Liam Boardman
@liamjboardman.bsky.social
Still dabbling. Socialist/Greenie Pākehā. He/him
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The change, coming into effect from Monday, is an important development for people who rely on pets for companionship and mobility, a regional councillor says.
Small pets cleared to ride Greater Christchurch buses
The change, coming into effect from Monday, is an important development for people who rely on pets for companionship and mobility, a regional councillor says.
dlvr.it
November 30, 2025 at 3:04 AM
The change, coming into effect from Monday, is an important development for people who rely on pets for companionship and mobility, a regional councillor says.
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A story Stoppard told several times, in several places:
November 29, 2025 at 6:10 PM
A story Stoppard told several times, in several places:
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#TaiPo fire: Took 4 days to arrive here:
Man arrested for sedition. HKFP understands is the student who made "4 demands" of the authorities: hongkongfp.com/2025/11/30/h...
Beijing warns "anti-China disrupted" they'll face the "full force" of the security law: hongkongfp.com/2025/11/29/b...
Man arrested for sedition. HKFP understands is the student who made "4 demands" of the authorities: hongkongfp.com/2025/11/30/h...
Beijing warns "anti-China disrupted" they'll face the "full force" of the security law: hongkongfp.com/2025/11/29/b...
November 29, 2025 at 11:09 PM
#TaiPo fire: Took 4 days to arrive here:
Man arrested for sedition. HKFP understands is the student who made "4 demands" of the authorities: hongkongfp.com/2025/11/30/h...
Beijing warns "anti-China disrupted" they'll face the "full force" of the security law: hongkongfp.com/2025/11/29/b...
Man arrested for sedition. HKFP understands is the student who made "4 demands" of the authorities: hongkongfp.com/2025/11/30/h...
Beijing warns "anti-China disrupted" they'll face the "full force" of the security law: hongkongfp.com/2025/11/29/b...
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This stuff is the AI equivalent of when McKinsey predicted that the "metaverse" was going to be a $5 trillion industry in 2030.
Metaverse Spending to Total $5 Trillion in 2030, McKinsey Predicts
Businesses’ and consumers’ annual global spending related to the metaverse could reach $5 trillion by 2030, according to a new report from consulting firm McKinsey & Co.
www.wsj.com
November 29, 2025 at 11:24 PM
This stuff is the AI equivalent of when McKinsey predicted that the "metaverse" was going to be a $5 trillion industry in 2030.
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It’s so very easy to weaponize uncertainty:“We just can’t know if it’s safe, so better not to act at all”. Everyone is glad when the precautionary principle is used as a cudgel against something they already dislike, but the problem comes when it’s used to ban something you know works-like vaccines🤓
November 29, 2025 at 11:16 PM
It’s so very easy to weaponize uncertainty:“We just can’t know if it’s safe, so better not to act at all”. Everyone is glad when the precautionary principle is used as a cudgel against something they already dislike, but the problem comes when it’s used to ban something you know works-like vaccines🤓
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pointing, laughing
Three years into the generative-AI wave, demand for the technology seems surprisingly flimsy
Investors expect AI use to soar. That’s not happening
Recent surveys point to flatlining business adoption
econ.st
November 29, 2025 at 11:21 PM
pointing, laughing
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Here, it was the way our local streets were suddenly empty of cars, and full of families on bikes, people out walking, etc 🥹
(As one wit postulated on Twitter at the time, it was as if everyone was more afraid of everyday Auckland traffic than of a global pandemic…)
(As one wit postulated on Twitter at the time, it was as if everyone was more afraid of everyday Auckland traffic than of a global pandemic…)
What's a charming memory you have from the worst period of the pandemic?
November 29, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Here, it was the way our local streets were suddenly empty of cars, and full of families on bikes, people out walking, etc 🥹
(As one wit postulated on Twitter at the time, it was as if everyone was more afraid of everyday Auckland traffic than of a global pandemic…)
(As one wit postulated on Twitter at the time, it was as if everyone was more afraid of everyday Auckland traffic than of a global pandemic…)
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The administration's foreign policy is to performatively murder the weak and defenseless to distract from the fact that it is abandoning U.S. strategic interests worldwide.
Extraordinary WSJ reporting today that unveils the extent to which Trump, Witkoff, Kushner and US business executives are salivating over business deals with Russia while Putin’s forces kidnap Ukranian children and bomb civilians in their apartments.
🎁 www.wsj.com/world/russia...
🎁 www.wsj.com/world/russia...
November 29, 2025 at 1:29 PM
The administration's foreign policy is to performatively murder the weak and defenseless to distract from the fact that it is abandoning U.S. strategic interests worldwide.
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But there are Known Knowns.
We know there are rumours.
We know people in National are spreading them & discussing them with journos.
We know Bishop has been accused of being behind it, & that some in National want us to think it's all over and Luxon rinsed him.
These are Known. Not much else is.
We know there are rumours.
We know people in National are spreading them & discussing them with journos.
We know Bishop has been accused of being behind it, & that some in National want us to think it's all over and Luxon rinsed him.
These are Known. Not much else is.
November 29, 2025 at 9:27 PM
But there are Known Knowns.
We know there are rumours.
We know people in National are spreading them & discussing them with journos.
We know Bishop has been accused of being behind it, & that some in National want us to think it's all over and Luxon rinsed him.
These are Known. Not much else is.
We know there are rumours.
We know people in National are spreading them & discussing them with journos.
We know Bishop has been accused of being behind it, & that some in National want us to think it's all over and Luxon rinsed him.
These are Known. Not much else is.
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Yes, this (thread). The pushers of LLMs stole the term "AI" deliberately to create exactly this confusion.
Not the main problem, but increasingly thinking we need a moratorium on the term "Artificial Intelligence" (both in full and as "AI") because it's clear it means at least three seriously different things and equivocation between those helps to enable this nonsense.
November 29, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Yes, this (thread). The pushers of LLMs stole the term "AI" deliberately to create exactly this confusion.
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I genuinely don't care who heads the National Party; I've never voted for them, and it's their policies I disagree with, not their leadership independent of those. But it's not a good sign that they're suffering from a deficit of public support and can't agree what to do about it .
November 29, 2025 at 9:09 PM
I genuinely don't care who heads the National Party; I've never voted for them, and it's their policies I disagree with, not their leadership independent of those. But it's not a good sign that they're suffering from a deficit of public support and can't agree what to do about it .
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RIP Tom Stoppard who did so much incredible work, not least writing every single line of dialogue in Indiana Jones & The Last Crusade.
November 29, 2025 at 5:18 PM
RIP Tom Stoppard who did so much incredible work, not least writing every single line of dialogue in Indiana Jones & The Last Crusade.
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lol. Very difficult to parse these yarns for truth on account of how by their nature you are getting self interested sources briefing journos off the record. There are no reliable narrators here, just people telling you what they want you to think rumours mean, but still, lol
Chris Bishop in failed National leadership coup - report
Former Hutt South MP and Transport, Housing, Infrastructure and RMA Reform Minister Chris Bishop was behind a recent failed coup plan within the National Party, The Post has reported.
www.stuff.co.nz
November 29, 2025 at 8:26 PM
lol. Very difficult to parse these yarns for truth on account of how by their nature you are getting self interested sources briefing journos off the record. There are no reliable narrators here, just people telling you what they want you to think rumours mean, but still, lol
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I feel like actually access to knowledge and learning is a universal good which shouldn't be available only to the rich, to the 'time rich', to the 'clever', or to the 'hard-working'. It should literally be available to everyone to engage with, for enrichment, for knowledge, for a better world.
I wish there was more emphasis on access to education disentangled from employability and focusing instead on enrichment because people who engage with education (or have the ability to) as enrichment interact with it differently. (And that's a whole society thing, not an in-uni thing) 7/7
November 29, 2025 at 5:09 PM
I feel like actually access to knowledge and learning is a universal good which shouldn't be available only to the rich, to the 'time rich', to the 'clever', or to the 'hard-working'. It should literally be available to everyone to engage with, for enrichment, for knowledge, for a better world.
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Alas.
Et in Arcadia ego.
Et in Arcadia ego.
November 29, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Alas.
Et in Arcadia ego.
Et in Arcadia ego.
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The whole story is “The Tories promised something insane to impress racist pensioners when there was no need, then absolutely fucked it because they had never had to campaign *against* the press”. Everything beyond that is just details.
November 28, 2025 at 5:20 PM
The whole story is “The Tories promised something insane to impress racist pensioners when there was no need, then absolutely fucked it because they had never had to campaign *against* the press”. Everything beyond that is just details.
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It was obvious that eventually, Syrian locals would start fighting the Israelis forces which invaded their communities without provocation. It was equally obvious that Israel would use that armed resistance as a justification for maintaining and even expanding their occupation.
According to Syrian media, Israel accuses the Syrian government of having affiliations with the "militants" (Syrian locals) who resisted the Israeli raid on Beit Jinn
November 29, 2025 at 12:29 AM
It was obvious that eventually, Syrian locals would start fighting the Israelis forces which invaded their communities without provocation. It was equally obvious that Israel would use that armed resistance as a justification for maintaining and even expanding their occupation.
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damn
Wasn't expecting to find a critique of traditional pedagogy (the "memorise or get hit" approach) in the Infancy Gospel of Thomas, but here you are.
www.tonyburke.ca/wp-content/u...
www.tonyburke.ca/wp-content/u...
November 29, 2025 at 9:34 AM
damn
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Israel is using existing ceasefire agreements to establish new realities on the ground, projecting itself as the regional hegemon by launching attacks on Gaza, Lebanon, Syria, and the West Bank.
November 28, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Israel is using existing ceasefire agreements to establish new realities on the ground, projecting itself as the regional hegemon by launching attacks on Gaza, Lebanon, Syria, and the West Bank.
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Maybe we're just not being cruel enough to sufficiently many outgroups? Has anyone in politics or the media even considered this??
November 29, 2025 at 7:31 AM
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There's a non-zero chance of folks getting a knock on the door for doing this. But sometimes you just have to take the risk for your community.
Hong Kongers express their solidarity with the victims of the Tai Po fire by writing words of encouragement and sympathy on Post-It notes. An act that disappeared since 2019 but apparently remain unforgotten since then.
November 28, 2025 at 11:16 PM
There's a non-zero chance of folks getting a knock on the door for doing this. But sometimes you just have to take the risk for your community.
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It costs TWO HUNDRED POUNDS to get a morning train from Manchester to London???!!!
November 29, 2025 at 8:14 AM
It costs TWO HUNDRED POUNDS to get a morning train from Manchester to London???!!!
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November 29, 2025 at 1:27 AM
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"It's perfectly legal to be a tobacco lobbyist" is an argument that was made with, apparently, a straight face
November 29, 2025 at 7:12 AM
"It's perfectly legal to be a tobacco lobbyist" is an argument that was made with, apparently, a straight face