A lot of this is very relevant outside games work, too. "No amount of automated asset generation is going to fix a broken steering wheel."

Brie@briechindeyerle.bsky.social · 2d ago

Louder for people in the back, "Art has throughput and quality bars. Engineering has velocity, defect rates, build health. QA has coverage and escape rates. Production has burndowns and forecasts... The decision layer has status updates." www.productionalchemist.com/p/inever-see...

Human QA to verify automatic subtitling is important and valuable. (Also if they're not going to pony up for the actual human labour, large streaming platforms could at least make it easier for people to submit corrections.)

Rob Mordor@villainygroup.bsky.social · 6h ago

Subtitles... they're great if you're hearing impaired, but sometimes it goes wrong... this from the 1940's #movie "Love on the Dole", where the actual line was "She's a strange lass, is our Sal." - and the #subtitle... well... it's in the image attached to this post.

Keep this receipt for when supermarkets moan about the breakup of the duopoly (assuming any government ever has the backbone to do it). #nzpol

The Press@thepress.co.nz · 8h ago

The regulator called the activity, which is illegal and known as “resale price maintenance’ as ”far-reaching anti-competitive conduct that deprived customers of cheaper prices“.

This has the glorious chaotic energy of the early Morph animations and I love it.

David K. Barnes@davidkbarnes.com · 2d ago

Here’s the latest stop motion animation from my Tiny Angry Witch team. (I’m the writer, I can’t take credit for the animating!) It’s one of our longest, and it nearly drove us all mad, but we’re really proud of getting it made! 1 x Tiny Angry Witch 1 x broom No AI

The day that Ray Bradbury died I was on book tour and that night I read "There Will Come Soft Rains" to my audience instead of the usual reading.

Adam Rawnsley@arawnsley.bsky.social · 2d ago

Today, August 4, 2026, is the setting of Ray Bradbury’s short story “There Will Come Soft Rains” about a fully automated house continuing on after the family who lived there and the world around it died in a nuclear blast.

Ask not for whom the belt owls.

Are we all aware of the kitschy-campy masterpiece “Come Back Mrs Noah”, in which the UK is a spacefaring nation. youtu.be/y94pAUSl_bg?...

Come Back Mrs Noah - Pilot Episode - Mollie Sugden - Ian Lavender - 1978

YouTube video by Old Television

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Space.com@space.com · 4d ago

Rocket issue delays 1st orbital rocket launch from the UK www.space.com/space-explor...

Hey, Trash Panda Gang, can you help support Bec’s family? They‘ve been left without her and need some community uplift: givealittle.co.nz/cause/please...

Please help support Becs and her beautiful family

Supporting Becs Flanagan's family by easing the financial burden during this heartbreaking time.

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🦝 Pepper Raccoon: Trash Priestess 🦝@pepperraccoon.com · last wk.

One of my kindest and best customers died this week. No warning, she was young, I didn‘t know her personally that well, but we were in the DMs often and she was always so lovely. Life is strange, death is sudden. 💔

If any writerly folk are keen, the University of Canterbury is looking to employ a writer in residence. Some conditions apply (chiefly, right to work in NZ required): jobs.canterbury.ac.nz/jobdetails?a...

Getting ready to head home. Wellington has been A Whole Time, and there's plenty of folks I didn't get to catch up with, but still a good trip. Looking forward to a quiet evening back home, but.

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With highly-pathogenic avian influenza now in NZ, we're taking steps to protect #kakapo and #takahe by vaccinating against the disease, following a successful trial. We're aiming for ~90 kākāpō and 100 takahē in an initial phase to protect the most valuable birds/sites. #conservation #birds

I am fucking BEGGING media to stop saying the government has removed election-day enrollment, or same-day enrollment. It’s the entire advance period. Please. Don’t confuse people.

Trying to work out where to eat when the weather is bleh you're out of executive function is hard. Thank you for coming to my minor whinge.

What fresh hell is this? "We already do biometric payments on our own devices!". Yes. On your OWN device. Where your biometrics are stored in a secure enclave and they never leave the device. Not your biometrics stored in the cloud and accessible by every eftpos machine. #kikorangi

RNZ News Feeds@rnzrss.bsky.social · last wk.

New EFTPOS terminals remove the need for cards or phones

TIL you can request to move a *state highway* to dig holes in the ground. newsroom.co.nz/2026/07/28/g...

Gold mining company prepares to dig up highway and orchards

Record $7000 gold prices are fuelling an Otago mining boom, with Hawkeswood Ltd expanding across five sites and gaining approval to move State Highway 8.

newsroom.co.nz

First day of a three-dayer in Wellington down. Now comes working out which nice food place near the hotel hasn't closed yet.

Recorded music is cheaper and stronger than it's ever been, and it's far more likely to kill you. The government’s advice hasn’t changed much since Nancy Reagan, but music has. Now, scientists are writing their own rules and we have a guide here.

Dawn on the first day. Three days remain. (oh hi Wellington)

This is just to say I have OCRed the text thet was in tne arch:ve and whicb yov were prabaldy seamhing for "breahtast" Fargme ms fheg mem debo:w5 sb ?mccf mmb 5c oc1b

say what you will about AI, always-on voice recording and auto dictation has been a game changer for my workflows. Save post and close app. Yeah Footlong meatball sub on white. No veggies. Don't toast it. Ranch and barbecue sauce. Yeah, ranch and bargecue sauce. More. More. Little more please

No more funky gibbon. RIP Bill Oddie.

Ah hell.

Neon Genesis Ewangelion@ewacat.bsky.social · last wk.

😭 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Their advertising for a PL/1 job in Wellington. This is an ancient IBM mainframe programming language (I've personally never even seen) The funny thing is the tech is so out of date the job is pitched at the semi-retired Probably running some important government function nz.seek.com/job/93540023

PL/1 Developer Job in Wellington - SEEK

Seeking a seasoned PL/1 Developer to analyse legacy applications and guide a business-critical database migration

nz.seek.com

Pretty sure this has happened in at least a couple of Shadowrun campaigns... apnews.com/article/spac...

Seattle police are searching for two men who parachuted from the Space Needle

Police say two men climbed over the glass wall of Seattle’s iconic Space Needle on Friday, flipped over the edge and parachuted down from the 605-foot structure.

apnews.com

I don’t have the energy to describe how corrosive this will be to a democratic society

SkynetAndChill.com@druce.ai · 2w ago

Anthropic and OpenAI launched free K-12 teacher tools as AI labs compete for a piece of the $6tn global education market.

a lot of memes focus on Australia's large number of creatures that will absolutely kill you in horrible ways, but it is also a world leader in funny little guys

@eoinmonkey.bsky.social · 2w ago

THIS BILBY IS THE SIZE OF A LARGE GERBIL. THERE IS OFTEN A SMALLER VERSION INSIDE ITS POUCH.

“Once endangered, Australia’s numbat is making a hopeful recovery” (10 Jul) news.mongabay.com/short-articl... #numbat #numbat #numbat #NumbatNumbatNumbat

Once endangered, Australia's numbat is making a hopeful recovery

The animal emblem of Western Australia, the numbat, is recovering after decades of conservation efforts, according to the IUCN, the global wildlife conservation authority. For decades, the numbat or b...

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Today's rabbit hole is finding out whether this school had violated the Outer Space and High-altitude Activities Act 2017, and learning that there's an exemption for schools flying cellphones www.rnz.co.nz/news/science...

School students successfully launch high-altitude balloon into the atmosphere

Lower Hutt primary school students have successfully launched and retrieved a weather balloon which went high into the atmosphere.

rnz.co.nz

I don't know, something about a supermarket's rewards programme signing up an insurance company as a "partner" just feels sketchy in a bad way to me. I might have to ask them to supply the terms of their information-sharing agreement, and see if opting out is a thing you can do.