Notices by Phil Stevens :tinoflag: (phil_stevens@mastodon.nz), page 2

@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

Renationalise the electricity generating sector.

That's it. That's the toot.

The best (so far) breakdown and attribution of responsibility/blame in the #crowdStrike fiasco that I've read so far. Really lays a decent chunk of it at Microsoft's doorstep where it belongs (CS fucked up, bigtime, but MS didn't even vet the kernel driver code...WTAscreamingF)

https://www.wheresyoured.at/crowdstruck-2/

@DavidM_yeg @benroyce Not just sons. Nonbinary offspring.

@br00t4c Wait, I thought they were the party of states' rights. That was a NY state court where the trial took place, under NY law.

@br00t4c And in doing so deprives American consumers of the ability to get inexpensive and reasonably sized EVs. It's a good news/bad news situation and blatant protectionism for US automakers, who have abandoned the idea of providing useful, appropriate transportation choices in favour of making stupid bloated Wankpanzers.

@ryanhoulihan I don't have any desire to support the likes of joe Rogan.

Vale, Rod Oram. You will be missed by many, and our gratitude for what you did is beyond measure.

https://newsroom.co.nz/2024/03/20/prominent-columnist-and-environmentalist-rod-oram-dies/

Well, this was totally out of the blue and so out of character for the party of #dirtypolitics. Lobbyists are back to scurrying in and out with swipe cards.

Sorry, Brownlee, but if people have this level of access to politicians then it is most assuredly public business, and the public needs to know who they are, how often they come crawling, and who they're seeing.

#nzpol

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/in-depth/508914/lobbyists-are-back-at-parliament-with-a-new-privacy-measure-hiding-their-identities