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Can ChatGPT Exist Without Fossil Fuels? I Asked
The scope of AI’s energy demand has significant implications for environmentalists’ dreams of hitting net-zero, especially when you consider the factors at play.
The Stasi Files, Part II
They’re no longer universities in any meaningful intellectual or moral sense. They are anti-universities. They are cognitive enclosures: accredited zones of pre-approved ideas and ideologically screened emotions. These curated mind spaces are committed not to inquiry, but to orthodoxy.
Put Him up at Yours, Then, Your Honour #4
If you’ve lost count of how many times you’ve bailed him, maybe he should stay in your spare room?
The Fate of Sex Realists in Trans-Saturated Workplaces
The successful outcomes in the UK cases contrast with the unsuccessful case here. Sex realists have to hope that the success of their UK counterparts may yet influence local events.
The Druze
I met some of the Druze community in Israel a few months back, and the response by New Zealand, the UN, and others to their suffering in Syria is both tragic and telling.
MAX WHITEHEAD: Supreme Court Uber appeal puts gig economy on trial in NZ
A single court ruling could upend contractor work in New Zealand, and force Uber to shut down.
The Law Commission IA Tangata Review
A review of the protections in the Human Rights Act 1993 for people who are transgender, people who are non-binary and people with innate variations of sex characteristics.
The Good Oil Daily Opinion Poll
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The Influencers Are About to Be Punished
Canadian Trucker organisers have been found guilty of mischief and the Crown is seeking seven years prison for Lich and eight years sentence for Barber.
16 Reasons for Not Letting 16-Year-Olds Vote
Any extension of the franchise should be a matter of mature consideration. Or, as is my preference, a matter of mockery, abuse and hysterical worse-case scenarios.
Chris Hipkins and the Pie
This is propaganda. Chris Hipkins presided over lockdowns, mandates, a broken education system and an explosion in youth and gang crime.
