It feels silly but I just bought enough stamps to send out my business’ mail for ~4 years since they hold their value. 10 years ago it was 80c to send a standard letter in NZ, now it’s $2.90.

New project alert -- me and @annapendergrast.bsky.social having fun and learning things in 2026 www.everyobject.org

Do you want some mail? It's that time of year: @kellypendergrast.bsky.social and I are about to send out our 7th annual Antistatic Print Object. Sign up & we'll send you a zine + extra object in the post (gratis). We love to send gifts to our friends!! Sign up>> docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Come and hang out with me & @kellypendergrast.bsky.social in our Antistatic Group Meeting next week! It's our monthly group call to link & connect & plot & think. Wed 24 Sep, 10:30am NZT / Tues 23 Sep, 3:30pm Pacific More info and sign up here: docs.google.com/forms/d/1bhc...

I'm calling into this AGM from Canada and really hoping I can get to bed before 2am...

Officially on holiday as of 20mins ago, although I’m yet to find the off button to stop me from thinking about work stuff when I’m off the clock.

@kellypendergrast.bsky.social and I are excited to be part of the research team for this project. We helped write this backgrounder about internet infrastructure and climate resilience in the context of Aotearoa. To find out more, and learn to get involved, head to internetresilience.nz

Grounded in Robin Wall Kimmerer’s latest book, The Serviceverry, writers @kellypendergrast.bsky.social and @annapendergrast.bsky.social look at the power of reciprocity and gift-giving in various digital spaces. newpublic.substack.com/p/the-unexpe...

Writing a report? Please, I am begging you, PUT A DATE ON IT! Not just on the website page you can download it from, or in the title, but somewhere obvious in the actual report itself.

The latest @newpublic.org newsletter is written by me and @kellypendergrast.bsky.social. In it, we explore how concepts in Robin Wall Kimmerer's 2024 book The Serviceberry might manifest in digital projects and online spaces. newpublic.substack.com/p/the-unexpe...

Come and hang out with me and @kellypendergrast.bsky.social in our Antistatic Group Meeting next week! It's our monthly group call to link & connect & plot & think. 9.30am May 20 (NZT) // 1.30pm May 21 (Pacific) More info and link to sign up is here: mailchi.mp/e259a21f3649...

I learned from @kellypendergrast.bsky.social + @annapendergrast.bsky.social about this Decomputing class at Dark Times Academy — refusal, Ludditism, analog alternatives, etc. I really need this, so I signed up.

New Scope of Work newsletter written by me and @kellypendergrast.bsky.social is out today. It's about moving house – from packing your life into boxes to physically moving a home from one place to another. We also snuck in a bit about Shihad, because why not. www.scopeofwork.net/moving-house...

My pals at @darktimesacademy.bsky.social have announced their latest classes and they look fab (ft. some awesome guest speakers)!

For the second time in a week I've realised stories I love (and have never previously interrogated) about Dunedin and its streets/buildings are in fact folklore... “Dunedin has steep streets, not because of some attempt to impose another town’s plans but, because Dunedin has steep hills”.

I'm trying to find info about the history of the Otago Uni Commerce building, can you help? In particular, is the story I learned as a student in the 00's that its leaking issues were due to it being designed for the Hawai'i climate true or an urban legend...

We still have a couple of spaces for our Antistatic Group meeting this week - details and how to sign up below:

Come shoot the shit with me and @kellypendergrast.bsky.social in our Antistatic Group Meeting next week?? It's our monthly group call to link & connect & plot & think. The Feb call was sooo fun. 10am March 19 (NZ time) // 2pm March 18 (Pacific) Sign up here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

How did I never know that it's Sting singing the second vocal part on Dire Straits' Money for Nothing?

One of my highlights for 2024 was doing interviews for our annual Print Object zine. If you missed out, @kellypendergrast.bsky.social and I have reformatted the zine and made it available as the first object in our new SHOP (lol) antistaticobjects.bigcartel.com/product/anti...

If you missed out on getting Antistatic Print Object in 2024, @annapendergrast.bsky.social and I have reformatted the zine and made it available as the first object in our new SHOP (lol) - buy one to read 6 interviews with some of the best 2 ever do it antistaticobjects.bigcartel.com/product/anti...

Can’t even go on a morning walk without encountering AI.

Every year @kellypendergrast.bsky.social and I make a Print Object (usually a zine) and send it as a gift to friends/colleagues/internet strangers. It’s always so fun to see when they start to arrive!

Digging into this year’s Antistatic Print Object - thank you @kellypendergrast.bsky.social for blessing my postbox

When he won in French someone observed that this was the best way to understand AI language models, and that really stuck with me -- knowing all the words doesn't mean you know what any of them mean or how to use them www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/1...

When you think Gattaca is aspirational viewing

This week I made a submission on MBIE's consultation about changes to NZ Post's minimum requirements for the standard mail service (e.g. delivery days, number of Post Shops). You can read it here: www.antistaticpartners.com/blog/mail-se...

Can't differentiate between O and 0? Good luck trying to prove your humanity. (This is an actual captcha I was just served up).

No this is 100% correct AI tools are automated content production technologies and are entirely distinct from the act of writing

Seems as good a time as any to reshare this video from my (terrifying) ride in a Cruise robotaxi last year with @kellypendergrast.bsky.social

Kind of feel about generative AI the same way I do about eating meat. Like... there's a world in which I'd be interested in it, but given the current conditions it's WAY too much work to use/eat responsibly, and it's easier for me to abstain vs feeling morally and spiritually degraded

This is how big you can send standard mail in NZ with a $4.90 stamp (A4 paper for scale) and it can be 1kg, and 2cm high. From what I can tell, materials other than paper are allowed. There’s a lot of stuff I thought I had to send as a parcel that I reckon could just go in the postbox.

Just posted about 50 bits of mail and now I’m back home writing a submission on proposals to reduce NZPost’s minimum service requirements. I sense a theme for today.

It’s cool to see Print Object starting to get out in the world! It’s one of my fave projects to do each year. (If there are any NZ folks who have got one before but missed out this year let me know as I have a couple of copies left.)

Based entirely on the album art I’ve spent 20 years assuming Spiritualized was dance/house music and that I would have zero interest in it.

As a New Zealander with an inexplicable non-NZ accent this advice for Christmas party small talk is my worst nightmare. www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

If you’re around Pōneke on 2 Dec, Jathan Sadowski will be in town for his Ruthless criticism of AI and capitalism book tour and as an added bonus you can catch me on a panel at the event. jathansadowskitour.lilregie.com/booking/atte...

Both the Herald and Stuff chose to publish prominent online ads this morning from ACT pushing the Treaty Principles Bill.

I wrote up a v abbreviated version of my thoughts on the current (bad) "we need third spaces" discourse, which you can read near the bottom of our new Antistatic newsletter. Might as well subscribe while you're at it — unlike y'alls substacks, we only send ours quarterly!! mailchi.mp/f7e98215eacc...

Hi! Thanks for giving me a follow and to @eryk.bsky.social for including me in his Critical AI starter pack. I'm a writer and strategist in Aotearoa New Zealand, working with @kellypendergrast.bsky.social at Antistatic, where we do a combo of client work and creative projects.

Another starter pack of researchers, artists, journalists and writers tackling issues relevant to critical thinking around AI: go.bsky.app/B2kmVWg

Note to self: next time you halve a recipe make sure you halve all the ingredients.

Guess it’s good this is behind a paywall, I am already livid enough from the headline

Do you want some mail? It's that time of year: @kellypendergrast.bsky.social and I are prepping our 6th annual Antistatic Print Object. Sign up and we'll send you some (free) fun mail. As usual it’s an zine + extra thing-we're really excited about this one! Sign up--> docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

We are pickled in ableism, and it pervades the English language. Avoid using health terms metaphorically, even if they aren’t used that much in health care anymore. That includes lame, crippled, blind, deaf, feeble, demented, crazy, schizophrenic, etc. (3/n)

If you publish a recipe with multiple egg yolks it should be accompanied by an easy and delicious recipe with the same amount of egg whites that’s not a pavlova.

Woke up to a kārearea (NZ falcon) in my backyard with a dead pigeon - it just sat there for a bit before flying off

I guest write the Scope of Work newsletter once in a while with @kellypendergrast.bsky.social. This week we wrote about temporary structures and what it takes to build something for a good time, not a long time. www.scopeofwork.net/its-temporar...

Folks on LinkedIn are up in arms about being auto-opted in to providing posts as AI training data. Yes, it sucks and is bad form but how do you think Chat-GPT et al get trained? By magic? If it’s not your free labour training the machine it’s someone else’s.