The internet has done Heated Rivalry a massive disservice painting it as mainly gay smut. It’s an incredibly well made and intricate examination of systemic homophobia in sports wrapped in a gorgeous love story. I thoroughly recommend it to everyone.

I’m begging YouTube video makers to lessen the difference between less and fewer

I don’t want to order a pizza on a predatory app. I want to ask what my mates address is that he sent me three months ago. I want to ask which account I sent an email from. I want to make complex adjustments to calendar events with natural language. If you cant do that, leave me alone.

“We’re investing in more generation to keep power prices down, that’s why we need to increase power prices.” Do you see how unhinged you sound!?

I got told our prices are rising about 15%!! Completely ridiculous

Whoever is writing press releases for US tech companies needs to calm down

Spoilers: idk wryangle.substack.com/p/did-rob-vi...

“I lost my daddy” - my 2yo from the other side of the toilet door

This goes so hard

Are you telling me this Hatsune Miku that people won't stfu about is some kind of Ready Player One virtual avatar thing?!?!

So if I plan to travel to the country where I was born, my best option now is to renounce citizenship of that country. Is this a side-effect of a new system that was poorly designed, an intentional move to cull emigrants from the roster, or an attempt to raise more passport revenue from emigrants?

Me: are you going to eat more dinner? Toddler (yelling): NO! Toddler (whispering): yes

Seems like intentional negligence and pettiness because they’re losing money to me

Yesterday's workforce data release from the Public Service Commission inspired me to get back into some data journalism. www.linkedin.com/posts/jemtra...

"AGI will be achieved only when we have demeaned and debased human intelligence to the degree that a machine might be able to emulate what's left." – Dr David West (www.linkedin.com/in/david-wes...)

My favourite excerpt from the BeingAI chair's speech for the shareholders meeting (full text: api.nzx.com/public/annou...)

Aren’t they strong enough already!!??

Regardless of the context, parroting the demonstrably untrue statement that Kirk’s perspective was in the political centre is not great. www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/charlie-k...

If Otter AI spent half as many resources on fixing their damn transcript editing issues and fixing copy/paste in Firefox as it does on crappy LLM integrations, it would be a significantly better tool

“Clearly, there was a lot of gaming going on …” the Republican governor told NBC News. Stay unhinged, US politics. www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/5...

chat.publicai.co Swiss public LLM AI model --> Doesn't train on inputs --> Instructed to be neutral and humble --> Uses British English --> Will literally tell you anything you ask about its instructions and training --> Is owned and managed by researchers, not corporates

Paraphrased: People prefer confident answers that are maybe correct to a fuller, more murky truth. Well, well, well. If it isn't my old friend, Something Social Science Told Us Decades Ago

Tell you what tho, the 70,000 plus people who left for australia are definitely not going to concerts in NZ. Nor are all the people out of a job. Or the people barely making ends meet whose housing/food costs are taking up all their income. Or the people who are sick all the time.

Some people might say infrastructure architecture is boring. There would be more but most people have never heard of it because it is, in fact, very boring.

More like Smelly Farltons

On behalf of Matt and Maria Raine, we are suing OpenAI and Sam Altman, for ChatGPT’s role in aiding their son Adam’s suicide. The complaint emphasizes the company’s rush to deploy and promote their product despite clear safety issues, with users ultimately suffering deadly consequences.

“(Universal RUCs) would increase the running costs of the lowest-emitting hybrids by 39 percent - while lowering by 6 percent the cost to run the most gas guzzling petrol cars, models that burn 10 litres or more of fuel per hundred kms.” It’s on purpose. www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

Privatisation. Sigh. "Private firms (will be) taking over the collection and administration of (road user) charges." Therefore, Fleur Fitzsimons said, "The only people who will see any benefit from this scheme are the corporates who take their cut to gather the tax."

First Kiwi passport. In B4 dog whistle language swap lol

Me: I'll deliver the job 1.5 business days after the interview. Them: We really need it earlier. Can you rush to get it done in .5? Me: Sure, I'll add a rush fee. Them: 1.5 business days is fine. Did you really need it earlier? Did you?

“In emails and briefings, the ministers and their staff acknowledged their plans would bypass public scrutiny, extinguish existing claims, and potentially breach people's rights.” Holy shit Project 10: How the government kept the pay equity law change secret www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic... #nzpol

The appreciation of strangers 🥰

I had the weirdest conversation with #2degrees' customer service yesterday. Unfortunately, I haven't heard back from them yet but if anyone can explain what they mean or prove that I'm wrong, I would love to hear it. open.substack.com/pub/wryangle...

2degrees recommends using power at night as a way to lower bills but they charge a regular p/kWh rate no matter what time of day. They said things use less power at night because Vector changes the rate at night. No on hold for someone who can make that make sense

David Seymour, Winston Peters, and Christopher Luxon all stand in a circle wearing gaudy rings. Luxon raises his and yells "PANDERING". Seymour does the same but yells "OLIGARCHY". Winston joins in, yelling...

Every time a nimby starts complaining about medium density housing just start pointing out the all the great housing land wasted on golf courses

Wow! A reddit thread addressing my exact probl- ah shit

"And then OpenAI launched ChatGPT and the rose tint turned red." northandsouth.co.nz/2025/06/05/h... A great article from my friend @bentm.bsky.social. It can't be easy breaking out in the world of independent journalism, so it's great to see him published in a major outlet today 👏

I'm especially proud of this part of my new piece for North & South: "I’ve realised that the negative consequences I thought were mistakes we were learning from were actually parts of a machine that has become finely tuned to make money and fuck everything up." northandsouth.co.nz/2025/06/05/h...

I’ve been a journalist for 7.5 years, and not until this week has someone replied to a list of interview questions with a completely different list of questions they want to answer 💀

I can't believe people are still banging on about this www.youtube.com/watch?v=gv-c...

Personality test. Your new toaster arrives but you had toast for breakfast 30min ago. Do you: A. wait for breakfast tomorrow – it’s just a toaster, B. make a little toast snack later – I’m curious but I can wait, or, C. make more toast immediately – I absolutely have to know how this baby purrs

Who had Don McGlashan tells off Chris Bishop for hating on Stan Walker celebrating Māoridom on their 2025 #nzpol bingo card? www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

New mini-newsletter out today Why is clickbait suddenly acceptable again when it's about LLMs? wryangle.substack.com/p/bite-sized...

Does this government even like people?

Sometimes I search random phrases in Google to help me come up with words or turns of phrase to use when I'm writing. I might switch to duckduckgo....

Miyazaki's Howl's Moving Castle

Pre-loading? You mean waking up early enough to have coffee before the kids are awake. Yeah, i fkn love preloading

This is maybe the most medium thing to celebrate, but my first ever YouTube video reached over 1,000 views (after I changed the title and thumbnail to something a little more cheeky) youtu.be/UrhHQi1FZEw This mediocre victory is honestly such a shot in the arm after a pretty tough week.