Huh, Herald nuked this 2017 article of then-kingmaker Winston some time since January this year web.archive.org/web/20171002...

big day for cooker news eh

Winston screwed up naming his missing boats - boats in AoNZ have to be registered with unique names - in the Maritime NZ online register "Kupe" and "Cook" are not available because presumably they are already taken

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the future is here and it is picking images for news alerts

After more than 10 years of torrenting Netflix's content I will probably give this one a swerve

A typical emergency website development workflow goes like: 1. add NPM packages until it works 2. demo it to stakeholders, they love it 3. time passes, emergency happens 4. website folds like a map 5. "due to unusually high demand" 6. thank fuck that's not happening any more 7. GOTO 3

Poll time! Should the NEMA official who — after the civil defence website crashed during a potential tsunami situation — said on Morning Report that people need to learn to rely on their "human sense of danger" be fired... a. From his job b. Out of a fucking cannon

We crashed the civil defense site? Don't like that. #eqnz

the great truth of New Zealand journalism is that it will elevate the most objectionable shitheels imaginable, the sort of insufferable people who you leave parties to avoid, and will then form an orderly queue with shining eyes to lick their boots

TDDA: we would like to buy some advertising on your news website RNZ: we don’t sell advertising, were a non commercial state medi— I mean state *funded* media org TDDA: oh. Wait, I have an idea www.rnz.co.nz/news/crime-a...

love to see the 90s picture box gimmick deployed for… a few inches of bald head

the worst thing about AI is not what has done and will continue to do, it will be what needs to change to make it retroactively okay to do

Holy shit

I guess it would be too much to ask for the Biosecurity portfolio to be taken over by someone with more skin in the game, and not the political equivalent of the Star Trek away-team red shirt guy

he had to do a Snickers commercial that was predicated on it being a well known fact he's an arsehole just to be able to buy a flight back home

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the internet is a series of rakes

I have no idea why any reasonable person would believe anything tech companies say about anything at this point, AI related or otherwise hostile skepticism should be the public default

haha some stupid bastard who drew the short straw will be currently briefing our prime minister on who Sam Neill was. Between dinosaurs, the joy of cinema, and the idea of being generally liked, they're going to be in for a long night.

the Nats must be at least a little bit nervous about this guy. There's not an official published limit on how much of an asshole you can be before ruling yourself ineligible to be a National MP, but MH surely exceeds it, they have no control over him, and he's high AF on the clout rn

> So instead of asking "why not React?" we asked: Which of our actual problems would React solve? We went through the list. There were none. kore-nordmann.de/blog/htmx-an...

As always, live your life so that your death is not received as good news

We all have to post as hard as possible about Lindsey Graham's death so we can see who wins by getting cited in an article in the Atlantic about how Bluesky is destroying the fabric of American politics next week.

In addition to "hi, please send us a photo of the thing you're claiming does not exist", assorted dumbass things of the everyone-has-a-camera-24/7-era, in no particular order:

rekt

Dearest readers: don’t send authors typo corrections. There are a lot of reasons for that which I will detail below, but the tl;dr: it helps nobody but your own sense of superiority.

4. Unless an error fundamentally obscures understanding (like a find/replace that accidentally took out all the “king”s and replaced them with “president”s but now we have parpresident lots), it is much easier for you to go heh and keep reading than it is for us to do anything.

Altman always has an expression on his face like he just saw some cops in the doorway while the maître d’ is pointing out where he is

"Elections are bad for the economy" is a myth. NZ GDP growth since 1990: Election years: 3.1% Non-election years: 2.8% Election years outperform. Housing dips pre-election, then bounces back. Business confidence sags, then recovers. Narrative is politically useful. Data isn't. #nzpol

I just installed Instagram’s dumbass 562MB app just so I could turn this off for my dormant acct, bc of course you can’t use the web to do it. www.rnz.co.nz/news/busines...

It's all in the public domain, but I don't think people have fully absorbed just how much NZ First is now the party of the Covid antivaxxers and all the conspiracy theorists who orbit them, and how much worse this will get when Shane Jones becomes leader.

Mulder dropping his gun. XFiles was such a good show for drinking/bingo

this was always the plan IMO, get people thinking and talking about the dream until they're so addicted to the idea the costs and timeframe no longer matter, just as long as it arrives eventually

Your regular reminder that Free Software isn't just $0.00, it's software that can't be taken away from you, at least not as easily as this. If the creator loses their head and decides to break it in some way you can just say "oh no thanks, I will keep doing the thing on the computer I own"

Hey Siri, what is the rotational speed of Steve Jobs in his grave, in radians per second stored as a float?

This one's all for @staybunn.bsky.social Not going near the Chandrasekhar blend again though. Made my whole face pucker. half the town too.

haha, the new Whangārei Nat guy trying to heightmaxx with the tiptoes

The whole fucking network is down, but yes okay I will try restarting my router on the off chance the first step in the Consumer Helpdesk Flowchart somehow fixes a digger with a mouthful of fiberoptic cable

one of those it-is-what-it-is stories that's only news because 👺CYCLEWAYS 👺 Take the cycleways away and you've still got… Wellington, where you could park next to the letterbox and still have an ear-popping hike to get to the front door www.rnz.co.nz/news/communi...

*chef's kiss* implied breaking of the laws of physics symbolic, but defunct refinery in background the 'delivery' being a thing that was already there hard hats all round couldn'ta done it without you bro back-slap from conspicuous prole BYO pull-quote Kim Jong Il didn't have it this good

This is the cop who told me rape and death threats were "public criticism" that journalists should expect and weren't intended to harm me because they weren't directly sent to me.

roughly translated: if you let me smoke all your crack I might come up with a way to generate *infinite crack* from old milk bottles www.nzherald.co.nz/business/com...

Every power-saving tips article ever: your bill would be cheaper if you used less power You: okay but how can I use less power Them: by getting another bill which is even bigger You: so I'm fucked? Them: yes PowerCo CEO: [snorting cocaine off a quartet of Scandinavian escorts] yes

… and let's say it's $1300 for a new fridge (for family sized, you're looking at a lot more), so that's 13 years to payback, which is more than the expected lifetime of the fridge anyway.

Seriously, how did I just *know*

it is just insane that this performative bullshit is even perceived to have net positive optics

Seems like The Post has done the crucial job of a capital city daily: reporting well-sourced coverage of a nascent government decision so foolish that, in the cold light of day, the minister has been obliged to deny that it was ever going ahead www.thepost.co.nz/politics/361...