PostingCast

This month I'm joined by my guest, who wanted to talk about Gen A.I, Data Sovereignty and ethics in tech and - I think we got there, and had a nice talk about the human who should be prioritised before the machine. They've has been thinking about A.I a lot longer than some of the people wasting billions on it, and wrote this post 'Raising A.I' back in 2017 If you fancy coming on to PostingCast to talk about something you love, care about, are infuriated by - I'm on bsky at @oldmatecans.lol. Swing by and let me know.  

This week I asked the wonderful Dr Dani @noflightfairy.bsky.com to talk about their PhD Thesis "Settlers against colonialism? Education, organising and the Tiriti workers' movement" which you can find here: https://openaccess.wgtn.ac.nz/articles/thesis/Settlers_against_colonialism_Education_organising_and_the_Tiriti_workers_movement/28039256?file=51224948 We discuss the history of the Tiriti workers movement, and how the Treaty Principles Bill and Regulatory Standards Bill both threaten Te Tiriti - but the response has activated and energised a broad swathe of Aotearoa society. Where does that go? What's next for the 300,000+ TPB submitters.  We also discuss the future, and how Te Paati Māori and the Greens are setting out a vision of both a more Tiriti honouring Aotearoa, but also one which asks the question, "What if things could be better? What if we could make them better?   Our theme music this season is Virginia Liston's "Evil Minded Blues", recorded 99 years ago in Chicago.  No A.I was used in the production of this episode.    

I'm joined by Hugh Dingwall of the mighty Manawatu People's Radio to discuss art, creativity and free speech. He's the host of the excellent Reserved Recommendations show. This one's a free-wheeler where we talk about Iain Banks, difficult movies, how interpretation of art is contextual. There's a lot about Zardoz, and more about how important it is to create, and share, and be ready for the thing you didn't expect to go off like a bottle rocket.  

This week it's just me, talking to you. This month has seen a moral panic be stoked by nefarious right-wing forces, intent on taking down members of the Green Party. In this episode, I put all the pieces together. A right-wing echo chamber, the Deputy Prime Minister, a moral panic, and what happens next and what to do next. It's shorter than usual, and there's only one joke - at the end - but it was important to have this one out there. Our theme music this season is Virginia Liston's "Evil Minded Blues", recorded 99 years ago in Chicago.  No A.I was used in the production of this episode.  

I'm joined by Kyle, Jennifer and Stephanie to discuss what the hell has happened in the two years since we went off-air. In short, not a lot of good stuff - a lot of bad stuff. We take the usual dismal view of the United States, look to the absolute state of the NZ Government and the rising dirty politics tactics against the left as a response, but we do try to finish on a positive note - because there's a lot left to fight for! You can find Kyle's media platform here: https://www.1of200.nz/ You can find Jen's writing here: https://jenniferkshields.nz/ You can find Stephanie's YouTube channel here: https://www.youtube.com/@bootstheory   Roko's Basilisk Slut Era, mentioned in the episode, is here: https://maddisonstoff.neocities.org/roko Our theme music this season is Virginia Liston's "Evil Minded Blues", recorded 99 years ago in Chicago.  No A.I was used in the production of this episode.  

We don't talk a lot on this one. Instead, we invited Zoomer correspondents Artemis, August and Jack to talk about being a Zoomer, the pandemic, social-media, representation, that gay shit and what it's like being a Zoomer (and what Millennials, Gen X and Boomers gets wrong about zoomers, it's a lot)   This is the best podcast we've done. You should listen to it.

This week I asked Adam, Hannah and Nick on to talk about what safeguarding actually looks like in schools, what the Christian and anti-trans right wing are saying about the Relationships and Sexuality Curriculum guidance, and how teachers are responding to gross accusations and conspiracies about them. Transcript of the show available here: https://postingdad.medium.com/postingcast-18-transcript-ba22ad82a7e8

A movie episode! I brought prospective parliamentary candidates for the NZ Greens Steph Rodgers and Fran Hernandez on, and we watched Keanu Reeves flick Chain Reaction from 1996. It's about the discovery of free energy (Yay!) and how the CIA are bad (Yay!) but also the FBI are good (Huh?) and, yeah, overall there are some baffling choices in this film. Brian Cox is in it too, boy does he have an accent.

Kellie-Jane Keen-Minshull came to Aotearoa and had a BAD TIME. John has asked three trans folks and a cis woman to talk about attending the protest in Tamaki-makau-rau, the trans rights rally in Pōneke and Ōtautahi, and their views on this issue. These voices are not often heard in NZ media, so we'll do it instead.   Our theme music is New Opportunities by Motion Productions.    

We had Cassie and Charlie on a month or so ago and promised we'd get them back for a fun episode. So, we fucked that up. We all watched Fantastic Beasts 2: The Crimes Of Grindelwald and had a Bad Time watching a Bad Movie from a Bad Writer. You want a cruel and brutally awful world? Yeah? With magic? Yeah! How about some children being murdered. Cool. This movie is for you. We hated it.

We got 1 of 200's Kyle Church on to talk about the media in Aotearoa, and the role that independent left wing media has in providing a breadth of ideas, especially at a time when it seems like the horizons are somewhat narrowed by what is and isn't deemed politically viable. We chat some shit about other stuff too.

With the release of the Aotearoa New Zealand History Curriculum, we've gone Full Dad History Podcast. So we brought Adam Weir and Luke Tipoki on to discuss how history has been taught in Aotearoa, how it might be taught now, and why some people are very upset about this.

We get Artie, Ashley, and August to talk about what the Omicron wave has been like for Zoomers. Spoiler alert: not great. This isn't as doom-laden a pod as we've done recently though, and it's important to hear these voices explain exactly why they're really, really pissed off right now.

We have one of Aotearoa's foremost observers of the far-right on. It's been a Busy Week, so we thought we'd talk about Occupy Christchurch in 2011, protesting in the 21st century and the organisation of the right and far right in Aotearoa. We enjoyed this one, we hope you do too!

Just us on this weeks episode, and we recorded this the day Aotearoa hit 6,000+ COVID-19 cases for the first time ever, the anti-vaccine camp was designated a COVID hotspot, Texas decided trans kids are illegal and there's something going off in Europe.   

Two eps in a week I bet you think that's pretty clever, don't you boy. We are joined by Charlie @casuallycharlie and Cassie @shortcasserole because SHIT IS GETTING WORSE OUT THERE. We talk about Wellington, COVID, incurious political professors and the horrible feeling that this is only the beginning of some very bad stuff.   It's a cheerful episode then, enjoy!

We are BACK. PostingCast returns on a cold February to heat you with some warm-ish takes about the Convoy, the Parliament Protest and the establishment of right-wing institutions with suspiciously strong funding streams. It's good to be back, it's a shame the world sucks.  

So yeah, it's 20 years since 9/11. Everyone's talking about it. We talk 9/11, 7/7, cultural shifts, the unimaginability of the future that wasn't, radicalisation between then and now. All that stuff. There's some jokes.

We talk being gay parents, raising a kid when you're not a heterosexual couple, why Peppa Pig and Paw Patrol suck and PostingDad gets far too into why Hey Duggee is a perfect thing to show your young ones.  

You voted for it, so we had to do it. We explore The Curse Of TERF Island. Why is Britain like that? Why are we like that? Why doesn't Aotearoa have to be like that. We revisit our teenage years, the horrors within, and also talk a bit about hope for the future.