there was also a Stanford study that found that a surge in AI slop by lazy people actually created significantly more work for others who had to decipher and correct it
this "I'm being efficient" (but not really) vibes well with the American obsession with artifice and appearing productive
I initially misread that as in "Bing'd" and briefly wondered about your life choices π Makes me want to give VLADIMIR a look though, so Taa ππΎ
At the end of each episode a friend can pop up and scream "Oh my God, they killed Creasy!"
IT IS NOT THE JOB OF A PUBLIC BROADCASTER IN A DEMOCRACY TO REPORT THE NEWS IN A WAY THE GOVERNMENT LIKES. IT IS ESPECIALLY NOT OKAY FOR MINISTERS AND POLITICALLY-APPOINTED BOARD MEMBERS TO DICATE INDIVIDUAL EDITORIAL DECISIONS. THIS SHOULD BE FUCKING OBVIOUS.
Denis Lavant dancing π
This should be a sci-fi book cover π
@moatatamaira.bsky.social Taratoa Stappard appreciated your review of MΔRAMA (as did I!) ππΎ
I saw it with Miss 17 incl. a Q+A with TS after. We collectively WTF?!?'d in the party scene, but a less extreme version of that is familiar enough π Such a great film!
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I regularly see people wondering how it's possible that there are so many musicians and writers and film makers and artists from a tiny nation like Iceland.
And the answer is really simple: State funding for art education and artists. I literally get a salary from the government to write books.
Thereβs going to be Covid style shortages of cars, TVs and even washing machines and fridges, then job losses because assembly lines canβt source solid state memory, just so the stupidest person you know can state with 100% confidence a chatbot confirmed dinosaurs coexisted with humans.
The key problem with what Ezra Klein says here is that he fails β or is unwilling β to grapple with the fundamental reality of the political conflict: The movement that dominates todayβs Right fully rejects the very idea of βliving here with each otherβ as equals. Thatβs their defining position.
WHAT WOULD DIPLO DO ep1: 'Diplo' and 'Calvin Harris' squash their day's Twitter beef
Still from end of 2012 James Van Der Beek sports romance BACKWARDS with Abi and Geoff standing together
Still from end of 2012 James Van Der Beek sports romance BACKWARDS where Geoff is leaping, fully clothed into the river to join his team celebrating
Screen cap of Tubi record for 2012 James Van Der Beek sports romance BACKWARDS
Quickly pieced together some JVDB memorial viewing for the evening ππ
Took what I could find: chased episode 1 of short run 2017 JVDB penned & starring meta-comedy WHAT WOULD DIPLO DO? with low ebb 2012 sports romance BACKWARDS (he's the love interest!) Thanks Tubi! #RIPJamesVanDerBeek
Post a tree you photographed
Post a banger that isn't in English youtu.be/vwFG79EEctw?...
Photo of the sunrise silhouette
Suburban silhouette
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#auckland #sunrise #morningsky #commutepics
Photo of the sky with the morning, near-full moon in the background, and a streetlight in the foreground.
Danaerys & Drogo
My TV backlight keeps defaulting back to 100 π€¦πΎ #iykyl #notproblems
Doing a memorial rewatch of SCHITT'S CREEK S06E05 'The Premiere' with dinner.
RIP Catherine O'Hara π’
Photo of the Sky Tower to the left and reflected in the UoA Science building windows to the right
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Poster screen for Park Chan-wook's NO OTHER CHOICE, on The Hollywood Cinema screen
π₯ #nowseated @ The Hollywood Cinema and eagerly awaiting the start of Park Chan-wook's NO OTHER CHOICE π€π€πΎ
From memory, SJ took it pretty well too #intended π
I've found this resource helpful.
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Maplins Campus, Hi-de-hi!
π₯ Great little @letterboxd.social interview with Ryan Fleck & Anna Boden on making HALF NELSON 20yrs ago #indiefilm #ryangosling #nyc
"You know I can't feel any of your ghost recovery."
Slightly amended wording, more topical. π€£ #nzpol
FLA and TX have millions of immigrants.
Turns out the real threat isnβt immigrants - itβs blue zip codes.
I'm sorry. As a technology writer, I'm supposed to be telling you that this bet will some day pay off, because one day we will have shoveled so many words into the word-guessing program that it wakes up and learns how to actually do the jobs it is failing spectacularly at today. This is a proposition akin to the idea that if we keep breeding horses to run faster and faster, one of them will give birth to a locomotive. Humans possess intelligence, and machines do not. The difference between a human and a word-guessing program isn't how many words the human knows. I'm sorry. I know that when we talk about "digital sovereignty," we're obliged to talk about how we can build more data-centres that we can fill up with money-losing chips from American silicon monopolists in the hopes of destroying as many jobs as possible while blowing through our clean energy goals and enshittifying as much of our potable water as possible.
CΓ³ry Doctorow with another verbal bullseye: pluralistic.net/2026/01/13/n...
1am, 20Β°C, 97% RH, pissing down with rain on a mid-summer night.
Welcome to AKL! π₯΅
Surreal, eh?
Neighbourhood sax is now going. Perhaps in celebration of the quickly restored power? Whatever the case, the player is quite decent, so it's quite pleasant.
