Strypey
@strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

"... besides central government providing education for your tamariki and health, local government is basically doing everything else. You turn your tap on in the morning, that's local government. You catch the bus or you drive on the road, that's all local government. You go to the library after school, you take your kids to sports, all of those playgrounds and everything that your tamariki are playing on is local government."

#KerrinLeoni, 2025

https://www.rnz.co.nz/podcast/mata-with-mihingarangi-forbes?share=cc8fc0b6-6ea0-40dc-9392-3e144a6d5396

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Tomáš
@prahou@merveilles.town  ·  activity timestamp 4 weeks ago

welcome to Metacity 1

(next: https://merveilles.town/@prahou/114723108835939314 )

#unix_surrealism #comic #technomage #mata #metacity #mastoart #fediart #ai

Girl: "But how do we get inside, master?" Puffy: "We have the golden ticket." Puffy is holding a MATACORP AI SCRAPING PERMIT. Puffy and Girl stop by a security checkpoint. Puffy talks to the clerk. Girl stands by, looking at a MATA_BOT_COP. Girl: "Did you know that the current sgx rayrifle firmware has an unpatched vulnerability that allows the attacker to remotely discharge it?" The clerk lets them through. Puffy: "Ready?" Girl: "Ready."
Girl: "But how do we get inside, master?" Puffy: "We have the golden ticket." Puffy is holding a MATACORP AI SCRAPING PERMIT. Puffy and Girl stop by a security checkpoint. Puffy talks to the clerk. Girl stands by, looking at a MATA_BOT_COP. Girl: "Did you know that the current sgx rayrifle firmware has an unpatched vulnerability that allows the attacker to remotely discharge it?" The clerk lets them through. Puffy: "Ready?" Girl: "Ready."
Girl: "But how do we get inside, master?" Puffy: "We have the golden ticket." Puffy is holding a MATACORP AI SCRAPING PERMIT. Puffy and Girl stop by a security checkpoint. Puffy talks to the clerk. Girl stands by, looking at a MATA_BOT_COP. Girl: "Did you know that the current sgx rayrifle firmware has an unpatched vulnerability that allows the attacker to remotely discharge it?" The clerk lets them through. Puffy: "Ready?" Girl: "Ready."
The outer walls of Metacity. Protect all the wonders of proprietary debauchery. The most secure place on what remains of Earth. Or so they would want you to think. Girl and Puffy walk past a refugee camp outside the walls. Puffy: "Refugees. Most never make it inside."
The outer walls of Metacity. Protect all the wonders of proprietary debauchery. The most secure place on what remains of Earth. Or so they would want you to think. Girl and Puffy walk past a refugee camp outside the walls. Puffy: "Refugees. Most never make it inside."
The outer walls of Metacity. Protect all the wonders of proprietary debauchery. The most secure place on what remains of Earth. Or so they would want you to think. Girl and Puffy walk past a refugee camp outside the walls. Puffy: "Refugees. Most never make it inside."
Strypey
@strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago

In Mihi Forbes' report on Rimmer's political influences, we hear Canadian Professor Tom Flanagan eulogising about how much more civilized our colonising ancestors were than the indigenous people they dispossessed;

https://www.rnz.co.nz/podcast/mata-with-mihingarangi-forbes?share=72011f03-6c03-4be9-bd4f-bb8d71b6606c

If they were so civilized, why did they enslave people, and name places in indigenous peoples' lands after slavers?

https://buttondown.com/unsettling/archive/new-zealand-connections-to-caribbean-slavery/

Or if that's a sign of being civilised, why did they stop?

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