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is there a way to avoid the scourge of ai being forced on us? like is there a single consumer facing good that will actually stand up for its users, i’m just so sick of this
December 16, 2025 at 9:26 PM
is there a way to avoid the scourge of ai being forced on us? like is there a single consumer facing good that will actually stand up for its users, i’m just so sick of this
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why the fuck isn't the government pouring money into and emergency response to this??
OK, Tāmaki Makaurau, the hornet army is on the march. Time to saddle up, cut up some bottles and trap the little bastards before they do any more damage.
MPI has bumped up the zone so if you're inside that purple line it's time to get busy.
More info here: www.mpi.govt.nz/news/media-r...
MPI has bumped up the zone so if you're inside that purple line it's time to get busy.
More info here: www.mpi.govt.nz/news/media-r...
December 14, 2025 at 8:11 PM
why the fuck isn't the government pouring money into and emergency response to this??
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It beggars belief that, even with this milquetoast centrist nonsense so incredibly unpopular and ineffective in the US and UK, Labour are still committed to running on it. Read the room guys. Read any of the rooms.
"We've had a series of governments now who have encouraged people to be aspirational for New Zealand and have promised things that have been completely unrealistic. ... I'm not going to fall into that trap."
#NzPol
#NzPol
'Opportunity to stamp my own mark': Chris Hipkins promises a different Labour
The last election saw Labour's six years in government come to an end, and Hipkins returning to the opposition benches just 10 months after becoming prime minister.
www.rnz.co.nz
December 13, 2025 at 11:07 PM
It beggars belief that, even with this milquetoast centrist nonsense so incredibly unpopular and ineffective in the US and UK, Labour are still committed to running on it. Read the room guys. Read any of the rooms.
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Keir Starmer is a neoliberal piece of shit and it's evident every time Hipkins opens his mouth that he definitely thinks he's a Cool Guy with Good Ideas. The homework copying is so transparent. He's got a boner for austerity we need to be VERY aware of.
"We've had a series of governments now who have encouraged people to be aspirational for New Zealand and have promised things that have been completely unrealistic. ... I'm not going to fall into that trap."
#NzPol
#NzPol
'Opportunity to stamp my own mark': Chris Hipkins promises a different Labour
The last election saw Labour's six years in government come to an end, and Hipkins returning to the opposition benches just 10 months after becoming prime minister.
www.rnz.co.nz
December 14, 2025 at 1:19 AM
Keir Starmer is a neoliberal piece of shit and it's evident every time Hipkins opens his mouth that he definitely thinks he's a Cool Guy with Good Ideas. The homework copying is so transparent. He's got a boner for austerity we need to be VERY aware of.
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People be like "If Labour don't move further right National will win"
If Labour moves further right, then National has already won by proxy.
If Labour moves further right, then National has already won by proxy.
i hope people realise that Hipkins normalising health privatisation narratives is *actively setting up Labour to lose* given context of National “getting things done” in that space and their continued position as the “business party”
this is some of the most self-damaging comms strategy ive seen
this is some of the most self-damaging comms strategy ive seen
December 14, 2025 at 12:55 AM
People be like "If Labour don't move further right National will win"
If Labour moves further right, then National has already won by proxy.
If Labour moves further right, then National has already won by proxy.
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If the project is really to move politics left by presenting a moderate message to get people on board THEN do progressive things (something I have literally been told by multiple Labour strategists), why would you keep drawing angry lines through any idea even *slightly* more radical than your own?
December 9, 2025 at 4:55 AM
If the project is really to move politics left by presenting a moderate message to get people on board THEN do progressive things (something I have literally been told by multiple Labour strategists), why would you keep drawing angry lines through any idea even *slightly* more radical than your own?
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You NEVER see National's leaders leaping to denounce ACT policies. They don't have to endorse them; they just brush off the question. Then when they get into power, they form a coalition and suddenly a whole bunch of stuff which didn't fit National's ~responsible manager~ brand gets done on day one
December 9, 2025 at 4:47 AM
You NEVER see National's leaders leaping to denounce ACT policies. They don't have to endorse them; they just brush off the question. Then when they get into power, they form a coalition and suddenly a whole bunch of stuff which didn't fit National's ~responsible manager~ brand gets done on day one
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2026 is going to be Winston screaming about trans people and immigrants, Seymour advocating we sell off everything and National going "let us finish all of these reforms" and tbh if you think Labour have the leader or the ideological mettle for this, nah sorry it's going to be 2023 again.
December 8, 2025 at 5:33 PM
2026 is going to be Winston screaming about trans people and immigrants, Seymour advocating we sell off everything and National going "let us finish all of these reforms" and tbh if you think Labour have the leader or the ideological mettle for this, nah sorry it's going to be 2023 again.
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Children are not born knowing how to pick on people for being different or how to ostracize newcomers or that social relations should be based on dominance and aggression
Children are taught these things by THE REST OF US
Children are taught these things by THE REST OF US
December 8, 2025 at 4:21 AM
Children are not born knowing how to pick on people for being different or how to ostracize newcomers or that social relations should be based on dominance and aggression
Children are taught these things by THE REST OF US
Children are taught these things by THE REST OF US
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Tbh I think we’re justified in no longer sharing any bbc articles about trans people (please), not least because the link preview text invariably includes their fun new alternative to the phrase “trans woman” 💀
December 6, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Tbh I think we’re justified in no longer sharing any bbc articles about trans people (please), not least because the link preview text invariably includes their fun new alternative to the phrase “trans woman” 💀
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once you've started transitioning you'll never stop wanting to beat medical "professionals" to death with your bare hands
December 4, 2025 at 9:21 PM
once you've started transitioning you'll never stop wanting to beat medical "professionals" to death with your bare hands
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All the Lab stans saying individual members have made statements against the puberty blockers ban. Yep, they have. The leader hasn’t. The Party hasn’t. winnie the anti-trans piece of shit is a possibility for a Lab coalition.
I don’t know what else to say.
I don’t know what else to say.
Lab: fuck you, trans people, we want power.
Peter Dunne: Despite official denials from both parties, some form of contact seems to have been resumed between the two former partners
December 5, 2025 at 5:25 AM
All the Lab stans saying individual members have made statements against the puberty blockers ban. Yep, they have. The leader hasn’t. The Party hasn’t. winnie the anti-trans piece of shit is a possibility for a Lab coalition.
I don’t know what else to say.
I don’t know what else to say.
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It’s insane that I have to say this, actually. We have the benefit of witnessing exactly what has happened overseas. If you believe we can’t get that bad, you’re wrong - especially if we don’t fight it.
December 5, 2025 at 6:09 AM
It’s insane that I have to say this, actually. We have the benefit of witnessing exactly what has happened overseas. If you believe we can’t get that bad, you’re wrong - especially if we don’t fight it.
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as a software engineer, ai coding makes my life measurably worse by polluting the information environment and vastly increasing the scale of incorrect bullshit my peers can and do create that i then have to clean up, or worse, guard against and NOT clean up. it actively makes people around me dumber
I think that may be the core division here: if you are an author or an artist the cons of generative AI very likely outweigh the pros for you
If you are a software developer the opposite is true
If you are a software developer the opposite is true
November 26, 2025 at 4:20 PM
as a software engineer, ai coding makes my life measurably worse by polluting the information environment and vastly increasing the scale of incorrect bullshit my peers can and do create that i then have to clean up, or worse, guard against and NOT clean up. it actively makes people around me dumber
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#rustlang hot take: We should rename .unwrap() to .or_panic(). (And .expect() to .or_panic_with().) "Unwrap" is a terrible name for the panicking function, especially since we also have things like .unwrap_or() and .unwrap_or_default() which never panic.
November 19, 2025 at 7:32 AM
#rustlang hot take: We should rename .unwrap() to .or_panic(). (And .expect() to .or_panic_with().) "Unwrap" is a terrible name for the panicking function, especially since we also have things like .unwrap_or() and .unwrap_or_default() which never panic.
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PATHA's statement has been published: patha.nz/news
November 19, 2025 at 8:04 AM
PATHA's statement has been published: patha.nz/news
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we need people to call this what it is - social murder
no one except a very small group of virulent extremists wants this policy
any politician who treats this otherwise is complicit in providing cover for them, if not an extremist themselves
no one except a very small group of virulent extremists wants this policy
any politician who treats this otherwise is complicit in providing cover for them, if not an extremist themselves
The Government is banning new patients from being prescribed the most common form of puberty blocker and is explicitly aligning NZ's future policy on this matter to the UK's. PR below.
November 19, 2025 at 3:57 AM
we need people to call this what it is - social murder
no one except a very small group of virulent extremists wants this policy
any politician who treats this otherwise is complicit in providing cover for them, if not an extremist themselves
no one except a very small group of virulent extremists wants this policy
any politician who treats this otherwise is complicit in providing cover for them, if not an extremist themselves
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Yeah people really don't understand that actually typing code is like, the least important part of writing code
November 16, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Yeah people really don't understand that actually typing code is like, the least important part of writing code
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Trying to measure coding productivity is, and always will be, a fool's errand.
Why? Because I can go for a walk then take a shower and have an idea, then write a single line of code that fixes everything I was working on.
Immense productivity, but by most metrics I didn't do anything at all.
Why? Because I can go for a walk then take a shower and have an idea, then write a single line of code that fixes everything I was working on.
Immense productivity, but by most metrics I didn't do anything at all.
November 16, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Trying to measure coding productivity is, and always will be, a fool's errand.
Why? Because I can go for a walk then take a shower and have an idea, then write a single line of code that fixes everything I was working on.
Immense productivity, but by most metrics I didn't do anything at all.
Why? Because I can go for a walk then take a shower and have an idea, then write a single line of code that fixes everything I was working on.
Immense productivity, but by most metrics I didn't do anything at all.
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stop telling your neurodivergent child that in "the real world" people won't accommodate them, so they should suck it up. this is the real world and you shouldn't be your child's first bully
November 7, 2025 at 3:54 PM
stop telling your neurodivergent child that in "the real world" people won't accommodate them, so they should suck it up. this is the real world and you shouldn't be your child's first bully
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also i’m really sick of people who talk about non-binary people like we don’t also take hrt or get surgeries.
it’s genuinely maddening
it’s genuinely maddening
October 28, 2025 at 4:23 AM
also i’m really sick of people who talk about non-binary people like we don’t also take hrt or get surgeries.
it’s genuinely maddening
it’s genuinely maddening
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With people like this in our communities who needs bad allies, we out here working things back to conservative points all on our own
hot take: I think we should go back to assuming peoples pronouns. if we get it wrong, we should be corrected, say "thank you for correcting me", and not get it wrong again.
November 5, 2025 at 9:24 PM
With people like this in our communities who needs bad allies, we out here working things back to conservative points all on our own
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When you sit neatly in the gender binary it's easy to be like "ugh I am clearly wearing a dress just call me she/her because this is what women are supposed to look like!!" and forget about literally every queer person that does not work like that. You're continuing to enforce binary as the standard
November 5, 2025 at 9:22 PM
When you sit neatly in the gender binary it's easy to be like "ugh I am clearly wearing a dress just call me she/her because this is what women are supposed to look like!!" and forget about literally every queer person that does not work like that. You're continuing to enforce binary as the standard
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Guys what does an it/its look like. Or do I have to get misgendered forever. God forbid you dress femininely but don't use she/her pronouns
November 5, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Guys what does an it/its look like. Or do I have to get misgendered forever. God forbid you dress femininely but don't use she/her pronouns
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i think if people CAN "assume your pronouns" you're probably relatively privileged in the trans community
i know a lot of trans women who get "he'd" no matter how femme they are - not "they'd". that's how "let's just assume" goes for non-passing trans people. think about your less fortunate sisters
i know a lot of trans women who get "he'd" no matter how femme they are - not "they'd". that's how "let's just assume" goes for non-passing trans people. think about your less fortunate sisters
November 5, 2025 at 6:35 PM
i think if people CAN "assume your pronouns" you're probably relatively privileged in the trans community
i know a lot of trans women who get "he'd" no matter how femme they are - not "they'd". that's how "let's just assume" goes for non-passing trans people. think about your less fortunate sisters
i know a lot of trans women who get "he'd" no matter how femme they are - not "they'd". that's how "let's just assume" goes for non-passing trans people. think about your less fortunate sisters