If this is what they are doing with the AI, what do you think they are doing with the much simpler and easier to control algorithm that chooses which posts you see and which of your posts are seen by others?

At what point do we publicly accept that NZ is deeply corrupt and the only reason why we don’t have a culture of direct payoffs and bribery (that we cite as the evidence for us not being corrupt) is because it’s not needed? The boys club gets what it wants through people playing their social roles.

I will keep trying Social Notes until I make them work. Anyway, if you can see this, go buy a Cats are Comrades shirt https://www.tworuru.com/product/cats-are-comrades-unisex-classic-tee/

I challenged myself to send an email newsletter every day for 30 days whilst simultaneously spooling up a hybrid art/marketing consulting business with a goal of getting $10k revenue in a month and... it worked.

I'm in the minority here, I know, but I don't think this move is the right thing to do about online safety (at least, as a first - and only - step). #nzpol www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

If you'd told me that a speaker at the Free Speech Union conference would call for banning non-Christian public expressions of faith to an applauding crowd, I would have said yes, obviously that is going to happen newsroom.co.nz/2025/11/10/t...

What I discovered about the Disruptor’s Dinner was jaw-dropping!

"how many humans can already recognise 22,000 objects in the world" literally everyone

“The only path to the dictatorship of the proletariat is for me to post deranged hate takes on old shows lots of people like” - American ultra-online leftists, somehow

lmao, probably for the best

Good, the centre sucks

It’s always the people it always is

after last week's webworm story, air new zealand has initiated a formal investigation into the project 32 snacks it carries on national & international flights, saying "we will not serve the snacks onboard our flights while we undertake this process". please RT: www.webworm.co/project32gro...

THE INFLATION CONTINUES TO COME FROM POWER BILLS AND GROCERIES, THINGS WE CANNOT NOT SPEND MONEY ON

back on the old site i had a running thread where i would post a bunch of different maps of the US interior and point out that they're all the same map. climate, population, voting, some others. anyway do y'all want to see a series of different world maps that are all the same map?

Via Gary Marcus. Wow.

If you are posting on or engaging with content on X, you are working as a volunteer laborer helping this specific man earn money and political influence. Any person, group or organisation that is still there and helping keep you there: you have to make them get out, not give them reason to stay

At a fundamental level, we have to accept much of silicon valley has gone insane.

Answering all your questions about Measles The latest Emily Writes newsletter

Urgent alert to residents of Sydney's north shore: Lock up your dalmatians IMMEDIATELY

It’s not just you youtu.be/hksVvXONrIo?...

Counterpoint: no it isn’t

the verge continuing to carry water for the worst techbro horseshit isnt a bug, its a feature

This is what happens when you get AI to write your ad for a humour specialist (Also probably worth noting that $200k an hour is only $416 million a year, i.e. quite a lot less than the billionaires earn.)

I wrote about Silicon Valley’s mad new AI religion and how it (not superintelligence!) is a *real* existential threat, drawing on the work of @adambecker.bsky.social, @edzitron.com and others. www.webworm.co/newgods

As an ex catholic the comparison between AI / religion clarified my unease for the zeal that people have for it. I was in IT 20 years and left before AI but the way people speak about how useful it is when they can barely navigate their own digital realm is jarring. Appreciate your writing as ever.

He really will

Sweet baby AI jesus this is grim. Silicon Valley Has a God Problem www.webworm.co/newgods/

this article reads like a philosophytube video to me, or the plot of an early 90s anime... unhinged billionaires believing they’re creating god, and if that ruins the world it’s okay! because their new god will be able to clean it up

If you're angry about AI, you're probably not nearly angry enough www.webworm.co/newgods/

I have been mad about AI and the delusional talk of “superintelligence” - and the media’s casual acceptance of it - for a long time but hearing Sam Altman casually toss off about turning the only known life-supporting planet into endless data centres made me furious enough to write this

there's a lot of talk of erotic horny chat gpt and sora slop, but this piece on webworm today from @tworuru.com gets into the infuriatingly deluded and dangerous headspace of those pushing on this "AI" (it's not AI) pathway: www.webworm.co/newgods/

my most problematic yet strongly-held opinion: the online left’s instinct to dunk has done it more damage than any other single factor

I know this will win me no friends and convince no-one but seeing every nz leftist dunk on the govt by *signal boosting* their straight propaganda is incredibly depressing why do you all hate winning

“When forklifts are free, what are gyms for?” Never ceases to amaze me how ready mainstream media is to deepthroat and regurgitate AI bullshit

No one who believes in AGI had ever tried to make a Roomba work or move a table in Word and it shows

Popular opinion: Tron is bad

Every single one of these claims can be rebutted simply with "no, it's not". See Marilyon Monroe (no, it's not) in game of thrones (no, it's not), Sora may be the prelude to (no, it's not).

I will never take demands for parliamentary dress standards to return to ye olden days seriously unless they mandate the wearing of wigs

just a reminder that if Labour were competent they would be thrashing National in every poll; the fact they’re neck-and-neck with Nats with these widely hated destructive fools in power is an indictment; Chris Hipkins should step down and give it to someone who shows an interest in doing things

Bluesky NZ FTW! I've just had my first calendar pre-order from a Bluesky comrade! If you'd like a beautiful, mailable locally printed botanical art calendar in 2026 please pre-order before 30 October, I'll sort you! Please feel free to share and thank you! jenniferduval-smith.com/shop/botanic... 🌱🇨🇰

If I come across someone screaming “FIGHT ME!!!!” in real life I take a wide berth and when I see it here I just casually block them

Desperate to listen to this guy’s podcast

This is the only thing that has worked for me, am finding this out now aged 42

Also? Getting comfortable enough with failure that failure no longer crushes you is like a basic survival skill if you’re hypersensitive/have anxiety, and the only way to do that is to just go ahead and fail repeatedly

Here lies the strangling fruit

The liberal determination that the use of force is forbidden to all only ensures that the people with the least respect for liberalism can or will employ force and no one else will allow it, engage in it, or even know how to do it. This misunderstanding of power is how we got to where we are today.

Apropos of absolutely nothing, some of my favorite lyrics: “And when it happens, when it happens (I won't be holding on) So let it happen, let it happen… It’s gonna feel so good”

I all-nightered a second-year law essay in a frenzy fuelled by concentrated instant coffee sludge whilst teaching myself to touch-type, all so I could go snowboarding the following morning. I passed, and I can still touch-type.