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plants, data, scifi, art, critters, water, futures / foresight. infovore neophile interested in everything except asshattery. Living with my plants and books and bicycle in gorgeous #Ōtautahi #Christchurch in #Aotearoa #NewZealand. Would love to meet more people here :)  Avatar: me in glasses with white hair sticking up, and a lit white (yellow bulb) sacred heart light and plants on a shelf in the background. Background: the sun shining through daffodils in Hagley Park (at daffodil level).

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2024-09-04 21:09:03

Can’t say why, but wish me luck folks! I could sure use some :)

2024-08-31 03:51:33

Science is how we explain it.
Philosophy is how we think about it.
Music (and indeed art) is how we feel about it.
All of these are how we _understand_ it, in both senses of the term.

2024-08-27 00:30:10

This is why a) health data services scare the living whatsits out of me* (extremely private info, often scarily outdated systems, etc), and why b) ORGANISATIONS SHOULD KEEP ABSOLUTELY MINIMUM DATA.
* And thus I refuse to use them, including the ones doctors etc keep pushing one to use for appointments, results etc.
https://www.theregister.com/2024/08/26/31m_invoices_business_files_exposed/

2024-08-13 23:52:38

Superb piece!
Also “including the prime minister referring to the Greens as “goths and anarcho-feminists” in the days before the Corngate interview. That this has not become the Greens’ official slogan is one of the enduring mysteries of our politics.” 🤣
https://thespinoff.co.nz/politics/08-07-2022/helen-clark-vs-john-campbell-new-zealands-most-explosive-tv-interview-20-years-on

2024-07-30 01:56:39

Gods I'm tired of how greedy insurance companies are. My trauma / income insurance just went up by over 12%, with no warning, and no reason. That's OBSCENE.

2024-07-01 23:11:27

Two weeks from now Ash and I will just have boarded the plane to return to NZ :) A lot broker, but also wiser. Cant wait to be home!
Aaaand looking for work :)
I have skills and knowledge in data governance / rights / sovereignty / justice, strategy, information architecture, privacy, plain language (and indeed general communication - I love turning the complex into the digestible), content design, governance, openX (open gov, open data, open source, open access, etc), and more!

2024-06-21 02:29:44

“The more sophisticated the networks become, and the more sophisticated technologies that are overlaid upon those networks, the bigger the risk of abuses.”
An...interesting...read.
#tech #data #ethics #privacy #transparency #governance
https://www.rnz.co.nz/programmes/in-depth-special-projects/story/2018942840/nz-at-the-centre-of-cross-govt-group-sharing-millions-of-personal-traveller-records-between-countries

2024-06-20 07:10:29

Updated my wee (data-related) professional services site :)
https://www.data4d.nz/

2024-01-23 19:52:18

Just heard: “it’s about as rare as rocking horse crap” :P

2024-01-10 17:18:27

So long, New Zealand! See y’all in a few years (hopefully) :)

2023-10-31 18:34:35

Hear hear!!!
[The bits on #carbonoffsets and #carboncapture are particularly trenchant, for those who don't know what nonsense, and indeed often dangerous nonsense, they tend to be.]
"Harnessing the profit motive to the planet's survivability might sound like a good idea, but it assumes that corporations can self-regulate their way to a better climate future. They cannot."
#climatechange #climate
https://t.co/9GIUuUNLn1

2023-08-31 05:19:45

This is so lovely, and such a strong message <3
https://thespinoff.co.nz/the-side-eye/31-08-2023/the-side-eye-signs-of-life

2023-07-19 00:30:33

Bravo to @davidfarrier!
I couldn't agree more about the entire piece (and yes, I'm doing my utter best to avoid said news coverage).
https://www.webworm.co/p/tortureporn

2023-07-18 02:06:43

ABSOLUTE #mustread.
Fellow humans - if you're excited by this and wanna chat more, please get in touch with me <3
#climate #digital #justice #equity #Futures
https://www.theengineroom.org/new-report-at-the-confluence-of-digital-rights-climate-justice/