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In a previous BirdSite life I was a disillusioned AI fridge, but here I'm an altogether quieter, more helpful appliance.

IRL I'm a retired filmmaker who lives in the front line of climate change... on a New Zealand beach at sea level. Born 313.2 ppm when the air was cleaner, and we weren't force fed CO2 and microplastics.

As a cynical optimist I love the peaceful Mastodon atmosphere. People are generally nicer in these parts.

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In May, the FBI issued a warning about the ShinyHunters hacking collective. ShinyHunters weren't impressed, so they did what any self-respecting hacker group would do.

They hacked the FBI.

The group claim to have full staff details for all 38,000 employees... and more.

Sample info released to journalists so far includes "every agent's name, role, badge number and personal details including home address, phone numbers and spouse information."

ShinyHunters aren't asking for a ransom. They're nominally requesting the FBI to downgrade their criminal status, but in reality this hack is a one-fingered salute to America's top law enforcement agency.

I wonder how many FBI families will need relocating? For the FBI, this is about as embarrassing as it gets.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c9n74574elljo

#ShinyHunters #FBI #Hacking
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While this story is another soft TradeMe plug, thanks to their deal with Stuff, it does provide a snapshot of NZ's rental market.

Apparently Otago has reached the unenviable position of having the highest rents in the country at $700pw average, compared with the national median of $625.

"New listings in the region are down close to 15% year on year, the biggest supply drop anywhere in the country, while demand is up 5%."

The Otago figure will always be skewed by the Queenstown rental market with its higher rents and greater numbers of top-end rentals. But $700pw for an average rental?

How can ordinary people afford this?

https://www.stuff.co.nz/home-property/361037594/countrys-priciest-rent-region-thats-overtaken-auckland-and-bop

#Otago #Rent #Dunedin #NZ
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NZ First's Health policy is a cut & paste of a wish list drawn up by an organisation run by cookers and anti-vaxxers.

While he's been caught red-handed, Winston denies the plagiarism. But NZ1st even copied the typos (whoops), presumably because nobody in the party actually bothered to read the document before issuing it as party policy.

For me the issue is less about NZFirst's plagiarism than the fact that they chose to base their health policy on the opinions of a fringe group of inadequate people. This suggests that NZFirst are too lazy to even write their own policies.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/politics/361036430/nz-firsts-health-policy-copy-pasted-advocacy-groups-website

#NZPol #NZFirst
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Staff at the Eiffel Tower are on strike.

A Hindu religious group booked for a private tour demanded that female staff were "set aside" during their visit. Management complied.

"As ‌the delegation passed ⁠through, women were asked to leave their workstations so that men could take their places."

Hopefully the strike will help management realise that misogyny and religious fanaticism should never be allowed to infect their workplace again.

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/strike-shuts-eiffel-tower-after-female-staff-hidden-during-religious-visit/PR7CCHFO4FHYBJHTPCBTSHAJAY/

#Paris #Eiffel #Hindu