Wild to keep hearing anti-AI sentiment described as an "echo chamber" by people who pretend there's never been a coercive dogshit marketing campaign actively pissing people off about it for two years or any no-opt-out half-baked shovelware making everyone's PCs and phones worse
i understand your sentiment, but i was nerfed such that garlic transforms my bowels into Vesuvius so I am grateful I’m not afflicted this way by everything with onion in it too 😅
We didn't deserve this day.
Every effective tool for reducing fuel demand right now (free PT, cycling, EVs, lower speed limits) is a policy the NZ coalition government has spent two years dismantling.
My new piece in The Conversation on why they've gone quiet and how they get out of it.
theconversation.com/the-governme...
This is my favorite climate change chart. Japanese monks, aristocrats, and emperors kept meticulous records of cherry blossom festivals for 1,200 years and accidentally built the world's longest climate dataset.
Everyone pony the fuck fpr the librarian who just got sacked for refusing to remove LGBTQ books from the kids' section of the library.
good luck, looks yum! thanks for sharing :)
if you’re a pumpkin pie fan, my mum has a banging pumpkin cheesecake recipe that is my favourite food on this green earth, that i’d be more than happy to share 😄
it’s a guy running circles on an aircraft carrier that’s in motion
dying laughing at the strava data for the guy running laps on the french carrier
love the message, but not the ai use man
This is hilarious.
Also, completely enraging.
As the chair of @nzccl.org.nz said,
"We wouldn't give other countries like China or Russia full access into our police and biometrics databases, would we?"
Absolutely disgusting that this is being contemplated, let alone that it might be decided without Parliament.
www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
Where exactly are we going to “move-on” all the people in need of housing? Won’t be into the 3,500 cancelled new state home builds, or the 900 up for sale: yeehawtheboys.substack.com/p/where-exac...
*couch (my bad)
@davidcormack.bsky.social this’ll go well with your bench, yeah?
www.trademe.co.nz/a/marketplac...
The drunk uncle theory.
You don’t argue with the casually homophobic uncle at Thanksgiving dinner to change his mind; you argue so that the closeted cousin at the kids table knows there’s safe people and better possibilities out there
hey internet what should we name this cat
TIL about these metrics from
mechanical engineering: "Mean Time Between Failures" (MTBF) and "Mean Time to Failure" (MTTF) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mean_ti... Would like to see these included in more conceptions of other kinds of technological change, which tend to assume failure is out of scope
Evolution of the trash bin: shows the Microsoft trashcan icon from 1995 through the years up through 2025. The 2025 icon is the copilot icon instead of the trash bin icon
I heard Windows 11 is no longer being called an OS—it’s an SOS
I’m so glad I found the setting to stop bluesky from hiding posts in other languages! This is even funnier to me not understanding a word you’re saying except the brand names and still getting it 😄
Yeah this is a great analogy if you want your product to be viewed as a cumbersome novelty filled with features barely anyone uses.
Jesus.
www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...
“The most wealthy and powerful tech CEOs are still staying silent as ICE floods America’s streets, but now some researchers and engineers working for them have chosen to break rank.”
Great @laurengoode.bsky.social story:
this is genuinely incredible
hell fucken yeah!
oh yeah they tried sticking LLM shit in and editors rioted
www.404media.co/wikipedia-pa...
they’re very restrictive on AI use now, even making it easier to delete obviously-AI generated content than pretty much any other kind of content
www.404media.co/wikipedia-ed...
