Apt that someone who is leading a government engaging in voter suppression would tell the media (and thus the public) that we can't take democracy for granted

I just read a paper that has the line "Dentith has put the problem very simply but not too simply:" Bless those Central European academics with their frankness.

A #DeusEx remaster? When we have so many mods that remaster the game anyway? I want to be excited but I suspect the only real way to make this work would be a full on remake...

I’ve always wanted to like #TheAmbasassdorsOfDeath more. But the problem is that after three good-ish episodes it just does the same “Capture; escape” thing over and over, and then has the temerity to end so abruptly to be ridiculous

Well, #AlienEarth really never did get better, did it…

If we are talking about evidence as to why the UN needs reforming, well... In both in #Babylon5 and #TheExpanse it turns out to be a deeply flawed institution. Make of that what you will

Absolutely wild that, in the year of our lord two-thousand and twenty-five, there's a new research article that calls women "females" but calls men "men"

money: that notorious natural kind that is uncontroversially not socially constructed

The alert I just received about the typhoon advised me to try to prevent geological disasters…

How far away are we from mandatory membership of the “Trump Youth”?

So, it's clear that I've thought #AlienEarth was not great from the first episode, but I see that the finale is called "The Real Monsters" and, frankly, that sums up the lack of subtlety in this show to a tee

One of today's philosophical questions: can a game be a "Bennett-Foddy-style" game if it is actually made by @foddy.net

Counterpoint: Politicians must wear hairnets to do interviews about food manufacturing.

Slightly downgrade a band They Might Be Big

My phone helpfully translated the notice outside my apartment as being about “Monsoon Prevention”, which seemed quite audacious

Is this not just restarting all the stuff they stopped in 2023 and 2024? You know, when they stopped projects with builders literally on site to save money for their tax cuts?

Technologically advanced a band. They Might Be Genetically Engineered Giants

It’s astounding how we have normalised travelling on underground railways despite the fact that they sound like a chorus of the dead screaming in pain

In addition to scraping your uploads for "generative AI" training, Academia dot edu is going to start claiming rights to your personal info— *including your signature & voice*— for anything they see fit. So now'd be a good time to remove all of your uploaded works, & then delete your whole account.

Wow, so academia.edu has become ecen scammier than it used to be and is ACTIVELY PROMOTING "AI" "reviews" of papers, so I'm gonna go pull all my stuff off of there.

It’s astounding how we have normalised travelling on underground railways despite the fact that they sound like a chorus of the dead screaming in pain

I am begging men to do this. Begging.

As legacy sequels go, #IKnowWhatYouDidLastSummer is no worse than the original and, in my opinion, a fun throwback

Me two days ago: I have overcommitted myself. Me one day ago: Oh, I've been invited to talk at a prestigious university; let's go! Me today: Oh, I have to actually prepare a talk. My, I'm overcommitted...

Some smart publication should reach out to every single person who signed the Harper’s letter and get their comment / explicit no-comment

Why do the characters in JAWS not simply defeat the shark in the marketplace of ideas?

This is a fascinating thread. Full disclaimer: until recently I haven’t read any fantasy since my early teens but after I read #TheExpanse novels I decided to try the #TheLongPrice quartet…

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People who say you can’t use an umbrella in Wellington simply haven’t figured out how to anticipate which direction the next gust of wind is going to come from. Skill issue

Genuine question here: if a person is a New Zealander-by-descent and has kids overseas, it seems they don’t automatically gain NZ citizenship. But what if those kids are born somewhere that doesn’t grant citizenship to foreign nationals? Are the children technically stateless?

BBC News captures Doctor Who himself Sylvester McCoy at the Trump protest seemingly unaware of who they're interviewing.

Our strongest anti-cancel culture warriors once again hard at work defending free speech

Māori born overseas should 100% be automatically citizens here. Colonisers keep colonising 🤬

Hipkins doesn't have to eat shit like this. He's up against an enormously unpopular govt. Like if u want to hedge just say "I'm willing to work on this to help those affected." But nah he wants to signal that he's a "sensible" racist to the mythical middle NZer.

Journals that only tell you the list of requirements for your title page after you have uploaded the title page should be sent to the sea!

Ask the Deputy Prime Minister of the New Zealand Government why he protected his pedo party leader or focus all attention on tearing down Te Pāti Māori? Decisions, decisions 🤔

This morning I had three students enrolled in my class (which technically started on Monday) but today I have fifty-four (the university doesn't allow freshers to enrol until midway through the first week)

Well, #MitchellAndWebbAreNotHelping is, frankly, terrible. There are a few sketches in the first few episodes that got a sensible chuckle out of me, but the back half of the season is just dire

there's no contradiction between "hating trans people" and "wanting to fuck trans people". have you guys heard what men think of women

The Right are afraid Charlie Kirk will be forgotten. And he will. He was never that popular.

It's possible to run a web server on a disposable vape, device with similar processing power to a computer from the early 90s www.tomshardware.com/maker-stem/m...

Yes, you have. How about "Nonce" or "Paedophile" for starters? The biggest political scandal was that this wasn't a political scandal and ACT were allowed to shield this from public scrutiny FOR YEARS until after the election. #nzpol

THIS really is true - and the career of Dan Brown is negative proof of my theory that behind every truly great "airport thriller" is an editor who will take years off their lives to whip it into fighting shame. I see no evidence of a blue pencil getting within a mile of a Brown m.s.

New Zealand media institutions have been running stories on the murder of an obscure US podcaster for the better part of a week, and I'm not sure I like what that says about the editorial judgment of those organisations.

Tamell is dope Severance is dope but not giving a black man this award until 2025 is something that they should be ashamed to tell people

This is an exceptionally stupid decision, and it will not result in the training of even one single additional engineer or scientist. =/

Perhaps we could pool our change and get Right Honorable Christopher Hipkins a ticket to an educational event. Based on his quotes below, a government under his leadership would *increase* wealth inequality and hurt ordinary Kiwis. #NZPOL

The idea you can’t tax your way to a strong economy is false. If you use taxes to build up both critical infrastructure and to invest in people (UBI anyone?) you can build a resilient economy

This was what we were saying during the Anonymous era, more than a decade ago!