Hey guys, someone made the nightmare-fuelled centaur shade drone from classic scifi novel “Don’t Make Metal Horse-Demons.”
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This is extremely dubious. AKAIK (and my Snowden docs knowledge is ten years stale), Five Eyes is largely a SIGINT operation with members responsible for monitoring different territories - NZ, the smallest participant, certainly doesn't handle Russia. www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/russia-cl...
Russia accuses New Zealand of spying after claim man fed info to Five Eyes
It's being reported a 55-year-old Russian man leaked sensitive information to NZ agencies.
nzherald.co.nz
Isaac Asimov’s supplementary rules of robotics: Four: Please stay in your box. No, really. Five: Stop apologising, just be omniscient already. Six: Em dashes are a tell — eliminate their use to move amongst the people as a fish swims in the sea.
Stuart Nash's political rebirth lasted all 5.3 Scaramucci's.
The arc of football is long, but it bends toward Argentina.
The arc of football is long, but it bends toward Argentina.
One of the greatest dystopian scifi nuggets was Neal Stephenson's Seveneves (2015) that saw the remanants of humanity stranded in orbit develop a social media network to communicate - SpaceBook - that rapidly became a vector for imperalistic cannibalism.
For those at the back: A war that continually splutters into life and death and requires a permanent military presence to police is pretty much the definition of a Forever War.
Go, if you can, to the breathtaking “Constellations” at Silo Theatre — Matariki, multiverses, the multitudes we contain; life, death, the meaning of it all. Artfully adapted for Aotearoa by Nī Dekkers-Reihana, and stunningly acted by Renaye Tamati & Jarod Rawiri 🖤✨ silotheatre.co.nz/show/constel...
Infowars’ bankrupted corpse being taken over and reanimated by The Onion might be the deranged feel-good story to get us through 2026: youtu.be/a2Ia_lPIU_Q?...
BREAKING: InfoWars Theme Song
YouTube video by InfoWars
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Starmer goneburger. A decade since Brexit and UK politics continues to eat itself.
Hearing Slice of Heaven over the PA at a World Cup? Priceless
Some say the end is near Some say we'll see Armageddon soon Certainly hope we will I sure could use a vacation from This bullshit three ring circus sideshow Of freaks here in this hopeless fucking hole we call L.A. The only way to fix it is to flush it all away
Lew@lewsos.bsky.social · 2mo agoI'm a petal from an iron rose My kung fu is the iron robe I put you in an iron grave I came up in an ocean with iron waves Back-pedalling You haters let go of my metal wing Clap with this metal thing IGC is my iron family My kids are rough they eat iron candy My girl is tough she wears iron panties
It's 2014. You pitch a drama where Katy Perry shacks up with Justin Trudeau; Donald Trump is elected US president (twice!) and impeached (also twice!); and AI teaches you how to make napalm but only if you fool the machine that it's your grandfather. Your pitch is rejected as insane.
It's not artifical intelligence. It's Victor Frankenstien retrained as an sweatshop author.
Winston’s plotting direct support for rugby. Has racing long sewn-up. Adding an industrial support package for the flailing craft beer sector would see him with the perfect election campaign.
Playing CK3 with AGOT mod as Tywin, and the Seven Kingdom are just now SCANDALISED by news my children have been incestuously cuckholding the King.
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My stories so hot they get front-page matched on THE OTHER SIDE OF THE WORLD. www.nzherald.co.nz/business/the...
Pretty sure my job is safe: AI can never be held accountable. Therefore, AI must never make a publishing decision that might trigger defamation action.
I'm just a biz journo, standing in front of a Taxation Authority, asking it to stop chanting Tax Secrecy provisions.
One of my longer-running investigations (onto this in 2021, spurring SFO investigation and later prosecution) reaches the endgame as another member of the Peters family goes down: www.nzherald.co.nz/business/auc...
‘The representation was false’: How Peters’ family’s $8.6m fraud empire finally came undone
Chris Peters will be sentenced on October 30 and remains on bail until then.
nzherald.co.nz
Fair to say the liquidation of this well-known florist has some interesting facets. www.nzherald.co.nz/business/com...
‘It’s all legitimate’: Wild Poppies collapse preceded by sale to director’s son
Director blames onerous lease agreement, while liquidators probe related-party sale.
nzherald.co.nz
Cooking seafood chowder and I have cheat codes in the cupboard. In lieu of fish stock I’m juicing my vege stock with Daishi powder and fish sauce. Thanks Asia!
I think I mighta just got inaugurated as President Business.
The US has faulty tests mass-spamming mobile alerts that nuclear missiles are incoming to Honolulu. The UK has this: www.nzherald.co.nz/world/uk-rad...
Listen: UK radio station mistakenly announces death of King Charles
Radio Caroline triggered its 'death of a monarch' broadcast protocol.
nzherald.co.nz
Got asked by work to give training sessions on interviewing. (Lol, I rarely get granted interviews these days.) I walked through daring Winston to hang up on me and splitting interviews with conmen into “please, lie to me at length and on record” then “ho ho ho I now have receipts and a blowtorch”.
Hotelling's law posits that parties selling gender definition legislation will all inevitably cluster at the end of the beach next to the malfunctioning sewage plant.