Magical: Jojo Mayer & Benny Greb improvised Drum Duo Performance www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oyed... #music

This is a big change to pass under urgency -- it's exactly the sort of thing where experts outside MSD might make valuable contributions

An Envelope of Echoes

Influential US skateboarder Marc Johnson dies aged 49: ‘Everything he did was art’ www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/m...

I'm speechless.

Just in case you don't appreciate just how fucking awful everything is.

Oh no, this is going to seriously impact my current AI budget of (Checks notes) Absolutely fucking zero www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

In today’s NZ Herald

It sounds a tad incestuous.

Occupying my mind while taking a shower: ontogenic patterns for wood properties.

Former SAS soldier says international far-right groups growing in New Zealand www.rnz.co.nz/news/crime-a... #nzpol

Our new review paper was published today: "Heartwood Durability: The Quest for Natural Decay Resistance in a Changing Resource" in Current Forestry Reports 12:15. Read it for free here rdcu.be/fkMGN

Behold, a woman!

Hay varias versiones de "Yo vengo a ofrecer mi corazón" de Fito Páez (1985). Aparte de la original, la más conocida es de La Negra Sosa. Hoy escuché esta versión de la catalana Judit Neddermann que me gustó. Buenas vibras rítmicas. www.youtube.com/watch?v=0PTu... #music

My latest books cartoon for @theguardian.com. Many more here: www.theguardian.com/profile/tom-gauld

The color “azure” is from the Persian word “lazward”. The initial /l/ disappeared because English borrowed the word from French, where speakers mistook the /l/ for the contracted definite article “l’ (le)”. Yet you can still see the /l/ in the Latin term “lapis lazuli”, literally ‘stone of azure’.

If I was a journalist I would have also mentioned how funding for wilding pine control was cut by two thirds by the same government in 2023/24. www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

Getting old(er) is... going for a haircut and being asked if you want to have your eyebrows trimmed too. 😐

Confesión acerca del álbum "Viaje por la cresta del mundo" de Congreso: siempre me ha pateado la guata la canción "Hijo del sol luminoso" y me sorprende lo poco popular que es "Undosla", aunque entiendo que "Hijo del Diluvio" sea más pop. VPLCDM sigue siendo una obra maestra de la música chilena.

Timeline cleanse: Michael Hedges performing Lewis Carroll's Jabberwocky poem (text: www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/42916/...) www.youtube.com/watch?v=660y...

Tuve que revisar la definición de masivo en el diccionario y no, no ha cambiado. 😂

It is an important problem both for farmers and conservation land, which mostly started with species planted by NZ government to control erosion in the late 1880s. And no, the NZ government should not cut funding for essential social services.

@hissandaroar.bsky.social I was catching up with my RSS subscriptions and came across your post on the draughting table (www.musicofsound.co.nz/blog/mutoh). Some years ago I tried to get an old one from the university, but they had already disposed of all of them. Great that you found one.

Time to court the women's vote, once we define what one actually is. I chat more about this over at my Substack: open.substack.com/pub/yeehawth...

De repente recordé a Hugo Moraga, del que compré un cassette en un recital por allá en los años 80. Talentoso el cabro. Lo ví viejo en un video reciente y después me miré en espejo. #music www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1Hz...

'Cyngs – Copper Head Conference' super cool, via @hissandaroar.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3NL...

"We Took Away the Phones — Now What?" www.afterbabel.com/p/rebuilding...

It’s nice, for a change, to listen smart people talking. Foreign Policy’s Ravi Agrawal interviews China Scholar Rana Mitter on “Trump, Xi, and a New Balance of Power”. foreignpolicy.com/podcasts/for...

The longer you look at this, the worse it gets

Reality check. AI-generated images have left us questioning what is real. But the godfather of digital forensics, Hany Farid, is not giving up

Just found a slug in my salad. Who the hell shoots a salad?!

I can't believe the damage cycle lanes are gonna do to wellington businesses if this plan to cut 9k public sector employees goes ahead.

Kiddo lent me an eclectic set of CDs while he’s settling in his new accommodation.

Dune Cat Budget Version

I used to take good notes on paper. At uni, I didn’t buy notebooks but instead photocopy paper that I’d keep in a folder by subject. Later, I’ve tried taking notes in my laptop (impossible), iPad (I forget to carry it), phone (inconvenient). I still think that paper is the best. #academia 🧵1

wow — the preprint host, arxiv, is banning authors for a year if they submit papers with hallucinated citations 🤖

Results Age xkcd.com/3245/

I see we are getting confusion over why equity markets are not reflecting oil price risk again. I've said this before but to reiterate, fear of PnL downside is just as significant as reality-based expectations. The perceived upside to betting on calamity is minimal, because it will also mean TACO.

Surely they've suffered enough?

Notorious marxists the OECD, pour scorn on the hopeless coalitions plan for LNG.

The world if we stuck with chronological RSS feeds instead of algorithmic feeds.

Most transport maps show where infrastructure is. I wanted to show what that infrastructure actually lets people reach. I’ve been building the Auckland Transport Access Atlas: an interactive map of car dependency, accessibility, equity, and planner priorities across Auckland. ataa.tfwelch.com

📢 New Essay: The Boring Internet The internet you grew up on isn’t dying. A commercial veneer glued on top of it is. www.terrygodier.com/the-borin…

Someone out there decided it would be a good idea to put a German Shepherd in charge of babysitting a bunch of Doberman puppies and they were 100% correct

No wonder the govt wants to avoid any comparisons between the fuel crisis and Covid pandemic. If the then govt had taken as long to develop their plan as the current govt is taking to develop this plan, many of us would be dead already.

#phase8 #fsu

It is now 51 working days since I requested an unredacted version of MBIE's BRIEFING-REQ0017895 "Addressing the Energy Gap" So it's now 31 working days overdue. The redacted version is here. Draw your own conclusions about what's under all those withholdings.