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#rnz

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Strypey

I'm listening to an RNZ report on the Levin tornado;

rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/

A mention of the Mayor going door-to-door to check on residents, got me thinking about how the council is tracking whether households have or haven't been visited. Could OSM map data and software be used?

A software package that made this easier would be useful in a wide range of situations. Any organising body in a natural disaster, or any political party canvassing voters, for a start.

RNZ · Tornado causes damage in LevinParts of Levin have suffered extensive damage from a tornado which brought down trees, smashed windows and lifted roofs on Tuesday morning. Reporter Jimmy Ellingham spoke to Charlotte Cook.
#RNZ#Levin#tornado
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Strypey

Most depressing podcast episode ever. According to the results of the latest Reid Research Poll (now funded by RNZ), after watching the Coalition of Chaos screw up over and over again for half a term, half the country seems to think they deserve a second one;

rnz.co.nz/podcast/focusonpolit

It's like trying to get a friend to leave their abusive partner. A bouquet of economic green shoots and a promise things will get better, and months of beatings are forgotten.

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RNZFocus on Politics podcastThe big political issues unpacked every week.
#podcasts#RNZ#FocusOnPolitics
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Strypey

"... since about 2018, core media ad spend as a proportion of GDP has been below 0.8%. So literally never - going back all the way to the 60s - has ad spending been a smaller proportion of economic activity ... when we hear all of these conversations about how the media should be funded into the future, ad spending doesn't appear to be as viable of a long term solution ..."

#BradOlsen, Chief Economist, #InfoMetrics, 2025

rnz.co.nz/podcast/mediawatch?s

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RNZMediawatch podcastA critical look at the New Zealand media.
#podcasts#RNZ#MediaWatch
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Strypey

The NZ Advertising Standards Authority has released its annual report on advertising revenue. I'm hearing about it on RNZ MediaWatch, who referenced this column by Gavin Ellis;

knightlyviews.com/but-waitther

Once again, the stats show that the bulk of ad money spent in NZ is going to the DataFarms. The handful of giant, multinational platforms owned by Silicon Valley oligarchs. Once again, I recommend @pluralistic's piece on this;

pluralistic.net/2022/04/10/big

Knightly Views with Gavin Ellis · BUT WAIT…THERE’S MORE (BEING SUCKED AWAY) - Knightly Views with Gavin EllisFirst there was Dracula, followed by Nosferatu. Buffy the Vampire Slayer despatched a few, but then we were shown What We Do in the Shadows. However, for the cold-hearted realities of vampirism, nothing beats that on-going series The Advertising Standards Authority’s Advertising Turnover Report. In a chillingly sangfroid fashion, its latest episode indicates that yet … Continue reading BUT WAIT…THERE’S MORE (BEING SUCKED AWAY) →
#podcasts#RNZ#MediaWatch
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Strypey

Joshua Yuvaraj, co-director of the New Zealand Centre for Intellectual Property, was interviewed on RNZ yesterday, about the degree to which copyright law might be used to prevent scraping of the open web by #MOLE Trainers;

rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/

As Cory Doctorow noted back in 2023;

"In privacy and labor fights, copyright is a clumsy tool at best."

pluralistic.net/2023/09/17/how

RNZ · What can writers do about their work being used to train AI models?Joshua Yuvaraj is the co-director of the New Zealand Centre for Intellectual Property, and a senior lecturer in law at the University of Auckland specialising in copyright and artificial intelligence.
#RNZ#NZCIP#JoshuaYuvaraj
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Strypey

With the Free Speech Onion wading in to support the attempted far right takeover of NZME, it seems it might be at least partially a revenge action against the NZHerald decision not to accept political ads from Hobson's Pledge. Ads their editors considered to be misinformation;

rnz.co.nz/podcast/mediawatch?s

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RNZMediawatch podcastA critical look at the New Zealand media.
#podcasts#RNZ#MediaWatch
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bananabob :tinoflag:

Revealed: Exactly how many hours New Zealanders wait on hold each year

<<A new customer service report has found New Zealanders collectively spent 24 million hours on hold last year.>>

<<The worst offenders were those in financial services, such as banks and insurance. As well as government, with wait time increasing 30 minutes year-on-year.>>

rnz.co.nz/news/national/543978

RNZ · Revealed: Exactly how many hours New Zealanders wait on hold each yearBy Checkpoint
#RNZ#NZ#YourCallIsImportantToUs
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Sascha 😈 ⁂ (Fediverse)

RNZ: Zwangssterilisationen in Heidelberg – Vergessene Opfer des Nationalsozialismus


Es ist ein noch unerforschtes Thema der Stadtgeschichte: Erbgesundheitsgerichte verfügten über das Schicksal von Menschen.

Heidelberg. Am Morgen des 15. Februar 1934 betraten Emilie und ihre Mutter das städtische Amtsgericht in der Seminarstraße in der Altstadt. Dort befand sich das Erbgesundheitsgericht, vor dem Emilie auf Antrag des Bezirksarztes erscheinen musste. Der Arzt vertrat die Auffassung, dass die junge Frau wegen ihrer Taubheit als "erbkrank" gelte. Grundlage war das von den Nationalsozialisten eingeführte "Gesetz zur Verhütung erbkranken Nachwuchses". In diesen Fällen sah der NS-Staat die Sterilisation der betreffenden Person vor... (weiter) ℹ️

Wirklich schade das die Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung solche Artikel hinter einer Paywall versteckt!

#Hintergrund #Nationalsozialismus #Heidelberg #Opfer #Zwangssterilisationen #Menschen #Nazis #KeinVergessen #RNZ #2025-03-05

Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung · Zwangssterilisationen in Heidelberg – Vergessene Opfer des NationalsozialismusEs ist ein noch unerforschtes Thema der Stadtgeschichte: Erbgesundheitsgerichte verfügten über das Schicksal von Menschen.
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Strypey

I just noticed that my friend Pounamu was interviewed for Mapuna on RNZ last year;

rnz.co.nz/podcast/mapuna-podca

The interview was published on 30 November, just after the Hīkoi mō te Tiriti arrived at Parliament. One of the things Pounamu talks about is staying in a space of manaakitanga when we have difficult intercultural conversations, like the one about whether or not rangatira ceded sovereignty to the Crown when they signed.

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RNZMāpuna podcastMāori throughout Aotearoa tell their stories to Julian Wilcox.
#podcasts#RNZ#Mapuna
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Strypey

Having already been exposed by Jack Tame on Q&A as a quote bot programmed with talking points, our Prime Minister was similarly exposed as mealy-mouthed in a normally friendly interview with Nat-aligned shock jock Mike Hosking;

"You've made a complete meal of this."

rnz.co.nz/podcast/mediawatch?s

This is *not* a good sign for the government.

A grey and blue hypnotising illustration on the background with a large title saying "Mediawatch" and words "weekly since 2001" above the title.
RNZMediawatch podcastA critical look at the New Zealand media.
#podcasts#RNZ#MediaWatch
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Strypey

Tama Potaka for Nat leader! I'm serious. You can tell from the careful way he speaks that he doesn't approve of the cocktail government Mr Potatohead has mixed up. But he's responsible and loyal enough to keep his kōrero away from any explicit criticism of his party leader, or the coalition he's part of;

rnz.co.nz/podcast/mata-with-mi

I think he could be a fantastic leader for a new generation of progressive Nats.

RNZMata with Mihingarangi Forbes podcastThe latest in politics with a range of Māori commentators and newsmakers.
#podcasts#RNZ#Mata
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Strypey

"Linton [Kwesi Johnson] was very adamant that [Blair Peach] should be remembered by our community, because he lost his life in the struggle for ... racial equality. And he wasn't even British. He was a schoolteacher that came from New Zealand to teach young kids at school, and then a policeman hit him in the head on this march, and killed him ... It was despicable"

#Dennis Bovell, 2025

rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/

RNZ · Pocket Edition for Wednesday 29 January 2025On this week's episode of Pocket Edition Maggie Tweedie shares new music from Len Blake and Crystal Chen.
#podcasts#RNZ#Music101
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Sascha 😈 ⁂ (Fediverse)

Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung - Zensur durch Unterlassung


Das die @RNZonline gerne mal Kommentare unter fadenscheinigen Gründen mit Verweis auf die Netiquette, welche an sich gar nicht betroffen ist zensiert, ist ja nichts wirklich Neues. Gleichzeitig findet aber auch eine andere Art der Kommentarzensur statt die mir schon einige Male aufgefallen ist, man schaltet Kommentare einfach nicht frei. Das ist z. B. bei meinen Kommentar zu diesem Artikel vom 31.01.2025 passiert. Der Kommentar war vom 01.02.2025 und wurde nie freigeschaltet.

#RNZ #Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung #Zensur #Meinung #2025-02-16

Screenshot von einen nicht freigegebenen Kommentar in der Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung
#rheinneckarzeitung
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