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Don't sacrifice the real world for AI
open.substack.com/pub/newmeans...
Don't sacrifice the real world for AI
Data centers, billionaires, and the economic model we live in
open.substack.com
September 30, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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⛏️ ⛰️ Destroying nature for private profit is what Bathurst Resources has planned for Denniston Plateau; an open cast coal mine approx the size of Nelson city that will destroy an entire ecosystem.

There is no restoration that will be able to replace what has been lost.

#StopTheFastTrack #EndCoal
September 29, 2025 at 7:06 AM
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#nzpol

Remember peoples ...

(1) There is no money tree.

(2) Money doesnt grow on trees.

(3) We cant afford to feed & house our people.

(3) We cant afford to pay teachers & nurses & ... any better.

(4) We cant afford new boats (unless they have guns).

(5) We cant afford pay equity.

🤔😥🙁☹😠😡😡
📢 New Zealand is buying five new Seahawk maritime helicopters from the US for $400 million each, when Australia recently paid $82m each for the same choppers.
Why NZ's new Seahawk maritime helicopters cost $400 million each
www.rnz.co.nz
September 7, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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📢 We speak out against Bathurst Resource’s proposed open cast coal mine on Denniston Plateau but the creatures who live here cannot.

🌏 We cannot keep allowing the destruction of entire ecological systems for profit. This beautiful planet is home to us all and it deserves to be protected.
August 22, 2025 at 9:24 PM
www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3607...

I'm not sure who this government is actually trying to help, but it's not anyone who earns less than $150k a year...
Stuff
www.stuff.co.nz
August 22, 2025 at 10:05 PM
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Israel kills 22 in Gaza, including 13 shot dead waiting to collect food aid
<article data-history-node-id="427259" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israel-kills-22-gaza-including-13-shot-dead-waiting-collect-food-aid" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israel-kills-22-gaza-including-13-shot-dead-waiting-collect-food-aid" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Israel kills 22 in Gaza, including 13 shot dead waiting to collect food aid</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>Gaza's civil defence agency has said that Israeli attacks killed at least 22 people on Saturday.</p> <p>According to the agency, at least 13 of the Palestinians killed were shot by troops as they were waiting to collect food aid near distribution sites in the north and in the south.</p> <p>Civil defence spokesman Mahmud Bassal told AFP that conditions in the Zeitun neighbourhood in Gaza City were rapidly deteriorating, with residents having little to no access to food and water due to heavy Israeli bombardment. He said Israel were carrying out ethnic cleansing there.&nbsp;</p> <p>Bassal said about 50,000 people are estimated to be in the area, "the majority of whom are without food or water" and lacking "the basic necessities of life".</p> <p>Earlier this month, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's security cabinet approved plans to sieze control of Gaza City, one of the most densely populated parts of the territory.</p> <p>Read more:&nbsp;</p> </div> </div> </article>
www.middleeasteye.net
August 16, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Check out this article from The Spinoff: Opinion: Could we be saying ‘ka kite’ to our conservation estate?
thespinoff.co.nz/atea/20-08-2...

Literally, fuck this government.
Could we be saying ‘ka kite’ to our conservation estate?
A new government proposal could open up millions of hectares of public land for sale or disposal.
thespinoff.co.nz
August 20, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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Every tech update now is like: "Great news, the word processor you've relied on for twenty years has learned to juggle! Is it good at it? No! Does it help in any way? Of course not! Has it made it insufferable to use? Oh, absolutely."
August 19, 2025 at 10:27 PM
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Talk of limiting teachers’ right to strike alongside the scrapping pay equity reflects a broader pattern: undermining mechanisms that address the structural undervaluation of women-majority workforces. It's all the same misogyny. #nzpol

www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3607...
Minister signals possible crackdown on teachers’ right to strike
Nearly 20,000 secondary school teachers walked off the job today, but the Government is warning their ability to strike could soon be restricted.
www.stuff.co.nz
August 20, 2025 at 8:47 AM
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For anyone under the impression that National isnt LOVING all the racist bull puckey #nzpol
August 20, 2025 at 7:45 AM
Check out this article from The Spinoff: Opinion: A tired teacher explains why they’re striking tomorrow
thespinoff.co.nz/society/19-0...?
A tired teacher explains why they’re striking tomorrow
'The government’s obsession with saving money and cutting costs risks burning out teachers and worsening our teacher shortage.'
thespinoff.co.nz
August 19, 2025 at 10:54 PM
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If you think suffering is required or even acceptable because after all you had to go through it, you learned entirely the wrong lesson from your suffering.
There are three kinds of people:

People who think suffering is okay as long as it's borne by the right people;

People who think suffering is okay because they had to suffer;

People who think suffering isn't okay.

Be in the last category.
August 18, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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Standing up for the smallest of minorities is important because when you accept the premise that one group are expendable because small or ‘insignificant’, you have accepted the idea of the expendability of human life in general, and the enemy will use your acquiescence to pick off yet more.
August 3, 2025 at 7:26 AM
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"U.S.-backed Israeli forces and private contractors have ... turned aid distributions into regular bloodbaths."
"[W]e are leaving a state accused of genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity in charge of feeding the population affected by the genocide without oversight and with impunity."

"The special rapporteurs demanded the 'immediate dismantling' of GHF."
#Israel #Gaza #Palestine #USA #Genocide
UN Experts Demand 'Immediate Dismantling' of US-Backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation | Common Dreams
"We are leaving a state accused of genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity in charge of feeding the population affected by the genocide without oversight and with impunity," said dozens of…
www.commondreams.org
August 11, 2025 at 4:44 AM
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Hell hath no fury like a (many) woman (women) scorned #NZPol
The issue that is ‘not going to go away’ for the coalition
Five unions are launching a High Court challenge against the Government over pay equity.
www.stuff.co.nz
August 18, 2025 at 7:58 PM
August 18, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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Fun Ferry Fact: Winston said it would have cost $120 million to maintain a wharf for the Aratere until its replacement arrives in 2029.

Fun Ferry Fact: Winston gave Hyundai $144 million so the Aratere replacement would not arrive in 2026.
August 17, 2025 at 8:05 PM