Peter Kelly (@PeterKelly@mastodon.nz)

www.mediacouncil.org.nz/complaints/

This hits different where I'm from.

So you are telling me that Sam Altman has a goal for AI that is feasible with current technology and, in fact, well underway?

"We started a war of aggression for no reason & commenced it by accidentally bombing an elementary school & killing over 100 kids."

That simple fact is so horrific that it's just kind of bouncing on the surface of our collective consciousness. We can't absorb its full implications & significance.

Whose terms are coming to an end? Daniel, and who else?

Unpopular opinion, but I love my F&P CPAP.
It keeps me healthy and well rested and it’s been around the world with me.
Plus it I put on a blackout mask as well I look like future cyborg.

Hi nerds. What's the best English translation of Kierkegaard's Concept of Anxiety?

@kentnewman.com You need this thread in your life.

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.

The report’s rather simplistic suggestion that better information will somehow suffice (suggesting authors never spoke to or learnt from disinfo experts) doesn't counter what was then, & still is a strategic, sustained, sophisticated, industrial-scale, coordinated assault on the national psyche.

Sorry about that. I'll delete/unfollow so I don't do that to you again.

In my professional capacity (which this isn't) I do medico-legal litigation. I agree with you.

Health and Disability Commission says operating budget $1.9m less than previous years The Health and Disability Commission says there is no decision over job losses after losing nearly 10 percent of its funding.

Mmm. The processes aren't fast, and they cost money too: www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

Given the article is about a report "severely critical of the care the man received in December 2019", yep.

Diabetic patient dies in Waikato Hospital stairwell after urgently needed food delayed He walked past seven staff, but a search did not begin for nearly an hour, with CCTV showing him at the snack machine before being found unconscious.

I really don't think this is what we want to be as a country.

Braille edition of The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

This might be a good undertaking for a legal scholar in Aotearoa: would the UK's clinical practices be illegal in NZ under the Conversion Practices Prohibition Legislation Act 2022?

This would help put to rest suggestions we adopt the UK's frameworks here. Anyone up for the challenge?

#nzlaw

Ninth wave of Covid-19 suggests wane in immunity, expert says everyone must 'act to reduce impact' The latest figures show 50 hospitalisations and 19 deaths with the virus in the past week.

"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...

Nepalese Dumplings in Emmett Street, in Newtown School staff car park 😍🥰😍🥰😍🥰

Clever Hans, seeing Jesus in a cheeto, all sorts of audio and visual hallucination, and scads of other phenomena are all related to;

- Hearing someone call your name when there is no one there has a very low cost

- Not hearing someone call your name when there is a tiger behind you has a very high

i don't think they see any children as fully human

they see their own as capable of qualifying at some future point once they've been sufficiently indoctrinated

but they see Others as irredeemable children regardless of their age

okay the fact you can OIA a minister's chatGPT logs is pretty funny, sometimes the NZ administrative state is good actually

This statement is worth reading. Should be seen along with the congressional vote tally.

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Exclusive: US investigation points to likely US responsibility in Iran school strike, sources say Military investigators believe it is likely that U.S. forces were responsible for an apparent strike on an Iranian girls' school that killed scores of children on Saturday, two U.S. officials told Reu...

Reuters Exclusive

"U.S. military investigators believe it is likely that U.S. forces were responsible for an apparent strike on an Iranian girls' school."

"The strike would rank among the worst cases of civilian casualties in decades of U.S. conflicts in the ​Middle East."

I agree with Ewen. Better FYI with unhappy "customers" than no FYI. Feel free to get in touch if FYI needs legal advice (although frankly you seem to navigate those things fine).

the one who loved horses, the one who was a great goalkeeper, the one who kept a diary every day, the one who held her sister's hand when they walked to school, the one who read Harry Potter in English, the one who collected old coins, the one who drew rainbows for her grandmother ...

U.S. sub sinks Iranian warship off Sri Lanka, killing 87 and expanding war zone A U.S. submarine sank an Iranian warship off the southern coast of Sri Lanka, killing dozens of sailors and dramatically widening Washington's pursuit of the Iranian navy.

A US submarine sinking a lonely, dinky Iranian surface ship an ocean away from the theater of the main conflict—and 9000
miles from North America—makes it pretty clear the US is fighting a general war, without the declaration required by the Constitution. www.reuters.com/world/asia-p...

Covid hospitalisations climb as New Zealand enters new wave There’s been an increase in hospitalisations and in wastewater detections, and it’s expected to last another month or two.

Still absolutely adamant you do not want Covid. Long Covid is still a crisis and is the worst health impact I’ve ever personally experienced.
Our health system is much worse than it was in 2020 - you do not want to navigate it with Covid impacts.

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