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purrtastic

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  • New Zealanders' biometric information and other sensitive data may be handed over to the United States government under a new border security agreement between the countries

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  • Chloe all the way

  • It is awful

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  • Yeah, you can. I don’t understand this post.

  • Featured

    life pro tip

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  • Always offended by soil being called “dirt”.

  • What's yours?

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  • I’m Wayne from Letterkenny, which means I’m a hick looking after a farm. Pitter patter…

  • 17 years*

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  • This is neither science nor a meme

  • Microsoft’s $440 billion wipeout, and investors angry about OpenAI’s debt, explained

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  • Indeed. It will be a shitshow with all sorts of attempts to juice the share price via obfuscation of the actual abilities, like musk has been doing already. It won’t have many tangible outputs, but they’re desperate for the next big growth idea, so here we are.

  • Microsoft’s $440 billion wipeout, and investors angry about OpenAI’s debt, explained

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  • Robotics. It will be a pivot to robotics.

  • Terraria - Terraria 1.4.5: Bigger & Boulder - Available Now! - Steam News

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  • Brilliant game. I’ve been looking forward to playing this update. It’ll be odd going back to vanilla after so many calamity play throughs.

  • What was the most under rated British TV show ever for you?

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  • I Am Not an Animal - animated black comedy series voiced by Steve Coogan and Simon Pegg. Created and directed by Peter Baynham. Sadly the animation style was torturously slow to make, so only one season was made.

  • cats @lemmy.world
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    The king surveying his domain

  • bunker city...

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  • It won’t, unfortunately

  • Friday is a great F word

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  • Frodo

  • Europeans Would Rather Buy Chinese Cars Than American Ones: Study

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  • Same in NZ and it’s depressing

  • Lemmy Shitpost @lemmy.world
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    Next time I swear bro

  • Science Memes @mander.xyz
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    "It's pronounced Mariah Carey"

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    Permanently Deleted

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  • Yes. Had a few paramedic call outs due to THC causing tachycardia. Fucking scary. My heart rate was so high I couldn’t talk. Thankfully my heart was structurally and electrically OK.

  • A Blackstone CEO got Luigi’d

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  • Allegedly

  • i liek turdles

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  • Magic Eye squad assemble

  • Brian.

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  • I am whelmed by this exchange

  • What emulated games hold up in 2025?

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  • Sensible World of Soccer on the Amiga

  • Aotearoa / New Zealand @lemmy.nz
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    Can't wait for NZ cities to get cars the fuck out of CBDs.

  • New Zealand gives thumbs up to ‘magic mushrooms’ for depression treatment

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  • I think this was said by Russell Norman

  • New Zealand gives thumbs up to ‘magic mushrooms’ for depression treatment

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  • I thought people would appreciate some background on yesterday's news that Medsafe has granted approval for the use of psilocybin as part of psychotherapy. I'll start by noting that we actually broke this news in part two our documentary 'Mind Menders', which you can watch for free on Sky Go (just create an account) or on Neon. So ... This approval has been granted to one practising psychiatrist, for the use of psilocybin alongside intensive psychotherapy. I haven't seen the detail, but it's likely to only be approved for use in treatment-resistant depression, meaning you'll have to have tried other treatments first. That psychiatrist is Professor Cameron Lacey, who has a clinic called Elimbias Health in Christchurch. He has a very strong record in health research, especially Māori health (he is Te Atiawa) and three years ago conducted a trial of psilocybin for depression under the wing of Otago University. That background will have had a lot to do with his approval being granted. He's also a good, caring man with a low-key manner. You're not going to be able to rock up to any old doctor (or psychiatrist) and get on the shrooms. This is a one-off approval under Section 22 of the Misuse of Drugs Act, which allows any controlled drug to be prescribed by an "authorised prescriber". It's not a law change: this provision has always been there and I wrote a couple of years ago about how that route was available if someone wanted to jump through all the hoops, which Professor Lacey has done. But I do think it's significant. The first (and only previous) time this provision has been used was 10 years ago, when Peter Dunne allowed CBD to be prescribed to Alex Renton, who suffered (and eventually died) from status elipticus. That's essentially where the road to the Medicinal Cannabis Scheme began. Medsafe, which granted the approval (not David Seymour, he just gets to announce it), has been regulating psychedelic research trials for five years now, starting with the Auckland LSD microdosing trials. In that time they've been slow, cautious and sometimes outright obstructive. But I think they've seen that the sky hasn't fallen in and they're not dealing with crazy people. Again, this will only apply to psilocybin used along with intensive psychotherapy – and it's the human time of psychotherapy where the cost lies. Professor Lacey reckons he can provide the treatment for less than the $20-$30,000 that has been speculated about, but it still won't be cheap. Don't expect Health NZ to subsidise it – conventional SSRI anti-depressants are cheap as chips (like, the total annual bill for the whole country isn't much more than $10 million) and they will remain the first-line treatment for the foreseeable. But there may be more interest from the likes of ACC, which has long-term trauma patients on its books, and possibly private insurers. Depending on results, the people behind the marae-based Tū Wairua trials in Gisborne might be expected to seek approval for tikanga-guied psilocybin mushroom therapy for meth addiction in two or three years. That's quite exciting, not least because it would truly break psychedelics out of the neo-Freudian therapeutic frame favoured by the major psychedelic advocates in America. But that's the future. The other thing that should happen, but likely won't, is a review of psilocybin mushrooms' legal status. They are a Class A controlled drug and there is really no good reason for that. The drug harm index created in 2023 by a multidisciplinary study at Otago University placed psychedelics (they actually used the term "hallucinogens") near the bottom of the harm scale, between kava and vaping. Decriminalising "plant psychedelics" (yes, friends at Manaaki Whenua, I know mushrooms aren't plants, but ...) as has happened in other territories would be a good step. I'm not holding my breath for this government to do anything of the kind, sadly. But anyway, yes, this is a significant announcement.

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    We're doing boneless cats now?

  • Technology @lemmy.world
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    Found in the wild: The world’s first unkillable UEFI bootkit for Linux

    arstechnica.com /security/2024/11/found-in-the-wild-the-worlds-first-unkillable-uefi-bootkit-for-linux/
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    For when it gets real

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    Gravity

  • memes @lemmy.world
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    After 25 years this still happens

  • cats @lemmy.world
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    Her Royal Derpness supervising my gardening

  • cats @lemmy.world
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    All tuckered out

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    When you have a threesome but get left out

  • Formula 1 @lemmy.world
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    F1 face major investigation into Andretti rejection

    racingnews365.com /f1-face-major-investigation-into-andretti-rejection
  • cats @lemmy.world
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    High five it's Friday

  • Technology @lemmy.world
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    The People Deliberately Killing Facebook

    www.wheresyoured.at /killingfacebook/
  • Technology @lemmy.world
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    Users ditch Glassdoor, stunned by site adding real names without consent

    arstechnica.com /tech-policy/2024/03/glassdoor-adding-users-real-names-job-info-to-profiles-without-consent/