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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).
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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, 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 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 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."

#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,
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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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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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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?

simonxix, to random
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That's two Ex Libris university libraries—Goldsmiths, University of London and Universitat de Barcelona—whose students have won divestment from Israel or ethical investment w/r/t Israel.

If you're in library systems and use Ex Libris products, the best time to think about BDS was when you were tendering for your systems. The second best time is as soon as your users start protesting for divestment from Israel and ethical investment.

strypey,
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@simonxix
> If you're in library systems and use Ex Libris products, the best time to think about BDS was when you were tendering for your systems.

Especially considering there are Free Code replacements like Koha with a thriving competitive market in commercial support.

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."

, 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,
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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, 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?

#MarshallMcLuhan #MediaStudies #fediverse

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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"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,
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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

GrimmReality, (edited ) to random
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GRADS, CONGRATS, and if you are the Indiana University student who put this on your mortar board for your ceremony, please DM me so that we may figure out a way for me to buy you every last beer or cocktail you would like to consume to properly celebrate your graduation.

strypey,
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@GrimmReality
> anyone in the myriad of lofty smart intellectuals who run major universities

That's not who runs universities anymore, and hasn't been for a decade or more. Graeber wrote about this back in 2014;

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/david-graeber-anthropology-and-the-rise-of-the-professional-managerial-class

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.

strypey,
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@98Percent
> You need to have a government that actually wants young people to vote first

Fortunately, NZ has an independent Electoral Commission, so what the government of the day wants doesn't affect the running of elections.

strypey,
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@puck
> the electoral commission sends kids a letter on their 18th birthday

Where does it get the data on who's turning 18 and what mailing address they can be reached at?

> If only we taught more civics I'm school...

💯%

strypey,
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@leighelse
> until the government instructs the Electoral Commission via regulation or legislation

... which it tends not to do without heavy public consultation and referenda for major changes

(Just to complete your sentence ; )

@98Percent

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

, 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.

strypey,
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@nicholas_saunders
> I'm more than okay with taking down TikTok because of the CCP

Oh don't get me wrong, I'm not crying any tears for ByteDance. AFAIC they can take a long walk off a short pier, like all other corporations. But let's not kid ourselves that the forced sale of TikTok to Silicon Valley VCs protects anyone using it from state surveillance or influence operations. Given everything we know about how DataFarms work, it clearly won't.

It's pure security theatre.

strypey,
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@austin
> EU vs. big tech, which I see as more anti-American than actually helping consumers

That seems like a false dichotomy. The EU regulators have recognised that it's not good for EU citizens and their data to be trapped inside corporate silos. Most of which happen to be headquartered in the US. A country which benefited from the way the EU was weakened by the UK leaving. Which in turn was achieved, in part, by using those same US-headquartered corporate silos (FB+Cambridge Analytica etc).

strypey,
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@austin
So in summary, I would say the EU have learned the same lesson as the CCP; that free and open networks are better for democracy. How they respond, by empowering or preventing free and open networks - tells you what they think about democracy. Which brings us back to what the US following the CCP playbook tells us.

Biden's approach to TikYoke is something I'd expect from the Orange Menace, not from an administration under which regulators have mostly been following the EU example.

strypey,
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@austin
> I don't think Biden is really following the EU approach

Then you're not paying attention to all the US anti-trust cases that have launched against US datafarmers in the last 4 years.

> I think EU's end goal is a sovereign internet (esp. how they posture against big tech), it's just that they lack teeth and also incentive for alternative platforms

You're living in a totally different universe to me. Does yours not have the GDPR, DSA etc, which apply equally to big online platforms?

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