literally every history question has been asked in there and thoroughly, *comprehensively* answered already
James Nisbet
@bandit.nz
I design experiences, and vote for the climate in every election. Big fan of #bioswales. Snark with a smattering of earnestness. Views don't reflect those I work with. https://james.nisbet.nz
Taking my time to really listen and learn from the very valid concerns of the MAHA movement:
Memento (artemis) Morty 🌙@mementomorty.bsky.social · 11h agowe should hear MAHA out about this they might be onto something
"Labour...said the party would release an AI policy...wanted regulations ensuring that data centre operators “be legally required to underwrite new renewable electricity generation so they do not add scarcity or push up power and resource costs for households” #nzpol thespinoff.co.nz/politics/05-...
If AI is about to upend everything, where’s all the AI policy?
So far, the only party to release any AI policy for the 2026 election is the Greens.
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Winston Peters’ comments to Lawrence Xu-Nan make headlines around the world
Winston Peters’ comments to Lawrence Xu-Nan make headlines around the world
‘A test of New Zealand's political culture and democratic values.'...
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Opinion: The things that are and aren’t compatible with National’s values #nzpol
The things that are and aren’t compatible with National’s values
Wanting to tax land: absolutely not. Xenophobia? That we can work with.
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Weak. Nearly as weak as Ardern's "no mandate for change" on the ~49.5% support for marijuana legalisation www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
Government rejects calls to ban public sale of fireworks
The Government has decided not to ban the public sale of fireworks, outraging the SPCA and prompting one coalition partner to promise that will change after the election.
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Both par for the course and absolutely disgusting. It should be a lasting shame on us as a country that Peters has for 40 years made a political career out of peddling this sort of crap to the bigots receptive to it.
Winston Peters launches tirade against Chinese-Kiwi Green MP
“This is called democracy, unlike what you're used to. So go back to where you come from, you loud mouth, and maybe you'll learn something,” Peters said.
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Here's another thing: older people in particular are being trained by their family not to respond to scams or unexpected messages. This is an unexpected prompt requesting a highly valuable code. You can find a dozen examples of people afraid of this prompt on Reddit. UX matters.
James Nisbet@bandit.nz · last wk.Hey @signal.org can you be in charge of explaining how to find and then enter a SIXTY FOUR character recovery key to my elderly mother in law? Requiring users to enter this periodically to "remember it" is an unbelievably stupid piece of UX. I'd literally rather lose my backups
Hey @signal.org can you be in charge of explaining how to find and then enter a SIXTY FOUR character recovery key to my elderly mother in law? Requiring users to enter this periodically to "remember it" is an unbelievably stupid piece of UX. I'd literally rather lose my backups
TIL: the Apple iPhone car crash detection feature automatically sends a notification and precise location to the police, and they promptly send an officer out. Pretty awesome! The officer I spoke to though said unfortunately lots of false positives from people leaving their phones on the roof 😬
If the people you are paying to write a curriculum need to use "AI tools" to "check and generate content", you are paying the wrong people and you should actually not have dumped the people who are capable of these core tasks.
Michael Brown@jingajik.bsky.social · last wk."Pulse, legato, harmony, tone colour, rhythm, triads, tuning - each appeared in the draft curriculum with incorrect definitions" www.thepost.co.nz/politics/361...
Very cool that Shopify’s CEO thinks the poor should have far less of a vote than the rich. Still worth that ad read money, folks?
Donald Trump has earned more money in his first and second year, in his second term as president, than in the previous 60 years of his life, per Bloomberg.
Gotta admire (derogatory) how this administration is not afraid to show to the whole world how fucking stupid they are.
Jake Lahut@jakelahut.bsky.social · last wk.In a rare bit of non-Iran-related AI slop, Trump just posted this image of an “air filter barrier” between the US and Canada
Wow if you want to see an example of a politician remaining calm under absurdly pedantic and pathetic attacks by an interviewer, watch this one www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTb4...
Chlöe Swarbrick: Greens want one-year ban on AI data centres
YouTube video by Q+A with Jack Tame
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I really really love this little anecdote. It demonstrates the power of having someone truly listen to you, and being there to say the right thing at the right time. Therapy rules if you can afford it, but if you can't, try to find someone to truly, *actively* listen to you.
Leiracal@leiracal.bsky.social · 12mo agoThis concept was introduced to me as "run the dishwasher twice" and was an important part of my executive functioning recovery as well as my path to self-acceptance.
"Do the thing you can do instead of beating yourself up over not doing the thing you're not doing" is honestly life-changing, even life-saving, advice.
Leiracal@leiracal.bsky.social · 12mo agoThis concept was introduced to me as "run the dishwasher twice" and was an important part of my executive functioning recovery as well as my path to self-acceptance.
To me cutting USAID is like, you put a quarter into a slot every day to keep millions of people alive. You don’t have to do it but it causes you no hardship. Then one day the job falls to people who are overtly white supremacist and they decide to stop doing it. It is most obviously murder
Aaron Huertas@aaronhuertas.bsky.social · 2w agoGross to see a senator skip over the part where the aid was cut off illegally and without warning. Cooking their brains on a right wing owned social media site.
Feels like groundhog day repeatedly catching LLMs reimplementing the same code in slightly different ways all over the place It's not DRY it's WET (write everything thrice) To teach it a lesson I had it generate another acronym for its behaviour - DAMP: Don't Abstain, Multiply Paste 🤦
Meta gets kicked out of the RE100 renewable energy scheme because it's obsessed with powering its data centres using fossil fuels www.rechargenews.com/corporate-po...
Wait I haven’t taken this opportunity to rant about how the impacts of this on me would’ve been smaller if we had functional, practical and affordable long distance passenger rail
Julie Blommaert@drjulieb.bsky.social · 2w ago
Missing *ALL* our targets,thats some achievement Wasnt by accident #nzpol www.rnz.co.nz/news/environ...
New Zealand now at risk of missing all its climate targets, Climate Commission warns
New Zealand is at risk of missing all of its climate targets, and time to get back on track is running out, the Climate Change Commission says.
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New Zealand's greenhouse gas emissions are falling too slowly to meet national climate targets, with progress stalling in 2024 and key goals for the next decade now at heightened risk, the Climate Change Commission said on Wednesday.
New Zealand climate goals at risk as emissions progress stalls, report says
New Zealand's greenhouse gas emissions are falling too slowly to meet national climate targets, with progress stalling in 2024 and key goals for the next decade now at heightened risk, the Climate Change Commission said on Wednesday.
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Power, petrol, food, and rates have all gone up, while inflation surges above 4% in today's CPI numbers. Meanwhile, our wage growth is worse than anywhere else in the world. How are working people meant to keep up? #nzpol
Call Move-on orders what they really are: Poor Patrol. Read all about what has happened since Chris Luxon became "mayor" of Adventure Bay in the Paw Patrol universe: yeehawtheboys.substack.com/p/call-move-...
