to use biometrics if your device is capable, facial recognition or fingerprint? We are getting a terribly long way down the ...
I don't see any reference to medical professional opinion in that article. Can't have 'experts' speaking.
To provoke this response?
Hourly rainfalls in mm from Milford since 10am. Looks a lot, but pretty common there. At least the Kepler isn't prone to flooding like parts of the MF track, but pretty exposed to wind up on the ridges. 9.1 11.8 15.1 18.1 14.7 14.9
It may be my imagination but is Gerry getting tougher? But previous speakers would never allow a minister to keep talking over him when he's trying to cut political comments short. What's happened to the ability to cut a mike?
Gutsy to call her out on this. Where is the opposition? What do we pay them for?
that Hamas operates out of hospitals Or, and quite chilling, is that Lavender targets wounded Hamas in hospitals. Executing the wounded and people giving them aid. This is right up there with the worst atrocities you care to name and totally outside the ...
“Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves” — Confucius
The targeting of doctors and aid workers, and destruction of hospitals, are multipliers. Less food, less medical attention create more victims of this campaign of destruction.
I was watching a discussion between Kishore Mahbubani and Orville Schell recently titled 'The United States, China, and the Future of the Global Order.' A question and answer session near the end included one about the survival of humankind on the planet. ...
Well done thank you.
This headline calculated to feed into the narrative that government spending is wasteful. DOC spent nearly $500,000 to kill one stoat in Fiordland The story does set the context for this spend but many people won't bother reading the details - certainly ...
How dare a tenant do this? Another lay dead in their council flat and was discovered only when an agent for the landlord called in to find out why the rent payments had stopped. Despite efforts by the landlord to find next of kin, they "did not engage with...
Habituation is a neurological process which helps us to adapt to new environments keeping ready to reap any benefits or negate any hazards. https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/sunday/audio/2018932312/tali-sharot-the-benefits-of-seeing-our-lives-in-a...
Every year since I was born has been pre-war.
while ignoring the big issues They are not ignoring the class war, wealthy vs everybody else. Everything else is just a smokescreen.
Reducing rascist graffiti by covering it with cute cat pictures. (Or dolphins, thank you PB)
Hope this becomes a thing here :-) https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GJte9BKXEAAK6b_?format=jpg&name=small "The effect of the sticker is two-fold. In one respect (and the most important), it conceals the racist remarks so that others will not see it. And in ...
Quick response to the Royal Commission on Covid-19 https://covidaction.nz/en/quickresponsetotheroyalcommissiononcovid-19 This section below is also important. The enquiry is going to become a tool to beat the government response up with. On twitter the ...
New Zealand should not be afraid of borrowing and spending more money because the government books are one of the tidiest the world, a senior economist says. Kiwibank chief economist Jarrod Kerr told Morning Report high net migration was great, but ...
Cameron Bagrie: When you cancel plan A, make sure you have plan B https://twitter.com/cameronbagrie/status/1768521403392012389
Nailed it SPC
Slashing spending and ignoring what must be done are not how a successful city is built, Dunedin Mayor Jules Radich says https://www.odt.co.nz/ Same with a country, Luxon.
Who says they are acting in a manner that brings the company into disrepute?
You'd think the death toll of innocents in the constant wars since the bomb was invented would be enough to sate the bloodlust.
Yes that's the point I clumsily made.
In this interview, Seymour is presented with strong evidence on the positive benefits of free school lunches but as he often does when he's losing a particular point, he pivots to say "New Zealand needs a "higher standard of debate". This is classic ...
It was almost a 2020's version of a Mad Men set Luxon = Don Draper
Craig Murray wrote an interesting article recently on national identity, sparked by events in Gaza. https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2024/02/putin-history-and-the-mystery-of-national-identity/ In particular, I was complacent in my dismissive ...
Agree strongly with Ad 6 & 7 Ref 7 we can only hope there has been mentoring and advice/communication between those gone and those remaining will continue. Even with the exodus I think the left of politics has a stronger team. It's a question of focus, and...
Cats, with their independent spirit and beguiling purrs, have captured the hearts of humans for millennia. In New Zealand, felines are no exception, boasting the highest national cat ownership rate globally [definition cat nz cat foundation]. An estimated 1.134 million pet cats grace Kiwi households, compared to 683,000 dogs ...
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