It’s not everything that’s happening, but it’s definitely a significant part of it. Talented people good at their jobs get punished, while mediocrats lord over workplace bullying and set themselves up in the asset class.
Having functioning health, education and other public services or businesses that deliver value should never be allowed to get in the way of neoliberal boomers, gen Xers and old millennials achieving Bach-Boat-BMW lifestyle via managerial promotions in financial services and corporate consulting.
You can actually see the dark stripe of ultramafic mantle rocks. One of the world’s most fascinating geological features: a full top to bottom section of oceanic plate that went over rather than under at an ancient continental margin. Sad that it’s getting attention in the worst possible way.
If claims start getting paid out, you're looking at a transfer of wealth with US taxpayer money going to private companies. There's also the possibility that you create an incentive for companies, particularly with older tankers, to feed ships and crews to the woodchipper. It's win-win for them.
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The spectre of $5 a litre for your ancient carbon fossil blood.
Good luck perpetuating car culture into a forever future of infinite growth. Good luck preventing the now even more inevitable renewable energy transition.
Good luck staying in power.
There’s something to this. People not only moving for purely ‘economic reasons’ but for the personal and career impact of working under the types of managers promoted by those ‘economic reasons’. Business aesthetics and balance sheet purity culture over actually having working systems.
Fooling people into thinking things prefaced with "BREAKING" are news feels like the equivalent of chatbots fooling people into thinking they're sentient just by using the pronoun "I".
*taps the sign*
Sign reads: "Unfettered capitalism leads to human flesh in the marketplace"
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Had a great playthrough with colleagues recently who co-created a narrative twist where the grandson of a cult leader suddenly took an opportunity to transform the city and seize power after the cult was thought to be long gone. We ran out of time, but was even some talk of turning it into a zine.
Could it be the latitude and temperature moreso than anything else?
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Browsers might actually be acceptable without the WWW and internet connection. Load up a file as an interactive document. Only link stuff from inside the same folder. No data centers needed. No brainwormed psyop information flows going in or out.
🫡 child of the 1980s in NZ here
🎓We are advertising three 2-year research+teaching positions in applied maths or stats.
These have a reduced teaching load (50 lectures a yr) compared to a standard academic position so applicants can gain teaching experience while having time for research
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Genuinely one of the nastiest people in Sydney and that is not for want of competition.
It’s not terrible for a lot of normal use cases. There are certain… interesting… cultural influences at play.
Early signs of the nightmare, yep
Very understandable
If Windows goes full Adobe Creative Cloud there will be an absolute hellscape of a transition period where millions of unwilling people switch to Linux variants. It's going to be such a nightmare.
Turns out you can also solve complex problems with simple computation. Incredible scenes.
Did you know that forward chaining if -> then logic still works? You can match a pattern, then trigger a response. You can solve simple problems with simple computation without needing to send a prompt query to the Shoggoth trained on the entire internet. Revelatory stuff.
Instead of putting all eggs in the single basket of hyperscale generalized LLMs and competing against the circular debt gyre of GPUs and data center construction, different interest groups including nation states need to seriously consider more diverse R&D strategies and different models of AI.
It never occurred to me that a bunch of Auckland faults weren’t mapped in detail. Some of these can be inferred fairly directly from the topography, but also lot of tricky puzzles that aren’t well constrained.
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When a new question blows through ur LLM context window and ur unable to generate new text logically consistent with what you’d previously been spouting…
Since the very beginning of the NZ computer industry, there’s been a consistent pattern of overriding the national interest in favour of US corporations expanding their reach. We’re not well placed to push back when this lurches into abuse of power.
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A mug depicting KC Green's This Is Fine dog comic, but tragically faded
I've had my This Is Fine mug so long that the dog has become a ghost and all that remain are flames
Even Cheney and Rumsfeld had advisors who understood international law, understood diplomatic language, had the information literacy to follow intelligence briefings etc. That used to be unquestioned.
I agree. That spectre of the slick and competent authoritarian has been washed out by the scale of just straight up decline and mass disinfo.
This seems like a direct product of that time, but kinda like the worst nightmare of where it could go.
