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On NRT: Trying to attract a stranded asset - norightturn.blogspot.com/2025/06/tryi...

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You don’t get to be Privacy Commissioner in Aotearoa unless you’re adept at knowing which way the government’s donors want the wind to be blowing. The perennial false ‘balance’ between enabling innovation and protecting people’s rights. Webster enabling the surveillance society. #BanTheScan

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Is New Zealand's democracy subtly eroding? My new post, "When Democracy Whimpers," unpacks how recent curriculum reforms show alarming parallels with #competitiveauthoritarianism, where democratic forms persist but substance is hollowed out.

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Airlines Don’t Want You to Know They Sold Your Flight Data to #DHS https://www.wired.com/story/airlines-dont-want-you-to-know-they-sold-your-flight-data-to-dhs/ #travel #privacy

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A really chilling implication here is that if Trump keeps doing speeches on military bases, and commanding officers continue to tell soldiers to opt in or out of these events (as they did here), then there will be lists by base and unit of which soldiers support the administration & which don't.

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Monday: anti-immigrant riots and attacks in Ballymena Yesterday: police said they prevented a pogrom Today: attacks being planned in the open, on Facebook, Tonight: leisure centre hosting people driven out of their homes is set on fire

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My arse indeed! #nzpol #OneTermGovernment #NoRSB #Aotearoa #NZ #ToitūTeTiriti #TangataTiriti www.abc.net.au/news/2021-03...

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Rough sleeping to be decriminalised in England and Wales. 1824 law to be repealed. About time. Must attend to causes of homelessness - poverty, power of landlords, low benefits. Must provide public shelters for those on hard times, reintegrate people on hard times.

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Surprise! It was slavery all along.

submitted 10 hours ago • 17 comments

folks need to read this. an expanding enforced disappearances operation under way.

submitted 9 hours ago • 1 comment

The head of the Equality and Human Rights commission doesn't think that the Human Rights Act applies to all people.

submitted 15 hours ago • 0 comments

Really happy to be having this conversation, and much needed space for a more skeptical view on AI hype - seeing civic tech as an attitude and philosophy about what kind of society we want to build, rather than filling up a bag of shiny tools. #TICTeC

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Data retention is a political surface.

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Deep Blue is 30 years old and was capable of defeating chess grand champions. It could be housed in a single cabinet. ChatGPT spans untold data centers devouring massive amounts of electricity and it got its ass whipped by an 8 bit gaming console from the 1970s.

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@debtekawa-ao.bsky.social Well the bullet points are good. Actually delivering on them is the tough part.

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Soft-power self-destruction watch, an ongoing saga: (Fulbright program one of most successful forms of US engagement with the world. Trump nihilists/ Red Guards mindlessly tearing it down.) www.nytimes.com/2025/06/11/u...

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Not only is spineless milquetoast swing-voter appeasement a morally bankrupt, valueless strategy, it - to paraphrase Kent Brockman - simply doesn’t work! The evidence is in and it’s utterly damning www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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The US embassy in Iraq is preparing for an ordered evacuation due to heightened security risks in the region, an Iraqi security official and a US source said reut.rs/44e0ARW

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After the Graz shooting, Ursula von de Leyen writes, “Schools are symbols of youth, hope, and the future. It’s hard to bear when schools become places of death and violence.” Over the past 2 years she's ardently supported the eradication of education in Gaza - so this is only shameless racist cant.

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Some of the stuff we see in LA this week is reminiscent of the kind of occupation towns on the US-Mexico border live under all the time. Mass surveillance and just a ton of unaccountable and nontransparent federal agents with a massive amount discretion to do whatever they want.

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🤷🏿‍♂️ Y'all are still trying to play the game where you pretend that Trump's immigration policies are unpopular with his base. The "They didn't vote for this!" stans really want to believe that. But the Quinnipiac poll shows that 87% of Republicans approve of the way he is handling immigration.🤦🏿‍♂️

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www.amnesty.org/en/wp-conten... HOW TO PARTICIPATE IN CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE

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HAPPENING NOW: Our client is testifying to the grave consequences of closing the Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties (CRCL). “CRCL was and is critical to DHS’s mission. The closure of the office ceased the investigation of 500 cases including sexual abuse."

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#IsraelisATerorristState #ZionistsAreWarCriminals #DismantleApartheidIsrael brick by fascist brick!

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You don’t get to be Privacy Commissioner in Aotearoa unless you’re adept at knowing which way the government’s donors want the wind to be blowing. The perennial false ‘balance’ between enabling innovation and protecting people’s rights. Webster enabling the surveillance society. #BanTheScan

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Sometimes it's bad to be right: "The NZCCL turned out to be correct, and the Privacy Commissioner wrong, when the latter said just a week ago that its approval of a trial of facial recognition technology by Foodstuffs was “not a green light for more general use”." www.thepost.co.nz/business/360...

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This video. This one. 18 months after it was recorded it is more accurate than ever.

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New from 404 Media: Customs and Border Protection confirms it is flying Predator drones above the LA protests. The agency explicitly says this is in support of ICE. Comes after we reviewed flight data/air traffic control audio which showed DHS Predator drones over LA www.404media.co/cbp-confirms...

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Saying the not-so-quiet part out loud:

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The first session of the Stockholm #ElectoralIntegrity Conference has kicked off! We will explore the challenges of conducting trustworthy elections in a radically uncertain and rapidly changing world and the leadership role of EMBs in meeting those challenges. #IDEA30years #ProtectElections

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Chancellor talks about the awful legacy of Conservative austerity. But under this govt I am still seeing the same real terms cuts to school budgets & local health services & cruel cuts to support for disabled people. It is a political choice not to tax the wealthy fairly. #SpendingReview

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‘Laila Soueif never normalised her son’s incarceration. Through three arrests and three trials she fought for him in the courts, in legal depositions, appeals, marches, protests. Then, on 29 September 2024, she declared a hunger strike.’ Ahdaf Soueif, from the blog: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ju...

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Reeves touts 'Labour choices' but let's remind ourselves what those Labour choices are 😕: Cut support for disabled people and keep hundreds of thousands of children in poverty while refusing to tax wealth fairly #SpendingReview

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This disconnect between public disgust with Israeli government actions and the failure of our governments to take meaningful action is huge, and will damage public trust in government on other foreign policy issues in future, I think.

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At #PMQs Starmer opens by talking about the selfless dedication of unpaid carers... Yes – so stop these awful #PIP cuts then – as many dedicated carers will lose their Carer's Allowance as a result of these immoral cuts. #CarersWeek #WelfareCuts

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