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Alex
@flanofcrows.bsky.social
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Luddite software developer. Participates in capitalism but anarchy-curious. Husband and father to four cats.
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Is there a law against citations for inspirational quotes? Work email sent around today with this quote, after doing some digging looks like the only source for this quote is a facebook post by Jim 7 years after his death.
Inspirational quote in front of misty mountain with the text "Either you run the day or the day runs you" - Jim Rohn. Source unknown. Screenshot from a facebook post by the official Jim Rohn account, 16 April 2016. This post is a quote of Jim Rohn, literally putting in quotation marks "Either you run the day or the day runs you" with attribution to Jim Rohn, which is odd and would be hilarious if you posted your own quote with your own attribution but that's unlikely as Jim died in 2009. Wikipedia link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Rohn Link to facebook post: https://www.facebook.com/OfficialJimRohn/posts/10156806383245635
June 26, 2025 at 8:48 PM
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Yeah this reads grim. Venture capital positing the diversity of Auckland as attractive to medical experimentation by larger tech companies as the c-suite have the ear of a government already willing to remove regulations for any promise of economic benefit.
WNT Ventures fields hundreds of business pitches each year – including what its co-founder says feels like “an AI pitch a day”. For offshore companies interested in big datasets, especially in the health sector, New Zealand offers a unique testing ground. “We have a really good, diverse population for trials, and that’s a good benefit for springboarding some health technologies,” Alvarez said, mentioning the high levels of ethnic diversity within Auckland as another potential attraction. But current restrictions in the experimental health field meant New Zealand was losing out on potential innovation, she said.
June 25, 2025 at 7:52 AM
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Bet the next starship explosions will go even better now that Musk can dedicate more yelling time to his companies.
Big big old fireball that used to be a rocket Speaking after the demo, Mr Musk said: "I think I probably did spend a bit too much time on politics," a telling 13-word comment in reflection on his time as Donald Trump's senior advisor. Last month, Mr Musk, 53, conceded his time in this capacity would have to reduce fo he can concentrate on other projects. https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/us-news/spacex-starship-bursts-flames-after-35416547
June 19, 2025 at 8:36 AM
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This is just so cool been reading @dresdencodak.com for 20(?) years go do it it's good for you.
Panel from recent dresdencodak.com comic of Kim in a shockingly relaxed yet threatening pose, combing fingers through own hair and looking up at a soon to be unfortunate, saying 'run'
June 13, 2025 at 8:43 AM
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Lantern season as this is such a great idea for showing how memories hang off things, and I shout about Owlamoo compulsively perhaps once a month
Snippet from https://dresdencodak.com/2009/12/16/lantern-season/, in which Kim scowls at a little owl-boy-puppet as threads of memories rise into small bubbles of disjointed remembrances .
April 29, 2025 at 7:49 AM
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Could we ask them how this meme has aged? But I guess it only is an insult if they fundamentally disagree with the conservatives they're now shoulder to shoulder with.
Simple cartoon showing three people on a line. The people are labelled "my fellow liberal", "me" and "conservative". The line is marked with left, centre and right. In 2008, the "me" is just left off center, but in 2012 the liberal sprints left making the line bigger, moving the centre marker left as a result, and in 2021 they're now named "woke progressive" and have lengthened the line so much the "me" is now to the right of center, never having moved. "Woke progressive"-San shouts "bigot" at "me" while "conservative" lols. Meant to be some sort of point, but always struck me as a self-own.
April 25, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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You seem to be on a tear of "I'm right you're wrong because reasons" lately but have you considered this sucks
Screenshot from nycthirst, a website made by Sean according to his profile, with an obvious and crappy text misalignment on the front page, perhaps showing he is spending too much time attempting "dunks" rather than doing his job.
April 24, 2025 at 12:15 AM
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Luxon is a buffoon who seems incapable of deep thought or consideration for others. Just a small example.
Act is not the only party to have used AI-generated imagery in a campaign ad. The National Party used several images during its national election campaign, which Prime Minister Christopher Luxon defended as a better option than using stock imagery of real people. “I don’t see the difference in those two things,” Luxon told RNZ. https://newsroom.co.nz/2025/04/17/acts-happy-maori-ai-image-sparks-internal-change/?utm_source=Newsroom&utm_campaign=a37494362a-Week+In+Review+20.04.2025&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_71de5c4b35-a37494362a-98034722&mc_cid=a37494362a&mc_eid=bf5c89f8ad
April 20, 2025 at 8:26 AM
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What worries me is that Seymour seems pretty good at couching his ideology in the phrases that need work to show how messed up they are, work that many have no time for. But his version of 'meritocracy' is rooted in patriarchy, racism and bigotry.
‘If we’re going to win the culture war that really matters, which has nothing to do with pronouns or bathrooms or anything like that but, “Are we a people who seek and celebrate success and push people up, or a culture that pulls people down?” … we need to make this country a place that is a tribute to and a host for human action.‘ Act leader David Seymour, pool quote from https://newsroom.co.nz/2025/04/17/seymour-seeks-to-spark-a-new-culture-war/?utm_source=Newsroom&utm_campaign=cded1586ac-Daily_Briefing+17.04.2025&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_71de5c4b35-cded1586ac-98034722&mc_cid=cded1586ac&mc_eid=bf5c89f8ad
April 17, 2025 at 9:35 AM
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Man who says sorry for helping create brain breaking algorithms decide to make more algorithms to work with brains.
www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
Omniscience is already in the market. "We've already got regulatory clearances in the US and Australia ... we focus on using AI to decode your brain. And things like mental illness ... essentially, just faults in your circuitry. We build tools that can find those faults."
April 15, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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The genuine smiles of unafraid people
Press from the whitehouse press conference after asking the most fawning question possible, realising the cameras on them, their faces frozen in overwide smiles, knowing that to look happy and joyful about the president may save them from the camps. Or they're just unscrupulous arseholes, who knows.
April 11, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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April 4, 2025 at 7:00 AM
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Remnants
April 4, 2025 at 6:39 AM
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This is less about swearing about a seat, and more about an employee being driven to a breakdown and attempted to be ousted by their employer. This won't have been the first time this employer "didn't swear at" someone, and it's not the first time these kinds of arrangements are made.
A colleague told the ERA that McCann was asked if she wanted to engage in a conversation about not returning, explaining that, if she did not want to return, Winton Capital would provide one month’s pay on top of her contractual entitlements and that she would be released from her notice period. While on sick leave, McCann’s access to Meehan’s email and calendar was suspended. McCann resigned and raised a personal grievance for unjustified dismissal. https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/winton-capital-ltd-ordered-to-pay-chris-meehans-former-assistant-100k-in-era-personal-grievance-case/NCS57C3BNFFWHLNZMMQ76TUVTU/
March 28, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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The collected works of shakespeare: the movie
Couple of panels from Dark Science arc of https://dresdencodak.com/2010/06/03/dark-science-01/ holy crap this arc has been going on for 15 years
March 27, 2025 at 9:52 AM
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I think the discover feed is pretty good sometimes
Two posts that are one after the other: @mcfadden.bsku.socal: NPR cut the handles off their tote bags and donated them to ICR so their listeners can be hooded and dragged to an undisclosed camp. @owlet.bsky.social: Still thinking about how good Nintendogs would be on Switch.
March 27, 2025 at 8:19 AM
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Same
Sidney, limbs a tangled mess, mews upsidedown from between her forelegs
March 15, 2025 at 3:10 AM
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I dunno, some days it very much feels like what is happening is a precursor to the debate they'd rather be having. Seymour seems convinced the government has no responsibility in area like this. Or many areas at all.
Meyer says it would be very cynical to suggest that the Government wants to do away with school lunches entirely. “Nobody in this debate genuinely wants to see children going hungry in the classroom – I think that’s ridiculous. Nobody’s that evil.” He says there are two conversations going on here. “The first one is a debate over whether or not you think the state has a role in providing nutritious meals for kids in school. That’s not the conversation we’re having right now – this is not about whether or not we should be doing this. -- quoted from the above linked article.
March 14, 2025 at 7:38 AM
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All of this article was concerning, with Winston taking lead from America and Luxon falling in behind, but I was disappointed in Hopkins. Diversity means that we can hire on merit, not this half-acceptance that less privileged classes need development.
Labour leader Chris Hipkins told reporters it was vital that the public service fairly represented the New Zealand population. "That's not saying that people aren't appointed based on merit, they are... but it means we're being more proactive in developing talent and making sure our public sector workforce actually reflects who we are as a country." https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/544425/christopher-luxon-open-to-adopting-some-of-nz-first-s-anti-woke-proposals
March 11, 2025 at 2:14 AM
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This has always been the point, degrade services, shame those who need them. Go fuck yourself Luxon.
'Go make a Marmite sandwich' Prime Minister Christopher Luxon says parents who are dissatisfied with the new school lunch programme should "make a marmite sandwich and put an apple in a bag". It comes after numerous problems were reported with the school lunches including most recently, plastic melted into the food. Luxon made the comments during an interview with Newstalk ZB on Tuesday morning, saying parents who were unhappy with the lunches should pack them themselves. "If you are unhappy with it, for God's sake, go make a Marmite sandwich and put an apple in a bag just like you and I had." He said he'd rather have parents take responsibility for feeding their children rather than the government. https://rnz.liveblog.pro/lb-rnz/blogs/67c5e4aa3dbbf0ac31c0918b/index.html?liveblog._id=urn:newsml:localhost:2025-03-03T21:34:44.626463:23a14295-03d5-4be1-b0db-5fcaada6d1ef-%3Eeditorial
March 3, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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This need to be praised and ego appeased is so bad, and probably where the tech right and Trump find a lot of common ground.
"You don't have the cards. Once we sign that deal, you're in a much better position. But you're not acting at all thankful, and that's not a nice thing. I'll be honest. That's not a nice thing." Zelensky openly challenged the US president over his softer approach toward Putin, urging him to "make no compromises with a killer". https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/543376/donald-trump-and-volodymyr-zelensky-clash-in-heated-meeting-at-the-white-house-about-war-in-ukraine
February 28, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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Hahaha wtf could this mean?
Prior to the new OPM guidance, Trump said workers who did not respond would be "sort of semi-fired," adding to the uncertainty. https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/543082/musk-s-new-ultimatum-spurs-fresh-confusion-among-us-government-workers
February 26, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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Cats
Cats
February 15, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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America is a farce, a full-contact farce.
https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/1161/all-info All Information (Except Text) for H.R.1161 - To authorize the President to enter into negotiations to acquire Greenland and to rename Greenland as "Red, White, and Blueland".
February 12, 2025 at 6:16 AM
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Just this guy, box cannot be empty for a minute
Griffin, ginger and white cat, now quite large, proudly sitting in a box on the bench that I had just emptied, turned around and Woop in the box he goes.
February 11, 2025 at 8:23 AM