MetalsNZ

I recently came out as Nonsensical. Some call me Kiwi Aviator. Some call me an investigator. Just don’t call me late for dinner.

[MetalsNZ @MetalsNZ]

@swannieriv @rosykaren “Negativity and hatred have no place in our movement” along with “damaging and harmful opinions”.

The retractions are less apologies and more thinly veiled assaults on the author’s character. I hope Watson has good legal support if he chooses to go down that path.

[🗣 Free Speech Union ✊ @NZFreeSpeech]

Many of the world's least free countries restrict or ban VPNs.

With the UK considering limits on VPNs as a part of their ‘Australia-plus’ style social media ban, vigilance matters when ideas like that appear in New Zealand too. 

The Free Speech Union will continue pushing back against policies that erode New Zealanders' freedoms before they become law.

[MetalsNZ @MetalsNZ]

@bindelj We used to just have “experience”.

My lived experience of experience is that it can only be had while living.

[MetalsNZ @MetalsNZ]

@NZFreeSpeech It’s hard to believe that the @NZNationalParty would be so easily led to the slaughter on this issue, and seek to take the nation with them. Do they not see where this is going?

My god National. You’re installing the scaffolding for an Orwellian Police State.

[Johnny Midnight ⚡️ @its_The_Dr]

British Humor. Pay for your Execution 🤣

[MetalsNZ @MetalsNZ]

@ShadooowOnX I think people get hooked up on definitions of ‘Ponzi’, and the idea that if Strategy’s $MSTR and $STRC activities are ‘legal’, they can’t possibly be ‘Ponzi-like’.

To accept Strategy is now ‘Ponzi-like’ means questioning its previous comforting market narratives.

[Wazz @WazzCrypto]

$STRC is Saylor's attempt at creating a productive asset from an unproductive one.

This type of financial alchemy is not possible hence why it failed. It was only sustained by hopes and dreams

[MetalsNZ @MetalsNZ]

If only there’d been signs. $MSTR $STRC.

“Bitcoin Bull”. A song about Michael Saylor by the delightful @BriFitDance, from a simpler time.

[MetalsNZ @MetalsNZ]

@CryptoKaleo Outstanding conversation Kaleo.

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

@5uffragette @hateMcCrime @VPointon @miroirdufou They think it’s sophisticated to pretend nothing is truly knowable. We’re living through the Endarkenment.

[MetalsNZ @MetalsNZ]

@MomoStJohn My thoughts are that ‘modern’ psychology was amongst the first to fall to French postmodernism. When reality becomes socially constructed we’re doomed, and psychology’s inability to produce replicable insights is its own demise. God bless, and farewell to western intellectualism.

[MetalsNZ @MetalsNZ]

@davepl1968 Fond memories of using DoubleSpace on my 286 40MB drive. Times were hard and that turned an old machine into a useful work horse. 🙏

[MetalsNZ @MetalsNZ]

@aniobrien @LiangRhea Yes. From memory, an elected health minister makes up to 500 decisions about Governance and Crown Entity appointments across a term. Should they surrender those decisions to the woke wannabe elites? I think not. What’s the point of having a minister then?

[MetalsNZ @MetalsNZ]

@dpfdpf @BrookevanVelden It is world class. It’s always great to do autopsies on government failure, but it would also be great to understand exactly how government got passports so right. I think the roots of the improvements go back quite a way in time.

[MetalsNZ @MetalsNZ]

@MomoStJohn Agree. “Yeah, I have changed…I wouldn’t say that phrase anymore.”

Credit where it’s due, it’s damn hard for people to admit when they’ve been so wrong. For this to unwind, a lot of people need to cross that bridge. Gives me a glimmer of hope for the future.

[MetalsNZ @MetalsNZ]

@pennymarienz @HeadWarriorTWM This is basically an adolescent disorder manufacturing pipeline being implemented by a school.

[🗣 Free Speech Union ✊ @NZFreeSpeech]

You cannot age-verify children without age-verifying adults. 

To stop a 15-year-old creating an account, platforms must first know whether every other user is over 16. That means building identity-checking systems for the entire population - not just children. 

This isn't a side effect. It's the design. 

A policy sold as protecting children is, in practice, an identity infrastructure for everyone. That's the debate we should be having.

[Ani O'Brien @aniobrien]

Great news. The BSA's attempted power grab will go down as one of NZ's worst examples of organisational suicide.

[MetalsNZ @MetalsNZ]

@glitchdig0 @benryanwriter @JonniSkinner @TheFP If you can’t find one, he tells his story in a recent interview on the Genspect YT channel here: https://t.co/dWQ8OdVqql

[MetalsNZ @MetalsNZ]

@Jilliantweeting @RachaelWongAus @RANZCP What��s the ‘NZ’ part of RANZCP saying about this? Are we just going along with this disgraceful madness?