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Bit late to it but if you want to know the chain of events that led to us importing gas (and charging electricity users to pay for it!!), I did this deep dive for RNZ last year www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

Worth noting that the Trump admin today reaffirmed its opposition to annexation of the occupied West Bank— and this should reaffirm to everyone who pays attention that words do not mean anything if actions are absent. Whether it's a Democrat or a Republican, de facto annexation has been occurring.

So I read in some article that folks are adding deliberate typos to their writing in order to dispel suspicions that they’re getting machines to speak for them. That’s coward shit. I say just use the word “fuck” more. In the face of enshittification, commence the enfuckening.

The thing with ufos is if aliens wanted to blend in they shouldn’t fly ufos they should drive around in a 2009 Ford Focus bc if I see one of those parked at the gas station I accept whatever comes out with no questions

Dinosaur Convention Bans All Paleontologists Named in Epstein Files www.thewrap.com/culture-life...

so i talked to one of the bushes at the super bowl www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/...

More accountability than anyone in Washington or in the news media

omg everybody go draw a horse this is what the internet was made for gradient.horse

And I actually do think if polls continue to drop the way they are (and I think that's the likely future), legislators will realize that staging this sort of obvious coup would result in civil war that they can't ultimately win. And that they likely won't fare well in the aftermath

Okay, I’ve heard all the criticisms. I agree now that my plan to create a Jonestown on Mars was foolish and dangerous. I will instead be building a much more achievable Jonestown on the Moon

i fucking love this place i’ll never leave

Policy uncertainty seems to be hallmark of this government.

[previously in the NYT] Hart: i've sold AI to to Brockway, Ogdenville and North Haverbrook and by gum it put them on the map NYT: wow! sounds legit! Hart: and look! i've got your nose! NYT: OH MY GAWD NYT: are you a wizard??

I think this works out as about as much per head every year as they're claiming to cut from the average bill?

in a recent battlebots season there was one competitor that was 100% self-driving and it felt - to a surprising degree - like a strong, fundamental betrayal of the spirit of the sport. even though the entire point is we're here to watch robots fight. good news though, that bot lost every match hard

They said part of the discord age rollout thing involves inferring age from activity or whatever. It’s gonna open up one of my messages saying: “I used to walk to the comic book shop on the corner to buy anime tapes” and go 🤖AGE DETECTED🤖 🤖USER IS 85 YEARS OLD🤖 🤖RECOMMENDING NURSING HOMES🤖

Shit I didn't include the link. Maybe you shouldn't trust me. Draw your horse here: gradient.horse

oh my god it's stupider than that, it's going to check to see whether you're playing Fortnite

Like I dunno, I keep thinking about how every time women, especially older women, start becoming *visible* in a left-of-center movement, instead of just invisibly making it run, there’s complaints that the movement is somehow now too centrist.

its funny to consider that this regime comprises some of the most twitter-addicted people the world has ever produced. i mean they have it so much worse than anyone you've ever known. it runs their lives. glinner levels. and it's 2026! they'e mostly performing for bots and foreign scammers

Honestly doesn't seem like it should be that hard to provide a strong answer that doesn't bind... "When we enter office we will obviously be evaluating this project and many others at that stage. We don't think it's the right way forward and will assess it with that in mind."

These are actually quite fun to make, I can see why romance authors do them 😅 If any of these get you interested, follow the kickstarter prelaunch page: www.kickstarter.com/projects/lot... #booksky

Sensible decision from the Crown, I think. Had a decent chance of winning on appeal (the judge in the High Court clearly signaled things had only just got over the line), but an unhelpful precedent for government is MUCH more of an issue when it comes from the Court of Appeal than the High Court.

the first choice is literally what Jesus would teach, i feel like i'm losing my mind

PROFESSIONAL GRADE LOGISTICS happening over here.

Seems like a very long way of screaming "hodl" at the American people.

Sweeping new measures that expand Israeli control in the occupied West Bank will cement de facto annexation and bring an end to the Oslo Accords, analysts say, dashing hopes for a Palestinian state.

The White House just sent a "Don't Panic" email. That'll do it

Placebo interactions, such as 'please obtain signature' labels on courier packages

"[Bad Bunny] could have highlighted the electrical grid crisis in PR and done some good with his platform, but he chose degeneracy!"

The term is so rare that out of over 300,000 news entries, it only appeared first in May 7 2024 in a "news" article on evangelical blog World News Group called "Giving evil a pleasant label." This was logged two days before EPPC posted the document on May 9. web.archive.org/web/20250908...

This headline means something completely different to what the author intended to Star Trek fans

god forbid someone ask you a question about something you said instead of looking it up and (checks notes) getting the wrong answer because search engines don't work anymore

Keep him! “Information continuing to emerge from eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) claims that the M23 armed group has detained Erik Prince, the American national known as the founder and former head of the private military company Blackwater.“

new sassy owl who diss

v1.116 is rolling out now! For all the overthinkers and perfectionists out there, we're launching Drafts.

Enjoyed this brief clip of the Iraqi Army Chief of Staff (who has served in the Iraqi Army since 1984!) visiting Ain al-Asad airbase and meeting with Army Aviation officers, who have recently begun induction of the Chinese CH-5 combat/recon drone, and the Chinese technical support team.

The general consensus of everyone I have had coffee with is there will be a tsunami of AI slop this election year. Also a consensus of try not to add to it by sharing it yourself even if you like examples, and to talk to people person to person as much as you can.

a nice thing about when the internet was a bunch of little sites and servers was that it was a lot harder for governments to pressure "the chat provider everyone uses" to implement age verification. you wanna pressure 300 separate IRC servers? good luck with that. but one company? easy

some things are actually getting worse here.

The consequences curve is now so sharp companies can do the finding out months before they fuck around

GOD IS REAL

I absolutely guarantee you that the below and Luxon announcing a gas terminal isn't a coincidence. Corrupt piece of shit #nzpol

Good to see Lewis Goodall at least addressing this, a thing nobody else I’ve seen has had a go at.

I remain shocked by how much work was done after Katrina (subj of my diss) on evacuating pets in disasters relative to evacuating people without cars, or with disabilities, or with poverty, or elderly, or, or, or

now that's the power of a union

Bad Bunny’s performance began in the plantation, featured broken electric poles, and ended by centering a hemispheric understanding of “América”—among many other things—and some Anglo journalists are like “his performance wasn’t political.” This is why we need to be telling our stories.