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Interview: "The Nature of Consciousness, Sentience, and Artificial Intelligence" Host: Ryan Anderson www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxKr...

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

ACT really should just change its name to “Karen” at this point. #nzpol www.thepost.co.nz/politics/360...

submitted 30 days ago • 1 comment

Oh, I’m quite sure Nicola would like to speak endlessly about her own outrages than stop committing them against working class women. Perhaps Winston could mansplain political hardball to his injured idealistic coalition partner. #nzpol www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360...

submitted 35 days ago • 1 comment

Speaking of facts, funny how Nicola forgets to mention the fact that there was no parliamentary review process or public comment. It’s pure cowardice to argue this in an opinion piece rather than on the legislative floor. #nzpol www.thepost.co.nz/politics/360...

submitted 38 days ago • 2 comments

It’s getting increasingly hard to parody this parade of empty suits & sisters in hate from the Coalition. So . . . well done? What a surreal mix of neoliberal and trumpist gibberish they have become. + they’re asking for an extra year 😳 #nzpol #payequity www.thepress.co.nz/nz-news/3606...

submitted 40 days ago • 0 comments

“Let’s steal it from women” was always going to be this government’s answer to “how do we find a billion dollars?” Let’s take it back. #nzpol #payequity www.thepost.co.nz/nz-news/3606...

submitted 42 days ago • 0 comments

Thread. Minister apparently pushed for numbers of staff shortages to be removed from an official report, but then denied doing this.

submitted 44 days ago • 0 comments

Voting rights are human rights. Nearly 2/3 of incarcerated New Zealanders are Māori or Pasifika, although they make up less than 1/5 of the total population. Of course Luxon does not care. If it looks like a skinhead and and quacks like a skinhead . . . #nzpol www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3606...

submitted 50 days ago • 1 comment

Article: "An active inference explanation of discriminatory cognition with regard to social attitudes and harmful behaviour." Coauthors: Héctor M. Manrique, Michael J. Walker www.researchgate.net/profile/Hect...

submitted 51 days ago • 0 comments

“…be aware that if you are a transgender New Zealander or if you are someone with a history of activism, this could be an issue.” If you plan to travel to the US & have a nonbinary or “activist” loved one, remember your privilege, & perhaps reconsider. www.stuff.co.nz/travel/36066...

submitted 52 days ago • 1 comment

I've started to watch John Campbell's series on Density Church. I knew an awful lot about Density already, but this was still a shock. The level of hate promoted by this group is beyond shocking. www.tvnz.co.nz/shows/under-...

submitted 57 days ago • 4 comments

Late career Winston really leaning into the whole Scooby-Doo villain “I would have gotten away with it if it wasn’t for those meddling woke trans kids” thang. The rubber mask is especially lifelike. What a ghoul this man is. #nzpol #transphobia www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360...

submitted 58 days ago • 3 comments

. . . and every dollar we give to America supports further erosion of the Rule of Law. Those with privilege now will not magically be spared later simply by tossing aside their moral compass. The US does not “misunderstand,” it hates with absolute clarity. www.stuff.co.nz/travel/36066...

submitted 59 days ago • 1 comment

112 nay, 11 aye What was the point when the legislative conclusion was so obvious from the start? This is just a first salvo in the assault on Te Tiriti. The first step is to normalize attacks on tino rangatiratanga Luxon & Peters are enablers who stand for nothing beyond power. #TeTiriti #nzpol

submitted 70 days ago • 1 comment

Goff has a spine, one that’s connected to his brain & his voice. Sir Don, welcome to the “I didn’t like what Hitler was doing but it’s all just too delicate to say aloud,” section of history. I hear the vichyssoise is especially cold … #nzpol #appeasement www.thepost.co.nz/nz-news/3606...

submitted 72 days ago • 0 comments

Truly weird how “woke” has become a slur that blue-pilled reactionaries use to maintain the illusion that they are red-pilled when confronted with anything legit red-pilled. And the whole “mind virus” thing is just ?!, like middle schoolers telling one another ghost stories … #woke #redpilled

submitted 75 days ago • 1 comment

Thinking way too small here & still dancing to America’s dystopian tune. The US actually makes very little that (a)can’t be sourced elsewhere and (b)we existentially require. The NZ consumer should take Canada’s position & cast our dollar votes elsewhere. #nzpol www.thepost.co.nz/politics/360...

submitted 75 days ago • 3 comments

1/2 Although we may quibble on the precise definition of “boom,” I find myself nodding in agreement with something shitgibbon has said: “The markets are going to boom, the stock is going to boom, the country is going to boom” … But wait, there’s more! #nero www.stuff.co.nz/world-news/3...

submitted 76 days ago • 1 comment

Excellent read if you have ft access. The crosstalk between embodied self-representation in the thalamus & hierarchically modeled self across the cortex are the waves that maintain the experience of being across time and through space. Is this self-coding emergent or is it responding to a field?

submitted 76 days ago • 0 comments

From Omar El Akkad’s new book, “One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This,” "you are being asked to kill off a part of you that would otherwise scream in opposition to injustice" That line hit me hard

submitted 81 days ago • 1 comment

1/2 Te Papa being close by, I find myself often staring up at the 10m high text of Te Tiriti therein, marveling at the lazy arrogance of high colonialism. Only a power assured it would never be held to account would leave in “Tino rangatiratanga” w/o bothering to reflect on what it might mean.

submitted 81 days ago • 1 comment

This TikTok didn't allow downloading, but it's such an honestly perfect explanation of Private Equity that I just had to share it. So I've screen recorded it.

submitted 81 days ago • 4 comments

What Luxon could have said: “I disagree wholeheartedly. Here’s why…” What he did call scrutiny of policing that does not align with his own views: “Insane.” If you wonder why Seymour and Peters gaslight & routinely communicate like shitposters … #nzpol www.tickaroo.com/e/FOwlJm93Wy...

submitted 85 days ago • 1 comment

1/3 We need to do better, as the pandemics won’t stop coming. This sort of unnecessary smoke screening is an own goal, but also an example of why protecting the right of journalists and citizens to access government records is so important. #foia #pandemic #H5N1 www.nytimes.com/2025/03/16/o...

submitted 86 days ago • 1 comment

#nzpol

submitted 88 days ago • 9 comments

Totalitarianism in power invariably replaces all first-rate talents, regardless of their sympathies, with those crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty. —Hannah Arendt

submitted 88 days ago • 3 comments

In liberal societies, science challenges assumptions. In authoritarian ones, it justifies them. 🧪 #AcademicSky

submitted 88 days ago • 0 comments

Exactly! Seymour is deeply incompetent at anything resembling governing & seems to exist only to answer the question, “What would a $2k suit filled with malice and smarm look like.” That Luxon shrugs all of this off shows how deeply unserious this govt is. #nzpol www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360...

submitted 88 days ago • 0 comments

As resident of both, I think it’s important for Aotearoa not to respond to Trumpism as a mere continuation of America’s long history of self interested geopolitical manipulations. What is unfolding is more unrestrained, more explosive & uniquely dangerous. #nzpol www.thepost.co.nz/politics/360...

submitted 89 days ago • 0 comments

10x increase in ADHD prescriptions in Aotearoa in less than 2 decades. Were we under-diagnosing then and/or are we over-treating now? Or is something else afoot? Your thoughts? #adhd #nzhealth graph from: Beaglehole, Jarman & Frampton. NZ medical journal, Vol.137(1594), pp.23-30. 03/05/2024.

submitted 90 days ago • 3 comments

And again, under Simeon Brown (Minister of Death), those same cardiologists aren’t supposed to speak out publicly about this, and could face retaliation for their open letter. #nzhealth #nzpol

submitted 90 days ago • 0 comments

This is one of the most SNL-looking things he's done. And he's done a lot of SNL-looking things. Also, it's fucking ridiculous. So willing to destroy the future for the kids he's surrounded himself with. Awful.

submitted 90 days ago • 1 comment

Excellent piece! The coalition of “govt isn’t the answer” ignores: -Destiny Church’s abuses of tax-free status -capital gains & wealth taxation to address income inequality & is focused instead on further undermining what remains of the social safety net. #nzpol www.thepost.co.nz/nz-news/3606...

submitted 90 days ago • 0 comments

TLDR: Microdosing ain’t gonna help your ADHD, but probably won’t hurt. Seriously, though, publishing negative studies is part of good scientific practice & allows those of us at the clinical coal face to respond to hype with data when patients come with questions. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

submitted 91 days ago • 0 comments

So, let’s see if I have the government’s position correctly: Doctors are “muppets” who need to stop talking publicly about avoiding disease and get back their waiting lists clogged with the sequelae of avoidable diseases. Gobsmackingly stupid. #nzpol #nzhealth www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360...

submitted 91 days ago • 7 comments

So you’re saying there’s a chance… www.nature.com/articles/d41...

submitted 92 days ago • 1 comment

Asking for a friend: What happens when Hitachi meets Takeuchi? #naughtybits #lol

submitted 94 days ago • 0 comments

1/ RFK Jr. is at it again—this time overstating vitamin A’s role in #measles while downplaying vaccines on national news. While vitamin A can help in severe deficiency, it’s not a substitute for the MMR vaccine. Here’s what the data really show and why some gravitate toward vitamins over vaccines. 🧵

submitted 97 days ago • 2 comments

Tomorrow marks 6 years since the horrors of the ChCh shootings. That is what attacks on “woke” look like, and yet this govt can’t let go of that dog whistle. Mihi nui to prof Henry for this clear headed reply to Winston’s antics. Toitū Te Tiriti. #nzpol #woke www.thepost.co.nz/nz-news/3606...

submitted 97 days ago • 1 comment