I have, as you might have inferred, a dim view around what had gone on about continued holding of medical records, but this– this looks worse than I thought. www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

This is also familiar from recommendation algorithms. No matter how weird the music I listen to on youtube is, it steers me back in a handful of directions (generally towards pop)

Disappointed that the ASL interpreter isn't fully in shot for this, but I love the energy they're giving :-)

Here’s a link to the 1951 Greenland Defense Agreement that the United States and Denmark signed back in 1951 that permits us to have troops at Pituffik Space Base in Greenland. I’ve included a screenshot of the first page here. avalon.law.yale.edu/20th_century...

Currently playing with everynoise.com (which is why I'm listening to Ugandan hip hop)

If one password got you the records for 120000 users, the password is not your problem.

Re-sharing for the new year, which is also an election year! If you agree, help us out by emailing your local MP asking why Labour and National have not yet signed this letter or committed to regulating AI deployment in NZ. #nzpol

It's possible I may have to answer three riddles here. Or I'm about to get a quest.

This is not a chess move: it's a checkers move. They literally jumped Venezuela's leader and captured him. Quit trying to pretend that it's some kind of masterful geopolitical stratagem. www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/5...

If anyone has been following along with the ManageMyHealth breach, this 2024 inquiry into its security (including integration into Te Whatu Ora's health identity portal) may be interesting. Disappointing that the request was only partially satisfied, and late. fyi.org.nz/request/2638...

Just putting this here because it's nice www.1news.co.nz/2026/01/04/d...

Hearing early reports that a second plane has crashed at Pauanui. Sounds like a pretty rough summer up there :-\

It’s a dark night when you look at the news and are forced to admit that you no longer believe in the power of the FIFA peace prize

Whatever you might think of Maduro, the seizure and kidnapping of a head of state takes us to a very dark place. Vast, arbitrary, extra-legal power, which could be exercised almost anywhere, regardless of the character of the target government.

Maduro is a brutal and oppressive dictator of Venezuela. Trump has no legitimate legal basis for military action against Venezuela under United States or international law. Both of those facts are simultaneously true.

Now they've captured Maduro - they need Machado in to enable US energy interests in, but they need Maduro alive to make it easier to provide the public relations of ongoing legitimacy for it all. It's just Noriega version 2.0. Military actions fulfill political purposes. Not even original ones.

This can't be good. #nzpol Venezuelan president 'captured' following strikes, Trump announces www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/5...

A former colleague has given me a significant amount of baiju, hi.

I don't think the word Scheduled means what you think it means (or the site admins hurriedly grabbed their template for scheduled maintenance)

Happy 2026, Kiribati and the Chatham Islands!

Kazu, the group/individual behind the ManageMyHealth breach, has posted some samples of the data for verification and they all appear to be legitimate. Among other things, there are test results (ie; Labtests), referral letters, patient health summaries, hospital ED summaries and other letters

"...The best lack all conviction, and the worst Are full of passionate intensity"

Lulled into a false sense of security, and Chrome ate my tab groups again. There goes my to-read list.

Using a search function these days feels like asking a teenager for a favor.

Just watched the new Knives Out and I think it's really important you know that the scene in the Seminary's Gym is filmed in the same place Rick Astley filmed the music video for Never Gonna Give You Up. I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.

Look, I know Kiwi PyCon 2026 is due to be hosted on the West Island, but...

Again,

Spent a fun LAN day playing Return to Moria with friends. You will be happy to know there are mining and drinking songs you can sing together, many recipes to cook, and that one of the worst things you can do to your fellow dwarves is stay up late past bedtime.

Somalia's foreign minister has suggested this is part of a plan to displace people from Gaza If he is correct, in making a deal for a country to take "voluntary" evacuees from Gaza, they will be sent to one of the poorest countries on Earth

Metaphor: a dramatic device that allows a message to be conveyed with an elegant subtlety.

there are reams of studies of LLM coding! and they're *all* surveys of how people *feel* about it. then they make fuckin graps of the *feelings* vibe coding, vibe surveys c'mon, MEASURE THE ACTUAL PROCESS

Ōtautahi. It is, how you say, picking up out there.

Aw, man. RIP Teddy :-( www.thecure.com/news/2025/12...

Make a Bond movie casual Yeah Maybe Read This By Yourself

Lo, Hrodulf the red-nosed reindeer – That beast didn’t have unshiny nostrils! Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer in Anglo Saxon meter: allthingslinguistic.com/post/1359368...

Is it just me, or is Steam really struggling under the Yuletide this year?

Oof, holiday season in Pauanui off to a great start :-( I hope everyone's as okay as they can be in the circumstances. www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/light-air...

[first day as a shepherd] boss: where are you going? me: [pointing] star boss: what? why me: [shrugging] baby

Thread of historical and ludological interest.

I am *extremely* delighted to say that this story has also been published, in shortened form, by the fab folks at The Guardian. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

This is America Don't catch you ████████████ Don't catch you ████████████ Look what I'm █████████████

Excellent news from Zealandia. And how cute is that chick.

NEO: I know kung fu. MORPHEUS: Show me. NEO:

why not put count von count into various vampire scenes: thread

✨️ Wolfie's fine, honey. Wolfie's just fine. Where are you?

Presented steadfastly without further comment: www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...