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ben dafydd gillard

@benchaotica@mastodon.nz
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Abolish police, prisons, borders, and private property. Go on without hope. No self, no will. Hard Determinist. they/them :heart_bi:

*avatar description: head of a thin white man, very short grey hair, unshaven, wearing roundish glasses, unsmiling.
*header description: dirty lower surface of an aeroplane wing

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Joined November 14, 2022
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ben dafydd gillard @benchaotica@mastodon.nz · Aug 04, 2026
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@benchaotica@mastodon.nz

Abolish police, prisons, borders, and private property. Go on without hope. No self, no will. Hard Determinist. they/them :heart_bi: *avatar description: head of a thin white man, very short grey hair, unshaven, wearing roundish glasses, unsmiling. *header description: dirty lower surface of an aeroplane wing

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nzpol, unemployment. Hover or focus to reveal Sensitive
Unemployment at 11 year high of 5.6%, increases in long term and youth unemployment. Annual wage growth at 5 year low of 2%. (Most recent inflation rate: 4.1% CPI) "The number of people between 15 and 24 years who were unemployed, not in education or training increased to 13.8 percent from 12.9 percent." Not great numbers four months before an election. https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/business/892951/unemployment-rises-to-11-year-high-of-5-point-6-percent
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ben dafydd gillard @benchaotica@mastodon.nz · Aug 01, 2026
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@benchaotica@mastodon.nz

Abolish police, prisons, borders, and private property. Go on without hope. No self, no will. Hard Determinist. they/them :heart_bi: *avatar description: head of a thin white man, very short grey hair, unshaven, wearing roundish glasses, unsmiling. *header description: dirty lower surface of an aeroplane wing

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Replying to @ZLabe@fediscience.org
@ZLabe@fediscience.org that's interesting. That warm year around 1877/78 corresponds with the most extreme El Niño on record.
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ben dafydd gillard @benchaotica@mastodon.nz · Jul 22, 2026
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@benchaotica@mastodon.nz

Abolish police, prisons, borders, and private property. Go on without hope. No self, no will. Hard Determinist. they/them :heart_bi: *avatar description: head of a thin white man, very short grey hair, unshaven, wearing roundish glasses, unsmiling. *header description: dirty lower surface of an aeroplane wing

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Replying to @elonjet@mastodon.social
@elonjet@mastodon.social does anyone know what is in Eagle, Colorado that's so interesting to Musk? Data centre? Bunker?
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ben dafydd gillard @benchaotica@mastodon.nz · Jul 21, 2026
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@benchaotica@mastodon.nz

Abolish police, prisons, borders, and private property. Go on without hope. No self, no will. Hard Determinist. they/them :heart_bi: *avatar description: head of a thin white man, very short grey hair, unshaven, wearing roundish glasses, unsmiling. *header description: dirty lower surface of an aeroplane wing

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Smart glasses with a built in laser that targets the camera in other smart glasses.
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ben dafydd gillard @benchaotica@mastodon.nz · Jun 03, 2026
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@benchaotica@mastodon.nz

Abolish police, prisons, borders, and private property. Go on without hope. No self, no will. Hard Determinist. they/them :heart_bi: *avatar description: head of a thin white man, very short grey hair, unshaven, wearing roundish glasses, unsmiling. *header description: dirty lower surface of an aeroplane wing

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Last night i enjoyed the films "We're All Gonna Die" (road trip, mild sci fi, grief + feels, humour, bees, mild romance) and "Iron Lung" (horror, blood, confined space, bleak, tedium, shouting). Both are on YouTube. Use uBlock Origin to cancel the ads.

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ben dafydd gillard @benchaotica@mastodon.nz · Jun 01, 2026
ben dafydd gillard
@benchaotica@mastodon.nz

Abolish police, prisons, borders, and private property. Go on without hope. No self, no will. Hard Determinist. they/them :heart_bi: *avatar description: head of a thin white man, very short grey hair, unshaven, wearing roundish glasses, unsmiling. *header description: dirty lower surface of an aeroplane wing

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From NACTFirst's point of view, so-called AI replacing public service jobs is a win-win: either it can more or less do the work, in which case they are rid of those annoying human workers and their annoying union, or it fails and destroys the public service.

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ben dafydd gillard @benchaotica@mastodon.nz · Jun 01, 2026
ben dafydd gillard
@benchaotica@mastodon.nz

Abolish police, prisons, borders, and private property. Go on without hope. No self, no will. Hard Determinist. they/them :heart_bi: *avatar description: head of a thin white man, very short grey hair, unshaven, wearing roundish glasses, unsmiling. *header description: dirty lower surface of an aeroplane wing

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In a way it's comforting to have normal grotty QBW weather for QBW. Perhaps a little warmer than it used to be though?

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ben dafydd gillard @benchaotica@mastodon.nz · May 30, 2026
ben dafydd gillard
@benchaotica@mastodon.nz

Abolish police, prisons, borders, and private property. Go on without hope. No self, no will. Hard Determinist. they/them :heart_bi: *avatar description: head of a thin white man, very short grey hair, unshaven, wearing roundish glasses, unsmiling. *header description: dirty lower surface of an aeroplane wing

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The increasing heat in the UK will only be a problem for a few decades. When the AMOC collapses, cold will be the main problem for them.

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ben dafydd gillard @benchaotica@mastodon.nz · May 29, 2026
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@benchaotica@mastodon.nz

Abolish police, prisons, borders, and private property. Go on without hope. No self, no will. Hard Determinist. they/them :heart_bi: *avatar description: head of a thin white man, very short grey hair, unshaven, wearing roundish glasses, unsmiling. *header description: dirty lower surface of an aeroplane wing

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Nap after dinner was a tactical success but a strategic failure.

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ben dafydd gillard @benchaotica@mastodon.nz · May 28, 2026
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@benchaotica@mastodon.nz

Abolish police, prisons, borders, and private property. Go on without hope. No self, no will. Hard Determinist. they/them :heart_bi: *avatar description: head of a thin white man, very short grey hair, unshaven, wearing roundish glasses, unsmiling. *header description: dirty lower surface of an aeroplane wing

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Re: the "AI Bubble", something to keep in mind is that the so-called AI industry is not a purely commercial endeavour, like tulips or labubus. It's more like the Manhattan Project, or the even more expensive B-29 programme, or the space race, or the arms race. In that sense the financial concerns are not the primary governing influence.

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ben dafydd gillard @benchaotica@mastodon.nz · May 28, 2026
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@benchaotica@mastodon.nz

Abolish police, prisons, borders, and private property. Go on without hope. No self, no will. Hard Determinist. they/them :heart_bi: *avatar description: head of a thin white man, very short grey hair, unshaven, wearing roundish glasses, unsmiling. *header description: dirty lower surface of an aeroplane wing

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Eye-opening. Neatly clarifies a range of confusions i had about fascism. Much to think about.

From the blurb: "No direct sci-fi angle here, just a clarification of a widely-held misconception about what Fascists believed, exemplified by an oft-repeated fake quote."

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jwGSKr0tw2M

Corporatism and Fake Mussolini
YouTube

Corporatism and Fake Mussolini

Feral Historian

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ben dafydd gillard @benchaotica@mastodon.nz · May 15, 2026
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@benchaotica@mastodon.nz

Abolish police, prisons, borders, and private property. Go on without hope. No self, no will. Hard Determinist. they/them :heart_bi: *avatar description: head of a thin white man, very short grey hair, unshaven, wearing roundish glasses, unsmiling. *header description: dirty lower surface of an aeroplane wing

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Replying to @reedmideke@mastodon.social
@reedmideke@mastodon.social that makes sense, thanks for the extra information.
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ben dafydd gillard @benchaotica@mastodon.nz · May 13, 2026
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@benchaotica@mastodon.nz

Abolish police, prisons, borders, and private property. Go on without hope. No self, no will. Hard Determinist. they/them :heart_bi: *avatar description: head of a thin white man, very short grey hair, unshaven, wearing roundish glasses, unsmiling. *header description: dirty lower surface of an aeroplane wing

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Apparently an Antonov An-124 landed at Auckland yesterday. An uncommon visitor. Blurb says it was private cargo from (or via) Hawaii.

-> youtube video of landing, taxi.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=H9URL9_EKbQ

Antonov An-124 Ruslan has landed at Auckland Airport.
YouTube

Antonov An-124 Ruslan has landed at Auckland Airport.

Ransom Red

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ben dafydd gillard @benchaotica@mastodon.nz · May 07, 2026
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@benchaotica@mastodon.nz

Abolish police, prisons, borders, and private property. Go on without hope. No self, no will. Hard Determinist. they/them :heart_bi: *avatar description: head of a thin white man, very short grey hair, unshaven, wearing roundish glasses, unsmiling. *header description: dirty lower surface of an aeroplane wing

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Replying to @nixCraft@mastodon.social
@nixCraft@mastodon.social are these human-discovered? Or are they leaks from Claude Mythos?
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ben dafydd gillard @benchaotica@mastodon.nz · Apr 22, 2026
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@benchaotica@mastodon.nz

Abolish police, prisons, borders, and private property. Go on without hope. No self, no will. Hard Determinist. they/them :heart_bi: *avatar description: head of a thin white man, very short grey hair, unshaven, wearing roundish glasses, unsmiling. *header description: dirty lower surface of an aeroplane wing

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Replying to @janef0421@mastodon.nz
@janef0421@mastodon.nz good observation. "The Burnout Society" by Byung-Chul Han. We, citizens of neoliberal societies, have fully internalised the compulsion to work, to use every minute for work or for increasing our productivity in other ways. In authoritarian societies that compulsion was externally applied with propaganda, peer pressure, fear, etc. None of that is necessary now. We are our own overseers.
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ben dafydd gillard @benchaotica@mastodon.nz · Apr 12, 2026
ben dafydd gillard
@benchaotica@mastodon.nz

Abolish police, prisons, borders, and private property. Go on without hope. No self, no will. Hard Determinist. they/them :heart_bi: *avatar description: head of a thin white man, very short grey hair, unshaven, wearing roundish glasses, unsmiling. *header description: dirty lower surface of an aeroplane wing

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Replying to @aly@mastodon.nz
@aly as i understand it, the server is getting pummeled by so-called-AI scrapers.
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ben dafydd gillard @benchaotica@mastodon.nz · Apr 06, 2026
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@benchaotica@mastodon.nz

Abolish police, prisons, borders, and private property. Go on without hope. No self, no will. Hard Determinist. they/them :heart_bi: *avatar description: head of a thin white man, very short grey hair, unshaven, wearing roundish glasses, unsmiling. *header description: dirty lower surface of an aeroplane wing

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Boil water notice issued for parts of Royal Oak, Hillsborough, Mount Roskill and Three Kings. [In Tāmaki Makaurau / Auckland]

Article has link to map of affected streets.

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/591610/boil-water-notice-for-auckland-suburbs-until-further-notice

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ben dafydd gillard @benchaotica@mastodon.nz · Apr 02, 2026
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@benchaotica@mastodon.nz

Abolish police, prisons, borders, and private property. Go on without hope. No self, no will. Hard Determinist. they/them :heart_bi: *avatar description: head of a thin white man, very short grey hair, unshaven, wearing roundish glasses, unsmiling. *header description: dirty lower surface of an aeroplane wing

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Replying to @elonjet@mastodon.social
@elonjet what is he up to? Japan, india, japan again.
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ben dafydd gillard @benchaotica@mastodon.nz · Mar 20, 2026
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@benchaotica@mastodon.nz

Abolish police, prisons, borders, and private property. Go on without hope. No self, no will. Hard Determinist. they/them :heart_bi: *avatar description: head of a thin white man, very short grey hair, unshaven, wearing roundish glasses, unsmiling. *header description: dirty lower surface of an aeroplane wing

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Replying to @nickofnz@mastodon.nz
@nickofnz i think oil is definitely one factor but the various people have various motives. Some want a destabilised middle east. Some want biblical final battles or the return of messiahs. Some such as Trump and Netanyahu want to stay out of prison.
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ben dafydd gillard @benchaotica@mastodon.nz · Feb 26, 2026
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@benchaotica@mastodon.nz

Abolish police, prisons, borders, and private property. Go on without hope. No self, no will. Hard Determinist. they/them :heart_bi: *avatar description: head of a thin white man, very short grey hair, unshaven, wearing roundish glasses, unsmiling. *header description: dirty lower surface of an aeroplane wing

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Replying to @ptoothfish@mastodon.nz
@ptoothfish my pet conspiracy theory is that the atmospheric pollution is the true intended purpose of these satellites. A giant unregulated geoengineering scheme under the guise of providing global telecoms.
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