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I think this is going to be the dividing line going forward. Between those who can write on politics in the round - polling, strategy, policy, ideology and, yes, personality - and those who can only write Fresh News From Ye King’s Court. The latter aren’t going to like the next few years

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Check my maths. Labour's ERP set out to cut transport emissions by 15 MT, 15 bn kg. 1l of petrol/diesel =~ 2.6 kg CO2e, so around 6.25 bn l for 15 MT of emissions. At a pump price of $2.50 (including ETS costs) that's ~$12.5 billion in foregone cost to our economy. National cancelled this.

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“The flame of her poetry scorches the states of exceptions that allow individual and state-sponsored violence to continue, unjustified, and unhistoricised.” Dashiell Moore on witnessing the war on Palestine with Suheir Hammad.

“What is it that remains of us now”: witnessing the war on Palestine with Suheir Hammad - Overland literary journaloverland.org.au The flame of her poetry scorches the states of exceptions that allow individual and state-sponsored violence to continue, unjustified, and unhistoricised. As we engage with her work, we are reminded t...

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NZ Herald: refers to Peter Thiel as the ‘Kiwi billionaire’ bankrolling JD Vance Me: Throws up in my mouth a little, out of nationalism

So, aside from wanting to enable their friends & donors to make out like bandits before it all comes crashing down, this short-termist profit-extracting approach to climate is signalled by the language of quarterly KPIs, like companies focused on paying dividends instead of investing for the future.

The thing I find most frustrating about lack of commitment on emissions reduction (not offsetting) is that there are so many things we can do *right now* which are effective, cheaper than the high-emissions alternatives, and have additional benefits. The cancelled ferries are a prime example.

We can debate whether Helen Clark needed to issue this statement jointly with Don Brash, but the substance of their statement on Luxon’s reckless statements pivoting foreign policy to the US and NATO and increasing tension with China shouldn’t be ignored. www.helenclarknz.com/my-diary/sta...

Helen Clark's statement on NZ Govt change in foreign policywww.helenclarknz.com Helen Clark's Statement of 16 July 2024 on New Zealand Government jeopardising New Zealand's independent foreign policy and economic security, with major implications for trade, defence deployments,...

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For computer systems to reliably detect emotions, we would need to have some pretty solid observable evidence about emotions showing up in consistent ways. Do we have that?

You can’t determine emotion from someone’s facial movements–and neither can AInews.northeastern.edu Interpreting a person’s facial expression depends on the context, something that an NU neuroscientist shows in a new study.

Interesting article on the potential for use of Citizens Assemblies by the government in the UK. Good that they’ve been learning from the Irish. @trustdemocracy.nz wrote to NZ Labour Party urging it to use participatory methods for its policy review. No response www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Citizens’ assemblies could work wonders for Labour and Britain – but only if they’re more than a talking shop | Richard Wilsonwww.theguardian.com In France and Ireland, assemblies are laboratories of democracy. They can be here too, if politicians commit to adopting their ideas, says Richard Wilson, CEO of Iswe Foundation

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Excellent piece!

More on the mass resignation of editors of 𝘗𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘰𝘴𝘰𝘱𝘩𝘺 & 𝘗𝘶𝘣𝘭𝘪𝘤 𝘈𝘧𝘧𝘢𝘪𝘳𝘴: an op-ed by yrs truly in The Guardian, about the commercial academic publishing scam #PolTheory #philsky #polisky #academicsky

Academic publishing is a lucrative scam – and we’re determined to change that | Arash Abizadehwww.theguardian.com Giant publishers are bleeding universities dry, with profit margins that rival Google’s. So we decided to start our own, says academic Arash Abizadeh

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New: The Government has somehow produced an Emissions Reduction Plan that will see New Zealand do *less* than its predecessor, including fail to meet the 2050 net zero target. newsroom.co.nz/2024/07/17/n...

NZ no longer on track for net zero under Govt's new climate plannewsroom.co.nz Tree-planting and carbon capture technologies are at the centre of the Government's new climate change plan.

Treasury arrogance: ‘When the new government arrived, [officials] advised the ministers to make a decision without bothering to talk to KiwiRail about it first. "We do not think ministers need to wait for further information from KiwiRail to make this decision."’ www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

Interislander: Officials' mistrust of KiwiRail led push to scrap projectwww.rnz.co.nz Analysis - Documents show officials were actively encouraging the new coalition to shut the ferry project down after years of secret mistrust of KiwiRail's information and objectives.

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NZ police keep an innocent man in jail for 2 years; courts say "LOL; your time is worth nothing" www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/arson-acc...

Police 'failure': Arson accused kept in jail for 286 days after another suspect identifiedwww.nzherald.co.nz Edmond Apanui will receive compensation for 'significant procedural failure' by police.

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Lost in the ongoing Trumpapalooza is the excellent news that a malaria vaccination developed at Oxford Univ. over the last 30 years and costing only £3 per shot is being unrolled in malaria-prone countries. If it fulfills its promise, this will make an enormous difference to so many lives.

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I'm working on policy proposals to protect consumer rights when companies brick smart devices. So please share devices that you've owned that stopped working because the company that made it killed software support or went out of business. Also, please share this request. Thank you.

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Ministry of Justice was not consulted about the exemption of Charter Schools from the #OIA. Because of course they weren't. #FFS www.documentcloud.org/documents/24...

DocumentCloudwww.documentcloud.org

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Arendt: "The practice of violence, like all action, changes the world--but the most probable change is to a more violent world."

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UK Information Commissioner "encourages" water companies to proactively disclose information relating to sewage discharges on a monthly basis ico.org.uk/about-the-ic... #FOI/EIRs #opendata #sewagescandal

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I am just a small town political scientist teaching classes that have "autocracy" and "violence" in their titles, and lemme tell you, if the only thing that stands between us and autocracy is institutions, we are toast

WSJ this morning. lol at the last bit. "Leaders on both sides need to stop describing the stakes of the election in apocalyptic terms. Democracy won't end if one or the other candidate is elected. Fascism is not aborning if Mr. Trump wins, unless you have little faith in American institutions."

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Independent researchers from targeted countries should collaborate to probe who exactly was responsible for the US military’s COVID-19 vaccine disinformation campaign and whether platforms did enough to protect their countries, writes Jonathan Corpus Ong:

Targeted Countries Should Demand Accountability from the Pentagon and Platforms for COVID Disinformation | TechPolicy.Presswww.techpolicy.press Independent researchers from targeted countries should collaborate to demand answers and accountability, writes Jonathan Corpus Ong.

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That Vance is a direct line to Thiel and Andreessen is truly important. Trump wants their money. Thiel wants to sell billions in Palantir contracts to power Trump’s mass surveillance/ethnic cleansing infrastructure. Pence was the Christian Nationalists’ guy. Vance is reactionary capital’s.

Are you a fan of all of those guys who are directly responsible for making the internet an unusable dogshit hellhole? Well boy do I have a VP for you.

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No, discussion is NOT closed - the Minister used his office staff and ministerial title to arrange a dinner with mining companies invited to submit fast track applications. Which wasn’t diarised. Then blamed his staff. Um, WHAT? Great work by Newsroom here. #nzpol

Jones’ staffer arranged undeclared dinner with mining companiesnewsroom.co.nz Resources Minister Shane Jones refuses to answer fresh questions about an undeclared dinner on the South Island’s West Coast which, newly released emails reveal, was arranged by his staff.

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It’s worrying to see the prime minister cheerleading for war. Will Ukraine turn into Starmer’s Iraq? | Simon Jenkinswww.theguardian.com The Nato summit offered a chance to work towards resolution. But instead, Starmer talked about long-range missiles, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins

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An important gap we’ve noticed at GWRC in the whole discussion on urban form is the need to show - actually to communicate visually with images, diagrams and examples - what good higher density housing looks like. So we’ve published a toolkit with WSP to do that. www.thepost.co.nz/nz-news/3503...

The Postwww.thepost.co.nz

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Current Tribunal drama over the Treaty Principles Bill: Tribunal asked the Crown which constitutional law experts they have consulted on the bill; Crown said as fancily as possible "none"; Tribunal said "well are you gonna? who?"; Crown said "do you really need to know?"; Tribunal said "uh, yes!"

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Love when a presidential candidate gets winged, 1News has all the time in the world for a deep dive on the history of the Secret Service, but when thousands of Palestinians are killed their memory has a six month lifecycle at best 🙄

If you can, please consider donating the cost of a flat white each month/week depending on your income. The NZ Legal Information Institute provides an invaluable service - free access to laws as they were passed, and case law, as well as many other resources. Donations help it with adding new info.

Do you know what would help the most? Become a regular - weekly, fortnightly or monthly donor to NZLII? Even a small amount adds up. And that guaranteed monthly donation is all I can rely on when drawing up the 2025 budget (which I am doing now). At the moment it is not even $500 a month.

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Got the 2nd 2024 Corporate donation to NZLII this weekend. Again it was not from a law firm. Please NZ lawyers, legal firms and Barristers, can you possibly support NZLII? We regularly hear that 'Law Firms use NZLII all the time' - so please help us. Free still costs to produce

Biden’s clownish encouragement of Ukraine is ratcheting up nuclear tension. An attack in May on two Russian early warning radar systems reduced its decision making time for responding to submarine-launched nukes to ~7 minutes, increasing response risks. responsiblestatecraft.org/ukraine-russ...

Droning Russia’s nuke radars is the dumbest thing Ukraine can doresponsiblestatecraft.org Attacks on the early warning system actually highlights the fragility of peace between the world's nuclear powers

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