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IMD to explore artificial intelligence to improve forecasting, predict extreme weather events – Firstpost

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Press Trust of IndiaAug 03, 2020 11:55:43 IST

The India Meteorological Department (IMD) is planning to use artificial intelligence in weather forecasting, especially for issuing nowcasts, which can help improve 3-6 hours prediction of extreme weather events, its Director General Mrutunjay Mohapatra said on Sunday.

He said the use of artificial intelligence and machine learning is not as prevalent as it is in other fields and it is relatively new in the area of weather forecasting.

The IMD has invited research groups who can study how artificial intelligence (AI) be used for improving weather forecasting and the Ministry of Earth Sciences is evaluating their proposals, Mohapatra said.

He said the IMD is also planning to do collaborative studies on this with other institutions.

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IMD could soon be using AI alongside its current weather forecasting technology. Image Credit StormGeo

The IMD uses different tools like radars, satellite imagery, to issue nowcasts, which gives information on extreme weather events occurring in the next 3-6 hours.

The IMD issues forecasts for extreme weather events like thunderstorms, dust storms. Unlike cyclones, predictions of thunderstorms, which also bring lightning, squall and heavy rains, are more difficult as the extreme weather events develop and dissipate in a very short period of time.

Last month, over 160 people died due to lightning alone in Uttar Pradesh and Bihar.

The IMD wants to better the nowcast predictions through AI and machine learning.

"Artificial intelligence helps in understanding past weather models and this can make decision-making faster," Mohapatra said.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) of the US announced new strategies this year to expand the agency's application of four emerging science and technology focus areas NOAA Unmanned Systems, artificial intelligence, Omics, and the cloud -- to guide transformative advancements in the quality and timeliness of NOAA science, products and services.

Omics is a suite of advanced methods used to analyse material such as DNA, RNA, or proteins.

With regards to AI, it said the overarching goal of the NOAA Artificial Intelligence (AI) Strategy is to utilise AI to advance NOAA's requirements-driven mission priorities.

The NOAA said through this, it seeks to reduce the cost of data processing, and provide higher quality and more timely scientific products and services for societal benefits.

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Quantum Computing: Why the technology poses a security threat – IFSEC Global

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While the term quantum computing may sound futuristic, many experts argue the technology is not far away from being utilised on a global scale. Amongst myriad potential benefits, Julian Hall explores how it is set to dramatically impact upon the security sector.

The next generation of super computers will be faster, more efficient, revolutionary and potentially, dangerous.

With the ability to make calculations in minutes that would take todays most advanced computers thousands of years, quantum computers will be in a league of their own. Among the benefits they are anticipated to bring are improvements for solar panels, electric car batteries, financial and weather forecasts and even finding a cure for Alzheimers.

But its the application of quantum computers to encryption and security that is grabbing the headlines. Their ability to break down the vast majority of currently used cryptography, and therefore penetrate government, military and financial networks, is both impressive and scary at the same time.

In a nutshell, quantum computing is a victory over uncertainty. Computers work on the basis of a binary understanding where bits either represent a 0 or a 1 outcome essentially a heads or tails scenario where the outcome is measured when the coin lands. Quantum computing allows the for the outcome to be measured while the coin is still spinning in the air meaning the value is both heads and tails simultaneously.

The quibit, or quantum bit, allows for multiple values to be stored at once. To put this in some kind of context, there are, as Luther Martin from security solutions company Micro Focus observes, between 1078to 1082 atoms in the visible universe, so a single register of just 265 qubits can simultaneously hold about as many values as there are atoms in the universe.

The huge capacity of a quantum computer means a massive encryption capability. Luther references an algorithm running on a quantum computer that reduces the security of a 3.072 bit RSA key down to only about 26 bits in other words easily cracked will a mobile phone. CEO and co-founder of banking technology supplier Neocova and Professor at Washington University, Sultan Meghji, likens the potential of quantum computing on encryption to how the Allies broke Enigma in World War Two.

Just how big a deal this is cannot be overstated.

One of the fundamental building blocks for making digital technologies secure is cryptography, notes Michele Mosca, co-founder and Deputy Director of the Institute for Quantum Computing at the University of Waterloo, Canada.

Cryptographic algorithms allow us to obtain trustworthy results while using systems that are not entirely trustworthy. For example, trusted endpoints can communicate through an untrusted telecommunications system and guarantee the confidentiality of their messages using encryption algorithms and guarantee the origin and integrity of the messages using digital signature algorithms.

Quantum computers would break all of this.

Mosca identifies four specific risks from the fallout of this big data bang:

Its pretty apocalyptic stuff and it sounds a bit like the hype over Y2K, but with actual peril.

Sultan Meghji thinks the Y2K analogy fits, but hes less concerned about general use computers (e.g. laptops, cloud sharing machines) that are many years away from broad spectrum utility and availability than with existing specific use devices such as Chinas Quantum Science Satellite, known as Mozi, launched in 2016 and, this year, paired with the worlds first portable ground station for sending and receiving secure quantum communications.

It is that second category that poses the largest, most immediate potential threat to security. Devices like these could nullify all encryption currently used today, ranging from encryption that protects a consumers credit cards on the internet to that which guards a president of a countrys communications with his or her military leadership.

With the recent UK government decision to ban Huawei from assembling its 5G network, following the US decision, Chinas role in the global security ecosystem has again been in the spotlight. China is, however, seemingly unabashed in its ongoing aim to be the dominant global power and its use of tech to get there. While it eschews the idea that state and commerce are one and the same, for many observers Chinas hoovering up of old data to be decrypted later, its ownership of data-rich companies such as TikTok (now the subject of US investor efforts to buy it from its Chinese owner) and its investment and boardroom presence in western tech start-ups all point to a consolidation and advancement of its world standing.

Sultan Meghji asks: What happens if, in November this year, the Chinese bring on stream an industrialised-scale offensive quantum encryption hacking programme that can break every single piece of encryption out there and we just dont know about it for years until the defensive systems come online? We are in the beginning of this grey window that will last for some number of years where there will be a disconnect between the offensive capability and the defensive capability of everyone else.

The quantum-assisted chaos scenario that concerns Meghji the most is a covert attack on a bank and altering debt payments. Financial services is the most full of risk right now and, after national military infrastructure, the biggest target.

Theres a general consensus among cyber experts and industry experts that battling quantum decryption doesnt have to be rocket science even if it will be time consuming.

In theory, its simple, says Michele Mosca. Replace the public-key algorithms we depend on with alternatives that are designed to resist quantum attacks. In practice, this is a massive and multi-faceted undertaking that takes 10-20 years to do properly. Much remains to be done, and more stakeholders will need to join the effort.

As Mosca says, many of the steps toward migrating systems to quantum-safe cryptography, (both post-quantum cryptography and quantum cryptography) are already underway, and Luther Martin, writing in TechBeacon, thinks that many businesses will already be adopting them.

Attacks that can run on quantum computers simply divide the number of bits of security that an AES [Advanced Encryption Standard] key provides by two, says Martin. A 256-bit AES key will provide 128 bits of security, etc. So if you are already using AES-256, you are already using an encryption algorithm that will provide an adequate level of security against quantum computers.

Meanwhile, Honeywell (who claim to have built the most powerful quantum computer yet, though, unlike Google, have not claimed quantum supremacy i.e. the ability to make calculations that no over classical computer can) believe that the solution is within the problem. The beauty of quantum computing, says Tony Uttley, President of Honeywell Quantum Solutions is that quantum computers have the potential to be a tool that works in both directions. This means that there are opportunities for quantum computers to provide quantum randomness to become a part of the encryption process itself.

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While Sultan Meghji also believes that shoring up many systems against the quantum threat can be simple enough, recalling the rollout of Transport Layer Security protocols 1.0 and 1.1 as being fairly straightforward, he also knows that despite the simplicity and inexpensive there will be laggardsthere are still organisations out there using TLS 1.0 which you or I could hack with our smartphone.

Investment is crucial for Meghji. If I was responsible for research budgets for either of our two nations I would 10 times whatever the number is of investment in cyber and 10 times whatever the investment is in quantum computing and thats on the low end.

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Jim Crawford: Inspiration and anger – The Tribune | The Tribune – Ironton Tribune

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We are a nation in crisis. The coronavirus is killing so many of us, so cruelly. Our economy is failing as the virus prevents the recovery of our jobs and our hopes.

We are once again challenged to lift ourselves up as a people to fulfill the promise of equality for all promised by our founders.

Yet, in the face of all these challenges, we are reminded of our greatness, of our goodness, by Americans who offer themselves in service to us all. And we can still see the potential of our future in the eyes of our youth.

This week Lillian Petersen, 17, a New Mexico 2020 high school graduate, won the oldest STEM competition in America, the Regeneron Science Talent Search, with a $250,000 research grant.

Her work? Helping others.

You may not know that the strain the coronavirus has placed on the worlds economies will ultimately fall hardest on the poorest of us all.

Nations and peoples already struggling with food security will face more difficult challenges now and in the near future as a direct result of the virus.

Lillian Petersen designed and created satellite software used to predict crop harvest yields in the most desperate locations in the African continent.

Her results were accurate and helped plan how to mitigate and manage the food crisis.

Then there is the inspiration of John Lewis, who died last week. Lewis was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives, but he was so much more. He was, every day of his life, a preacher a preacher whose sermons were always about peaceful persistence towards our better selves and the promise of equality for all.

Lewis knew his work was incomplete, that equality remained elusive as his days ran short. But he left a new wave of Americans, Black, white and brown, dedicated to achieving that elusive equality in the days before us.

Lillian and John lift us up, give us hope that commitment to living lives of service to others still shapes our nation, still guides us to a better future.

But there is reason for anger, too anger at the cynics who ignore peaceful protesters across the nation, marching in the streets to seek better, fairer policing and a broader equality before the law. Cynics who call these Americans exercising their First Amendment rights, mobs. Cynics who ignore the need for a more complete form of justice for all, who look away from discrimination and bigotry with not just blindness, but distaste.

Anger at leaders who ignored the very real threat of the coronavirus, who downplayed or ignored what was necessary to avoid the deaths now logged in our losses in 2020. Anger at the silencing of the experts who warned us of its toll, anger at the refusal to lead the fight against the pandemic from the federal level to every state, every county, every town.

And angry that the disaster that has damaged our economy, risked so many lives of those who had no choice but to work and risk exposure, when their safety called them to stay home. An economy that has never had a chance for recovery so long as the virus attacks us at every corner. And still, it is true, our economy remains subject to the killer in our streets, the coronavirus.

Our nation cries for true leadership, leadership that values each and every life more than re-election, more than profits, more than cynical ignorance.

As John Lewis good friend, Elijah Cummings so often said, We are better than this.

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S&P/ASX 200 keeps head above water as mining and health stocks trade higher – Proactive Investors Australia

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Gold rose on Friday to hit a new all-time high of US$1,970.81 per ounce as a sliding dollar and dire economic numbers sparked a rush to safety.

S&P/ASX 200 (INDEXASX:XJO) is marginally up 0.08% to 5933 points at 12.30 pm as financial and consumer discretionary sectors suffered losses but mining and health stocks helped the index keep its head above water.

Limited () (+1.84%), BHP Group Ltd (ASX:BHP) (+1.44%) and Rio Tinto Limited (ASX:RIO) (+1.13%) all gained more than 1% while National Australia Bank Ltd () was down 3.28% and Australia and New Zealand Banking GrpLtd () dipped 3.56%.

Victorians are preparing for extreme new restrictions affecting businesses to be announced today, as another 429 COVID-19 cases were recorded in the last 24 hours.

Premier Daniel Andrews has declared a state of disaster and imposed stage four restrictions, which include a daily curfew from 8pm to 5am for Melbourne residents until at least September 13.

White House coronavirus task force leader Dr Deborah Birx said widespread COVID-19 infections in urban and rural America mark a new phase for the pandemic as she doubled down on calls to wear face masks and observe social distancing measures.

Birx said on CNN: What we are seeing today is different from March and April. It is extraordinarily widespread.

The US has the worlds biggest number of COVID-19 cases at 4.6 million, or one-quarter of the total, and 154,361 deaths.

Todays top gainers on the ASX include () (+15.15%), Engage:BDR Ltd () (+14.29%), () (+7.50%), () (+4.88%) and (ASX:CPT) (+7.69%).

() is advancing its Republic of Korea patent application for 12CQ quantum computing chip technology IP with the bid now undergoing substantive examination procedures.

FYI Resources Ltd () has been as much as 28% higher after completing stage two production of high purity alumina (HPA) from its pilot plant facility in Welshpool, Western Australia.

() has embarked on a capital raising exercise and intends to raise up to approximately $1,255,625 in a non-renounceable pro-rata entitlement offer and up to $300,000 in an options offer.

Element 25 Ltd () has completed pump testing of a water production bore within a shallow (6-16 metre depth) aquifer at the Butcherbird Manganese Project in WA, confirming sufficient process water supply for planned production.

() continued to make progress against its IPO goals, finishing its June 2020 quarter with record appointment volumes and the expansion of its Real World Evidence technology platform beyond cannabinoids.

() is focused on expanding the resource base and life-of-mine at its Cape Ray Gold Project in Newfoundland, Canada as the June quarter comes to a close.

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People do not have the right to riot – New York Post

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Protesters in Gotham and other cities around the nation are so used to getting their way, theyve been spoiled. Their illegal occupation of our streets and parks has become so routine that the protesting class throws tantrums when it faces consequences, however rarely that happens.

Last weeks arrest of Nikki Stone, wanted for alleged serial vandalism of police cameras, was a case in point. The 18-year-old homeless woman was marching in a peaceful, though non-permitted, march down Second Avenue when plainclothes NYPD officers arrested her and put her in an unmarked van.

Stonehad been filmed on multiple occasions painting over NYPD security cameras around City Hall Park during the last months occupation. Her alleged actions suggest a flagrant lawlessness and enmity against the public good.

Yet Stone became a cause celebre, with supporters claiming she had been disappeared, as if by a right-wing regime in Latin America circa 1982. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez tweeted: There is no excuse for snatching women off the street and throwing them into unmarked vans. Cable host Chris Hayescalled it kidnapping.

The City Councils Progressive Caucus claimed that this arrest was a tactic meant to intimidate protesters and discourage civil disobedience. Lawmakers accused Mayor Bill de Blasio of failing to hold the NYPD accountable for the brutality unleashed on those exercising fundamental rights.

Back in the real world, plainclothes officers with unmarked cars arrest wanted suspects like Stoneevery day, because it is the most effective way to approach them without tipping them off and letting them escape. It is only kidnapping if one believes that law enforcement, operating with judicial warrants, has no authority to bring criminals to court.

Moreover, the progressive councilmembers radically confuse civil disobedience and First Amendment rights.

The First Amendment protects the right peaceably to assemble, but that doesnt mean you can block traffic any time you want to. Ask Chris Hayes if you can sit in his MSNBC office or studio for a week in the name of your favorite cause.

Civil disobedience means intentionally breaking the law to draw attention to the (alleged) unfairness of the law. But de Blasio has been so spinelessly indulgent of anti-cop protests, allowing wildcat marches to take place every day, all over the city, that the protesters have come to believe that they have the right to break the law. When confronted, they exhibit the outrage of a pampered toddler denied a toy at nap-time.

Similarly petulant, VOCAL-NY, a government-funded nonprofit, is stamping its feet because the city is no longer planning to pay for the construction of its new headquarters. VOCAL-NY was the prime mover behind the Defund the Police encampment, marches and protests that dominated downtown in the run-up to the city budget deal. The groups chief organizer, Jawanza James Williams, proudly declared: We will occupy. We will not leave here until the mayor listens to us!!!

VOCAL-NY receives about $500,000 from the city each year, mostly for drug-abuse-prevention and other health programs.Taxpayers didnt allocatemoney to the group so it could establish an illegal campsite, stage marches across the Brooklyn Bridge,harass and attack law enforcers, destroy public property or demand abolition of the police. Members of the group went to the homes of local politicians, and even the home of Speaker Corey Johnsons boyfriend, screaming at them.

When Johnson removed several million dollars in capital spending that had been earmarked for VOCAL-NY to build a new headquarters, the group shrieked that he was being spiteful and violating their constitutional rights: There can be no place in New York Citys politics for this kind of attack on our First Amendment rights. Yeah, cry more.

VOCAL-NY, like many other ostensible charities, is used to taking millions of dollars in taxpayer funding for explicitly political activity. Theyve gotten used to it because no one in charge says no.

Johnson insists that the money was removed as a fiscal measure and had nothing to do with the way that VOCAL-NY portrayed him as a cop-loving bootlicker during the budget process, embarrassing him ahead of a possible mayoral run, or that they threw paint at his boyfriends front door. But VOCAL-NY, and the protesters who want to dictate the time and manner of their arrests and the clothing of their arresting agents, need to relearn a key lesson of toddlerhood: Actions have consequences.

Seth Barron is associate editor of City Journal.

Twitter: @SethBarronNYC

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Zoom’s COO is not concerned by app bans in India, says end-to-end encryption for all by year end – Economic Times

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Aparna Bawa, COO, Zoom Video Communications; courtesy of Zoom.

Video-communications platform Zoom has remained under scrutiny in some countries, including India, over privacy. In an exclusive chat with ET Prime from San Jose, COO Aparna Bawa tries to dispel security concerns, assuring geofencing around China and pointing out paid users can even choose from Zooms 17 data centres globally. India, she says, is an incredibly important market.

Nasdaq-listed Zoom Video Communications is the new sensation in virtual communication, emerging as a formidable rival to established competitors such as Ciscos Webex, Microsofts Skype and Teams, Facebooks WhatsApp, and Slack. In India, it may well go on to match the massive impact WhatsApp has made over the years.Still, the video-conferencing giant has been haunted by its China connection in many corners of the globe. Meanwhile, India has

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ShareRing Uses Blockchain to Solve Self Sovereign Identity and Proof of Health Simultaneously – Forbes

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Proof of Health to Travel

As the lockdown wears on and travel and tourism, a USD$9 trillion industry in 2019, continue to be restricted, ShareRing is one company that has been innovating to use blockchain technology to solve the issue. ShareRing is a platform that wants to take the hassle out of travel, with its all-inclusive travel app for both businesses and consumers led by CEO and Founder Tim Bos along with the other 5 founders including Jane Sadler-Kidd. The team recognized the potential to disrupt the fragmented sharing economy with blockchain technology and launched an enterprise-ready blockchain geared towards the travel, sharing and on-demand economies. According to Kidd ShareLedger is a custom-designed, immutable blockchain database built on top of the Tendermint blockchain. Its fast, highly scalable and extremely flexible compared to existing platforms such as Ethereum.

Imagine stepping off the plane and knowing all your travel needs can be securely booked and managed from your phone. No more juggling handing over passports, travel documents or bank cards. ShareRings travel app will create a more cohesive customer experience by bringing all the necessary activities and bookings into one ecosystem, including hotel check-ins, flights, visa and tourist applications, Covid-19 tests, self-sovereign digital identity cards, mobile wallets, payment solutions and vehicle rentals.

They are also launching the world's first anonymous contact-tracing passport that can be integrated with e-visa on arrival systems (eVOA), travel insurance companies, airlines, hotels and retail shops. While contact-tracing applications have undergone harsh scrutiny since the pandemic began, with studies showing many tracing applications lack adequate security, are manual and expensive to execute. ShareRings self-sovereign identity storing model overcomes the major hurdle of securing data integrity by ensuring data privacy through anonymous distributed ledger cryptography.

Travelers Proof of Health is tied safely to a QR code which is scanned by airports, hotels or shops to reveal the status of their test, allowing for more freedom of movement and interaction with customers. Identity information is never stored on the blockchain and cannot be altered, preventing falsification and fraud where other contact tracing apps had third party storage of data. According to Kidd When someone signs up for a ShareRing ID, we take their photo, video selfie, name, DOB, address, etc and store it in an encrypted file that never leaves the users device. We also take a fingerprint of the data and documentation and store that on the blockchain. The file is encrypted with your public key, so only you can access it. You can also back it up to your Google Drive, or other cloud storage. If any information is changed it will not be recognized by the blockchain and the user will be forced to recreate their ShareRing ID. When you use one of our services like the COVID-19 app, the app will send only the necessary information to the government (anonymously) to allow others to be notified if they have been in contact with you. This is critical while many governments are considering mandating, and some have, health certificates in order to ease lockdown measures and re-open borders and struggling economies safely. As Kidd explains We have designed this application with government, tourism and health regulator requirements in mind. Our Covid-19 passport is perfectly suited to their standards, very low-cost, built to be easily integrated into any application, and encourages adoption among the population by building it in a way that provably safeguards their privacy. This should enable them to safely screen travelers and keep their essential workers protected in the event of an outbreak.

The app is part of a broader ecosystem of blockchain products the company has built. ShareRings application has already been integrated with more than 2.6 million hotel and activity providers around the world and they already have a sharing marketplace removing middlemen like Uber and AirBnb. SharePay is their stablecoin which 'hides' the confusion of cryptocurrency from the end-user. The payment of services and goods between user and service provider will be made in SharePay.

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Comprehensive Analysis On Open Source Software Market Based On Types And Application – Owned

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Government and IBM strike deal for public cloud access – Digital Health

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The Government has struck a deal with IBM to provide public sector organisations including the NHS with quicker access to cloud services.

The three-year public cloud agreement between Crown Commercial Services, the UK Cabinet Office and IBM, will allow public sector organisations to innovate with digital solutions and services.

Under the agreement all Central Government organisations including local authorities, education and the NHS can benefit from preferential commercial terms to help transform mission-critical workloads and develop new services.

It will allow the public sector to capitalise on the speed and agility of the public cloud while balancing the need for compliance and security.

Simon Tse, chief executive of Crown Commercial Servics (CCS), said: This agreement with IBM provides great value for public sector organisations as they continue to innovate and improve essential services for citizens throughout the UK.

IBMs public cloud is built on a foundation of open source software with more than 190 cloud-native APIs, such as AI, blockchain, Internet of Things, serverless and DevOps.

This will provide organisations greater flexibility to access services without vendor lock in, aiding the public sector manage higher value technology alongside key issues like data, security, services, and workflows.

Organisations will have access to a suite of solutions including IBM Multicloud Manager, IBM Cloud Paks, Red Hat OpenShift, Cloud Garages, Power Virtual Servers on Cloud, VMware and Cloud Migration Services.

Janine Cook, vice president for public sector at IBM UK and Ireland, said: As the public sector continues its rapid digital transformation, government organisations crossing many industries need a reliable, resilient and secure technology environment to meet the needs of citizens and address complex security and regulatory requirements.

An open hybrid cloud platform, built and managed with IBMs deep industry expertise, can allow the public sector to accelerate its innovation and offer a more agile way to develop new digital services and take the next step along their cloud journeys.

This follows Google Cloud signing a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the UK government in June 2020, which will see public bodies, such as the NHS, benefit from discounts on products.

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NZ First anti-Green ads will backfire, but Kingi restaurant fiasco perfect ACT Party culture war propaganda – thedailyblog.co.nz

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This is funny but totally ineffective

Election 2020: NZ First doubles down on attacks against Greens with mocking unicorns, pixies post

New Zealand First has doubled-down on its attacks against the Greens wealth tax policy with a mocking online post that features raining $100 bills, pixies, flying pigs, and a pink-maned unicorn.

But the image that was posted by New Zealand First on its official Facebook page on Thursday may have backfired.

It lampoons Green Party co-leaders James Shaw and Marama Davidson with the fairytale symbols, accompanied by a caption that says: But unfortunately money doesnt just fall from the sky

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when you are using the Bad Boys of Brexit, you miss the cultural nuance.

All this advert does is make people nervous about a Labour Green Government vote Labour!

Its funny satire, where as NZ First voters require some spite and low grade ignorance in their political motivations. This just causes laughs and reminds the wider electorate to Party vote Labour to prevent the Greens having any real power.

ACT have played the culture war far better than any other Party this election. Track ACTs momentum from the Free Speech debacle last year where the Woke Left went on a deplatforming crusade that ended up benefitting ACT as David Seymour became the defender of Free Speech.

How the living Christ we on the Left have managed to lose our role as the protectors of Free Speech is a tad demoralising. The argument presented by the Identity Politics activists is that fragile intersectionalist snowflakes feel triggered and in an age of subjective rage where micro aggressions are on par with war crimes, hearing anything woke mantras are against is hate speech that causes great emotional harm.

Ugh.

ACT took this ammunition and returned fire with devastating accuracy and that has helped build them to the insane 5% they are now cruising at.

If NZ First wanted to cash in on the culture war wave ACT have crested, look no further than this joyless deplatforming of Kingi

Mori cultural appropriation, or simply a fish? Restaurateurs in stoush over kingi name

Two of Aucklands hippest restaurateurs have engaged in an online stoush over whether the name of a new restaurant, kingi, is a case of Mori cultural appropriation or merely a shortening for kingfish.

Owners of popular Auckland restaurant Orphans Kitchen, Tom Hishon and Josh Helm, are about to open a new seafood restaurant this October named kingi.

Hishon and Helm have always maintained the name is a colloquial shortening for kingfish used by fishermen the world over.

However this week, Hishon responded to some heated comments on Instagram from the founder of Auckland restaurant Cocos Cantina, Damaris Coulter, who accused him of appropriating the Mori word for King kngi.

I am a Mori woman who brought this concern to you and you have continued to ignore me, others who are also Mori have brought this concern to you, and you have continued to ignore them, Coulter said on Instagram.

Coulter said she and Hishon had lunch to discuss the sensitivities, but Hishon did not follow up on the meeting and there was no resolution to the concerns Coulter raised.

Speaking to the Herald on Sunday yesterday, Hishon said they had received endorsement from Mori advisers and mana whenua who they have been working closely with to help provide context to anyone who has concerns around the name.

Both Josh and I are keen fishermen so we just wanted to hero a bit of an icon [kingfish] in the fishing world and our love for fishing and the ocean, Hishon said.

That was where the thinking from the name came from.

It is a seafood restaurant and the kingi is referencing the fish. Were talking about an abbreviation of a word which you could call a colloquial term in New Zealand but its also around other parts of the word as a shortening for the fish.

If you search a hashtag with that spelling theres over 15,000 tags of a fish on there.

Hishon said they were very specific in making their restaurant name kingi be lower case, italicised, and have no macron on the first i as the Mori word does.

However, Coulter told the Herald on Sunday it would have been more appropriate to call a nickname for a kingfish Kingy.

For a number of reasons but mainly because I felt the i would be a Mori spelling of the sounding the word and the y would make more sense around the English abbreviation for kingfish, Coulter said.

The online back and forth was really me asking Tom, Josh his business partner, and Hotel Britomart, to respond to other peoples messages of concerns around the naming as people were messaging me and I didnt feel like it was my responsibility to unpack the guys thinking around it for them.

I just feel that we are in a time of decolonising and healing our beautiful Aotearoa, and the people who call it home, and we dont need new mamae [hurt] around things that can cause confusion or be contributing to reshaping parts of a language to make it look a certain way for personal use, Coulter said.

sweet Jesus isnt this just so delightful in its petty woke Gram insufferableness!

Its clearly a reference to the fucking fish.

They are a fish restaurant.

They like Kingfish.

I doubt they even had any idea that it could be construed as the Mori word for King.

These owners of Kingi are 30 seconds away from being accused on Twitter of being cross burning KKK members! The Woke are not known for their nuance when it comes to cancel culture.

This kind of micro aggression policing wokeness and its real world deplatforming impact is ripe for culture war exploitation by the Right and time and time and time again, the Woke just hand the ammunition over.

Social media is ubiquitous, many people feel self censored on it and recoil in fear of being called out by some woke mob. ACT understood that and played to it.

NZ Firsts current attempt to paint the Greens as away with the fairies is funny but will help drive votes towards Labour.

If you want to trigger culture war support the way ACT have, the target has to be far more threatening.

Being painted as racist, getting deplatformed on social media and losing your business all over the subjectivity of woke definition is pretty threatening.

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