tcnicholls

iangriffin, 10 days ago to NewZealand

Just because I am taking a day off today, and am waiting to watch the Space Station cross the sun, here's a comparison between radiation levels you get when flying on an ATR 72 and an A320 Airbus. #radiation #NewZealand

tcnicholls, 17 days ago to NewZealand

NZ has some established institutions which have made the life of New Zealanders immeasurably better over the years; two of these are ACC and Pharmac. It's clear from statements made by by Clux and his mates that he sees no value in these operations other than as assets which can be sold off to Big Insurance and Big Pharma.

This is always what he meant by saying that NZ is now "open for business".
#nzpol #acc #AssetStrippingGovernment

tcnicholls, 1 month ago to NewZealand

“Elon Musk’s The Boring Company, which touts itself as a futuristic quick-build tunnel solution, could have the capability to build a Wellington tunnel”

Please no. We have enough compounded nightmare scenarios already.
#nzpol

tcnicholls, 1 month ago to random

Biden wants an official enquiry into Israel's murder of WCK relief workers? Fine. Following the UNRWA precedent, he should immediately defund Israel until the enquiry concludes and should only restore funding if they are completely exonerated.
Fair's fair, after all.
#gaza

Rjdlandscapes, 3 months ago to NewZealand

Wow what the heck is this

#nzpol #NewZealand #nztwits

https://www.hobsonspledge.nz/who_we_are

Rjdlandscapes, 4 months ago to Electricvehicles

This gets us worse air quality, more deaths from pollution and higher CO2

The Clean Car Scheme was the only new policy in recent decades that has a net benefit to NZ and no tax or spending changes on the government

Just one of a boat load of regressive 1950s thinking policy form our new gov

And we've also cancelled the boats.

#evs #ElectricVehicles #nzpol #NewZealand

tcnicholls, 5 months ago to NewZealand

NZ no longer has a Minister of Health, it has a Minister of Monetising Illness #nzpol

jonoabroad, 6 months ago to random

Wasn't there meant to be a new season of Dr Who?

tcnicholls, 7 months ago to random

There's a reason all those who believe in trickle-down are already at the top

tcnicholls, 7 months ago to NewZealand

"We can't reduce our emissions without technological breakthroughs". Yes we can, what he means is we won't, because we value our current lifestyle far more than the survival of our grandchildren. #nzpol

tcnicholls, 8 months ago to climate

This is not the new normal.
The new normal will be what the world is like when TWO THIRDS of the workforce, and virtually ALL of the public-facing workforce that keeps society functional, have Long Covid. Like that idea?
#LongCovid
This is not the new normal.
The new normal will be what the world is like TWENTY YEARS AFTER we have stopped burning carbon fuels. Like that idea?
#ClimateCrisis

tcnicholls, 9 months ago to random

I want a better world, not a better way of monetizing the destruction of the world.

isomeme, 9 months ago to ai

I finally found time to read Douglas Hofstadter's blisteringly critical essay on large language models. As usual, he makes excellent points, and supports them with precise and well thought out arguments.

It is, then, merely a wonderful bonus that the essay is centered around Hofstadter critiquing an AI which is in turn pretending to be Hofstadter writing about GEB. There are at least two interwoven levels of self-reference here. Bravo!

#AI #SelfReference #HashTag

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/07/godel-escher-bach-geb-ai/674589/

tcnicholls, 10 months ago to NewZealand

Almost all political parties in NZ talk of the need to grow the economy before addressing the costs of climate change.
It's idiocy; the more you grow the economy today, the bigger and faster the catastrophe economy will grow tomorrow.
#nzpol #climatecrisis

tcnicholls, 10 months ago to random

So planned roadworks in the ‘burb are upsetting all the frightfully important parents who have to deposit their children at school in the morning. Their lives are “fine tuned” for the tight home-school-work schedule in the expectation that the private car is the only option.

Those expectations are neither reasonable nor sustainable.

“Some people need a car” always translates into an excuse for using a car when it’s a luxury not a necessity.

#ClimateCrisis

tcnicholls, 11 months ago to random

Quote of the day (from @pluralistic )

"We’re in the polycrisis, a widening gyre of climate emergency, inequality, infrastructure neglect, rising authoritarianism and zoonotic plagues.
But that’s not the bad part."

So what is the bad part?

THE BAD PART IS THAT THE PEOPLE WHO ARE IN A POSITION TO DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT ARE ALL TELLING YOU THAT THERE IS NOTHING THEY CAN DO ABOUT IT, YOU'RE ON YOUR OWN.

tcnicholls, 11 months ago to climate

Waiting for the incoming media spin that the solution to uncontrollable wildfires is to cut down all the trees rather than to cut down all the oil companies
#climate #climatefuture #climatecrisis

tcnicholls, 11 months ago to random

I do not follow you on twitter and if I search for you I see ONE tweet which contains your handle. If I toggle between Top and Latest a few times, three more tweets which contain your handle appear. No tweets authored by you are shown, unless I go to your user page, where I see lots.

bananabob, 11 months ago to random

I just watched the first episode of Orphan Black on TVNZ+. They dropped the full 5 season 50 episodes at midday today.

My advice to you is don't bother. I felt like I was watching something meant for kids even if the subject matter isn't for kids.

#OrphanBlack #TVNZ+ #SCIFI #SF #TV

iangriffin, 1 year ago to random

Last night at around 9:30pm, aurora chasers across the Otago Peninsula (who weren't blinded by the constant flow of traffic with full beam headlights) got to see a beautiful pinky white beam running across the sky from east to west. This is STEVE (Strong Thermal Emission Velocity Enhancement) which isn't actually an aurora at all. It is an atmospheric ribbon of hot gas some 450km above the surface of the earth.

Welcome to the Peninsula STEVE! :-) #aurora
#NewZealand #STEVE #dunedinnz🇳🇿

A thin pink white tube of plasma slowly crosses the sky over the triangular shaped volcanic cone called Hereweka