Douglas

Douglas

@finnatic.bsky.social

May be in Ankh-Morpork or Kirikiriroa, Aotearoa Middle Zealand, listening to music, reading a book, doing web or TEU work ... "Sweet dreams every once in a while" / "(Tara) Everything is turning out so dark." / “Cards for sorrow, cards for pain”

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Carl T. Bergstrom
@carlbergstrom.com

Friends in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand, I'm taking a sabbatical from Sept. 2027 — June 2028, and my hope is to spend 2-6 weeks each in a good number of your cities. I would love your help with this.

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henry ✷
@strange.website

exactly

henry.codesIt doesn’t matter if it worksUltimately, whether LLMs "work" as a technology or not doesn't matter. The widespread adoption and deployment should be regarded firstly as a threat to the labor force.
Erin Kissane@kissane.myatproto.social

My hottest AI take is that the executive class is petrified of labor and saw that whatever else LLMs are/aren't, they're fine labor-smashers + that a ton of ordinary people find the artificial hyper-complexity and scamminess of modern life and work so unbearable that they'll throw a god-box at it.

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TheSarapocalypse
@sarainchch.bsky.social

Perfect front page from The Press today. Luxon laughing, main headline 'Pay Equity Bids Thwarted' and then an ad telling us to Party Vote Green 💚

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becca
@beccaquon.bsky.social

it's been 4 years and this still hasn't become a thing yet (lots of regional ones though!). just gently nudging it back out to the universe.

becca@beccaquon.bsky.social

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Barry
@barryhannah.bsky.social

Replying to @barryhannah.bsky.social

Seriously, what the actual fuck. The bedleg basher is OK, the party president being a sexual predator and that fact being hidden from voters is OK, but talking to some people who can vote is not OK. Fuck this country sucks.

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Paul Le Comte 🇳🇿🇨🇦📷
@paullecomtephoto.nz

I get this manufactured media political outrage over politicians of the left meeting gangs, 'they're meeting bad people who will endanger your safety' blah. Casey Costello's ACT & National Govt have given $300m tax breaks to an industry that kills 13 kiwis a day. Who is the greater danger?

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The Guardian
@theguardian.com

‘Pure arrogance’: anger in Finland as Google illegally fells 250,000 trees for datacentre

theguardian.com‘Pure arrogance’: anger in Finland as Google illegally fells 250,000 trees for datacentreCompany ordered to stop work at two sites in country, which has found itself at forefront of tech firms’ latest push Behind a wire fence lies a vast gaping wound of earth. Before Google’s arrival a few months ago, an estimated quarter of a million trees occupied the 330 hectares (815 acres) of forest near the town of Muhos in rural northern Finland. Now they are all gone. After the tech company illegally stripped the entire area to build a datacentre – taking even the top soil with it – all that remains is a vast expanse of mud indented with the trail marks of machinery, puddles and mounds of earth, roots and branches. Residents say that brown water flowing off the site is going into a stream that feeds the Oulujoki River. Continue reading...

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kilkenny.bsky.social
@kilkenny.bsky.social

Here's a story from the NZ care sector (1 of ??) An elderly couple with a disabled 45yo daughter (mental age of 3yo) were advised that their daughter was going to be discharged from her residential care home (where she's lived for years), back into their care. They are in their 70s!!

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Char Of AotearoaNZ (since 1976)
@kiwichar.bsky.social

Looks like we’re boycotting ZURU…and all the companies (D)nick Mowbray owns. Not sure which companies he owns? Here ya go team, welcome to the age of boycott the billionaires reign! 😎🕊️ #nzpol #OneTermGovernment #NZ #TaxTheRich #ForAllOfUs #Aotearoa

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KetAnthropic JoshAI
@ketanjoshi.co

Replying to @ketanjoshi.co

Props to the ad agency: they nailed the "white person who plagiarises and steals credit using LLMs" look with 100% accuracy

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Eleanor G
@zaichishka.bsky.social

I didn't pick it up when I read Wyrd Sisters, but Pratchett had clearly read Issa's famous haiku This Dewdrop World, which has been my favourite haiku since I was first introduced to it by my amazing 6th form Japanese teacher, Mr Peirson. thedewdrop.org/2021/03/24/i...

thedewdrop.orgIssa - This Dewdrop World - The DewdropWritten shortly after the death of his daughter, Japanese poet Issa's haiku touches deeply on the heart of the human condition.
Micah@rincewind.run

Discworld QOTD, from Wyrd Sisters

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Bronwyn Hayward
@bmhayward.bsky.social

Replying to @bmhayward.bsky.social

HALF of our brilliant colleagues, who (if they can get any work at all) can only get 6months, 2 year, 3 year contracts this is no way to develop the economic base of New Zealand or our long term development Researchers in precarious jobs can’t get mortgages, raise families, put down roots

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Bronwyn Hayward
@bmhayward.bsky.social

So why are profs of law, science & politics & on strike today? We’re here for colleagues. HALF of NZ university staff are now on temporary contracts! 54% Research has become like the hunger games as some of our brightest minds compete for temp work - they can’t live like this #INVESTinResearch

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Paul Brislen
@brislen.nz

Sixty years, tomorrow. They gave the man in charge a knighthood. They made the local community pay for the remembrance garden. No-one held to account. I always think of the dinner lady, Nansi, who shielded five kids with her body and died in the process but they all lived. #Aberfan

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Morgan Davie
@fromthemorgue.bsky.social

(new blogpost) The missing chapter from Nicky Hager's Dirty Work -throwing some reckons about regarding the media's position in how these unpleasant lobby groups operate. -with apologies to @tzemingdynasty.bsky.social whose post on here started me off morgue.isprettyawesome.com?p=8155

morgue.isprettyawesome.comThe missing final chapter from ‘Dirty Work’ - From The MorgueNicky Hager's Dirty Work is a slender book with an ambitious purpose: to call attention to a damaging influence on NZ democracy. The book amounts to a detailed explanation of the activities of an extr...

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Craig M. Ranapia
@craigmranapia.bsky.social

THIS. I've no romantic regard for gangs - the damage done to members of my extended family are too real for that. But I also know people who committed suicide after the... attentions of the likes of Tim Jago. I know what association I consider irredeemably beyond the pale. #nzpol

kyle@kyledchurch.bsky.social

leftwing politician's associations are happily weaponised by NZ msm in a coordinated manner to influence an election but if you're David Seymour the president of the ACT Party gets his name suppressed on the BASIS of it being election season, then msm ignore the association completely!

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Paul Brislen
@brislen.nz

Hey hey. If any of you see any election-related scams or fakes can I ask you to send me the links/details: Paul.brislen@tcf.org.nz Keen to get it in the hands of the right people to take action. Any platform, any medium.

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Nigel Robertson
@easegill.bsky.social

If you are in or near Kirikiriroa Hamilton make sure to go and see this. It is full of stunning artistry and craftswomanship. An incredible legacy.

RNZ News Feeds@rnzrss.bsky.social

Exhibition celebrates six generations of Hetet and Te Kanawa weaving whānau

rnz.co.nzExhibition celebrates six generations of Hetet and Te Kanawa weaving whānauSix generations of the Hetet and Te Kanawa weaving whānau whose work helped safeguard raranga and take it to the world stage are being celebrated in a new exhibition in Hamilton.