Timeline is pretty bleak today. Outta here for a while....

Literally, at work this morning: Clinician: Patient should stop medication A, but must keep taking medication B. AI VR transcription of this: Patient should stop taking medication B. Seriously NEVER LET A DOCTOR USE AI FOR YOUR APPOINTMENTS. NEVER. UNDER ANY FUCKING CIRCUMSTANCES.

CT scans are pretty important for detecting stroke, brain swelling, and aortic dissection.

Does the Mayor of Wellington truly believe the sea is now safe enough to swim in, or is he just… …going through the motions? 🤔💩

Luxon reminds me of executives who force you to do things you know won’t work and they never take that advice and eventually things fail and they throw their team under the bus and they get moved from org to org and then eventually getting pushed out and they do the same thing at the next company.

Voyager 1 is currently more than 24 billion kilometres from Earth and getting 17km farther every second and hilariously it is not as out of touch with New Zealand as our Prime Minister

FYI I’ve opened this one up for full public reading, listening & sharing after requests from paying subscribers. Their support allows me to do this public interest journalism on Aotearoa’s political economy around housing, climate & poverty in public. #nzpol open.substack.com/pub/thekaka/...

Happy 'Former Freemason, 51, found drunk and naked inside a huge pipe organ with a toy gun and remote-controlled police car says he got lost while trying to hand out cheeseburgers to the homeless' Day to those who celebrate. And, before you ask, I'm 49.

I have a rough night sleeping every night. Have done for a while. I wonder if cops turning up to move me on would help me sleep any better? Also, who the hell called it rough sleeping? These folk are homeless.

This is brilliant, and also everything journalism should be.

I’m over live blogs and explainers. Looking for concise and accurate news reporting instead.

Worse and worse

Just the GenX urge.

A better phone UX: Thank you for calling [business]. Do you want ads on this call, press 1. Do you want the same tune repeated for 30 minutes, press 2. Would you like to wait in silence, with the odd update, press 3.

You can completely uninstall/disable copilot on Windows. Your system and local search will run faster afterward. www.howtogeek.com/how-to-rip-o...

@danslevin.funeralsandsnakes.net You going to get the 2026 Thunderbird release?

Bit of a shake in the Hutt Valley, and it wasn’t wind! #eqnz

My state of origin is pretty windswept, to be honest. And wet.

The Trump years were dark. But in little NZ they never lost hope. For NZ had a leader of rare and inspiring character. In the face of endless climate disaster and economic implosion, he always had just the right uplifting words: "Welcome to IKEA" "Welcome to State of Origin" "Check out my Spotify"

I have been experimenting with using up the whey that is left over from making greek yoghurt at home. Here is a pancake I just made with whey instead of milk. The extra acid in the whey seems to gives an extra boost and hold!

Giving this a boost as it is a great cause! www.braintumoursupport.org.nz/brainy-beanies

Zuckerberg isn’t an inventor. He’s not an original thinker. All his ideas were iterative and the rest he bought after they became popular. If he has an idea and it doesn’t already exist, bet against it.

Without naming your job, tell me something you say over and over again at work. “Take it from two before B through to four after C.”

Documents show RFK Jr lied to Congress about his agenda in Samoa—he did indeed go to spread anti-scientific doubts about vaccines. He was ultimately successful in getting an outbreak going there that killed 83 people, mostly babies and young children.

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

You’re telling me the digital money made to let people do money laundering and conduct crimes like bribes and pay for illegal stuff maybe not stable in any way shape or form. Shocking truly shocking news.

1Password not mincing words here: "If you are experimenting with OpenClaw, do not do it on a company device. Full stop." "If you have already run OpenClaw on a work device, treat it as a potential incident and engage your security team immediately." 1password.com/blog/from-ma...

"AI is rapidly populating medical records with synthetic content, creating a feedback loop [that] drives a rapid erosion of pathological variability and diagnostic reliability...this renders AI generated documentation clinically useless after just two generations" www.medrxiv.org/content/10.6...

Gift article. wapo.st/4q5tv2n

A new study from Anthropic finds that gains in coding efficiency when relying on AI assistance did did not meet statistical significance; AI use noticeably degraded programmers’ understanding of what they were doing. Incredible.

me: *visits a new website* the website: *allow/deny notifications widget* the website: *cookies settings bar* the website: *gives us your email for free newsletter and—* me: *closes website*

NZ taxpayers spent $6M to bring Michelin stars here and only paid $3M to the WHO. Contributing to world health seems like a much better spend to me. #nzpol

i was at the scene shortly after ICE executed a man they were piled on top of. my report and photos are on webworm: www.webworm.co/icekillsagain/ "There is no justification for letting that many bullets go. That's messed up, That is no regard for life at all" a lifelong resident told me. fuck ice.

Turn off auto play on your videos *right now* and if the video crosses your timeline you do not have to share it!!

@grammargirl.bsky.social I am catching up on episodes and I noticed a change in the audio processing on your voice. Is it me or did something change?

Reminder: regime voter suppression means you need to enrol early. vote.nz/enrolling/en...

This guy. THIS GUY.

Dr. Gladys West, the pioneering mathematician whose work laid the foundation for modern GPS technology, has died. She was 95.

Hey, AI people. Stop what you're doing and read this at once. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

This is a hammer. It is my only tool. It does not seem to be working, so this year I will swing it more frequently and with greater vigour to get us back on track.

This is an important story and I'm glad it so clearly makes the point that hospice isn't just a place you go to die, it's also a service delivered out in the community. Hospice nurses are absolute champs at working out what people need and getting it to happen. This system cannot be allowed to fail.

#nzpol - I have had a look at these 'green shoots' ahead of the Prime Minister's State of the Nation Speech on Monday. The data tells us that we have spent two years regressing. Let’s not make it another 4. More at: craigrenney.substack.com/p/the-recove...

Business is booming! Confidence is up! Oh wait…

We've voted with our feet and not used ManageMyHealth for ordering a repeat prescription. Problem is that the practice is not equiped (even though they have one) for phone-based repeats. Ordered on Monday, still not processed by this morning.

"Like our tūpuna, many New Zealanders today don’t understand what’s truly happening with our data. If eight muskets once bought islands, what are we now trading for cloud convenience?"