Notices by Ames (runoutgroover@mastodon.nz)

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<< Perhaps adopting a more complex – and more humble – understanding of the world, as provided by te ao Māori, would give policymakers an alternative pathway to simply taking “the world as it is”. >>

‘Utu’ as foreign policy: how a Māori worldview can make sense of a shifting world order

https://theconversation.com/utu-as-foreign-policy-how-a-maori-worldview-can-make-sense-of-a-shifting-world-order-255602

We went to Zealandia yesterday and I highly recommend it. Pick a sunny day if possible :). The highlight for me was getting to spend quality time with these kaakaa and their whaanau 🦜🦜🦜

So apparently Bluesky is a) blocking the accounts of Turkish activists at Erdogan's request and b) deleting the accounts of Palestinians who refuse to provide them with 'government approved ID'. I genuinely thought it would take them a little longer to get this shitty.

"Ladies and gentlepersons, I give you Mark Zuckerberg, founder and CEO of Meta (nee Facebook), an accused monopolist who cannot keep his big dumb fucking mouth shut."

Pluralistic: Mark Zuckerberg personally lost the Facebook antitrust case (18 Apr 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

https://pluralistic.net/2025/04/18/chatty-zucky/

Another gogglebox recommendation:

Check out North of North if you can get it. It's funny and sharp. I'm 2 episodes in and I already love Siaja.

"A young Inuk woman in a tiny Arctic village strives to forge her own path, defying societal expectations and gossip in her tightknit community."

Also bonus Maaori character played by Bayley Poching.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt30407364/

#TV #indigenous #Inuk

So we're all boycotting US goods now right? And goods produced by US companies?

"I encourage my readers to become members before midnight on March 31st in order to be able to vote at the annual general meeting in July, where the FSU is likely to be putting forward amendments." - Byron Clark

Free Speech Union plans hostile takeover of InternetNZ

https://www.feijoadispatch.nz/p/free-speech-union-plans-hostile-takeover

Here's my one and only piece of Masto advice for recent arrivals, if you have followed someone who is a) an extremely prolific poster, b) writes reeeeeaaaally long posts or c) is a bit of a 'broadcaster' and you'd prefer to keep your Masto feed social.

Every Masto account has an RSS feed. You just need to add '.rss' to their public profile url. So for instance mine is https://mastodon.nz/@runoutgroover.rss

This way you can use your favourite RSS reader to follow them without cluttering up your Home feed.

@ParadeGrotesque @quinn They can also use their unlimited resources to create and maintain inertia at a political and institutional level, which is where real change needs to happen if we are going to limit the damage.

Buh bye #Omnivore , it’s been real…

“Hello,

It’s Jackson, one of the co-founders of Omnivore. I wanted to reach out to you and share some upcoming news, as you’ve been part of the Omnivore journey.

This week, we’re announcing that Omnivore is joining ElevenLabs, the leading AI audio research and deployment company. This is an exciting moment for us, as ElevenLabs is an ideal home to keep shaping the future of accessible content.”

@MediaActivist Feels like a missed opportunity. If they’d made an effort they might have had the institutional ballast to create a counterweight to .social

@MediaActivist 270 ish active users? They didn’t really light a fire under it did they. (I just checked and vivaldi.social, for contrast, seems to have 6.1K active users)

Brazil is taking no shit from Musk.

"Brazil judge blocks Starlink accounts as X suspension deadline looms | Business and Economy News | Al Jazeera"

https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2024/8/29/brazil-judge-blocks-starlink-accounts-as-x-suspension-deadline-looms

🧵 Although I’m really happy that Imane Khelif, who seems like an excellent human, is now getting tons of support (and the bigots seem to be returning to their burrows) I’m a bit queasy with some of the subtext. There seems to be a lot of: “The claim that Khelif was trans/intersex/X-Y came from a corrupt Russian organisation with no credibility and it almost certainly isn’t true. So you can relax because Khelif is a ‘proper’ woman after all.” 1/2

The unspoken implication being that if she *was* trans/intersex/X-Y then the outrage and abuse would’ve been OK. Dear commentators, please don’t fall into this TERFy trap. 2/2

Billionaire backlash shows the power of basic income | Al Jazeera

"The success of basic income pilots in the US has been followed by efforts to kill such programmes. The rich are scared."

https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2024/5/27/billionaire-backlash-shows-the-power-of-basic-income

Hobbes: "The lives of our ancestors were nasty, brutish and short. We need authority and laws to keep our base instincts under control."

Rousseau: "Our ancestors were noble savages in tune with nature. Civilization has simply corrupted us."

The two Davids: "Lol get rekt you two losers"

https://www.penguin.co.nz/books/the-dawn-of-everything-9780141991061

"The rallies held across Aotearoa in support of Palestinian liberation over the past two weeks have attracted little to no attention from our mainstream media, who have instead continued to reproduce Washington/Tel Aviv talking points and platformed pro-apartheid, pro-ethnic cleansing groups in the interests of presenting a ‘balanced story’." -Dr Arama Rata

From Palestine to Aotearoa, Tino Rangatiratanga

https://tinangata.com/2023/10/23/from-palestine-to-aotearoa-tino-rangatiratanga/

@pezmico When I was in Japan I liked how cars are not the automatic bosses of pedestrians. In mixed mode areas pedestrians are not expected to just get out of the way of vehicles.