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What's going on with this "indo-Pacific" thing that seems to have been invented this year? Did Asia move? Did India stop being part of Asia? Is Indonesia suddenly a major power in the Pacific? What's the deal? #Pacific #Asia #AsiaPacific

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#Listening to Real Swingers; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CC3T1Q-NDpk A 1992 rap from Leaders of Style, better known as Urban Disturbance, featuring Zane Lowe, Oli Green and Rob Salmon. (1/?) #music #HipHop #rap #LeadersOfStyle #Aotearoa

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"Meaning: the modes of preparation and delivery of the better quality food formerly available had enhanced co-operation between the schools who shared the tasks. Even more importantly, the school lunch programme had enabled local communities to become more involved in the general life of the […]

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Winston Peters interviewed after his diplomatic visit to China; https://www.rnz.co.nz/podcast/focusonpolitics?share=bff71632-e2e7-4fb6-9482-9155d53aeb5e He sounds tired, and started off the interview unusually subdued. #podcasts #RNZ #FocusOnPolitics #China

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If I'm looking for wind down entertainment, the internal search on YouTub is utterly useless. You need to know specific channels. Multimillion-dollar recommendation algorithms are kind of a failure. Creativity and curation are still of value. #search #YouTub

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"I don't think we'll be able to kill any contestants. We haven't reached that level of dystopia yet, but we're working in it!" Producer Guy, #PitchMeeting for Beast Wars https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43eB84P_U3s. #video #WebVideo #BeastWars #SquidGame

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"There are now competing visions of what exactly cybernetic software is supposed to do. Stafford Beer thinks it's a tool for the people. Others on the team take a more limited view. Seeing it as nothing but an experimental tool for managing the economy. And a prototype really. And a […]

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Say you're travelling from Ōtautahi to Te Whanganui-a-Tara in a month's time. If you drive, a return ferry will cost about $500, even before you pay for fuel. Or you could spend about $500 return for a train, plus about $140 return for ferries. Or you could fly return for about $200. Leaving […]

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ah yes, the technology worth trillions of dollars

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"Governing a large state is like boiling a small fish." #LaoTzu, #TaoTeChing, chapter 60 (translation by D.C. Lau) #HatTip to @npub1f6ugxyxkknket3kkdgu4k0fu74vmshawermkj8d06sz6jts9t4kslazcka on Nostr for posting the larger quote.

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"I can think of one country that is really good at long-term infrastructure planning: China. Why don’t we just go with their approach to elections, and not have them at all." #TobyManhire, 2025 […]

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One of the most frustrating developments of the last decade or so is the fast-food-isation of ethnic restaurants. In the 1990s you could get a kebab, or a curry, about as cheap as a bullshit burger, and it was healthy food, made to a fairly traditional recipe. Now it costs more, and every […]

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I'd like to encourage any kiwi who supports Ipurangi Aotearoa/InternetNZ - and particularly their digital inclusion work - to become a paid-up member of the organisation. Times are tough for socially-motivated community groups, and both the membership fee and your participation can help them a […]

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The actual Palestinian hostages released from Israeli prisons today, versus the photo that the Associated Press attached to their headline. This is what we mean by “Zionist news media”. #Ceasefire #PalestinianCaptives ##NewsMedia #FreePalstine

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#FreudianTypoOfTheWeek Victamin (n.): A nutrient removed fromprocessed food.

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Having already been exposed by Jack Tame on Q&A as a quote bot programmed with talking points, our Prime Minister was similarly exposed as mealy-mouthed in a normally friendly interview with Nat-aligned shock jock Mike Hosking; "You've made a complete meal of this." […]

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Can anyone fill me in on the foundational feminist writers who established the idea of gender as a social reality, distinct from biological sex? #feminism #gender

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"I woke up the next morning in a motel room, by myself, in the same clothes I had been wearing the night before, with an empty quart of Jim Beam on the bedstand beside me. Why that time was different from any of a hundred times before, I don't know. But as I was staring at my reflection in the […]

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A while back someone told me an electric car was not a car, because it doesn't have a carburetor. So you have to call it an EV. Then I was on a train and I said something to another passenger about the train car we were in. And I thought; Maybe the word "car" isn't short for "carburetor" […]

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If you get out and about in your city or town over summer, or you travel around Aotearoa, you may have seen me. I travel on a very limited budget, so I usually get around the country with a huge tramping pack on my back, and a day bag on my front. If I've picked up some things along the way […]

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I'm trying to archive a web page on FarceBook using archive.is, using a mobile browser and a cell network connection. So far it's taken at least half an hour and it's still going. WTF?! All I want to see is the text and maybe the images FFS. #MakeJavaScriptOptional! #Meta #FaceBook #WebBloat […]

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Thanks to a link in a blog piece by; https://paulschreiber.com/blog/2019/04/30/password-rotation-is-dumb/ ... I just read a 2016 piece by Chester Wisniewski, about the passphrase recommendations from the US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). I was intrigued to learn that […]

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Last year, after getting diagnosed with #ADHD (having already been diagnosed as a teenager, but ...), I had another go at taking the meds. I went through a couple of dose levels on one, and then switched to a different brand to get a dose level between the two. I went off the meds again a few […]

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It might be insightful to look at Destiny Church in the light of Umberto Eco's classic essay on what we called "ur-fascism"; https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/umberto-eco-ur-fascism 1) the cult of tradition; "there can be no advancement of learning. Truth has been already spelled out […]

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"The takeaway from this video is that it's an oversimplification to say that all regulation is good, or that all regulation is bad. Regulations are usually put in place for food reasons. But over time it makes sense to revisit them, analyse the outcomes, and see if the regulations are providing […]

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"Myself, Chloe from the Greens, and Louisa Wall, from Labour at the time, set up NZ Parliament's first cross-party mental health group. And I really want to make some enduring changes that will go past the 3-year Parliamentary cycle." #MattDoocey, 2024 […]

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In downtown Welly, there's a space that used to house a huge organic superstructur, where I did most of my grocery shopping when I lived here. Now its a gutted shell, used for paid parking spaces by ParkMate (not sure who they are). Sign of the times, eh?

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"People aren't crazy, people aren't stupid, they understand that this is an unjust world. That you can be filthy rich without working, and that you can work two jobs and still can't afford to find a home. That's the reality, for millions of people in the Western world, and if we don't fix that […]

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Sometimes I ask myself why most of my activist energy seems to go into digital tech these days. To the degree that I've become the classic armchair activist who posts opinions on everything, but hardly even goes to a protest. But here's the thing, protest politics relies on civil liberties […]

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"Surprisingly, vampires have played a significant role in Buddhism, in Asia, for centuries. They are not a Western invention. And, contemporary vampire fiction—“preternatural romance”—provides tools for presenting aspects of Buddhism that are otherwise difficult to communicate." #DavidChapman […]

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I think it's worth doing a careful comparison between the current US administration and the last Republican President who came across like a clown; Dubya Bush. What's similar? What's different? A friend and I did a bit of this last night. It's helpful both in understanding what the real […]

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#FreudianTypoOfTheWeek Impove (v.): Dominate in a futile attempt to make things better.

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"Remedies already being discussed in New Zealand include extending prohibitions in the Harmful Digital Communications Act to cover digital replicas that do not depict a victim's actual body. Using (or amending) the Crimes Act, the Fair Trading Act and the Electoral Act would also be helpful […]

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"I think there's a place for government money in any industry that's in transition, and that's very much what we're seeing in the news space at the moment. This is not something that's come up in the last couple of years really, this is an issue that's been 40 years in the making in lots of […]

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"Police Minister Mark Mitchell said before the new laws, gang members used their patches to intimidate people." https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/542791/more-than-300-charges-over-gang-patch-law I was thinking about this the other day. I've been wearing my Clan McG patch regularly in public […]

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"A New Zealand-specific study in 2021 found that coffee and tea contributed 32 percent of the caffeine intake for five to 12-year-olds and 48 percent for 13 to 19-year-olds. Soft drinks were the second biggest contributor followed by all things chocolate as well as energy drinks. Surprisingly […]

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"[Groove Armada DJ Andrew] Cato sold his publishing rights - 'a musician's pension' - to finance a farm in France, where he was living at the time. ... Cato has moved back to the UK and now 110 farms across the two countries are part of his regenerative farming movement." […]

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