How do you know when it’s a dad joke?

It’s apparent

To put it another way. If the model is credible, and bear with me on that, if the economy grew by more than "with AI" and there is less AI than predicted in the model, that suggests that AI is a drain on the economy because it would have caused the economy to grow by less than it did.

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Just a thought: How about we stop shaming the poor for buying things that may not be essential, and start shaming the rich for making a profit off things that are essential?

It’s World Homeopathy Awareness Week. The less aware of it you are, the more good it will do you.

TAPPING THE SIGN: trans issues are important not only because trans people are cool, but also as a vital litmus test of someone's politics: do they stand with the oppressed against conservatism and patriarchy, embracing the beauty and diversity of our human community

or are they a fucking fascist

make incompetence shameful again

[reading a book in first person] i dont remember doing any of this

I think people in nz should be madder that we generate so much renewable energy but don’t get to benefit from the fact that it’s cheaper because our energy market was designed by idiots obsessed with profit margins

I, for one, would enjoy a government which is not quite so repugnant.

5000 emails to Prime Minister Christopher Luxon from women invoicing for lost wages due to gender pay gap, advocacy group says PM says his Govt has made good progress on reducing gender pay gap.

Based on their response to select committee submissions and OIA requests, we can probably expect National to investigate making it illegal to email the prime minister www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/...

Nine Board Game covers arranged in a 3x3 grid, all but the first have a "1" in the lower left corner indicating a single play. Fuji Flush got played twice.

22 Board Game covers arranged onto a 5x5 grid, each with a number in the lower left corner indicating the play count for the month. Chakra was played 38 times, Gizmos and Race for the Galaxy 11 times, with nothing else played more than six times.

Board game plays during March 2026, with images provided by bgstats.app
First image is recorded plays at boardgamegeek.com, all in person (not shown, a For Sale play).
Second image is everything played at boardgamearena.com.
In person count is down thanks to perhaps Covid in the middle of the month.

Calendar display of books/pages read through March 2026. Everything was a Star Trek novel. Not very consistent amounts of reading although every day had something. source of image https://app.thestorygraph.com

Daily book reading through March 2026, more inconsistent than I'd like, but I kept reading at least a little through the middle of the month. While maybe having Covid again?
I didn't intend either of the single day reads, I just happened to keep reading.
Image from app.thestorygraph.com

Adults Lose Skills to AI. Children Never Build Them. Discussions of cognitive offloading often miss a critical distinction: What AI does to a 45-year-old's brain is categorically different from what it does to a 14-year-old's.

"Developers who fully delegated to AI produced working code but failed conceptual quizzes afterward. They couldn't debug what the AI had written for them. They had the output without the understanding."

send this to a hard worker

Concerned About Your OB-GYN Visit? A Guide to What Should Happen — and What Shouldn’t. As we’ve reported on sexual misconduct by OB-GYNs, many women told us they didn’t know what was normal. With the help of providers, patients and experts, we created this guide.

As we’ve reported on sexual misconduct by OB-GYNs, many women told us they didn’t know what was normal.

With the help of providers, patients and experts, we created this guide.

What's My JND? Find your Just Noticeable Difference in colour perception. How small a colour difference can you actually see?

What's My JND? 0.0148
Can you beat it? www.keithcirkel.co.uk/whats-my-jnd...
#WhatsMyJND

Colourblindness is less of an issue for me than I might have guessed.

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Spent the past month whipping the capitalism machine, so let's give back a little.
We have 53 Pay What You Want titles on @drivethrurpg.com: Every genre, original settings, and inspired mashups.
And if you can only afford zero dollars, please: pay zero dollars
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I was asked to give my thoughts on generative AI usage in games - here they are!

Here's a super useful starter pack to find Aotearoa New Zealand writers, kia ora @poetactics.bsky.social ^DR
#booksky #pukapuka

BuzzFeed Nearing Bankruptcy After Disastrous Turn Toward AI Three years after its pivot to AI, the writing is on the wall for BuzzFeed. The company said there's "substantial doubt" it can keep going.

Self-own of the decade: BuzzFeed pivots toward AI slop, loses everything.
futurism.com/artificial-i...

Investors cash-in on state housing sell-off in Christchurch Nearly 150 Kāinga Ora homes have been sold in Christchurch since July, with some later flipped for large profits.

The government has sold around 150 state houses in Christchurch, most of which have been bought by investors. It has caused the first decline in the city’s public housing supply since at least 2017 dlvr.it/TRT7lc

Anyone affected by this in Aotearoa can take action under the Consumer Guarantees Act

Nissan sold cars into the NZ market. Those cars are required by the CGA to be of "acceptable quality", which means (among other things) "durable". How long is a car "meant" to last? In NZ at least 20 years.

Library book sale Our annual book sale takes place in March and is held at the Pioneer Recreation and Sport Centre, 75 Lyttelton Street, Somerfield, Christchurch.…

Ermagherd! Only one week until our annual book sale!
It's on Friday 20 March 9am to 7pm, and Saturday 21 March 9am to 4pm at Pioneer Recreation and Sport Centre.
my.christchurchcitylibraries.com/library-book... ^MT

Another day, another stupid Excel chart.

A woman in a mask Headline: Why Do Some People Still Wear Masks In 2026 And On A Completely Unrelated Note Why Is Everyone In The Office Sick Right Now Apart From The Guy In The Mask? Story from Jerk Wingley and Terramin Defishunsee Photo from Adobe

Why Do Some People Still Wear Masks In 2026 And On A Completely Unrelated Note Why Is Everyone In The Office Sick Right Now Apart From The Guy In The Mask?

The great forgetting that NZers enjoyed months of domestic travel, holidays, economic stability while large areas of the world were dealing with hospitals collapsing, deaths, lockdowns and restrictions.

Very important response setting out the Ombudsman's views on the use of AI in govt decision-making. Notably, there is a need to record reasons, and failing to do so creates a serious risk of the decision being deemed unreasonable.

When people say National are good at managing "the economy" but trust Labour more on environment, housing, safety, taxes, education, inflation, poverty and health...exactly what part of "the economy" do they think National are good at managing?

Threads thread: thriller_instinct 3d Is it okay to bully 40 and 50 year olds who are on social media just for being on it, cuz like why are you here - 254 Q 3.1K G 28 746 corporateash 18h ••• My ICQ UIN is 7231680. That number is burned into my consciousness. I inadvertently learned that you could see private conversations in public chat rooms when using Telnet instead of a browser on GeoCities. I can tell you the difference in audible dial-up handshakes between 1200, 2400, 14.4 kbps modems. I needed a edu email address to join Facebook after my university was admitted. We were here at the beginning. We made social media. You wouldn't be in my Top 8. I have usernames older than you. 852 Q62 G6 72

“I have usernames older than you.”.
Holy shit