At some point we — all of us — have to have a serious conversation about priorities. We can't just keep squeezing corporate profits out of everything and insisting everyone just make do somehow.

RNZ News Feeds@rnzrss.bsky.social · 19h ago

Older Kiwis choosing between 'starving or heating' as price increases bite

From what I've seen of FSU's communications to their members and supporters, they are tilting at windmills. They imagine an intention and operation that simply isn't real. Franks and Douglas Brown have publicly described aspects of the organisation, and what it does, that are totally fictional.

Sacha@sachadylan.bsky.social · 17h ago

'[FSU] chairperson Stephen Franks said its supporters had an opportunity to “vote against wokester rule” and suggested InternetNZ was charging more than it needed for “.nz” registrations while “siphoning off revenue to matey cause groups in Wellington”. (paywalled) #NzPol

ACT: “It’s a graphic not a graph” Professor Thomas Lumley: “It’s clearly giving bar charts” www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic... #NZPol

ACT's 'visually misleading' post: Is it a graphic or a graph?

An ACT Party post about the gap between new medicines funded in Australia and New Zealand is "visually misleading," according to a statistics professor.

rnz.co.nz

The paperback of Invisible Rulers is out today! To celebrate I dropped audio of the Twitter Space where Mike Benz first groomed Matt Taibbi into believing there'd been "mass censorship" of "hundreds of millions of tweets"—something he'd then testify before Congress. open.substack.com/pub/agentsof...

When Matt Taibbi Met Mike Benz

How independent media turned an obscure political operative into a "whistleblower"—and his claims into government action.

open.substack.com

Another in the ongoing series titled "Dylan rants about bullshit advertising to innocent journalists who just asked simple questions" You wouldn't know from the quotes in the piece, but I vented dishonestly use of the language of data in advertising for like 20 minutes to @kiwifarah.bsky.social

ACT's 'visually misleading' post: Is it a graphic or a graph?

An ACT Party post about the gap between new medicines funded in Australia and New Zealand is "visually misleading," according to a statistics professor.

rnz.co.nz

This is going well.

CEO Johnny Cans@oldmatecans.bsky.social · 2d ago

Ok, Judge Sharp REALLY NOT HAPPY about Bomber breaching existing extensive HDCA related orders with his posts this week, and Heavily Advising him to shut the fuck up and talk to a lawyer. www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3610...

David Rose Says Oh No (Schitt's Creek)

ALT: David Rose Says Oh No (Schitt's Creek)

static.klipy.com

henry cooke@henrycooke.bsky.social · 2d ago

Nicola Willis and Mark Mitchell suggested this morning that firing Winston Peters would bring down the Government. www.thepost.co.nz/politics/361...

Got a new laptop. Now the important question, should I also put a "Professional Shitposter" sticker on this one too, or will that be an issue in potential future professional environments? Hmmmm... (cc @pepperraccoon.com)

Never has a single action, caught on video, ever been such a good metaphor for... *gestures very broadly* ...everything.

Adam Parkhomenko@adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 2d ago

The caddie literally just tosses a fucking ball on the ground for Trump while never looking back

Things are going about as well as always. The President of the USA is having a tantrum because one of his handpicked sycophants wouldn't continue trying to imprison an American citizen on made up charges to protect his ego.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2d ago

Trump says Jeanine Pirro "choked" and then snaps at a reporter who asks if her job is safe: "Don't ever talk again"

This ad has been the subject of an ASA complaint. But they apply a frankly, imho, ridiculous standard to political ads and says it was fine. asa.co.nz/decision/26-...

henry cooke@henrycooke.bsky.social · 2d ago

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

Been eyeing up a new laptop, given mine is like 8 or 9 years old now. The Macbook Neo looks compelling in many ways, but 8GB of RAM (in my price bracket) is unappealing. Also, I loath MacOS. So probably not that, I guess.

I'm not going to read this. I'll just assume that the robot vacuums have been criticizing Trump.

Catherine Rampell@crampell.bsky.social · 3d ago

The FCC Just Banned Most Robot Vacuums. www.cnet.com/tech/computi...

No cheating post your lock screen. Mine is that time in Melbourne where I suggested to @melbailey.bsky.social that we do that photo thing where one person is leading the other by the hand.

Tom Isaacson@parsley72.bsky.social · 3d ago

No cheating post your lock screen Mine rotates photos of my 3 week motorcycle trip round Vietnam last year. I think this is the Vietnam-China border up north.

This is AI slop

onesillyfag@onesillyfag.bsky.social · 3d ago

Asteroid strike on the moon.

This would be so good, I absolutely love those weird little museums. May I highly recommend the clock museum in Whangārei. Whenever we're up that way we make sure to go and it's still great every time. www.wdc.govt.nz/Community/Fa...

Claphams National Clock Museum

Claphams National Clock Museum is a unique visitor attraction showcasing one of the largest collections of clocks in the Southern Hemisphere.

wdc.govt.nz

Nomnomnom de Plume@verbscape.bsky.social · 3d ago

I hereby propose: a Museum of Hyperspecialised Museums, where each 'exhibit' is a portal to the museum in question, eg the crab museum, vagina museum, etc.

This doesn't seem like a good take. Not that big economy companies wouldn't exploit workers like this, but just that it doesn't call for a whole lot of computing resources. Certainly not enough to meaningfully drive AI data centre demand.

@migas7.bsky.social · 4d ago

Interesting take about uses for data centers. Not benign.

Has Bomber done a suppression breach?

It reads as a pretty patronising lecture to me. But also, he wasn't a CEO in Chicago. He was a senior manager then. He was in Toronto when he was a CEO. At least, of his LinkedIn bio is to be believed.

henry cooke@henrycooke.bsky.social · 4d ago

The full comments the PM made at the Rotorua event, which the PM's office say Labour are mischaracterising as a "patronising lecture". www.thepost.co.nz/politics/361...

"The level of dopamine I've been getting from interacting with LLMs is not healthy for me" is such an amazing admission, because it really succinctly gets to a lot of what underpins people's relationship with LLMs. Having an instant conversation partner for *anything* is very mentally satisfying.

Kotaku@kotaku.com · 5d ago

YouTuber Hank Green Admits He Has Unhealthy Relationship With AI After Facing Backlash Over Recent Video 'The level of dopamine I've been getting from interacting with LLMs is not healthy for me,' said Green

Luxon's "I was out there building a kick-arse business" just galls me so much. Bro you were employed by a couple of gigantic inefficient enterprises. You did not build a pie shop or a landscaping business. You did not build a tech startup.

"DOJ said they 'first became aware of information showing that the damage was the result of a botched installation and not vandalism' after reviewing more documents" This case seems to be the most extreme example of the US administration acting to cover for Trump's ridiculous lies.

Trump administration drops Reflecting Pool case, blaming damage on ‘botched’ installation

The Justice Department said “it is difficult to attribute the widespread damage to the Reflecting Pool to vandalism, let alone to establish that fact beyond a reasonable doubt.”

nbcnews.com

Dropping off a drive with an unencrypted DCP is a crazy way to share a screener — just use a password protected Vimeo like everyone else. Suing Netflix for more than twice the production budget for then losing that drive is hilariously ridiculous!

Netflix Hit With $105 Million Suit After Losing Copy of Nicolas Cage WWII Film

A film producer sued Netflix after the company lost an unencrypted copy of his WWII film 'Fortitude.'

variety.com

I happened across someone selling a Bitcoin mining setup on TradeMe and was vaguely curious about what the expected return on that sort of thing was... I have no idea if the AI estimate is right and no intention to dig deeper, but this was fairly amusing.

I keep seeing these videos of Ukrainian drone strikes deep inside Russia and can't help but wonder if/when they'll take a shot at the Kremlin? I assume it's better defended than a logistics warehouse or refinery, but still you'd think they'd stand a reasonable chance.

WarTranslated (Dmitri)@wartranslated.bsky.social · 5d ago

Drones hit Zelenodolsk in Tatarstan overnight. Smoke rose over a Wildberries logistics center and another drone landed near an OZON warehouse.

Say what you will about TikTok, but there's some genuinely good advice on there!

christ if that’s not a metaphor for our times

This is crazy. It looks like getbadge[dot]info has been doing this for close to two weeks, and it's still going. The site is still up, impersonating @bsky.app and it's still able to takeover accounts and send these DMs to people.

Shane Ross aka Mr. Snippy-snip 🎞⚔🎞@comebackshane.bsky.social · 6d ago

Hey, @bsky.app... why not STOP hacking users accounts and having them DM people about a stupid BADGE thing? Huh? HMMM? Just post it on the main timeline for all to see. Don't stoop to this fucking level. Jebus. TWO of these, in two days. Don't do this crap.

Mr 21 just gave me an energy drink he has rejected. C4 Energy in "Frozen Bombsicle" flavour. It tastes a bit like fizzy cough medicine.