🐶⛵️Capt. Caffiend☕️😷
@captcaffiend.bsky.social
She/Her. Likes Coffee, Cake, Canines & Curse-words. Pākehā.
PhD Candidate - women's health & participatory research.
Feminist Killjoy. Living with Long Covid. Born at 336.25 ppm CO2
https://ko-fi.com/captcaffiend
PhD Candidate - women's health & participatory research.
Feminist Killjoy. Living with Long Covid. Born at 336.25 ppm CO2
https://ko-fi.com/captcaffiend
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A new Flutter project.
united4palestine.web.app
This makes it really easy to let your local MP know you want them to stand up for Palestine. Let’s show our government what we really want them to stand for!
You can sign an open letter to your MP about the genocide in Gaza from here:
united4palestine.web.app
You can sign an open letter to your MP about the genocide in Gaza from here:
united4palestine.web.app
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Every new science funding announcement from this government is actually just repurposed funding from some existing fund for science
A new release is available from Hon Dr Shane Reti.
NZ and US deepen Antarctic science partnership
New joint research initiatives focused on climate and ecosystem change expand on the long-standing collaboration between New Zealand and the United States on Antarctic science and logistics, says Science, Innovation a
www.beehive.govt.nz
November 30, 2025 at 5:34 AM
Every new science funding announcement from this government is actually just repurposed funding from some existing fund for science
Did not think to check if this hotel had air con when I booked it 🥵
November 30, 2025 at 5:35 AM
Did not think to check if this hotel had air con when I booked it 🥵
I appear to be staying in the same hotel as lots of the Labour conference attendees based on what people are wearing!
November 30, 2025 at 4:51 AM
I appear to be staying in the same hotel as lots of the Labour conference attendees based on what people are wearing!
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I wish Disinfo Project had ¼ of the funding, & resources he had to continue work we did. Examples like this make it harder for other folk to access philanthropy. | The transparency project that went dark: Inside the collapse of Bryce Edwards’ Integrity Institute www.thepost.co.nz/politics/360...
The transparency project that went dark: Inside the collapse of Bryce Edwards’ Integrity Institute
A million-dollar political integrity project has imploded with little transparency, revealing a tangle of broken promises, stalled research and an institution unwilling to explain what went wrong.
www.thepost.co.nz
November 30, 2025 at 1:46 AM
I wish Disinfo Project had ¼ of the funding, & resources he had to continue work we did. Examples like this make it harder for other folk to access philanthropy. | The transparency project that went dark: Inside the collapse of Bryce Edwards’ Integrity Institute www.thepost.co.nz/politics/360...
Auckland, you’re drippy!
November 29, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Auckland, you’re drippy!
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You deserve kindness.
You deserve softness.
You deserve a break from being strong.
You deserve to love yourself.
Unclench that jaw.
Hydrate.
Take a break from the internet.
Look at the sky.
Smile.
You're doing great.
Luv you 💜😘
You deserve softness.
You deserve a break from being strong.
You deserve to love yourself.
Unclench that jaw.
Hydrate.
Take a break from the internet.
Look at the sky.
Smile.
You're doing great.
Luv you 💜😘
November 29, 2025 at 8:32 PM
You deserve kindness.
You deserve softness.
You deserve a break from being strong.
You deserve to love yourself.
Unclench that jaw.
Hydrate.
Take a break from the internet.
Look at the sky.
Smile.
You're doing great.
Luv you 💜😘
You deserve softness.
You deserve a break from being strong.
You deserve to love yourself.
Unclench that jaw.
Hydrate.
Take a break from the internet.
Look at the sky.
Smile.
You're doing great.
Luv you 💜😘
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It's only a matter of time before humanities departments will be forced to accept AI-authored assignments, as part of revised university policy to cooperate with these billionaires. It's already happening, and our response needs to be decisive. Because our students' ability to *think* is at stake.
November 28, 2025 at 10:37 PM
It's only a matter of time before humanities departments will be forced to accept AI-authored assignments, as part of revised university policy to cooperate with these billionaires. It's already happening, and our response needs to be decisive. Because our students' ability to *think* is at stake.
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This thread is interesting reading.
It's part of why I just refuse to engage with LLMs even in situations where I belive they could be helpful.
I'm genuinely frightened that it's having serious effects on people's cognitive abilities.
It's part of why I just refuse to engage with LLMs even in situations where I belive they could be helpful.
I'm genuinely frightened that it's having serious effects on people's cognitive abilities.
And I don't know if the answer is: everyone is too traumatized to do work and we need to reinvent society. Or if it's more like: generations are losing their cognitive abilities and willpower due to destructive technologies. Or: we all have post-viral brain damage. Or: all of the above.
November 29, 2025 at 8:46 PM
This thread is interesting reading.
It's part of why I just refuse to engage with LLMs even in situations where I belive they could be helpful.
I'm genuinely frightened that it's having serious effects on people's cognitive abilities.
It's part of why I just refuse to engage with LLMs even in situations where I belive they could be helpful.
I'm genuinely frightened that it's having serious effects on people's cognitive abilities.
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As I was alluding on this platform about a year ago over a refreshing bowl of Maggi Soup, embedding advertising in natural seeming conversations is pretty inevitable when extracting maximum value from the systems where there are no consumer guard-rails around quality or truth.
The end goal of advertising is to make it indistinguishable from one’s own wants and needs. That aim is finally going to be realized very soon.
Leak confirms OpenAI is preparing ads on ChatGPT for public roll out
OpenAI is now internally testing 'ads' inside ChatGPT that could redefine the web economy.
www.bleepingcomputer.com
November 29, 2025 at 8:03 PM
As I was alluding on this platform about a year ago over a refreshing bowl of Maggi Soup, embedding advertising in natural seeming conversations is pretty inevitable when extracting maximum value from the systems where there are no consumer guard-rails around quality or truth.
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Today is the last day to send me a photo of your cat enjoying Kat's Nip to win a copy of Leanne McGregor's 'Cats With Jobs' and a Kat's Nip prize pack.
As well as email, I will accept submissions in the replies 👇👇
katsnip.nz/wall-of-fame
#nzpets
As well as email, I will accept submissions in the replies 👇👇
katsnip.nz/wall-of-fame
#nzpets
November 29, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Today is the last day to send me a photo of your cat enjoying Kat's Nip to win a copy of Leanne McGregor's 'Cats With Jobs' and a Kat's Nip prize pack.
As well as email, I will accept submissions in the replies 👇👇
katsnip.nz/wall-of-fame
#nzpets
As well as email, I will accept submissions in the replies 👇👇
katsnip.nz/wall-of-fame
#nzpets
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I especially feel this when sociologists who study technology do this.
Y'all are supposed to take sociotechnical approaches to the study of technology. A throwaway AI-generated image does not help that credibility.
Y'all are supposed to take sociotechnical approaches to the study of technology. A throwaway AI-generated image does not help that credibility.
I don’t know if anyone else notices or cares, but when I see a presentation in which the speaker uses obviously generated-AI images to illustrate their slides, it makes me immediately less confident in whatever other content they’re presenting.
November 29, 2025 at 5:54 PM
I especially feel this when sociologists who study technology do this.
Y'all are supposed to take sociotechnical approaches to the study of technology. A throwaway AI-generated image does not help that credibility.
Y'all are supposed to take sociotechnical approaches to the study of technology. A throwaway AI-generated image does not help that credibility.
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LOL Of course they do <sigh>
📣 Working from home results in lower performance ratings📣
Managers give lower performance ratings to teleworkers than to office workers, even when holding performance constant.
Female teleworkers face an even greater disadvantage.
Managers give lower performance ratings to teleworkers than to office workers, even when holding performance constant.
Female teleworkers face an even greater disadvantage.
November 29, 2025 at 6:01 PM
LOL Of course they do <sigh>
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Aspirational, inspiring leadership looks like refusing to equivocate on the absolute bare minimums for people to survive.
It looks like immediately backing vulnerable communities instead of refusing to out of fear of antagonising a base that doesn’t exist.
It’s getting out of the middle of the road.
It looks like immediately backing vulnerable communities instead of refusing to out of fear of antagonising a base that doesn’t exist.
It’s getting out of the middle of the road.
November 29, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Aspirational, inspiring leadership looks like refusing to equivocate on the absolute bare minimums for people to survive.
It looks like immediately backing vulnerable communities instead of refusing to out of fear of antagonising a base that doesn’t exist.
It’s getting out of the middle of the road.
It looks like immediately backing vulnerable communities instead of refusing to out of fear of antagonising a base that doesn’t exist.
It’s getting out of the middle of the road.
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Warm homes are not aspirational.
Affordable food, power and rent aren’t aspirational.
Health and social services that centre health and people are not aspirational.
These are not inspired ideas. They are basic, 101 hallmarks of a functioning country.
Leadership that gets that *would* be inspiring.
Affordable food, power and rent aren’t aspirational.
Health and social services that centre health and people are not aspirational.
These are not inspired ideas. They are basic, 101 hallmarks of a functioning country.
Leadership that gets that *would* be inspiring.
November 29, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Warm homes are not aspirational.
Affordable food, power and rent aren’t aspirational.
Health and social services that centre health and people are not aspirational.
These are not inspired ideas. They are basic, 101 hallmarks of a functioning country.
Leadership that gets that *would* be inspiring.
Affordable food, power and rent aren’t aspirational.
Health and social services that centre health and people are not aspirational.
These are not inspired ideas. They are basic, 101 hallmarks of a functioning country.
Leadership that gets that *would* be inspiring.
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“I want us to remember that our job is not just to oppose – it is to aspire and inspire.”
- Carmel Sepuloni, Labour Party Conference 2025
Reflecting that the list of policy many might call aspirational or inspiring is desperately needed, bare minimum policy, and we need leadership to call it that.
- Carmel Sepuloni, Labour Party Conference 2025
Reflecting that the list of policy many might call aspirational or inspiring is desperately needed, bare minimum policy, and we need leadership to call it that.
November 29, 2025 at 6:09 PM
“I want us to remember that our job is not just to oppose – it is to aspire and inspire.”
- Carmel Sepuloni, Labour Party Conference 2025
Reflecting that the list of policy many might call aspirational or inspiring is desperately needed, bare minimum policy, and we need leadership to call it that.
- Carmel Sepuloni, Labour Party Conference 2025
Reflecting that the list of policy many might call aspirational or inspiring is desperately needed, bare minimum policy, and we need leadership to call it that.
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From not allowing pets in rentals to closing down facilities to “moving people on” without giving them anywhere to go, to underfunding wrap around services, to deliberately ignoring the wealth distribution crisis, including ignoring the power/food oligarchies in NZ - our policy choices say it all.
Plunged into poverty: Hardship rising in Southland:
National, ACT & NZF failed economic policies are pushing more & more Kiwis into hardship, while the wealthy & foreign corporates get richer #nzpol
www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
National, ACT & NZF failed economic policies are pushing more & more Kiwis into hardship, while the wealthy & foreign corporates get richer #nzpol
www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
Plunged into poverty: Hardship rising in Southland
Social service providers say there's been an uptick in people needing support to feed their family, going without heating, living homeless or sharing shoes.
www.rnz.co.nz
November 29, 2025 at 5:52 PM
From not allowing pets in rentals to closing down facilities to “moving people on” without giving them anywhere to go, to underfunding wrap around services, to deliberately ignoring the wealth distribution crisis, including ignoring the power/food oligarchies in NZ - our policy choices say it all.
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There has literally never been a universal basic income trial program that didn't deliver real and measurable results above and beyond any other form of social welfare, and every time another concludes with the same findings the powers that be go "interesting! Anyway," and pretend it wouldn't work.
November 22, 2025 at 6:00 AM
There has literally never been a universal basic income trial program that didn't deliver real and measurable results above and beyond any other form of social welfare, and every time another concludes with the same findings the powers that be go "interesting! Anyway," and pretend it wouldn't work.
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How about saying Yes to some basic shit like?
Denouncing Winston which Hipkins still hasnt done over the anti trans policies
Reinstating Paid Equity
Fully Funded Public Services
Fully Funded Infrastructure
NOT BLOODY HARD
Denouncing Winston which Hipkins still hasnt done over the anti trans policies
Reinstating Paid Equity
Fully Funded Public Services
Fully Funded Infrastructure
NOT BLOODY HARD
labour’s ostensible catch phrase being “we can’t say yes to everything” is generational levels of fucking stupid
November 29, 2025 at 4:35 AM
How about saying Yes to some basic shit like?
Denouncing Winston which Hipkins still hasnt done over the anti trans policies
Reinstating Paid Equity
Fully Funded Public Services
Fully Funded Infrastructure
NOT BLOODY HARD
Denouncing Winston which Hipkins still hasnt done over the anti trans policies
Reinstating Paid Equity
Fully Funded Public Services
Fully Funded Infrastructure
NOT BLOODY HARD
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Labour have been gifted opportunity by PATHA releasing gender affirming care guidelines, and still haven't said anything (AS A PARTY) to support human rights of trans people
If you're not pushing back on the National coalition then you're helping them along
If you're not pushing back on the National coalition then you're helping them along
November 29, 2025 at 3:23 AM
Labour have been gifted opportunity by PATHA releasing gender affirming care guidelines, and still haven't said anything (AS A PARTY) to support human rights of trans people
If you're not pushing back on the National coalition then you're helping them along
If you're not pushing back on the National coalition then you're helping them along
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Just here to give you all the reminder that you absolutely do not have to get caught up in the stress of Xmas shopping. You can opt out. Everyone has too much stuff already.
November 29, 2025 at 5:23 AM
Just here to give you all the reminder that you absolutely do not have to get caught up in the stress of Xmas shopping. You can opt out. Everyone has too much stuff already.
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We live in a time when you can be blown up because you “might” be carrying drugs…
But if you’ve been convicted of trafficking drugs you get a full Presidential pardon.
But if you’ve been convicted of trafficking drugs you get a full Presidential pardon.
November 29, 2025 at 5:09 AM
We live in a time when you can be blown up because you “might” be carrying drugs…
But if you’ve been convicted of trafficking drugs you get a full Presidential pardon.
But if you’ve been convicted of trafficking drugs you get a full Presidential pardon.
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Universities are assembling larger and larger teams to deal with academic integrity issues--mostly focused on AI--while simultaneously holding AI "writing" contests, AI-themed events, "hey, come play with these fun tools!" The messages are so mixed, it's criminal. Because AI is bloated with money.
November 28, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Universities are assembling larger and larger teams to deal with academic integrity issues--mostly focused on AI--while simultaneously holding AI "writing" contests, AI-themed events, "hey, come play with these fun tools!" The messages are so mixed, it's criminal. Because AI is bloated with money.
Oh good point about the sweeteners - I can’t stand any artificial ones or stevia 🤮
Pretty much all the things #SecretSantaAoNZ (almost - I can’t stand Chardonnay, gin, instant coffee or anything with artificial sweeteners)
Coffee - plunger grind
Tea - black, earl grey, green, Roibois, herb & fruit
Wine - sparkling, white, rosé, red & beer, scotch, vodka.
Cola, sparkling water
Coffee - plunger grind
Tea - black, earl grey, green, Roibois, herb & fruit
Wine - sparkling, white, rosé, red & beer, scotch, vodka.
Cola, sparkling water
November 29, 2025 at 5:06 AM
Oh good point about the sweeteners - I can’t stand any artificial ones or stevia 🤮
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They were against covid vaccine mandates but they’ll gladly attach conditions to feeding hungry children
Not only is this blatantly unfair, but for a Party that doesnt believe in collective responsibility,theyre holding ALL children responsible for the actions of others...
www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3609...
www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3609...
Lunch funding to be tied to attendance for hundreds more schools
Next year funding for school lunches delivered through the internal model will be tied to attendance.
www.stuff.co.nz
November 28, 2025 at 6:57 AM
They were against covid vaccine mandates but they’ll gladly attach conditions to feeding hungry children
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“We can’t do everything and actually, people hate us doing too much” is definitely one way of approaching the next election.
November 29, 2025 at 4:23 AM
“We can’t do everything and actually, people hate us doing too much” is definitely one way of approaching the next election.