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From the description here, this also seems to be a generalised anti-protest power. www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/governmen...

These guys are the same guys who will 100% of the time when asked who the elites are, point to a minimum wage trans barista instead of the literal richest man on earth. Who they think is their ally, helping them battle the elites.

They think punk means *acting without consent* not *acting in defiance of power*

In case anyone is wondering what this cat I met was saying to me here it was "I despise the way modern TV documentaries are so frantically worried about losing the viewer’s attention, employ endless precaps, lazily emotionally manipulate with overplayed songs and talk to me like I am a small child."

Oh Wellington city, how do I love you, let me count the ways Wind Hills Harbor Gays Queers Politicos Writers Artists All in a bonsai sized package

Overheard at a café: “They’ve got this great DJ, he uses actual physical records, you know? You can actually see him picking records out of a box and everything, it’s amazing.”

Researchers discovered a publicly exposed frontend on a government-authorized server, containing 2,456 accessible files from the age verification vendor used by Discord.

I need people to understand that "AI" used in moderation isn't necessarily the "AI" of ChatGPT + friends or synthetic text extruding machines, or LLMs. There's stuff lumped under "AI", as the term is a marketing term, that is actually useful and important for flagging stuff on social media.

It’s a lovely day, so I briefly considered taking the cable car to the Botanic Gardens. But then I checked www.centreport.co.nz/what-we-do/c..., and Nope nope nope nope nope

The GenX urge to play com-pew-pew-pew-pew-pew-pew-pew-pew-pew-pew-pew-pew-pew computer games.

The GenX urge to build a room that echoes.

The Gen X urge to ahhh push it, push it real good.

Eee! The first Rainbow Window is live now at Dandy Vintage (160 Cuba St) “Sticking to the vibe of my business & using only items in the shop, I’ve themed my window around historical methods of covert queer signalling” HOW COOL! Voting opens 6 March www.wellingtonpridefestival.com/rainbow-wind...

Begging media to have a fucking spine and be honest because this article mentions Benjamin Doyle’s departure as if it somehow had something to do with list selection, and not a stochastic terrorism campaign spearheaded by the deputy prime minister.

The Free Press is discovering new levels of Telling On Yourself that scientists previously thought could not exist

The Gen X urge to see a ship in the harbour.

Wellington! I’ve been working on something cool with a couple of lovely collaborators. Good Luck Craft Club is a monthly craft meetup for artists of Asian descent in the Wellington region. Central CBD locations, ticketed workshops, BYOC(bring your own craft) and a community craft box.

the main reason to go after the rich is that if you don’t the entire structure of your society is predicated on the whims of people who are entirely disconnected from ordinary life billionaires are simply too dangerous to exist, and any budgetary stuff that comes out of it is just a bonus

I can't remember that Steve Jobs ever looked like he was f*ed by a racoon in a supply closet moments before he went on a stage. But I didn't follow all of his speeches, so I may be wrong.

"Hating technology" in their reading means "not just embracing its inevitability". Maybe that's the reason: Leftist thought is based on the understanding that politics is a common project that allows us to make decisions about the world. The idea of "inevitable technology" is the antithesis to that

I really It's kinda weird how the "The left hates technology (because AI)" mostly come from people whose experience with tech is on the level of vibecoding and the "left" they criticize consists to a significant part of people who've been actually building and maintaining systems for decades.

#InvertebrateShitposting as per @joabaldwin.com's request

Yes, but if the Council of Nicaea *had* been overseen by an English unitary authority with a directly-elected mayor, I reckon we’d have more consistent dates for Easter. The movable feast thing plays havoc with the bin collection timetables.

Complete peatland restoration is an absolute no brainer. It's such a low hanging fruit, that it's a litmus test if your government is serious about climate goals, biodiversity etc.

A home of our own! For two weekish only! That's right, thanks to the Urban Dream Brokerage and Wellington City Council, we are getting a PRIDE HUB during this festival, which will function as a drop-in space throughout. www.wellingtonpridefestival.com/hub

Right now people are using this trick to change what AI tells you about topics as serious as medial questions and financial advice. The problem is ENORMOUS Experts like like @lilyray.nyc say this is a problem the tech industry has know about forever, they just didn’t work on it til it was a crisis

I regularly see people wondering how it's possible that there are so many musicians and writers and film makers and artists from a tiny nation like Iceland. And the answer is really simple: State funding for art education and artists. I literally get a salary from the government to write books.

You can also show your medical data to your dogs for a second opinion. The benefit of that is that your dogs aren't harvesting your private data.

Can’t. I’m the operator with my pocket calculator.

That's not an accident! This is an LLM that is trained on, among other things, the doucheyest douches on the internet. Like, the entire corpus of it! Fairly close to everything that ever got douched on the public internet! This LLM is *very good* at emulating a real live Internet douche.

The spirit gripped me today and moved me to write this essay on "good old fashioned artificial intelligence," which I position as opposite to the ethically compromised Machine Learning-based AI of today. I don't think people will like what I have to say. blog.wellssanto.com/revisiting-g...

I have moved the newsletter from Substack. Here's a post at F&S explaining how and why. I've learnt a lot in the process so if you are a Substacker thinking about leaving, DM me and we can talk.

Happy year of the fire horse [Mark Rothko, Red on Red, 1969]

The AI imagery here is horrendous. It was the same in Paul Scofield's talks at CAVEPS. Given the push in palaeo to not use AI images bc of the wealth of great palaeo artists who should be paid, you would have thought Colossal and co could stump up $$$ bsky.app/profile/adze...

You could still report it responsibly, eg: "There was disagreement from some long term residents who were not geotechnical experts and who had not read the report in full."

"The French-owned jams and preserves maker has applied to the Department of Conservation to discharge the 12,000 cubic metres of remaining industrial wastewater stored in ponds, near its South Canterbury factory, onto the Hae Hae Te Moana River Conservation Reserve." newsroom.co.nz/2026/02/16/e...

The Reality Check Radio billboards that litter the entirety of SH1 didn't pay for themselves.

why isn't the left engaging seriously with the fascist imaginary machine, people love the fascist imaginary machine, the left is clearly wrong about this, like they were wrong about crypto and NFTs and the metaverse

BONDAGE CLUB? KNOT WITHOUT A LICENSE

As spoken on LinkedIn, in the Koru Lounge, and in the Northern Club.

It’s existentially unsettling to hunker down for two days as the hyperdimensional monster that is climate change thrashes against your windows, only to emerge from a whisky bar at 8:30pm to find that it’s still light and still summer.

There's actual peer reviewed research that indicates the rage comes from aspects of wanting to punish people for not participating in the "normal" of fossil fuel culture. It's not just a few idiots, it's a systemic issue being exacerbated and amplified to serve political and corporate agendas.

As per usual, a loud and feral minority hijacking the conversation with misinformation. Also seeing a disturbing & very familiar pattern of hostility toward Tamatha Paul. Our community must stand behind her. We can’t allow another Māori leader to be worn down and pushed out. #nzpol

This shitpost was hand-crafted over hours with a cracked copy of photoshop as intended by the old gods and the new, none of this lazy AI gen shit. If you still support manually made memes it's Valentines day and I won't lie it's been a minute, I need headpats for validation and I have no shame

Sci-Fi is when round armour, fantasy is when spikey armour

The crossover we all needed.