Yes yes yes. Oh wait.. I'm an export to the US just at the moment 🤠 (services)... But still yes!

It makes me happy that here I am an AI Engineer doing software engineering stuff, and somehow (just now) Wittgenstein and Sapir-Whorf have entered the chat ;-)

Aroha to you and the family at this time Paul

Health NZ downplays security flaw found in its vaunted AI chatbot An artificial intelligence expert says tougher regulation could've prevented a ‘simple’ vulnerability in Heidi Health AI from slipping by officials. Fox Meyer reports.

Altho also

newsroom.co.nz/2026/03/20/h...

I bought a bottle of Sav on special for only $11 ! It kinda tastes like $11 wine though.

a Mazda CX-3 finally captured motionless on the street the other day

The Mazda CX-3 is the most beautiful car in it's class, in my opinion.

Sputnik 6 Thompson Gray sits on a shelf in a weird tiny kinda wooden 'coffin' for cat ashes thing i ended up with somehow.

Current status of Sputnik 6 .. im slightly annoyed that I was too sad to get them to spell the name properly which is with a 6

picture of cake under a bowl - wih an ai generated version of Sputnik the cat looking on

had a birthday, discovered im like 'pre' diabetic .. woah. Sputnik 6 T Gray looks on.

A proof-of-concept study published in Nature Medicine reports a method to predict when someone is likely to develop symptoms of Alzheimer's disease using a single blood test. Link to the article in the comments. Or rather, here. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-026-04206-y

Predicting onset of symptomatic Alzheimerʼs disease with plasma p-tau217 clocks Nature Medicine (2026) 27k Accesses 803 Altmetric Metrics details Abstract Predicting not just if, but also when, cognitively unimpaired individuals are likely to develop onset of Alzheimerʼs disease (AD) symptoms would be useful to clinical trials and, eventually, clinical practice. Although clock models based on amyloid and tau positron emission tomography have shown promise in predicting the onset of AD symptoms, a model based on plasma biomarkers would be more accessible. Using longitudinal plasma %p-tau217 (the ratio of phosphorylated to non-phosphorylated tau at position 217) from two independent cohorts (n = 258 and n = 345), clock models were used to estimate the age at plasma %p-tau217 positivity. The estimated age at plasma %p-tau217 positivity was associated with the age at onset of AD symptoms (adjusted R2 of 0.337−0.612) with a median absolute error of 3.0−3.7 years. Notably, the time from %p-tau217 positivity to onset of AD symptoms was markedly shorter in older individuals. Similar models were constructed with data from one p-tau217/Aβ42 immunoassay and four plasma p-tau217 immunoassays. These findings suggest that the time until onset of AD symptoms can be estimated using a single blood test within a margin of error that is acceptable for use in clinical trials.

Predicting onset of symptomatic Alzheimerʼs disease with plasma p-tau217 clocks

OMG you KNOW they serious when they busting out the plasma p-tau217 clocks

Oh no !

Underworld - Born Slippy (Glastonbury 2016) YouTube video by BBC Music

Imagine if you'd been able to hear that deep deep thumpin bass throughout all this and then it did *that* omg

youtu.be/sQGOlawi6n0?...

Anyway @rabble.nz ftw

Why can't I post this?

Test

I dunno if insta is ok on here but omg this so nails one of the super important and underlooked differences..

.. also it doesn't have to be that way !

Front pages two NY Posts I managed to keep through multiple stuff edits.. "9/11 Bombshell: Bush Knew" (2002) "They said it couldn't happen. President Trump"(2016 day after election)

This is why it takes me so long to move a box of books from one box to another .. lol moving a box from one place to another... Cause I stop and send photos to the other place I mean here

Well yeah. If what the elites actually cared about was Al Capone's taxes and not his murder and abuse of innocents.

Antarctic expedition collects evidence that ice sheet melted during previous warm period Sediment collected from deep beneath the Antarctic confirms what scientists feared.

I'm obviously concerned about their results - but happy for the scientists who did this great work. What makes me irrationally angry, however, is the use of the word 'scaling' in the expression "I can't imagine anything else in my professional life scaling that experience up."

Well sure. Neither would I. I mean it in the sense that prompting itself is like play writing. Generative AI being basically computers cosplaying as *if* they are the people that make up their training data. So you give stage directions and motivation to be their best and most relevant 'selves'.

It's so awful. And yes so brave but awful all over again that she has to go through this. I also don't understand how *(that level of) intoxication isn't itself a complete defence against the idea that consent could've been given.

Search strategies and keywords is absolutely / has been a vital skill across a huge number of professions. I mean there is an art to it, eh? I don't, however, agree that prompts are much the same.. like search strategies meets playwriting meets coaching/mentoring...

Sputnik was a cat so.. no. Sputnik did his own thing and occasionally I entered into *his* orbit 😄

This is a CAT checkpoint. Share the most recent cat image on your mobile device. This is Sputnik 6 Thompson Gray, also no longer with us. Not the most recent cat image because that one makes me cry. This is from happier times. #Sputnik #TheOneWhoKnocks

Does he mean like off the back of the toilet cistern? Maybe this is all 2nd hand because he doesn't go to those kind of parties - not saying he can't have as much nose candy as he wants, whenever - but maybe they usually bring it to him on a silver platter?

Pathetic attempt to gain information by asking Google and only scrolling as far as the bullshit ai overview Search for rfj Jr has canver Answer Based on available reports, it is incorrect to say Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has cancer. In 2024, he revealed that doctors previously found a dead parasite in his brain, not a tumor. He also suffers from a neurological voice disorder called spasmodic dysphonia. The Conversation The Conversation +4 Key details regarding RFK Jr.'s health: Brain Parasite: In 2010, Kennedy experienced memory loss and mental fog, leading to a scan that showed a dark spot, which doctors originally thought was a tumor but concluded was a dead, calcified parasite. Voice Condition: He has a, raspy, shaky voice caused by spasmodic dysphonia, a rare, non-life-threatening neurological disorder that affects the vocal cords. Misconceptions: His distinct voice has led to public speculation about serious illnesses, but it is not linked to cancer.

So.. apologies for not focusing on the coke for a second but what does he mean "I know this disease will kill me?"

So if he doesn't have cancer does he mean the brain worm?

Also sorry. What? Who has a brain worm? Honestly is this the farcicalist timeline?

I really think we need a Facebook like experience built on top of the at-protocol (that powers bluesky)
With photo sharing, community groups, long posts and events being centric. I could survive without an at-protocol version of FB marketplace but maybe that's just me.

When?!

Many real people are there such as myself and a lot of (actual) friends and community.. doesn't change the fact that more and more of it is ai slop, pr and bots. Overwhelmingly so? Yes.

I'm still there because of my crew being there but trying to make the shift.

You have to watch out though.. it's always hard to know but there is evidence that heaps of the right wing leaning shitstirring responses are from bots... Of all kinds. There's solid evidence for this just don't have it with me right now.

Holy shit I thought for a second this dumb-ass was the founder of DVC - aka Data Version Control dvc.org. Thankfully not. If data versioning was your whole thing hopefully you'd have a better attitude to data retention. Doesn't make him any less of a nong, though.

Embarrassed to admit i didn't even realise he was still alive. Kinda just assumed he was killed in the crossfire like seems to happen usually overseas. Don't get me wrong I felt great sadness at the time, and went to vigils etc, but my heart was with the survivors. In retrospect, good job nzpol(ice)