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Dr Bex🤔🤔🤔
NZ museums and heritage aficionado, shoe fancier, curator baiter, demure chocoholic, and all-round-caffeine fiend. Personal views; Not those of my employer.
#nzpol The National/NZ First/ACT coalition government thinks it can replace thousands of government workers with AI. Here's how that policy is going for the US govt. 🤣⬇️
PBS NewsThe State Department said it takes "full responsibility" for "hastily" altering and then presenting a map of Africa at a global AIDS conference that mislabeled every single country it highlighted. An analysis by Reuters found a watermark in the map image that suggests it was made with OpenAI.
It's a bit chilly, and the electricity prices are too high, so I thought I'd reshare this timely Igloo building tutorial... #BetterLivingEveryone #nzpol youtube.com/shorts/u1Ao7...
#nzpol Ignore Simeon and his fabled Nat Gas port. Solar, wind, hydro, and geothermal are the answer... ⬇️
alexvonwitzleben#Spain combination of high solar irradiance, large available land, and aggressive #renewable auction programs has made it one of Europe's fastest-growing solar markets. #Solar regularly sets the marginal price in Spain's electricity market — meaning that when the sun shines, prices fall toward zero.
#nzpol This National/NZ First/ACT coalition government is the most racist, undemocratic, anti worker, and anti poor and middle class govt we have ever had. Vote them all out.
Robot Muldoom'200,000 workers faced a pay cut if the bill passed' — Fleur Fitzsimons, PSA. Government passed it. Employment Leave Bill: leave now accrues in hours (not days), casual work gets 12.5% pay-in-lieu instead of accruing leave. Van Velden: 'simpler, fairer'. For whom?
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Nicola GastonObviously nothing has pissed me off quite as much as them killing the Marsden Fund (👉 my 📌 post), but govt claiming that the Science Investment Plan does not cut funding when the plan itself says “core science and research funding is projected to decline in future years” was the icing on the cake.