One should always ask a financial journalist if the time series is stationary

This was never a joke

“It’s a lovely piece” “Team, go ahead” “Can you hear me ok/you’re on mute if you’re talking” “Fuck me how is that even working?”

Put a bird in a movie The cook, the thief, his wife and her plover

Also features in Roddy Doyle’s The Commitments

Producer: “pitch me” Me: “Wrestling With Issues Of Creation and Science” Producer: “what?” Me: “it’s a basic WWE franchise but in between bouts, we bring in some philosophers to discuss societal, cultural and existential ideas”

Regulate shareholder dividends and introduce genuine competition. Fire all the wreckonomists.

Tufte wrote three books back in the 90s about how people lie with charts and graphs and a pox on any "journalist" who tries to spin a story by manipulating the data in this way.

Retired Chief Superintendent, takes long drag on cigarette, picks up coffee cup, waves it from side to side to signal to runner he needs a refill, “anyway, ‘es gone aht the back door right, just as we were coming in the front wif the big red key right…”

Blow on the pie www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

Village lyfe

Hole Foods

Arthur enabled BGP at the IX.

Producer: pitch me Me: “Writer’s Block. Four teams of authors renovate an entire terrace of townhouses instead of finishing their manuscripts like their editors are, increasingly stridently, demanding”

And done. 14 years so far on this bike.

In New Zealand since today is a holiday, this is Mondayized

Vendor: gear cables are fully housed through the frame Me: no they most certainly are not. Fishing a cable for internal routing is one of the harder things to do.

Trumpton et al, 2027: “A retrospective of fires at institutions: mistakes made and lessons learned”, Proccedings of the 25th Annual Conference of Fucking Idiocy.

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue

Been playing chess for 50 years, first time solved.

Rock Salt predicts the existence of Paper Salt and Scissors Salt as well as Jazz, Pop and Rap Salt

They pulled that twee middle-class “gold’s a defensive play” investment ad pretty quick eh?

"Rectum? If that thing had gone off it would have killed 'um!" www.standard.co.uk/news/world/h...

The ultimate “Get your own facts”

Wait, is this actually the same beast since 1887?

Watching Elon explain to Grok why Grok is going to jail for something Elon did is going to be entertaining.

“Good evening and welcome to the Society for Annoying Pedants annual conference. A special welcome to our international guests, some of whom have travelled more than halfway around the world to be here tonight”

10 PRINT "I AM ALIVE" 20 GOTO 10

C. 2004, Grand Canyon at sunrise. I’ve just realised this is probably one of the last photos I ever took on film (Nikon F-501)

Impressive level of parsing ambiguities in the Talk section here

Remember to tip your servers

Schism or GTFO

There are LAYERS to this observation

Getting this economy back on track has resulted in more job losses than I was expecting (*) (*) for definitions of expecting that require deep biting sarcasm and total contempt for RBNZ, every pop-economist and the current government

Proud that I kicked one such containerised crypto proposal to touch when it crossed my desk a few years ago

Adds to growing pile of articles on the great Datacentre hoax

Anyway my new startup is IndirectNuclearFusion and we just install solar panels and batteries, it was easier to get NZ government funding that way. Our reactor? It’s 150M km away, for safety reasons

Backing the wrong horse

There is a thesis to be written on the network-oriented buying and selling of kompromat where not only can you not get away from the existing compromise, but the network it then connects you to leads to further compromises. You're a "made man", a "connected guy" but it's not working in your favour.

If only there was a simple, pithy, 2000-year old saying that encapsulates this

For those not familiar with the French justice system, the process is: 1. Cyber-crime unit raids your offices 2. Hearing with public prosecutor 3. Public guillotining

A bakery called Maslow’s Hierarchy of Kneads

This thread has randomly reminded me of an ancient Usenet comment from a sci.space poster inadvertently referring to Henry Spencer (utzoo) as “the guy was a zoologist” [what does he know about space?]. Expertise lies in deep pockets of people just getting on with following their passions

I am beginning to wonder if the inability to feel shame is coincident with the inability to hold empathy

“We shall fight them near the beaches”

If only there was a simple way to prevent this sort of fake invoice scam www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3609...

I mean you could say that Nolan lost integrity with the whole gravity/time distortion bollocks with Miller's planet/Gargantua in Interstellar but people still like the movie

Exactly. This is the same faux outrage we had with Bridgerton, simply thinly-disguised racism

It’s a much smaller market and quite far away from everywhere.