strypey

strypey, 15 days ago to random

@AccordionBruce
> North America is so damn big

Bigger than China, where you can get almost anywhere by train, many of them by electric fast train or sleeper train?

@Br3nda @tbaldauf

strypey, 22 days ago to Podcasts

"The clock is ticking for Tiktok in the US with the government giving the social media giant a deadline to sell its US operations."

#ImogenWells, 2024

https://interactives.stuff.co.nz/newsable/

The US government wants to make sure only they can use DataFarming platforms to spy on and influence US citizens. They're following the example set by the CCP, which has been blocking foreign-owned platforms for years, for similar reasons.

#podcasts #Stuff #Newsable #TikTok

strypey, 22 days ago to random

"In the two weeks before October's election, more people than ever before (454,000 people) enrolled to vote, including more than 100,000 enrolments on election day.

The Electoral Commission did not expect this number of late enrolments, putting pressure on its systems, the report said."

#KatieScotcher, 2024

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/516189/official-2023-election-result-final-check-done-in-a-few-hours-under-extreme-pressure

#elections #Election2023

strypey, 1 hour ago (edited 46 minutes ago) to random

Winston First have been spreading a story that the poor state of our roads was caused by a change to importing road bitumen, instead of producing it locally at Marsden Point. All because of the last Labour government and those bloody greenies;

https://newsroom.co.nz/2024/02/08/nz-firsts-doomed-deal-to-reopen-marsden-point-refinery/

A few points on that.

(1/?)

#roading #WakaKotahi #RONS #MarsdenPoint

strypey, 16 days ago to random

"I think the core, critical sin was choosing the advertising model to begin with. Brand advertising is not like direct advertisement, which is more programmatic. It requires something like a Disney to essentially give you a favor, because the only players that matter to them are Google and Facebook. Snapchat, Twitter, everything else did not matter. And these are ads that are essentially throwaway for them. But we made that choice in order to go public."

#JackDorsey,

https://www.piratewires.com/p/interview-with-jack-dorsey-mike-solana

strypey, 7 days ago to movies

"[In Falling Down] Bill... represents every person who ever fell down and couldn't get back up again. Every person who followed the rules and did what everyone expected, and got punished for it. Who did everything right and still got screwed over by a system that was stacked against them.

Who spent their entire life striving for something better, only to discover that they were 'not economically viable'."

#TheCriticalDrinker, 2024

https://yewtu.be/watch?v=YgNWg-a2EgE

#movies #MovieReviews #FallingDown

strypey, 21 days ago (edited 21 days ago) to Podcasts

"We're also competing against a lot of people in politics who come along and say... it's those rich people's fault, we'll just take even more money off them and give it to you."

#DavidSeymour, 2024
https://www.rnz.co.nz/programmes/30-with-guyon-espiner/story/2018936159/david-seymour

This is the fundamental lie of neoliberal politics. A total inversion of the truth, which is that neoliberal parties say 'it's those poor people's fault, we'll just take the money off them and give it to you', and they do.

#podcasts #RNZ #30WithGuyonEspiner #neoliberalism

strypey, 2 days ago to random

"The country's ambulance service is funded by Te Whatu Ora - Heath New Zealand and ACC, which fund about 82 percent of the service, at a cost of about $380 million a year.

The rest is made up through donations, and a part charge of $98 for patients transported by ambulance."

#TraceyNeal, 2024

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/517897/husband-watched-wife-die-in-west-auckland-home-after-ambulance-was-called-six-times

This is ludicrous. We don't end up with a bill when we call firefighters to a fire. Why aren't ambulance services full funded?

#PublicHealth #ambulance #TeWhatuOra #ACC

strypey, 1 day ago (edited 1 day ago) to Podcasts

Despite decades of rumours of a reboot of the cult classic BBC TV series Blake's 7, I don't think it will ever happen. Listening to a podcast called Star Fall;

https://kitchendavid.podbean.com/

... reminds me of why. All the things that made B7 great entertainment are the most difficult to replicate.

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#podcasts #StarFall #Blakes7

strypey, 27 days ago to til

#TIL about #RightDao;

"Independent, Uncensored, Private Search"

... using its own index, not Goggle, Bing, or Yandex:

https://rightdao.com/

#HatTip to @Seirdy for maintaining this page on web search engines;

https://seirdy.one/posts/2021/03/10/search-engines-with-own-indexes/

#search #WebSearch

strypey, 25 days ago to random

"There are now two 'N' words that regrettably dominate our discussions today. One I cannot say because I am not black, the other I must say because I am a Jew:

'Nazi.'

... The point we need to remember is this: all Nazis are assholes, but not all assholes are Nazis. So is the Substacker who pecks out his midnight screed about “The Jewish Question” between games of League of Legends a Nazi, or is he an asshole? I’m going with asshole."

#ShalomAuslander, 2024

https://shalomauslander.substack.com/p/the-asshole-question

#SubStack

strypey, 23 days ago to random

It would be useful to see journalists collecting clips of the claims and promises made by politicians during an election campaign, then comparing that against what they're saying and doing in government or opposition, 3-6 months into the new term. I mean literally putting the before clip next to the after clip, so people can decide for ourselves how consistent they are.

strypey, 24 days ago to ip

"When Oxford University developed the vaccine AstraZeneca ended up owning... It was actually Bill Gates who lobbied Oxford... to say no, this has to be sold to a drug company'... so it becomes 'IP'... the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation have been central players in ensuring that no precedent is set in the context of COVID for commercially valuable products to break the normal market-based rules on how what's called 'IP' is distributed."

#ArunKundnani, 2023

https://audioboom.com/posts/8340285

#COVID #IP

strypey, 22 days ago to random

"Don’t get me wrong. I am not nostalgic for the past. There were attitudes we thought once thought were acceptable that I am delighted to have seen the back of – strapping and caning children, imprisoning gay men, denying work, promotional and aspirational opportunities to women simply on the basis of gender."

#BryanBruce, 2024

https://thedailyblog.co.nz/2024/05/07/guest-blog-bryan-bruce-how-i-became-a-radical-by-standing-still/

strypey, 23 days ago to til

#TIL that the Te Reo Māori word for transgender is iawhiti.

#TeReoMāori #transgender

strypey, 27 days ago to random

The social psychology of card reader location. Local buses in most parts of the country have their card readers on the opposite side of the aisle from the driver.

But in Canterbury they're located next to the driver. Which means even though the driver doesn't have to do anything to receive payment, they're more likely to have interactions with passengers.

#SocialPsychology #PublicTransport #CardReaders

strypey, 1 day ago to random

"The Invidious docker image is only available on Quay because, unlike Docker Hub, Quay is Free and Open Source Software."

https://docs.invidious.io/installation/

#Docker #Quay

strypey, 29 days ago to Podcasts

So in 2024 we've got NSW police saying of recent Sydney stabbings;

"I urge all Australians to seek their information from reputable news sources"

Meanwhile 7 News is confirming the name of one of the stabbers... and getting it wong;

"That guys couldn't leave his house, because he was falsely named based off... internet conjecture that was then reported as facts, then repeated."

#NathanJolly, Mumbrella

https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/mediawatch/audio/2018936035/mediawatch-for-28-april-2024

#podcasts #RNZ #Mediawatch

strypey, 29 days ago to random

"Capitalists don't want market economies, where they have to compete with one another, eroding their margins and profits – they want a planned economy, like Amazon, where Party Secretary Bezos and his commissars tell merchants what they can sell and tell us what we must pay."

#CoryDoctorow, 2024

https://pluralistic.net/2024/04/19/make-them-afraid/#fear-is-their-mind-killer

#markets #PlannedEconomy

strypey, 20 days ago to RSS

"But the real tragedy of Reader was that it had all the signs of being something big, and Google just couldn’t see it. Desperate to play catch-up to Facebook and Twitter, the company shut down one of its most prescient projects; you can see in Reader shades of everything from Twitter to the newsletter boom to the rising social web."

#DavidPierce, 2023

https://www.theverge.com/23778253/google-reader-death-2013-rss-social

#RSS #SocialWeb

strypey, 19 days ago to TeslaMotors

"A power system that is already prone to shortages like those currently forecast on Friday is facing never-before-seen demand from electric vehicles (EVs) and big data centres.

Vector is preparing for it - but the lack of laws and regulations and an Energy Ministry are in its way."

#PhilPennington, 2024

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/516449/govt-must-regulate-to-smooth-evs-and-data-centres-demand-on-power-grids-vector

#EV #DataCentres #Vector

strypey, 10 days ago to random

"More than 180 New Zealand public agencies have transferred masses of data to Microsoft cloud computing servers in Australia for storage and processing since 2019. Sensitive courts data could be headed that way."

#PhilPennington, 2024

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/495883/growing-government-reliance-on-offshore-cloud-services-has-security-experts-worried

#PublicService #PublicData #DataSovereignty

strypey, 25 days ago to random

Why don't city buses form loops at the end of their outward run from central transport hubs? That way, with almost the same resource use, people could bus between the neighbourhoods at the end of the lines. Without coming all the way in to central interchanges, or the orbiter services, which usually connect the suburbs halfway between the centre and the end of each line.

#PublicTransport #bus

strypey, 5 days ago to internet

I've been noticing one of the biggest social problems with social media, as a medium (the fediverse included). It occurs when two people who've been in a social media space for a while, interact for the first time.

From each person's POV, they're at their local chatting with friends, and a stranger has come into their social space. Each expects the other to be more diplomatic, as they hopefully would if they joined a group chat at a bar. They'll likely be disappointed.

#SocialMedia #fediverse

strypey, 41 minutes ago (edited 35 minutes ago) to UKpolitics

Ok, UK Labour have got my attention;

"Sir Keir Starmer has announced plans to create a publicly owned renewable energy company if Labour wins the next general election."

"He... plans to make the UK the first major economy to generate all of its electricity without fossil fuels.

He says this can be achieved by 2030 - five years earlier than being planned by the government."

#BrianWheeler, 2024

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-63046067

#elections #UKPolitics #UKLabour #energy #RenewableEnergy