sometimes I like to play a game where I read the replies to political posts and try to guess which ones are bots repeating talking points and which ones are people repeating bot talking points

french wikipedia is the only language that has a "list of bastards" article

I don't use the eMac a lot these days, but this bit of plywood had a bit of a bow in it needed fixing

that ain't gumboot day that's tool time

NASA

Tried this. Went on this weird date with someone who kept asking ‘is this still available’ then buggering off to the dunny for half an hour. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/t...

Nintendo Gamma Boy

@lyndonhood.bsky.social was just reminded of this banger

Tired: fuck off Wired: after a strategic review we're highlighted a significant value creation opportunity in you being on the other side of the door

Mozilla deployed an AI bot that overwrote 20 years of volunteer Japanese translations, without consultation. JP community leader resigned, and the offer from Mozilla is to "hop on a quick call to understand why they're struggling". FFS. HN discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4583...

Herald reporter: [drags cigarette] "Tim Jago? That's a name I haven't heard in a long time" [other journos side-eye while scribbling furiously in notepads] NZH: "haven't heard it in AAAAAGES m8" Judge: "I can't force him to cover the case, but can someone pull his earplugs out ask him to be quiet"

Imagine NZ’s cabinet ministers commanding the flight deck of a giant airliner. At their fingertips, an extraordinary array of flight instruments with high tech signal pathways and data switching capabilities. All aimed at enhancing situational awareness to support decision making.

Fines that are less than revenue are not regulation. It’s just income tax. It’s not regulation, it’s the opposite.

Meta earns $3.5 billion every six months from showing Faceboon and Instagram users 15 billion “higher legal risk” scam ad impressions a day, internal documents state. That haul vastly exceeds how much the company expects regulators To fine it for running scam ads. www.reuters.com/investigatio...

The #eznz actually *stopped* the dog’s panting from the fireworks hours ago. His first earthquake did not go how I expected.

it's quite a sight when 5 tonnes of tightly wound copper wire just… turns into a gas

pretty sure this is against the chess rules

FYI this is what you do when your business is great and you are very liquid and creditworthy

*David Bowie voice* CChinges/Fries for 3.40/CChinges

Haha they used louise-upston-announces-beneficiaries-to-be-fed-into-shredder.jpeg and not louise-upston-happy-times.jpeg

Prevalence of colour blindness around the world

Fair, but the commentary I've seen around it has been less Winston-is-my-daddy-now and more hey, how come the guy who usually encourages us to pull wings off flies and set fire to rubbish bins is giving a seminar in the library on hand washing today? thespinoff.co.nz/politics/06-...

Mamdani has won more votes than the entire population of any of the 5 smallest states.

You can see what Satya gets the big bucks. Feeding $100 bills directly into a shredder for 8 hours a day, the average person could only destroy about $3 million a day, or a quarter billion in 90 days. www.theregister.com/2025/10/29/m...

I want to think he shat himself at fireworks last night, prompting him to pen a stern letter to the editor in the form of a bill, but it's more likely he was - like me - cuddling his scared dog, so I'm with him on this occasion. Let's call time on Fuckwit Christmas. www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

it's cool how above a certain level, fraud just becomes kinda like when McDonalds forget to put napkins in the bag, no big deal really www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

okay now just hold up a second, bc if it’s the ordinary user password which can only review footage but not delete it, this would be quite a usual thing, and the media shouting fire in a crowded theatre would also be quite a usual thing, no?

What AI hype, its hour come at last, slouches towards LinkedIn to produce statistically average thought leadership pieces.

Herald seem to be going long on the reporting of things that are on fire lately, and I can't help but wonder what tedious policy conclusion this is all meant to dovetail into

Mum sent me this from Fiji. On ya, Mum.

Gave up on being on my bullshit about how maintaining a wall between editorial and newsdesk is important if major mastheads want their news desks to be trusted, but I'll take it for one last ride by leaving this here:

Crèche. In Remuera I believe it is pronounced 'crèche'

seeing this reasonably valuable tutorial hiding behind an Internet Slop Economy headline has got me wondering if high school mathematics would have got more traction if it were framed that way css-tricks.com/the-most-hat...

Can't wait to watch a horror movie on my favorite free streaming platform, the main page of Wikipedia!!! The full 94 minute original Nosferatu is on up right now. Last halloween it had Night of the Living Dead!

grim seeing MS and Apple both announce banger quarters at a time growing numbers of people are sick of their shit. What's the plan here, are we just going to try and get the tapeworm to gorge itself to death?

Almost zero nutritional value in 3 minutes of video Holiday traffic a bit slow: yeah, news flash Q: Why is the highway such a priority *now*? A: 😅 Q: 18 billion is quite a lot, isn't it? A: Yes, it's the same as eighteen billions. Q: why not start with the Brynderwyns? A: because they're not

NZ be like

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At a fundamental level, we have to accept much of silicon valley has gone insane.

Labour: [proposes CGT] Top 1%ers: Ha! This won't hurt us, we'll just… we'll just… convert our portfolios to potatoes. It'll actually hurt you more, because potatoes will become expensive and we'll make *even more money* Mike Hosking: Here's why Jacinda is an idiot for thinking CGT would work

I've built a socioeconomic system that depends on everyone to do useful work and act ethically except the people at the top, who get unimaginable rewards for being antisocial frauds and criminals. And I think it will stand the test of time

I think the right is fairly obviously going to be the side with the well funded and entirely mercenary political apparatus. Sincerity and collective action just work different so it's not a case of copying

The Auckland University chair of macroeconomics, who hasn't left his office since 1975, thinks there are are people "worth a few hundred thousand" who are landlords and that houses are worth $100k.

you can see why this guy gets the big bucks eh

An AI 'music' slop poster on reddit is so close to getting it...

Being a self taught programmer is hearing some piece of terminology you‘ve never heard of once a week, looking it up and finding it’s something you’ve been doing for years, but with a name better than “the thing that does the thing”

That Nicola Willis video is unhinged. I stopped watching when she said capital letters themselves would cost more and I assume it only went downhill from there

I am sure NZME will be already working tirelessly to clear up any misconceptions and confusion around the scope of the propsed Capital Gains Tax for tomorrow's edition

If I could change one thing about political reporting in New Zealand it would be the reflex to treat policy criticism from the political opposition as not only meaningful but the most important thing.