two images of the human body's circulatory system. One of them with good cable management

The human circulatory system, before and after proper cable management.

Laughing out loud at this.

They say hard times make for good art.

Why Pākeha are so resistant to embracing Tikanga is a real mystery to me. Even right now, on the cusp of yet another catastrophic climate event, Marae across the motu are ready with open arms to CARE for our communities…ALL of us, not just Maori. The knowledge is rich, the integrity is priceless.

Spoiler alert: nothing trickled down.

This is surprisingly reassuring!

"The real threat is a slow, comfortable drift toward not understanding what you're doing. Not a dramatic collapse. Not Skynet. Just a generation of researchers who can produce results but can't produce understanding."

This table brings out points in a bit more detail. Hope this helps NZ'ers understand where they sit in relation to what the UK, and Australia have been informed by their leaders around what the coming weeks, and months will bring. He waka eke noa, but those already vulnerable will be hit hardest.

"We are going for all humanity."

"Artemis crew is go for launch. Full send."

Publicly funded science to explore our universe and our own precious world is a beautiful thing.

Using AI would defeat the entire purpose and pleasure of writing.

I have no more interest in using AI to write than I have interest in letting another person run a marathon for me.

The arrival isn't the point, nor the beauty of it.

The obvious risk to business is not "being left behind" by AI, it's over-commitment to AI when the offering changes (price, availability, feature) dramatically and it turns out you reshaped your business on a bad set of assumptions.

On The Enshittification of Audre Lorde: "The Master's Tools" in Tech Discourse 🖼️Cover Photo: Train at the Nairobi terminus of the Mombasa–Nairobi Standard Gauge Railway. It runs parallel to the Uganda Railway that was completed in 1901. The first fare-paying passengers boarded ...

This is an essential read, and the closing on credentialing versus engagement and "centering the people for whom the stakes are highest" in particular. (H/T @peachfleurr.bsky.social @robin.berjon.com)

Go to internetnz.nz/membership/ to sign up before March 31 2026.

Then make sure you vote for the board elections, and turn up to the online AGM and ensure the right wing don't capture INZ and implement their anti diversity agenda.

Or tenured

Government proposes sweeping changes to alcohol laws The Government says proposed reforms will ease licensing rules and support hospitality sector growth

Really? That's what the government is prioritising? Never mind the cost of living crisis, let's make it easier to get a drink.

If that's the only solution they have for [waves hands at everything], they should just go all-in and legalise cannabis.

#nzpol

www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3609...

I'm curious about your experience here. It feels like in data wrangling it would be particularly difficult to spot errors compared to e.g. broad lit reviews or coding. How do you have confidence in the LLM's work?

woman sat in a snowy waste, her feet are bare and she has them under the clothes of a man stood opposite

'An Inuit man warms his wife’s feet. Greenland, 1880—1890s. Photographer Robert E. Peary / National Geographic'

They take advantage of the subtle difference between 'pro market' and 'pro big business'. You could make an argument for the market being useful. This, however, is pro big business at the expense of the market (and the environment and the tax payer).

AI is not a peer, so it can’t do peer review If we still believe that science is a vocation grounded in argument, curiosity and care, we can’t delegate judgement to machines, says Akhil Bhardwaj

'to treat peer review as a throughput problem is to misunderstand what is at stake. Review is not simply a production stage in the research pipeline; it is one of the few remaining spaces where the scientific community talks to itself.' 1/3

Peer review science relies, more than we care to admit, on what @zey.bsky.social calls "load bearing frictions" that make it difficult to fake good science, and on trust that most ppl also value science itself & won't cheat just for personal gain. This creates the wrong environment for that to hold.

1. The thing about science that these jokers don't understand is that science cannot be vibe-coded.

Whatever its flaws, the point with vibe coding is that you're trying to quickly make something that sorta works, where you can immediately sorta see if it sorta works and then sorta use it.

Budget is on 28 May. If things get a tiny bit better, then it's only because in 2 short years, they got so much worse. Cuts to essential public services. Record out-migration of Kiwis. Failing child poverty. New Zealand can't afford more of this failed plan. Let's make this a one-term government.

Organisational/management research: Only if I can read the language. If I'm reading a translation, I cite the translation.

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Also, anything you're worried about can be used to be put you under pressure and makes you more susceptible. Worried about a test result, a nagging issue, or something you haven't shared with your spouse yet? That's gold for scammers who want you to react quickly rather than stopping to check.

Just texted a friend "can you remind me when you're around tomorrow/overmorrow" and I just think if a few of us really gave it a try suuuper casually we could bring back this word for day after tomorrow next year

The “machinal bypass” and how we’re using AI to avoid ourselves | PNAS The “machinal bypass” and how we’re using AI to avoid ourselves

Love this short opinion piece on “mechanical bypass” in analogy to “spiritual bypass”.

"An academic discovers a paper attributed to him that does not exist has been cited 42 times" is a sentence with an actual referent in 2025.

Another way to restart the world’s idea machine is to restore funding and grants to universities, researchers, and artists.