Hey Kiwis! I'll be at Little Unity in Auckland next Saturday so please drop by and I'll scribble on your books! 😻🔎✏️

Lmao the moment I saw this I knew exactly who it was and what it was. Bad memories from the early 2000s programming and compsci blogging culture where the original version of this fucking game spawned so many flame wars.

Dan Johnson will design games for food@coil.bsky.social · yesterday

"But my Wyvern development has been burning the equivalent of $87k/month of API token burn, or about 69 billion tokens in July... in reality I'm only spending about $2800/month out of pocket." What's Wyvern, you ask? See image #2. $87k/month.

The way they pile into our discussions in our separate timezones and try to stop us from talking to one another in our actual regional English dialects. Have never seen this from any other Anglophone group.

yaoi gagarin@mel.bzky.team · 2d ago

counterpoint: americans can fuck off, its not everyone elses fault they don't know what words mean, nor is it the responsibility of all other nations on earth to police their own language and adopt american terms

who specifically is "taking responsibility for their correctness" tho. i feel like it would be a lot more reassuring to hear that one or more specific math understanders who work at openai were taking responsibility for their correctness than just the company as a gestalt

That the orientation of Unilever management is callow, visionless, shareholder-supremacist template neoliberal capitalism will come as no surprise to NZers whose current PM climbed the ranks there.

The Syllabus@the-syllabus.bsky.social · 3d ago

Using Ben & Jerry's to trace how shareholder-driven restructuring can strip a values-based company of its social mission, this piece contrasts the brand's early pay limits and political activism with Unilever's 2000 acquisition. By Rickey Gard Diamond in @msmagazine.com buff.ly/N5jnTkX

An event not to be missed! Come along to Unity Books Wellington this Thursday at 12:30pm, to see authors Asher Emanuel, writer of The Valley, and Carl Shuker, writer of The Royal Free, in conversation as they discuss the drama of the day job; writing the workplace.

Birth rate discourse in NZ is older than any currently active birth rate discourser. But being angry over mirages for nearly a century won't stop today's children of the discourse

Birth rates discourse and blathering about white women’s fertility has become a staple of would-be social engineers who provide the foundation for politicians (who are not known for having ideas themselves).

The first technocratic centrist party under MMP was the Māori Party 2008-2017, not Opportunity. It will eventually end the same way for Opportunity as it did the Māori Party. Some interesting historical context if you need: e-tangata.co.nz/comment-and-...

Did the Māori electorates decide the 2017 election? | E-Tangata

“Labour’s Māori MPs live and work in two worlds, relating to Māori voters as Māori, but also as workers, citizens and more. The problem for the Māori Party is it never did the same.” —Morgan Godfery, ...

e-tangata.co.nz

“We used a real 30-ft puppet to simulate the cyclops in a cave no one has ever filmed inside.” Yeah but is there a treasure chest I can open containing 150 shards

I’d love to know what people outside the industry think “data centre” actually means, because no one I know expects them to contain any jobs at all. As someone who has built several: any employee is a design flaw.

They're gonna integrate Kalshi into FIFA

Rock Paper Shotgun@rockpapershotgun.bsky.social · 5d ago

EA expect their $55 billion sale to Saudi Arabia and private equity firms to close next week, with "all regulatory approvals required" in place. https://bit.ly/4pLSNnD

The bargain price of $138 million per km. Or one postdoc per metre.

samuel mehr@mehr.nz · 6d ago

one road, not even long enough to run a marathon on, for the low low price of 42 times the entire 2027 budget for scientific research in new zealand #nzpol

I have a few. Like, who was Rawshark? An enduring political mystery in NZ. I’ve heard some wild theories.

G. Willow Wilson@gwillow.me · 5d ago

What's your personal great white whale of an unsolved mystery? The thing you desperately hope is solved before you die because you need to know the answer? Mine is the Isabella Stewart Gardener Museum heist. Where the hell are the Rembrandts. I need the full story

“Best place in the world to raise children” has become what “best race relations in the world” was in the 1960s. NZ is the guy on the bicycle putting a stick in the spokes and crashing ourselves.

Mandy Hager@mandyh.bsky.social · 6d ago

"As I conclude my term as Children’s Commissioner, one message I want to strongly emphasise is this: these negative childhood health outcomes are preventable. The hardships experienced by children reflect the priorities the Government sets and the policies it chooses to invest in." #votethemout

This is what "both sides" journalism has wrought. A complete inability for journalists to simply state clear and obvious facts that are supported by reams of research. This is not a debate. There are not two sides. Bike infrastructure and traffic calming make streets safer.

The War on Cars@thewaroncars.bsky.social · 6d ago

It's not just advocates who say this. Researchers, studies, and data say it. That's why advocates say it. Reporters can just say it, too!

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

This is fascinating. I thought this pretty much went out in the 1980s. "One final challenge" is an incredible line for a job ad.

Simon Lyall@slyall.bsky.social · last wk.

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

What I hear from students is articles like this make it worse. They are unhappy with coverage that singles them out and frames them as a problem. My view: media is not engaging with deliberate policy to feed NZ economy to US tech companies and failure of neoliberalism. www.rnz.co.nz/news/educati...

'There isn't anything' - Students facing tough job market

Tertiary qualifications typically take years of hard work and cost thousands of dollars, but many students and graduates are struggling to find work to pay rent and even get enough to eat.

rnz.co.nz

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

video game where theres no strict time limit but the longer you take the more suiters bang your wife is... incredibly funny...

Brendan Graeber@raggafragga.bsky.social · last wk.

Saw the Odyssey, was really good! I think video games could learn a thing or two: if you keep stopping to investigate every location n side quest in an open world game instead of focusing on the main quest, eventually a bunch of suitors think your dead & show up to perv on the princess or something

I may have said this before, but I sometimes wonder how the public would react to a critical reveal of the assumptions in these models, particularly the representative agent ones. Hard to imagine it being legitimating for either RBNZ or macroeconomists in general.

Musical Chairs@musicalchairs.bsky.social · 2w ago

The economy crashed hard - and for waaaay longer than RBNZ and Treasury predicted using their silly toy models. The clueless ghouls don't even include private debt growth in their model - they assume that banks lend out savings (the absolute muppets) [3/n]

16 new social housing apartments, with red terracotta tiles and timber window frames By Public Architectes +Palast

I was thinking about printing some of this sort of graph on corflute and screwing it to my fence line an election sign I don't imagine it would be appreciated

Musical Chairs@musicalchairs.bsky.social · 2w ago

NZ has - almost uniquely amongst our peers - tanked its economy and pushed 10,000s onto the dole (and offshore). We were told that this strategy would 'get interest rates down, tame inflation, and drive growth 🎉'. Yet, here we are, slumped and vying to be inflation champs. What went wrong? [🧵1/n]

Made some more UI components following this theme last night. Also found some deep saturated cyans in P3 outside the sRGB gamut, so that might be a potential direction for this: a hyperreal scalable/zoomable interpretation of this 20 year old style; a middle finger to the aesthetics wiki dipshits.

Mark@maetl.bsky.social · 2w ago

Having a go at (re?)creating glassy Aqua style UI buttons in CSS.

just saying a really cool way for apple to promote neuromancer would be to give away a ton of ram

Having a go at (re?)creating glassy Aqua style UI buttons in CSS.

correct opinion

geoffrey@parsnip.bsky.social · 2w ago

i have fairly light experience with them but i feel that everyone should have to make one novice tracery bot before they’re allowed to say whether or not output is “ai”

Fantastic exhibition just opened on Harry Seidler at USyd Chau Chak Museum. Such a full survey of Seidler’s remarkable life, from Vienna, to fleeing Nazis, to England, internment in Canada, Masters @ Harvard, study & work with Gropius, Albers, Breuer, Niemeyer… then Aust & so many major projects 1..