Posts by sy@mastodon.nz
(DIR) Post #AP9EB1H7sagXrjGGaO by sy@mastodon.nz
2022-11-01T02:37:39Z
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A Tui taking off. Golden Bay.
(DIR) Post #APRbtnjbAeFM9PKTRo by sy@mastodon.nz
2022-11-10T00:47:03Z
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@stux Also, it's described as left leaning because it doesn't operate on a business model of dataveillance and targeted advertising. An actual town square doesn't record everything people say in order to try and sell them stuff.But sadly the expectations for digital spaces today are so warped by corporate social media that many people think that's the only way digital tech can work.
(DIR) Post #ASge7wYm9OjdB5nhqK by sy@mastodon.nz
2023-02-15T00:28:53Z
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@strypey Why are fuel subsidies 'necessary'? Removing GST on food would be a much more direct way of helping people who're struggling with the cost of living. I get that it may be more politically expedient for winning votes of people who want to fill up their speedboat as well both/all their SUVs, but that's not necessary.
(DIR) Post #AXYpxLr8khwt4FDFWy by sy@mastodon.nz
2023-07-09T22:26:17Z
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'The problem with, say, Meta, is only partially that Mark Zuckerberg is personally monumentally unsuited to serving as the unelected, unaccountable permanent social media czar for three billion people.The real problem is that no one should have that job. That job shouldn’t exist. We don’t need to find a better Mark Zuckerberg.We need to abolish Mark Zuckerberg.'great stuff from Cory Doctorow @pluralistic https://doctorow.medium.com/let-the-platforms-burn-6fb3e6c0d980
(DIR) Post #AXYpxO1qfrhdo2EpV2 by sy@mastodon.nz
2023-07-09T22:26:36Z
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@pluralistic 'Platforms aren’t merely combustible, they’re always on fire. Once you trap hundreds of millions — or billions — of people inside a walled fortress, where warlords who preside over have unlimited power over their captives, and those captives the are denied any right to liberate themselves, enshittification will surely and inevitably follow.'
(DIR) Post #AazIv7XGipW3TsgWki by sy@mastodon.nz
2023-10-20T22:41:14Z
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@simongerman600 This is close to straight up disinformation. The chart is for electricity, not for fossil energy, greenhouse gas emissions or fossil consumption. If you look at any of those things, rather than the small subset of energy relating to electricity it's pretty clear that we're not moving in the right direction on the metrics that actually matter.
(DIR) Post #AunrF4dAgzCxHeLmiW by sy@mastodon.nz
2025-06-04T23:51:28Z
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'An app is just a website that we've wrapped in the correct DRM that makes it a felony to protect your privacy while you use it'@pluralistic keynote speech at PyConhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydVmzg_SJLw
(DIR) Post #AwEkoe6z9dw9kDkicy by sy@mastodon.nz
2025-07-16T02:19:58Z
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I find it oddly comforting that tech corporations are now straight up advertising their vision of dystopian individualism where all your friends have been replaced by their chatbot.#AI #dystopia
(DIR) Post #Ax3L093hwFrVAGoiBs by sy@mastodon.nz
2025-08-11T07:16:04Z
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@strypey 'If curricula and ideas and knowledge are colonised, that means they have been shaped in part by considerations that are political, economic, social, cultural or otherwise tangential to the ideals of academic inquiry. 'WTAF is this rubbish?Politics, economics, sociology and cultural studies are all areas of academic inquiry, not things that are tangential to its idealsGiven that most things that aren't covered by the above areas are affected by them - arts, science, literature, technology, history, etc - by virtue of the fact that they exist with societies that are shaped by political, economic and cultural forces, I'm left struggling to grasp what this moron is trying to say.
(DIR) Post #Az9rPXn6WkvNq1TdUu by sy@mastodon.nz
2025-10-13T06:31:41Z
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@daniel @ajroach42 @datarama The comparisons to feudalism are paper thin. Basically, he conflates the specific kinds of capitalism that were around after WW2 with capitalism.The understanding of pre-capitalist forms of life is pretty woeful, and the analysis of capitalism is not much better. An uber driver has very little in common with a manorial serf.
(DIR) Post #AzioDbJMD7fX55vauu by sy@mastodon.nz
2025-10-30T03:10:48Z
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@strypey Is it a reference to this stuff? https://www.newstatesman.com/comment/2024/11/kamala-harris-perils-of-identity-politics
(DIR) Post #B1HovVOEVSg2Xurzea by sy@mastodon.nz
2025-12-15T22:25:41Z
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@futurebird What is likely to happen depends on the policy of the institution and the specific instructions the student was given for the assessment. If they were told they can use an LLM to help with grammar it's fine, if there was a strcit no AI policy for the assessment it's not. What should happen is a bigger question about AI, the environment, copyright infringement etc. but given how quickly many education institutions have embraced AI, it seems unfair to penalise students if they've been explicitly told they can do something (and most of their peers will so they will likely be disadvantaged if they choose not to).