It’s really funny seeing this after that Ars Technica snafu with including completely AI-fabricated “quote-shaped objects” in their reporting about AI agents wreaking havoc. Newspapers are really going through it now, huh?

Ōtautahi peeps: www.thepress.co.nz/nz-news/3609...

Failing to check the weather forecast ahead of their outdoor promotional event, then declaring themselves heroes for having to run out with an umbrella when it rains, seems symbolic of this government.

‘Virtue signaling’ they called it six years ago, as opposed to the very concrete actions they have taken since assuming power, of rolling back climate mitigation and adaptation and also getting a rugby because more rugby was needed

My local bookshop understands their audience.

I think we're now firmly in the era of emergent effects. It's not just about "does the AI do the job", but "what happens when many points of the ecosystem is done by AI". The way these bits interact with each other, with runaway effects that nobody expected/asked for, is upon is.

Pictured: AI agent pickup lines

I didn't know if @marthawells.com knew about this Easter egg that Alexander Skarsgård snuck into the #murderbot TV series!

Expect to see headlines today about the latest business service survey. Meanwhile, the actual card spending data has slipped again. This divergence between reckons data and measured data is becoming harder to ignore. Unless you're a cheerleader in the commentariat ofc. (1/2)

I fundamentally believe this era is an illusion. The current versions of Codex and Claude Code are costing OpenAI and Anthropic so much money because they’re running at like a negative 150% gross margin. All improvements involve more and more compute. The limits will be sudden and brutal.

One guy at your announcement event holding an umbrella when the clouds open vs any event planning

Sure would have been a lot easier to get this generation-spanning great undertaking going if he hadn't come straight in and gutted everything central Government had been doing to try and mitigate the impending climate apocalypse. #NZPOL

Bluesky was literally meant to be a cryptobro social network for grifters, LinkedIn sludge, and libertarians who know way too much about age of consent laws. Jack Dorsey *left* when instead of weird and off-putting cryptonerds, trans people started hanging out here.

The snake eating its own tail effect of AI agents isn’t so much a problem of training data model collapse as the collapse of the social epistemic foundations by which human sense-making can be carried out at all—and which AI agents *also* rely on for whatever facsimile of sense-making they conduct.

This was the funniest piece of extreme weather event reporting today.

Also I saw someone on Facebook saying don't drive through flooding because it washes up into people's houses, but I would like to add DO NOT DRIVE THROUGH FLOOD WATER IT IS FLOOD WATER

PSA for Hutt Valley: "Please do not drive to look at flooding. Please do not drive to check conditions. Please do not drive unless it is essential." congestion is delaying emergency services, power restoration & delaying flood response, preventing crews from reaching vulnerable residents.

Kāpiti College too, they're just caught between a rock and a hard place due to the government's stupid focus on attendance above all else The headmaster having to beg with the Ministry for attendance exemptions🤦‍♂️

A definitive new biography about Chris Knox is set to be published in North America next month via Auckland University Press. I am stepping up to help with press and promotion in North America. So, if you are a writer, reviewer, podcaster, record/book buyer, whatever, get in touch.

Apparently off Ward island awhile ago. That's got to be a shipping hazard.

Waiwhetu stream. If it's anything like the surface flooding it might start easing a bit.

Gemini "summarizing" the contents of g drive folders is only really useful if you assume users are constantly opening gdrive folders without having any idea what MIGHT be in them, something that is I think generally untrue, and in the cases where it IS true it's a cybersecurity nightmare!!

As somebody who has worked on Wall Street for the last 19 years, I promise you that a lot of people who are insanely rich - not just average millionaires, people with true wealth - are dumb as dog shit, but just have no morals and know ways to make tons of money by not caring about hurting people.

State of emergency <> state of origin Luxon: #nzpol

the denigration of the pursuit of knowledge has made this harder to grasp: humans err too BUT we have put in place (in unis, labs but also in everyday life) processes that allow us to show the work, check each other, correct each other and ourselves. LLMs by definition do not do any of that.

It is absolute and utter neglect to let this come this close to the wire just as the US has let most of its overseas broadcasting shutter.

In 1854, after watching the federal government deploy 2000 federal troops and spend $40,000 sending Anthony Burns back into slavery, Boston's Amos Adams Lawrence said “we went to bed one night old-fashioned, conservative, Compromise Union Whigs and waked up stark mad Abolitionists.”

I miss when you could post Brave Norman Rockwell Townsperson and the caption could be, like, “R.E.M was wrong to leave ‘Fretless’ off of Out of Time” instead of “The secret police should stop murdering people.”

A story about an AI-generated article contained fabricated, AI-generated quotes.

"For example, I like to keep a spare house in every region, just in case of emergencies."

"do we need a more urgent response to climate change?" New Zealand Prime Minister: "we need a whole of society response to climate change, you know make sure you have your personal survival kit ready..."

also I would be remiss if I did not reference @katebeaton.bsky.social’s legendary comic when discussing a book by one of the Brontës

Power on, garage deeper in surface water than has happened in my time

Good morning from logging off to save battery and keeping an eye on the steam at the other end of the road

“Children are property of their parents” is a view that southern conservative Christians continue to hold and no joke it is a residuum of the slave power

Send not to know for whom the class a drugs are tollerated.

As Jesus would have wanted.

In a 21st century special, this 'summer' Wellington has had figurative Shitsville and, now, literal Shitsville.

One of the most successful pedestrian streets in the world, the Strøget in Copenhagen, was filled with cars until a 2 year pedestrianization pilot project in 1962. The opposition argued “no cars means no business,” but the street has been a massive retail success, the city’s busiest shopping street.

It's your boy, encouraging people not to cite the Google ai on the mushroom group even when it was being quite helpful

just, I am all for denouncing newsom at every opportunity, but I sometimes see both his opponents and supporters acting like he's inevitable, and he isn't even in the lead right now.

What a great photo of Brazilian alpine skier Lucas Pinheiro Braathen, the first South American to ever win a medal at the Winter Olympic Games.

one day, my coworker called me at 10AM asking if i could pick him up from the hospital after a kidney stone and i was like “lmao oh boy you really don’t have anyone else to call do you” and that was also the day my odometer rolled over to BOOBS KM so anyway this is our 10th valentine’s day together

Just in time for #caturday, I noticed something very interesting on this ancient Greek pelike (jar) featuring Poseidon and Amymone. A very rare representation of a cat. It doesn't seem to be very impressed by the presence of the gods. Perhaps this is a scene from a play ... 🏺 1/ #MetMuseum 📸 me

I considered doing a breakdown of Act's state of the nation but ultimately, I just want to share this. David Seymour, associate of Tim Jago, making Prince Andrew jokes. #nzpol

Once in a while something on my phone makes me crack up so much my wife notices and I have to explain it to her but she doesn't really get it. This is one of those times.

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America is a creole culture And American white supremacists have invested centuries of effort into keeping this fact from the American people.

Seymour's "dividing ourselves into a Treaty partnership" is quite a difference in wordview.