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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.
… all I hear, these days, is “if I can’t pollute, I can’t make money.”
“The web is becoming increasingly a dangerous place to look for your data,” Rice University graduate student Sina Alemohammad, who coauthored a 2023 paper that coined the term “MAD” — short for “Model Autophagy Disorder” — to describe the effects of AI self-consumption, told the NYT. https://futurism.com/ai-slowly-killing-itself
“Instead, the right mix of measures is crucial. For example, subsidies or regulations alone are insufficient; only in combination with price-based instruments, such as carbon and energy taxes, can they deliver substantial emission reductions.” https://theprogressplaybook.com/2024/08/27/study-shows-which-climate-policies-actually-work/
This reddit post gets it: Whether Māori ceded sovereignty or not is irrelevant. As Pakeha, we only cared to further our own interests. We came and took what we wanted. Māori signed te Tiriti in good faith but I’m not sure we can say the same about the Crown. The sooner we get our head…
Given Te Tiriti has always been about recognising the unique constitutional arrangement between rangatira (on behalf of iwi and hapū) and Governor William Hobson (on behalf of the British Crown), how did Chris Hipkins see that playing out now in contemporary times? “I think the way we exercise our authority to reflect the principles and that includes…
But as you can imagine, I don’t always want to rely on a wall outlet that is several acres away. As an alternative, I decided to create a charging shed out of a 20-foot shipping container. https://electrek.co/2024/08/26/i-run-my-electric-tractor-completely-off-grid-heres-my-secret/
From: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/m%25C4%2581ori-first-nations-australia-musicians-views-ai-taiuru-jp-minstd-klacc/?trackingId=L6r7lk1ZfhkZb6MVmf9fJg%3D%3D Source report: https://www.apraamcos.co.nz/about-us/news-and-events/ai-and-music-survey-results
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