Immediate improvement due to the community run websites I use not getting DoS’d around the clock by AI scrapers

Ayo@darrylayo.bsky.social · 20h ago

Guys like this don’t realize that they are the freak

what is the most jankily developed type of mobile app and why is it the kind that schools pay for, with public money, to share identifiable data involving children

The only thing more important than the honesty and integrity of our parliament is the immediate removal of anyone who questions the honesty and integrity of our parliament www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

Chlöe Swarbrick kicked out of House after challenging Speaker's 'double standards'

The Greens co-leader has been kicked out of the House, after challenging what she called the Speaker's "double standards".

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I can see an argument that advertising standards just shouldn't be used to regulate political speech. I'd much rather ASA said that than tried to argue it wasn't misleading use of numbers.

henry cooke@henrycooke.bsky.social · 3d ago

National says it’s “triple your taxes” ads refer to three parties wanting to raise taxes. www.thepost.co.nz/politics/361...

Actually goddamn snow in Wellington

Brilliant letter from Stuart Thompson to Jeremy Clarkson about his comments that benefit claimants should write weekly thank you letters to tax payers detailing how they spend their benefits each week.

So, as always seemed likely, Bomber's legal trouble is an HDCA complaint. He refused to stop posting abusively about an individual and told them to go to Netsafe if they didn't like it. Didn't go well for Bomber. What a dick. www.nzherald.co.nz/business/med...

utterly demoralising time to work in tech. Spend years developing a technically excellent and dependable product, and your boardroom is just guys saying “my nephew could build this in 15min with ChatGPT, why aren’t you DUMBASSES more like my nephew“

Martyn Bradbury asking for people to do a Shawshank Redemption if he goes to prison, but it would be kinda hard sneaking someone outta the joint while they're yelling WAKE UP SHEEPLE. You would have to do it at breakfast time when all the guards are used to hearing WAKE UP SHEEPLE

AND ALSO what do we do in a dry year? When you see a power shortage coming months away, but do you just let the data centres keep pumping while you ask the public to turn off the heater? Do you pay them millions to stop? Boy there'd be political hell to pay for whoever signed that off.

I’m not sure whether this is just a psychological difference or AI bros fundamentally don’t understand the nature of an artistic experience, but: I don’t want a personalised film/book/podcast. I want to see/read/hear the same one as everyone else, so I can read reviews or discuss it with my friends

first time I've seen reporting on the spate of copper thefts get close to explaining you'll get fuck all at the scrap dealer for cable (assuming you even find someone who'll deal with you) www.rnz.co.nz/news/crime-a...

'Extensive damage': Man arrested for thefts along Wellington rail line

Police say a 36-year-old man has been arrested in connection to a series of thefts of materials along the rail line between Featherston and Greytown this year.

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christ if that’s not a metaphor for our times

> Where are the pro-clean-energy influencers to counter this shit? At the bottom of the Facebook algo weighting table

David Roberts@volts.wtf · 6d ago

I genuinely don't know what to do about this. In our diseased information environment, one MAGA-adjacent "influencer" can do more to shape public opinion than mountains of studies or facts. Where are the pro-clean-energy influencers to counter this shit?

thank god it is finally lawful for me to speak normally owt nowt cup o' tea spot o' milk innit www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

English to become official language of NZ alongside Te Reo Māori and sign language

English will join Te Reo Māori and sign language as an official language of New Zealand, after the English Language Bill passed its third and final reading at Parliament.

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Some of the dumbest shit committed racists believe, and they believe a lot of very dumb shit, is that immigrants who leave impoverished violent despotisms to come and live in free & prosperous democracies do so because they intend to recreate the old despotism in their new home

The title: My Top 5 Concerns with GenAI [pensive stock image] The talk: • you • aren't • using • it • enough

Ethan Hein@ethanhein.bsky.social · 7d ago

I wish the conference schedule would use color-coding or something to show whether the AI-related sessions are "AI Good" or "AI Bad" because I went to a session that I thought was going to be "AI Bad" and it turns out to be "AI Good"

DispatchQueue.main.asyncAfter(deadline: .now() + .random(in: 0..<1)) { stdout.write("funk soul brother") }

I would also run regular ads saying Tim Cook is gone and we also fired that asshole that came up with Liquid Glass

Erika Hall@erikahall.bsky.social · last wk.

If I were in charge of Apple marketing, I would reverse all of the bad vibes of the Crush! ad with a commercial showing people using Macs, iPhones, and iPads to make art and music in conjunction with analog tools and live performance, rematerializing what people love, obliquely shitting on "AI".

If I were in charge of Apple marketing, I would reverse all of the bad vibes of the Crush! ad with a commercial showing people using Macs, iPhones, and iPads to make art and music in conjunction with analog tools and live performance, rematerializing what people love, obliquely shitting on "AI".

I am so bored with the "everyone said it couldn't be done!" trope. Why do we have to vindicate the dumbest fucks in the comment section every time someone does something smart? www.ecoportal.net/en/switzerla...

Switzerland bolted 5,000 solar panels onto a dam wall 8,000 feet up in the freezing Alps where everyone said solar made no sense, and the plant now makes three times more winter power than any farm do...

High in the Swiss Alps, on a concrete dam wall more than 8,000 feet above the sea, someone bolted thousands of solar panels to a place almost no one thought

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Money laundromat's stock fell due to "money laundering" concerns after reports that it may launder money

Jenny Cohn@jennycohn.bsky.social · last wk.

Nvidia’s stock fell due to “circular financing” concerns after reports that it may finance OpenAI’s purchase of $350B in Nvidia chips (vendor paying customer to buy its product) & may separately guarantee financing 4 the construction & lease of a new OpenAI data center that wld use Nvidia chips. 1/

because an orbital period of 27 days isn't very click-worthy on its own

Absolutely blistering final line there.

Paris Marx@parismarx.com · last wk.

After The Economist’s interview with Elon Musk, will major media finally reassess how they cover the fascist billionaire? As its editor-in-chief did the rounds saying she was “not a Musk hater,” he was on X calling her a traitor to the West and suggesting she be murdered. Please, have some dignity.

Billionaires being unafraid to say things like this publicly is a major indicator of how bad things have gotten

Rachel Gilmore@rachelgilmore.bsky.social · last wk.

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?

imma keep doing it until someone can tell me why it's unfair

Sacha@sachadylan.bsky.social · last wk.

One of these headlines is not like the others, RNZ. You are meant to be a public broadcaster. #NzPol

these articles (and there will be many more) kinda need a reminder that Prime Ministers Seymour and Peters locked Luxon in a room for the last two weeks of October 2023 and made him catch cocktail sausages in his mouth while they told him what his policies would be www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

National promises to extend paid parental leave from 26 weeks to 30, if re-elected

National has pledged to extend paid parental leave from 26 weeks to 30, if re-elected.

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in the 90s a lot of the work I did involved teaching boomers how to understand and use computers properly. Sometimes it was frustrating, but it doesn't even register on scale of fucked-up-edness next to what is being done today.

Mark@maetl.bsky.social · 2w ago

A lot of workloads being planned to use massive energy intensive network infrastructure could be radically simpler, localized and deterministic.

A lot of workloads being planned to use massive energy intensive network infrastructure could be radically simpler, localized and deterministic.

This is an understantable push for a party that has gone from well under 1% to comfortably above 5% on the basis mainly of votes from gun enthusiasts who hate the government (whoever is in it), but it's a bad idea because it amounts to a kind of proprietary stake in one of our few remaining commons

RNZ News Feeds@rnzrss.bsky.social · 2w ago

ACT wants hunters in charge of game animals on conservation land, not DOC