Mark Stewart (he/him)
@mediamarknz.bsky.social
formerly @markboynz on Twits. Media and Comms academic. Pinko leftie socialist. Queer rights. Tangata tiriti. #Landback.
I think mine was probably "adults in positions of power", then "letting adults down", then "the other children"...
There is a "things I was frightened of as a child" meme going around and I don't understand how everyone's number #1 answer isn't "the other children", those thugs were fucking brutal.
September 13, 2026 at 1:37 AM
I think mine was probably "adults in positions of power", then "letting adults down", then "the other children"...
They did not, in any possible way, disappoint.
Jacob Wysocki and Lou Wilson and Jess McKenna and Kimia Behpoornia and Jeremy Culhane and Oscar Montoya and Kurt Maloney, OH MY!
August 2, 2026 at 10:42 AM
They did not, in any possible way, disappoint.
Jacob Wysocki and Lou Wilson and Jess McKenna and Kimia Behpoornia and Jeremy Culhane and Oscar Montoya and Kurt Maloney, OH MY!
August 2, 2026 at 6:03 AM
Jacob Wysocki and Lou Wilson and Jess McKenna and Kimia Behpoornia and Jeremy Culhane and Oscar Montoya and Kurt Maloney, OH MY!
If you're in Hamilton East, stay clear of Grey St - mostly closed, I think a police chase ended badly, 20+ police cars plus ambulance etc.
June 8, 2026 at 12:17 AM
If you're in Hamilton East, stay clear of Grey St - mostly closed, I think a police chase ended badly, 20+ police cars plus ambulance etc.
Genuinely, the EU is probably our best chance against the US tech giants. And that's pretty terrifying, as much as it is a glimmer of hope.
Europe is moving to block Microsoft, Amazon, and Google from handling government health, financial, and legal data
Europe is moving to block Microsoft, Amazon, and Google from handling government health, financial, and legal data
According to people familiar with the matter, the European Commission is preparing yet another unpleasant regulatory surprise for the current US administration. CNBC talked with two unnamed...
www.techspot.com
May 16, 2026 at 4:43 AM
Genuinely, the EU is probably our best chance against the US tech giants. And that's pretty terrifying, as much as it is a glimmer of hope.
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Europe is moving to block Microsoft, Amazon, and Google from handling government health, financial, and legal data
Europe is moving to block Microsoft, Amazon, and Google from handling government health, financial, and legal data
According to people familiar with the matter, the European Commission is preparing yet another unpleasant regulatory surprise for the current US administration. CNBC talked with two unnamed...
www.techspot.com
May 14, 2026 at 4:47 PM
Europe is moving to block Microsoft, Amazon, and Google from handling government health, financial, and legal data
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US universities genuinely are like “welcome to Tennessee Agricultural College in Bumfuck Nowheresville. We invented the modern potato and our facilities include a particle accelerator, nuclear reactor, and TOP500 supercomputer. Tuition is $12,000 for instate students and we have 40,000 of them”
May 14, 2026 at 3:44 PM
US universities genuinely are like “welcome to Tennessee Agricultural College in Bumfuck Nowheresville. We invented the modern potato and our facilities include a particle accelerator, nuclear reactor, and TOP500 supercomputer. Tuition is $12,000 for instate students and we have 40,000 of them”
We're hockey fans now! @styla73.bsky.social
May 16, 2026 at 4:38 AM
We're hockey fans now! @styla73.bsky.social
Two minutes.
A full two minutes is how long I waited, having arrived at work, pressing the space bar on my keyboard, waiting for the screen to turn on, before I realised it would work much better if I took my laptop out of my bag and plugged it into them.
A full two minutes is how long I waited, having arrived at work, pressing the space bar on my keyboard, waiting for the screen to turn on, before I realised it would work much better if I took my laptop out of my bag and plugged it into them.
May 13, 2026 at 9:52 PM
Two minutes.
A full two minutes is how long I waited, having arrived at work, pressing the space bar on my keyboard, waiting for the screen to turn on, before I realised it would work much better if I took my laptop out of my bag and plugged it into them.
A full two minutes is how long I waited, having arrived at work, pressing the space bar on my keyboard, waiting for the screen to turn on, before I realised it would work much better if I took my laptop out of my bag and plugged it into them.
The best description I could come up with was that he looking like a cross between a North American opossum, and a Womble. Like these images, but more puppy-ish, and he literally flipped from standing onto his back for belly scritches.
May 8, 2026 at 11:22 PM
The best description I could come up with was that he looking like a cross between a North American opossum, and a Womble. Like these images, but more puppy-ish, and he literally flipped from standing onto his back for belly scritches.
This isn't wrong, although there is absolutely power in collective action, which does have an effect. However, if you are boycotting AI for its power/water use, remember also to boycott cloud storage, streaming video, tiktok, gaming, and search engines...
Whether you personally put your fingers on a keyboard and do "AI" queries has so little effect on anything that you might as well round it down to zero. It's the equivalent of using a plastic straw or paper straw.
#ai #computers #politics
#ai #computers #politics
May 2, 2026 at 11:00 PM
This isn't wrong, although there is absolutely power in collective action, which does have an effect. However, if you are boycotting AI for its power/water use, remember also to boycott cloud storage, streaming video, tiktok, gaming, and search engines...
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This is from a local paper in the US… I think the context was a string of tornados.
May 2, 2026 at 4:07 PM
This is from a local paper in the US… I think the context was a string of tornados.
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15 years ago today, Kate and William killed Osama Bin Laden at their wedding.
May 2, 2026 at 11:27 AM
15 years ago today, Kate and William killed Osama Bin Laden at their wedding.
I'm not aware of anywhere else in the world where full-time academics are on 9-month contracts. It's a real thing! The schools just say that for 3 months of the year, there aren't classes, and stop paying them... The US is... I don't have words.
Great to see the Chronicle publishing something that's not about AI or subtly boosting AI.
Here's a message I can get behind, because it's true.
Here's a message I can get behind, because it's true.
The Myth of the Faculty Summer
Professors aren’t off the clock. They just stop getting paid.
www.chronicle.com
May 2, 2026 at 9:47 PM
I'm not aware of anywhere else in the world where full-time academics are on 9-month contracts. It's a real thing! The schools just say that for 3 months of the year, there aren't classes, and stop paying them... The US is... I don't have words.
I admit I'm not as checked in to the discourse, so I may have missed it, but I'm frustrated that I haven't seen people coming up with ideas for what ethical, healthy AI systems, with clear guardrails and protections, could look like.
May 2, 2026 at 9:36 PM
I admit I'm not as checked in to the discourse, so I may have missed it, but I'm frustrated that I haven't seen people coming up with ideas for what ethical, healthy AI systems, with clear guardrails and protections, could look like.
Oooooooof. That's saying the quiet part out loud...
Elizabeth Rata sat on stage with Erica Stanford and said she was proud to be the lead writer of the senior English curriculum, and that she wanted to use curriculum to "end decolonisation's success".
May 2, 2026 at 12:14 AM
Oooooooof. That's saying the quiet part out loud...
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Nothing summarizes the modern right better than this
April 30, 2026 at 9:36 PM
Nothing summarizes the modern right better than this
A friend of K's kid just got into a PhD, and they described it on FB as "enjoy your 4 year PhD, because it will be the 5 best 7 years of your life", and I both laughed and cried...
May 1, 2026 at 10:29 PM
A friend of K's kid just got into a PhD, and they described it on FB as "enjoy your 4 year PhD, because it will be the 5 best 7 years of your life", and I both laughed and cried...
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One of the most successful things the tech industry has done since the 1990s is lead the citizenry to believe that because a technology can do something means that something can’t be legislated away. And since the 2010s they used their lobbying powers to defang the legislators who know otherwise.
We could literally legislate this out of existence.
(1/11) If you live in NY, you’ve probably started seeing a new warning: “THIS PRICE WAS SET BY AN ALGORITHM USING YOUR PERSONAL DATA.” This mandatory disclosure went into effect late last year, and it’s the first attempt by a US state to grapple with a new generation of surveillance pricing.
April 30, 2026 at 1:22 PM
One of the most successful things the tech industry has done since the 1990s is lead the citizenry to believe that because a technology can do something means that something can’t be legislated away. And since the 2010s they used their lobbying powers to defang the legislators who know otherwise.
The more I see of these conversations, the more I realise they are designed to seem real to men who believe that a perfect conversation is one where they drive it, and their companion finds additional reasons to believe they are right.
In totally unsurprising news, Richard Dawkins is developing AI psychosis.
Paywall bypass: archive.is/6RdK9
Paywall bypass: archive.is/6RdK9
May 1, 2026 at 10:18 PM
The more I see of these conversations, the more I realise they are designed to seem real to men who believe that a perfect conversation is one where they drive it, and their companion finds additional reasons to believe they are right.
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I had so much fun writing this piece for Te Pūnaha Matatini. As someone who is food oriented; naturally, I thought about how transdisciplinary research was like a potluck where everyone could bring a plate to the table www.tepunahamatatini.ac.nz/posts/transd...
Transdisciplinary research is like a potluck
Why transdisciplinary research matters for understanding complex systems.
www.tepunahamatatini.ac.nz
May 1, 2026 at 5:31 AM
I had so much fun writing this piece for Te Pūnaha Matatini. As someone who is food oriented; naturally, I thought about how transdisciplinary research was like a potluck where everyone could bring a plate to the table www.tepunahamatatini.ac.nz/posts/transd...
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April 30, 2026 at 10:56 PM
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One of my favorite Oscar Wilde anecdotes is that he once did a reading and Q&A in a mine. With miners. Like down a mineshaft. He had this crazy idea that everybody of every occupation deserved and could benefit from art and information
I read a history of early 20th century socialism and it's crazy how much of it is just clubs doing art or reading books and trying to get miners and factory workers to do art and read books.
May 1, 2026 at 5:08 PM
One of my favorite Oscar Wilde anecdotes is that he once did a reading and Q&A in a mine. With miners. Like down a mineshaft. He had this crazy idea that everybody of every occupation deserved and could benefit from art and information
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Reminder that a big reason your doctor is like that, is that modern medical school schedules are based on the frenzied pace of a cocaine addict.
Now consider how med students operate on a schedule determined by the pace of 19th century coke addict.
There's a reason your doctor doesn't know shit about shit.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/William...
There's a reason your doctor doesn't know shit about shit.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/William...
William Stewart Halsted - Wikipedia
en.m.wikipedia.org
May 1, 2026 at 9:44 PM
Reminder that a big reason your doctor is like that, is that modern medical school schedules are based on the frenzied pace of a cocaine addict.