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The only way David Seymour will be stopped is by putting him out of power in 2026. The media are spectacularly ill equipped to address his continued attempt to assert power he does not have, degrade civil society, and silence his opponents.

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Also this stuff, what do you think is the intended effect of targeted posts like this?

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secrets of game UI designers they DON'T want you to know

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Some good news to share today!

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Analysis: The decisions reliant on population statistics in any five-year period could be worth 100 times the $400m five-yearly cost of the Census, writes former Government Statistician Len Cook.

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conservatives: children are property of parents. children do not have autonomy. children do not have a choice if their parents wants them to do something. parents who don't suck ass: what if i want my child to do the thing that makes them happy? conservatives: no that's illegal

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Lol there’s an email timestamped 0448 AEST saying the embargo has been lifted. So here’s a link to the Preliminary Findings of the Age Assurance Technology Trial (such as they are) from my Google Drive. drive.google.com/file/d/1xeOB... (Couldn’t immediately see it on their site.)

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Ngā mihi o te tau hou Māori: te wā o Matariki, a time to pause, to mourn, to remember. A time to let go of those who have left us, and of ideas that no longer serve. A time for wānanga: to ask again: what are we doing, and who are we doing it for?

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Dumpsters attract raccoons, dead zebras attract hyenas, and huge stores of data will inevitably attract Elon Musk and violence-minded feds. And that's why I think data minimization is really important, as I explain in this newsletter article: little-flying-robots.ghost.io/a-brief-ode-...

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I'd also note the irony that when The Atlantic is looking for a fancy-pants put-down of a non-white candidate OF COURSE they reach for the literary genre whose most notable works are by "foreign" Hispanic authors. Y'all really can't stop showing your racist arses, can you?

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IMO the biggest differences between Trump and Bush is that Trump comes after Bush got away with all he did without a single consequence. Imagine a world where the U.S. reckoned with the fact that we kidnapped and tortured innocent people. I don't think Trump's America would exist if we had.

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The lead singer of a country group said they didn’t like George Bush so folks collected a giant pile of their CDs and ran over them with a tractor in a coliseum like spectacle.

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I might quibble with some phrasing, but this is honestly also a startlingly good summation of how and why marginalized people are disproportionately harmed by the proliferation of "AI": You're being trained to think the machine is "like us" and also to disbelieve us when we tell you it's not.

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so I have a lot of complicated thoughts about the specific issue at hand, but I have to point out that’s not what “magical realism” is

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Remember what I told you about India and how we feel about third party mediation

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I keep coming back to was the, “Live son or a dead daughter” thing overblown, and in the context it was being said (still while most kids presenting were early onset) no, not really. Suicidality was alarmingly high for trans people but non-existent those who went through the Dutch protocol. /1

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You'll never guess who stars in this children's book about women trailblazers, right between Florence Nightingale and Rosa Parks

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Thanks for the reminder @janemunday.bsky.social. Every summer, I repost this article DROWNING DOES NOT LOOK LIKE DROWNING. To date, I know of FOUR kids who were saved after someone who'd clicked on the link learnt how to spot actual drowning. Take time to read and pass on. slate.com/technology/2...

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Oh I found it! I had the star order wrong lol youtube.com/shorts/GiEC5...

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So it’s blackmail if a child needs a cast on a broken limb, chemo for cancer, or will continue to suffer and risk permanent hearing loss amongst other consequences if a parent refuses Eustachian tubes? Because that’s just changing the condition being treated. Kids self-report those sufferings, too.

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There is no person on this planet who works harder to paint themselves as a victim than Bailey.

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Also I realise this sounds fake if you have anxiety, but: you can choose not to be embarrassed about it. I'll roll up to a skillshare event and confidently be like "look what I made! It sucks! I learnt not to do [X]!"

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No good news goes unposted! To those of us who lost loved ones to HIV/AIDS, you’re in my heart today and always. Love! Science!

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If you're not placing today's ruling against gender-affirming care for trans youth in the context of John Roberts' lifelong campaign to suck the life out of the Fourteenth Amendment, and equality for actual humans more broadly, you're doing it wrong. Here, for @vanityfair.com, I attempt to do that.

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I am privileged to announce the publication of the Anti-Autocracy Handbook: sks.to/autocracy 1/12

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When I was 18 and in the US, I shared Vegemite sandwiches with a group of friends I'd made there. One of them was Finnish and she shared salmiakki (salty liquorice). She enjoyed the Vegemite, I enjoyed the salmiakki, and everybody else thought we were completely insane and needed to be locked up

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wait, ACT is going after a different member of the public EVERY day? They're actually running a direct anti- free speech campaign targeting people for exercising their rights? How have they not been taken apart over this??

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They want to take your happiness away. They want to make your life miserable. They want you to be too tired and scared to fight back. THAT is why trans joy matters, it is an act of resistance, a reminder that there's a world worth fighting for

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'Meredith,' some guys ask, 'why won't you shove AI into Signal?' Because we love privacy, and we love you, and this shit is predictable and unacceptable. Use Signal ❤️

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This is dangerous for a party in government to do. It's unacceptable.

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Curious how David Seymour treats every single criticism of himself as utterly intolerable, but happily endorses scattershot criticism of anyone he dislikes

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New from me: Research which heard “significant trust and security concerns” from Australian consumers about age assurance technologies ahead of the country's planned under-16s social media ban has been released by the federal government, around six months after it received the findings. 👇

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It's like Megan Woods was putting a badly-behaved child in his place. Shame the issues involved are so serious. www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/...

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Warfare consisting entirely of lobbing bombs at each others civilians and infrastructure from hundreds of miles away feels like some sci-fi dystopia come to pass. I dunno I guess really its just Guernica but everywhere and forever now.

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Uh-oh! (By which I mean lol, looks like my pre-AI stats degree is going to be even more valuable than before!)

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[does a little dance] www.nytimes.com/2025/06/18/o...

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In other news, company with decades of experience in engineering and manufacturing technology applies these skills and takes the time to get it right. Honda successfully tested an experimental reusable rocket. global.honda/en/topics/20...

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I've always found it weird that indies seem to love making 'dating sims' but they all specifically seem to be based on the devolver-specific marketing for hatoful boyfriend rather than actually giving a shit about the genre? it's very weird

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Hahahahaha.

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