Billy (often a Moose)
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The only true question or object of study is "what in the hell is wrong with people?" We are the architects of our own problems.
November 24, 2025 at 9:10 PM
The only true question or object of study is "what in the hell is wrong with people?" We are the architects of our own problems.
this is extraordinary
Reporter: Are affirming that you think Trump is a fascist?
Mamdani: We’ve spoken about—
Trump: That’s ok, you can just say it.
Mamdani: We’ve spoken about—
Trump: That’s ok, you can just say it.
November 22, 2025 at 8:54 PM
this is extraordinary
Ageing seems to be a process of discovering an eldritch horror unfolding in the bathroom mirror each morning
November 8, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Ageing seems to be a process of discovering an eldritch horror unfolding in the bathroom mirror each morning
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This is a thousand years worth of Creative NZ government funding
our govt wants to spend 327 times more on a single road ($18b) than they are currently spending yearly on all of basic science in new zealand ($55m) #nzpol
The Northern Expressway we were told would cost $10 billion is now priced at $18 billion, or six times the Cook Strait crossing we were told was unaffordable. This is fantasy stuff. www.nzherald.co.nz/northern-adv...
October 26, 2025 at 10:09 PM
This is a thousand years worth of Creative NZ government funding
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#nzpol
For context: Total cost of all reparations paid to Māori for land confiscations to date = $2.7 billion
Total cost of the economic lunacy of this government reinstating mortgage interest deductions to landlords = $2.9 billion (over 4 yrs), plus $760 million every single year thereafter
For context: Total cost of all reparations paid to Māori for land confiscations to date = $2.7 billion
Total cost of the economic lunacy of this government reinstating mortgage interest deductions to landlords = $2.9 billion (over 4 yrs), plus $760 million every single year thereafter
October 27, 2025 at 1:41 AM
#nzpol
For context: Total cost of all reparations paid to Māori for land confiscations to date = $2.7 billion
Total cost of the economic lunacy of this government reinstating mortgage interest deductions to landlords = $2.9 billion (over 4 yrs), plus $760 million every single year thereafter
For context: Total cost of all reparations paid to Māori for land confiscations to date = $2.7 billion
Total cost of the economic lunacy of this government reinstating mortgage interest deductions to landlords = $2.9 billion (over 4 yrs), plus $760 million every single year thereafter
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The front page of nytimes.com currently features:
0 articles about yesterday's historically large protests against America's fascist government
1 article about otters stealing surfboards
0 articles about yesterday's historically large protests against America's fascist government
1 article about otters stealing surfboards
October 19, 2025 at 6:16 PM
The front page of nytimes.com currently features:
0 articles about yesterday's historically large protests against America's fascist government
1 article about otters stealing surfboards
0 articles about yesterday's historically large protests against America's fascist government
1 article about otters stealing surfboards
interesting, sounds like the director had a vision but got completely fucked over. www.neogaf.com/threads/fuck... 1/n
October 18, 2025 at 9:23 AM
interesting, sounds like the director had a vision but got completely fucked over. www.neogaf.com/threads/fuck... 1/n
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The Declaration of Evolution was the most important thing Timothy Leary ever wrote, and why he was locked up as dangerous origin-rh.web.fordham.edu/Halsall/mod/... 2/2
Internet History Sourcebooks: Modern History
origin-rh.web.fordham.edu
September 1, 2024 at 1:07 AM
The Declaration of Evolution was the most important thing Timothy Leary ever wrote, and why he was locked up as dangerous origin-rh.web.fordham.edu/Halsall/mod/... 2/2
So I reread Babylon Babies by Maurice Dantec, which I first read in 2011. It blew me away then, felt like what reading Neuromancer when it came out must have been like. It was still extraordinary this time.
October 18, 2025 at 1:58 AM
So I reread Babylon Babies by Maurice Dantec, which I first read in 2011. It blew me away then, felt like what reading Neuromancer when it came out must have been like. It was still extraordinary this time.
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I am dealing with a “thorny problem” right now, today. It is hard and scary because IT IS ALWAYS HARD AND SCARY. But it is also where you do your best work. It is where stories go from “meh” to “WOW”. When I fix it - because that is the job - I will be that much closer to something worth reading.
David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)
October 9, 2025 at 8:12 PM
I am dealing with a “thorny problem” right now, today. It is hard and scary because IT IS ALWAYS HARD AND SCARY. But it is also where you do your best work. It is where stories go from “meh” to “WOW”. When I fix it - because that is the job - I will be that much closer to something worth reading.
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The NZ Drug Foundation has a major new report pressing the case for a replacement of the Misuse of Drugs Act 1975, which turns 50 this month. Thing is, its recommendations – for a complete realignment to health, not criminalisation and punishment, are ... drugfoundation.org.nz/topics/polic...
Safer drug laws
We need safer drug laws for Aotearoa New Zealand - our new report sets out a pragmatic, evidence-based way forward.
drugfoundation.org.nz
October 8, 2025 at 11:50 PM
The NZ Drug Foundation has a major new report pressing the case for a replacement of the Misuse of Drugs Act 1975, which turns 50 this month. Thing is, its recommendations – for a complete realignment to health, not criminalisation and punishment, are ... drugfoundation.org.nz/topics/polic...
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glad to be born at a time when i got to see what life was like before the internet and will be dead before AI completely destroys humanity
October 8, 2025 at 1:42 AM
glad to be born at a time when i got to see what life was like before the internet and will be dead before AI completely destroys humanity
Something I have argued for a while is that the internet will become completely unusable/untrustworthy by being polluted with untruth, forcing us back on the evidence of our senses in the world, the way it used to be
Well gang, it's happened: OpenAI has built a platform filled exclusively with fake, AI content.
I've been playing with it for a few days, and I think it's safe to say we're basically kissing reality goodbye.
Here's the story: www.npr.org/2025/10/03/n...
And some thoughts 🧵
I've been playing with it for a few days, and I think it's safe to say we're basically kissing reality goodbye.
Here's the story: www.npr.org/2025/10/03/n...
And some thoughts 🧵
October 7, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Something I have argued for a while is that the internet will become completely unusable/untrustworthy by being polluted with untruth, forcing us back on the evidence of our senses in the world, the way it used to be
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It's 2025 and our economic model is still reliant on maintaining a decent bufferstock of unemployed people. This model was *designed* to ensure that employers have the upper hand (and labour could be uberised). Govt distract us from this reality by bashing beneficiaries and abdicating responsibility
October 6, 2025 at 5:11 AM
It's 2025 and our economic model is still reliant on maintaining a decent bufferstock of unemployed people. This model was *designed* to ensure that employers have the upper hand (and labour could be uberised). Govt distract us from this reality by bashing beneficiaries and abdicating responsibility
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I don't think we'll ever get another sentence which sums up everything the New York Times embodies quite like "Some legal experts have called it a crime to summarily kill civilians".
hey @nytimes.com: there is no counterpoint here. There are no credible legal experts who would EVER say that the US military has any right or authority to blow civilian craft out of the Caribbean and kill their crews from afar without any provocation. There is no other side to this question.
September 30, 2025 at 3:06 AM
I don't think we'll ever get another sentence which sums up everything the New York Times embodies quite like "Some legal experts have called it a crime to summarily kill civilians".
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I occasionally check in on TikTok. Recently I've noticed a large amount of political content being GenAI. And not obvious GenAI, the stuff you can only notice if you've worked in and track latest video gen models.
None of the people commenting or interacting with a post notice they are fake.
None of the people commenting or interacting with a post notice they are fake.
September 26, 2025 at 5:03 AM
I occasionally check in on TikTok. Recently I've noticed a large amount of political content being GenAI. And not obvious GenAI, the stuff you can only notice if you've worked in and track latest video gen models.
None of the people commenting or interacting with a post notice they are fake.
None of the people commenting or interacting with a post notice they are fake.
has autocorrect got worse over time?
September 21, 2025 at 2:16 AM
has autocorrect got worse over time?
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Child: if you could speak any language you don’t know now, which would you choose?
Me: maybe Chinese
Child: I’d choose cat language
Me: maybe Chinese
Child: I’d choose cat language
September 13, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Child: if you could speak any language you don’t know now, which would you choose?
Me: maybe Chinese
Child: I’d choose cat language
Me: maybe Chinese
Child: I’d choose cat language
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Am betting “celebrate” will be very loosely applied
September 11, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Am betting “celebrate” will be very loosely applied
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- you clean up that banksy?
- sure did, your honour, leaving a perfect, permanent outline, imbuing the work with real fuckin gravitas while making its point better than the artist did himself just like you asked
- sure did, your honour, leaving a perfect, permanent outline, imbuing the work with real fuckin gravitas while making its point better than the artist did himself just like you asked
They erased the new Banksy mural in London. But the stain remains.
September 10, 2025 at 1:02 PM
- you clean up that banksy?
- sure did, your honour, leaving a perfect, permanent outline, imbuing the work with real fuckin gravitas while making its point better than the artist did himself just like you asked
- sure did, your honour, leaving a perfect, permanent outline, imbuing the work with real fuckin gravitas while making its point better than the artist did himself just like you asked
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The load-bearing myth at the heart of UK politics is that the politicians and media are tolerant and decent and working people are knuckle-dragging bigots, but it's actually completely the other way around.
A man on the streets of the UK is asked about the “problem of immigration” and dismantles talking points with ease.
September 3, 2025 at 10:34 AM
The load-bearing myth at the heart of UK politics is that the politicians and media are tolerant and decent and working people are knuckle-dragging bigots, but it's actually completely the other way around.
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"Informed". They were all informed at different times. Didn't any of them need to give *permission*?
FBI base in NZ: Judith Collins knew 78 days before PM, Luxon briefed 6 days before FBI director arrived
www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/...
FBI base in NZ: Judith Collins knew 78 days before PM, Luxon briefed 6 days before FBI director arrived
www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/...
FBI base in NZ: Judith Collins knew base was opening 78 days before PM
Luxon found out six days before the FBI director arrived that the base was opening.
www.nzherald.co.nz
August 28, 2025 at 7:42 PM
"Informed". They were all informed at different times. Didn't any of them need to give *permission*?
FBI base in NZ: Judith Collins knew 78 days before PM, Luxon briefed 6 days before FBI director arrived
www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/...
FBI base in NZ: Judith Collins knew 78 days before PM, Luxon briefed 6 days before FBI director arrived
www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/...
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New Zealand salaries are dreadful. I do the same job, remote to other countries, I get paid more.
It's not just a currency difference.
My overseas colleagues pay less for food , housing, heating.
Nearly everything is more expensive in nz, while nz jobs pay less
That money is going somewhere.
It's not just a currency difference.
My overseas colleagues pay less for food , housing, heating.
Nearly everything is more expensive in nz, while nz jobs pay less
That money is going somewhere.
August 23, 2025 at 7:47 PM
New Zealand salaries are dreadful. I do the same job, remote to other countries, I get paid more.
It's not just a currency difference.
My overseas colleagues pay less for food , housing, heating.
Nearly everything is more expensive in nz, while nz jobs pay less
That money is going somewhere.
It's not just a currency difference.
My overseas colleagues pay less for food , housing, heating.
Nearly everything is more expensive in nz, while nz jobs pay less
That money is going somewhere.