quite disappointing that somehow my wife completely missed evanescence - bring me to life, so every time I cackle after shouting WAKE ME UP she has no idea why I find it funny

Rose (Rosie) Juliette Yi-Shuen Chen born 4:07pm on 30 January 2026. She's a small one, weighing 2.86kg. Mum and baby are both well and we have lots of family here to support us. Big sister Lucy is very excited, bigger sister Professor Nori unsure.

why are we continuously surprised that AI models (eg those on moltbook) trained on all human writing including our science fiction might then output words that appear to match those science fiction narratives

fulfilling my obligation to uphold the patriarchy, my wife did 95% of a 1500 piece jigsaw puzzle and then I swooped in and helped with the last pieces, and now we share equal credit for the achievement of finishing the puzzle

the discourse around weaponised incompetence is a bit out of hand but I don't really know what to do about it maybe you should take over and do something about it?

based on my exposure to the TV in the hospital waiting room across multiple weeks it seems that TV One is now exclusively episodes of Tipping Point and The Chase

Tears this morning because "I'm not a person, I'm just Lucy!"

me: I'm taking a nap, wake me when it's 2027 wife: don't you mean 2026? me: I mean what I said, goodnight

gamer logic: make my computer as quiet as possible, so I can really hear the loudest keyboard in the world

every time someone talks about AI Agents in a NZ/Aus accent it reminds me of this video: youtu.be/0YM9Ereg2Zo?...

🎵 he sees you when you're sleeping, he knows when you're awake, he knows if you've been bad or good, so be good for the Surveillance State 🎵

just had a dream that they couldn't find any drummers available so I got called to drum for vulfpeck for one show on their live tour, and the people were vulfpeck but for some reason all the songs were too fighters, I had one day to learn the songs and do the show, and no one believed me afterwards

what was the point of bringing all these canaries with us if we just ignore them when they keel over?

estatic to find out that we won lotto last night... 4 bonus lines for Wednesday's draw

Morning peeps! Two new rewards just dropped for my crowdfunding campaign: a two-hour AI strategy session with @andrewtychen.bsky.social & a two book BWB Texts bundle on digital technology in NZ! www.pledgeme.co.nz/projects/852...

For folks here (rather than LinkedIn), my last day at NZ Police is 31 October. Taking a little break and welcoming our second child in February. Let me know if you have any part-time contract work coming up where I might be able to add value!

I cancelled Spotify Premium about two weeks ago, which I'm sure weighed heavily on his mind

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