Te Ara Paerangi Com - Research Advocacy Capability
@te-ara-paerangi.community
We are a community of people working together for a better collective future using research, advocacy, and capability building. We are based in Aotearoa New Zealand.
Come join us. https://te-ara-paerangi.community
Missing words are due to Long COVID.
Come join us. https://te-ara-paerangi.community
Missing words are due to Long COVID.
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History / Background of TAP Community for Aotearoa Bluesky
IntroductionBluesky user The Broke Bonsai Bloke asked where Kiwis might go if Bluesky takes a nosedive. I offered up this site as one possibility. I had in mind people for whom our kaupapa resonates. ...
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Here's the promised write up. I welcome any thoughts or comments from #NZPOL and other bluesky users. Thanks to @memycoffeenbonsai.bsky.social for the specific prompt. And thanks to the many people here that I've interacted with since the great migration.
Let's get organised!
Let's get organised!
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Just a reminder to forward your scam text messages to 7726 www.7726.govt.nz
Home - DIA
Index, Home, DIA
www.7726.govt.nz
January 21, 2026 at 12:59 AM
Just a reminder to forward your scam text messages to 7726 www.7726.govt.nz
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Dragging a man out in the middle of a Minnesota winter wearing only their underwear is not wrong because he's a citizen (although he is); it's wrong because he is a human being. youtube.com/shorts/5EVHG...
American citizen dragged from home: here's the legal reality
YouTube video by Machine Pun Kelly
youtube.com
January 21, 2026 at 12:57 AM
Dragging a man out in the middle of a Minnesota winter wearing only their underwear is not wrong because he's a citizen (although he is); it's wrong because he is a human being. youtube.com/shorts/5EVHG...
Another minor victory today. I continue to be impressed by the local and regional council staff. Really professional and kind at the same time.
Minor victory on the home front today. Can't share the details, but I am 😀.
January 21, 2026 at 3:50 AM
Another minor victory today. I continue to be impressed by the local and regional council staff. Really professional and kind at the same time.
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This idea was part of a kōrero yesterday. Let's help spread it amongst our whanau, our neighbors, co-workers, etc. Feeling better by helping others. Virtuous cycle. 🥰
It doesn't have to be the ideal thing, it doesn't have to be huge and splashy, it doesn't have to help millions of people, just pick ONE THING that will use your skills to help people and do it regularly. You will feel SO MUCH FUCKING BETTER.
January 8, 2026 at 12:44 AM
This idea was part of a kōrero yesterday. Let's help spread it amongst our whanau, our neighbors, co-workers, etc. Feeling better by helping others. Virtuous cycle. 🥰
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The biggest and hardest step out of this globe rending catastrophe is for everyone to live as though what is happening is real and react accordingly.
The pretending is what allows it grow and fester.
The pretending is what allows it grow and fester.
January 21, 2026 at 2:17 AM
The biggest and hardest step out of this globe rending catastrophe is for everyone to live as though what is happening is real and react accordingly.
The pretending is what allows it grow and fester.
The pretending is what allows it grow and fester.
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If you're planning to attend the Capital City Complex Systems Symposium next month, it will be operating under our simple Covid-19 Policy to reduce the risk of attendees getting sick → www.tepunahamatatini.ac.nz/our-policies...
#cccss26 #complexsystems
#cccss26 #complexsystems
Covid-19 Policy | Te Pūnaha Matatini
Te Pūnaha Matatini has a simple policy in place at our events to keep participants safe from Covid-19 and other respiratory diseases:
www.tepunahamatatini.ac.nz
January 20, 2026 at 9:54 PM
If you're planning to attend the Capital City Complex Systems Symposium next month, it will be operating under our simple Covid-19 Policy to reduce the risk of attendees getting sick → www.tepunahamatatini.ac.nz/our-policies...
#cccss26 #complexsystems
#cccss26 #complexsystems
Neurodiverse whanau, the 1st Autistic Professionals Network - Palmerston North meetup is in less than 2 weeks. It is Sunday the 1st of February at 10:00 AM. Anyone with interest is welcome. There is no fee. See below for details.
Boosting the signal on this will be greatly appreciated.
Ngā mihi nui.
Boosting the signal on this will be greatly appreciated.
Ngā mihi nui.
Autistic Professionals Network - Palmerston North | Meetup
**Welcome to the Autistic Professionals Network - Palmerston North!**Are you on the Autism Spectrum and seeking connection and growth? Then please join our group of neurodiverse professionals in Palme...
www.meetup.com
January 19, 2026 at 1:34 AM
Neurodiverse whanau, the 1st Autistic Professionals Network - Palmerston North meetup is in less than 2 weeks. It is Sunday the 1st of February at 10:00 AM. Anyone with interest is welcome. There is no fee. See below for details.
Boosting the signal on this will be greatly appreciated.
Ngā mihi nui.
Boosting the signal on this will be greatly appreciated.
Ngā mihi nui.
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Fantastic PhD opportunity available! “Leveraging citizen science data to reveal latent mechanisms regulating bird population dynamics in urbanised landscapes”. Part of the Leverhulme Doctoral Training Program in Ecological Data Science: ecological-data-science.github.io/projects.html. More below.
Ecological Data Science - Projects
ecological-data-science.github.io
January 16, 2026 at 5:14 PM
Fantastic PhD opportunity available! “Leveraging citizen science data to reveal latent mechanisms regulating bird population dynamics in urbanised landscapes”. Part of the Leverhulme Doctoral Training Program in Ecological Data Science: ecological-data-science.github.io/projects.html. More below.
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Living a moral life in an age of bullies requires collective action; it cannot be done alone. Each of us must organize and participate in a vast network of moral resistance. From this solidarity we will grow stronger. This is what our current moment requires.
January 17, 2026 at 9:00 PM
Living a moral life in an age of bullies requires collective action; it cannot be done alone. Each of us must organize and participate in a vast network of moral resistance. From this solidarity we will grow stronger. This is what our current moment requires.
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I've been researching a bunch of historical resistance perspectives, and there's a common refrain across marginalised groups in a LOT of different contexts that Doing Something despite feeling it's pointless matters enormously.
It's building hope, as a practice, *while* feeling like doomed shit. 1/
It's building hope, as a practice, *while* feeling like doomed shit. 1/
While I was pulling out by early 23, I made conscious choice during worst days of my last day job in 2024 to tell a different story. Sure that place was fucked, but I still had to operate there. So what small changes could I make? What could I control? I was tired of hating every day. Tired of dread
January 17, 2026 at 11:45 PM
I've been researching a bunch of historical resistance perspectives, and there's a common refrain across marginalised groups in a LOT of different contexts that Doing Something despite feeling it's pointless matters enormously.
It's building hope, as a practice, *while* feeling like doomed shit. 1/
It's building hope, as a practice, *while* feeling like doomed shit. 1/
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This for us.
When countries get hooked on US tech, their governments are constrained in reining in tech’s harms while most of the economic benefits accrue to the United States.
It’s time to break out of that trap — but that means challenging the Silicon Valley model, not creating our own digital colonizers.
It’s time to break out of that trap — but that means challenging the Silicon Valley model, not creating our own digital colonizers.
Escaping the trap of US tech dependence
Canada needs real digital sovereignty, not our own digital colonizers
disconnect.blog
January 17, 2026 at 7:33 AM
This for us.
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"The power of tyranny is overestimated (not in the short run, but in the long run), and can be overcome by the unity and the determination of apparently powerless people." -- @zinndigital.bsky.social in @theprogressivemag.bsky.social by @edgeofsports.bsky.social ⬇️
progressive.org/magazine/the...
progressive.org/magazine/the...
The People’s Historian
We would do well to remember the words of Howard Zinn today.
progressive.org
January 17, 2026 at 1:50 PM
"The power of tyranny is overestimated (not in the short run, but in the long run), and can be overcome by the unity and the determination of apparently powerless people." -- @zinndigital.bsky.social in @theprogressivemag.bsky.social by @edgeofsports.bsky.social ⬇️
progressive.org/magazine/the...
progressive.org/magazine/the...
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January 17, 2026 at 12:25 AM
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Babylon 5 is perhaps the most politically sophisticated science fiction series ever made (light years beyond Gene Roddenberry) and much of it speaks directly to the era we live in. I don’t know how @straczynski.bsky.social managed to be this prescient 30 years ago.
January 17, 2026 at 1:01 AM
Babylon 5 is perhaps the most politically sophisticated science fiction series ever made (light years beyond Gene Roddenberry) and much of it speaks directly to the era we live in. I don’t know how @straczynski.bsky.social managed to be this prescient 30 years ago.
It's a big old goofy world that once had John Prine doing his thing. Sometimes his thing was philosophical in nature and timeless.
John Prine - Spanish Pipedream
YouTube video by ItsWaldo (Walter Brinkman)
www.youtube.com
January 17, 2026 at 2:45 AM
It's a big old goofy world that once had John Prine doing his thing. Sometimes his thing was philosophical in nature and timeless.
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We can’t believe we can recreate the Silicon Valley model in every country around the world.
Leaving digital tech to the private sector was a mistake. It’s time for a greater public-sector and non-commercial role in tech development to ensure it serves the public.
disconnect.blog/escaping-the...
Leaving digital tech to the private sector was a mistake. It’s time for a greater public-sector and non-commercial role in tech development to ensure it serves the public.
disconnect.blog/escaping-the...
January 16, 2026 at 5:52 PM
We can’t believe we can recreate the Silicon Valley model in every country around the world.
Leaving digital tech to the private sector was a mistake. It’s time for a greater public-sector and non-commercial role in tech development to ensure it serves the public.
disconnect.blog/escaping-the...
Leaving digital tech to the private sector was a mistake. It’s time for a greater public-sector and non-commercial role in tech development to ensure it serves the public.
disconnect.blog/escaping-the...
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One of my great joys in life is how woke the Dog Rates guy turned out to be.
youtu.be/lOUfrdP5Vmk?...
youtu.be/lOUfrdP5Vmk?...
The Murder of Renee Nicole Good
YouTube video by WeRateDogs
youtu.be
January 16, 2026 at 10:12 PM
One of my great joys in life is how woke the Dog Rates guy turned out to be.
youtu.be/lOUfrdP5Vmk?...
youtu.be/lOUfrdP5Vmk?...
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One of my concerns with AI-assisted research in biology is that we're already looking only in the lamplight and AI incentivizes us to narrow the beam. Seems like it's happening...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Artificial intelligence tools expand scientists’ impact but contract science’s focus - Nature
Artificial intelligence boosts individual scientists’ output, citations and career progression, but collectively narrows research diversity and reduces collaboration, concentrating work in data-rich a...
www.nature.com
January 15, 2026 at 4:08 PM
One of my concerns with AI-assisted research in biology is that we're already looking only in the lamplight and AI incentivizes us to narrow the beam. Seems like it's happening...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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It's a primer for digital humanities scholarship & teaching that centers designing for social good in a world of antisocial practices and tech. We’re excited to be working with @bendoyle.bsky.social at Bloomsbury to make it happen and to have an editor who supports this kind of work, especially now.
January 16, 2026 at 2:37 PM
It's a primer for digital humanities scholarship & teaching that centers designing for social good in a world of antisocial practices and tech. We’re excited to be working with @bendoyle.bsky.social at Bloomsbury to make it happen and to have an editor who supports this kind of work, especially now.
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I was telling one of my kids that it was physically impossible for an ad to play between songs on any of the records I own, and they asked "and you only have to pay for it once?" and you could see how strange that seemed. You cannot overstate how many basic rules of media consumption have changed.
January 16, 2026 at 4:59 AM
I was telling one of my kids that it was physically impossible for an ad to play between songs on any of the records I own, and they asked "and you only have to pay for it once?" and you could see how strange that seemed. You cannot overstate how many basic rules of media consumption have changed.
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This pulling-the-rug from under the feet of people who've already made the momentous decision to uproot their lives and move to another country is a really crappy way for a state to behave.
It treats people as economic assets not as people. But NZ immigration policy has been like this for decades.
It treats people as economic assets not as people. But NZ immigration policy has been like this for decades.
Skilled migrants on path to residency warned status may change
Skilled migrants on path to residency warned status may change
Migrants told their jobs were skilled may find that's no longer be the case.
www.rnz.co.nz
January 16, 2026 at 1:08 AM
This pulling-the-rug from under the feet of people who've already made the momentous decision to uproot their lives and move to another country is a really crappy way for a state to behave.
It treats people as economic assets not as people. But NZ immigration policy has been like this for decades.
It treats people as economic assets not as people. But NZ immigration policy has been like this for decades.
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pulling this reflection on white silence/fear over here, too:
January 16, 2026 at 4:12 AM
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One of the main ‘barriers’ is the deep set resistance to following clear procedures and having auditable logs, consistent records of business processes and decisions. If you can’t address that, you aren’t ready for a ‘digital transformation’ and certainly not for automation, let alone AI.
The NZ Government wants to accelerate the replacement of human labour with artificial intelligence.
January 16, 2026 at 3:58 AM
One of the main ‘barriers’ is the deep set resistance to following clear procedures and having auditable logs, consistent records of business processes and decisions. If you can’t address that, you aren’t ready for a ‘digital transformation’ and certainly not for automation, let alone AI.
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But money doesn’t capture everything it provides. Far from it. Losing biodiversity isn’t just costly. It’s catastrophic. Civilisation depends on it.
We need to do a far better job of protecting it.
We need to do a far better job of protecting it.
January 16, 2026 at 1:58 AM
But money doesn’t capture everything it provides. Far from it. Losing biodiversity isn’t just costly. It’s catastrophic. Civilisation depends on it.
We need to do a far better job of protecting it.
We need to do a far better job of protecting it.
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If biodiversity were a company, it would dwarf the biggest corporations.
Its annual contribution to society is in the tens of trillions of dollars.
Its annual contribution to society is in the tens of trillions of dollars.
January 16, 2026 at 1:58 AM
If biodiversity were a company, it would dwarf the biggest corporations.
Its annual contribution to society is in the tens of trillions of dollars.
Its annual contribution to society is in the tens of trillions of dollars.