The Food Farm in Aotearoa NZ shows how permaculture can regenerate land and nourish community 🌱✨. Once overgrazed, it’s now a vibrant, diverse agroecological farm guided by earth care, people care & fair share. 🌱 More: agroecologymap.org/l/the-food-f... #Agroecology #Permaculture #NZ

It’s been two weeks since ICE took Yuanxin Zheng from his father. He is six years old. He’s still not home. This has to end.

So how much longer until US citizens also have to provide their social media logins for entry? Of course, whether a US citizen or not, they’ve already got a profile on you and your every political belief. They don’t need the logins, it’s just speech suppression www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/5...

can't stop watching this clip of a tesla Optimus teleoperator taking his headset off before properly logging out the robot

This is actually pretty incredible. Nano Banana Pro combines multi modal understanding of real world objects, their constituent components, and what those components look like. Here it visually generated a disassembled version of the given reference car. Of course it's not 100% accurate, but wow:

Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷

Adventures in toddler parenting: Five minutes of defending myself from a feisty toddler who kept saying “my hair” while attempting to pull the literal hair off my scalp. 😅 He remained unconvinced by all pleas or appeals to logic until I said “okay then you can have my hair and I’ll take your hair”

Lmfao… FT must be trying to compete with The Onion now

It’s time to talk about something personal: The moment I knew it was time to take a break from big tech was the week I had to do my yearly Amazon assigned anti-bribery and anti-corruption training, while that very same day Amazon decided to make a $1 million donation to Trump’s inaugural fund.

Congratulations to NYC, and Zohran Mamdani, the next mayor of NYC. I'm happy with the results. Billionaire money, and disgustingly racist AI created attack ads have lost today, as they should. Now let's see if NYC can implement basic quality of life policies that other countries already have.

I'm thinking about this image. Each generation reduced the distance their kids could roam, despite experiencing broader freedom themselves (or perhaps because of it). Did the parents remember close calls or scary circumstances that they wanted to protect their kids from?

"It is estimated that more than one in five U.S. adults live with a mental illness (59.3 million in 2022; 23.1% of the U.S. adult population)." (www.nimh.nih.gov/health/stati...) The mental health epidemic in the US started long before ChatGPT. Glad to see OpenAI trying hard to not make it worse.

The smarter you are, the longer you can postpone being wrong. Every hour of research delays the moment you have to face the fact that the map and the territory will never match. www.joanwestenberg.com/p/the-map-i...

Zohran Mamdani is so scary because he is planting the idea that you can tax billionaires and use the money to help people instead of debating what services to cut to pay for tax cuts. Which is literally why the US government is currently shut down. He is destroying decades of political messaging.

When I moved from America to New Zealand the traffic lights bothered me. They were low and positioned at the corners of the intersection. US traffic lights seemed better: suspended overhead, centered above the lanes. It wasn't until 6 months later that I realized how stupidly America-brained I was

Watching mainstream news sites try to come up with euphemisms for the video where Trump dumped "a brown liquid or sludge" on protestors is a great example of the sane-washing that the media has done for his administration since the the first time around.

Shameful. United States becomes more a criminal enterprise every day: run by criminals, on behalf of criminals. www.commondreams.org/news/trump-p...

Let me guess, the Trump admin’s new executive memo about “hostility towards those who hold traditional American views on religion” is probably not going to consider separation of church and state to be a traditional American view on religion?

In addition to being psychopathic, this video demonstrates a complete misunderstanding of Pokemon: www.reddit.com/r/CringeTikT... Pokemon is fundamentally about friendship, exploration, discovery, training, growth, and interdependence. All values that the "shining city on the hill" used to share.

When RFK Jr was a child, Tylenol wasn't common yet. So what did they use for kids in pain? - Aspirin: Reye’s syndrome, gastrointestinal irritation and bleeding - Codeine and other opioids: overdose and dependence (hello RFK's heroin addiction?) - Phenacetin: linked to kidney damage and cancer

After the AI bubble pops there will be a lot of sweet deals on H100’s from companies selling off all the assets in bankruptcy. I sure hope some of that hardware reaches the general public instead of just going to the top few surviving mega corps…. But that might just be hopium.

Important: US media is biased, and forced to fall in line with American propaganda. However, the South Korean workers detained at the Hyundai factory are telling their stories now, to the Korean media, giving us a small glimpse into the horrifying behavior of ICE and their treatment of people:

I don't think there is enough discourse about the fact that there is plenty of room there to draw larger, average adult sized breasts Trump had to go out of his way and and keep the line high in the available whitespace to make the figure look as flat-chested and young as possible Absolutely sick

There’s nothing that says “masculine” like being scared of what people will think if you add milk to your coffee: www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Looks like one of these AWS regions is not like the other... @darko.rup12.net @alispit.tel @rjourdan.com

People are acting like this is something cool and cryptic. Let's be honest, its exactly what you'd expect a rapist to be posting

"I have the right to do anything I want to do. I'm the president of the United States." - Trump You have the right to try whatever you want. Others have the right to stop you. There are a couple amendments that cover this exact scenario. No kings allowed in America.

I spent some time writing another essay in my ongoing series about humanity, consciousness, and AI. I explore some of my recent thoughts about collapse and the future. I'm also experimenting with a new format designed to "prove" the human provenance of writing: nathanpeck.com/it-wont-happ...

Meanwhile Cuomo probably couldn’t get crosstown without his private driver lmao

I wrote a long form piece about AI engineering best practices: not just the technical side of using AI to write code, but also the personal side. Perhaps the personal side is more important. Your mindset, and the best practices to keep your own sanity are key: nathanpeck.com/ive-been-cod...

Jeeze, is there anyone competent left in the Democratic Party? Such an easy message, and they still manage to use the dumbest possible chart that makes it look like Republicans are lowering taxes for most and raising taxes on the .1%

Happy Matariki to everyone here in New Zealand! And happy Juneteenth to USA based folks!

Not a bad office window view! 🌈

One thing about the US is that it is so car centric that any mainstream news of protests or riots has to heavily feature pictures or videos of damage to cars. You can tell a lot from the ratio of “damage to cars” relative to “damage to people” in news coverage.

Lol, AI naysayers are so desperate to make AI energy usage look bad that they have to add in 10 image generations and three five second videos to pump the numbers up. The energy usage numbers from those fifteen questions was looking too good I guess 🤔

Tāwharanui Peninsula views!

Hey builders! If you work with #Serverless, #ECS, or #EKS and want up-to-date information for your code assistants, you're in luck! AWS released three new MCP servers to give you the latest info straight from the source! Check it out -> aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/en...

This is super cool. I love the idea of it: relatively simple, but theoretically quite effective: newatlas.com/energy/stens...

"But AI hallucinates and makes subtle mistakes" ↔ "AI is making people dumber" Do you see the contradiction? If AI makes mistakes, and you know it does, then you must stay mentally engaged. Every AI interaction is a chance to sharpen your ability to detect inconsistencies and question assumptions.

When you get deep into engineering with AI you will find yourself spending a dramatically larger percentage of your time thinking about the hardest things you have ever thought about, and dramatically less time thinking about basic things that you've already done hundreds of times before.

Sometimes the best architecture is the one you can effectively maintain with your team's skills and resources.

finally a source for all the frankly bizarre claims around LLM water "use" literally nothing about LLM-related compute uses more water than any other compute activity, focus on Actually Objectionable bits around LLMs like degraded infosphere

🧵 It seems that DHH has successfully corrupted a segment of devs into the "but my VPS is cheaper than cloud" mindset. Reality: compute costs don't make or break a business. The most valuable thing a business has is it's data. That data had better be replicated if you don't want to lose everything.

Ask ChatGPT: “Based on what you know about me, and our recent interactions, draw an image of our conversation dynamic.” I’ve had it working on some strange stuff recently. Here’s how it depicts me and itself conversing:

We need to change how we talk about AI, because we need to change how we talk about ourselves. AI is not outside the human condition. It is inside it. It is a reflection of the same minds that gave us both the Buddha and the bomb.

I’m currently in New Zealand. I continue to be surprised by the number of baby carriages and kids I see here, but more importantly by how amazing the schools, playgrounds, and reserves are. Make the US somewhere I’d want to raise another kid first, maybe: www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

Seeing posts go viral by pointing out if the stock market goes down 50% on one day and up 50% the next day, you aren’t back where you started. $100 -> $50 -> $75. We are so cooked if elementary school math is blowing people’s minds like this.

Beautiful Tairua, from a short term rental on Mount Paku

Reading Alan Watts’ 1951 book “The Wisdom of Insecurity”: