"I had to work 10 times harder than the average man just to get the same level of recognition," Jane Goodall told us in 2020. "But once I had made a name for myself, I let the data speak for me."

Imagine how great it would be if every rapture fool actually did disappear in a flash of light.

Sitting on the tarmac in Nairobi and the engineers have just had to “reboot” the ✈️ and I do not like.

Oh damn, Robert Redford. RIP. I’ve re-watched Out of Africa twice in the last month (while travelling around Kenya in Tanzania). He was superb.

& yet people will sleep rough on the streets tonight... He's one person, we are 7 billion - what the fuck are we scared of?

honestly fuck Tesla - they don’t even have the excuse of working purely for shareholder interest at this point

surely we can come up with something better for 7 billion people than being lorded over by a bunch of plundering elderly murder and torture enthusiasts who whisper to each other about printing spare organs so they can immiserate others in perpetuity

Nobody is “grooming” your kids to be gay or trans but people ARE grooming them to be Nazis.

"Windmills [sic] kill birds"

Tim Minchin’s long devolution into Australia’s answer to Russell Brand is not unexpected but still fucking disappointing.

Explain to me again how we aren't completely fucked? Cause we seem completely fucked to me.

of course they have 🙄

Mock my words? Make my day? Mork my Mindy? #dickhead

Had an Oriental 🐈‍⬛ that thieved like a demon. Mostly soft toys/ ornaments that looked marginally like him. Sometimes undies. Had a thing for gloves. Once a wallet (sadly empty). RIP Turtle.

This is exactly it. So many victim’s voices have been squashed, sidelined or ignored in this debacle. But no, instead they’re going to go and talk to a convicted perpetrator.

This stinks exactly like the shit the US conservatives/republicans have been pushing for decades, cynically swinging the democratic process in their favour. This govt is continually handpicking and pushing the worst of US politics on Aotearoa…

Trump’s sexual predation was clearly demonstrated & proven so many times over the last decade (often in his own words) & magas simply did not care. Seems they only care about the undermining of their precious conspiracy theories & warped world view, casting themselves as the primary victims.

I bloody love this (and the @99pi.org podcast of course).

⬇️ Yes. (See also: Theil sincerely believes environmentalism is an international plot to enabl world authoritarianism, initiated by the (actual) Devil. Who he also believes is currently embodied here in Earth by… *drumroll*… Greta Thunberg.)

No, a LOT of them think that. Science may be one of the most social forms of knowledge production we have. Arguably it’s at least as social as creative writing. Actual scientists will tell you this. Yet, millions of people think they can do science alone with an LLM.

I could not hate this more.

Gotta ❤️ friends who know how much I appreciate fresh hand-caught kaimoana. That’s me sorted for a week.

"i asked grok" "i asked chatgpt" yeah well i asked carl sagan and he said the greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge 🧪

A reminder that after years of speaking out against Epstein and giving other survivors the courage to come forward, Epstein victim Virginia Giuffre died by suicide in April at the age of 41. Let's not forget that there are real human tragedies behind everything we're discussing.

As a doctor who attends these sorts of things, I can tell you 2 things with certainty: 1) these are on a rotating schedule planned years in advance 2) no one considers advertising rules when planning these (e.g. Europe has conferences and strict rules) It's embarrassing that RNZ published this.

“Vibe physics” is exhibit seventysixhundred in the “billionaire status does not equate to intelligence” case

… and, in unison, Tesla and SpaceX execs heaved a sigh of relief and the folks still propping up TSLA 📈 groaned

I cannot emphasize enough how true & real this is. In almost anywhere on the political spectrum you ID with or major issue, there’s probably a bot/troll operation to encourage your rage and vitriol. And how/where that rage gets directed, esp understandable rage, is what they are out to influence.

4+yrs of frequenting public EV chargers & subjected to unwanted interactions with Muskwagoners, I’d say the current state of brand pride in AoNZ is “furtive”

USA anniversary for being around 4x longer than JAWS. I’m sure this is an allegory for… something.

Please can we stop using “hallucinations” for the crud LLMs pull out of their proverbial nethers? This academic paper argues for “bullshit” and that’ll do just fine. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

The US President has just funded a domestic federal militia with more than double the total annual military spend of their two largest allies combined. Good luck magas, with your small gummint and personal freedoms and rights and all that.

So happy @heavyweight.bsky.social is back - some my favourite stories ever told on a podcast (plus artful production), can’t wait to hear the new ones. If you haven’t tried, highly recommended.

If you can bear to, listen to this? Considerin his worldview (incl his belief in an actual antichrist), his reach & influence is terrifying. Went into it thinking he was a typical billionaire Libertarian, but he’s absolutely barking. (also on Spotify & YouTube) podcasts.apple.com/nz/podcast/i...

Signed: our.actionstation.org.nz/petitions/lu...

This is on the wall of the cafe I'm at in Kirikiriroa!! 😄😄😄 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

Official advice confirms that Regulatory Standards Bill is a fundamental threat to our ability to regulate polluting companies to achieve collective goods like clean rivers and a stable climate : www.thepost.co.nz/politics/360...

“We must remember the purpose of education, not as a soulless conveyor belt shuttling learners toward a soulless hypercapitalist treadmill, but rather, as equipment for the critical thinking and consideration required to survive our human world.”

oh fuck no @parismarx.com wanna come back for a visit and talk directly this absolute muppet?

Explaining Watership Down (movie) to kids & getting wide eyes + shaking heads. “Like, there’s bunnies right, & they hallucinate & kill each other and it’s really scary… oh yeah and it’s animated & we were taken to see it at primary school.”

Jeff Bezos’s upcoming Venice wedding has become a lightning rod for protest, as locals disgruntled with overtourism join climate activists to rage against a spectacle that to them epitomises many global ills. www.ft.com/content/460c...

Any recommendations for multi-destination travel insurance ex AoNZ?

More on the mental-health time bombs being created by synthetic intelligence.

Tautoko the huge mahi being done to inform and assist people to make RSB submissions but draw a big line at submissions on behalf. The shortest, simplest original so much more valuable. Don't want to give that arsehole reason to dismiss a single submission.

And fundamentalist religious ideology is sitting at the core of all of the evil

Geoffrey Palmer, former PM & constitutional law expert says the RSB is Unworkable, Unconstitutional, Unacceptable. "Nothing falls out of the scope of this bill" ..uses a sneaky backdoor to try to control the Executive. "I've never seen anything like it" Another banger of an interview #nzpol

When I worked in Adland one of the scariest scenarios was the client desperate to front his own product. Despite some notable exceptions, generally a very. bad. idea.