Good life experience to be an expert witness in the High Court... for a mock trial about a tool that I made up so there was no way anyone could challenge me for being wrong www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

Have you ever made a cuppa soup and been caught between wanting more soup and wanting good flavour? Now there's a solution! Try "TWO cup of soup packets in one cup"! Don't let the taste go to waste! 1 out of 2 taste testers called it "yum"! Continental calls it "not what our product is designed for"

yet again the dominance of cows is being entrenched - the hege-moo-ny perhaps AI is peeling back the layers of 'low-value' work - NZ may be well-placed to adapt | RNZ News share.google/jynZSfVQW3Ia...

surely this cannot be the best timeline

why didn't my parents ever do this for me

@strictlyobiter.bsky.social every time I see the "real judge, real lawyers, real expert, fake facts" I can't help but think of

oh little serotonin boosts from your pocket friends liking your jokes, how I've missed you

we may all come to the organisation with different backgrounds and views and perspectives but there is one thing we can all agree on

long after the AGM has concluded and hundreds of nerds drift off to a sweet slumber, a quiet voice will repeat on zoom You have 30 seconds left to vote on this motion.

It's STEPHEN JUDD WITH THE MUTE BUTTON

silicon valley promised me that agentic ai would be able to do the voting for me

DO NOT CLICK ON THE LIVE RESULTS PAGE the live results page is on the INTERNET and INTERNETNZ WILL KNOW IT WAS YOU and can you live with delaying this AGM any further on your conscience RADIO DADDY WILL TELL YOU OFF and say STOP clicking on the page STOP pressing Ctrl+R EXERT WILLPOWER

my grandad has this amazing story of how he stood at takaparawhā bastion point and i'll get to tell my grandkids i spent 4 hours on a zoom call to stand up for rights

people literally run marathons faster than this AGM

We are running mock trial events in August to explore the evolving role of AI in the justice system. Through a mock pre-trial hearing, we will explore the admissibility of a piece of evidence obtained almost solely through a (fictional) AI tool. Is the NZ legal framework ready?

@eddie.co.nz eddiiieeeeeeeeee!

nobody should have told me that I would amount to something when I was in high school, it's now 15 years later and I can't get a man to sign a contract he should have signed three years ago, how was I supposed to change the world

yet again the Internet is out to get me

Look I'll just say it: the only thing LinkedIn is good for is the games, and even then only 2/5 are any good

I don't think I'm a control freak but I cannot understand how people have assistants who help manage their e-mails, it requires a level of trust that I don't even have in myself on a Monday morning

census goneburger www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

OMG I almost forgot Gigi, the CATriarch. Gigi likes to spend her time incatpacitating her humans. She's 10, which makes her, like, 700 in cat years.

And last but not least, the celebrity cats Juno Lanigan (white floof) and Brucie Burnet (black chonk). They have been in TV ads. Here they are just casually posing #nofilter

Cuba and Otis come as a package. Cuba (grey) is 1 and enjoys being a pretzel. Otis, also 1, enjoys football. Here he is helping Barcelona's defence.

Here is Ōtepoti. His hobbies are fossicking in the fridge, squeezing into small spaces, escaping through locked doors, and eating broccoli (cooked, obvs).

Introducing Billie. Billie is two years young. She enjoys losing her collar and whining for biscuits.

First, we have JJ and Brian. JJ was found at four-weeks-old on a roundabout and is quite the menace but is very endearing. The black and white cat with the magnificent whiskers is Brian. A former colony cat rescued with his sister Karen (RIP), Brian's main hobby is evading being harassed by JJ.

the checkout lady definitely did not need to do me dirty with "so do you run a shop or something"

So in a first for me, I am quoted in this article - but I'm pretty sure I didn't say it. It sure does sound like something I would say... but I think it's genAI hallucinated.

As requested @andrewtychen.bsky.social here is Marbles "helping" me at work.

me: do you need me to cut the grapes in half? Lucy, with a mouth full of whole grapes:

Doing my semi-regular talk this week on social media for researchers and... is Bluesky it now? Are we back? Or are things still in awkward limbo-land where it's not really clear where everyone has gone? Or do I actually have to use *shudders* LinkedIn now?

The Clarke-Hanlon thesis: Sufficiently advanced stupidity is indistinguishable from malice

Uh-oh.

highlight of this week is using the phrase "not simping for Microsoft" and subsequently being asked to explain what that meant

I teamed up with @jameswords.bsky.social to submit a show to the Comedy Festival, but they were a bit confused about why we wanted to talk about genAI tools and privacy rights. So we are in the OPC Privacy Week 2025 line-up instead! I promise that there are at least two jokes in my half of the talk.

sending a calendar invite at 8pm, for a meeting at 8am the next day, should be illegal

Lucy (aged 2, across the dinner table): I sit on Mama's knee, no baba see me me: that's quite rude... roll a stealth check with disadvantage

hello it's me, I was wondering if after all these years you'd like to discuss string theory

New classes from Dark Times Academy are here and we are so excited about this next group! From understanding Silicon Valley oligarchs to resisting Christian nationalism to 'decomputing' these are about action, community and learning together. darktimesacademy.co....

Still the breakfast of champions. This time with everything but the bagel seasoning, which is basically furikake for white people.

my new goal in life is to amass a collection of cat art, and then in my will bequeath it to a random public institution who will go "what do we do with this???" but feel compelled to display it somewhere because it has been gifted to them

Went to Basin Noodle House on a whim for lunch. Tried to order the wonton noodle soup. Proprietor said "no, that's not our speciality" so I ended up with the pork belly noodles (freshly made noodles from this morning), and I think he was right to make me change my order

panna cotta is just an excuse for adults to eat jelly

Geonet now tells you how many people would taste marmite and say "ooh, that's got a bit of a kick to it!"

every night, at 7pm the speaker in my toddler's room is set to automatically start playing pink noise, until we stop it in the morning. yes, I removed it from my taste profile. my wrapped just blasted different tracks of pink noise at me the whole time.

@cannibality.bsky.social congratulations on doing the extra graduation! well earnt, and all going well I might see you at ANZCOG later this year.

"well done everyone you've clocked up another landing into Wellington, it is now safe to turn on the transmitting function on your devices and tell all your friends about it"

it seems like it would only be fair for the ref to also be in the pool in water polo

are divers just... wet gymnasts?