Another day, another stupid Excel chart.
12.03.2026 22:02
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Another day, another stupid Excel chart.
William Murphy Fascism doesn't start with soldiers in the streets. It starts with deciding who is expendable. The sick. The disabled. The aging. The refugees. The immigrants. The outsiders. The people who think too much, speak too loudly, refuse to bow. 1/2 William Murphy It starts small. With quiets erasures. The things we let slide because we think they don't apply to us, until they do. 2/2
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This should be a campaign ad.
It was nice of the Beatles to let them borrow it.
An edited version of the XKCD comic #2347 titled "Dependencies" It shows a large stack of irregularly sized blocked stacked on one another. They are labelled "The Global Economy" In the lower right there is a single small block that is clearly supporting the entire tower above it. It is labelled "A Very Narrow Strip Of Water Between Iran And Gulf States"
With apologies to XKCD (xkcd.com/2347/)
UPDATE: a quick correction to one item on the "would you rather" list in last week's chart-topping post by @connorsharp.bsky.social...
...which only underscores *all the more* that the Roads of National Significance, as proposed, would constitute a colossal misdirection of our collective resources.
But it absolutely won’t…
Please nobody tell the IDF about David Lange…
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...
Welcome to the Garyneum, the 13 day period between the birthdays of Gary Numan and Gary Oldman.
True and alarming and worth reading:
www.scientificamerican.com/article/ramp...
When people say National are good at managing "the economy" but trust Labour more on environment, housing, safety, taxes, education, inflation, poverty and health...exactly what part of "the economy" do they think National are good at managing?
Time for more Windows-driven PC obsolescence it would seem…
tech4gamers.com/windows-12-r...
LNG you say? 🤔 #nzpol
‘Making’ chess pieces from Lego. Wow !
Source / Creator: Greg Saniatan aka slopsmcgee, in collaboration with LEGO
User Chris: What was the core difference why you think the DoW accepted OpenAI but not Anthropic Sam Altman: I can't speak for them, but to speculate with the best understanding of the situation. *First, I saw reporting that they were extremely close on a deal, and for much of the time both sides really wanted to reach one. I have seen what happens in tense negotiations when things get stressed and deteriorate super fast, and I could believe that was a large part of what happened here. *We believe in a layered approach to safety--building a safety stack, deploying FDEs and having our safety and alignment researcher involved, deploying via cloud, working directly with the DoW. Anthropic seemed more focused on specific prohibitions in the contract, rather than citing applicable laws, which we felt comfortable with. We feel that it it's very important to build safe system, and although documents are also important, I'd clearly rather rely on technical safeguards if I only had to pick one. *We and the DoW got comfortable with the contractual language, but I can understand other people would have a different opinion here. *I think Anthropic may have wanted more operational control than we did
I saw some folks asking what the difference was between what OpenAI signed with the DoD and what Anthropic said they wanted, and Sam more or less admits here the key point: OpenAI's deal requires them to trust the NSA. Anthropic's contract had real safeguards.
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Hey Chris Luxon, remind me again how much solar energy passes through the Strait of Hormuz.
If Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu *really* wanted to destroy Iran, they would volunteer to take turns being its ruler.
Netanyahu Calls Iran Strikes Necessary To Prevent War He Just Started
Netanyahu Calls Iran Strikes Necessary To Prevent War He Just Started
Well shit 😐
Bye bye ChatGPT…
This.
Thanks again for crunching the numbers and telling a story with clarity. 11/10 - would refollow if I could :)
We’ve got one of these and they are great little printers.
It was Skilling who warned in August 2007 that New Zealand was in danger of becoming “Fiji with snow” which might prove to be quite prescient apart from the snow which might disappear due to climate change.
It’s most definitely not right.
I’m pretty sure that this is nothing new or unusual for automated outbound calling.
