Something to brighten your Christmas

I posted this👇 to a claim that genAI is better than Ctl+F to search historical docs. @tristanpalmgren.bsky.social replied with a genAI summary of my document and @bookllyfr.bsky.social asked if it was accurate. It turns out that it did exactly what genAI does: made stuff up & got stuff wrong.🧵

What do you think is the greatest ever TV news clip? For me this can never be beaten...

When we say "no, everything hasn't been digitized," I need you to understand that we really mean is that virtually nothing has been digitized. This is because the realm of primary sources that historians use is incomprehensibly large.

The hypocrisy is just so blatant.

A big part of being a historian is being a detective! Who did this? Why? Where? Why does it matter in the grand scheme of things? You have to learn how to probe, how to uncover, how to read against the grain, how to find unusual sources, how to interpret those sources. How to piece together a puzzle

Thing is, wearing a mask means having nothing to fear. Neither I, nor any of my kids, have ever had covid, and thus, none of the future complications years from now. My daughter remains eligible for heart transplant, while others keep getting infected and don't survive. That's living, not hiding.

When the sun won't go away, On the longest day, That's a solstice #AoNZ

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How badly Andrew Tate got his ass kicked, you’d think he was fighting Greta Thunberg.

The #1 movie when you were 10 years old is how your 2026 is going to go. Hmmm....

"you're a man" ad hominem "you were born a boy" sunk cost fallacy "you're amab" false dichotomy "you have xy chromosomes" false equivalence "trans people are mentally ill" non sequitur "changing your sex isn't possible" skill issue

Seems increasingly topical

I spent $800 this week on my daughter's healthcare because of the holes in the system. That's not much less than rent at this point.

"My daughter opposes genocide and also sexual abuse. Where did I go wrong?"

Ok, today is the last day to get an order in for me to (all but) guarantee NZ delivery before Xmas (some random courier taking the wrong turn up in the wop wops aside). I do xmas gift wrapping, will send directly to your friends & loved ones. #BuyLocal paullecomtephoto.nz/products/202...

My daughter's transgender American friends are having a field day with this topic. Gen Z has nothing to live for and they meme like it

When Americans get stopped by the New Zealand police 😃

The Onion, 23 years ago. theonion.com/no-blood-for...

Sorry #SecretSantaAoNZ, I have had a looong day. Fancy chocolate and illustrated Skakespeare is a very kind thought, thank you. (Also, The Tudors series is a guilty pleasure of mine, despite the trainwreck it is)

Some of the toughest jobs are minimum wage. Physical, messy, with crappy shifts and crappier managers. They are not unskilled. A few years ago, they were called 'essential.'

God, people who use busy elevators for a level or 2 instead of stairs. Some people need elevators! Wheelchairs prams, injuries/illnesses. Grrrrrrr

Just got called a loser on instagram for still living in New Zealand. Firstly, rude. Secondly, it's not by choice I live here

This is how transplant patients get between treatments

This is my 9th Christmas working in supermarket and beauty marketing (don't hate me, it's the only flexible job that works around the girls' disabilities), and brands of any product never go basic or cheap at Christmas, until now. Even during covid. There's no point in chasing customers this year.

I can't believe that Rachael Carpani, aka Jodi from McLeod's Daughters, has died. I saw Bridie Carter and Lisa Chappell together last week and thought it was interesting, but to hear their 'little sister' has passed is devastating. I loved Rachel. You can never really tell how someone is doing 💔

Even if you mean well, screenshotting twitter's freshest turds and sharing them here is not the win you think it is. You are spreading hate, even if you are adding something that denounces the vitriol. The damage is done.

The kind .. you find … in a second hand store

So there is already an ai-generated whitewashing campaign to bury the name of the Muslim man, Ahmed al Ahmed, who disarmed one of the Bondi Beach shooters, and replace his identity with a white guy name and that’s why even a thimble of our potable water powering this tech is too fucking much.

60,000 is the *low end* estimate.

Wake up, babe, New Zealand moved again, and Auckland has been obliterated

It's that time of year!

If the last 5 years of your social media history doesn't get ban you from Trump's USA, then we can't be friends 🙅‍♀️💁‍♀️

none of the ai slop commercials these companies churn out will have even one-tenth of the cultural impact as the folgers incest commercial and i think that's beautiful

This Christmas, there will be no punishments

Stealworkers

European monarchs in the 16th c : "we have the coolest coat of arms." Emperor Charles V: "No, you don't"

People can do what they want, and I only speak for myself (and sometimes a few billion eels), but fuck this nonsense.

Disabled people do not owe you their medical history or an explanation as to why they receive certain benefits The idea that people must humiliate themselves for a meagre benefit that forces them into legislative poverty is another part of eugenics We deserve a living wage. We are not expendable.

Sorry, section 5 is called what?

Hey, Auckland looking for GP recommendations. I'm out East but happy to travel. I need someone who doesn't just give up when a prescription isn't the easy answer.

It's been a long week

Reading Rooms at the British Library are closed *all week* because so many of its workers refuse to work for pitiful wages in a contemptuously authoritarian and obliviously managed environment. We need leaders who get it and are big enough to sort it out! It’s a mess and a disgrace. Lift it up!!