Happy Earth Day Jenny! Keep up the great work.

80% of US accelerationist events in 2026 involve child exploitation—a new phenomenon since 2021. PERIL's Michael Jensen tracks how platforms like Roblox and Discord became radicalization pipelines. bit.ly/4e2g6pw

I want to talk a little bit more about this from the other day bc I think it’s important.

As politics increasingly comes to mean “Everyone in the world vs a handful of tech overlords,” I think it’s important to be clear on the historical relationship between labor and technology.

Grim but useful read.

Global energy markets are on the verge of a disaster
economist.com/finance-and-...

If I ran a site that attracted funny sexy inclusive people I would simply be proud of my user base instead of menacing them daily

Painting "Tomorrow will be the same but not as this is"

2nd favourite McCahon www.mccahon.co.nz/cm001060

AOC talking to RFK Jr. Her facial and hand gesture has the spiritual energy of that Italian hand gesture where you pinch your fingers and wave your hand (the "ma che vuo" gesture).

how it feels to say "sprezzatura"

What kind of irony is it that Starlight has Mar a lago face?

This is a far better article than the, frankly, confusing and counterproductive opinion on solar in Newsroom the other day

We are not legal experts — is this what innocent people do?

www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

“The presence of a portrait of the Columbine attackers signals a possible relationship with an online subculture dubbed the “True Crime Community” (TCC), a social community that glorifies, worships, and seeks to inspire the next mass shooter. “

Cover of Red Deer in New Zealand, A Complete Hunting Manual by Roger Lentle & Frank Saxton It's red-brown in colour, featuring two stag photos

Infographic showing the characteristics of deer shit -- in different seasons, different deer, different conditions, how it degrades with time, &c &c

Inforgraphic "The deer at rest and his defences" showing the typical posture of an unalarmed deer facing downwind, the range and effectiveness of deer senses, and detailing the alarm matrix: either smell alone, or a combination of sight and sound

Infographic showing "The rules for stalking in pairs", showing two hunters moving parallel to each other into the wind, with visual communication between them and allowable fields of fire for each hunter comprising a 180 degree arc opposite the other hunter with a prominent NO SHOOTING IN THIS AREA between

One of my bids for the apocalypse library: Red Deer in New Zealand, A Complete Hunting Manual by Roger Lentle & Frank Saxton

A taonga of a book. Nearest thing to a Bible for practical deer hunting in the NZ-specific context

Worth it for the hand drawn infographics alone

So, now there's a whole bunch of Intel analysts about to spend their days listening to whale sounds

we all know I have no life, so:

So Landman is 100% oil industry propaganda (there's a bit diatribe on how fake green energy is), but man is great TV.

These two widely shared images claiming to show the IDF restoring a statue of Jesus that was previously damaged by an Israeli soldier near Debl, Lebanon, are AI-generated and fake.

A Google SynthID check finds watermarks that suggest both images were made with Google AI.

Comic of the beetle from the cover of Massive Attack's "Mezzanine" meeting the crab from the cover of The Prodigy's "Fat of the Land".

Hi this joke is for me

🏔️ ☠️

Why do the Japanese like their buns askew (2026)

Putin’s megaphone: Orbán’s far-right push into UK universities is fuelled by Russian oil Good Law Project has uncovered a network funded by Hungary’s authoritarian leader Viktor Orbán, that uses profits from refining Russian oil to platform far right and anti-trans campaigners in the UK

“Good Law Project can reveal that the Roger Scruton Legacy Foundation (RSLF) has received…more than 90% of its funding – from Mathias Corvinus Collegium (MCC) since 2023. This private college based in Budapest has close ties to Hungary’s [former] …prime minister, Viktor Orbán.”
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some numbers on the corruption associated with ICE detention

I already did high school.

Good.

Clint Smith: I guess that's because my household isn't a perpetual sovereign entity that can levy taxes and print its own currency. In response to NZ TPU: If you ran your household budget like the Government runs theirs, your bank would intervene, your family would panic, and your dog would probably start looking for a new owner

Good come back to the idiocy

#nzpol
It’s not just in Wellington e te whānau

Guess their cargo is disposable to the insurers

how is this literally happening in real life

Brian Eno described the Internet as "a machine for concentrating prejudice", and it's hard to argue with that definition when it comes to FB

UAE official: More than 90% of Iranian targets were civilian infrastructure

Look, for my money the absolute game changer technologies right now are batteries and biosciences, not statistically modeling a mid conversation, but you do you.