It will be really depressing, but horribly, darkly funny, if Artemis is crippled by windows software crud or copilot generative llm code in it's onboard computers, rather than dodgy o-ring booster seals.

This is amusing :-)

If anyone is wondering why I'm not even trying to look for employment in NZ as a scientist after getting the chop from GNS Science last year, this is why:

Noting that Clearview products are already in use/in trial for several years on and off by the NZ police and other local services.

We all need to start trolling Luxon asking when he's reinstating the EV subsidies, and what his timeframe is for nationalising the power companies and subsidizing national rooftop solar and E-trikes for every urban pensioner, beneficiary and solo mum.

1/ The world is facing a 'ticking time bomb' from its supply of oil, according to a briefing note from JP Morgan. Physical scarcity of oil is about to unfold across the globe, spreading sequentially through April from east to west, causing major economic disruption worldwide. ⬇️

You don't have to be much less evil than the other guy to be remembered as 'the good empire', unfortunately.

Main engineer of the Prototype Super High Resolution Ion Microprobe (SHRIMP 1), while maintaining it, indicated the ion collector post on multimillion$ machine, told me 'Brace this, no, with your shoulder, hard' manifested huge hammer, slammed it, micrometer check, hit again, measured, nodded, done.

TIL that Doctorow was talking shit about Audre Lorde (in the same way that y'all fave at Techdirt did on that podcast):

I caused my first UFO sighting in 1977 when I was about 5, by letting go of a 2 foot diameter pink balloon full of hydrogen. Later in my teens me and my siblings regularly launched 3 to 4 metre tall glowing green hot air balloons at night, causing many more calls to talkback radio about UFO's...

Wikipedia now has higher standards than all universities

A gravity map of earth: apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap26032...

10th month of deployment; Crossed the atlantic three times so far, sewage system borked, and now a fire depriving the crew of 600 bunk spaces. So, how about that mutiny health bar in the corner of the captains dashboard?

For all the right loves to beat the nationalism drum for their own populist benefit, they don't actually want you to be able to work out what war does, or remember it accurately:

Nobby in Feet of Clay had the right response to people discovering that you're a politically useful lost scion of aristocracy, which is to hit the window helmet first and keep running, and then hide the evidence:

Cultural Neomarxist?

what the fuck is going on in Sam Altman’s head

The ghost of Rob Muldoon and his centrally planned socialist command economy has entered the chat, cackling wildly: www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360...

This is why I spent years doing spatial autocorrelation and horizontal to vertical spectral ratio measurements around Wellington, so that we could map the resonant behaviour of the Wellington basin. And then a whole lot of buildings had to be strengthened or taken down, because we got better maps

What most media takes are starting to sound like these days: www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/wha...

If I'd rushed into a poorly planned campaign around a notorious maritime choke point that left it closed to friendly shipping I'd carefully lay off the Churchill comparisons, but hey...

love how we killed the old, frail anti-nuke ayatollah just to have him replaced with his young, healthy son who wants nukes and who just had his father, mother, wife, and child murdered on the same day by his mortal enemy. surely this will bring peace to the region

Return of the Numbers Station, Farsi edition. Makes sense if you can't trust any other coms system, back to Cold War tradecraft. <shivers>

Stating the obvious here but it seems to constantly need re-stating for the centrists and those to their right.

Ave Bossa Nova, similis Bossa Seneca (Terry Pratchett's Discworld latin from Night Watch, said by the Zombie Lawyer Mr Slant, when the new Patrician, is just as corrupt as the Patrician they've just helped assassinate)

Now think what happens when you're in a glaciated nation and this happens in a fjord, so the wave is confined.

What was that line about, something something can't be held accountable, so must never make a management decision?

Generative AI, automated abusive Mechanical Turk edition - the ongoing exploitation of low waged disadvantaged workers in the global south for data classification and moderation gives the lie to generative AI being of any ethical use at all

Once again, these people are now a deathcult; Machine learning is useful, but adding power and training data to bigger generative models won't result in their singularity, just a massive waste of resources right when we've kicked off the biggest carbon excursion in a million years

Sociopathic and just, plain cruel and ignorant. The State Department will let lifesaving projects expire because “there is no strong nexus between the humanitarian response and U.S. national interests,” according to an internal email.

Naalebinding Represent!

Flushed with success of prohibiting homeless people, the Luxon govt moved on to prohibit poor people. By Xmas we were the richest fuckers in the world

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

Another economist confesses that the only unskilled labor is economist

Have you read Part One of @ketanjoshi.co's two-part series unpacking the collapsing core case for gas? Don’t miss it – read the full piece on The Point: https://theaus.in/4tMX4sE

A new sillywalk for Bollarded areas just dropped.

So it turns out the hit journalist who fabricated the 'cycleways caused the Moa Point sewage disaster' piece, doesn't even exist, so as per usual, completely faked propaganda job by NZCPR, a mouthpiece for ACT and the Taxpayers union: mountaintui.substack.com/p/nzcpr-auth...

Hey, Aotearoa NZ, isn't it time we put together some rules about trading with fascist rogue states engaging in ethnic cleansing on their own populations while also engaging in unsanctioned extrajudicial executions on the high seas and blatant internal corruption? www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

In case you missed it, hark at this yarn ft Aotearoa's own Topham Guerin

And like any good dealer, they're making sure they hook you on it good and hard with the free samples before they start charging.

Once again, noting that if they are comfortable shooting and covering up citizen deaths for this long, then there will very likely be many more non citizen deaths also covered up.

It's important for New Zealanders who don't subscribe to the March 2019 Christchurch killer's violent extremism, & white supremacism to appreciate the degree to which what's in his 'manifesto' (which remains banned in the country) is openly signalled by, & inspires influential far-right podcasts.

Was at a talk today where someone essentially threw game theory and the prisoner's dilemma in a box, shot it, dropped it down the Mariana Trench before proceeding to yell that economics isn't abstract it's relational and has to do with people you idiots and our obligations to each other AS PEOPLE

In genetics: 'Trans-acting' = a gene exerts influence on another gene on a different chromosome. 'Expression' = when a gene produces an effect in the cell They tagged two of the most common terms in genetic research for defunding because we put fascist tech-bros in charge of our science. 😠

I have a billion dollar movie idea: Prequel to Jane Austen’s Persuasion, but it’s about Captain Frederick Wentworth’s naval career in the Napoleonic Wars

Get in, Losers, we're heading for a Pliocene Interglacial: www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

A 1551 print of Ptolemy’s Almagest annotated by Galileo Galilei has been newly discovered in the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Firenze! 🌙🔭🪐 #HistSci

I'm not even sure that tons of software is being produced. It certainly wasn't the case when this was written in September 25 mikelovesrobots.substack.com/p/wheres-the...

So the wave buoy at the entrance to the harbour recorded a 13 meter wave this morning: Don't think too hard about all the grogans surfing in on that from the failed privately owned sewage centre that had to shift to the short outfall pipe again in the storm last night.

The three waters are floodwater, fecal contaminated water and nitrate contaminated water—