Malcolm RF 💚🇳🇿

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I make wine in an alpine desert in the South Pacific 🇳🇿. ᓚᘏᗢ

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We're not allowed to dissociate on our own bc that's "wrong" and "harmful" but it's okay for us to dissociate to someone's disembodied voice as long as we pay like $15 a month to an app about it, bc then it's "mediation" and "what your work gives u instead of health insurance"

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The NZ Govt is now looking at a SECOND seabed mining proposal for an area south of where TTR wants to extract 50 million tonnes of seabed every year for 30 years. It could be the thin end of the wedge for an industry that wants to treat the sea floor like an open-cast mine, both here and globally.

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Goldman Sachs recently issued a report called "GenAI: Too Much Spend, Too Little Benefit?" savaging the industry, with GS' Jim Covello saying that there's limited upside, and that it's incapable of solving the complex problems that would make it worth it. wheresyoured.at/pop-culture/

Strands #128 “Now on exhibit” 🟡🔵🔵🔵 🔵🔵

Wordle 1,116 3/6 ⬛🟨⬛⬛🟩 ⬛🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

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it’s that last sentence tucked at the end that the right is truly terrified of

Sounds familiar, huh #nzpol

"Now that federal judges are the only ones 'qualified' to interpret the governing statutes, we're already seeing conservative jurists deploying junk science & hot takes to get to their preferred conclusion while ignoring the expertise of agency employees" -- @snipy.bsky.social

The destruction of the regulatory state is already happeningwww.publicnotice.co The post-Chevron world is here.

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There was lead in EVERY tampon they tested. There was less lead in organic tampons, but those had higher concentrations of arsenic. Also fun: It's 2024. This is the first ever study testing metals in tampons. Great. 🙃 www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/tox... Study: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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The most brutal part of the report was from Goldman Sachs' Head of Global Equity Research Jim Covello, one of the most technical and well-respected analysts in tech. He thinks Gen. AI is full of shit- and nothing like the early days of the internet at all. wheresyoured.at/pop-culture/

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Yeah because the White House was working on a bill to help those with Parkinson’s disease that was signed this week. This is literal far right disinformation from the New York Times.

Breaking News: A Parkinson’s expert visited the White House eight times in eight months from last summer through this spring, according to official visitor logs. The administration has said that President Biden has no signs of the disease.

Parkinson’s Expert Visited the White House Eight Times in Eight Monthswww.nytimes.com The White House has said that President Biden has no signs of the disease and that there has been no reason to update the most recent testing, conducted in February.

This will be America under Trump

Russia sentences director, playwright to 6 years for 'justifying terrorism'

Russia sentences director, playwright to 6 years for 'justifying terrorism'www.reuters.com A Russian court sentenced a playwright and a theatre director each to six years in prison on Monday for "justifying terrorism", concluding a trial that rights campaigners had said demonstrated Russia's intolerance of artistic freedom.

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This is journalistic malpractice. The Biden admin was working on Parkinson's policy.

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As others have said, Macron was too clever by half. He set up EXTRAORDINARILY (record) speedy elections: Only 1 week before filing deadline. You'd think: No way fractured left unites in that time. Instead, made situation SO URGENT that Left had no time to fight on its issues.

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PEDESTRIANS 👏 ARE 👏 TRAFFIC 👏

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The Thames Foreshore is an archaeological treasure trove spanning millennia of London’s history. Most people walking high up on the embankment have no idea of the wealth of ancient features below. Absolute privilege to see Saxon fish traps, Iron Age posts, prehistoric peat & old mooring features.

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This is quite possibly the best #MapsWithoutNewZealand I’ve ever seen (via www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/s/...)

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"Seatbelts, air bags and other safety features protect us when we travel in cars. When we’re *not* in cars, we rely on a safe street environment to prevent and mitigate crashes. Snatching away safe speed limits is as unthinkable as taking away our seatbelts." A great piece by Christina Robertson.

Some concise stats here too, to inspire folk to submit newsroom.co.nz/2024/07/06/s...

Safety features don’t end at the car doornewsroom.co.nz Opinion: Snatching away safe speed limits is as unthinkable as taking away our seatbelts, argues Christina Robertson.

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the listener

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As you do

Hello Monday. Jean Mansel, La fleur des histoires, Flanders c.1480. Bibliothèque de Genève, Ms. fr. 64, fol. 297r.

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If you are a disappointed by Darleen Tana’s behaviour Write her an email 💁🏼 #nzpol

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Fellow Kiwis You are impressing me which makes Planning and advocacy to the point of campaigning straight forward My thanks open.substack.com/pub/thekaka/...

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ah yes reservoir dogs, in which things famously go great for the characters

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Investing a billion dollars to train a model that is 10% better at generating a picture of Garfield with an ak47 and giant cans for the low price of boiling an entire lake www.tomshardware.com/tech-industr...

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Solve your housing affordability crisis with this one weird trick

So many journalists going to be spending their time in leftist brasseries interviewing voters and trying to figure out how they missed this movement

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Everyone: this govt is doing some cooked shit. Malpass: at least they're getting on with it though.

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If you're in Wgtn, come along to Unity Books at 6pm on 1st August and join us welcoming these two books into the world. Drinkies and food while we chat. #AotearoaBooks #pukapuka #NZbooks

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Solving a housing affordability crisis with affordable housing. What housing policies look like in a country where Real Estate lobbyists aren’t allowed to cut campaign checks to politicians.

Canada's bold plan to make housing more affordable is showing signs of working — and could be a model for the USwww.businessinsider.com The Canadian federal government is finding new ways to pressure local governments to legalize denser housing to solve the country's home shortage.

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Trump was accused of sexually assaulting 27 women and he claimed they all lied. Finally, one woman took him to court and won 23 million dollars. The judge determined that he did indeed rape her. NYT & GOP - Silence. NYT - Biden shuffled. Democrats start five-alarm fires all over the media

Did you guys have to look up what "journalistic independence" meant?

The Philadelphia radio station WURD has parted ways with a host who interviewed President Biden on Wednesday using questions provided to her by the Biden campaign, after the station said the interview violated its journalistic independence.

Radio Host Who Was Fed Questions by Biden Campaign Leaves Philadelphia Stationwww.nytimes.com WURD said that the interview with President Biden was not up to its standards and that the host, Andrea Lawful-Sanders, had resigned in a mutual decision.