Venn diagram with stable services, low density, and low taxes. The area in the centre said “Does Not Exist.” And it’s correct.
My semi-regular reminder of a really important reality about cities, density, services and taxes.
Original graphic cleaned up by @kathrynmathias.bsky.social. #CityMakingMath
I thought IHS was the first three letters of “Jesus” in Greek: ΙΗΣ ?
Palestinian flags in Cuba St and a placard saying “Palestine is in our hearts”.
Palestinian flags in Cuba St and a placard saying “Zionism: a crime against humanity”.
The protest in Wellington today.
I've just started a wiki page for "The Story of a New Zealand River"; anyone able to do a decent plot summary and add stuff about its study in NZ universities? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sto...
I saw it last night at the Embassy. What a blast. Did I hear Reading multiplex is reopening?
I miss Roti Chenai and Bandong Country Kitchen
all passengers home safely
When we don’t build new housing in the places rich people want to live, they buy existing older homes and renovate them into luxury housing.
When we DO build new market rate housing, rich people move into it, setting off a “moving on up” effect that creates vacancy in the cheapest housing.
Poster promoting the Wikipedia New Zealand Species Edit-a-thon on August 2 and 9, 2025 in Wellington. The design features the Wikipedia globe, and a tūī perched on a branch.
Hey Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington, have you ever seen a Wikipedia article that you thought could use some improvements?
This is your chance to learn how to edit Wikipedia – one of the most visited websites in the world – while helping improve accessible information about our unique native species.
The Science Media Centre has gathered several expert reactions to the "de-extinct the moa" publicity announcement. Each is withering in a different way. www.sciencemediacentre.co.nz/2025/07/09/m...
A digital billboard on the Embassy Cinema on Kent Terrace in Wellington that reads “Dunedin = Wellington - the bus lane fines”
Should have given them to Anthropic
Petition to restrict the Morning Report birdcall to songbirds. I have had it up to here with the penguins, albatrosses, petrels, gannets and boobies.
similar head-scratching when discussing who holds rights in old TV commercials. Client? Agency? Production company? All of which may have ceased to exist.
Incredible news for NZ cultural history researchers
The first 20 years of the NZ Listener (1939-1959) are now available on NLNZ's Papers Past platform, through the editorships of Oliver Duff & Monte Holcroft
paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/periodicals/...
Cover of Say Nothing with Dolours Price looking chic, a scarf masking her face.
I’ve been reading SAY NOTHING, Keefe’s book on the Troubles, and, surprisingly, it’s also a useful case study of how not to run an oral history archive.
1. Be unclear about whether interviews will be released after each participant dies, or after they all do (big difference!) …
NZ Parliamentary Collection goes online, with artworks and objects available to view
www.parliamentarycollection.parliament.nz/explore
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Text Shot: Before we get to the actual arguments, I want to offer an explanation for why the backlash against AI has been so severe. The main reason is the general antipathy between Big Tech and left-wing people. That relationship has always been acrimonious2, but it has lately swelled into outright war when many Big Tech CEOs came out in support of Trump before the 2024 election. That’s about when the same CEOs started going all-in on AI, which strongly predisposed a lot of left-wing people to also dislike AI.
Is using AI wrong? A review of six popular anti-AI arguments by Sean Goedecke https://www.seangoedecke.com/is-ai-wrong/ #AI
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