Phil Stevens :tinoflag:

phil_stevens@mastodon.nz

he/him vi/vim Vintage 319 ppm CO2 <a href="https://mastodon.nz/tags/biochar" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#biochar</a> <a href="https://mastodon.nz/tags/realIntelligence" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#realIntelligence</a>Musician since the beginning, oddball, techie luddite, biochar entrepreneur/evangelist, MMT proponent, deep green, outspoken, cantankerous af neurodivergent.Life goal: to see billionaires go extinct.Tolerance is a social contract.

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Post #4129689
I finally got irate enough at RNZ's continued climate silence that I sent them some feedback. See below: -- I have noted a disturbing trend in RNZ reporting and commentary over the past couple of years, and it has reached the point where it has assumed the dimensions of an elephant in a confined space. Every time you cover a severe weather event (and there has been no shortage of these, as you are careful to point out in the cited article), you omit the obvious driver behind the increasin...
Post #4055645
The Hot Canary Paul Nero This is the 1951 recording by violinist Florian Zabach that went to #13 on the Billboard charts. they don't make novelty songs like they used to. #HotOrCold  #JukeboxFridayNight https://youtu.be/LaoEyMLvB50?si=HdEs8oxjHwRHQ_5s
Post #4055427
Cold Annie Lennox - live performance at St Lukes One diva to rule them all. #HotOrCold  #JukeboxFridayNight https://youtu.be/VdIbV96t-D4?si=BCci1GMcx6c4Zjp2
Post #4055114
Cold Cold Cold Little Feat - live performance from 1976 Funky, swampy blues as only Lowell George could sing it. #HotOrCold  #JukeboxFridayNight https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qbFzjOJkhI
Post #3879204
Weather Report - Black Market Live at Montreux '76 The band at the peak of their arc and possibly their best lineup, with the powerhouse rhythm section of Alex Acuña and Manolo Badrena. Good shots of Zawinul playing his "upside down" Arp, too. #MarketsAndFairs #JukeboxFridayNight https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHh5xNdmuek
Post #3772040
My good-faith foray into using LLMs for work-shaped output was to produce literature reviews. This is exactly what happened: fake papers with bogus data. May #AI end soon, with a bang and not a whimper. https://newsroom.co.nz/2026/07/09/pest-control-report-cites-fake-papers-relying-on-chatgpt-hallucinations/
Post #3416861
Ed: "It's got a deep stench of death to it." No notes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xg5CrrPuu28
Post #2153802
RE: https://mastodon.social/@EndIsraeliApartheid/116531943296276648 The control of water in the West Bank has been on the agenda for decades. I think I first read about it in the late 1980s.
Post #2049472
TIL that there is a new term for the era we are living in, and it is Assholocene. All I can say is &lt;chef&#39;s kiss&gt;.
Post #2040687
Just think about what a different place we&#39;d be in today if #NZGreens and Labour hadn&#39;t needed Winston in 2017. We wouldn&#39;t need fossil fuel imports to the extent we do today, that&#39;s for certain. And we probably wouldn&#39;t have seen electricity prices nearly double. The upcoming election needs to be about energy and its costs. Get Greens in policy roles so we can break the addiction cycle.
Post #1899019
Lots of kernel upgrades on the menu tomorrow. You might notice some brief downtime on unspecified websites, and this would be your cue to have more coffee, and see what the birds are saying.
Post #1855253
https://www.carbonbrief.org/traditional-models-still-outperform-ai-for-extreme-weather-forecasts/
Post #1628350
PSA to Wairarapa folk: My workshop this Saturday still has a few openings. Come along and help us sequester a couple tonnes of CO2. https://cdc.govt.nz/services/sustainability/climatechange/
Post #1622670
Nicola Willis thinks everyone should get a pony. All the other countries in our refined fuels supply chain are implementing conservation measures and even rationing, but Willis and her team are glued to some alternative fanfic that has everything coming right any day now. I hope her plans include looking for work come November. Because she obviously doesn&#39;t have any for the country. #NZPol https://archive.is/fqNWG
Post #1602351
For decades, NZ pastoral systems were described by agronomists worldwide as a &quot;miracle&quot;...temperate climate, decent soils, and ample rainfall meant that a farmer could keep pasture in permanent cover with a mix of ryegrass and clover, and get a profitable yield of milk, meat, and fibre by grazing stock outdoors year round with few or no off-farm inputs. It was sustainable (if you ignore the fact that much of the land was stolen) and provided the basis for a thriving export trad...
Post #1534097
We are being forced to &quot;adapt&quot; to a state of continual emergency that we did not sign up for. Get angry and get busy. Take it out on all those responsible. Hold them accountable -- they are killing us, so they should pay the price for capital crimes on a global scale: 1. Fossil fuel companies and their executives 2. Banks and financial enablers of climate destruction 3. Billionaires 4. Right-wing politicians and anyone who funds them 5. Complicit media amplifying climate denia...
Post #1435829
I&#39;ve already reduced my personal footprint. Sold my ICE car in 2018. Ride my bike and the bus as much as possible. Grow lots of my own food. If I count all the biochar I make, I&#39;m a net remover of CO2 and have been for quite some time. I don&#39;t do business with billionaires. I deleted my accounts with all the social media sites, shut down my AWS instances, and moved my Kiwisaver out of all US equities. How much impact has any of this had on CO2 levels in the atmosphere?...
Post #1171422
FFS. &quot;Adjustment factors&quot; is another way of saying &quot;we reserve the right to be capricious and arbitrary as long as it increases our profit margins.&quot; This could have been a good policy until some idiot put in the weasel clause. Don&#39;t just renationalise the generating assets. Regulate the living daylights out of the lines companies. If you&#39;re running an effective monopoly providing an essential service, you should expect some hard rules on how m...
Post #1015317
80 km/hr speed limit, nationwide, starting now. Don&#39;t wait for the signs to go up. #NZPol #energyCrisis
Post #859158
RE: https://mastodon.nz/@davemosk/116319281786567526 Hot tip: get off Github. Find an alternative, like spinning up your own Forgejo instance.
Post #799497
Once again, I am asking all #NZPol journalists and media outlets to stop referring to lobbying operations and dark-money front groups as &quot;unions.&quot; They are not. I am a taxpayer who has repeatedly written to the TPU asking questions about their governance and representation of the rank and file. I have asked to see the constitution and have requested dates of elections of officers. I&#39;ve asked them how they develop mandates in accordance with the input of the membership...
Post #754831
We&#39;re at least a week past the point where a serious PM (one with actual leadership qualities) would have stood in front of the cameras, looked us all in the eye, and said that things could very likely get dicey quickly and we need to make some big adjustments. Instead, we are hearing &quot;la la la individual choice everything is fine five weeks of supply&quot; and the gormless finance minister goes on a photo op to the tank farm at Marsden Point. And they still won&#39;t b...
Post #570703
RE: https://mastodon.nz/@aimee/116133041315932222 Let me go on record publicly then: I do not consent to any NZ Government agency holding any data that personally identifies me in a manner that is exposed to any state apart from Aotearoa New Zealand. I have a reasonable expectation of security and data sovereignty and I expect those to be upheld with all due care. If an agency is unable to do this, they need to remove the affected records and release a public declaration to all residents who...