Ah yes, perhaps the most beloved literary trope of all: the classic McMuffin
Steve Newall
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Doing stuff in Aotearoa New Zealand: Co-founder: @imvaotearoa.bsky.social Programmer/Producer: www.fraudfilmfest.co.nz Board: www.showmeshorts.co.nz
Okay so we have a number now: the Onion is officially 6 months ahead of reality.
The Onion@theonion.com · 5d agoFrom The Archive: DOJ To Bring Back Firing Squad As Means Of Entertainment
Having long been aware of those tech bros who read my work as utopian porn, where they’ve taken that doesn’t exactly surprise me.
Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim's YOU CAN SEE EVERYTHING confirmed for NZ cinema release on Nov 12
“These signatures are maybe the most on the nose reminder of how AI models were trained on a vast corpus of writing, images, videos, and artworks that were scraped without permission.”
ChatGPT Caught Putting Signatures of Real Cartoonists on AI-Generated Comics
ChatGPT is churning out New Yorker style cartoons and slapping the name of real artists on them without permission.
futurism.com
Always nice to see the low-hanging fruit collected. Opposition to this is basically zero, apart from Act weenies who've never been to a good gig in their lives. www.stuff.co.nz/politics/361...
Labour’s ‘simple fix’ to give Kiwi music acts more exposure
Currently, international artists are not required to have a New Zealand support act when they tour here.
stuff.co.nz
When the daily newspaper doesn’t know what day it is. “National leader Christopher Luxon and Labour leader Chris Hipkins will face off in TVNZ’s leaders debate tonight. The debate, which starts at 7pm, will be moderated by Jack Tame.”
NNew Zealand Herald (Unofficial)@nzherald.nzcow.com · last wk.
📢 The two leaders face off in a make-or-break debate
This is a good headline! It refuses to amplify the false claim by using "wrongly", and includes the truth in the headline for everyone who doesn't read the full story (which is mostly everyone). It's also compelling clickbait for those ad guys. Now do this all the time!
1% of Linkin Park’s crowd came to Aotearoa specifically for the gig. Just 0.4% of ULTRA festival. Is the NZ Govt’s Events Attraction package doing what it was set up to? theconversation.com/money-for-so...
Money for something: why public funding for NZ’s live music scene needs retuning
Every dollar invested in local live performance is multiplied in benefits to local communities. But state funding has to be strategic and targeted.
theconversation.com
I have separated the art from the artist and am now whipping the art to stiff peaks, after which I will gently fold it into the artist before baking at 350 til golden and puffed
Does my Speak-n-Spell feel pain when I type O-U-C-H? The jury is out. Philosophers and neuroscientists say that's fucking stupid, but I called a guy from the Center for Pretending that Household Electronics Are Sentient and he said there's no way to know for sure.
an amazing new project launches today in new zealand: people can report sexual harm, and get matched with others who reported the same person. when you report, you get a lawyer - and lawyer-client privilege. for free. i profile the website, technology, charity, & law firm here: www.webworm.co/tika/
This Could Change The Way Victims Get Justice
David Farrier's Webworm looks at Alison Mau and Zoë Lawton's Tika: a new way to report sexual harm in Aotearoa, New Zealand.
webworm.co
one guy is famous for being racist who got a clump of mud thrown at his head, another guy is famous for looking like a fleshy rendition of the trollface meme and dressing up like Porky Pig every so often, and the other guy is a blogger. like what has to happen so media stop interviewing them.
Just scrolled thru four years of my old tweets to find this
The question isn't whether the pm is interested in Hager, it's whether...
Get along to one of these rad, grassroots, independent-music-venue-led enrolment events (often free!) Happening all across the Motu i tēnei Hepetema, Oketopa hoki /this Sept/Oct 🙌🙌🙌 🗳️🗳️🗳️
Spotlight: ROCK’EN’ROL - Live Music & Voting Enrolment Events
Independent music venues are uniting to help get rangatahi / young adults enrolled to vote!
undertheradar.co.nz
"You could open for Ed Sheeran" - or you could post pro-Palestine, anti-Ed videos as they're not being moderated
Pumpactionmusket @pumpactionmusket.bsky.social · 4w agoHoly shit. All of the submission videos are just being uploaded immediately at the bottom of the webpage without any moderation whatsoever. Somebody is getting fired for this. openforlegends.guitarcenter.com/campaign/ope...
Macklemore: Palestinian children are people. Robert Kraft *actively getting a handjob from a strip mall prostitute he refuses to tip*: We must ban this hate speech from every stadium in America. Let me call up my friends, the Epstein client list. Ed Sheeran: Good point, sir. Both sides, sir.
For no reason, fun fact: Ed Sheeran played two cameos in The Rise of Skywalker (2019). One is a First Order stormtrooper, the other a Resistance fighter battling on Exegol. Both sides.
Neil Hamburger was in tip top form last night @neilhamburger.bsky.social
Remember when, week in and week out, the National Party Transport Minister Gerry Brownlee vilified and mocked those of us who pushed the City Rail Link. But we had the last laugh. Such a great win for the broader green and progressive movt.
How to hit our Foreign Minister and the Bish where it hurts
Imagine what it would be like if Mr Fix It wasn't on the case
A puppet performing a puppet on the radio!! Yes please… #behindthescenes