Andrew Easterbrook
@easterbrook.bsky.social
Work: Director @ WRMK Lawyers & OpenLaw NZ, board member Alzheimers Northland. Fun: games online and off, classical pianist, musical theatre
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Bluesky could be really good for local news, using feeds. With the decline in local newspapers, that would be a positive.
November 17, 2024 at 12:04 PM
Bluesky could be really good for local news, using feeds. With the decline in local newspapers, that would be a positive.
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If anyone’s looking for alternatives to GoodReads, I highly recommend StoryGraph. It’s owned by a black woman, and the platform is so much more accessible and easy to use.
November 15, 2024 at 12:51 PM
If anyone’s looking for alternatives to GoodReads, I highly recommend StoryGraph. It’s owned by a black woman, and the platform is so much more accessible and easy to use.
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We KNOW facial recognition as it currently exists is poor at recognising non-white people. And we know humans interpreting those results are similarly biased. This awful result was wholly foreseeable.
April 12, 2024 at 8:19 PM
We KNOW facial recognition as it currently exists is poor at recognising non-white people. And we know humans interpreting those results are similarly biased. This awful result was wholly foreseeable.
Sacha writes well on important topics
Delighted to be able to share this piece I wrote for Pantograph Punch’s Carving Spaces issue, exploring online spaces large and small and asking what it means to make them our own: www.pantograph-punch.com/posts/public...
Public Passions/Private Spaces
Sacha Judd reflects on the spaces we inhabit online, and how to create safe communities in the midst of the internet hellscape.
www.pantograph-punch.com
February 9, 2024 at 6:48 AM
Sacha writes well on important topics
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Extremely funny how we keep doing pilots of this idea, it keeps working and instead of scaling it up we just do more pilots.
Fresh basic income pilot results, this time from Arlington, Virginia where 200 people got $500 a month for 2 years. The findings:
Employment INCREASED by 16%, and their incomes from paid work INCREASED by 37%. The control group saw no such gains.
www.arlnow.com/2024/02/06/r...
Employment INCREASED by 16%, and their incomes from paid work INCREASED by 37%. The control group saw no such gains.
www.arlnow.com/2024/02/06/r...
February 7, 2024 at 4:19 PM
Extremely funny how we keep doing pilots of this idea, it keeps working and instead of scaling it up we just do more pilots.