Fish have committed credit card fraud

I like that Air NZ has this special feature to freak me out the day before a trip, by saying the trip is to a different city than the one I expect it to say

I do not want to pack my bags for Wellington. I want to sit in the yard and play guitar, or shoot Skittles with a slingshot. I don't have any Skittles.

I've posted a photo of this before and it continues to amuse me. Don't create maintenance tasks for yourself!

In case relevant to your interests, the University of Otago's Indigenous Knowledge and Technology Symposium in December will be having a public keynote, also online via Zoom: "AI and mana motuhake: the case for te reo Māori" www.otago.ac.nz/news/events/...

Those clowns at the ice cream factory

You’re giving a perfectly good ape anxiety, thats what you’ve done

Meanwhile, back at Cloudflare headquarters...

Eno diary, 18 Nov 95: "Sorting out CDs. I have so many, no idea where most came from. It’s so easy to make ‘sonic landscapes’ now..millions of people at it. A whole technology exists for it..by the time a whole technology exists for something it probably isn’t the most interesting thing to be doing.

#3157 A helpful tutorial

Are any of my Aotearoa followers in Christchurch/Ōtautahi? I'm curious if any of you know my old co-workers from Lincoln Uni, Helen Gilmore or Maurice Ward. I've kind of lost track of them after we moved home to Canada.

Love this so much. 💜

learning to program in the late 90s and early 00s, you’d inevitably run across classic works like Goto Considered Harmful and No Silver Bullet, even if you weren’t particularly bookish, and there was tons of discourse about HCI as well, all grounded in decades of research i’m afraid that’s all gone

got a usb audio interface and messed around with guitars until the sound stopped working, quite fun

this should immediately have a commentator REMOVED from their roles, instead it’s a strong signal of just how decrepit and servile to power nz media is

a “Space Force”, if you will

Kid picked up this t-shirt at the Disk Den, I can't find record of the band but the shop owner said they were Dunedin local. Appears to be a 90s era print from the fabric. Does anyone recall Ronnie Raygun and the Destroyers? Or is it fiction?

My Lines of Flight 2025 t-shirt is already experiencing bit rot and I'm here for it

An awful, awful example of what happens when you use AI scribe systems in healthcare without any meaningful form of redress for their erroneous output. Setting a "compliance" policy that doesn't allow clinical staff to change AI generated fields without intervention is definitely a money decision.

Ōtepoti: Palestine solidarity Rally for Palestine Saturday 15th November 2-4pm Upper Octagon image: same info, illustrated with Palestinian flag at the bottom & a background photo of a person holding up a sign "Stop the genocide", amongst a crowd of people

Got this pot back from a blackened mess of burned rhubarb. Thanks grapefruit spoon, top tier decarboniser.

AI could end scarcity, end humanity - or boost trend growth by 0.2 percentage points

Landing the plane is the future of plane-landing. We’re laser focused on landing the plane.

Wonder why this scene looks so familiar... #WildlifeWednesday 🐦🐕

Teenage Engineering's EP 40 Riddim 'n' Ting is now available & will be getting it's first full worldwide launch tomorrow at Music Works, Dominion Road, 6-8PM. I'll be joining Dylan Wood, Lachlan Powell & Nick De Friez to kick it off & preach the dub & the TE 1/2 teenage.engineering/store/riddim...

I am happy! About six weeks ago I made my knee angry playing netball. I think I bumped knees with another player, or I was getting too excited on the jumping and turning. It's taken AGES of sore knee but I got back on the court tonight, we played a good game and won, I wasn't as fast as I like

If this were a bunch of Pakeha farmers having to go back to court to relitigate an award of water rights because the government had changed allocation rules the media, business and legal establishments would be united in decrying it as the death of the rule of law.

can't believe you can just midi from the browser (webmidi) * some provisions apply

Legal weed people - I have a question: Is it possible to have a prescription subsidised/paid for when treating for severe MH like bipolar?

When I say I don't want to have kids but I still want to be involved in their lives, this is what I mean

Early humans were online an hour, maybe two hours, per day

WTF. 🤦 #nzpol

this is what the fear litany means when it says you have to face your fear and let it wash over and through you so that when you turn to face the path the fear laid, only you remain

I do not give ants permission to crawl on me Repost this on your own page to prevent ants from crawling on you

Ōtepoti: community solidarity The Bowling Club community eatery is still going strong They continue to provide free meals & need our support to deliver them. If you have capacity to (time, transport, fuel), please consider picking up a frozen meal & delivering it. website for general info:

If you’re working in an industry covered by one of the private or public sector unions and you’re not a member of a union, after reading Judith’s ‘open letter’ you should seriously reconsider your decision. #nzpol

1 night without electricity (Dunedin outage due to severe winds), & I was slightly annoyed. Can you imagine 2 years without electricity, water, food, & constant killing? (Gaza) Of course not. Nor should you. That’s why we object to genocide, not just empathy, but who’s next if allowed? #nzpol

Folks, wishing everyone a restful & restorative Labour weekend, wherein we give thanks to Sam Parnell & the Labour movement & unions for the 8 hr day:

Gonna repost this every time I come across it on socials. 💚

trampolines are roaming the neighbourhood

The government shutdown is especially tough on men, who are losing $1.00 for every 75¢ a woman loses.

wow, the lead negotiator doesn't know what the demands are? seems like he might be bad at his job huh

Say no to AI, say yes to divination. Say no to the ChatBot, say yes to channeling spirit through the tarot & the cast of the cowries & the arrangement of the coffee grounds.

start to feel a bit on edge when I haven't seen the moon a few days

If you're an Aotearoa Tech Union (ATU) member, you might have wondered what's happening with the union lately? Please consider signing this letter (Google Form) requesting an SGM so we can decide! https://forms.gle/kyVWEDqBT2kPppr7A

It's a glorious & still day right now, and I've hung the laundry indoors based on the forecast turning to wind and rain again today. Clothes all about the yard when I came home yesterday.

Happy Diwali everyone 🪔🫃