I've spotted evidence for old-school Marxist-Leninists and fervent believers of fascist conspiracies. How much further do you think it needs to stretch?
Actually RedLogix, I find there is a surprising diversity of views on TS site for most topics, from political commentators who often scavenge scuttle-butt crumbs from the NACT's table, to Social Justice Warriors lamenting Labour's lack of workers' ...
The point of the EU legislation is not malicious State actors, rather transparency of European political parties in their electoral advertising strategies. And the target is algorithmic advertising strategies pushed by 'social media companies'; twitter, ...
I merely extracted a quote from the RNZ blurb, which clearly thought it of interest, so that readers here could see what sort of issues might be involved. The interview discussion is in fact broad-ranging.
Newsroom article on Auckland's flood protection fast-track Oooh look. A factual article about who produced and suggested accelerating the Auckland flood protection plans. Let's see - engineers rapidly updated their 30-year plan; council approved it, ...
You have railed against the Urewera settlement as privatisation. But that was considered through the tribunal process to be a fair settlement for a much larger loss of traditional lands, and assorted skullduggery by Seddon's government in nabbing the ...
I went to a school up the road from Parliament, and we certainly knew in fourth form that Muldoon slept around with women looking to add a notch to their bedposts. Wellington was the sort of town where political gossip zipped round pretty quick. The ...
"[MEPs] also added AI systems to influence voters in political campaigns and in recommender systems used by social media platforms (with more than 45 million users under the Digital Services Act) to the high-risk list". This is AI used to implement things ...
And the EU has a draft proposal for ethical limitations on the use of AI in potential garm and control. " Risk based approach to AI - Prohibited AI practices The rules follow a risk-based approach and establish obligations for providers and users depending...
An interesting conversation on RNZ with the author of a book on the current (not future) real-world effects of AI bias when scraping informational content. ' "I'm 55 years of age. If I go to a hospital that's leaning on an algorithm built using what's ...
Following up on recent posts about the degree of independent action of anti-Putin milia attacks on Russian soil. " The West has insisted that Ukraine not use weapons it receives from members of the NATO security alliance inside Russia. A strike against a ...
Read a little further into the article you link to for the very reasonable reason why government did not agree to Spark's diversion of $24 mi from rapid 5G roll-out to weather-proofing existing plant. "Digital Economy and Communications Minister Ginny ...
Waka Kotahi contract out local road maintenance, and clearly this contractual relationship is breaking down, in part probably due to increased rainfall in many regions.
Bad blood feud as well, in that small-town way. The new Mayor's mother was one of the senior council staff who left/was pushed out in the previous term. It is highly likely she encouraged her son to run, and past events possibly spoiled the chance for a ...
Perhaps RedLogix, you confuse the word 'privatise' with 'return to owners'.
https://www.horizonpoll.co.nz/AboutUs Gives info about political polling, which is independent and uncommissioned by any political party, and tries to balance across NZ geography and demography. However, they do solicit for survey members on their website ...
Did you catch the Big Hairy News interview I posted yesterday? BHN interviews Horizon pollster I aplogise if you got the info from there already.
Muldoon is a famous ex-old boy of Mt Albert Grammar, the school in the article. A friend said he was in sixth form there when Prime Minister Muldoon came to speak at his old school. This was a little after the Springbok tour. My friend stood up and threw a...
Posted this before, but the Police are very keen on the gun registry. Since monitoring guns in crimes after Mosque shooting, they found that the guns come mostly from legal gun licence holders who onsell to middle-men servicing crims. You can see how a gun...
No tacking for Luxon; rowing in circles and catching crabs. I do like those Big Hairy News snippets. From 10 min onwards is a discussion with Horizon pollster of how NZers saw Luxon in Nov 2022, and of vote pattern shifts from 2020 election. At the start, ...
Disagree with you completely, Tiger Mountain. The NZ Police have significantly tightened their act up since the 80s, when we had the Muldoon-militia Red Squad, corrupt drug squads in cahoots with dealers, and bad boy behaviour like the long-term sexual ...
Plus near to $1bi for M.bovis eradication. Oh ye of short memory. "At last count some $660 million had been spent over four years tackling M.Bovis out of an allocated funding pool of just under $870 million. Around $200 million of the $660 million was ...
Luring the Chinese resident vote from the 70% that voted Nats in 2017. The Nats, in the meantime, have been pushing for the Indian vote, which was greatly behind the coalition in 2020, due to generous and readily accessible covid subsidies. Luxon has been ...
Big Hairy News talks NZ crime stats with Trevor Bradley, criminologist 20 min, but 1.5 x speed is still listenable
Act has a bilingual option on its events page. Te Reo Māori recognised, those woke warriors! Oh no, oops... it's Mandarin... https://www.act.org.nz/events
KJKM has said she wants trans men to be sterilised, US men who carry guns to use womens' toilets in order to protect their womenfolk from a non-existant trans women threat, women who do not support her anti-trans rheotric to be annihilated, and claims ...
Actually Stuart Munro, the violence happened because Posie Parker, a UK media personality, who has expressed violently anti-trans ideas, visited NZ to stage public events. Her funding came from CPAC, a right wing political group which with policies against...
And this happened in 2014-5, when Shields was 21, two years into hormonal transition, and perhaps a little vulnerable?; while O'Brien was a few years older. I wonder what O'Brien said or did that elicited Shield's insults? Just thinking of the context. ...
Ah, I see from later posts the fighting there is being supported by Ukranian artillary, which rather undermines the idea of a separate militia action unsanctioned by Ukraine, which was in the earliest news I read.
Is that part of an OECD initiative to inhibit 'a tax rate' race to the bottom', which seems to be when you shift profits off-shore to a tax haven to avoid tax in country of origin? NZ appears to have legislation updated for this OECD initiative in this ...
In fact, industrial-scale cell-culture is an art and not a science. AI may change this, but this process needs bioengineers with green-thumbs, someone working at Callaghan Innovation told me. When a big 20,000 L batch goes bad, through insterility, the ...
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