#marcdaalder — Public Fediverse posts
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"It won’t be sustainable forever for MPs’ pay to remain frozen. Rates should be competitive with what talented people might otherwise earn in the private sector."
#MarcDaalder, 2026
https://newsroom.co.nz/2026/05/27/something-is-rotten-in-the-house-of-representatives/
Why? Their pay ought to be high enough to live on, so even a backbencher can treat it as a fulltime job. But low enough that anyone who wants to be a managerial hired gun for the highest bidder fucks off somewhere more lucrative. We *don't want* people like that becoming MPs.
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"The quantitative analysis was conducted by hired consultants, who fed the submissions into a large language model – a form of generative AI.
After this, the ministry separated out all submissions from iwi, hapū or other organisations, as well as all submissions longer than 10,000 characters (about 1600 words) and read these as part of a 'qualitative analysis'."
#MarcDaalder, 2025
*shudder*
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"The majority of the 22,821 submissions on last year’s consultation on a potential Regulatory Standards Bill weren’t even read by the Ministry for Regulation before proposals on next steps were taken to Cabinet."
#MarcDaalder, 2025
Just remember the call for submissions over the holidays was just a box-ticking Ministry of Disregulation consultation. The select committee process is happening right now;
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"Just months after powering off its last coal-fired power station, the United Kingdom will ban new coal mines, Energy Minister Michael Shanks announced."
#MarcDaalder, 2024
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/on-the-inside/533953/the-case-for-cops-even-this-one
"In 2015, Genesis announced it would stop burning coal at Huntly by late 2018 ... In 2021’s first quarter, fully 44 per cent of Genesis’s total electricity generation came from burning coal."
#DaveHansford, 2022
https://www.nzgeo.com/stories/why-are-we-still-burning-coal/
Huh.
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"Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has in recent days fiercely criticised Meta for barring access to critical safety information about a spate of wildfires, which is being disseminated by news companies.
...Meta has told Canadian news outlets that users can still access safety messages from government agencies and emergency services."
#MarcDaalder, 2023
https://www.newsroom.co.nz/pro/bill-tabled-to-make-meta-and-google-negotiate-with-news-outlets
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"Broadcasting Minister Willie Jackson has quietly tabled a long-awaited bill aimed at shoring up dwindling media company revenues by forcing tech firms to pay for news content that appears on their sites."
#MarcDaalder, 2023
https://www.newsroom.co.nz/pro/bill-tabled-to-make-meta-and-google-negotiate-with-news-outlets
I don't support this typically timid, piecemeal, Labour party policy. It leaves the online ad oligopoly unaffected, but just forces it to share a sliver of its ill-gotten gains. @pluralistic nailed it here:
https://craphound.com/news/2022/04/17/big-tech-isnt-stealing-news-publishers-content/
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Any privacy law companies can contract out of in their T&Cs effectively doesn't exist. This is the privacy equivalent of security theatre, not robust privacy protection.
"...the entities will be able to contract out of the notification process via their terms and conditions."
#MarcDaalder, 2023
https://www.newsroom.co.nz/law-change-will-tell-you-when-your-data-is-sold