Notices by Phil Stevens :tinoflag: (phil_stevens@mastodon.nz)

Handy up-to-date reference. Just in case.

https://www.niemanlab.org/2025/04/how-to-leak-to-a-journalist/

Has there been a statement from NZ Labour on the insanity of remaining in a strategic intelligence alliance with a bunch of psychopathic war criminals who can't even secure their own comms?

I know there's a sort of "gentleman's agreement" that opposition parties don't rock the foreign policy boat, but come on. Make this an issue.

(PS, Greens and TPM: This goes for you as well. Oppose and make hay when it's politically expedient. A statement is all that's required.)

#nzpol

Trumpian policies are a boat anchor internationally. Wrap that chain around Luxon's ankles and toss him into the deeps.

School lunches and ferries (on top of a recession nearly as bad as post-GFC) could be the undoing of the coalition. But they still have lots of time to undermine, hollow out, and poison what is left of Aotearoa's commons.

Right now Luxon is marketing us like cans of body spray to the multinational finbro rentier crowd. Any time you hear a right wing politician say the word "investment" you need to substitute "asset stripping" because that is what's about to happen.

https://newsroom.co.nz/2025/03/12/guardrails-needed-to-protect-nz-from-foreign-investors-ex-solarzero-employee/

@steter Moldova, too.

@ingridglomp @pluralistic He's just replicating the pattern. When he bought Tesla he mandated a fictional narrative that he was the original innovator, instead of some wealthy usurper.

@ArrestJK It has everything to do with the little shitler. No one wants to support that or be seen driving a swastikar.

@Nigel_Purchase Casinos on the beach. With a view of oil and gas platforms out to sea. All on the bones of 100,000 victims of a holocaust.

@quinn @ianb @withaveeay And hardly anyone (general public, that is) understands or appreciates this. We only got a taste in the GFC and central banks pretty much rode to the rescue...blowing up a whole new set of bubbles in doing so.

@br00t4c Quit pussyfooting around and renationalise it along with all the other water companies. What a complete ballsup that was.

There are plenty of good reasons to refuse "AI" and climate destruction is definitely one of them. If you're in a position to choose services, vendors, platforms, and how you do tech, please avoid this stuff like the plague that it is and help collapse their business model quickly.

https://heated.world/p/ai-is-guzzling-gas

@StillIRise1963 "Please deposit another quarter if you wish to remain unconscious."

@skinnylatte Once upon a time, I used to travel with a film container of dried chiltepins.

@br00t4c With those tiny hands? The way he kept trying to grip the door handle on that garbage truck?

Pass the popcorn, man.

@micchiato Or we could say that it's extortion by AIPAC and symptomatic of the undemocratic ways that money buys influence in the US system.

@_noelamac_ @FantasticalEconomics The parallel to the "it's not all that bad" narrative is the one that goes "it's too late so we just have to adapt."

@aral Dear French left: Thank you for rescuing the country as it stood on the precipice of fascist takeover! Whew! That was close.

In return I give you absolute fuck all. Instead, I will foist on you a right-wing caretaker administration that will ensure you have no say in the government. The structural problems plaguing our nation will be cans kicked down the road and the far right extremists will organise on the back of our failure.

It's all thanks to you!

Regards,

EM

Just in case you missed it: Microsoft is pimping its weaponised bullshit generation to oil companies in order to help them find new places to drill.

That's right. Using insane amounts of energy right here in the present to make it easier for the climate wreckers to wreck the climate even harder in the future.

A gentle reminder to just say no to any and all companies that peddle this snake oil.

Screenshot of Newsroom email in my inbox this morning. There is no greater rage than that induced by having unethical, stupid people making far-reaching decisions on our behalf. This govt is costing us billions and wrecking the planet.

Vale @stevesilberman

You raised the bar in so many ways. We are going to miss you.

#journalism #fediverse