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Ah, Heinz. Closing the factories in New Zealand because you can.
Time to stop selling everything offshore and hoping they keep us employed instead of treating us like a cash cow.
Looking at all of you.
😱🤯 -- Just looked up the cost to go gold open access at Nature Eco Evo: US$12850! That's $21,600 NZD. That's the same cost as a Royal Society Master's Scholarship!
This has gone too far. Absolutely bonkers.
High unemployment driving benefit dependency, but set to improve - economist The rise was largely driven by a weak labour market, said Infometrics principal economist Brad Olsen said. "There has been a larger proportional increase in Jobseeker support benefit requirements compared to all other benefits on average," he said. The government had options to intervene but they were not all politically or socially palatable, Olsen said. That included clamping down access to benefits. Brad OlsenInfometrics principal economist Brad Olsen. Photo: RNZ / Samuel Rillstone "Which could well reduce the overall numbers, but would likely leave a number of New Zealanders out in the cold and facing very challenging circumstances at a time when we know that the number of jobs being advertised in the economy are still 25 percent lower than pre-pandemic and the unemployment rate is at a 10-year high."
The majority of reckonomists under 65 were obvs given psychedelics at Uni and brainwashed by hypnotic ideologues.. 'these simple models explain the complexity of the world that you seek to understand my children ... and they provide your ticket to well-paid reckonining and self-import'. (🛢️ 1/n)
Excited that my latest article, How does settler-colonialism problematise the concepts of infrastructure and sabotage? Insights from debates about the Treaty of Waitangi in Aotearoa, with coauthors @joannakidman.bsky.social, Sophie Bond, and Karen Nairn, is out: journals.sagepub.com/doi/epdf/10....
They overshot the mark.
🤣Microsoft's long time strategy is to make things not work except for on MS Windows. More and more rapidly, that strategy is becoming a real problem for them.
Photo of a cuneiform tablet fragment shaped a bit like an irregular diamond. It preserves nearly 20 incomplete lines of text separated by a horizontal ruling
There's a broken cuneiform tablet from the Old Babylonian period, nearly 4,000 years ago, which preserves a tiny portion of a dialogue between two friends.
It feels a bit like the conversations I've been having for the past week, so I wanted to share it.
And its not just about losing jobs. Its about decreasing our capacity to feed ourselves here. As much as I enjoy doing a bit of freezing and canning at home, I am under no illusion that 1) it is sufficient for our own home, and 2) it could scale so that every doing it would be enough.
#supplychain
The great forgetting that NZers enjoyed months of domestic travel, holidays, economic stability while large areas of the world were dealing with hospitals collapsing, deaths, lockdowns and restrictions.
This amazing scientific advance may one day lead to either more effective treatments or dare I say perhaps a cure.
This is why it is vitally important to fund basic scientific research.
Scientists Discover Way To Reverse Chemical Process Linked With Alzheimer’s Disease share.google/Vm0hfSMfkGIc...
See? Its not hard for a political leader to say this. So why can't Aotearoa's?
We've been working our plan for solar. Just about have the set of options to compare. Will put in the order by the end of this week.
And its not just about losing jobs. Its about decreasing our capacity to feed ourselves here. As much as I enjoy doing a bit of freezing and canning at home, I am under no illusion that 1) it is sufficient for our own home, and 2) it could scale so that every doing it would be enough.
#supplychain
This kind of crap is why we need to get donations out of politics. Money is not speech. The rich do not merit more influence than the rest of us.
#nzpol
National lamenting $60 billion Covid spend while they are on track to borrow $120 billion with no pandemic.
Labour saved 20,000 lives.
National are saving landlords and tobacco
Sound familiar?
#NZPOL
Some of the country’s best doctors and healthcare workers have been driven offshore by seeing their patients die unnecessarily because of a dire lack of modern medicines, the Prime Minister has been warned.
#nzpol
I'm keen to know more about the process and how it goes!
If you're concerned about lobbying in Aotearoa and how it should be regulated, you'll be interested in this free webinar on 31 March:
www.eventbrite.co.nz/e/webinar-lo...
Prof Gary Murphy (Ireland)
Ass. Prof Yee-Fui Ng (Australia)
@maxrashbrooke.bsky.social
Chris Finlayson
Julie Haggie of TINZ
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If there's one thing I didn't fully understand early enough in life, it's that people lie. Lots of people lie, all the time.
It's not just politicians and real estate agents. Office workers, government workers, police officers... even retail bankers!
Some days I just can't even.
From the report: "“It is clear ministers & official were facing a series of complex, high-stakes decisions in a rapidly changing environment & were doing the best they could at the time. Evidence shows NZ had among one of the best pandemic responses in the world.”"
Opening for a tenure track position in statistical computing:
wirtschaftsuniversitaet-wien-portal.rexx-systems.com/Assistant-Pr...
As dept chair, R Core member Kurt Hornik invites applications from people who could make substantial contributions to #RStats, including base R.
Deadline Mar 18!
THIS. Tamatha Paul is right - but if you'd pardon my French it's a little fucking rich of media outlets like The Post who repeatedly laundered and amplified this kind of dirty politics to be riding the ethical high horse. #nzpol
Same.
The 2nd Covid inquiry report shows broad approval for decisions made.
Were the funds well spent on two inquiries going over the same stuff - lockdowns, vaccines, testing, etc?
No.
Where is the inquiry looking into disinformation and Long Covid?
There appears to be a coordinated push for specific types of legislation (including this) in at least most of the anglosphere. Very concerning.
Under the guise of protecting children, governments are pushing for legislation that harms everyone.
This is not the first time this has been tried as those of us following technology law for the last 30 years know very well.
@openpolicy.bsky.social
#NZPOL
Indeed.
And a Reminder ...
#nzpol
