My AI startup is called Glorfindel, our model is “an elf-lord revealed in his glory,” send me money now please

it was one of the worst parts of Twitter & there was an impulse to not do it back in Bluesky Before Times but now if you tell people "actually this sucks" they'll tell you it's praxis to quote-dunk trash takes & that shitting up the timeline is Good, Actually and "exposes bigots to sunlight" or w/e

This is the weirdest shit in the world, I can’t imagine anything less masculine than not being straightforward or refusing to look a threat in the eye out of some bizarre social cowardice

I cannot emphasize enough how good reviews provide your fave authors with both happiness and algorithmic favor. Most people find new books via Amazon, and Amazon picks the books they want to show you (in part) from sales velocity and reviews.

If we unelect the current anti-repair anti-ownership mob we actually have a decent chance of doing this

If you’re scrolling and you see this do it, it beats the ass out of scrolling! Imma play with my kids and scratch up a draft in the meantimes

They need to introduce a new grade for papers like this one, call it a 'Jesus A' or some such. It's a pass, they keep their faith identity recognized and unchallenged, and everyone knows what it means.

Has Anyone Told The New York Times That Title Case Looks Stupid

The Rotorua Daily Post has put in a list of AI l-hallucinated books to torture actual human authors all over the country! Merry Christmas from the noble Fourth Estate everyone!

There is never a bad time to watch this film but this is indeed a very good time

I feel like the only good move for creators who want to maintain audience trust (and retain the ability to make a living!) is no-AI promise or pledge

State of the NZ boardroom: utterly cooked. Boiled harder than a 1950s three veg dinner.

NZ Herald just printed and promoted an opinion column by Bruce Cotterill that is full of racist anti-immigrant rhetoric and blames the Green party for the Bondi shooting.

ugh I need a replacement for Pocket, ideally one that runs in the browser. Forgive me I miss del.icio.us all my tabs are so old

Skywhales – PDF This is a printable PDF version of "Skywhales," a comic that explains everything you ever wanted to know about Skywhales!

Calling it now: 2026 is going to be the opposite of 2016. All the shittiest people are going to die

Flushed with success from inventing news based on bullshit reader polls, Stuff is boldly forging ahead with its own wildly inaccurate political polls

Flushed with success from inventing news based on bullshit reader polls, Stuff is boldly forging ahead with its own wildly inaccurate political polls

Title: “What I Would Say To You Is…”

No.

I subscribed to @wired.com for their tireless investigations into the likes of DOGE and I’m unsubscribing from Wired for their tiresome unquestioning AI boosterism

Ahahahahaha maybe Labour need to lose this sitting duck of an election to the least popular first term government in NZ history to realise how catastrophic this strategy and leadership are

The keyboard warriors of the Culture Wars have found a new battlefield. But do they have a point? (No. Mostly.) #adhd

An OIA confirms it: the Ministry of Education are using AI - Copilot- to develop the new school curriculum. Article here, more as it develops. Please share widely: www.emilywrites.co.nz/yup-theyre-u... #nzpol #kikorangi

What I’m learning from all this is that the New Yorker set could never actually write but had absolutely heroic editors

unbelievable. they really *are* using AI to create the new NZ curriculum "analysing and synthesising information from international curricula and related educational frameworks," is just another way of saying "we're turning them all into untraceable hallucinations" #NZpol #kikorangi

lmao they're banning kids from using email

unbelievable. they really *are* using AI to create the new NZ curriculum "analysing and synthesising information from international curricula and related educational frameworks," is just another way of saying "we're turning them all into untraceable hallucinations" #NZpol #kikorangi

your reminder if you needed one that the Herald is a Tory paper owned by Tories with Tories on the board and Tory editors that employs Tories to write Tory stories

If anyone thinks going the Starmer route is the key to success within the general public, go look at a recent poll for the UK. Conceding ground to the right has no benefits for left wing parties.

Gonna start an alternative Labour PR and comms department because their own comms are trash and I’m genuinely interested to see how people would respond to Labour if they had principles and expressed a desire to either govern or do things

The Labour Party that got gay marriage into legislation, passed the BDMRR and banned conversion therapy should be able to clearly defend their own record and stand up for the ideological vandalism conducted against trans dignity and the LGBTQI community. If it can't, what the fuck are you doing.

This is a tight competition but it would probably have to be Black Velvet by Alannah Miles or Summer of 69 by Bryan Adams

Cheer me up (please)

When your country's collective ability to bullshit on the internet is extensive enough to shape AI slop.

Kind of surprised there's more than one relatable presence.

Yes

i get the populist appeal of a rates cap, but surely that inevitably leads to user-pays? #FeelsBumBro

This would be a wonderful positive AI use-case. Although a strange, difficult reality for a lot of people in 2025.

A reminder to follow me for great posts like this one

"Never spread the lie in the headline" should be a hard rule of 21st century journalism. Research shows that repeating lies helps to spread them, and people read headlines more than they read stories.

Normal people: country’s in the shitter. So much to fix. What political party will finally have the courage to do the needful Labour: EXTREMELY LIMITED CAPITAL GAINS TAX Normal people: no, do the *needful* Labour: GREENS BAD Normal people: …the needful? Labour: FISCAL RESPONSIBILITY

So this figure is actually strong evidence that most work of executives is just substance-less illusion building. Tricking people into think there is something there. And *finally* we have a good use case for AI. Let's sack all executives!

I am very angry about this

Things that Labour will say 'yes' to: 1. We need 120,000 people unemployed (at least) to stop wages going up by too much. 2. Banks can extract $8bn a year in profits, because that's the price we should pay. 3. The market will eventually deliver affordable energy / food / rent - be patient comrades.

Did you know it’s illegal to have a garden in New Zealand?

Labour is in the news again so it’s worth reminding everyone that they should be smashing the much-hated coalition by double digits in every poll and that their stay-silent “strategy” is actually just boring old cowardice

Every right-wing “grassroots”organisation in New Zealand is just Jordan Williams, David Farrar, and one randomly-selected Atlas Network apparatchik in a trenchcoat

I know why these guys love AI: for a certain type of manager success is almost entirely measured by LinkedIn posts and it must be lovely to have a machine to write your bullshit for you