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Scissors Sisters
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mastodon 4.6.8electronically-mediated musings at the intersection of finance; I’m in Aotearoa NZ and mostly take photos of native plants, insects, and birds. #iNaturalist #Nature #birds #radio #NZpol (alas) #pf2050 #solar
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Dear #LazyWeb (especially in Aotearoa New Zealand) :
Does anyone have the link to the research about how air filters in classrooms increases academic performance
and the air quality standards for classrooms (eg, network CO2 sensors). I've found some PDFs for this but not really a good overview, and they all seem to be optional and not mandatory.
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If you want to start a petition in your own country, free of being tracked by corporations, handled by your own Parliament, and it will be seen by your representatives when it reaches a threshold, use these:
NZ: https://petitions.parliament.nz/
CA: https://www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en/home/index
AU: https://www.aph.gov.au/e-petitions
UK: https://petition.parliament.uk/
BTW, I had to avoid a lot of change dot org adverts to find these links. #politics
My attempt to capture the #TinyBalancingSheep
Behind him is is a valley with a tomo.
Do I trust my UPS batteries enough that I can whip out the cable, add a ESPhome plug, and plug them back in again without causing them to keel over?
Chatting to the postie. He says he's delivering a lot of passports recently for people who are moving overseas.
Remember, you can still vote the NAct coalition out from overseas.
7am and the ground is all crispy and frosty. -3°
#EV is all toasty warm, pre-heated, warm steering wheel, no frost on the windows.
Next to it the diesel Ute can barely be seen under a thick layer of ice. Good thing I don’t need to run it today. It would take ages to warm up, even if the engine could turn over. Hope the battery is new because the cold weather kills those 12V batteries so often.
Just one of many ways EVs are worse than diesel.
https://sdc.org.nz/notes/better-ev
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EKE - I Love Stealing From Woolies
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=FeZsdP2trO0
@ptoothfish@beige.party#JukeboxFridayNight
EGE - I Love Stealing From Woolies (Official Video)
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When I’ve asked politicians why they’re not funding conservation or other useful work I express the requested budget in terms of metres of expressway.
“For just five metres of expressway you could run this project for 3 years!!!”
Gives them a bit of a pause. (And then they tell me it’s the RMA’s fault.)
@airshipper@cloudisland.nz #NZpol
Blame & The Pedge
Avalon
Blame & The Pedge - Avalon
Solar subsidy better value than winter payment
An energy hardship researcher at Otago University is suggesting repurposing the winter energy payment and putting that money towards solar subsidies for households. Senior research fellow Kimberley O'Sullivan says because the price of power has increased so much in recent years, the winter payment covers less and less heating. She says switching the half a billion dollars the Government spends on the programme to #solar ...
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This is where online shopping really hurts us.
We pick a specific brand, grown in a specific place (if we can read the country of origin) and then they’ll substitute another brand grown in a country I don’t trust.
It’s also annoying that somehow “Packaged in NZ from imported ingredients” is somehow allowed.
My local shop selling local pea protein told me that it comes in a container from overseas and they slap a label on it.
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I think you need your own instance admin to add it.
That’s how we got :omya_mastodon: on our Mastodon
@mastodonmigration@mastodon.online
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Fracking turned the US oil industry into an oil and gas (methane) industry. Gas pipelines have been built to allow methane to be transported rather than flared (or silently leaked) at the well head.
Lots of these new data centres have gas generators burning the “waste gas”. Take a look at the xAI data centre and the NAACP lawsuit against it.
With this threatened build in Utah now the pollution will be in white people’s backyards.
https://naacp.org/articles/naacp-sues-xai-illegal-pollution-data-center-power-plant
@JulianOliver@mastodon.social
New Zealand’s energy independence strengthened as Contact Energy’s first grid-scale battery goes live
With the rapid decline in the gas market, Contact’s new battery system strengthens winter energy resilience while demonstrating how New Zealand can build a more flexible, reliable and increasingly self-sufficient energy system, powered by renewable electricity, said Contact CEO Mike Fuge.
https://contact.co.nz/investor-centre/news/2026/glenbrook-ohurua-battery
Just noticed my EV has exceeded 100,000km driven. Huzzah!
At my typical driving efficiency that works out to a consumption of …
🔋 15.15MWh (mega-Watt hours)
⛽️ 0 litres petrol
🛞 8 tyres
At this year’s average of 50g CO₂ / kWh that works out to 7,575kg of CO₂
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Unfortunately it also happens in clean technology.
I went looking through press releases to find out what slows down builds of solar and batteries. Not the RMA. (Surprise!)
I also found that while many announcements did result in actual results (Ruakaka, Huntly) some were quietly trimmed down.
After the initial giant projections and press releases a year or two later they put out a new release announcing a subset and claiming success!!!
@BobLefridge@mastodon.nz @JulianOliver@mastodon.social
For some reason turned on the radio news at 5am this morning and it was pretty close to my Mastodon feed:
* US doing something goddamn stupid and hurting their trade partners
* AI hurting the environment
* National Coalition doing something mad (probably damaging the Treaty or punishing beneficiaries -- I had tuned out by that point)
Add a train and it'd be just about done!
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“someone” is Cooking For Engineers:
https://www.cookingforengineers.com/
@texttheater@mastodon.social
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My response for the decline in capacity for a LEAF battery used in a house is that a house doesn't need to have much range because they don't move terribly quickly.
@Niall
How a Few Hundred Dollars Could Manipulate Election Prediction Markets
Touted as a truth serum for political forecasting, they’re vulnerable to distortion, sometimes at surprisingly low cost.
By Liam Vaughan
… The odds fell back as switched-on traders hoovered up “no” contracts in response, but the following day Polymarket still gave Mahan a 36% chance of replacing Gavin Newsom. Traditional polls had him around 4%.
Complained to the ombudsman because the Ministers for Energy are playing musical chairs instead of responding to my OIA request.
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You have reminded me I have a box labeled “dead bulbs” full of left over bits from when I replaced CFL and halogen bulbs with LEDs and then when replaced the LEDs with new light fittings.
I have also found a halogen bulb which I think fits something in my old apartment overseas.
Update: alas it is not in there
@BobLefridge
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I was looking at a semiconductor company that listed on NASDAQ, crowing about their multi billion dollar market for their product in 2026!!! Huh, today is 2026.
Found a more up to date presentation. Now they’re so excited at the market potential to grow from 90 to 100 million (10%!!!). What happened to the billions?
(I’d have to dig up the presentation again but I think they expect AI to be multi billions by 2032! Their projections are right this time!)
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This is definitely good to remember. These are all aspirational bullshit and designed to pump markets and their own share price.
Oops, I mean, “forward looking statements”.
Looking at NG prices I see there is news that Certarus has announced it will commission a new CNG hub southeast of Salt Lake City to provide gas to a 60MW data center.
@BobLefridge@mastodon.nz @JulianOliver@mastodon.social
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All good. Check out Henry Hub on Wikipedia and also the linked articles there. LNG export technology is also relatively new and that’s what our government is trying to push.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Hub
I’m trying to find an episode from a few years back of 99% Invisible where they discuss the noise and vibration from a data centre near a black community. Perhaps it is this one in Memphis, which means they’ve been subjected to the disturbance for years.
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I keep meaning to put in a FOIA request for the rationale behind Minister Watts flopping from “the government will not fund a LNG terminal” (mid 2025) to “aw shit yeah cash tsunami for LNG” (early 2026).
There has to be some paper trail where someone in industry bought him a steak dinner.
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Yes, if awarded this should be considered in how many seconds of revenue this is.
Hopefully this is a good precedent and lots and lots of people can claim after their reputations are besmirched.
@stephen@ephemera.vital.org.nz
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I’ll give you a truss adjustment!
(begins making a suggestive and threatening hip gesture)
@Niall@mastodon.nz @phil_stevens@mastodon.nz
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Don’t forget investment fraud! Sell investors something you could never deliver.
Also:
https://darksky.org/news/two-satellite-proposals-threaten-the-night-sky-the-window-to-act-is-now/
@phlogiston@mastodon.nz
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TVNZ emailed me today to say they’ve got a new version that fixes it.
Brightcove, the technology, was acquired in 2024 by Bending Spoons, who really really loves AI.
(They also bought Vimeo, WeTransfer, Evernote, Eventbrite, and AOL)
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Yes. Several audio drop outs and then it crashes. Can watch about 7 minutes at a time before the app gets restarted “to free up memory”.
@98Percent@mastodon.nz
Read a very interesting presentation from Contact Energy regarding their aspirations, trying to drum up interest from investors.
Starts off with a lovely photo of their new battery electric storage system at Glenbrook.
This slide poked me in the eye. Left hand column. One of these projected numbers is not like the others. It’s double its peers, and it’s a new company with nothing built. That makes me think it’s bullshit.
Met Police's Palantir deployment has its own officers watching their backs
> “we were never informed that the upgrade would include the deployment of Palantir's artificial intelligence. This continuous 24/7 geo-location tracking is highly intrusive and risks monitoring officers when they are off duty, on rest days, or at home. This presumption of wrongdoing and attack on officer's personal lives is unacceptable."
Well said! It is highly intrusive! I agree! Ban it!
https://www.theregister.com/2026/04/30/met_police_palantir_deployment_cop_probe/
Automated transcriptions on YouTube are getting worse.
bass guitar strum -> "Heat" (??!!)
tap on a cymbal -> "[Applause]"
Interesting.
Heat. Heat. Heat. [Applause] Heat.
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You say "barn" but you don't say how far it is from the existing power supply.
Is this going to be off grid?
Two things I've heard are ... how much wind do you get (in regards to fixing them down) and in my experience you always want more than you end up installing.
@brianb@fosstodon.org
Are you doing enough to protect local wildlife from your cat?
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You’re right! I did replace a wiper blade!
And the 12V battery.
@Hedgewizard@beige.party
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That’s brilliant, thank you
Alas the installation has progressed faster than expected and so the UPS running the wifi went flat before I could get it all downloaded.
So now I’m trying to figure out if I can rescue anything. Even Flatpak won’t install simple SDR tools.
Edit: and now laptop is flat. This used to run for hours.
@kyhwana @alex
A while back I made some edits to a map on OpenStreetMap, mainly correcting some hut details and direction that streams were flowing (downhill, typically).
How can I find *my* changesets? Is there a filter for that? There are recent changesets in this area but I can't find a way to just get mine.
https://www.openstreetmap.org/history#map=13/-37.76949/175.92939
Found it:
Top Right > My Profile > My Edits
https ://www.openstreetmap.org/user//history
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