Had my eyes checked just before Xmas and, it turned out, the optometrist chain I went to were doing free hearing checks
Told them I was only here for my eyes and they were lucky I'd happened to bring my ears with me, only so there'd be something to hang the spectacles on
Crickets ...
(I'd like to say I deliberately misspelled that, but it's wrong to lie on the internet. That's why no-one does it)
"Excuse me, sommelier. May I see the non fiucking expensive wine list?"
Zoom?
Actually, reading again - cases of 6!
That's a half-case all day here
You do cases of 8 in the UK?
It's 12 here. Saved yourself paying another 50%.
But he does, presumably, have a postgraduate professional law degree
In the present context, however, of an investigation into allegations of corrupt conduct, we are not so much concerned with Diceyan theory of ministerial accountability and Cabinet solidarity as with personal obligations of honesty and good faith. Thus, although Mr Morrison may have been responsible to Cabinet for the failings of DSS – in particular for DSS’ failings in not preventing the shortcomings of the NPP and checklist – it by no means necessarily follows that Mr Morrison was personally at fault for not detecting the failings of DSS or that he set out to act dishonestly or in bad faith. The question of any personal shortcoming requires consideration of the system and circumstances of ERC’s operation at the time of its adoption of the NPP.
The passages clearing Morrison of fault are extraordinary
NACC says Morrison is technically "responsible" as cabinet Minister, but not "personally at fault"
If responsibility exists without consequence...then what does "ministerial accountability" even mean anymore?
Some nights, legend has it, he was in bed from just after dark until the early hours of the morning. People had to creep out of the house with their shoes off. It was wild.
Just added the highly-coveted North East Botswana to the MoS website visitor list
This looks very useful
I was in a 2 hour briefing today on the Iran War. All the briefings are closed, because Trump can't defend this war in public.
I obviously can't disclose classified info, but you deserve to know how incoherent and incomplete these war plans are.
1/ Here's what I can share:
If your issue is with AI ability to be truly creative, I'm much more on your side (at this point), but this is a poor example to further that argument
Except that, with watches, the very idea is for the fake to mimic as closely as possible the genuine
With AI-generated text improvement it's about attempting to express similar thoughts in a way humans might prefer, which is what was being tested here, not if it "fooled" people about authorship
I do love the AFL terminology that ruck contests are "attended", almost as if you need to present an invitation to a doorman before proceeding
And so, we knit another row ...
Have you seen the Utopia ep that includes the stadium?
MoS Content: Coming Soon to an LLM Near You!
$100 to the first journalist who refers to the construction beng "devilled by problems and delays"
The Covid-19 Royal Commission's second report has been published, I've read (almost) all of it and here are the key takeaways:
newsroom.co.nz/2026/03/10/l...
Ump couldn’t be arsed to get side on for a bowler’s end run out?
Can’t fathom what real-world situation would produce this photo.
If only someone had known at the time ...
If anyone is in a particularly "tell me more about MoSHBODS mood" there are now two tools on the moshbods-ratings page that let you explore (even download!)
Keen to hear your thoughts about both or either
www.matterofstats.com/moshbods-rat...
If we're committed to an "Opening Round" for all eternity now, we should insist that the final Round of the home and away season be called "Last Drinks Everyone: The Closing Round"
To anyone who might've visited my Venues As Planets page since it went live, could I ask you to visit again today as I've moved from tiinyDOThost to my own githubDOTio site and I'm curious if there's any discernible difference
www.matterofstats.com/venues-as-pl...
New MoS Sims are up
www.matterofstats.com/mafl-simulations/2026-simulating-the-final-ladder-after-round-0
MoS R0 Results
www.matterofstats.com/mafl-wagers-and-tips/round-0-results-promising
Are those banjos I hear?
Ever wondered what it would look like if the venues for men's V/AFL games were planets, with mass proportional to their maximum capacity?
Me too.
So Claude and I built the answer
www.matterofstats.com/venues-as-pl...
