A new study finds AI companies, defense firms, and dating apps are among 38 data collectors allegedly using manipulative design to confuse users while collecting their data. www.wired.com/story/data-b...

“The findings directly contradict the common assumption that because acute omicron illness is usually mild in children, reinfection is clinically inconsequential… Instead, … each successive infection adds to a child’s long-term health burden rather than being neutralized by prior immunity.”

Please why won’t someone, anyone, pet the lux white fur of a sweet kitten’s belly, nothing sharp and vicious and painful will befall you, certainly, it is so soft, just fluffy and only soft this belly…

🚨 alert: fluffy belly trap 🚨

Everything is terrible. Watch this video of 80s email to somehow feel a bit better. Or worse. I don’t know but very worth a watch.

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Google is transforming Search from a list of links into an AI-powered experience filled with conversational answers, autonomous agents, and interactive interfaces — a shift that could further reduce traffic to publishers across the web.

If I’m going to be social media scrolling, at least I’m where videos like this are what it’s serving me up 📞 💻

Māori climate risk worsened by colonization, report finds #Climate

9yo been doing the first of the biannual Progressive Achievement Testing now required at schools and boy howdy is that some wildly neurotypical design bullshit.

Writing up care notes for the upcoming Housesitter about the ginger teenage feline and honestly have I ever had such an absurd cat… 🐈

As government agencies increasingly rely on software and algorithms to make decisions, these tools may shape outcomes through their architecture in ways the public never sees and courts can’t review, writes Eli Talbert. Accountability thus requires that design choices be visible and transparent.

Emboldened by its successful wartime blockade of the Strait of Hormuz, Iran is turning to one of the hidden arteries in the global economy: subsea cables beneath the waterway that carry vast internet and financial traffic between Europe, Asia and the Persian Gulf. https://cnn.it/4eS6H4i

Cat watching a human take a bath with the energy of Will Riker Star Trek TNG first encountering a strange new civilisation.

Aotearoa New Zealand timeline cleanse. our guys last week #FOTC #FlightOfTheConchords www.youtube.com/watch?v=uzwu...

As the parent of a multiply neurodivergent 9yo who has dreams of a career as a paediatric nurse and who spent the last few weeks trying to understand and plan the education path that would require, the end of NCEA and the changes proposed are gutting. An approach that sounds inaccessible for her 😭

Saturday night plans 🐈 💓

Sombtimes life demandes a goode floppdown

The head of the OECD’s New Zealand desk has bluntly told an audience at the Commerce Commission’s Competition Matters conference that the keys to turning around the country’s economy lie in reducing bank profits and fixing power market.

Y'know what? It's not a race. There's no 'end point'. There just is life/the journey/tō tātou haerenga. Everything doesn't need to be finished asap It's okay to sit in the sun, drink tea or Coke Zero and/or eat the last mini trumpet from the freezer while watching a fav tv programme The cat's got it

The good kind of spooky 👻 kawaiicon.org

Laying out clothes for long daytrip to a conference tomorrow and 9yo came in, vetoed half of it, swapped some stuff while muttering about jacket length and colour choices, then she picked out accessories for me… and I gotta admit, it looks better 😅

How it started. How it’s going. 🐈

i do not like the plagiarizing murder-suicide waifu bad art machine that eats forests, no, sir, not one bit

Leisurely walk around the local park, between the rain showers, celebrating Mother’s Day with my some quality time with my first baby 🐶

Spiralling global temperatures (1850-2026) It is exactly 10 years since I first put this animated graphic of changes in global temperature online. #ClimateSpiral It instantly went viral. People watched it over and over again. It still offers the power to shock a decade on.

Whānau, I’m presenting on privacy, disinformation & the safety of women in public life, exploring how this shapes democratic participation and discuss solutions to ensure we empower and protect our next gen of leaders in the long run. Register at events.teams.microsoft.com/event/8b883d... #nzpol

They grow up so fast (7 months old!) 🤩

Good morning! The Climate Change Commission has just released the first National Climate Change Risk Assessment in six years – and I've read the key document. In short: Climate change is here, we're not ready, but there's lots we can do to prepare. For more: newsroom.co.nz/2026/05/07/l...

9yo kiddo is so beautifully talented with horses 🥹 🥲 💸

That paper towel roll messed with the wrong guy, I tell you…

In totally unsurprising news, Richard Dawkins is developing AI psychosis. Paywall bypass: archive.is/6RdK9

Kākā sightings in central Auckland signal conservation success for city www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/kaka-sigh...

Wildfires that don't sleep We have the tools to get off this path apnews.com/article/wild...

FOI confirms Donald Trump's grab of Australians' biometric data is even bigger than feared. Bernard Keane hopes his latest intel will prompt questions of our PM and Foreign Minister. www.crikey.com.au/2026/04/27/d...

🎶 it wasn’t me 🎶

Ah a classic genre of the public holiday: awoken at 3am by ill animal and spent most of the day off in emergency vet clinic 💫 🏝️😌🧘‍♀️

⏰ The internet blackout in #Iran is now on its 58th consecutive day, continuing in its ninth week past the 1368 hour mark. The ongoing measure remains in effect, impeding independent reporting and documentation nationwide.

one thing we've learned today is I don't think there's anybody that has any remaining amount of chill left in their entire bodies

Made myself some homemade buffalo wings and I have the dog and one cat sniffing the air with confusion and judgement as I eat them and giving me A Look like why would you ruin some perfectly good food 😅

Journalists and media need to stop repeating tech companies’ marketing pitches, and policymakers must stop prioritizing the imagined urgency over safety and human rights. #GVSpotlight globalvoices.org/2026/04/16/t...

A number of hours ago there was a small winged insect creature up near the ceiling in this bedroom and it may not be possible to sleep tonight because what if it comes back

On a flavour of hyper focused research report writing high! Simultaneously exhausted because my brain woke me up every 15 min last night thinking about research things 🤓

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Listen to @cubaraglanguy.bsky.social #nzpol

Wellington’s extreme deluge was caused by an unfortunate combination of weather factors. But a warming climate is upping the odds of more of these events in future.

We turned rivers into road and wetlands into suburbs. Extreme weather turns them back to rivers and wetlands. This is what the #ClimateCrisis looks like.

Iwi leader voices need for government to support marae with severe weather

In extreme weather events, communication is v important: 🔌 keep devices charged 🔋 prep any backup power options (portable power banks, generators, EV) you may have 🧑‍🧒‍🧒 check in with whānau and have a plan for what you’ll do if you lose comms 📻 have a radio (windup or battery operated) handy

Flood map for those who need it: gis.wcc.govt.nz/LocalMapsVie...