Notices by Ames (runoutgroover@mastodon.nz)

<< Netherlands threatens to boycott Eurovision 2026 if Israel participates >>

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/9/12/netherlands-threatens-to-boycott-eurovision-2026-if-israel-participates

@steter Funk up the neighbourhood!

@steter She makes me wish I'd persevered with my bass playing.

"many critics have pointed out that as countries make these statements, many of them continue to benefit from trade with Israel and have not imposed sanctions or taken any other action that could push Israel to end its genocidal war on Gaza."

Countries denounce Israel but keep trading with it | Israel-Palestine conflict News | Al Jazeera

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/7/27/countries-denounce-israel-but-keep-trading-with-it

"The era of blind, naive dependence on US-controlled infrastructure is rapidly coming to an end. Nations can no longer afford to have their military capabilities and vital digital sovereignty tied to the satellite grid of a superpower they cannot trust."

Iran’s plan to abandon GPS is about much more than technology | Israel-Iran conflict | Al Jazeera

https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2025/7/27/irans-plan-to-abandon-gps-is-about-much-more-than-technology

#DataSovereignty

This week I got an email notification from Uber that my payment for UberOne had been successfully processed. I had never signed up for UberOne. I went to my account settings to check and cancel and the cancel button resulted in a dialog saying that I could not cancel because a payment was being processed. I was directed to their 'support' chat which is of course a fecking 'AI' bot. After several clicks in response to banal automated questions my payment was refunded and my UberOne account was cancelled. I have now removed all stored credit card data from Uber (which I have to use occasionally for work because my employer insists on it). This seems like a rort so I advise any Uber users to look out for it.

Fossil Fuel Fetishism is a helluva drug.

#NZPol

Rising seas threaten to swallow one of NZ’s oldest settlement sites – new research

https://theconversation.com/rising-seas-threaten-to-swallow-one-of-nzs-oldest-settlement-sites-new-research-260799

#indigenous

@aral@ar.al I use DDG (switched to the noai version recently) but I fully expect to have to bail at some point. Loyalty to any corporate owned internet service is a mugs game these days eh.

Low cost, reliable, NZ based web hosting? Go...

<< 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.”