Kereru [he/him]

Sorry to hear that

So far in my tech bubble I haven’t seen lay-offs explicitly due to AI, but there’s been increasing usage of it to produce more content. So it’s reducing the demand for contract writers and producers.

Tech does seem cooked at the moment, but I assume that’s mostly due to no more free money.

I really wish Graeber was still here, I need the Bullshit Jobs vs AI synthesis.

I ended up renting a byd a few weeks ago, felt luxury as hell, for I assume much less than western brands. although I’m not a car guy.

I read the NY times when it’s reposted to a niche communist website and we dunk on it for not being woke enough 💅

I agree, I think this could work. Google already has featured snippets, this just feels like an extension to that. I’m pretty sure those snippets often screwed over the sites they were taken from too, because people read them but don’t click through. But the AI summary ensures they get even less credit/ad revenue.

Any high-value search terms and Google hides the summary. So you either get ads or AI slop for every search.

Hell yeah dude

Worth checking b12 + iron if it’s a physical tiredness

Apples, not woke. But horned melon? Kumquat? The wokeness must stop

I only eat woke food because I’m a true leftist

Does boeing have a really-bad-pneumonia^tm gun? Or so many whistleblowers that it’s statistically likely that some will catch pneumonia?

I like Yanis, but this logo keeps setting of my :hitler-particle-detector:

Israel can have little a genocide as a treat

Channel 14 reporting that US called off an immediate strike: Hebrew Link

No idea what that really means

Glad to see NZs most important city, Timaru, well represented.

It’s definitely not a trend here, but when it does come up it’s very technocratic and always in the context of well-paid email workers. It feels more like the tech and finance PMC pushing for job benefits on an individual level, not connected to class consciousness. The argument also makes more sense for those jobs: “we all know we aren’t actually doing anything productive anyway, can we have Friday off? We’ll just cancel a few timewasting meetings.”

“Israel” has done another aid massacre https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2024/3/3/israels-war-on-gaza-live-every-minute-counts-as-hunger-kills-in-gaza

The ethical response would be to [redacted]

Good year for tunnels, bad year for helicopters

“Yes we won’t be able to assist in any meaningful way, but we’d like to confirm that we are, in fact, the bad guys”

Cop cloning technology

The COTW, NZ has deployed 6 soldiers to the Red Sea: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/507356/new-zealand-to-deploy-defence-force-to-red-sea

Need a :nz-cool: emote

Hey it’s my little corner of settler-colonialism in the South Pacific. I can throw out a few thoughts here, although take everything with a grain of salt.

Many of the points can be looked at through a familiar settler-colonial lens. Think the Canada of the Pacific. Maori arrive about 500 years ago, with the Brits beginning colonisation about 200 years ago. Familiar story of decimation of the Māori population through introduced disease, violence and land dispossession. The nuance here is some of the concessions Māori were able to get from the British, most notably Te Tiriti (note: it’s a very short text, worth reading if you’re interested). This has helped to get: dedicated Māori seats in parliament, some reparations for stolen land, co-governance of some land and assets, etc.

This goes along with significant racism towards Māori (and Pasifica) that has always been a major part of our politics but is currently being leveraged in a more American style culture war approach by the right. E.g. demanding government departments to use English names

In terms of foreign relations and economy: Our economy consists of exporting milk powder and trees to China (a mostly lactose intolerant country?), Tourism (don’t look too closely at how fucked the land is from all the dairy cows), consultants sending emails, service workers serving the consultants, and majorly: investing in houses.

Economically we are completely reliant on China, but culturally aligned with the UK and more recently the US. Which is going to make the next decade… Interesting.