www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3608... This does seem like a terrible thing to do.
www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3608... This does seem like a terrible thing to do.
Interesting!
Dystopian Cyperpunk fiction promised the corporations that they could be the big boys in charge of everything, instead of the politicians, and never actually spelt out how any of that was supposed to work in practice. =/
And carkparks so they can drive to the pit, I guess.
All children need to entertain themselves are two knives and a sandpit, anything else is just woke.
Introverts don’t recharge with sleep, we recharge by being left completely alone for 3–5 business days
Also, "bone-petite"? 😂
he should only ever be played by a cis white dude. because anything else would be the polar opposite of woke: he's colonial nostalgia. a paid ad for the power and value of the state. of the control held by wood panelled old bastards "updating" him would be to whitewash what he represents
Bringing bus depots in the Wellington region under public control is already helping attract interest from a range of bus companies looking to operate buses for Metlink. Public ownership of critical assets can help secure public services, drive competition and get a better deal for the public.
"I'm dead"
I'm sorry, but genetic engineering is getting out of hand.
truly a senior dev level in intelligence your pocket ("off by one whatever let the testers sort it out")
Julia Roberts may have received a Best Actress nomination for PRETTY WOMAN at the 1991 Academy Awards but the real accolade we need to talk about is how the same performance won her the award for Favorite Movie Actress that same year at the Nickelodeon Kids Choice Awards.
Results so stunningly clear they inspired this classic xkcd (xkcd.com/2400/):
Yes, it was carefully hidden in the New England Journal of Medicine. Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine (www.nejm.org/doi/pdf/10.1... ) 1/2
![List of popes who died violently. Murdered popes. Pope Pius I (Saint) (c. 142 – c. 154), martyred by the sword according to old sources.[10] Claim of martyrdom removed from the 1969 General Roman Calendar after recent revisions.[11] John VIII (872–882), poisoned and then clubbed to death[12] Stephen VI (896–897), strangled[13] Leo V (903), allegedly strangled[14] John X (914–928), allegedly smothered with a pillow[15] John XII (955–964), allegedly murdered by the jealous husband of the woman with whom he was in bed[16] Benedict VI (973–974), strangled](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cyyd366g3hrxp5rynixm2mm3/bafkreibo6twmo5sdnlexqhtxngwrvxqiycifjhaxuyoq5rc2we3rkuq7ri@jpeg "Click to view full size")
"This is one of the clumsiest and most embarrassing attempts to evade answering a question I’ve seen from any business leader, for a long time." is what you get with expert reporting commentary that is not just repeating press releases.
Opinion: Amazon's NZ boss makes one of the clumsiest and most embarrassing attempts to spin good news out of a fiasco, in a long time, writes Jonathan Milne. - Newsroom Pro - $ -
Me, 20 seconds into this: "how can it possibly still have another minute twenty to go?" I nearly bailed out there, but I'm pleased I stuck with it.
West Aucklanders - and allcomers - could be forgiven for scratching their heads over what the PM just announced ($) www.nzherald.co.nz/business/ama...
getting anarchist in your old age cormack
If you want to do a full circuit, you can do a British-Indian curry then Indo-Chinese noodles then Hongkong-British tea&sandwiches!
But it's also a very specific thing where white men want to prove their manliness by suffering through chemical warfare levels of spice, whereas people who eat the food everyday just want to have a nice time.
they were actually originally called
Oh. Uh. Wow.
Are there positive political pressures? Ie. Anything in your field that the powers that be are particularly interested in?
For the third day, protesters and security apparatus clashed at the Indonesian police’s Mobile Brigade Command HQ (Mako Brimob), Jakarta.
Protesters also chased away military personnel.
definitely moving in an alive way
We are not welcoming Rudy Giuliani to The War on Cars.
My Listener column about talking to Auckland business owners. It's not just a slump, it's a consequence of the government wiping out existing systems without having a clear idea of how to replace them. www.nzherald.co.nz/the-listener...
Police already deployed on this sunny late afternoon to remind everyone they nothing happened on this day 6 years ago.
gonna apply moisturiser and radiation just to cover my bases
hmm so either dry skin or cancer
Linux: “Unlike other operating systems, you get to choose your own filesystem! You’ve got ext4 which sometimes loses data, xfs which was the greatest thing in 1996, bcachefs where the dev is such a legendary jerk that Linus won’t talk to him anymore. Oh and ReiserFS.”
Dems: [rearranging the deck chairs and writing their next book] Mitt Romney’s 2012 campaign manager:
Donald Trump’s rumored death raises new questions about Joe Biden’s health
Puppy being dried off over several months: #AGoodPlace Source: www.reddit.com/r/MadeMeSmil...
Anyway, thanks!
Yeah, I take your point. I don't think we're trying to "solve" them, just to alert people that this is a coordinated political project and that what they see are actually parts of a bigger whole, but I see how the labels we put on them can lead to bad theory about what they are.
here’s a version where the POV is blacked out whenever the driver takes their eyes off the road
Haven’t posted much lately about my Coshop.nz community food project in Wellington but it’s going well! Over 1000 orders since the 1st of June and revenue doing the hockey stick thing. Now doing about $3k/week of food as local as I can find for about 30% cheaper than most places 👀
There's a common thread in these ideas that make them appealing (or cynically useful) to these people. The thing that stands out - the thing that makes these people sound like cookers - are their beliefs in grand deceptions. Is it really that unreasonable to try to find and umbrella term for that?
They're different ideas, but it's the same people, maybe four in particular. They share administrative infrastructure (addresses, webservers, designers) and probably the same source of funding. It's not an accident that these different groups are run by the same people, right?
Some of that coalition is looser and more tactical than others. But take the other thread. The same handful of people were the driving force behind DemocracyNZ (antivax), the NZ First cooption (antiglobalist, antivax), Inflection Point (antitrans), and Better Wellington (anti...rates?).
In a lot of cases (eg. Better Wellington), the political unit is entirely disposable, and designed to obscure the connection with their other projects. Treating them as real political units is just helping them disguise themselves!
But the whole point is that those political units aren't the real political units! Voices for Freedom and Refreshing Local Democracy and NZ First and DemocracyNZ and Resistance Kiwi and Better Wellington and Inflection Point etc etc are all deeply Intertwined, in people/funding/goals/tactics.
I get that labelling the coalition doesn't describe the diversity in their beliefs, and the differences of those beliefs are important. But I'm genuinely asking here: what *should* we call the coalition? Because it's a real thing that we're contending with, and we need a word for it.
(I know this is your field - just didn't want to assume you still pay attention to the specifics in NZ. No disrespect intended.)
There's been a bunch, but maybe this one is the most relevant here: www.thepress.co.nz/a/politics/3...
The beliefs don't gel together, but *they* call themselves the Freedom Movement, and *they* consider themselves member of the same camp, and they definitely organise together and share the same political vehicles.
...which has resulted in, for example, Agenda 2025 stuff being part of the coalition agreement, and in NZ First's support of RFKesque natural health stuff. The same group of people ran an anti trans conference in Wellington last year.
I'm not sure how much you follow it, but that very specific coalition has been trying to make itself a political force ever since the Parliament Occupation. There's been failed political parties, but also successful coopting of NZF... www.thepost.co.nz/politics/360...
It's a bit antivax hippies, a bit racist great replacement types, a bit cycle lanes are WEF trying to enslave us... it's really fucking hard to give them a meaningful descriptive label!
Fair, but what are we supposed to call them? "The freedom movement"?
Live your life so that people don’t consider rumors of your death a form of edging.
No reason.
They should do this to Stephen Miller when It Happens
In addition I think it's because he's not been seen for a few hours, hasn't tweeted in a few hours, and, for me, the pizza intelligence is blowing up: www.pizzint.watch
President Challenges Fresh Norms By Exploding From The Gases Of Decay During Navy Parade
if he survives this it only means we didn't wish hard enough
Tbf, AI would actually be very good at reproducing the nonsensical word salads, random brainfarts, self-contradictions and disregard for reality.
nobody has seen the president in three days [burping and rubbing my president shaped tummy] that’s crazy
James Garfield. Badass civil war hero intellectual who could've been one of the most interesting presidents in US history and dude's mostly known for how his idiot doctors killed him fml.
Dude went from being raised by a single mother in poverty to pulling a literal Good Will Hunting at Hiram College to the highest office in the land but yeah the cat's pretty cool too
Dude personally piloted a steamboat the Big Sandy River during flood stage to supply the troops under his command which he used to win a battle that helped secure Eastern Kentucky for the Union but nah sorry it's the butt stuff that gets written in stone.
Trump must appear in public and do five lines of coke and 50 star jumps to prove that he is alive
Why yes, it *is* a good weekend to watch Death of Stalin
But otoh, a lot of institutional destruction is enabled by Trump-voodoo. Remove Trump, that that institutional destruction might stop in its track. Those institutions surviving might prove more powerful than whether Vance is prepared or not.
okay "gooner slop" just got a lot worse
I've been reading a lot of headlines without understanding what I was reading
Lol learned a new word today
Petty level: Wondering what John Key thinks about that 'trump better for the economy' thing.
It finally happened.
and just like the metaverse a lot of people here have no bottom half
The cost of the deep space expedition to recover aliens in Alien Earth is such an enormous undertaking that it cost almost 1/3 of the entire Metaverse
A random woman was giving me a BJ in my front room when I was 18 after a night out, my mum walked in and saw it, that's not the embarrassing bit, in the morning she said to me "I hope you washed your widgy before that nice girl put it in her mouth" I still cringe to this day.
most journalists *do* go undercover to report on European royalty and end up falling in love with a prince at some point, though, but unlike in the movies the relationship rarely lasts.
We're at the very beginning of this - there's some very interesting stats in the original report about self assessed productivity gain and measured productivity gain, but even the article asking how should measure things is interesting, in the context of "wouldn't companies know?"
What people think they 80s were like versus what the 80s was actually like.
That sort of collective brain rotting will take years to play out.
It takes time for reality to catch up though, right? Especially if there's a lot of baked in assumptions like "this is just teething problems for new technology". But also maybe pre-AI, the same stuff would still get escalated to a senior, they difference is that the junior would learn from it...
We always thought the problem with AI was that it was going to be smarter than us and replace us. But now, we're staring down the barrel of AI that stunt our learning, starve our artists, and replace our knowledge with slop. It'll become smarter than us just by making us dumber.
What you gain an immense understanding for is that people do not know how to fail. They come up with an idea and hold onto it so long. You have to know failure in all its permutations. You have to fail. Because all they've ever done is win by following the instructions. And now those aren't working.
Being the person they have to call when the LLM hits its limit and they're running in circles is already the position I and some of my peers are already in. The problem here is the pipeline. You don't get to my capability, by replacing younger less experienced me with an LLM. This is gonna be bad.
Oof, the sycophancy problem in LLM's + triggering on any irrelevant details you feed them, recently led a P2 problem call down the wrong pathing for hours. The chatbot is never going to TELL you to step back and ask if this entire inquiry is irrelevant to larger goal. This is your moat. It's mine.
The first large-scale Nazi book burning was on 6 May 1933, when Magnus Hirschfeld's Institut für Sexualwissenschaft in Berlin was attacked by Nazi students. It would take decades for science to recover the knowledge about trans-affirming healthcare that was destroyed that day.
Which, in a meta kind of way, *is* very representative of journalism?
honestly this one was a cracker.
why do you think the IDI datalab has all that security duh
A decade on, I still haven't seen a more accurate depiction of data science on TV. youtu.be/wWFJw5TnQgs?...
For all of House of Cards faults, it remains the the best depiction of how data science gets done: youtu.be/wWFJw5TnQgs?...
Lol wut
"Informed". They were all informed at different times. Didn't any of them need to give *permission*? FBI base in NZ: Judith Collins knew 78 days before PM, Luxon briefed 6 days before FBI director arrived www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/...
Weren't they all "she's is too old and too woke she's definitely trans" and "he's such a beta for dating a woman more successful than him what a loser"?