Grayson Sutherland

[Grayson Sutherland @graysonsuth]

I find it scary to think that we are trusting algorithms to shape (essentially) our entire world view.

[Grayson Sutherland @graysonsuth]

@Jason Also = automatic zone 2 training if they stress you out enough

[Pankaj @the2ndfloorguy]

i hooked my whoop to my work calendar to find which coworker gives me the most stress 🚨

thanks to fable, I reverse engineered whoop to pull per minute heart rate. nd matched spikes with cal events and attendees

I now have a leaderboard and I think about it daily.

few info masked for obvious reasons ;)

[Zia Yusuf @ZiaYusufUK]

Hampshire Police have finally released the Henry Nowak bodycam footage:

It’s horrific.

The last words Henry heard as he bled out were his rights having been arrested.

The police handcuffed him AFTER he told them he’d been stabbed.

Even if they heard the accusation of racist comments at the time, racist comments present no lethal threat to life.

Being stabbed clearly does.

My heart goes out to Henry’s family.

For the sake of all the incredible and brave police officers in this country, there must be swift action here.

And there must be AN END to two tier policing in this country.

We cannot go on like this.

[Ani O'Brien @aniobrien]

Apparently, job losses are only a national tragedy when they happen to people with university degrees.

Over the past decade, New Zealand has lost:

• Around 300 direct jobs at Marsden Point when our only oil refinery closed. Local leaders estimate including contractors and supply-chain businesses, the loss was well over 1,000 jobs.

• Around 120 direct jobs when the Holcim cement plant at Westport shut down, with significant flow-on effects for contractors, transport operators, and the coal industry that supplied it.

• Around 230 direct jobs when Winstone Pulp closed its Karioi pulp mill and Tangiwai sawmill, along with many forestry, harvesting, engineering, and transport jobs that depended on those operations.

• Around 230 direct jobs at Kinleith Mill when paper production was shut down, affecting contractors and suppliers throughout Tokoroa and the wider forestry sector.

• Around 175-230 direct jobs when the Whakatāne paper mill collapsed, plus the contractors, trucking companies, maintenance firms, and local businesses that relied on it.

• Around 300 direct jobs when the Waimate Meat Company closed, with major impacts on livestock transport, contractors, and local service businesses.

• Between 1,500 and 2,000 direct jobs across the coal sector following the collapse of Solid Energy and the decline of mining operations, alongside hundreds of contractor jobs in engineering, maintenance, transport, and support services.

All up, that's around 3,000–4,000 direct blue collar jobs gone. Once you include contractors, suppliers, transport firms, engineers, maintenance crews, and the businesses that depended on those workers spending money in their communities, the true impact was likely somewhere between 6,000 and 10,000 jobs.

Thousands lost their livelihoods. Sure there were a few stories, but they often emphasised how necessary it was for the environment or some other cause.

In many cases, the same people now lamenting public sector redundancies were actively cheering these closures on. We were told they were necessary. A transition away from unethical or dirty sectors. Progress. The price of climate action.

Workers were told to retrain. Learn how to code!!! "You just need to adapt!"

Now the cuts have reached Wellington and suddenly every redundancy is treated as a national emergency.

The same people who told coal miners, refinery workers, and mill workers to embrace change are now horrified that policy analysts, communications advisors, and bureaucrats might have to do the same.

Losing your job is hard regardless of who you are. A miner's mortgage matters just as much as a social media manager's mortgage. A forestry worker's family matters just as much as a policy advisor's family.

But the reaction over the past decade suggests many people in our political and media class don't actually believe that. To them, a blue collar worker losing their job was economic progress and necessary climate action.

A public servant losing theirs is a humanitarian crisis.
It seems that job losses only become a national conversation when they happen to people with the power to dominate the conversation.

[Matthew Horncastle @matt_horncastle]

New Zealand central government explained like it is a household.

Remove three zeros from the books.

Income: $169.8k
Spending: $183.5k
Overspend: $13.7k

Assets: $598.0k
Liabilities: $408.8k
Net worth: $189.1k

So this is basically a household earning $169,800 and spending $183,500.

Yes, it still owns assets.

Yes, it still has net worth.

But it is still spending more than it earns.

That is the part that matters.

If your household did this year after year, would you call it responsible?

Or would you say the obvious.

You have a spending problem.

Governments are not magic.
They do not escape maths.
They just hide behind larger numbers, more complexity, and better PR.

If this was your household, what would you do?

[Winston Peters @winstonpeters]

This is the health advice about the risks for under 18s having the double dose of the COVID19 vaccine from the Chief Health Advisor.

This information was not made public by Labour ministers or officials, and Hipkins said no minister was aware of the advice - we showed evidence in the House this week that they were aware of it but never shared it with the public and even continued the mandates.

You can see for yourself that they were advised clearly about the myocarditis health risks and the recommendation to stop the double dose mandates for children.

When is Labour going to be held accountable?

[The Rabbit Hole @TheRabbitHole]

Either both of these are Nazi salutes or neither of them are. Standards should be consistent.

[Grayson Sutherland @graysonsuth]

Trump hating Hillary all makes sense now

[Grayson Sutherland @graysonsuth]

When I was 12 or so I started a petition to do this. Despite the SPCA, fire service, and other notable organisations supporting a public ban, it was effectively ignored.

Good to see it finally taken seriously.

[Winston Peters @winstonpeters]

NZ First Introduces Bill to Ban Public Sales of Fireworks

New Zealand First has today introduced a Member’s Bill that will ban the public sale and use of fireworks across New Zealand.

The taxpayer should not be spending millions on something that drastically impacts pets, causes the inevitable fires, and causes havoc for our emergency services. Enough is enough.

The abuse and misuse of fireworks has far outgrown any of the benefits.

This is not about being ‘nanny state’, this is about bringing some common-sense into what is a desperately needed conversation about the future of fireworks in our community.

Many major retailers have already stopped selling fireworks long ago, and there have been calls from across the country to put a stop to the sale of fireworks completely.

The “Fireworks Prohibition Legislation Bill” will stop the retail sale, manufacture, and importation of fireworks for public use. It will still allow approved public displays to continue.

This Bill is a response to what is a hugely predictable and preventable costs for ACC, the huge costs of emergency service call outs, and most importantly stopping the effects reckless use of fireworks has on farm animals and family pets.

New Zealand has come to a point where we seriously need to have this conversation and debate.

[Grayson Sutherland @graysonsuth]

Ban the boom.

[David Farrar @dpfdpf]

The Broadcasting Standards Authority has made a secret in principle decision that they have the power to hear complaints and censor any audio or video content transmitted over the Internet. This is an outrageous power grab from a government censorship body and must be fought.

[Pavel Durov @durov]

I’m turning 41, but I don’t feel like celebrating.

Our generation is running out of time to save the free Internet built for us by our fathers.

What was once the promise of the free exchange of information is being turned into the ultimate tool of control.

Once-free countries are introducing dystopian measures such as digital IDs (UK), online age checks (Australia), and mass scanning of private messages (EU).

Germany is persecuting anyone who dares to criticize officials on the Internet. The UK is imprisoning thousands for their tweets. France is criminally investigating tech leaders who defend freedom and privacy.

A dark, dystopian world is approaching fast — while we’re asleep. Our generation risks going down in history as the last one that had freedoms — and allowed them to be taken away.

We’ve been fed a lie.

We’ve been made to believe that the greatest fight of our generation is to destroy everything our forefathers left us: tradition, privacy, sovereignty, the free market, and free speech.

By betraying the legacy of our ancestors, we’ve set ourselves on a path toward self-destruction — moral, intellectual, economic, and ultimately biological.

So no, I’m not going to celebrate today. I’m running out of time. WE are running out of time.

[Senator Alex Antic @SenatorAntic]

Hackers claim to have stolen 1.5 terabytes of data from Discord, including over 2.1 million government-issued identification photos used for age verification.

But don’t worry, I’m sure this won’t happen when you need to verify your age to use social media in December 🙄

https://t.co/UF0RCjGNFt

[Winston Peters @winstonpeters]

Tonight a disgusting coward has gone to my home and smashed a window. Glass was shattered all over our dog.

He also left a sign on the front door.

I wasn’t home. But my partner and guest were.

This is truely gutless.

This is the type of violent hate-filled behaviour we warned about in the past few days about the radical left.

When we have protesters, political bloggers, and MPs alike encouraging this behaviour, posting politician’s home addresses online, and acting with pure ignorance and extremism, this is the result.

This is the slippery slope that the left has been on the pathway of radicalisation for some time.

New Zealanders need to be deeply concerned about where our country is going and see who are the perpetrators of this divisive and violent behaviour.

All of New Zealand needs to be deeply concerned.

[Ryan Moulton @moultano]

My first thought whenever I see pictures like this is how much the course of history now sometimes rests on arbitrary choices by the MPEG standards group.

[Grayson Sutherland @graysonsuth]

Weird anecdote: @firefox is astronomically better at uploading larger video files to @Dropbox than @googlechrome.

Often Chrome will crash over and over again when trying to upload a video file, but when tried on Firefox it just works.

[Grayson Sutherland @graysonsuth]

@NoContextHumans @grok why?

[Lex Fridman @lexfridman]

80 years ago today, an atomic bomb was dropped on Nagasaki (Aug 9, 1945), the last time a nuclear weapon was used in war.

Just a friendly reminder on this beautiful Saturday, that if one is ever used again, it will be the end of human civilization.

There's a lot of division, turmoil, injustice, suffering in the world... but the truth remains that all of us humans are stuck here together on one small planet (for now), tasked with preserving the flame of human consciousness while wielding technology powerful enough to destroy everything we've ever built.

The good news is that we humans are a clever bunch and are fundamentally compassionate at the core. So, I'm betting humanity lasts at least another thousand years, and I'm hoping for another million.

But it is indeed very suspicious that we have not seen obvious signs of alien civilizations everywhere in the sky. Maybe the great filter is ahead of us and this whole intelligent civilization thing is harder to pull off than we realize.

Either way, I'm glad I get to be alive here for a bit with all you.

[ThePrimeagen @ThePrimeagen]

ai porn is going to destroy an entire generation of men

[Grayson Sutherland @graysonsuth]

Naff is back for 2025!

https://t.co/9ryyMD2I8S