Luxon defaults to Peters on this shit because Luxon has no interest in the world beyond NZ trade and would require someone to explain the impact of a global event on NZ trade before he gave a shit about it.

TFW your privacy policy is optimistically talking about legal liability but it’s the unforgiving weight of commercial reality that’s rolling towards you like a steam roller.

Has anybody tried turning 2026 off and on again. Maybe giving it a little thump if that doesn't improve anything.

***Timeline cleanse*** Findley the 3 month old kitten has been battling this stainless steel cup for almost 20 minutes now. Who will win? It’s a tough call.

HOLY SHIT THIS IS AMAZING

When a chatbot says it’s sorry it’s improv When a chatbot says it’s sorry it’s improv You can never change or guilt it Just go find the guys who built it When a chatbot says it’s sorry it’s improv

Well at least the garden water tanks are getting full. Again. As they often have. This summer.

It remains fascinating that the CEO of Microsoft, when faced with user rejection of the company shoving AI into everything concludes that the customer is wrong and we should get over ourselves and learn to embrace a bad product. www.pcgamer.com/software/ai/...

All the plums fell victim to birds this year but it’s looking like we might actually get a banana crop.

Invited to dinner at not-my-cat’s house and you can’t tell from the picture but that speaker is blasting loud music and Moby is high as a kite on catnip.

Sweeny makes a really insightful suggestion here that I haven't previously considered: that anti-trans stories were a bone being thrown to right wingers that wouldn't scare off most liberals. I saw local far right fascists do the same thing in the antivax groups they ran during the pandemic.

just so it's clear: this is the exact core function of genAI Fascist government and climate deniers love it because it can produce the aesthetics of knowledge without any actual tendency towards truth. It is automated denialism. Shame on every climate scientist promoting its use (there are lots)

Someone here just played The Muppets doing Beethoven’s 9th and I instantly realised that what the world needs is The Muppets Die Hard movie.

That’s two irrelevant sentences right there. First is pointless & insulting immediately after a security breach, as is the second (gosh the upmost seriousness, how reassuring). Waste of whatever money you paid your PR firm. Clearly your security was of a similar calibre.

I mean they’re dressed in red, obvious commies.

meanwhile.... medicine has taken INSANE leaps and bounds in the last 2 years. we're out here curing HIV and leukemia and creating 100% efficacy vaccines against all sorts of cancers, and now this?? between this and renewable energy outstripping fossil fuels in efficiency, the future is bright

When my father refloored the verandah a few months ago, he left one plank out long with no explanation. We didn't ask, it's his verandah, after all. Harmless. We just found out why. #dragon #lizard Today:

Somewhere nearby is a young tauhou who is clearly unhappy with the service in this restaurant and loudly wishes to speak to the management.

If I asked you what eats the spiders that live in your garden would you have answered tūī?

The suffering continued this morning in the #NZHellhole (sound on)

My work briefly considered using one of these when they weren't sure about if we should be allowed to use AI or not (Its now shifted to AI is required) This idea didn't last very long as I, in a zoom call in front of management, wrote a piece and had them check it and got 90% AI probability.

Out of curiosity, I just ran a few paragraphs from The Butchering Art through an AI checker and it got flagged: 88% AI. This book was released in 2017, and AI machines were subsequently trained off it. How many writers are getting flagged for AI because of the literal theft of their work(s)? Insane.

Just watched the new Knives Out and I think it's really important you know that the scene in the Seminary's Gym is filmed in the same place Rick Astley filmed the music video for Never Gonna Give You Up. I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.

Guy, guys I think I’ve discovered Luxon’s secret to success. Just look at that graph.

Michael Bay's 2005 sci-fi flick The Island was not filmed in NZ, but during the opening credits if you blink you'll miss a few seconds of Wharariki Beach's Archway Islands, obviously B-roll used by whoever did the opening credits.

When life gives you strawberries make strawberry margaritas.

You know that AI “coat fence” story that went viral yesterday? Well this story is real

The history of the Statue of Liberty has some very 2025 vibes.

David Attenborough [whispering]: “Like a grain of sand in a vast desert, the predator blends seamlessly into its environment, nearly imperceptible to the naked eye.”

"Academics literally cannot make genAI go away" we also can't make underage drinking go away and we're not advocating for installing bar carts in every classroom.

The ‘Avatar has no cultural impact’ discourse would not exist if a bunch of Star Wars obsessives hadn’t turned its fandom into a religion complete with heresies, orthodoxies, excommunications and sacred texts, creating the template for over thinking about a movie in not entirely healthy ways.

Lots of stuff has always been written by people without subject knowledge. But they used to research it. Get on the phone. Pick some brains. Do the work. In this case whoever put it together with AI didn’t even Google the titles to check they were real. Only AI’s incompetence revealed the laziness.

This year’s A Christmas Carol adaptation just dropped.

Tis the silly season.

This is a great example of how genAI steals from us all on multiple levels. It's stolen a promotional spot for real books and authors, it's stolen a job from an actual journalist who could have compiled this, it's stolen an opportunity for parents to be recommended good NZ books for their kids

Look, I'm sure that Nolan's adaptation of "The Odyssey" will be fun, but I highly doubt it will be as good as the original.

I’ve done some catalogue searching and am fairly confident in saying that 5/10 titles in this list do not exist (1, 2, 4, 5 and 7). Sloppy, unacceptable, and a real kick in the guts to real authors with real books they’d love people to buy and read!

There’s something very Snow Crash about a world in which humans are paid to clean up after robots in a future gig economy. Like a job Hiro Protagonist would be reduced to if he lost his mafia pizza delivery gig.

Was going to watch a movie but one householder of the younger generation has succumbed to food coma and begged for a nap first. Kids nowadays. No stamina. Might make myself a sandwich.

Altman is bullshitting at Musk's level now.

Pud.

Meal planning the next few days. Breakfast = ham sandwiches Lunch = turkey sandwiches Dinner = lamb sandwiches This is the way.

Turkey fuck yeah.

Musk is such an arsehole. Just a total piece of filth.

On the cusp of cooking Christmas lunch on solar if only the sun would sort itself out.

Saw a cactus wren today and you would never guess where it was. 🪶