Ice Nine
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Second most famous tractor in Aotearoa You need random arse, you got it, especially if it involves stience
Repost with an image of your favourite James Bond (wrong answers only)
Matt Nippert@mattnippert.bsky.social · 3d agoRepost with an image of your favourite James Bond (wrong answers only)
MS Outlook sending me a Reaction Daily Digest is the one feature I waited over 20 years for
Sometimes I wonder if one of these telescopes is just going to go "Yeah, nah you deserve it", not tell us, rather whistle innocently as the killer asteroid lights up our sky
MIT Technology Review@technologyreview.com · 5d agoA new NASA telescope could not only help us understand the universe, but also defend us from dangerous asteroids.
And Now for Something Completely Different: A perspective on AI swarms from someone who actually knows something about collective behavior.
Joe Bak-Coleman@jbakcoleman.bsky.social · 6d agoWe can simulate fish schools or ants in ways that solve complex problems (gradient detection, bridge building, nest selection) but no one would create this weird soul/no-soul dichotomy to argue they these that multi-agent swarms of extremely simple rules are “thinking”.
Based. As. Fuck. For an artist who had their work be changed by someone else and still want that change to exist shows how important art is in modern society. It's not just pictures and noise, it's a message. Ed Sheeran thinks art isn't that. #nzpol www.odt.co.nz/news/dunedin...
'Ngā mihi nui': Artist welcomes graffiti on Dunedin's Ed Sheeran mural
'Ngā mihi nui': Artist welcomes graffiti on Dunedin's Ed Sheeran mural
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If only there was some kind of local representative who was a member of the government who could push for policies that mean an increasing number of desperate people dont have to rely on food banks in the first place.
Nothing like a good moss to start the morning
Dr. Merritt Rae Turetsky@queenofpeat.bsky.social · last wk.What is tiny but has a PLANET-sized influence? Sphagnum of course. A 🧵 on why this moss matters more than ever. Holding more than 20× its dry weight in water, halting decay, shaping entire ecosystems, thwarting fire. Never underestimate a moss. 1/
How to walk the talk - this is top
Bumbleebee@parrykylie.bsky.social · 2w agoThis is such awesome news! Our local Sikh community has bought an old pub on the edge of town. They've been helping people from a temporary space in Masterton but now they'll have a permanent place to worship and to help people 💗
We have to pay the premium prices for NZ product, but what we are offered doesn't make grade for the export market Just think about that
Paul Le Comte 🇳🇿🇨🇦📷@paullecomtephoto.nz · 2w agoWe grow enough food to feed 40million people, 7x our population
Daffodils are blooming here in Ōtautahi, so remember don't be the dick on the bike I saw this morning fillling up whole arse shopping bags of them for himself Couldn't pull over and tell the arse hat to fuck off Why are so many people such selfish cunts?
Found America's tombstone in a gas station sales rack on the 25th anniversary of 9/11 substack.com/@sarahkendzi...
Sarah Kendzior (@sarahkendzior)
RIP, Murica
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Goodness, school reading was much, um yeah, back in the Day of the Boomer
I just had to throw out every avocado in a bag I got a couple of nights ago, because some utter orcs had gone through and fondled every single one I'll vote for the party that introduces acocado fondling as an imprisonable offence to the Crimes Act 1-fucking-00%
It will be interesting to see how this story plays out, because if what is alleged to have happened here actually happened here, we are talking about possible intellectual theft. cims.nyu.edu/~tristanb/st...
cims.nyu.edu
The New York Times@nytimes.com · 3w agoBreaking News: OpenAI said it cracked one of math’s biggest unsolved problems, another dramatic sign of how A.I. will transform the field.
Date yourself with a pic of your first ever compute
Eddie Clark@dreddieclark.bsky.social · 3w agoDate yourself with a snap of your first compute.
Here's a good wee #shoegaze track that popped up - sorta drramy like earlier Lush Worth a listen all spinoutnuggets.bandcamp.com/track/sway
Sway, by Soft Science
from the album Sand
spinoutnuggets.bandcamp.com
Found the opposite to Maps Without New Zealand Ghastly AI creation with not one, but two New Zealands As it's AI, not posting but can be found in Adobe stock images, because they don't make enough money paying artists
This is so true And who the hell wants a car that blends in with the road?
Gregg McLennan@strayarc.bsky.social · 3w agoThis really reflects our times. Drab and colorless. I refuse to go along with it. I love vivid colors.
I would print this out for work, if it weren't for the certainty the whole building would know I was behind it
Daniel Vernon@yeehawtheboys.bsky.social · 3w agoWhich Invasive bird has your vote for Bird of the Year 2026? You can read up on their policies here: yeehawtheboys.substack.com/p/bird-of-th...
