Notices by keoni (keoni@mastodon.nz)

This one’s quite important, https://thespinoff.co.nz/atea/25-10-2024/the-under-the-radar-treaty-clause-review-that-could-have-far-reaching-consequences.

While Māordom has been in an uproar about the Treaty Principles Bill, which New Zealand First MP Shane Jones says is “dead in the water”, the coalition government has quietly set the wheels in motion for at least 28 pieces of legislation to have their Treaty clauses reviewed and potentially removed.

Key terminology here is “investors.” This seems like just the right sort of trickery perfected by conservatives in America.

thx @ClareBear

I also want to remind people that this applies to Hawaiʻi. Tourism doesn't serve Hawaiʻi, it serves the corporations majority of which are not based in Hawaiʻi

"Wealth that could otherwise support public services and public wellbeing is siphoned out of nation states."

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/jul/31/brazil-global-tax-billionaires-super-rich via @GeofCox

Here's some real ground breaking Māori Data Sovereignty news which you probably didn't hear because mainstream doesn't cover genuine DataSov just the kind that Big Tech thinks they're doing.

Tl;dr for Māori by Māori distributed data storage centers.

https://waateanews.com/2024/06/04/world-first-data-storage-infrastructure-solution-built-by-iwi-maori-for-iwi-maori/

Everyone should know that spell check is broken in software you spend hundreds on because Microsoft insists you use a cloud service to check your spelling. This has broken custom spell check technologies indigenous people have built for their language.