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@Bob LeFridge :tinoflag:

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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Raglan Niall :lk: :tinoflag: · 1w
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SpaceX is targeting a $1.8 trillion valuation with its initial public offering. Musk himself believes he might extract $2 trillion from the gullible.

Analysts Morningstar have just thrown a massive spanner in the works by issuing a valuation of just $780 billion.

They say SpaceX is overvalued and cite the dual class of shares, which give Musk control over 85% of the votes, as well as his multiple conflicts of interest. They didn't have to mention Musk's fascism or his ketamine habit, because everybody knows already.

Morningstar predicts better "opportunities" for investors in the months after the IPO, once existing shareholders start ditching stock.

https://global.morningstar.com/en-nd/stocks/spacex-ipo-investors-long-list-unfriendly-shareholder-policies#musks-potential-conflicts-of-interest

#Musk #SpaceX #Morningstar #IPO
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Raglan Niall :lk: :tinoflag: · 1w
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Joshua Leung · 1w
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Colin Jackson · 1w
This story https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/regions_waikato/596954/nzta-pauses-using-billboard-cameras-to-detect-wof-fraud-despite-success is about NZTA regretting they can't keep using automated number pla...
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It's creepy. Not so much the use of ANPR when it's run by Police, NZTA or Councils. There are legitimate uses for the technology.

It troubles me that many of the cameras being used for surveillance by Police and others are privately owned and operate outside legislation. Like the billboard cameras.

Auror claim their retail surveillance system now covers 90% of NZ retail, providing biometric data including facial recognition. Police have free access to this massive private database with little to no oversight.

That's creepy and this is not the world I expected to live in.

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JustSaying · 1w
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I've always seen Nelson as a place where National voters go to die. The fact that they keep electing Nick Smith as mayor pretty much confirms that.

How many 'one in 100 year' events can you have in a year? For Nelson's older Nats, the dawning realisation that they're now living at the ragged edge of climate change will hit hard. Thoughts & prayers.

Apologies to any non-Nat Nelsonians.

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JustSaying · 1w
This week's climate disaster emergency? 21 so far this year and National is determined to make them worse. #NZpol https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/weather/596856/weather-south-island-braces-for-possib...
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"MetService is urging those in Golden Bay, Nelson, and the entire Northland region to prepare for potential flooding."

It is indeed a remarkable coincidence that the same areas are being whacked multiple times every year. It's almost as if climate change was an actual thing.

But it can't be, or the Luxon government wouldn't be betting the country's future on oil and gas. Would they?

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JustSaying · 1w
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