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2026-07-22 19:40:45 UTC

good that nw is giving away free knives in an election year

2026-07-22 08:33:23 UTC

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in case you're under any illusions about vibe coding being 'slop' like i was, that's mostly a copilot problem. with careful supervision, claude bloody code is a better developer, reviewer, and tester than any of my colleagues.
there are all kinds of reasons to hate it, but for the shape of software i work on? it's stupidly, devastatingly competent. far out.

2026-07-22 07:48:37 UTC

well and i got to have a few good conversations with colleagues about ai psychosis today. one of them stopped using ai recently, another is pretty addicted

2026-06-29 20:13:28 UTC

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ant farmers, ant foresters, there are probably ant fishers too, somehow

2026-06-23 21:27:10 UTC

wellington's nasty as diesel busses aren't getting any younger
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/regions_wellington/618659/why-wellington-s-air-is-getting-worse

2026-06-23 00:25:16 UTC

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a really good metaphor!

2026-05-22 00:50:42 UTC

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epic corruption, that number is intentional

2026-05-20 21:21:49 UTC

the internet was fine before google. better, even.
we'll get over them.

2026-05-11 21:30:06 UTC

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excellent advice, and people love getting positive feedback or even just interest in something they've done

2026-04-25 23:00:28 UTC

the duty of the state is not to maximise your tax dollar investment bro

2026-04-08 20:21:42 UTC

the light you get from your screens is a rounding error. go outside during the day if you want to sleep well, apparently - the contrast between day and night is what's important to your body
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20260407-the-blue-light-from-your-phone-isnt-ruining-your-sleep

2026-04-02 09:48:11 UTC

important reminder at this time of year, and in this sociopolitical climate
https://theonion.com/god-angrily-clarifies-dont-kill-rule-1819566178/

2026-03-27 20:14:34 UTC

if anyone asked me how to end social media addiction i'd say the best way is to ban online advertising, full stop
if attention doesn't generate revenue then there is no reason to keep non-paying subscribers on the doomscroll
and if the algorithm doesn't allow paid placement, then psyops campaigns become much more difficult to carry out

2026-03-26 05:50:59 UTC

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this is not something i'm an armchair expert on yet, what is the difference between purchasing in dollars or yuan pls?

2026-03-17 07:11:09 UTC

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they all had to swear an oath against taxes nothing they can do right

2026-03-17 02:24:59 UTC

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imagine if farmers could just load butter onto the train, it would be chaos!

2026-03-17 02:24:05 UTC

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famously, that's why we have to import dairy products from overseas

2026-03-16 23:51:46 UTC

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rural people never visit cities but certainly wouldn't want a cheap, sensible way to get around if they did

2026-03-05 06:38:39 UTC

if anthropic wants you to learn one thing from it's disempowerment study, it's that people use their proprietary autoparrot for:
> "navigating relationships, processing emotions, or advising on major life decisions"
but that repeatedly relying on it for personal advice can cause "severe disempowerment" -- "[the user's] autonomous judgment is fundamentally compromised" and they do something they regret -- up to one time in 1000
"occurs very rarely" 😬

2026-03-04 18:51:37 UTC

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every day there is someone born who has never ______

2026-03-04 18:48:58 UTC

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has the US ever assassinated a world leader before? what you need to know

2026-03-04 08:17:35 UTC

stay frosty, rnz
https://files.cloudisland.nz/media_attachments/files/116/169/896/944/711/271/original/ea83fb0d02bd708b.jpeg

2026-03-03 04:31:56 UTC

"so how would -you- fund a better school lunch program?"
uh, i'd change the government? we had one before, after all

2026-02-20 08:02:49 UTC

do you get notified if someone quote boosts your toot?

2026-02-14 06:28:04 UTC

"what the Fediverse is, is a place to have conversations online without algorithms, AI, and ads getting in the way"
- @npub15hq…c6zc
a really good, non-technical description

2026-01-02 20:06:03 UTC

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impromptu wrestling match?

2025-11-06 18:38:13 UTC

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i’m sure food processors won’t notice these headlines and anyway sawdust adds fiber!

2025-10-24 23:42:29 UTC

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gives it that secret special kick?

2025-10-09 23:51:39 UTC

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as long as covid and measles reception is impaired!

2025-10-04 22:50:47 UTC

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yes, please. if we put standards-based tools to authenticate media into cameras and recorders, as well as editing suites, you could audit the chain of custody from capture through editing to publishing, including reformatting for the web
the publishing signature is the most important though — as you explain, the signature ties the image’s accuracy to the publisher’s reputation. that can be easily implemented by any publishing platform that cared to do it

2025-09-27 02:26:47 UTC

“Remember, we're up against the Chinese” - eric schmidt on why tech workers should put in 72-hour weeks
very sustainable, my man. why don’t we go back to convincing the world that a 32-hour week is better for everyone? nobody is “up against” the chinese.
show some fracking solidarity, we can all work less and garden more 🌱

2025-08-29 19:55:10 UTC

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only way to fix this may be to use the likelihood of collapse as a discount on the value of investments. a climate tariff, if you will
too bad capitalism shuns regulation

2025-08-20 21:41:24 UTC

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oh holdover from print.

2025-08-20 21:24:40 UTC

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too video didn’t watch but is it because stock phrases and standard delivery make it easier to ‘cut through’ to a distracted audience?

2025-08-01 21:30:05 UTC

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famous rapist has “an eye for beauty” is what i’m seeing in that headline

2025-07-31 11:46:31 UTC

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are those fork holes in each one?

2025-07-15 20:29:05 UTC

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we could use an llm to generate woke archives for training?
(ugh sorry sorry, i really hope i’m the only one who thinks of that, but also it’s probably fundable)

2025-06-29 02:50:06 UTC

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“please like and subscribe to keep me from being deported to the value-extraction center 🙏”

2025-06-24 02:16:24 UTC

you’re governing new zealand with vibes, and THEY’RE NOT EVEN GOOD VIBES

2025-06-20 01:50:05 UTC

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maybe the 51st state was the economic and political systems we subscribed to along the way

2025-06-16 08:57:35 UTC

i hope the minister for affairs, foreign is taking this personally
https://www.stuff.co.nz/travel/360725616/why-us-nz-raises-alarm-us-eyes-travel-ban-tonga-vanuatu-and-tuvalu

2025-06-15 19:39:15 UTC

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there will be so much pre-cleared farmland to support refugees from the global coasts, i’m sure he’s just thinking of the future

2025-06-13 21:10:37 UTC

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try miso (or miso ramen) for the extra nutrients!

2025-06-11 09:00:33 UTC

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our cosy capitalist polycule, the surveillance marketing family 🫶

2025-06-11 08:31:44 UTC

feeling low enough to take a 4-way RAT
no untoward lines tonight, so maybe just a dodgy curry plus stress 😷🤞

2025-06-05 20:20:55 UTC

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jd vance is a peter thiel protege, and palantir is thiel’s company. a heartbeat away from the presidency.

2025-05-19 19:45:50 UTC

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or do users prefer a direct answer over the ad-cluttered, malware-attempting, partially-paywalled, app-installing experience on so many websites?
the apis are definitely an endgame of sorts, because they provide security and predictable monetisation, two things the open web has been notoriously bad at (because designed for humans but built out by advertisers)
the web will be useful again — already is useful — when and where it is worthless for advertising

2025-05-18 07:45:54 UTC

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how estranged are you? like, can you just smdh at this or is it adding another dimension to your sorrows?

2025-05-03 21:16:36 UTC

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texan parents trying to use natural selection to engineer a race of children who can survive texas politics

2025-04-17 21:09:36 UTC

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the correlation in itself is significant

2025-04-11 19:30:13 UTC

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there must be an incredibly strong desire to just ignore it all and hope for a return to steady state within a human lifetime

2025-04-10 19:19:55 UTC

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sorry you can only vote with an enhanced RealBirth(tm) certificate that includes your mother’s fingerprints and a neonatal retina scan
no Obamas now!

2025-03-05 18:45:29 UTC

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TIL that will rogers was cherokee, something that was probably too well-known to be mentioned to a gen-x kid

2025-03-01 19:54:04 UTC

wait, bluesky doesn’t have an edit feature?
y’all just flinging typo-filled posts at each other while the VC’s rub their hands together in glee?

2025-02-27 21:49:04 UTC

national programme is playing toto’s ‘africa’, is everyone ok???

2025-02-14 20:46:37 UTC

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the combined year of the tostinos pizza roll and home depot power sale is upon us!

2025-02-12 10:28:15 UTC

the so-called culture wars have never been about culture
the fight is about who is allowed to control women and children.
this is an incredibly narrow slice of culture, and anyway it's not wars it's basic human rights

2025-02-12 07:58:51 UTC

oh no, they’ve invented fart-class travel
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/541687/airbus-exploring-double-level-airplane-seat-design

2025-02-11 00:24:44 UTC

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wonder where the big trucks dump it all? fling it into vermont?

2025-02-03 19:28:04 UTC

i think the saddest thing about seymour’s school lunch cuts are all the adults who had good jobs preparing kai for our kids, now out looking for work

2025-01-25 22:54:59 UTC

that’s a lot of rivers with the toxic algae, #Wellington
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/539955/red-alerts-issued-for-wellington-rivers-over-widespread-toxic-algae

2025-01-05 19:26:51 UTC

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i found that shocking, too. i get it, but ‘nature is closed now’ rubs the wrong way 😂

2025-01-03 20:22:20 UTC

this country will grind to a halt if bird flu means we have to cull all the egg-laying chooks - i hope someone at mpi starts collecting and testing vegan baking recipes when they get back to work in february

2024-12-29 18:41:09 UTC

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it didn’t take genius to see it, reagan was a monster. but it took genius to say it on air like that!

2024-12-22 20:41:32 UTC

someone posted recently about being able to unmask undiagnosed neurospiciness in adults by inviting them to info-dump about socks, and that really resonated
i could also write an essay about finding the perfect nail clippers at a truck stop in arkansas in 2001, and how they will follow me to the grave

2024-12-22 20:15:13 UTC

amazing how people can carry on about a ‘free society’ when it is all about enclosing and permanently erasing the commons

2024-12-13 00:09:04 UTC

stop confusing economic success with moral authority!

2024-12-11 08:11:05 UTC

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we’ll spend millions per teenager on boot camps but try to get an occupational therapist a couple hours a week for a six year old and people act like you’re asking them to fund another moon landing

2024-12-11 08:04:37 UTC

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that is shocking and sad, and the reality is that there are very few people to help anyway so i can almost understand why.

2024-12-11 07:54:08 UTC

was chatting with the other cool, aloof parents at the school christmas concert, and heard stories about how much support there is for adhd and neurodiversity at a couple of our local high schools.
why, for the love of god-defend-us, is there hardly any at all for kids under 13, when it would make so much more of a difference?

2024-11-26 22:02:32 UTC

nzta really out to kill public transit aye
- no bikes on buses
- 70% fare hike
- what’s next?

2024-11-24 18:24:33 UTC

counterpoint: subsidize foods made with whole grains and higher-protein levels
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/534706/call-for-urgent-government-intervention-as-obesity-rates-soar

2024-11-21 23:30:16 UTC

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four years on and they’re still blaming it on lockdowns? ok sure

2024-11-19 05:49:34 UTC

the beehive’s grounds are going to need some tlc around the edges but nobody tried to burn down trevor mallard’s slide

2024-11-19 01:01:50 UTC

#ToitūTeTiriti
https://files.cloudisland.nz/media_attachments/files/113/506/904/332/492/885/original/b3a9df2d9e4067a9.jpeg

2024-11-18 18:34:25 UTC

some inspiration, if you needed it. #ToitūTeTiriti
https://e-tangata.co.nz/history/marching-into-history/

2024-11-17 01:18:34 UTC

would like to know what nzta has to say about tesla door mechanisms and their failure to open when power is lost

2024-11-13 20:05:11 UTC

not celebrating anything the guardian does until they publicly apologise and stop platforming anti-trans activists

2024-11-05 03:39:24 UTC

well friends, business is taking me on an unprecedented trip into the throbbing pituitary of the united states of america, las vegas, nevada. on election day, no less! so mute me for the next week if this is going to be too much.

2024-10-30 06:14:14 UTC

“People are genuinely intimidated by seeing certain gang patches and symbols,” said the minister for racism today, indicating that swastikas do not genuinely intimidate people.

2024-10-13 01:14:00 UTC

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i read about how it started, but how is it going?

2024-10-10 09:27:19 UTC

another sound financial decision, reducing govt waste by picking up the rubbish less often. i’m sure this will be fine. maybe we can sell off half the trucks, too. https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/ldr/530419/auckland-fortnightly-rubbish-collection-to-go-on-trial

2024-10-08 00:54:02 UTC

oh, yeah this will be the milton everyone is talking about.
https://files.cloudisland.nz/media_attachments/files/113/269/050/883/336/877/original/78be15522a61ab51.png

2024-10-03 20:15:43 UTC

and here we are, under-funding hospitals, while enabling faster climate change. even a bit in there about how renters are adversely affected by hotter days and nights
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/529824/more-under-5s-ending-up-in-hospital-on-hot-days-creating-lifelong-health-risks

2024-09-28 22:35:33 UTC

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ai code generation is an antipattern for just this reason: we expect people to catch and fix the mistakes that ai makes, and that expectation is flawed.
correction is hard, it requires engagement. it’s easier to just follow orders and hope that the autocorrect knows what it’s saying

2024-09-28 22:22:18 UTC

“we followed the pattern” is engineerese for “just following orders”

2024-09-19 22:12:05 UTC

no customers at your cafe?
yeah mate, the problem is definitely cycle lanes
https://files.cloudisland.nz/media_attachments/files/113/166/506/727/711/088/original/8da5f33b8bfe4fcc.jpeg

2024-09-18 19:53:35 UTC

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loved those! wonder if the exist in new zealand?

2024-09-03 10:43:00 UTC

how rich do you have to be to stop exploiting combustion?
- electric cargo bike
or
- electric car
- heat pump ac
- double glazing
- induction stove
- heat pump water cylinder
- battery power (for peak demand)
- no flights
or
- electric airship

2024-08-28 07:55:52 UTC

#EverydaySnapshot
https://files.cloudisland.nz/media_attachments/files/113/038/562/089/301/018/original/13fa365ec45a0cb7.jpeg

2024-08-07 22:24:08 UTC

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hand dryers are the worst!