CallieV
@calliev.bsky.social
Just a Barbie girl living in an Oppenheimer world.
Very timely piece by my colleague @nihilcurtis.bsky.social
I just wrote about the broader issues at play here. newsroom.co.nz/2025/06/08/l...
Let's call 'taxing the rich' what it really is
Opinion from the University of Auckland: As society groans under the weight of wealth inequality, Dr Neal Curtis calls for a different slogan to ‘tax the rich’.
newsroom.co.nz
June 16, 2025 at 4:01 AM
Very timely piece by my colleague @nihilcurtis.bsky.social
May 10, 2025 at 12:56 AM
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In this episode, Alan Bernstein, the director of global health at the University of Oxford, discusses with David Frum how misinformation, distrust in science, and extremist rhetoric are fueling a deadly resurgence of preventable diseases in the U.S.
America’s Pro-Disease Movement
How the Trump administration is worsening a public-health crisis
bit.ly
May 9, 2025 at 7:15 AM
In this episode, Alan Bernstein, the director of global health at the University of Oxford, discusses with David Frum how misinformation, distrust in science, and extremist rhetoric are fueling a deadly resurgence of preventable diseases in the U.S.
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A tricky thing about modern society is that no one has any idea when they don’t die.
Like, the number of lives saved by controlling air pollution in America is probably over 200,000 per year, but the number of people who think their life was saved by controlling air pollution is zero.
Like, the number of lives saved by controlling air pollution in America is probably over 200,000 per year, but the number of people who think their life was saved by controlling air pollution is zero.
April 7, 2025 at 4:13 AM
A tricky thing about modern society is that no one has any idea when they don’t die.
Like, the number of lives saved by controlling air pollution in America is probably over 200,000 per year, but the number of people who think their life was saved by controlling air pollution is zero.
Like, the number of lives saved by controlling air pollution in America is probably over 200,000 per year, but the number of people who think their life was saved by controlling air pollution is zero.
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it’s weird that we’re staring down the second unprecedented economic catastrophe in five years and instead of a novel coronavirus that will go on to kill millions of people this one is just “no one was willing to tell him no”
April 6, 2025 at 11:54 PM
it’s weird that we’re staring down the second unprecedented economic catastrophe in five years and instead of a novel coronavirus that will go on to kill millions of people this one is just “no one was willing to tell him no”
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Reminder you have until midnight tonight (Monday the 31st) to join Internet New Zealand to be able to vote at the AGM in July, and help stop the Free Speech Union and Hobson's Pledge taking over the organisation
www.feijoadispatch.nz/p/free-speec...
www.feijoadispatch.nz/p/free-speec...
Free Speech Union plans hostile takeover of InternetNZ
And it could just be one part of a wider strategy to shape the public conversation
www.feijoadispatch.nz
March 31, 2025 at 5:42 AM
Reminder you have until midnight tonight (Monday the 31st) to join Internet New Zealand to be able to vote at the AGM in July, and help stop the Free Speech Union and Hobson's Pledge taking over the organisation
www.feijoadispatch.nz/p/free-speec...
www.feijoadispatch.nz/p/free-speec...
Being an academic as universities seem to be losing our social license is a weird place to be. Universities are absolutely integrated into power networks, but simultaneously those networks are terrified of the potential of critical scholarship and informed free thinkers.
March 28, 2025 at 5:51 AM
Being an academic as universities seem to be losing our social license is a weird place to be. Universities are absolutely integrated into power networks, but simultaneously those networks are terrified of the potential of critical scholarship and informed free thinkers.
You'd really think that if we have to keep having this conversation it could be more nuanced than "museums are important"
But here we are. In 2025.
But here we are. In 2025.
March 24, 2025 at 5:03 AM
You'd really think that if we have to keep having this conversation it could be more nuanced than "museums are important"
But here we are. In 2025.
But here we are. In 2025.
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Old and busted: sugar and spice and everything nice
New hotness: Salty, defiant, and extremely noncompliant
New hotness: Salty, defiant, and extremely noncompliant
December 6, 2023 at 6:59 PM
Old and busted: sugar and spice and everything nice
New hotness: Salty, defiant, and extremely noncompliant
New hotness: Salty, defiant, and extremely noncompliant
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Today, the House GOP censured me for speaking out for the American people against @POTUS’s plan to cut Medicaid. I accept the consequences of my actions, but I refuse to stay silent in the face of injustice. #WeShallOvercome x.com/repalgreen/s...
Congressman Al Green on X: "Today, the House GOP censured me for speaking out for the American people against @POTUS’s plan to cut Medicaid. I accept the consequences of my actions, but I refuse to stay silent in the face of injustice. #WeShallOvercome https://t.co/sVklRmPCJl" / X
Today, the House GOP censured me for speaking out for the American people against @POTUS’s plan to cut Medicaid. I accept the consequences of my actions, but I refuse to stay silent in the face of injustice. #WeShallOvercome https://t.co/sVklRmPCJl
x.com
March 6, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Today, the House GOP censured me for speaking out for the American people against @POTUS’s plan to cut Medicaid. I accept the consequences of my actions, but I refuse to stay silent in the face of injustice. #WeShallOvercome x.com/repalgreen/s...
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‘Move fast and break things’ only works for people who have never had to clean up after themselves.
March 1, 2025 at 5:42 AM
‘Move fast and break things’ only works for people who have never had to clean up after themselves.
Giving people legal permission to attack other people in supermarkets is not a solution to anything.
February 26, 2025 at 5:46 AM
Giving people legal permission to attack other people in supermarkets is not a solution to anything.
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i think "an effective altruist is personally denying twenty million people their HIV medications despite a court order telling him to send the money" is a pretty good summary of effective altruism as a real world philosophy
February 25, 2025 at 7:35 PM
i think "an effective altruist is personally denying twenty million people their HIV medications despite a court order telling him to send the money" is a pretty good summary of effective altruism as a real world philosophy
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This morning at Dept of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) HQ in DC as mandatory return to office began, this video played on loop for ~5 mins on screens throughout the building, per agency source.
Building staff couldn’t figure out how to turn it off so sent people to every floor to unplug TVs.
Building staff couldn’t figure out how to turn it off so sent people to every floor to unplug TVs.
February 24, 2025 at 2:51 PM
This morning at Dept of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) HQ in DC as mandatory return to office began, this video played on loop for ~5 mins on screens throughout the building, per agency source.
Building staff couldn’t figure out how to turn it off so sent people to every floor to unplug TVs.
Building staff couldn’t figure out how to turn it off so sent people to every floor to unplug TVs.
Thank you @papa.org.nz for today's absolutely soul-filling gathering <3
www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
Rainbow community stands against Tamaki, Destiny Church at Auckland's Albert Park
Members and allies of the LGBTQ+ community gathered in Auckland's Albert Park today to protest Brian Tamaki's demonstrations which targeted pride events last week.
www.rnz.co.nz
February 23, 2025 at 7:02 AM
Thank you @papa.org.nz for today's absolutely soul-filling gathering <3
www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
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can we please retire the word "ex-pat" for white people? the word you're looking for is immigrant, you just don't think it applies to you
February 20, 2025 at 5:44 PM
can we please retire the word "ex-pat" for white people? the word you're looking for is immigrant, you just don't think it applies to you
It is unclear to me how Lu*on thinks the economy works.
You can't get milk from a cow you're starving.
And if you starve it to death, there's not even a lot of meat for your vulture friends to "capitalize" on.
You can't get milk from a cow you're starving.
And if you starve it to death, there's not even a lot of meat for your vulture friends to "capitalize" on.
February 16, 2025 at 9:49 PM
It is unclear to me how Lu*on thinks the economy works.
You can't get milk from a cow you're starving.
And if you starve it to death, there's not even a lot of meat for your vulture friends to "capitalize" on.
You can't get milk from a cow you're starving.
And if you starve it to death, there's not even a lot of meat for your vulture friends to "capitalize" on.
#parkrun makes Saturdays worthwhile. Loved visiting Southern Pathway and running into two parkrun friends from around the motu & pacific
February 15, 2025 at 4:05 AM
#parkrun makes Saturdays worthwhile. Loved visiting Southern Pathway and running into two parkrun friends from around the motu & pacific
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So. The conclusion simply is this. On the basis of the documents provided the Minister didn't like humanities research, personally, and decided to defund it on that basis. That's it. Nothing in the record suggests any advice taken on impact or importance. Pure ideology with no evidential backing.
February 14, 2025 at 2:37 AM
So. The conclusion simply is this. On the basis of the documents provided the Minister didn't like humanities research, personally, and decided to defund it on that basis. That's it. Nothing in the record suggests any advice taken on impact or importance. Pure ideology with no evidential backing.
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"He has 4 billion dollars, he's not going to steal your money" is an argument someone either makes in complete bad faith or in total ignorance of how the rich have conducted themselves throughout the entirety of modern civilization.
February 14, 2025 at 2:31 AM
"He has 4 billion dollars, he's not going to steal your money" is an argument someone either makes in complete bad faith or in total ignorance of how the rich have conducted themselves throughout the entirety of modern civilization.
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I still get asked sometimes "aren't you concerned about disinformation from the far-left?" The answer is always, yes, I am, there's just comparatively much less of it
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/feb/11/far-right-mps-fake-news-misinformation-left-study
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/feb/11/far-right-mps-fake-news-misinformation-left-study
Far-right populists much more likely than the left to spread fake news – study | The far right | The Guardian
Amplifying misinformation is now part of radical right strategy, says Dutch study of tweets by MPs in 26 countries
www.theguardian.com
February 11, 2025 at 7:14 AM
I still get asked sometimes "aren't you concerned about disinformation from the far-left?" The answer is always, yes, I am, there's just comparatively much less of it
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/feb/11/far-right-mps-fake-news-misinformation-left-study
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/feb/11/far-right-mps-fake-news-misinformation-left-study
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We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words.
February 5, 2025 at 8:05 PM
We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words.
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if I understand American politics correctly, progressivism is something that requires 60 senate votes to work, while national conservatism doesn’t require any votes at all
February 3, 2025 at 1:54 PM
if I understand American politics correctly, progressivism is something that requires 60 senate votes to work, while national conservatism doesn’t require any votes at all