Max Soar
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The tell is that they didn't commission any study of alternative ideas given the drop in cost of solar over the last decade, which other economies are leaning the fuck into with great success, but solar would the opposite of owning the libs, so it doesn't make the cut as an option to even consider.
February 10, 2026 at 4:37 AM
The tell is that they didn't commission any study of alternative ideas given the drop in cost of solar over the last decade, which other economies are leaning the fuck into with great success, but solar would the opposite of owning the libs, so it doesn't make the cut as an option to even consider.
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Video shows a man pinned to the ground as Australian police strike him repeatedly during an arrest. The man appears already subdued as blows continue. The incident occurred at protests in Sydney against Israeli President Isaac Herzog.
Video: Jared Kimpton via X (@jared_kimpton)
Video: Jared Kimpton via X (@jared_kimpton)
February 9, 2026 at 8:37 PM
Video shows a man pinned to the ground as Australian police strike him repeatedly during an arrest. The man appears already subdued as blows continue. The incident occurred at protests in Sydney against Israeli President Isaac Herzog.
Video: Jared Kimpton via X (@jared_kimpton)
Video: Jared Kimpton via X (@jared_kimpton)
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ONE BILLION DOLLARS.
IT WAS THE ADDITIONAL ONE BILLION THAT MADE THEM STOP THE DUNEDIN HOSPITAL AND IREX.
No money for hospitals or the ferries, money to prop up fossil fuels.
IT WAS THE ADDITIONAL ONE BILLION THAT MADE THEM STOP THE DUNEDIN HOSPITAL AND IREX.
No money for hospitals or the ferries, money to prop up fossil fuels.
Given all the really important shit that this government says we "can't afford" it's amazing what they manage to find money for.
'Strategic energy security asset': Govt reveals plans for $1b LNG import facility
Luxon warned New Zealand is experiencing swiftly declining gas supply.
www.nzherald.co.nz
February 9, 2026 at 7:54 AM
ONE BILLION DOLLARS.
IT WAS THE ADDITIONAL ONE BILLION THAT MADE THEM STOP THE DUNEDIN HOSPITAL AND IREX.
No money for hospitals or the ferries, money to prop up fossil fuels.
IT WAS THE ADDITIONAL ONE BILLION THAT MADE THEM STOP THE DUNEDIN HOSPITAL AND IREX.
No money for hospitals or the ferries, money to prop up fossil fuels.
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"Customer data will drive our decisions" is an idea at the root of so many recent institutional failures. It works when you're selling a luxury item, but not when you're doing politics or journalism, or education. Anything that requires a principled position cannot rely on the preferences of others.
Will Lewis is resigning as WaPo CEO, former Tumblr CEO Jeff D’Onofrio is the paper’s new acting CEO and publisher, per memos to staff
February 7, 2026 at 11:01 PM
"Customer data will drive our decisions" is an idea at the root of so many recent institutional failures. It works when you're selling a luxury item, but not when you're doing politics or journalism, or education. Anything that requires a principled position cannot rely on the preferences of others.
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Hayek‘s Bastards = 90s-brained thinktankers like D’Souza scouring the depths of bad science to find faux-natural levers to prop up hierarchy under perceived threat.
Over on X, the Everything App, serious conservative thinker Dinesh D'Souza shared a video of an AI-generated woman on a fake podcast he seemingly thought was real, telling the audience that young women should get with older men. Dude, wtf?
February 6, 2026 at 1:15 AM
Hayek‘s Bastards = 90s-brained thinktankers like D’Souza scouring the depths of bad science to find faux-natural levers to prop up hierarchy under perceived threat.
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‘If the maintainers of small projects give up, who will produce the next Linux?’
Vibe Coding Is Killing Open Source Software, Researchers Argue
‘If the maintainers of small projects give up, who will produce the next Linux?’
www.404media.co
February 5, 2026 at 5:30 PM
‘If the maintainers of small projects give up, who will produce the next Linux?’
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Co-President Dr Lucy Stewart spoke to Kathryn Ryan on Nine to Noon this morning about the continued failure of the government's science sector reforms to make necessary change (or provide desperately needed funding increases)
Is stagnating science funding leaving NZ more exposed to hazards?
The scientists' association says reform of science funding has stagnated, and leaves the country exposed to worsening hazards.
www.rnz.co.nz
February 4, 2026 at 9:15 PM
Co-President Dr Lucy Stewart spoke to Kathryn Ryan on Nine to Noon this morning about the continued failure of the government's science sector reforms to make necessary change (or provide desperately needed funding increases)
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Reminder of the scale shift of last few years. When Musk acquired Twitter for $44 billion it was discussed for days. Yesterday he merged its parent company, xAI, valued at $250 billion with SpaceX, valued at $1 trillion and it was just a Monday.
February 3, 2026 at 10:50 PM
Reminder of the scale shift of last few years. When Musk acquired Twitter for $44 billion it was discussed for days. Yesterday he merged its parent company, xAI, valued at $250 billion with SpaceX, valued at $1 trillion and it was just a Monday.
Teaching friends: anyone got an aesthetically pleasing system/ template for slideshows that require minimal fuss and present info/images clearly and accessibly?
Yours sincerely, someone with opinions about how slides look but zero visual design talent.
Yours sincerely, someone with opinions about how slides look but zero visual design talent.
February 3, 2026 at 12:09 AM
Teaching friends: anyone got an aesthetically pleasing system/ template for slideshows that require minimal fuss and present info/images clearly and accessibly?
Yours sincerely, someone with opinions about how slides look but zero visual design talent.
Yours sincerely, someone with opinions about how slides look but zero visual design talent.
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Stuff takes the incredible journalistic step of *using the search function* to get a "NZ mentioned" headline and then the article doesn't mention either Thiel (a NZ citizen) or Pinker (invited here by the FSU to speak TONIGHT)
www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3609...
www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3609...
The Jeffrey Epstein files: New Zealand mentioned more than 1000 times
New Zealand is mentioned more than a thousand times in the Jeffrey Epstein files released by the US Justice Department.
www.stuff.co.nz
February 1, 2026 at 11:15 PM
Stuff takes the incredible journalistic step of *using the search function* to get a "NZ mentioned" headline and then the article doesn't mention either Thiel (a NZ citizen) or Pinker (invited here by the FSU to speak TONIGHT)
www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3609...
www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3609...
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Because UoA has no guidelines on payment rates for guest lectures, I was looking for reasonable information online and found this UNSW page showing casual academic pay rates.
I'm sure this is news to nobody but casual staff are MASSIVELY underpaid in NZ.
www.unsw.edu.au/human-resour...
I'm sure this is news to nobody but casual staff are MASSIVELY underpaid in NZ.
www.unsw.edu.au/human-resour...
Casual staff | Human Resources - UNSW Sydney
www.unsw.edu.au
February 1, 2026 at 11:59 PM
Because UoA has no guidelines on payment rates for guest lectures, I was looking for reasonable information online and found this UNSW page showing casual academic pay rates.
I'm sure this is news to nobody but casual staff are MASSIVELY underpaid in NZ.
www.unsw.edu.au/human-resour...
I'm sure this is news to nobody but casual staff are MASSIVELY underpaid in NZ.
www.unsw.edu.au/human-resour...
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The nature of information overload is for our brains to seek patterns to make sense of them and in the flood of epstein documents its easy to see a grand conspiracy as a flotation device, but it is a conspiracy to the extent that class society is a conspiracy, which is to say, a system
February 1, 2026 at 5:06 PM
The nature of information overload is for our brains to seek patterns to make sense of them and in the flood of epstein documents its easy to see a grand conspiracy as a flotation device, but it is a conspiracy to the extent that class society is a conspiracy, which is to say, a system
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The epstein files reveal the bourgeoisie acting AS A CLASS, which is to say, sharing ideas, cultural touchstones and social circles. But they do not invent economic conditions out of idle conversations, they are idiots repeating what they hear from their underlings and colleagues, please im begging
February 1, 2026 at 5:04 PM
The epstein files reveal the bourgeoisie acting AS A CLASS, which is to say, sharing ideas, cultural touchstones and social circles. But they do not invent economic conditions out of idle conversations, they are idiots repeating what they hear from their underlings and colleagues, please im begging
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How are you supposed to explain to people how this entire social, political, and economic reality is entirely downstream from anime getting banned on some dipshit's forum 25ish years ago
So apparently I was right to shittalk m00t this week because it's been revealed that his boneheaded decision to establish /pol/ and subsequently ruin the website was allegedly born out of a one-on-one meeting with Jeffery Epstein.
January 31, 2026 at 4:19 AM
How are you supposed to explain to people how this entire social, political, and economic reality is entirely downstream from anime getting banned on some dipshit's forum 25ish years ago
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every epstein file drop underscores how elite power operates through shared socio-economic networks, regardless of people's ideological differences, populist posturing, or public feuds
January 30, 2026 at 11:58 PM
every epstein file drop underscores how elite power operates through shared socio-economic networks, regardless of people's ideological differences, populist posturing, or public feuds
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i read through this and then went back through Eco's 14 points of Ur-Fascism probably yearly at this point and each time with new and more pressing understanding theanarchistlibrary.org/library/umbe...
January 30, 2026 at 8:44 PM
i read through this and then went back through Eco's 14 points of Ur-Fascism probably yearly at this point and each time with new and more pressing understanding theanarchistlibrary.org/library/umbe...
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This should be headline news across every outlet in the country. This deal happening in secret - let alone directly involving us in a fascist war machine - should be criminal, fuck.
Breaking: the Government is negotiating with the US to provide access to our critical minerals, while a memo before the Waitangi Tribunal says a backdoor deal violates obligations to Māori
NZ in talks with US on Trump minerals deal
newsroom.co.nz
January 30, 2026 at 2:26 AM
This should be headline news across every outlet in the country. This deal happening in secret - let alone directly involving us in a fascist war machine - should be criminal, fuck.
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The way these people really went from capitalism is the best system to provide all of the things to “eat less”.
January 29, 2026 at 3:45 AM
The way these people really went from capitalism is the best system to provide all of the things to “eat less”.
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every time i see a white guy in their fifties radicalized by the twitter algorithm into racism and extremism i think about how it's a total failure of the youtube algorithm to instead radicalize him into home brewing, elaborate A/V setups, or DIY solar
January 28, 2026 at 8:22 PM
every time i see a white guy in their fifties radicalized by the twitter algorithm into racism and extremism i think about how it's a total failure of the youtube algorithm to instead radicalize him into home brewing, elaborate A/V setups, or DIY solar
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ACC shouldn't need access to your medical information. They should just pay the compensation and bills as directed by your doctors.
Medicine should be strictly the role of the health sector. ACC isn't health sector: they're a finance.
We've let financiers make our medical decisions for too long.
Medicine should be strictly the role of the health sector. ACC isn't health sector: they're a finance.
We've let financiers make our medical decisions for too long.
January 29, 2026 at 12:20 AM
ACC shouldn't need access to your medical information. They should just pay the compensation and bills as directed by your doctors.
Medicine should be strictly the role of the health sector. ACC isn't health sector: they're a finance.
We've let financiers make our medical decisions for too long.
Medicine should be strictly the role of the health sector. ACC isn't health sector: they're a finance.
We've let financiers make our medical decisions for too long.
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ACC reform I'd like to see: they should handle payments and not medical information.
The should be required to accept the assessment of whatever qualified specialist you choose. They should have no role in (mis)interpreting medical advice, or sending you for treatments.
The should be required to accept the assessment of whatever qualified specialist you choose. They should have no role in (mis)interpreting medical advice, or sending you for treatments.
January 29, 2026 at 12:17 AM
ACC reform I'd like to see: they should handle payments and not medical information.
The should be required to accept the assessment of whatever qualified specialist you choose. They should have no role in (mis)interpreting medical advice, or sending you for treatments.
The should be required to accept the assessment of whatever qualified specialist you choose. They should have no role in (mis)interpreting medical advice, or sending you for treatments.
Been doing this dance for over 6 years with ACC. Despite having clear recommendations for rehabilitation that are likely to work, ACC refuses to make rehab accessible in favour of continual 'assessments' from cronies.
How do they unlawfully deny entitlements? Bullying. Many of us have seen it first hand.
It's very similar to MSD's approach. Harass through repeated demands for evidence, repeatedly send you to ACC's pet medical professionals (you don't get to choose),
It's very similar to MSD's approach. Harass through repeated demands for evidence, repeatedly send you to ACC's pet medical professionals (you don't get to choose),
January 29, 2026 at 12:15 AM
Been doing this dance for over 6 years with ACC. Despite having clear recommendations for rehabilitation that are likely to work, ACC refuses to make rehab accessible in favour of continual 'assessments' from cronies.
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ACC plans on "getting more non-serious injury clients out of the long-term claims pool" to get its financies in order.
That's an admission that they've either not been doing their job in the past, or plan to not do their job in the future. It has to be one or both. Either should land them in court.
That's an admission that they've either not been doing their job in the past, or plan to not do their job in the future. It has to be one or both. Either should land them in court.
January 28, 2026 at 11:57 PM
ACC plans on "getting more non-serious injury clients out of the long-term claims pool" to get its financies in order.
That's an admission that they've either not been doing their job in the past, or plan to not do their job in the future. It has to be one or both. Either should land them in court.
That's an admission that they've either not been doing their job in the past, or plan to not do their job in the future. It has to be one or both. Either should land them in court.