it's cold in Auckland ("we're freezing our tits off" says Craig, our tall, burly builder) which calls for comfort food, so I've once again made a towering pile of Sichuan style pork and celery

New Yorker cartoon feels about right

what is the most jankily developed type of mobile app and why is it the kind that schools pay for, with public money, to share identifiable data involving children

I too saw this Summarize button appear in Kagi search results and was annoyed; then pleased to find it can be turned off in settings I like software by indie developers and (relatively) small companies bc they're far more likely to react to what customers do and don't want than Google, Apple etc

s. e. smith@sesmith.lol · 11h ago

Hey so part of the reason I pay for Kagi is that it was supposed to be possible to completely invisiblize the AI agent by dismissing it. Adding a ‘summarize’ button to Orion is the opposite of that and I do not like it.

30 ROCK is an unlimited source of perfect jokes, but perhaps because the show reached peak popularity while I was in grad school, I've always been partial to this one

Add this to the long list of reasons to abandon Word

Heather Burns@heatherburnstech.bsky.social · yesterday

The most terrifying enshittification I've discovered has been learning that Microsoft Word documents no longer auto-save if you are not saving them to one of their own proprietary cloud services. I'm slapping control-S like it's 1999.

Last week, Nigerian author Jerry Falade’s crime novel was nixed over suspicions it was written with AI, after fetching seven figures in a competitive auction. Falade told PW he can prove he is the book’s author. buff.ly/D9kPFX4

After the Cancellation of ‘Call Me, I'll Hide The Body,’ What Comes Next?

Last week, Nigerian author Jerry Falade’s crime novel was nixed over suspicions it was written with AI, after fetching seven figures in a competitive auction. Falade told PW he can prove he is the…

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Cool finding on 'parentese' from Gaye Soley's lab: when a parent speaks to each of their two children, the sound/style of their voice indicates whether they're speaking to the younger or older one (and other kids can tell!)

Preschoolers Infer Listeners from Age-Related Variation in Maternal Child-Directed Speech

Child-directed speech (CDS) varies systematically with the recipient child’s age. The present study examined whether children aged 3–6 years are sensitive to this within-register variation and use ...

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30 ROCK is an unlimited source of perfect jokes, but perhaps because the show reached peak popularity while I was in grad school, I've always been partial to this one

I remember being fascinated to learn that one can boil leftover poultry bones with aromatics for a few hours and make a rich stock for future meals one of my fave things, esp in winter. it's fancier to use fresh chix + pressure cooker but I do it old school: carcass, big pot, low flame, long time

Film you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Star Trek, Star Wars, LOTR, Marvel, Disney, or Ghibli.

Jason Rasgon@vectorgen.bsky.social · yesterday

Film you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Star Trek, Star Wars, LOTR, Marvel, Disney, or Ghibli.

among my favourite academic things: you never know when you'll end up working on a new and unfamiliar topic this wk it's @courtneybhilton.bsky.social steering us into big-data neuroscience, with an N > 1 million study of citizen-scientist auditory perception & white matter development (sneak peek)

this month i injured myself ("joined the knee club" as our builder quipped) and today when to physical therapy for the first time in my life (?!) and all of you were correct, it is magic!?!

🍑🍑BREAKING🍑🍑 NEW PORN PAPER In a sample of 67k people from 34 countries and 7 religions, moral incongruence (the interaction of viewing porn and moral disapproval of your own behavior) consistently predicts feeling addicted to porn www.akjournals.com/view/journal...

Hello world! 👋 We’re Minds, Machines, and Brains (MMB) 👤🤖🧠 a new open access journal from @mitpress.bsky.social exploring the principles of intelligence and cognition across natural and artificial minds. Submissions open this Fall! 🔗 direct.mit.edu/mmb

This is a good tip for peeling ginger (a spoon works well too) but honestly I just cut the skin off and throw out scraps. I wouldn't do this with nicer fruit/veg but ginger is an invasive weed, grows insanely fast in many climates. Cutting it up is fast and isn't much of a waste

Jesse Raub@jesseraub.online · 3d ago

also new from me at @serious-eats.bsky.social: the fastest and easiest way to peel ginger www.seriouseats.com/easiest-way-...

first ten minutes of UP still undefeated 😭

samuel mehr@mehr.nz · last yr.

oh god oh god oh no we are rewatching UP and the first ten minutes remain undefeated 😭😭😭🥲

dinner: ottolenghi lemony-leek meatballs, fresh hummus warmed with paprika and charred pine nuts, chopped salad, spiced yoghurt with cukes, fresh pitas, pickled onion. Dessert of olive oil orange cake with warm blueberry coulis. Yum

Ottolenghi recipes are great although maybe it's just me but I feel like I use every single pot and bowl in my house every time I make one (1) of his things

One thing I really love in cooking is colour This was a very green meal of dry-fried chicken with green pepper, bright green choy sum, and a mountain of scallion greens

Help I can't stop buying books

something very 2026-parenting about actively encouraging my 8yo to go play Nintendo 64, since it's so much more chill/cool than modern ipad games

It's not that obscure, but I hate podcasts. All of them.

Sanjay Srivastava@sanjaysrivastava.com · 6d ago

What is an extremely nerdy/obscure/specific thing you hate with a white-hot wrath?

My local Chinese grocer carries five different varieties of Sichuan pepper from the same manufacturer, which is indicative of how good my local Chinese grocer is

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

Biggest-ever PPP: $3.6b Northland expressway deal signed

The 26km expressway will include twin tunnels through the Dome Valley.

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the brilliantly cutting, disparaging term "AI slop" is what we all arrived at informally, and now actual corporations are adopting it themselves. I love this for us

Joseph Cox@josephcox.bsky.social · 6d ago

New: LinkedIn just introduced a "seems like AI slop" button. That's literally what the button says. The thought leaders are going to have a meltdown www.404media.co/linkedin-int...

McGill social psych is now officially hiring at the assistant prof level, hooray Happy to chat with anyone about the position mcgill.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/McGill_Caree...

Obviously nothing has pissed me off quite as much as them killing the Marsden Fund (👉 my 📌 post), but govt claiming that the Science Investment Plan does not cut funding when the plan itself says “core science and research funding is projected to decline in future years” was the icing on the cake.

Luxon wants to ‘brutally commercialise’ science, but cuts threaten its foundation

Comment from Auckland University: Decades of research funding cannot be replaced by funding the commercialisation of that science

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À bit chilly so I'm inside the boat, uncharacteristically, but nonetheless, it's another great day for a ferry commute!!!!!

Hey noam, question from an academic outside philosophy: what the fuck is this?