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ben dafydd gillard

benchaotica@mastodon.nz

<p>Abolish police, prisons, borders, and private property. Go on without hope. No self, no will. Hard Determinist. they/them :heart_bi: </p><p>*avatar description: head of a thin white man, very short grey hair, unshaven, wearing roundish glasses, unsmiling.<br />*header description: dirty lower surface of an aeroplane wing</p>

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    NZFirst is right we need to put more into preventative healthcare including better access to healthy food. But cycleways and pedestrianised city streets are also beneficial in that regard and didn&#39;t get a mention. Smokefree NZ, a big preventative healthcare win, was cancelled by NZFirst. And as others have pointed out, their policy doesn&#39;t mention vaccination either. As a whole their health policy sounds cribbed from RFK jr, even down to the slogan, and that&#39;s a red flag obviously.

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    Unemployment at 11 year high of 5.6%, increases in long term and youth unemployment. Annual wage growth at 5 year low of 2%. (Most recent inflation rate: 4.1% CPI) &quot;The number of people between 15 and 24 years who were unemployed, not in education or training increased to 13.8 percent from 12.9 percent.&quot; Not great numbers four months before an election. https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/business/892951/unemployment-rises-to-11-year-high-of-5-point-6-percent

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    Smart glasses with a built in laser that targets the camera in other smart glasses.

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    Eye-opening. Neatly clarifies a range of confusions i had about fascism. Much to think about. From the blurb: &amp;quot;No direct sci-fi angle here, just a clarification of a widely-held misconception about what Fascists believed, exemplified by an oft-repeated fake quote.&amp;quot; https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jwGSKr0tw2M

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    Re: the &amp;quot;AI Bubble&amp;quot;, something to keep in mind is that the so-called AI industry is not a purely commercial endeavour, like tulips or labubus. It&amp;#39;s more like the Manhattan Project, or the even more expensive B-29 programme, or the space race, or the arms race. In that sense the financial concerns are not the primary governing influence.

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    Nap after dinner was a tactical success but a strategic failure.

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    The increasing heat in the UK will only be a problem for a few decades. When the AMOC collapses, cold will be the main problem for them.

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    In a way it&amp;#39;s comforting to have normal grotty QBW weather for QBW. Perhaps a little warmer than it used to be though?

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    From NACTFirst&amp;#39;s point of view, so-called AI replacing public service jobs is a win-win: either it can more or less do the work, in which case they are rid of those annoying human workers and their annoying union, or it fails and destroys the public service.

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    Last night i enjoyed the films &amp;quot;We&amp;#39;re All Gonna Die&amp;quot; (road trip, mild sci fi, grief + feels, humour, bees, mild romance) and &amp;quot;Iron Lung&amp;quot; (horror, blood, confined space, bleak, tedium, shouting). Both are on YouTube. Use uBlock Origin to cancel the ads.

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    Apparently an Antonov An-124 landed at Auckland yesterday. An uncommon visitor. Blurb says it was private cargo from (or via) Hawaii. -&amp;gt; youtube video of landing, taxi. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=H9URL9_EKbQ

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    Boil water notice issued for parts of Royal Oak, Hillsborough, Mount Roskill and Three Kings. [In Tāmaki Makaurau / Auckland] Article has link to map of affected streets. https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/591610/boil-water-notice-for-auckland-suburbs-until-further-notice