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strypey

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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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The suggestion here is that TikTok is doing for US citizens what other platforms are given credit for doing during the Arab Spring; preventing the state from controlling the narrative about popular dissent.

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@fkamiah17

strypey,
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@kim_harding
> a by-product of a media system that fails to hold powerful interests accountable for the lies they tell

This reminds me very much of the heavily skewed coverage of Occupy encampments, and before that the anti-summit protests in the late 1990s. Which led to the creation of the Independent Media Centre and Indymedia.org to coordinate and present coverage of the Battle of Seattle.

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strypey, to renewableenergy
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I note with a raised eyebrow...

"... the opening of the country’s first network of hydrogen refuelling stations in Wiri."

https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA2404/S00149/minister-welcomes-hydrogen-milestone.htm

A few short weeks ago, some learned chaps were schooling me on all the reasons hydrogen isn't viable as an energy carrier for vehicles. They obviously forgot to communicate all this to the people actively developing hydrogen infrastructure in Aotearoa.

strypey,
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The Detail recently did an episode on green hydrogen;

https://www.rnz.co.nz/programmes/the-detail/story/2018935875/powering-ahead-with-green-hydrogen

@tootbrute @tim @Salty @frogzone @Pampa

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,
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A classic example is the food situation. According to a recent article on food rescue projects in the NZ Listener magazine (May 11-17), enough food is produced in Aotearoa to feed 40 million people. Yet every week 7% of kiwis - a population of roughly 5 million - go hungry.

Yet what does the new government Seymour is part want to do? Cut funding for school lunches, while giving a tax cut to landlords, who are - compared to those struggling to get enough to eat - comfortably wealthy.

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strypey, (edited )
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What social democratic parties like the Greens, TPM and TOP say is that people only get obscenely rich because the state allows them to plunder - or does it for them - from funds that could be used to fund public infrastructure and services. They propose that we stop doing this, so the real wealth created by the workers and professionals of this country can be shared fairly across the population, instead of hoarded by a few hundred neo-feudalist families.

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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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"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?

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, to random
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"...a process called certification allows the U.S. to strong-arm signatory countries into enacting the most severe interpretation of the agreement's digital policy terms by withholding any benefits under the agreement until they do so. That's why these new agreements pose a bigger threat than all the previous trade deals combined."

https://www.eff.org/issues/trade-agreements

strypey, to fediverse
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Marshall McLuhan wrote books and taught students about his theories of media for decades, and is widely known as "as the father of modern media studies";

https://ama-toronto.com/inductees/marshall-mcluhan/

Phrases he coined are so quoted they've become cliches; like "the global village", and most famously "the medium is the message".

What is the message of the fediverse as a medium?

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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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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"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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"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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"Today, my colleagues in astrobiology no longer assume that life started at hot vents deep in the oceans. For many, the focus has shifted to locales on land — notably hot spring environments. This shift has also transformed science’s consideration of where life might start in the universe and how common it could be, and provides an upgraded framework to address the age-old question: Are we alone?"

, 2024

https://www.lucid.news/a-psychedelic-journey-to-the-origin-of-life/

strypey, to random
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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, (edited ) to Podcasts
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"Again, this is that lovely, quaint, sort of late 70s idea, that computers would be better than us at deciding things, isn't it. It's very, very old fashioned. But yeah, they let the computer weigh up the evidence."

, 2018

https://neozaz.com/dev-tarrant/

And this is that lovely, quaint 2010s idea that computers deciding (or designing) things instead of humans is old-fashioned, instead of being the everyday dystopia they were already starting to live in.

strypey, (edited ) to random
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Needia (n.): Subscription-based news.

strypey, to random
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"Facebook is used by 79% of New Zealanders aged 16-64 last year..."

, NZ Listener, May 11-17, 2024

Another way to describe the same data is that 21% of 16-64 year olds - about 1 in 5 - choose not to use FarceBook. Despite the common perception that it's normal for everyone to use it. I do wonder if that 21% includes people who don't count Meta's Messenger as being part of FB. Griffin doesn't give a source for his data, so there's no quick way to check.

strypey, to Podcasts
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"I think the defining economic reality of the modern platform media world is that all the platforms realized that an infinite supply of teenage creators are cheaper to deal with than media companies or groups of media individuals or powerful creators."

, 2024

https://www.theverge.com/24087834/hank-green-decoder-podcast-google-youtube-web-media-platforms-distribution-future

strypey,
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"My team is happier. We did not know that the Twitter thing would happen, but the Twitter thing happened, and our desire to publish in the boxes we controlled went up as a group. And then, on top of it, our audience saw that we were having fun. And once you are having fun anywhere on the internet, people sort of gravitate to you. So traffic has gone up."

, 2024

https://www.theverge.com/24087834/hank-green-decoder-podcast-google-youtube-web-media-platforms-distribution-future

strypey,
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"Whereas, I think if you were able to build a company or a brand or an institution, at the end of that, you’re like, “Well, I made this.” And maybe I could sell it. Maybe I could just let some other people run it. Maybe it stands for something. Maybe we could shut it down and everyone could talk about how much they missed it, but it’s more than you. And I think the platforms are not organized economically to ever allow that to happen..."

, 2024

https://www.theverge.com/24087834/hank-green-decoder-podcast-google-youtube-web-media-platforms-distribution-future

strypey, to meta
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"Since end-to-end encrypting communications on the platform as a measure to protect user privacy, Meta no longer has access to the content of messages so cannot monitor what is spreading. But the company now says it has technology to spot accounts engaging in abnormal behaviour, with 8m accounts banned a month – 75% of which are banned before those accounts are reported by users."

, , 2024

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/apr/18/sydney-church-stabbing-social-media-posts-facebook-taken-down-nsw-premier-chris-minns-ntwnfb

strypey, to random
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"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."

, 2024

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

strypey,
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"But I do think that since the introduction of the Neoliberal “economic reforms” of the 1980s and 90s, New Zealand has forgotten that the purpose of an economy is not to make a few people very wealthy at the expense of the many, but to create the greatest good, for the greatest number of its citizens over the longest period of time."

, 2024

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

strypey, to random
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To the degree that people get trapped on welfare benefits, it's mainly because of the punitive mechanisms put into place - allegedly - to prevent "welfare dependence".

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strypey,
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Unless we have highly marketable skills or experience, the best way to get a secure, fulltime job, is to get a series of short term ones. Allowing us to build up a work history, and learn how employment relationships work.

But both WINZ and IRD rules make it confusing and scary to earn while on a benefit. Not only can getting it wrong leave us without a base income, but that's not even the worst case scenario. Fraud charges are, along with an unpayable burden of debts and fines.

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