COMING THIS WEEK: Cortex Prime launches on DriveThruRPG! Rusty Sellsword Design is launching the Cortex Prime Game Handbook PDF and the first four Prime Spotlights (that comprise Volume 1) this week!

wandering the Sonora desert in a carefree fashion like

So the new SMART assessments mandated by the MoE are feeding Kiwi kids' writing samples into an LLM (according to my kid's teacher). The MoE "Guide to SMART" parent resource makes zero mention of this. I think parents might want to know whose plagiarism machine is hoovering up their kids' writing.

So the new SMART assessments mandated by the MoE are feeding Kiwi kids' writing samples into an LLM (according to my kid's teacher). The MoE "Guide to SMART" parent resource makes zero mention of this. I think parents might want to know whose plagiarism machine is hoovering up their kids' writing.

Abolishing a media regulator in an environment of increasing mis- and dis-information seems like a bad idea for democracy.

🧵My take here is that the coalition government has decided to abolish the BSA because it has advice that the authority's assertion that the Broadcasting Act gives it jurisdiction over online broadcasting is well-founded and would prevail in a court. www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

This is just really, really fucking disgusting. They're removing disinformation guardrails in an election year. I really hope that this spring, Aotearoa will be able to see through the wave of bullshit that's headed our way.

Kudos to MetService's socials team, this is a densely layered May the Fourth bit that still effectively shares the info on some upcoming crap weather.

AI psychosis is just “I really think the stripper likes me” for guys who don’t leave their house

This is absolutely ridiculous and disrespectful of their audience, and that's coming from someone who went to an Iron Man 1/2/Avengers/IM3 marathon.

When you use AI to do your writing, you are telling your audience: “I deserve your attention, but you do not deserve my effort.”

You won't believe the things they can do with Claude code nowadays.

Really glad to see the groundbreaking research by Keaton et al. (1996) get a followup here.

Hard to believe ostensibly left people are still "I give creators the benefit of the doubt because Substack is easy/cheap/whatever". No benefit of the doubt. No fucking Substacks.

Here come the botlicker He's the chattybot clicker Drop his prompt in a clanker Still making that slop Nah, na na na nah, na na na nah Na na nah, na na nah, na na na naah

I have to assume that everyone who makes decisions at Auckland Transport is a childless 9-5 office worker who leaves town over every weekend and holiday period. I just want to be able to occasionally take my child downtown on the train. Is that too much to ask?

Whew.

*sigh* If your Kickstarter video/image is AI, I won't back it. If your book has an AI cover, I won't read it. If you're a public supporter of AI use for creative work, I will unfollow you. I cannot stress enough how offensive I find AI use in the arts. It is outright theft, it is lazy, it is gross.

Impeach him anyway.

Ban this entire fucking industry.

Love love love the new Metric track "It makes me jealous of my former self I had to tame her for my mental health"

What AI Evangelists always miss is that we've had this model for over a century. People will ALWAYS value the handmade work of an artisan significantly more than a mass produced knock off industrialists insist is "of similar quality." We don't pay artisan prices for mass produced things...like AI.

Today is #TransDayOfVisibilty & here’s a message you can share with anybody who can’t grasp that #TransRightsAreHumanRights It’s really not hard at all to be an ally to the communities you weren’t born into 🏳️‍⚧️

13. In short, all writing is political, because all writers are political, and so are all readers. We can't help ourselves in either case. It doesn't matter if you're writing a narrow polemic or an attempted blockbuster. It's okay to be comfortable with these facts; they exist even if you're not.

Very few things are more groan-worthy than someone with influence pretending a giant outcry is because everybody misunderstood them, instead of the simple truth that everybody understands exactly what they're selling but not wanting it.

I'm going to admit to being a bit dumbfounded by the renting discourse. I've rented my entire adult life, in many metro areas across two continents. The best places to live were invariably large build-to-rent buildings. The absolute worst were privately-owned single family homes. Always.

This right here. And don't say, "just pirate it." If you are watching it you are keeping it in popular culture. KILL. IT. DEAD.

wouldn't it be funny if EVERYONE blocked this Attie AI account @ bsky.app/profile/atti... before they could do anything with it

If you haven’t snooped pepperraccoon.com for a while, maybe check it out? I make beautiful NZ-themed nature apparel, enamel pins, and stickers, and I ship everywhere except the US

Well, I am not sure what my analysis here is worth, but here is my 7,500 word primal scream of a military historian's take on the War in Iran. My best summary: this war is dumb as hell. acoup.blog/2026/03/25/m...

King: death of the author? what's that? Rowling: it'ss real sssimple Rowling: you continue to conssume harry potter media King: uh huh, ok, i'm following Rowling: but you don't worry about what i do with the profitss King: uh King: what WILL you do with the profits? Rowling: don't worry about it

Framing the question like this, equating an already successful actor deciding to take a role with a minimum wage worker trying to put food on their table, is UNBELIEVABLY disingenuous. And yes, Nick Frost is a bad person for taking the role.

If I knew viewing Guernica would put money directly into the pockets of a still living Pablo Picasso, who had announced publicly that he would be using that money to terrorize, harm, and kill women, not only would I not go view Guernica, it would fundamentally change the meaning of Guernica as art.

THE ONLY IMPORTANT WIZARDING UPDATE IN THE WORLD TODAY! Season Two of the longest-running (that we know of) Dragonlance Actual Play starts Friday, adapting Legends with some new faces and some old (mine's pretty old). Join us as we attempt to stop the evil wizard Fistandantilus and save Krynn!

With the HP trailer dropping tomorrow, here's the whole deal: If you watch the show, hell even just the trailer, I will think less of you. I will dislike you. I will think you don't care about trans people. That's it. It's been years. There's no wiggle room. No qualifiers. You care or you don't.

if you watch or support this you're a bad person btw. i'm not arguing with you about it either

In a time of global supply chain upheaval we slash our domestic capacity and increase our reliance on overseas food processing. I'm sure that's fine.

WHAT THE FUCK ARE WE DOING

This is disgusting, and I will never pay money to watch anything with a ghouLLM in it.

Welp, after seeing the oncoming Covid wave at poops.nz, not sure whether we're going to risk going to the Auckland Food Expo this weekend. Masking up doesn't work when you're sampling at every booth!

ICYMI, you can read the first short of BLACK EYE, my new project with @nirlevie.bsky.social and Buddy Beaudoin, on Black Market Presents! @blackmarketnar.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/kyledhig...

Exactly! Look at this shit. The Washington Post doesn't exist anymore. Bezos killed it. This is why we need to throw these pubs in the garbage and stop referencing them. They're not real anymore. You learn nothing and get fed shit.

Look, if you sincerely believe this, there is NO FUCKING REASON to say it aloud until the ghoul is the nominee. Until then the only reason to say this is to position yourself as "the reasonable progressive". Keep that shit to yourself.

I'd be more inclined to believe that Graham Platner is merely a dumbass if he was making different kinds of "mistakes" instead of one very specific type of "mistake" over and over

Absolutely fucking not, you psychotic freaks.

Americans do not want this. They do not want another war in pursuit of regime change. They want relief from the affordability crisis. They want peace.

This whole thread is great (even if I disagree with Micah about TLJ), but this is really the heart of it. Disney kicked over the sandbox.

The average American trans person is even less represented than the average American liberal. Maybe liberals should offer trans people assurances they won’t sell them out to a candidate who has signaled his intention to sell them out. They might find trans people more amenable to their concerns.