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Carmen-Lisandrette Mar 14

The B416 campaign is piping up again.

We should be organizing against them.

Anyone interested?

https://newsroom.co.nz/2026/03/14/the-evidence-is-in-so-why-keep-hurting-our-kids/

#newzealand #nztwits #kiwi #privacy

The evidence is in, so why keep hurting our kids?

Comment from Auckland University: If a physical consumer product was linked to the deaths of children, it would be recalled immediately. Social media shouldn't be treated differently because it’s digital.

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Kirsty Mar 13

#AI #DataCentre #PowerPrices #NZ #NZTwits

Is it uncharitable to think the fanboys has been taking in the cool aid, or perhaps asking what backhanders they got? 🤪
How can those mayors be so divorced from reality?

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/589535/massive-ai-factory-could-impact-sea-life-cultural-values

Massive AI factory could impact sea life, cultural values

Datagrid announced it had gained full resource consent meaning it was one step closer to constructing an AI factory in Makarewa.

RNZ

Kirsty Mar 11

This headline should be waking more people up! Why are we allowing this?

The factory would include the construction of a 78,000sq m AI factory in Makarewa, just north of Invercargill, equipped with a grid exit point electricity substation.
… Once operational, it would consume 280MW of power, making it New Zealand’s second-largest electricity user after the Tiwai Point aluminium smelter.

https://www.odt.co.nz/southland/ai-factory-rival-smelter-power-use
#AI #DataCentre #PowerPrices #NZ #NZTwits

AI factory to rival smelter in power use

Invercargill could be poised to emerge as a vital digital destination, Datagrid New Zealand says, as the country’s first AI factory yesterday moved...

Otago Daily Times Online News

El Nacho 💙🇺🇦☠️🦇👻🚀👽Mar 3

In pictures: rare blood moon stuns Kiwis across the country #astronomy #aotearoa #nz #newzealand #NZTwits

https://www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/360946301/pictures-rare-blood-moon-stuns-kiwis-across-country

Stuff

JustSaying Mar 2

Me: To take my mind off possible nuclear war I'm playing a game

Someone: What game?

Me: Fallout 76

Someone: ...

Me: Sob

#NZtwits

JustSaying Mar 1

Just in case anyone still thinks Elon is a genius instead of just an arse

#NZtwits

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=osMooAvpSSs

World's First Data Center In Space — It's a Trap

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JustSaying Feb 25

#NZtwits Scam call

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/HDYNZwBi3ro?feature=share

Scam calls and I get those all the time around 10am and same scam calls sometimes 4pm #tiktok #funny

YouTube

Carmen-Lisandrette Feb 25

FYI, if you want #newzealand banks to be made to provide cash services everyone can access, you should really go fill out this 2-min consultation on the RBNZ site:

https://consultations.rbnz.govt.nz/rbnz/access-to-cash/consultation/subpage.2026-01-29.7717165071/

#nzpol #nz #kiwi #nztwits #privacy

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El Nacho 💙🇺🇦☠️🦇👻🚀👽Feb 25

Then and now - How Christchurch has changed in 15 years #christchurch #aotearoa #nz #newzealand #NZTwits 🇳🇿

https://www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/360943170/then-and-now-how-christchurch-has-changed-15-years

Stuff

Rupert Brackenbury Feb 18

I know the business model for tech companies is #RentSeeking middle-men, but do you have to middle-man your own applications? Stop making me do everything in a browser tab or #msteam, give me different windows and big obvious control ribbons!
#Microsoft #computers #enshittification #nztwits