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We’ve got a bonkers road side drug testing law going through Parliament at present. It’s the creation of Simeon. ‘Lil Bigot’ Brown. It is so punative and poor drafted that the Attorney General has provided this feedback: The Attorney-General has presented a Section 7 report to the House on this Bill. The Attorney-General’s report noted…
Lithium batteries appear to be undercutting the use of fossil fuels. Gas accounts for 40% of California’s grid. However, its use in April registered its lowest proportion in seven years. “The data clearly shows that batteries are displacing natural gas when solar generation is ramping up and down each day in CAISO,” notes an analysis by Grid…
The result of these three features is an insular intellectual community, talking increasingly only to itself, and increasingly cut off from the kinds of conversations that would correct its excesses, or, at the very least, give it a more accurate perspective on what the world outside its bubble looks like. Hence their surprise, for example,…
These two videos turned up in my RSS feeds this week: and (podcast links – highly recommended)… Both go to the core of my experience with starting, managing and working in tech start ups. I’ve have spent my entire career in tech. The first 16 years were devoted to getting to Silicon Valley. I got…
It’s a bit surprising to see that relationship strengthening given the ongoing controversy around OpenAI, but what it shows most clearly is how little vision CEO Tim Cook has for Apple and his need to chase short-term hype because of the lack of long-term vision at the company under his leadership. https://disconnect.blog/roundup-what-the-openai-funding-round-reveals-about-tech/ This backs up my observation from a…
He wants to undo the Treaty. To reshape it by altering the essence of the principles. To strip away enshrined rights, while pretending they never existed. But he doesn’t want to say that, because to most voters, that’s unpalatable. And that’s the big lie. This is not an honest conversation. https://www.thepost.co.nz/politics/350397764/why-david-seymours-treaty-debate-not-honest-conversation David Seymour is an Atlas Network…
Home to the city of Adelaide, South Australia has already more than halved its emissions since 2005 thanks to a rapid shift to wind, solar, and battery technologies, which now meet around 70% of its annual power needs. By 2027, it must reach 100% net renewable electricity, though it’ll keep gas power plants on standby…
Still – the results speak for themselves. 94% have rejected the Coalition government’s racist legislation effort. And although Councils can anticipate Hobsons Pledge and Jordan Williams/David Farrar efforts to run interference during referendums next year, so far the sparks are bright. Simeon ‘Lil Bigot’ Brown gets another kicking… Next year is going to be awful.…
I kinda have the same feelings about Matthew Hooton that I have about Chris Findlayson. I really don’t like either of them. But they both have recognized the important of Māori in moving NZ forward. Here is Hooton ripping into the current state of play in NZ… he’s f**ked off. A much better snippet: Words…
So…ah… good luck with that lil’ bigot https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/526606/local-government-minister-committed-to-removing-iwi-representation-from-canterbury-regional-council
It won’t be lard-ass militias that matter if there is a civil implosion in the US. These things always come down to intra-elite splits and/or intra-military splits.
Terraform Industries is developing machines that create synthetic natural gas from sunlight and air. It sounds like science fiction, but the technology is rooted in simple chemistry and powered by the rapidly advancing field of solar energy. https://www.freethink.com/series/the-freethink-interview/casey-handmer I like the frame work of tackling the problem. Whether it’s the solution, time will tell. An…
At some point in the future we’ll say “we were warned”… this was the first warning we got about feckin’ about with asteroids: When NASA deliberately smashed the asteroid Dimorphos with the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft back in 2022, it was seen as a technological triumph because it demonstrated that humans have the ability to redirect a…
Stephen King triggers Elon Musk in a weird, ongoing social media battle. It is unclear why Musk thinks responding to one of the best-selling authors of all time’s legitimate observations with weird sexualized jokes is the right move. Still, it seems Musk is playing 92-dimensional chess here, but is he winning? King complains about real things,…
Our richest 40% should know the $10b of tax cuts they’ll get & save are being paid for by making poor, sick & disabled kids & nanas poorer, sicker & homeless, not by ‘cutting fat from the system’ https://thekaka.substack.com/p/what-austerity-actually-means-and
I’ll start this by stating that I hate Labour… but NZ needs an opposition with spine and heft. The minor parties have had the spine, but not the heft. This is very good news (and it’s also critical to adding a “find out” phase to the current governments “fuck about” approach). https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/526435/labour-refuses-to-commit-to-honouring-future-consents-under-coalition-s-fast-track-laws
Martin Bernklau is a German journalist who reported for decades on criminal trials. He looked himself up on Bing, which suggests you use its Copilot AI. Copilot then listed a string of crimes Bernklau had supposedly committed — saying that he was an abusive undertaker exploiting widows, a child abuser, an escaped criminal mental patient.
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