Dr. Curiosity
@drcuriosity.bsky.social
He is a recovering CS education researcher, pun criminal, overly literal, filthy enabler. Also on Mastodon: @DrCuriosity@cloudisland.nz
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Is KW bullying other cities that have LRTs by running ours so efficiently, regardless of weather?
Some winter scenes today of an LRT that worked well in the snow.
Greetings from Kitchener-Waterloo, with its ION LRT trains running every 10 minutes, on time, with full signal priority! 1/2
Greetings from Kitchener-Waterloo, with its ION LRT trains running every 10 minutes, on time, with full signal priority! 1/2
January 16, 2026 at 3:22 AM
Is KW bullying other cities that have LRTs by running ours so efficiently, regardless of weather?
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"All things considered, Teaching with AI is not without value; it is a case study in how even well-meaning educators operating in good faith can become inadvertent agents of a pedagogical de-skilling and institutional dehumanization."
A Pedagogy of the Inevitable | Critical AI | Duke University Press
read.dukeupress.edu
January 16, 2026 at 1:19 AM
"All things considered, Teaching with AI is not without value; it is a case study in how even well-meaning educators operating in good faith can become inadvertent agents of a pedagogical de-skilling and institutional dehumanization."
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🔥 From @statuscoupnews.bsky.social : “This is nuts. What the fuck is going on? I’ve never protested in my life… they tell you it’s immigrants — it’s fucking anybody. They’re just trying to scare people. I’m not paid to be here. I have to work in the morning. This is wrong.”
January 15, 2026 at 1:59 PM
🔥 From @statuscoupnews.bsky.social : “This is nuts. What the fuck is going on? I’ve never protested in my life… they tell you it’s immigrants — it’s fucking anybody. They’re just trying to scare people. I’m not paid to be here. I have to work in the morning. This is wrong.”
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Despite the desire of many organisations I’ve talked to, there is currently no “Creative Commons, Nice People Only” open licence.
This is how free and open access works. There is no way to have a free and open access project and then go “wait, no, not like that”.
www.citationneeded.news/free-and-ope...
www.citationneeded.news/free-and-ope...
January 15, 2026 at 7:31 PM
Despite the desire of many organisations I’ve talked to, there is currently no “Creative Commons, Nice People Only” open licence.
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They hate us so much but we love each other more
January 15, 2026 at 7:31 AM
They hate us so much but we love each other more
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The biggest trick the devil ever played on himself was getting a bunch of traumatized people to actually talk to their neighbors and become directly invested in their well-being, not just on an abstract level.
January 15, 2026 at 7:10 AM
The biggest trick the devil ever played on himself was getting a bunch of traumatized people to actually talk to their neighbors and become directly invested in their well-being, not just on an abstract level.
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As always, @sanjanah.bsky.social’s work is important, and shines light on the darkness.
It’s awful to see how much support there is for Peters’ worst rhetoric, but it’s important that as NZers we understand how deep this rot goes. And hold Peters responsible for fanning these flames.
It’s awful to see how much support there is for Peters’ worst rhetoric, but it’s important that as NZers we understand how deep this rot goes. And hold Peters responsible for fanning these flames.
Fascinating that NZ's FM publicly lectures RBNZ Governor about respecting statutory independence whilst simultaneously demonstrating precisely why central bankers worldwide felt compelled to defend institutional independence from political interference! The irony has clearly stayed in its own lane.
January 15, 2026 at 7:24 AM
As always, @sanjanah.bsky.social’s work is important, and shines light on the darkness.
It’s awful to see how much support there is for Peters’ worst rhetoric, but it’s important that as NZers we understand how deep this rot goes. And hold Peters responsible for fanning these flames.
It’s awful to see how much support there is for Peters’ worst rhetoric, but it’s important that as NZers we understand how deep this rot goes. And hold Peters responsible for fanning these flames.
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Fun note: this photo is the EB Games at West City mall. Directly upstairs is a Paper Plus that's closing in a couple of weeks. Which is next to an empty store, and just and the corner is the empty store that until recently was a Miniso.
It's a shitty time for retail.
It's a shitty time for retail.
Turns out all the need to do to revive your struggling retail business is sell everything at 50% off very urgently.
January 15, 2026 at 3:56 AM
Fun note: this photo is the EB Games at West City mall. Directly upstairs is a Paper Plus that's closing in a couple of weeks. Which is next to an empty store, and just and the corner is the empty store that until recently was a Miniso.
It's a shitty time for retail.
It's a shitty time for retail.
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This isn't a cause for celebration
#nzpol
#nzpol
Rocket Lab shares surge to all-time high as its US military business explodes
Kiwi-American firm takes its seat at the top table.
www.nzherald.co.nz
January 15, 2026 at 12:02 AM
This isn't a cause for celebration
#nzpol
#nzpol
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I talked to @nikdirga.bsky.social for his story about what to about X. Musk has wrecked its public utility and now he's put an abuse tool front and centre. Public agencies and NGOs need to ask whether they should be there. www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/5...
The X Factor: Grok deepfakes and why NZ is still using Elon Musk's X
Explainer - Elon Musk's X has been in the line of fire over Grok AI deepfakes - with Prime Minister Christopher Luxon's office calling them "concerning." What's going on?
www.rnz.co.nz
January 14, 2026 at 10:08 PM
I talked to @nikdirga.bsky.social for his story about what to about X. Musk has wrecked its public utility and now he's put an abuse tool front and centre. Public agencies and NGOs need to ask whether they should be there. www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/5...
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take a second to really wrap your head around this.
January 13, 2026 at 10:38 PM
take a second to really wrap your head around this.
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CoPilot is a particularly bad offender here because It’s pushed incredibly hard by Microsoft in the environment where people go to create documents. Companies really shouldn’t be rolling it out without a lot of thought, training and monitoring.
WM Police chief Craig Guildford has apologised for identifying a fictitious West Ham v Maccabi Tel Aviv match in a police report. He’s written to the home affairs committee and blames Microsoft CoPilot for the error
January 14, 2026 at 9:53 AM
CoPilot is a particularly bad offender here because It’s pushed incredibly hard by Microsoft in the environment where people go to create documents. Companies really shouldn’t be rolling it out without a lot of thought, training and monitoring.
I seem to have tripped the "weird stuff that's just been released and hasn't got views yet" signal on YouTube again.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYib...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYib...
January 14, 2026 at 10:35 AM
I seem to have tripped the "weird stuff that's just been released and hasn't got views yet" signal on YouTube again.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYib...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYib...
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Spending figures show stark differences in how public service agencies use contractors and consultants, in a year marked by fiscal pressure and widespread restructuring.
Contractors and consultants: Which agencies dominate spending
Spending figures show stark differences in how public service agencies use contractors and consultants, in a year marked by fiscal pressure and widespread restructuring.
dlvr.it
January 14, 2026 at 2:04 AM
Spending figures show stark differences in how public service agencies use contractors and consultants, in a year marked by fiscal pressure and widespread restructuring.
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My aspirations for my life is to inspire a better epitaph than this.
NEW YORK (AP) — Scott Adams, the 'Dilbert' cartoonist who ridiculed office life and was later dropped for racist remarks, dies at 68.
January 13, 2026 at 5:18 PM
My aspirations for my life is to inspire a better epitaph than this.
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There is a new autistic barbie out, but no one is talking about her mother, undiagnosed computer engineer barbie about to get the surprise of her life when she starts to argue with the evaluator that these are all normal childhood behaviours that she had when she was the same age.
January 13, 2026 at 3:15 AM
There is a new autistic barbie out, but no one is talking about her mother, undiagnosed computer engineer barbie about to get the surprise of her life when she starts to argue with the evaluator that these are all normal childhood behaviours that she had when she was the same age.
In case relevant to your interests, or those of anyone else you know:
european-alternatives.eu/alternatives...
european-alternatives.eu/alternatives...
European alternatives for popular services | European Alternatives
We help you find European alternatives for digital service and products, like cloud services and SaaS products.
european-alternatives.eu
January 13, 2026 at 3:11 AM
In case relevant to your interests, or those of anyone else you know:
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Louder for the folks in the back:
thespinoff.co.nz/atea/13-01-2...
thespinoff.co.nz/atea/13-01-2...
Your digital identity is not under New Zealand jurisdiction
Our most important data is stored on US-owned cloud infrastructure and subject to US laws.
thespinoff.co.nz
January 12, 2026 at 11:49 PM
Louder for the folks in the back:
thespinoff.co.nz/atea/13-01-2...
thespinoff.co.nz/atea/13-01-2...
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greatest steam update of all time, because of one unnecessary detail
January 12, 2026 at 9:34 PM
greatest steam update of all time, because of one unnecessary detail
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It's almost as if privatising parts of our public health system was, and is, a terrible idea. #NZpol
www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
Second health provider, Canopy Health, hit in major cyber attack
But patients are furious it's taken six months to tell them about it.
www.rnz.co.nz
January 12, 2026 at 4:41 AM
It's almost as if privatising parts of our public health system was, and is, a terrible idea. #NZpol
www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
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Useful context, delivered straight.
#ManageMyHealth
#ManageMyHealth
The Manage My Health breach wasn’t a tech failure, it was a policy failure. This column traces how 30 years of privatisation, light-handed regulation and “high-trust” governance left NZ’s most sensitive health data in private hands, with no real oversight: www.democracyproject.org.nz/p/democracy-...
Democracy Briefing: How Privatisation built the MisManageMyHealth disaster
Why don’t we have a single, secure, government-run system for health records?
www.democracyproject.org.nz
January 12, 2026 at 3:56 AM
Useful context, delivered straight.
#ManageMyHealth
#ManageMyHealth
New Zealand's 5th National Action Plan for the Open Government Partnership has been accepted by the minister.
www.publicservice.govt.nz/system/open-...
It's a small raft of integrity measures. We could do a lot better, but that requires resourcing from the people whose integrity we want to watch.
www.publicservice.govt.nz/system/open-...
It's a small raft of integrity measures. We could do a lot better, but that requires resourcing from the people whose integrity we want to watch.
Open Government Partnership | Te Kawa Mataaho Public Service Commission
The Open Government Partnership (OGP) is a multilateral initiative that promotes the principles of open government: transparency, accountability and public participation.
www.publicservice.govt.nz
January 11, 2026 at 8:24 PM
New Zealand's 5th National Action Plan for the Open Government Partnership has been accepted by the minister.
www.publicservice.govt.nz/system/open-...
It's a small raft of integrity measures. We could do a lot better, but that requires resourcing from the people whose integrity we want to watch.
www.publicservice.govt.nz/system/open-...
It's a small raft of integrity measures. We could do a lot better, but that requires resourcing from the people whose integrity we want to watch.
*remembers to turn his morning alarm back on*
January 11, 2026 at 11:36 AM
*remembers to turn his morning alarm back on*