Itβs crystal clear now that Trump has lost control of this war. He badly misjudged Iranβs ability to retaliate. The region is on fire.
1/ Iβm going to explain to you in thisπ§΅what Iβve learned - in part from closed door briefings - about the four biggest current crises.
NZ has a problem with AI illiteracy, but it is not, as suggested here, that people are not using it enough.
Few people or organisations understand how 'AI' systems actually work, what their limitation are, or what happens to their data.
Luxon has a Tesla.
The rest of us are paying $3 a litre at the pump.
Six ways the Luxon government made this global oil crisis hit harder at home.
From the Fuel Plan
Being irrationally upset by the unneeded page break after the blue section of the second table, here is the Fuel Plan traffic lights on one page. I think as a png it can be opened separately.
An ambulance outside a library with many people outside, also several people in high vis vests
The enormous queue around the back of the library
PΕneke, where we need an ambulance at a library opening in case people get crushed
A ludicrous headline above a failure of a Finance Minister Nicola Willis: NZ must fight for fuel security by Luke Malpass | The Post
This is ludicrous #nzpol
NZ must fight for fuel security says the person who wonβt invest in people, public transport, solar, wind power, renewables, cycleways, or any solutions not wedded and embedded to the oil and gas industry. You canβt austerity your way out of this you headless chook.
Hegseth: "We will keep pushing, keep advancing. No quarter, no mercy for our enemies."
No quarter is the refusal to take prisoners and instead just execute everyone. It's been considered a war crime for over a century.
1960s motel table comes to life, startles media with incomprehensible babble
A tweet that reads βThe new academic wealth gap isn't your university. It's not even your advisor's connections. It's who knows Claude can turn 50+ research papers into a thesis chapter in 3 hours and who's still manually coding qualitative data. I just watched a sociology PhD skip 8 weeks of analysis. Here are the 9 prompts they used:β
fuck this so much
we are so not prepared for the mountain of dogshit βscholarshipβ about to flood journals everywhere
I have it in cross stitch
#nzpol It is totally unacceptable that the Public Service Commissioner is attempting to turn teachers against each other and undermine solidarity across the sector. As New Zealanders we love our teachers. They deserve to be paid what theyβre worth.
Haha I ticked strongly agree / frequently option for this in mine. Just been diagnosed last week π
I sincerely don't give a fuck what state Nicola Willis leaves the books in. There is a significant problem with homelessness that needs to be addressed. It is not unreasonable to expect Labour to make some damn commitments to support existing housing programmes that can take action from day one.
From the moment this guy entered politics over a decade ago it has felt like one long, drawn-out experiment to see how far it's possible to push the concept of ignoring reality and attempting to create a different one by social media fiat, and we may be close to getting an answer.
The funny thing is we all know the thing about him just repeating whatever the last person told him was, but right now itβs obvious he has different people trying to explain various possibilities and contingencies and heβs just fucking panicking and scrambling and saying them all at once.
Thereβs something grotesque about everyone talking about petrol prices while families are mourning the loss of their kids. I canβt stop thinking about how their parents must be feeling. The mothers who carried and birthed them. Feel sick to my stomach.
2023 omg will he be leader?
Will the guy who was a CEO and stuff be leader?
What do you mean we should ask more questions, he was a CEO and stuff.
2026 omg whenβs he getting rolled? Today? Tomorrow?
Whoever thought heβd be a good PM cos he was a CEO and stuff must of had rocks in their head eh?
"As well as topping up antibodies, Baker said getting regular boosters reduced the risk of Long Covid.
The "disabling illness" was not being monitored at all in New Zealand which Baker said was a "gap" in tracking the virus."
www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
Every single time I read an article that reports how Israel gave an evacuation order to a foreign sovereign territory that they're going to bomb 'pre-emptively', I wonder how we got to a point where telling civilians that you're going to murder them is seen as decency?
Half of NZers agreed billionaires shouldn't exist while people struggle with basic necessities
68% supported billionaires being taxed more
37% were in favour of introducing a billion-dollar wealth cap to minimise the amount of wealth any person could legally hold
www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
The choice is stark. Reform are the party of foreign wars and high bills.
The Greens want de-escalation and energy security through renewables. Solar and wind prices don't fluctuate when rogue US presidents launch illegal bombing campaigns.
Benjamin Netanyahuβs long career was built on conflict avoidanceβthen, October 7 transformed and radicalized him, @Yair_Rosenberg argues:
OMFG they think we are the dumbest people who ever lived.
NZ Labour leader Chris Hipkins on point: Points out Pentagon briefings there was no intelligence Iran would have attacked first, and current war breaches international law.
Respecting international law v. important for the security of a country like #NZ, he adds #auspol #nzpol
While we sit around to find out how bad exactly it all is, a bit of cheer: the best baguette of Paris competition was won by a Sri Lankan who appears to have started as a dish washer in restaurants and eventually trained as a Boulanger.
www.paris.fr/pages/la-mei...
UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres: βMilitary action carries the risk of igniting a chain of events that no one can control in the most volatile region of the world"
"The Islamists oppose women getting an education," I mutter, as I aim my missile at the girls school
A country surrounded by the ocean, with active geothermal zones, buffeted by winds and basking in sunshine should not be relying on tanker loads of oil, gas and coal shipped half way across the world to run its energy network.
Print in black and white looking up to a gap in the canopy of bare trees in a wood where two birds in silhouette fly
'More breathing space' by contemporary UK printmaker Janis Goodman #WomensArt
Labour MP Ian Byrne: "The lines from the PM and Cabinet today essentially labelling the Green Party as extremist is appalling, desperate and frankly embarrassing.
"It also makes very clear that the leadership has zero understanding of where it has been going wrong."
Say, you're a developer. What's the play here?
Let's say the hype is true. AI will replace 40% of workers. And it's the 60% most AI-adapted workers who will stay. Is that the final state? What happens when the next 40% are replaced? And the next? What makes you think you'll be the survivor?
