New tvnz app won’t scroll down to taskmaster before s11 because my phone screen is too small, welp

Palantir are about six months away from ordering their employees to leave audio logs scattered around their offices

it's one of those ones you can just pick up and read a Good Bit of while walking from one end of the house to the other

Palantir put out the most cartoonishly evil statement possible. They’re so arrogant and self-confident they don’t seem to believe their fascistic plans can be opposed.

We must get rid of Palantir altogether.

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I see they've taken out the 'young' bit but left the rest.

A job when there’s a 100% chance you’re issued a bomb collar day one

Excalibur Junior from the sadly departed Herbie Brennan’s unhinged Grailquest gamebooks is one of my faves.

YOU CAN'T EVEN BE "LEFT BEHIND BY AI"! If it goes the way they say it's going to go, the cost and difficulty of adoption DECREASES over time. If it doesn't go the way they say it's going to go, then you don't want to adopt anyway. THERE IS NO COST TO WAITING.

I am still so curious why Ayling immediately quit the FSU though straight after they got him the seat. Was that the plan?

a search result on https://opencorporates.com/ showing 0 results for companies named 'torment nexus'

kind of surprising actually

This intersects with one of my favourite rants, the devaluing of admin/clerical skills. So many organisations have slashed admin roles over the decades because it's largely women's work and therefore invisible and that's why all your documents look like shit now and paperwork takes a million years

grade a grey day

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Yeah that was my impression - the regulated period was covering when we expected people to actually want to spend money to ask for votes, but when you're already spending your entire cap and have money to burn, why not just spend it outside the period

New article: this week I was a massive Tolkien nerd and so I decided to write about different flavours of hope:

"modelling to reach agreement" is my new favorite phrase

Duane’s brill Deep Wizardry takes the ol’ songs-as-magic idea one step further, since obviously that’s how whale wizards are going to do things.

Sunday paper headline - ‘less typing, more testing - push for mandatory AI skills’

It’s everywhere, this from the sst today

Yeah I never even lived there but it was a highlight - many fond ‘well the flight is in three hours and I don’t want to sit in the airport so….’ lurks.

Yeah I was so heartened by the sheer number of little groups of people showing up for this - the internet is where we all live now, reminded us that it's a community of people too despite *all this*

finally got a reliable repro case for this utterly infuriating ios bluesky bug:
1. scroll down a feed some way
2. tap on an image
3. rotate the phone and back
4. tap on the close button
5. you're now back at the top of the feed

the first thing any business claiming their LLMs are sentient should be asked is: how much are you paying it?

One MP, One Pint: Francisco Hernandez on the Greens being ‘so fucking back’ The Green MP on 'trying to fuck the government', and the 'niche Filipino' issue he wants to lobby Christopher Luxon on....

One MP, One Pint: Francisco Hernandez on the Greens being ‘so fucking back’

the astounding classic Elfquest is my fave example here.

Interesting that 'this fantasy was SF all along' is pretty common, but the alternative 'actually the robot is a demon' seems to be a lot less common...

i knew we'd rapidly moved through to the 'it's too late to do anything, adapt' stage of climate denial but i didn't realise there was a 'actually we'll just drown' stage after that

See also other replies in this very thread that still blame the church here

nobody in chch has been more vindicated than Bishop Victoria Matthews who said the cathedral could be rebuilt, theoretically, but once the cost reached $100m “you have to ask if that’s a moral response”.

has anyone ever been so vindicated as Victoria Matthews

The Government is currently negotiating an Enhanced Border Security Partnership with the US Department of Homeland Security that would grant US agencies, including ICE, automated, direct access to New Zealanders' biometric data and identity records.

"she's too difficult to be hired by the governessless because she's too sexy for governessness" has stuck in my brain