With apologies to XKCD (xkcd.com/2347/)

UPDATE: a quick correction to one item on the "would you rather" list in last week's chart-topping post by @connorsharp.bsky.social... ...which only underscores *all the more* that the Roads of National Significance, as proposed, would constitute a colossal misdirection of our collective resources.

But it absolutely won’t…

Please nobody tell the IDF about David Lange… www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

Welcome to the Garyneum, the 13 day period between the birthdays of Gary Numan and Gary Oldman.

True and alarming and worth reading: www.scientificamerican.com/article/ramp...

When people say National are good at managing "the economy" but trust Labour more on environment, housing, safety, taxes, education, inflation, poverty and health...exactly what part of "the economy" do they think National are good at managing?

Time for more Windows-driven PC obsolescence it would seem… tech4gamers.com/windows-12-r...

LNG you say? 🤔 #nzpol

‘Making’ chess pieces from Lego. Wow ! Source / Creator: Greg Saniatan aka slopsmcgee, in collaboration with LEGO

I saw some folks asking what the difference was between what OpenAI signed with the DoD and what Anthropic said they wanted, and Sam more or less admits here the key point: OpenAI's deal requires them to trust the NSA. Anthropic's contract had real safeguards.

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Hey Chris Luxon, remind me again how much solar energy passes through the Strait of Hormuz.

If Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu *really* wanted to destroy Iran, they would volunteer to take turns being its ruler.

Netanyahu Calls Iran Strikes Necessary To Prevent War He Just Started

Well shit 😐

Bye bye ChatGPT…

This.

That didn’t take long… www.reddit.com/r/ABoringDys...

Gosh how terrible...

This graphic shows percentage of total voters by age group from the last NZ general election. Be sure to vote in October.

If the USA Women’s Hockey team wants a real celebration and invite ,,, I’ll host them in Las Vegas. Do some nice dinners and shows and good times. I’m sure I can get a hotel and airline to help me out here and celebrate these women for real for real. 👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾

The Ford Pinto had a death rate of 85 people for 10 million cars sold. The Cybertruck hasn't sold 10 million, but the fatality rate so far maths out to 1,452 people killed per 10 million sold. The Cybertruck may be the deadliest road car, for the occupants, ever sold. fuelarc.com/evs/its-offi...

Joint statement on AI-generated imagery from the Privacy Commissioner…

After all our hard working polluting the planet it’s now the upper atmosphere’s turn… www.sciencealert.com/lithium-plum...

What a surprise !

This is the New World/Farro Fresh vs Pak n' Save class divide in our society, among others.

PSA… Don’t sign up for LinkedIn’s verification service: www.linkedin.com/posts/brettr... But wait, there’s more… www.therage.co/persona-age-...

Useful graph for the debt scare folks. Govt debt-servicing costs are super low these days. So much headroom to invest in the many, many things we need for the long-term, yet still we beg for eye-wateringly expensive private finance.

but also "korean abdul jabbar" is a great username.

Quite a few years ago I vowed to never order another Hell’s pizza due to their tough, tasteless bases, sparse ingredients and minimal cheese. Yesterday I relented. Start the clock again.

And here we are 😐

Thanks CarJet but that seems a bit steep for a 2 day rental. I think I’ll just buy one instead…

Now do the bugs in the AI that wrote the emails… www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microso...

Our deputy PM seems to like this guy, not sure why #nzpol

A machine that can’t chew gum and walk at the same time is going to be your new CEO (or so they tell me)…

Lyric of the Day: "I am a man that's made out of meat and you're on the internet looking at feet"

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So much of our present crisis is coddled, ignorant, and short sighted people tearing down the institutions that protect them because they don’t understand that bad things can happen.

But were they using oxygen-free bananas and mud ? www.tomshardware.com/speakers/in-...

So very much this please…

Meta can just fuck right off…

Chloe Kim takes silver in an event she got gold in last two times, but shes been mentoring the South Korean rider who won, so as soon as she fell she went straight to her homie to celebrate cause the sport is bigger than the athletes. just amazingly beautiful shit happening with olympic snowboarding

What’s the bet there’s an official Ministerial briefing document that advises that an LNG import terminal makes no sense at all and it’s been ignored ?

Can somebody please point me at the RNZ interview from back in 2025 with an economist who explained in very clear detail why NZ’s electricity sector model is so broken ? I recommended it to a lot of people at the time and now I am unable to find it again. Thanks !

In NZ we could call this the Judith Collins Protocol...

This is not financial advice…

Now here’s a big surprise ! Just kidding, who couldn’t have predicted this ?

The charm offensive begins… www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360...