At the very least, a #ThirdWay would give us a fighting chance of arresting the onslaught of generative LLMs into every aspect of our digital existences. That's in direct opposition to, say, Microsoft, who've been working with the MinOfEd for years for ways to shoehorn 'AI' into every aspect of the curriculum: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/492898/documents-expose-microsoft-s-relationship-with-nz-education-and-hopes-for-ai-in-schools
7/n
I think we'd all benefit in many ways from an edtech #ThirdWay that is fully run by NZ businesses competing to offer services with a common set of open (#libre) platforms that give us, as a country, the ability to set our pedagogical & practical tech direction. If you want to create tech-savvy kiwi kids, the best way is to give them real experience with open tech, without glass ceilings or steel floors.
I'm certain it would, post transition, cost us all less & offer us far more.
6/n
The #edtech status quo in Aotearoa has huge inertia & plenty of tech support staff who mostly have very narrow expertise, limited to those two US corporate monocultures and a smattering of other things around the edges. So whatever transition is proposed needs to be gradual & carefully-managed. Ultimately, a transition to a #ThirdWay will be mostly political & there'll be a stiff opposition to it from the many vested interests involved. We need to agree the status quo is not acceptable.
5/n
Over the coming weeks, I'm going to start explaining what I think that #ThirdWay should look like, because I don't think we can afford, as a nation, to continue with the duopoly to which the MinOfEd has shackled us.
For the curious, here's a starting point: https://davelane.nz/openschools - in addition to an explainer video, there's an entire book (available for download as a PDF) on there, which explains that better way.
4/n
Unbeknownst to anyone with decision-making power in the MinOfEd, with a bit of leadership & vision, we could create a vastly better edtech landscape for Aotearoa *in* Aotearoa, without any dependence on foreign tech corporations whatsoever. But, yeah, the 'leadership & vision' part is missing entirely. Seems to me, we need a mandate for the MinOfEd to realise that putting all our eggs in those two very precarious MS & GOOG baskets is/was a mistake & they need to invest in a '#ThirdWay'.
3/n
«While #Democrats in Congress were struggling with their…strategy for responding to Trump, a group of their staffers traveled to New York to get…advice from Fox News, the Wall Street Journal, and other corporate media outlets.…
The…trip…was sponsored by the Progressive Policy Institute (PPI)…, an ally of the centrist group #ThirdWay…that recently hosted a retreat for House Democrats that urged them to abandon progressive causes and the party’s small-donor base.» #DCCC https://readsludge.com/2025/03/18/dems-visit-with-fox-news-and-trump-allies-for-communications-advice/
The malignant cancer that has destroyed the Democratic Party starting with the Clinton administration continues its assault on the working class and democracy. #ThirdWay #neoliberalism #DemocraticParty
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/03/03/the-democrats-are-dead-we-need-a-new-party/
Both sides agree that Kamala Harris was too WOKE & incoherent to win over Real Americans. No amount of campaigning with Republicans and for Republican policies could persuade the Civil Rights opposing “middle” to vote for a “7th string quarterback.” #centerism #Unity #NoLabels #ThirdWay
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:dwo4vgrhrri3lnrc4inkwtdh/post/3lh5cfnckqr2m
American #SocialLiberalism is a failed ideology, despite the fact that it has resulted in some good outcomes. We must recongize this.
It was an attempt to graft #socialism #authoritarianism into symbiosis with #liberalism #capitalism, and it just doesn't work when you artificially force these two antithetical ideologies together.
So-called #ThirdWay politics, which is incorrectly called #neoliberalism by some commentators, has proven to be even more of a dismal failure.
#Neoliberalism #ThirdWay #Neoliberals #Politics #Clinton #Blair: "The reason I think the distinction between calling someone a neoliberal versus talking about neoliberalized politics is important is because I think if we want to explain it, if we understand why it happened, then we can’t just substitute a label for the complexity of the actual politics underlying it, including the complexity of the perspectives of the people we’re talking about.
In other words, I think it’s perfectly fair to call Reagan and Thatcher neoliberal politicians for good historical reasons. But I don’t think that the same rationale holds for figures like Blair and Clinton. And to me, if we want to understand this historically in a way that might help us move things forward, then we need to address the explanatory question. We need to acknowledge the differences and we need to understand this disjuncture between what leading figures associated with the Third Way said about themselves and what they actually did. We need to understand how it made sense to them, in other words, that they could say — as far as I or anyone else as an outsider knows, with sincerity — that you could be a social democrat or a Labour politician, or Clinton would kind of move in between calling himself “liberal” and “progressive,” and also adopt pro-market policies that clearly didn’t work in the interest of many of their traditional constituencies. Even if they said they did, and still understand themselves to be doing something consistent, coherent."
https://jacobin.com/2024/02/stephanie-mudge-third-way-left-parties-neoliberalism-history/
Reuters
US election: No Labels asks DOJ to investigate Democratic-led effort to stymie its presidential bid
By Jarrett Renshaw
January 18, 202412:45 PM ESTUpdated 26 min ago
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#americanbridge #danwebb #democrats #hollypage #moveon #nolabels #thirdway
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New case study from the center left think tank #thirdway about #maine #hospital consolidation and how it's "ripping off patients"
As a Maine doc, the only omission I see is that they fail to discuss Maine's #certificateofneed law which allows hospitals here to block lower cost competitors. That's part of why we send some patients out of state for lower cost tests and surgeries.
https://www.thirdway.org/report/fixing-maines-broken-hospitals-a-case-study
The final count showed #PiS had received 35.4% of the vote, while #CivicCoalition, led by #Tusk, a former prime minister and #EuropeanCouncil president, had 30.7%. With the centre-right #ThirdWay, on 14.4%, and leftwing #Lewica, on 8.6%, the three groupings should be able to put together a coalition that would form a comfortable majority in the 460-seat parliament. #DonaldTusk #Ukraine
#Poland election: votes counted as country awaits Tusk-led coalition
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/oct/17/poland-election-votes-counted-tusk-coalition-law-justice-party?utm_source=press.coop
The original proponents of #neoliberalism in the 1970s and 1980s described their ideology as a “#ThirdWay”, a compromise or fusion of sorts of the prevailing platforms of the strains of social liberalism and market conservativism that held sway in the 1970s. These ideas were exemplified by #ReaganThatcherism and #Clintonism during the 1980s and 1990s, and since that time have remained the dominant ideologies shaping human civilization in the West.
Seats – 231 for majority
#PiS –200
#KO – 163
#ThirdWay – 55
#Left – 30
#Confederation – 12
#wybory #wybory2023 #polska #sejm #senat #poll #Poland #politics #polityka #elections #polishelections #elections2023
#BREAKING
#elections in #Poland #exitpoll
#PiS – 36.8%
#KO – 31.6%
#ThirdWay – 13%
#Left – 8.6%
#Confederation – 6.2%
#wybory #wybory2023 #polska #sejm #senat #poll #Poland #politics #polityka #elections #polishelections #elections2023
Comparison of exit #poll, late poll and finale results from 2019 parliamentary #elections in #Poland.
party – exit poll [late poll] (results)
#PiS – 43,6 [43,6] (43,59)
#KO – 27,4 [27,4] (27,4)
#Left – 11,9 [12,4] (12,56)
PSL – 9,6 [9,1] (8,55) – currently in #ThirdWay coalition
#Confederation – 6,4 [6,4] (6,81)
#politics #wybory #wybory2023 #elections2023 #Referendum #referendum2023 #international #Tusk #2023elections
The #Intelligencer take that the likely outcome of #NoLabels & #ThirdWay throwing their respective hats into the 2024 ring is they will:
• dilute votes for earnest, hardworking, successful-administrator (#PresidentBiden)
• clear path for bomb-throwing, megalomaniacal, narcissistic, personality-disordered, wannabe-dictator to slip thru back door of WH, to resume destroying US democracy (#tfg).
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2023/05/the-fallacy-behind-no-labels-independent-unity-ticket.html
Third party candidates hurt Democrats.
Remember 2000 and 2016?
Don’t fall for it again.
#NoLabels #ThirdWay #ForwardParty #GreenParty
https://www.rollcall.com/2019/07/29/how-third-party-votes-sunk-clinton-what-they-mean-for-trump/
