They really aren’t very sure how many visitors to expect at this display! 😆
I like collating data, and getting thoughts in the brain. I run https://thoughtfulnz.quarto.pub/nzcovidreport/ All for Public data, Aotearoa New Zealand, and informed communities. #openData #NewZealand #Aotearoa #rstats. He/him. He tangata tiriti ahau
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They really aren’t very sure how many visitors to expect at this display! 😆
When Epistemic Trespassing came up last year (and lets acknowledge that I am often exploring outside of my area) @ctpuzzlepieces.bsky.social did mention that Ballantyne also talks about trespass should be humble and self aware and listen to experts (which I try to, unlike Gibson et al)
If you are completely stymied, and there is a device in your household you can set up another (new) account on that you could could use for a minute now and then, that would give you a pathway. But I hope you find some locals.
T.I.L. abut Ball's Pyramid en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ball%27...
You know I can't e.t.a. your ghost chips.
A spurious report by CounterSpin Media claiming the ChCh massacre livestream was a hoax, & that there were no victims was picked up, & promoted by a curious site: the London Times. This domain is directly, & inextricably entwined with strategic, & sophisticated Russian disinformation operations.
I suspect you are going to get a bunch of advice in the next little while as your posts surfaces in "New Zealand mentioned" feeds. But if I can forestall a few irrelevancies, your options may be pretty limited by your travel options- for instance will you have/rent a car, or key centres.
Kea in the Hooker Valley | Aoraki Mt Cook. Aotearoa New Zealand While these two were dancing around for the the tourists... Another three were sneaking around to the unguarded bags 🤣 #newzealand
That will be their problem when they face Terminator/Skynet and are ill prepared by years of popular culture.
daaang 📚 → 📦 → 🌏
We pay 40% more than Australians!?! But New Zealand fEeDs tHe wOrLD
From the Otago Geology department (the keepers of the Magnolia time series), this year was August 8th.
We tried so hard to explain that the anti-trans panic wasn't just going to hurt trans people. Whether through recklessness or intent it resulted in extremely weird, broad, harmful laws. I'm not mad, but I'm telling you, we really tried.
The shorthand term I normally use is "during the acute covid pandemic". It may just reflect the kind of people that read me, but there hasn't been any particular misinterpretations.
How do we convince publishers to stop doing this? Bibliographies and footnotes matter. They should be printed. Websites decay faster all the time. Especially in an era of huge mergers like the one that created Penguin Random House, where calls for efficiency see pages culled at every chance.
✔️ "These kinds of fictions were already showing up in classrooms by then" ✔️ "use webcams to record students" ✔️ "sharing data with business partners"
Just another clear demonstration of how the rest of the world engaging with us understand the importance of Te Reo Māori, just like most people living here do. The voices fighting against the embrace of the language are noisy, but they're a dying minority, and they won't win.
It would be super cool to go back to 2014, find a rando and ask them whether a fall in EU coal use for power generation of 60% in 10 years feels possible or even likely ember-energy.org/data/electri...
People Watching: Soundcheck for Vera Ellen & Neil Finn, night two of the MUFGAL (Make us feel good about life) concert series, Roundhead Studios, Auckland
How did “the vaccines were not studied for transmission” (wrong) become “we knew the vaccine didn’t block transmission” (even wronger)? When Chaudhuri posted this on LinkedIn last month I pointed this out to him, but he didn’t have a good explanation for either position 9/N
I gave this a go, as a deliberate pedagogic step to demonstrate how summaries don't judge relevancy like people would. But there was the side effect that the Speech to Text had trouble with my accent so it became "drafts" in the transcript and summary.
Saving the critically endangered kākāpō. Can Aotearoa New Zealand vaccinate its rare species before bird flu gets to them? In the last continent to remain untouched by the virus, hopes are being pinned on immunisation as migration season approaches. 🧪🦜💉🦠 www.theguardian.com/environment/...
I keep coming back to my impromptu homage to Marti Friedlander's Eglinton Valley (1970) image I took in the Mātakitaki (Matukituki) Valley with advances in Lightroom & my evolving editing style. It's never going to be perfect as it was shot through my car window early evening on the old Nikon
www.odt.co.nz/regions/quee...
It's #BirdOfTheYear time! Don't forget to check out the Aotearoa Birds feed!😀 www.birdoftheyear.org.nz 🪶🇳🇿
The first story I did for Crikey back in 2021 was reporting on a leaked neo-nazi manual showing how "media baiting" — aka tricking journalists into writing about them — was a major strategy for them. www.crikey.com.au/20...
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The starship the USS Conchords
Our flag means the United Federation of Planets
If it weren't for your gumboots, where would ya be? You'd be in the hospital or in the infirmary.
#NZ Don’t wipe with these! The article says to return them for a refund. www.odt.co.nz/star-news/st...
Testing out a generative AI for info sessions I am running at the moment, I gave it a 2018 computer tutorial (word doc) and said to "update it to making the contents current". Its claim of success in doing that was producing a Word doc identical except for references to 2018 changed to 2024.
If there is anything happening in about 6 hours, I will be posting about it.
"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.
Good Luck! Where I am there is the advantage of city specific data to decide if to go out. www.dunedinaurora.nz
Might even be an aurora to mark the event.
Dunedin: Sunset a bit after 6, various grades of Twilight until about 10 minutes to 8pm this evening. NZ cloud forecast maps looking good www.snow-forecast.com/maps/static/...
So did Lieutenant John Gorman of 2 Armoured Irish Guards *really* destroy a 68.5 ton King Tiger in a bonkers ram with his 33 ton Sherman tank? What really happened on that fateful summer's day? Read on. /1 #WW2 #SWW #History
New Plymouth history Bluesky: any hints on naming this young lady? In Josiah Flight's papers. I'm wondering if it might be a niece of Thomas Kelly, the MP / Legislative Council member.
For a Student Who Used AI to Write a Paper
Otago & Ōtepoti folk: it won't be any secret to anyone with school-aged kids in whānau that Polyfest is on! 😊 🌺 Hope you all have fun 🌸 Otago Polyfest have put out a notice about livestream is FREE - don't get scammed into paying for it! source is facebook: www.facebook.com/share/p/1CcC...
Nau mai haere mai tahuti mai. Dunedin friends, Archway 1 :)
Nudges Antipodes Antipode by 21 degrees longitude.
Opening act for Otago Polyfest, Portobello School 😍 If you're in Ōtepoti this week with some time to spare, it's a $2 entry fee and a great time.
See you at Scorpio Books in Ōtautahi for #TheCovidResponse this Thursday. Really looking forward to this!
If it's any consolation, some years ago I, a self described expert data generalist, wondered why there were 10% fewer road deaths in February and it was gently pointed out there were 10% fewer days in February. Having a community that will correct mistakes and not be mean about it is very valuable
Only 7 out of 300+ analysed restructures went back to monitor and document the after-effect and whether it's been successful. #GOVIS2025
LMAO look who's an example of AI misuse in Wikipedia!
I had seen an animated spinning version of this (I made a simplified stationary one, here), but it might take the wayback machine to work back to it. bsky.app/profile/thou...
For a casual version it is much easier to quickly do the Northern hemisphere showing an antipoded Southern Hemisphere- if you show Europe and Africa as an antipode, you hit all the jumping from +180 to -180 problems NZ has with maps with the Chatham Islands (which are beyond my lunchbreak to fix)
geom_columnar_basalt()
USDA quietly said Friday it will, after a century, end the Farm Labor Survey (FLS), the only wage survey of ag employers. FLS is a critical input to setting local minimum wages for H-2A visa workers to try to avoid harm to U.S. workers' wages. #LaborDay #EconSky www.nass.usda.gov/Newsroom/Not...
Wikipedia editors trying to fend off the onslaught of AI crap have crowdsourced some telltale signs of LLM-generated writing; it might be handy for editors and proofreaders generally. Thanks to @ellenrykers.com for pointing me to it. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiped...
Very timely for me, thanks.
Turns out I had done almost all the steps for a past 30 day map challenge. Using the basic country coordinates in the maps package, while they are not detailed, has the advantage they are easily changed. #rstats code at gist.github.com/thoughtfulbl...
Or a pantomime horse costume
Birdle 🇳🇿 01/09/2025 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 birdle.nz
Birdle 🇳🇿 01/09/2025 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 birdle.nz
This new analysis of the spread of France's 1789 Great Fear in Nature is a very nice dataset (www.nature.com/articles/s41...), but a few things look off with the epidemiological modelling... 1/
Ahem #NZ dig your mask out, open the windows, stay home if sick. It’s getting worse not better rn
Saw a Kārearea last weekend and helpfully confirmed its identity thanks to the wonderful NZ Birds Online resource that features recordings of its call, such as this delightful one
Should be 'relatively' easy to do in #rstats, if it isn't a solved problem by tomorrow evening I should be able to figure some code out then.
He's sold reactors to Brockway, Ogdenville, and North Haverbrook!
bsky.app/profile/comi...
Scottish police do not know where their sensitive data is going, because they trusted it to an American multinational (Microsoft) which simply refuses to tell them. Remember this when the US screams about Europe wanting to regulate the big tech players.
Just a heads up to anyone using Firefox:
I made a solar power projections versus reality graph. So I can publish the code for others to use. Any suggested improvements?
Like clockwork. ⛈️🚲🫡
i think about the “do not split” principle from hong kong often
Just putting it out there that I'm happy for random Americans to butt in and talk at me about rare plants. Somebody talk to me about rare plants. Anyone. 🥲
Please vote for the NZ Geo Photographer of the year www.nzgeo.com/photography/.... Talent and devotion galore
shoutout to this iNaturalist user who appears to be an ROV pilot in the gulf of mexico and posts occasional biological observations, including A GODDAMN TANINGIA ATTACKING THE ROBOT ARM OF THE ROV www.inaturalist.org/observations...
Media outlets have been called out by the Australian Bureau of Statistics for inflating their data ahead of anti-immigration 'March for Australia' rallies. ~ Dr Abul Rizvi Media misuses migration statistics to promote anti-immigration rallies independentaustralia.net/politics/pol...
Coincidentally, I watched Sherlock Jr. recently, so the "still enjoyed today" definitely applies.
I’m proud and over the moon to share the news that I’m a finalist in the Wildlife category of NZ Geographic Photographer of the Year 2025. This is the big kahuna for Aotearoa wildlife photographers and a major goal I’ve been chasing for a long time. To achieve it is exceptionally special to me. 🪶🇳🇿
We've seen more tūī this year on our camellia bush than ever! #AoNZ #Aotearoa #birds 🪶🇳🇿
Lack of access to lightweight explosives seems to be THE barrier to drone terrorism outside of active war zones. ipso facto, if you’re worried about drone terrorism, you should be channeling as many resources as possible into *explosives control*.
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 👀
here’s a version where the POV is blacked out whenever the driver takes their eyes off the road
Compare to Sep 2017 at the left hand end. The strong disapproval was only 30%
IThe 4.2 is the combination of all the individual entries. So with 5 being in the middle, we have about a quarter in the top, about 1/3 in the middle, and about 2/5ths at the bottom, so the combined total is going to be below the halfway number.
Don't make me tap the sign again (late 1950s censuses)
And no, I am not worried about the size of the (not politically divided) drop. While it would be a bunch of work to refine the exact numbers, the reality of New Zealand, Australia, and Canada is that all these countries have retirement homes full of people who were part of mass youth immigration.
Do I want to spend my Sunday morning making graphs about weird birthrate obsessions that people are generalising to the world. Well, clearly I do, but there is an element of resentment at the entire topic. There is no growing left/right distinction in kids in NZES respondents by left/right self ID
In the Marlborough Sounds, so understandably close enough to feel local.
Looks like it has given the residents of Bupa Parklands Care Home something to talk about, as that is the current epicentre.
“The most important part is a team of people who are the ‘lighthouse keepers. They routinely canvass the neighborhood, identifying people who live alone, surveying households about their most urgent needs and building trust with the community" www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
To be a little pedantic, some roading development would be justified if the number of people in a region is significantly increasing, but if you were modelling need (or future need) off older trends, there are going to be some highly optimistic justifications- if any decisions were being data driven
They say he's demoted but they're just going to move him to another server.
Pulling the VTK (annual) and matching to the mid-period population, I get this. So same general vibe.
The Gilded Rage
so where are the K Rd-y Cuba St-y areas of Dunedin? I want to buy some weird earrings or something while I’m here. something other than food, you know?
Marmalade is French for "seasickness", from the Latin roots "mare" meaning sea and "malade" meaning ill.
Some years ago.
Friends, LinkedIn has failed me 😑 but I know the politically engaged community I follow here won’t. I'm chairing the Karangahape Candidates debate at Double Whammy on Tues ahead of the local gvt elections - and I’d like your input. What's got you rarked up about Auckland? Questions please 🙏
Part of the reason the UK/US framing around this is pretty weird from here is that NZ/Aust/Canada have all had experience at growing to half again the humber of 10-14 year olds in around a 7 year span. You have a kids travel free immigration scheme. But the UK/US framing is about controlling women.
It finally happened.
You can get the result of the FT graph of 35+ in the quoted discussion with "the kind of people who who do not have kids being increasingly more reliably progressive in their old age" or similar, without that causatively connecting to their political opinions at the time when they had kids or not.
I checked the New Zealand Election Study data, and in 2002 31% of kids were in households describing themselves on the right (7-11 of 11 pt scale), 24% in left(1-5), and 46% centre/not specified (step 6 or NA). In 2023 34% in right, 34% in left, 33 centre/not-specified. TLDR It's complicated