Haven't seen Zippy from Rainbow in a while I wonder what he's up t ... oh god no!!!

It's honestly a bit surprising that this article has no comment at all from an employment lawyer...

new metaphor just dropped

we are SO back

for god's sake stop paying attention to Jonathan Haidt. He's a charlatan who doesn't know anything he pronounces with the confidence of the mediocre middle-aged man about

The US government under Trump is unimaginably pathetic.

It's an experimental breakfast today as there was half a cabbage in the veggie bin that needed using. So it's a charred cabbage wedge with a fried egg, ham (heated in bacon fat), green chili sauce, Caesar dressing, and parmesan.

Statement from Counsel for Olympian Davey Hearn:

This shit is just unreal. They’re now trying to put people in prison for years for *completely imaginary* crimes, to mollify the manbaby dictator and scare everyone else into shutting up.

I find the criticism of Three's Gloriavale documentary series a bit weird. Mostly the critique seems to be that the project is *too* balanced — that it lets those inside Gloriavale present their side too positively. It's not that long ago that this objective style was seen as the "proper" way.

Back on my bullsh

I keep hearing this and it's driving me a bit crazy. Dear media. Just because the leader of TOP is a woman does not make her a "queen-maker". It's "king-maker" because the potential monarchs are both men. White men. Called Chris.

"Sandbox filled with corn" is a very accurate description of the USA

I had a larger audience when I was getting dressed after my shower this morning... @melbailey.bsky.social and the cat.

Guaranteed: 1) Black girls will be harassed and demanded to be tested over and over again regardless of how competitive they are. 2) Winners from public schools will be relentlessly hounded by the parents and coaches of losers at private schools, with the goal of making them quit the sport.

My friends and I are still covering renewals for people who need it! DMs are open :)

Do I know any Python coders who might be interested in making some updates to contribute to an open source project? It's an NZ-specific thing for a popular project... Sorry for vagueness. DM me?

TV3 carrying Ryan Bridge's NZME morning show on their linear broadcast is fascinating in that TV3 will now have morning and evening news broadcasts coming out of competing newsrooms.

If you are an existing InternetNZ member who hasn't renewed yet, TODAY is your LAST day to renew your membership in order to be able to vote for new board members, and in the upcoming AGM.

I think we should start measuring government programmes in Hayden Donnell's 'metres of roading'. Lowering the age of bowel cancer screening to 45? 5 metres of road. A year of Three Waters? 63 metres of road. Reading recovery? 13mm of road.

Anyone got a BusinessDesk sub that can share this article with me? I wrote about the same thing for Webworm last week and I'd love to see where they've landed.

DYING to block young people from the internet and require age verification tech across all platforms. But not DYING to develop online safety regulations that would actually help change online environments for the better. Let's talk about what Luxon had to say 🧵 #nzpol

Holy shit! I've had neighbours with a more impressive "automotive exhibit" than this. Every little dispatch from this shit show is somehow worse than the last.

It honestly feels like a media failing that it's not constantly a lead story that the richest man in the world, with government contacts in many countries, is an unapologetic racist who uses his social media platform to amplify violent rhetoric.

Every single piece of media I see come out of this event is like some insanely perfect moment from a political farce.

If you're on TikTok, this tour of Trump's Great American State Fair is again. It's honestly so much more pathetic than any of the photos or stories could express. vt.tiktok.com/ZSCS2EYeL/

I've done some rearranging so I can put my decks near my desk

Over on X - Elon Musk boosting Rupert Lowe tweet calling immmigrants "third world savages" - so another day ending in Y. Musk also replied "yes" to this in another post reply to Lowe.

Dinner is a quick ramen made using rotisserie chicken from Costco (and the stock I made with the carcasses)

no one should have a single doubt in their head that she'd absolutely have said this to Jews in 1935

Does anyone know of a good and affordable (or free!) tool to help manage research across a range of documents? I have a lot of interview transcripts, and as I'm working my way through them I would like to be able to highlight and tag sections in a way that will help find things again later.

Adobe has acquired Topaz Labs — probably the best AI-assisted image enhancement and upscaling technology vendor. Good for Adobe subscribers, probably. For others... Maybe less so? Time will tell, I guess.

in 2023 anna mowbray stepped back the zuru empire that had made her filthy rich & set to work on "zeil", which she proudly pitched as "tinder for jobs". webworm reports that the website does what zuru sometimes likes to do... scrape other content to make it their own: www.webworm.co/zuruverseofs...

This is an element that most people who weren't the direct target of this coverage don't understand is that we've now had a decade of the largest paper of record in the US "just asking questions" about the validity of a class of a people. How can that lead to anything other than discrimination?

Oh I’m sorry did someone steal your stealings?

If New Zealand taxed couples' income together then there could be some merit to this argument, but $160k remains a pretty high income for an individual. But's right, raising a family on it isn't that easy, but it's WAY harder for the majority of *households* that earn less.

Musk in recent weeks has been repeatedly endorsing violence and calling for killings. It’s really bad stuff!

Every time I'm at the local library I look to see if my book is on the shelf, and if it's there I secretly move it to their display shelf by the entrance...

The American mind cannot even comprehend!

Sure is just mindless scrolling... Most of the time. But sometimes the algorithm brings true breakthroughs! 🔊

What AI tool is being used for these promotional images? I've been seeing them everywhere. They have coherent text and are usually using sensible imagery, so I don't think it's just a LLM chat bot. Is this Canva or something?

“We’re all trying to find the guy who did this” - ChatGPT

Drop some GLASSES 😎

The fact that @atrupar.com can listen to this live, type it out verbatim, and not just close his laptop and walk into the ocean is a testament to human endurance.

Whenever I hear someone claiming that USAID was evil from a leftist perspective, I hear someone saying “yes, millions ARE dying because Musk and Trump killed USAID, but at least they’ll die free of American imperialism.” Notably it is never the people saying this who are dying.

Aside from the stupidity of the cover itself, I'm very unreasonably angered by their total failure to even attempt to match the topography of the cliff when applying that graphic. It has clear depth, and the graphic is just flat, but still has the basic perspective. Lazy half-assery.

Tonight's dinner is naan pizzas with a choice of either tandoori paneer or tandoori chicken and served with a side of onion bhaji

The Google AI overview is such a bullshit product "improvement" — it constantly gives incorrect responses, complete with citations... "Oh cool," you think, "it's summarising Wikipedia. That should be a safe bet" Then you look at the source and the AI is straight lying about what it says!

Me, while collecting 17yo from school: Huh, that girl has a 'Kodak' branded backpack. 17yo: What's Kodak? Me: Exactly

Trump inspecting the Reflecting Pool and declaring “SICK, DERANGED PEOPLE!” did it, when in reality it was poor workmanship by the companies he chose for the job is the kind of strongman theater you'd expect from N. Korea, not the US.