Hot off the internets — there's a brand new kid on the DASL block: Web Tiles! It's still early days, some key features are missing, and there are some rough edges, but you can publish tiles to AT and play with the idea! webtil.es

I just did the math (and looking on Alibaba). The $2.7B spent on this singular LNG terminal could buy a million 5KW solar kits. Or 770,000 $10KW systems. Absolutely madness!

A drawing for you today

Do you remember when people were saying "I think my phone is listening to me, i'm getting ads for stuff I spoke about" and people said "They arent listening to you, they're just this good at predicting your interests"? Well, it happens they were doing exactly that. www.cbsnews.com/news/google-...

13 May 2012

Big recommendation for Sig Wilder and Friends. They're in the midst of their debut album launch and have decided to keep it off Spotify for very good reasons. It's on Bandcamp though and definitely worth a listen if you like "Americana" from the bottom of the earth! sigwilder.bandcamp.com/music

I haven't finished reading it yet but I did particularly enjoy this bit: > The world doesn't know it, but New Zealand already produces the successor to C++ (the world's most popular programming language) under the name JADE.

Whelp! Thanks for the reposts - looks like a bunch of new peeps came onboard. Now we have way more orders than we normally have and Thursday is gonna be mad. We’ll probably hit $3.5k by Tuesday night I think? Now I just need to find a place for the a sail boat in my truck to live by Thursday😅

Realised I haven’t done shill post for coshop.nz, my food startup co-op platform, which just kicked off this year! If you’re in Wellington check it out. Newtown, Miramar, Haitaitai and Berhampore coming onboard from next week! Peaches 🍑 at $3.31/kg! 👀

Just wanna go on record that I have been screaming since 2003.

NZ media acting as US state media is perhaps more of an uncalculated risk than these editors, managers and execs consider.

To be clear, what I am saying is that justifying or downplaying state-led extrajudicial killing is never acceptable for reasons that should be wildly fucking obvious, red sirens blaring, etc.

A little while back I glanced over responses to @metservice.com (I'd call it a utility account with general and occasional emergency info) posting the same posts to 1.1K followers on Bluesky & a supposedly 144K followers on X (so 130 times). Bluesky routinely had more engagement in the posts made.

Blacksky @blackskyweb.xyz now has its own servers running the network This means they're able to run their own feature development and moderation policies, while still connecting to Bluesky through the shared Atmosphere network! s/o to @rude1.blacksky.team and the blacksky team for amazing work

From the archives: "The Nobel peace prize is a who’s who of hawks, hypocrites and war criminals" (Spoiler: Henry Kissinger had one!)

I wonder how the white creators of these fake indigenous accounts experience the full on racism that their fake accounts experience? When they pretend to be a fake account and are harassed for no reason other than being indigenous, do they clock it?

Screenshots of some of the documents found in looted ICE vehicles from one of the livestreams before it got turned "private" on YouTube (after the other one already was). Share widely and make sure the genie can't go back in the bottle.

Dumbest Gestapo of all time

i would like to highlight the phrase "neighborhood signal chats"

Just a reminder that NOAA releases monthly desktop screens with calendars featuring deep-sea animals and its reminder right now that at least some in government are still wholesome oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/multimedia/c...

Louder for the folks in the back: thespinoff.co.nz/atea/13-01-2...

Mostly no, because non-consensual intimate images are generated overwhelmingly by men, overwhelmingly targeting women, and New Zealand demonstrably employs misogyny as a tool in every sphere of life with zero qualms whatsoever, including our media, our politicians, and as evidenced here, our policy.

This amazing map by NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information shows World Magnetic Model 2025 & why New Zealand is so beautifully placed to view Aurora. The strength of the red lines out of the poles plays important role. Magnetic south is now 2,860 kilometers NW of geo South Pole

Cabinet set a climate reporting threshold four times higher than officials recommended - and almost double what the minister himself had suggested: www.thepost.co.nz/politics/360...

And where is Kamal Harris now? In her $10M mansion in Malibu 😂 What a fucking joke of a candidate www.yahoo.com/entertainmen...

For the Wellington peeps, Kita is playing at the Botanical Garden’s Sound Shell this Wednesday night. One of the top gigs at Garden’s Magic IMHO as they have some great songs to dance to! m.youtube.com/watch?v=m7ON...

#ManageMyHealth Since we’ve all just found out how toothless the privacy and medical information legislation is in New Zealand I bring you this meme:

i believe the photographer who is taking the photo is Christopher Katsarov of the Canadian Press, and here is his photo

I cannot apologise enough…

Here’s a few nice pics of yesterday’s amazing sunset just out of Wellington. First time visiting Lake Kohangapiripiri, a beautiful spot I will definitely be heading back too!

Great interview from Issac Chotiner with Fatemeh Shams. www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...

So when authorities say “she tried to run over an officer,” that is not a neutral description. It is a claim of intent that can be used to justify lethal force after the fact. When the state kills first and invents the threat afterward, it is not policing, it is death squad behavior. /end

maybe there should be journalists who specialise in knowing stuff about tech

Bonus thread! 🧵 I just saw the FAQs on the MMH site and I have Thoughts on them (capital T)

the government should be spending one billion dollars to make a new XCOM game that runs on all systems including ipad

Unfortunately the Caracas Op is a massive win for Trump and the US far right, *especially* for the 'No More Foreign Wars' faction. Likely very few US casualties, no long term occupation or troop deployment and big show of US military power and prowess. They'll be frothing at the mouth for more it

Getting tons of videos from actual real human friends in Caracas reporting multiple explosions. Cant confirm exactly whats happening. Will make sure anything I do post is firsthand and not from an indirect source

Got a lot of new followers! Thanks Bluesky, ya'll are so nice 👋 I'm a freelance journalist in Colombia covering migration, peace-building (or lack thereof), and social movements I also help run Pirate Wire Services, an indie media company w freelancers all over LATAM www.piratewireservices.com

Strongly suggest that @aljazeera.com is the best place to follow events in #venezuela

Went for a snorkel on the south coast of Wellington and it’s like an Avatar movie minus the annoying blue people. Don’t know why I took so long to check it out, will be dragging my kids in as soon as I can!

My startup promoting solo boxing has failed but I’m not going to beat myself up about it

“Somehow the liberation technology of computing seemed to liberate seven specific companies and nobody else.” Good to hear the phrase “Liberation Technology” being used in the context of Bluesky and ATProtocol 👀 My todo list has “Host a Liberation Technology podcast” - maybe 2026 is the year?

Tis the season for data breaches, as Neighbourly.co.nz joins ManageMyHealth. It’ll probably mean a quick death or sale of Neighbourly as it was slowly dying already. 150GB is probably a full DB dump as it doesn’t include images. dailydarkweb.net/neighbourly-...

Our Right Wing government is already disenfranchising up to 14% of voters using emergency legislation with no debate or recourse or discussion I dont know how you can fundamentally change voting rights in NZ without a super majority but here we are #nzpol www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGFa...

Hmm thinking I might get my doc/pdf/random_files text extraction to Elasticsearch pipeline up and running that I used for the first batch of the Epstein files if there’s about 1 million files about to drop… Worked pretty well

Here's a gift link for the article. www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/open...

A bit late to the #SecretSantaAoNZ party but loving this present! I am indeed a coffee connoisseur and this book will probably tip me over into planting my own coffee bushes 😅 My kids are already eyeing up that chocolate and that sticker is going on my laptop Thanks so much whoever you are!