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Terry.Vercoe retweeted
"Government cannot create a special privilege for one American, without simultaneously creating a special disadvantage for some other American."
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I just had a deeply alarming 45 minute sync with our Talent Acquisition team regarding their new AI-driven resume screening tool.
They reported that the software's reduced our time-to-hire by 60% over the last month.
I asked them to walk me through the specific algorithmic parameters they established for filtering out unqualified applicants.
The HR manager smiled and said they just told the AI to optimize for digital natives with high runway potential and a youthful energy.
I stopped typing and asked her to run a demographic report on every single candidate the software's rejected since September.
The data showed a 100% rejection rate for any applicant who graduated college before the year 2010.
I explained that automating age discrimination doesn't make it suddenly legal, it just makes it highly scalable and incredibly easy to prove in court.
She seemed genuinely confused and argued that the AI made the decision, not her, so we're insulated from liability.
I had to explain that the EEOC doesn't currently accept the robot defense for federal civil rights violations.
I'm currently drafting a memo to halt all hiring until we manually review 4,000 resumes.
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Blokes who vote progressive need to watch this clip carefully.
A One Nation senator asks a simple question: Why is there an Office for Women with real power and funding, but nothing equivalent for men?
The answer from the government side is basically:
“We have a men’s health envoy… think of our daughters… this isn’t a zero-sum game.”
But look at the outcomes:
Men are the majority of suicides.
Men make up most workplace deaths.
Boys are now the minority starting university.
Fathers are far more likely to lose primary care of their kids after separation.
If you believe in fairness and evidence, those numbers matter.
An Office for Women is fine. Supporting women is fine.
But refusing the same institutional recognition for the serious, measurable problems men and boys face is not equality. It’s selective equality.
When you vote for parties that defend this imbalance, you are voting for a system that treats male disadvantage as less important. That includes your rights as a father, your son’s education, and the support available when men are in crisis.
You can still care about women’s issues.
You can still reject the extremes.
But don’t pretend voting for this approach is voting for equal treatment. The record shows otherwise.
Equality means looking at the data on both sides. Not just the side that fits the preferred narrative.
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Sunday 19 July, doors open at 1pm. Stand with us. Join Rt Hon Winston Peters as he launches New Zealand First's general election campaign. Hear our vision firsthand and learn about the policies that put New Zealanders first.
nzfirst.nz/campaign-launch
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Ginger Gaetz, Matt Gaetz' wife, singing the U.S. National Anthem in Congress' halls.
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💥BOOM! RFK Jr. just called out EVERY elected official for being beholden to the Big Pharma industry.
"Congress is controlled, in so many ways, by the pharmaceutical industry."
"There's at least one pharmaceutical lobbyist for every Congressman, every Senator on Capitol Hill, and every member of the Supreme Court."
"Some estimates show the Pharmaceutical companies, the industry itself, spend three times what the next largest lobbyist spends on lobbying."
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What. The.
Jacinda Ardern was considering using home detention technology - ankle bracelets for NZ’er’s isolating during covid, to ‘ensure compliance’….. yes she said that.
Insane clip - from the insane hard left nutbags, oh who is asking her the Question? None other than FlounderSam!
How was this deviant ever let into Covid huddles and stand up’s ? Is this when he was radicalised by the lunatic left?
Was he being paid ? Was this to augment his other “online activity” that was generating income ?
Anyway the whole thing is super disturbing.
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“The crucial question for any policy is not what, are its intentions, but what are its effects?”
— Walter E. Williams
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🚨 BLACKOUT CHAOS: SPAIN, PORTUGAL — AND NOW PARTS OF FRANCE AND BELGIUM
What started as a blackout in Spain and Portugal just got bigger — now parts of France, Belgium, and even tiny Andorra are getting hit too.
Trains stopped, traffic lights failed, and phones cut out — causing plenty of real-world panic.
The cause? Still unclear.
Some say it’s a European grid fail, others blame a fire in southern France that fried a major power line.
Source: Bloomberg, Euronews
🚨🇪🇸🇵🇹 BLACKOUT HITS SPAIN AND PORTUGAL — TRAINS, TRAFFIC, AND PHONES DOWN
A huge blackout knocked out power, trains, traffic lights, and phone service across most of Spain and parts of Portugal around noon.
Madrid, Barcelona, and Lisbon were hit hard, while the Canary and Balearic Islands dodged the chaos.
Officials still aren’t sure what caused it, but the power grid operator says backup plans are rolling... and no, the markets didn’t crash (yet).
Source: Bloomberg
Terry.Vercoe retweeted
After 50 years the whole thing just needs to be wound up.
newsroom.co.nz/2024/10/14/go…
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The British government is developing software to predict who is most likely to be a 13 year old white boy
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Te Pāti Māori's nastiest rhetoric yet? Here's what they told Karen Chhour in the debate on her legislation to repeal Section 7AA.
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🚨🚨🚨 BREAKING: The Australian Family Court’s extraordinary decision in Re Devin is a watershed moment for the treatment of gender distressed children in Australia.
In the ruling, Justice Strum:
‼️ Found that one of Australia’s leading child gender medicine experts misled the court and that her and her colleague were being influenced by ideology in assessing the child.
‼️ Criticised the approach of gender clinics, saying the decision to “affirm unreservedly” any child that raises concerns over their gender is “oddly binary”.
‼️ Relied upon the UK’s Cass Review, which raised serious concerns about the lack of evidence for puberty blockers.
‼️ Called into question the Australian Standards of Care and Treatment Guidelines developed by the Royal Children’s Hospital Melbourne, which promote the ‘gender-affirming’ model of care.
‼️ Prevented the 12-year-old child from accessing puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones or changing their legal sex or name, stating that “At this stage in the child’s life, all options should be left open, without any unacceptable risk of harm to the child.”
⚖️ Read the judgment: austlii.edu.au/cgi-bin/viewd…
🗞️ Read @EllieDudley_’s piece in the @australian, ‘Judge lashes child gender-medicine experts in blow for clinic’: archive.md/ouxmf
📣 Sign the open letter calling for a halt on ‘gender-affirming’ interventions for children and young people in Australia pending an urgent independent national inquiry into youth gender medicine: womensforumaustralia.org/gen…
cc: @AlboMP @PeterDutton_MP #AusPol
Terry.Vercoe retweeted
Hey @elonmusk - I hope I’m wrong, but since I changed my profile on X to identify myself as a candidate at the coming Australian election, my posts seem to be restricted, receiving less than 50% of their normal reach - and I’m continually getting hit with X adds asking me to pay US$1,700 per day to get to the daily reach I was previously receiving organically.
@elonmusk - please note the LIBERATARIAN party doesn’t receive tens of millions in taxpayer money to fund our election campaign like the Labor & Liberal parties do. I’m still banned from Facebook for telling the truth and quoting the science on Covid.
We get blocked in the mainstream media, and Twitter is (was ?) one of the only places where we could complete in the contest of ideas on a level playing field.
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Frank Newman · ·
NZ HERALD: Copyright breach claim forces change to billboards attacking Green co-leader, MP
The Green Party’s claims of copyright breaches have forced changes to billboards funded by the Sensible Sentencing Trust to attack co-leader Chlöe Swarbrick and MP Tamatha Paul.
In a statement this evening, Trust spokesperson Louise Parsons confirmed the party had “complained” to the company carrying the two billboards in central Auckland and central Wellington, claiming images used breached copyright.
Parsons said she was “happy” to make the changes, but pointed to Green MP Kahurangi Carter’s member’s bill that sought to water down copyright laws to enhance people’s ability to engage in parody.
“They want copyright laws to protect them when it suits them, just like they turn to the same police they want to abolish when they feel unsafe,” she said.
More...
nzherald.co.nz/.../R5TXGHP56…
Terry.Vercoe retweeted
The reason Benjamin Doyle won’t be at Parliament this week is because there is a three week recess following. By the time he returns after it he will have been away 5 weeks & not have had to answer a single question. They want the media and NZers to forget the whole thing.