This was awesome! https://www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360487380/haka-interrupts-vote-treaty-principles-bill Dear Barry Soper, fuck off with your pearl clutching. ACT introduced the hatred into parliament – those people are responding to it. As per usual… crickets from Labour
As I’ve said recently, I expect things to be very bad for a long time, possibly a generation, as a result of America’s choice. What I am saying is that perhaps they will not be as bad as they could be because God, in His wisdom, has chosen to make these people weird freaks along…
Just adding data and compute and training longer worked miracles for a while, but those days may well be over. https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/an-ai-rumor-you-wont-want-to-miss The thing is, in the long term, science isn’t majority rule. In the end, the truth generally outs. Alchemy had a good run, but it got replaced by chemistry. The truth is that scaling is…
The company that prides itself in support creatives… is fucking creatives: Apple will make more from Patreon than Patreon does itself. https://www.honest-broker.com/p/the-war-against-indie-creators-is
A great example of how important soil biome is when it comes to regenerating native forests. … the scientists did not expect the benefits of this experiment would still be visible in the soil today, in 2024. A paper out this week in the journal Frontiers in Microbiomes details an enduring change in the communities of fungi…
Communism is worker control of capital, and nothing else. We’ve never really tried it. https://www.ianwelsh.net/what-is-a-communist/
Forget the mid-terms… Shawn Fain synced all major union contracts to expire in May 2028 Fain led the UAW to an historic strike: the UAW took on all three of the Big Three automakers, and cleaned their clocks. UAW workers walked away with three new contracts, all set to expire in 2028. Fain then called upon every union to bargain…
We now live in a downwardly mobile society (not as bad as the US… but bad). You are an organization full of career politicians. They are so grossly of touch with reality that you’re not even in the same Venn diagram. You actively loathe the working class and elevate people who appear on the US…