The only possible way out of this situation is for Oracle to walk away from these Stargate data centers. It cannot afford them. It is already running a negative cash flow of $25 billion dollars and requires at least another $50-100 billion more in debt. It cannot afford to pay without OpenAI’s cash.
This nerve pain in my leg is actually starting to become intolerable.
Clearsky screenshot of the lists that my bsky profile is on: AI Haters, obviously, followed by a bunch of lists for "Actual fascists", "Saboteurs", "Eugenicists", and "Nz based fascists" - all by the same person.
I guess my former comrade is still mad at me, huh.
Ahahahahaha what do you mean the TECHNICAL ADVISOR to Bluesky just blocked over 300k users by following an ANTI-AI, AI HATERS blocklist.
Embarassing.
Zizek has a bit about how the nazis didn't want maniacs, you can't build an army or genocide on uncontrolled monsters, they wanted normal, boring people who could be propagandised into operating the machinery of horror.
Anyway, you can tell who is a patron of the monkey mechanic by whether it takes them ages to get their car fixed and they keep being cagey for some reason about which mechanic they use. Also their car always stinks of monkey shit.
📢 Police spokesperson Ana Naisoro told RNZ Pacific that investigators are gathering intelligence to establish the facts and circumstances surrounding Jone Vakarisi's death while in military custody.
I just think we’ve kinda normalised working through crises and disasters, and that potentially isn’t for the best.
I’m so feeling for my Welly peeps but I’m also seeing a lot of folks are saying “so glad I can WFH” and I think we forget in weather events of the past where you couldn’t come into the office you used to get the day off.
Replaced's design is equal parts Limbo-y platforming and crunchy Arkham-y combat, but visually it's an 80's cyberpunk world done up in pixel-y low-poly 2.5D like Octopath Traveler. It's a neat mix of influences.
Nearly 10 years on, we've gone backwards - and a lot of that has occured at pace the last 3 years under National:
#nzpol
open.substack.com/pub/drbex/p/...
Same same with the RBNZ
Annoyingly I've just discovered that a client has probably overpaid me. Annoying, I could really have used that money.
What's fun to me is that I think the Ghostbusters theme is a more concentrated distillation of the idea. We're supposed not to prefer the imitation but it is an absolute banger.
When its like this and I *have* to go out i go the other direction and wear the closest thing to togs that I can get away with, and have a change. But I'm also learning that getting soaked to the bone is different when one has long hair and a face routine so uh
For the next little while, from tomorrow or so, all my packages will go out in compostable bags. ❤️
They won't compost away for 6 months, so I'll have to see how I go with that big pack I just bought.
Apparently they need to be used within 6 months.
Challenge accepted!
Flood map for those who need it:
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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.
I’ve had the same editor since 1967. Many times he has said to me over the years or asked me, Why would you use a semicolon instead of a colon? And many times over the years I have said to him things like: I will never speak to you again. Forever. Goodbye. That is it. Thank you very much. And I leave. Then I read the piece and I think of his suggestions. I send him a telegram that says, OK, so you’re right. So what? Don’t ever mention this to me again. If you do, I will never speak to you again
Maya Angelou on the joys of being edited
I signed up to compete in a kettlebell competition. Very low stakes but it is exciting.
are you part of a progressive left wing org ?
as we head towards the election @1of200.bsky.social will be trying to platform as much cool organising and implementation as possible
hmu if you want to discuss campaigns, ideas and solutions in a podcast or livestream format
Fan culture is fundamentally broken.
I will be endlessly cynical about celebrity because every single female pro actor/comedian i know, and also some of the men, has been sexually harassed by one of nz's national treasure celebs
But you dont talk about it. Cause youre not allowed to. And this shit keeps happening.
"It’s closed out. It's finished. We voted it down yesterday, and it's over, and we're moving forward." - Luxon
“Cremated and buried”. - Potaka
They lied. Despite over 90% of submitters opposed and massive divisions caused.
National Govt continues to roll it out. www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/...
I would argue that the point of sensationalising the horror of these stories is to obfuscate the actual things at play, mostly because we would have to collectively ask hard questions about the underlying culture but ultimately because looking directly at awful things is hard.
i extremely doubt there's more than a few thousand ppl involved with that group chat. and that in and of itself is bad enough. we don't have to lie and say that 62 million men are involved to emphasize how bad it is
saw shit about that rape academy thing and just could not believe there was 62 million men so i checked and yep there isn't. the 62 million number comes from the # of visits to the porn site where you can find a SPECIFIC user's profile with a link to the group chat.
i wanna know what part of "people would cycle more if it felt safer to do" implies that everybody should cycle regardless of ability. but it's being constantly inferred and it's a bad faith reading of what cycle advocates are asking for
