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strypey

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strypey, (edited ) to ukteachers
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"The system is disabling the children, because it's not equipping the schools and the teachers with enough or the right skills, tools and support."

, President, NZ Education Institute, 2024

Quoted in , May 6, 2024, in an article headlined Austistic Students 'Excluded'

strypey, to random
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"Ocean Flyer, a business founded by former banker and Air Napier owner Shah Aslam​ and former New Zealand Air Force chief John Hamilton​, is among the earliest customers.

They have a $700m order for 25 seagliders that they plan to operate along New Zealand’s coast for about $30 to $60 one-way. Regent has about NZ$10 billion in orders from around the world."

, 2022

https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/industries/129601892/ocean-flyer-promises-a-transport-revolution-but-perception-issues-remain

Sounds promising. Updates?

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strypey, to random
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"... because Bennett will now be governing a public agency specially designed to have an arms-length relationship with the government of the day, to retain public confidence in Pharmac’s integrity, she will have to display total independence from the ministers that she is closely associated with."

, 2024

https://democracyproject.nz/2024/04/30/bryce-edwards-paula-bennetts-political-appointment-will-challenge-public-confidence/

strypey,
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Bloody hell, what next? Putting Maggie Barry in charge of RNZ?!? Oops, better not give them ideas...

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,
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I note that the parties now in government differ in their takes on this. Winston First, for example, was created to condemn the neoliberal economic shift. But unlike Bryan, they've always been nostalgic for the backwards social attitudes we associate with the 1950s (although they continued to be dominant here well into the 1970s).

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strypey,
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Meanwhile, the Nats too have mostly sung from the neoliberal songbook on economics, and the current regime is certainly doubling down on that. But like Labour, they're more of a mixed bag on social policy. They seem happy to let their current coalition partners wag the dog, whether that leads to Whānau Ora or treaty principles referenda.

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strypey,
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ACT, on the other hand, were created to celebrate and defend the neoliberal coup. At first they were mostly onboard with progressive social reform, claiming that economic and social 'liberalisation' were two faces of the same coin. But since about 2016, they too seem to have developed an enthusiasm for pushing back against progressive social reform.

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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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@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.

@fkamiah17

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,
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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.

@kim_harding
@fkamiah17

strypey, to music
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to the bowdlerised music video mix of The Beautiful People by Marilyn Manson;

"And I don't want you and I don't need you
Don't bother to resist, or I'll beat you It's not your fault that you're always wrong
The weak ones are there to justify the strong"

https://yewtu.be/watch?v=Ypkv0HeUvTc

strypey, (edited ) to random
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Timothy Synder explains that the Crusaders were basically land-based successors of the Vikings, or a Christian equivalent of the Mongol hordes;
https://yalepodcasts.blubrry.net/2022/11/07/6-the-grand-duchy-of-lithuania/

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 for one, would prefer that our own national security aparatus spy on us rather than the CCP

Really? I'd rather ours spy on the CCP than on us ; )

Seriously though, I think what the comparison tells us is that the datafarming apparatus is an existential threat to democracy. If we don't want our political systems to become more like China's, we need to rapidly disassemble those apparatus. Not tinker with their ownership.

strypey, to til
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that the Te Reo Māori word for transgender is iawhiti.

strypey,
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As a counterpoint, here's the 1/200 podcast episode on The Cass Review and trans healthcare in Aotearoa NZ;

https://www.1of200.nz/podcast/1200-s2e73-the-cass-review-trans-healthcare-and-nz

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,
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@sun
> I think the Daily Show used to show "dueling politicians" clips where the same politician is edited having a debate with themself

Jon Stewart's Daily Show was great. But when comedians end up as the only ones doing things like this, it's a sign that political journalists are not doing their job properly.

strypey,
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Wow, this post elicited a few posts of delusional nonsense and gutter trash from the lunatic fringes of the US right. Are these posts by people who write like bots, or are they actually bots?

strypey, to ip
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"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."

, 2023

https://audioboom.com/posts/8340285

strypey,
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@nosat
> the injections were toxic and have caused massive harm

Unsourced screenshots aren't convincing evidence of anything. Citations please.

strypey, (edited )
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@nosat
If you had a single shred of evidence to present, we might have discussed it and learned something from each other. But as I expected, you have nothing to offer but - in the immortal words of the Bard - sound and fury, signifying nothing.

18+ CarolynStirling, to random
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Its 2024 and we have a caucus of National MPs shaking in their boots and terrified of Julie Ann Genter and I hazard a guess terrified of Chloe Swarbrick. It doesn’t say much for their ability to survive much longer in Politics. It’s a sad day indeed for the National Party and the Coalition of Chaos.

strypey,
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@phil_stevens
> Context is everything and what gets lost in the "mad women" narrative is that those who campaign for evidence-based justice (social, environmental, climate) are repeatedly traumatised by the indifference of those who enjoy systemic privilege

Thank you! This is an itch I've been scratching at all day, trying to figure out how to word it ; )

@CarolynStirling

cloventt, to random

Aurora is doing some amazing mahi here in Ōtautahi, great article on her today in The Press.

https://www.thepress.co.nz/climate-change/350254971/teenage-bolshie-activist-not-backing-down

strypey,
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@cloventt
> Aurora is doing some amazing mahi here in Ōtautahi

This is a single example of what Shane Jones and his Fast Track brigade have coming at them from a new generation of Direct Action movements. They are not alone either.

Veterans of preceding movements like Native Forest Action, Kiwis Against Seabed Mining, Save Happy Valley, Coromandel Watchdog, and Save Manipouri haven't gone away.

strypey,
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To paraphrase JFK, those who make peaceful environmental protection impossible, make monkeywrenching inevitable.

strypey, to random
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"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."

, 2024

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

strypey,
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@Hyolobrika
> Spare me having to read all that fluff again

If you're not willing to take the time to read the piece, why do you expect me to spend time discussing it with you?

strypey,
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@Hyolobrika
> Why should I be harmless to people who want me dead?

Your bloody-minded slaughter of strawmen is tiresome.

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