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strypey

@strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz

Free human being of this Earth. Be excellent to each other! All my posts here are CC BY-SA 4.0 (or later).
#Vegan #Permaculture #Transition #PeerProduction #FreeCode #CreativeCommons #SciFi #Comedy #Juggling

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geoff_eg, to movies
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Hello Mastadon!... time to try something new.

First an introduction - I go by Dyptre online, I'm a photographer based in Western Canada with a primary focus on capturing landscapes with a focus on natural and real editing. I shoot , I and primarily shoot

If you want to see more - give me a follow here I guess!

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strypey,
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@MGFarm
> If you are looking for a Canadian run instance then look no further!

Also worth checking out an instance of PixelFed, which is another software for running fediverse servers, but optimised for photo-sharing.

@geoff_eg @mike

strypey, to random
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Photographed in a backpackers hostel in Te Wai Pounamu. The text reads;

"The truth about using HostelWorld and booking.com

  • they take 15% of your payment -
    Try always to book directly with the hostel or hotel
    Owners of booking sites live in luxury and don't do any work"

#accomodation #BackPackers #hostels

kim_harding, to random
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Student Reporters Offer a Lesson on World Press Freedom Day
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/campus-protests-student-journalism-press-freedoms
The escalating authoritarianism we’re witnessing in the crackdown on college campuses is, in part, a by-product of a media system that fails to hold powerful interests accountable for the lies they tell.

strypey,
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"A discussion between U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Sen. Mitt Romney over the weekend included... the two officials speaking openly about the U.S. government's long-term attempts to provide public relations work for Israel in defense of its policies in the occupied Palestinian territories—and its push to ban TikTok in order to shut down Americans' access to unfiltered news about the Israeli assault on Gaza."

, 2024

https://www.commondreams.org/news/gaza-israel-tiktok

@kim_harding @fkamiah17

strypey, to aotearoa
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"So here is a call from the NZOSS to the New Zealand Government to set up a Government centric Mastodon instance to provide a conduit for Agencies, Departments, Entities, Schools, Councils, DHB's and any other central or local government organisation to disseminate pertinent information in real time."

, May 2022

https://nzoss.nz/node/2168

strypey, to TikTok
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Seems TechDirt's take on Biden's TikTok ban is similar to mine;

"Enacting this legislation has undermined this long standing, democratic principle. It has also undermined the U.S. government’s moral authority to call out other nations for when they shut down internet access or ban social media apps and other online communications tools."

, 2024

https://www.techdirt.com/2024/05/07/biden-signed-the-tiktok-ban-whats-next-for-tiktok-users/

strypey, (edited ) to random
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When overcrowded buses replace train services, they should be free of charge. It's nowhere near the same quality of service, and charging for it is kind of rude. If it's free, it encourages train operators to do everything they can to avoid replacement bus situations.

They could make it half price, at the very least.

strypey, (edited ) to Podcasts
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"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."

, 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.

strypey, to TeslaMotors
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"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."

, 2024

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

strypey,
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So Helen Clark's Labour government set up the Electricity Commission

"... following extremely dry hydro years in 2001 and 2003, which led to government concerns that the electricity market did not provide adequate security of electricity supply."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electricity_Commission_(New_Zealand)

It was intended to oversee the reliability of electricity supply in Aotearoa over the long term. Exactly what Vector is pointing out we don't have. Why?

strypey,
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"The New Zealand Electricity Authority (Māori: Te Mana Hiko) is an independent Crown entity responsible for the regulation of the New Zealand electricity market. The Authority was established in November 2010, following a government review of the electricity industry, and replaced the Electricity Commission. The Authority has a narrower focus on industry competition, reliability and efficiency than the Electricity Commission had."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electricity_Authority_(New_Zealand)

strypey,
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Because in the last NatACT slashfest on "wasteful" public spending and regulatory "red tape", the Electricity Commission was axed. Replaced with an Electricity Authority focused only on ensuring competition - an add-on to the Commerce Commision - and not on securing supply.

I wonder which of the NatACT First government's current cuts will come back to haunt them, and us?

shoq, to random
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Not many read this back in February. It’s quite consistent with my own calls for an Urgent Reforms Movement. Everyone should find some time to read it.

Biden Must Reinvent What a Presidential Campaign Is - Simon Rosenberg

https://newrepublic.com/article/178433/biden-must-reinvent-presidential-campaign?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

strypey,
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"But the aspiration of Democrats and our pro-democracy allies must be not just to win the election, but to win big, making 2024 a clear and unequivocal rejection of MAGA. For only once Republicans view MAGA as a political loser will they begin to walk away from their recent reckless embrace of extremism."

, Feb 2024

https://newrepublic.com/article/178433/biden-must-reinvent-presidential-campaign

@shoq

strypey, to Palestine
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"The stakes are much higher now than when I was in college. The genocide against Palestinians in Gaza is already a world-historical crime, and the looming invasion of Rafah promises a new magnitude of horror, all of which has motivated students to make sacrifices they might not have otherwise. And the repression they face is far more extreme, with universities directing state violence on their campuses without qualms."

, 2024

https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/student-protest-history/

strypey, to random
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"If we could expand that, by drawing in local media and cooperating with each other, then that sort of model could be expanded to all the community stations nationally.

This is an essential public service - and a not-for-profit is a good way to go because if it becomes successful, the owners aren't just going to flick it off to a bigger company or shut it down during a downturn which is what's happening to a lot of our old newspapers."

, 2024

https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/mediawatch/audio/2018938002/bid-to-backstop-local-news-in-tight-times

strypey, to random
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"... ads for a Brian Tamaki church event showing a boy carrying a severed head - an apparent reference to David and Goliath - and bearing the tagline 'Time to kill'."

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/516805/brian-tamaki-s-destiny-church-notice-with-time-to-kill-tagline-extremely-concerning

Wow. That is extremely concerning. But imagine these people are perched on a ledge about to jump, and likely to injure or kill members of a crowd gathered below. The only viable response is trying to talk them down. Attacking them will make them more likely to harm others, not less.

strypey, to facepalm
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"The price gap between new dwellings and existing properties is forecast to narrow as tax rules become less favourable for new developments."

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/business/512857/price-gap-between-new-homes-and-existing-houses-expected-to-narrow

strypey, to random
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"The idea that trans existence can be debated, in the same way that trans people’s rights to accurate documentation was debated, or trans people’s right to play community sport was debated, does not lend itself well to a discussion by opposing op-eds. Especially if one side is held to a higher standard of proof than the other..."

, 2024

https://www.1of200.nz/articles/media-amp-the-thousand-families-myth

strypey, to RSS
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"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,
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"Ultimately, Wetherell ended up spending some of his 20 percent time — Google’s famous policy of letting employees work on just about whatever they wanted, which ironically died about the same time Reader did — building Fusion into a more complete feed-reading product."

, 2023

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

strypey,
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Arguably the death of 20% time at Goggle marked the point where it stopped being an engineer-driven company and became a paperclip-maximiser (paperclips, in this case, being ad views).

strypey,
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"To executives, Google Reader may have seemed like a humble feed aggregator built on boring technology. But for users, it was a way of organizing the internet, for making sense of the web, for collecting all the things you care about no matter its location or type, and helping you make the most of it."

, 2023

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

strypey, to random
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"Scientists have identified a set of nine ecological and biophysical limits within which the Earth can continue to sustain human society. These are known as the ‘safe planetary boundaries.’

...There are three planetary boundaries that have already been breached. They are biodiversity loss, climate change and the nitrogen cycle."

, 2020

https://www.greenpeace.org/aotearoa/story/greenpeace-briefing-government-on-priorities-for-the-environment-and-build-back-better-covid-recovery/

strypey,
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It's heartbreaking to read this now. In 2020 it really seemed like it might be possible to convince the Labour government to do a bunch of the stuff described here, and that they might have 6 years to do it. Now we've got the Coalition of Chaos doing exactly the opposite, on almost every point.

strypey,
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"The application of synthetic nitrogen fertiliser [in Aotearoa] has increased by 670% since 1990."

, 2020

https://www.greenpeace.org/aotearoa/story/greenpeace-briefing-government-on-priorities-for-the-environment-and-build-back-better-covid-recovery/

strypey, to movies
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"[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'."

, 2024

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

strypey,
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Falling Down was released in 1993 but I can't think of a 90s film more relevant to our time. It illustrates the fundamental differences between actual neo-nazis, and most of the people who sometimes mouth alt-right talking points (including the Drinker himself). It shows us that most of the latter have more common cause with the left than they realise, if only we could convince them the lies about us are just another part of the Great American Lie they've been sold.

strypey, to random
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"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."

, 2024

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

strypey,
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For example, the process of voting for student reps on Boards of Trustees could include pre-enrolling on the electoral roll.

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