Gerbrand
@gerbrandvanmelle.bsky.social
Nut cheese maker. Design educator. And more.
www.gerbrandvanmelle.com
www.highculture.nz
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Monique Fiso is out of the kitchen and leading the fight against industrial agriculture www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
Monique Fiso is out of the kitchen and leading the fight against industrial agriculture
After closing her iconic Wellington restaurant Hiakai, the Māori-Samoan chef and occasional TV star has become an advocate for kai motuhake (food sovereignty).
www.rnz.co.nz
April 5, 2025 at 9:48 AM
Monique Fiso is out of the kitchen and leading the fight against industrial agriculture www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
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ChatGPT consumes so much water and energy each week that it could power entire countries for YEARS and folk act like you told them to kill their selves cause you want them to write their own emails and not to steal art. 😂
April 3, 2025 at 12:46 PM
ChatGPT consumes so much water and energy each week that it could power entire countries for YEARS and folk act like you told them to kill their selves cause you want them to write their own emails and not to steal art. 😂
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Working on an article going into this in some detail, because it builds on, and is features the same individuals flagged last year creating radicalisation pathways in NZ. | Martin Sellner’s far-right playbook: A threat to New Zealand’s liberal democracy sanjanah.wordpress.com/2024/10/15/m...
March 28, 2025 at 5:32 AM
Working on an article going into this in some detail, because it builds on, and is features the same individuals flagged last year creating radicalisation pathways in NZ. | Martin Sellner’s far-right playbook: A threat to New Zealand’s liberal democracy sanjanah.wordpress.com/2024/10/15/m...
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AI art is the aesthetic of fascism
March 27, 2025 at 7:20 PM
AI art is the aesthetic of fascism
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OpenAI is using Studio Ghibli-style memes as an ad hoc promotional campaign for its new image generator—despite Ghibli founder Hayao Miyazaki's famous hatred of AI. Sam Altman made his X avatar a 'Ghiblified' portrait.
Disgracing Miyazaki is part of the point: It's more proof to them tech has won.
Disgracing Miyazaki is part of the point: It's more proof to them tech has won.
OpenAI's Studio Ghibli meme factory is an insult to art itself
Sam Altman is promoting his new image generator by appropriating the work of one of the greatest living animators—who is "disgusted" by AI.
www.bloodinthemachine.com
March 27, 2025 at 5:51 PM
OpenAI is using Studio Ghibli-style memes as an ad hoc promotional campaign for its new image generator—despite Ghibli founder Hayao Miyazaki's famous hatred of AI. Sam Altman made his X avatar a 'Ghiblified' portrait.
Disgracing Miyazaki is part of the point: It's more proof to them tech has won.
Disgracing Miyazaki is part of the point: It's more proof to them tech has won.
Sadly I’m not around. What about you @vibeke.bsky.social ?
🚨🇳🇿 Join me in Auckland on April 10 where I’ll be talking about countering the Trump threat and escaping the dominance Silicon Valley has over our lives.
Now more than ever, we need digital sovereignty — and we’ll need to work together to build it.
Register here: digitalsovereignty.lilregie.com
Now more than ever, we need digital sovereignty — and we’ll need to work together to build it.
Register here: digitalsovereignty.lilregie.com
March 26, 2025 at 6:51 AM
Sadly I’m not around. What about you @vibeke.bsky.social ?
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The school lunches perfectly demonstrates the clash of ideology between
Capital first $
- offshore profit fine
- centralised production
- high transport cost
- high packaging need
Versus
Community first $$
- $ in nz community
- $ to nz small business
- low transport need
-low to zero waste
Capital first $
- offshore profit fine
- centralised production
- high transport cost
- high packaging need
Versus
Community first $$
- $ in nz community
- $ to nz small business
- low transport need
-low to zero waste
March 26, 2025 at 1:23 AM
The school lunches perfectly demonstrates the clash of ideology between
Capital first $
- offshore profit fine
- centralised production
- high transport cost
- high packaging need
Versus
Community first $$
- $ in nz community
- $ to nz small business
- low transport need
-low to zero waste
Capital first $
- offshore profit fine
- centralised production
- high transport cost
- high packaging need
Versus
Community first $$
- $ in nz community
- $ to nz small business
- low transport need
-low to zero waste
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It's freezing here, America! Only we hardy Canadians can handle this intense weather.
Also, Canada is not for sale.
Also, Canada is not for sale.
March 12, 2025 at 6:24 PM
It's freezing here, America! Only we hardy Canadians can handle this intense weather.
Also, Canada is not for sale.
Also, Canada is not for sale.
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BREAKING
Fonterra’s entire supply chain has been shown to be tainted with illegal palm products after all major importers of palm kernel into NZ have been found to be illegally operating palm plantations in Indonesia.
Fonterra’s entire supply chain has been shown to be tainted with illegal palm products after all major importers of palm kernel into NZ have been found to be illegally operating palm plantations in Indonesia.
Fonterra’s palm kernel supply link to illegal palm operations bad news for Nestlé - Greenpeace Aotearoa
Greenpeace Aotearoa says Fonterra’s entire supply chain is tainted with illegal palm products after all of the major importers of palm kernel into New Zealand have been found to be illegally&hell...
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March 4, 2025 at 6:58 PM
BREAKING
Fonterra’s entire supply chain has been shown to be tainted with illegal palm products after all major importers of palm kernel into NZ have been found to be illegally operating palm plantations in Indonesia.
Fonterra’s entire supply chain has been shown to be tainted with illegal palm products after all major importers of palm kernel into NZ have been found to be illegally operating palm plantations in Indonesia.
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The United States is a rogue state that’s now launched an imperialist trade war against Canada and Mexico.
It’s time for countries, especially its former allies, to form an alliance to make the US feel the consequences of its actions and to break their dependence on US tech once and for all.
It’s time for countries, especially its former allies, to form an alliance to make the US feel the consequences of its actions and to break their dependence on US tech once and for all.
The United States has gone rogue. There must be consequences.
Countries must form new alliances and end their dependence on US tech in response to Trump’s trade war
www.disconnect.blog
March 4, 2025 at 11:22 PM
The United States is a rogue state that’s now launched an imperialist trade war against Canada and Mexico.
It’s time for countries, especially its former allies, to form an alliance to make the US feel the consequences of its actions and to break their dependence on US tech once and for all.
It’s time for countries, especially its former allies, to form an alliance to make the US feel the consequences of its actions and to break their dependence on US tech once and for all.
Isn’t there an Auckland Design Week held at one of those?
February 22, 2025 at 12:42 AM
Isn’t there an Auckland Design Week held at one of those?
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Last week, JD Vance gave Europe an ultimatum: it can align with the Trump administration, or face its wrath.
To comply, Europe needs to embrace the extreme right, repeal tech rules the US “will not accept,” and allow Silicon Valley to dominate its market. It should tell the US to take a hike.
To comply, Europe needs to embrace the extreme right, repeal tech rules the US “will not accept,” and allow Silicon Valley to dominate its market. It should tell the US to take a hike.
JD Vance champions tech imperialism in Europe
The European Union needs to defend its sovereignty and end its dependence on US tech monopolies
www.disconnect.blog
February 21, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Last week, JD Vance gave Europe an ultimatum: it can align with the Trump administration, or face its wrath.
To comply, Europe needs to embrace the extreme right, repeal tech rules the US “will not accept,” and allow Silicon Valley to dominate its market. It should tell the US to take a hike.
To comply, Europe needs to embrace the extreme right, repeal tech rules the US “will not accept,” and allow Silicon Valley to dominate its market. It should tell the US to take a hike.
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This is THE definition of a dictatorship. Full stop.
Wow. The US is now officially a dictatorship. So quick.
Trump official announces that Trump has signed an executive order stating that “only the President and the Attorney General can speak for what the law is.”
Trump official announces that Trump has signed an executive order stating that “only the President and the Attorney General can speak for what the law is.”
February 19, 2025 at 12:33 AM
This is THE definition of a dictatorship. Full stop.
Totally agree. 2023 and still relevant. Now more than ever.
This series from @parismarx.com is still one of the best things on Elon imho techwontsave.us/episode/189_...
Elon Musk Unmasked: Origins of an Oligarch (Part 1) - Tech Won’t Save Us
A left-wing podcast for better technology and a better world.
techwontsave.us
February 4, 2025 at 3:41 AM
Totally agree. 2023 and still relevant. Now more than ever.
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In a world painted with shades of sorrow, be an artist of joy – create your masterpiece of happiness and let its colours spill onto the canvas of others' lives.
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January 27, 2025 at 5:06 PM
In a world painted with shades of sorrow, be an artist of joy – create your masterpiece of happiness and let its colours spill onto the canvas of others' lives.
gurdeeppandher.substack.com
gurdeeppandher.substack.com
This is useful. It takes more than just deleting your Meta apps.
Meta tracks your activity across millions of websites and apps, regardless of whether you use its platforms, and profits from that data through targeted ads. Here’s what you need to know if you want to limit the company’s ability to harvest and profit from your personal data.
Mad at Meta? Don't Let Them Collect and Monetize Your Personal Data
If you’re fed up with Meta right now, you’re not alone. Meta tracks you across millions of websites and apps and its business model relies on your data. If you want to limit Meta’s ability to collect ...
www.eff.org
January 27, 2025 at 6:27 PM
This is useful. It takes more than just deleting your Meta apps.
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When I scheduled this episode, I hadn’t even considered what day it would be dropping. Anyway, here’s @danmcquillan.bsky.social talking about AI as fascistic solutionism.
AI is a form of “fascistic solutionism” that diverts us from serious problems and presents tech that classifies and surveils as a solution.
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Up next in our premium interviews from DATA VAMPIRES is @danmcquillan.bsky.social!
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January 20, 2025 at 11:36 PM
When I scheduled this episode, I hadn’t even considered what day it would be dropping. Anyway, here’s @danmcquillan.bsky.social talking about AI as fascistic solutionism.
My old house in Utrecht featuring its White Lion (in Dutch and now with orange manes…)
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Muurkunst in Utrecht (1): De Witte Leeuw aan de Lange Nieuwstraat - De Nuk
Wat is het verhaal achter de leeuwenkop aan de Lange Nieuwstraat?
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January 14, 2025 at 7:51 AM
My old house in Utrecht featuring its White Lion (in Dutch and now with orange manes…)
denuk.nl/muurkunst-in...
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