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Meet three scientists who said no to Epstein The warning signs included a web search, a mother’s doubts, and inklings of a “sexist attitude”

Assuming that the first chap's assistant was a woman, this article highlights these men for their astuteness when it was actually their assistant, their Mum and their wife respectively.

www.science.org/content/arti...

Four police arresting a woman on Courtney Place for nothing obvious

Just another day with police arresting homeless people in Wellington.

Not sure what happened before but it looked like they were moving her on but she was yelling at them.

She crossed the road to leave and then they just swarmed her for some reason?

Hah, same! Hope you get some sleep!

Web Tiles Tiles are composable web docs and apps that can safely be used in arbitrary contexts and assembled from multiple sources to carry out complex user interface tasks.

Hot off the internets — there's a brand new kid on the DASL block: Web Tiles!

It's still early days, some key features are missing, and there are some rough edges, but you can publish tiles to AT and play with the idea!
webtil.es

I just did the math (and looking on Alibaba).

The $2.7B spent on this singular LNG terminal could buy a million 5KW solar kits. Or 770,000 $10KW systems.

Absolutely madness!

A drawing of a weird colourful bird with long bendy legs and the text: “I don’t want to lay eggs I want a modest bungalow where I can show off my collection of discarded air fryers I find in dumpsters and name Tanya. I have 18 Tanya’s so far.”

A drawing for you today

I guess that’s one way to make something very secure

Google to pay $68 million over allegations its voice assistant eavesdropped on users Class-action lawsuit alleged that Google's voice assistant illegally recorded and shared private conversations with advertisers.

Do you remember when people were saying "I think my phone is listening to me, i'm getting ads for stuff I spoke about" and people said "They arent listening to you, they're just this good at predicting your interests"?

Well, it happens they were doing exactly that.
www.cbsnews.com/news/google-...

Article says:

"But Boyd noted Epstein did not know Lolita was the subject of the book he wanted to write when he offered him funding."

Followed by:

"When you asked me how long I would need to write the book on Lolita that’s the top of my wishlist”....

Like, wut 😵‍💫

It's lowering the bar for quality as well as entry

The rest of the article is going to remain unread.

I can't read any more of this florid and curlicued prose 😭

"I studied his life and labours in Europe and America, his long-standing love affair with Vladimir Nabokov’s œuvre. A bird of paradise to a jewelled python. And I begin to wonder what secrets, what scandals he might yet share."

Let's see, shall we...

😂 I fucking hope so!

Have just spoken at the Auckland Writers Festival and made contact with a woman also speaking there, author of The Woman Who Changed Her Brain, whom I'll put in touch with neuroscientist Stanislas Dehaene in Paris (author of The Number Sense, which you'd enjoy, and of Reading in the Brain), since I think he'll be interested in looking with his fMRI lab, the biggest in the world, at her work on overcoming specific cognitive deficits, including some involved in reading. As with Martin, there was perhaps too great a leap between the literary level I'm interested in and what Stanislas can do so far with fMRI, but maybe Barbara Arrowsmith's work will in this case at least close some of the gap. Great to meet you, your friend Leon (?), your bevy of beauties, and Martin. Thanks so much for the opportunity!

13 May 2012

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Big recommendation for Sig Wilder and Friends.

They're in the midst of their debut album launch and have decided to keep it off Spotify for very good reasons.

It's on Bandcamp though and definitely worth a listen if you like "Americana" from the bottom of the earth!

sigwilder.bandcamp.com/music

It's a 'security company' for Roblox 😆

The International Online Crime Coordination Center (IOC3) is some top tier LARPing

Do not disturb Sheeple’s slumber, we are not prepared

I hope you have “Bubble Master” on your CV

😂

@mikejbeggs.bsky.social, didn’t you do your Masters on the Knowledge Wave?

I haven't finished reading it yet but I did particularly enjoy this bit:

> The world doesn't know it, but New Zealand already produces the successor to C++ (the world's most popular programming language) under the name JADE.

With Circle’s on the hour minting per account - that’s not going to work for physical goods that exist in the real world.

TBH it’s hard to find a good use case for its approach. Also it’s too closely named to Circle, the stablecoin!

I love the idea of community credit systems but it needs to be frictionless, simple and not confusing.

My favourite is just a simple credit system where a community transparently creates/pays currency for work done and then adds a 10% demurrage every 3 or 6 months. No Smaug-like hoarding.

I’ve been involved in alt/community currencies since the 90s.

There are a lot of interesting approaches these days but unfortunately most are solutions looking for problems. From a quick look, I think Circle falls into this category? I get the mechanics but for a user there’s nothing compelling?

Hopefully will open it up to non-Wellington maybe September? Unless someone gives me a chunk of cash!

But saying that, we’re always keen for more hubs if anyone has a space and can commit to a few hours one day a week.

That one is also a part of the same co-op network - Hauora Kai.

We’re testing the new process and site here in Wellington first and then if the other co-ops want to use it then they’ll have a tried and tested method to move to.

Whelp!

Thanks for the reposts - looks like a bunch of new peeps came onboard.

Now we have way more orders than we normally have and Thursday is gonna be mad. We’ll probably hit $3.5k by Tuesday night I think?

Now I just need to find a place for the a sail boat in my truck to live by Thursday😅

Hey, no kink shaming

Start with food then move to electricity, transport, housing when it makes sense.

Or the credit can be used to supply your local school with discounted fresh fruit and veges or for volunteers.

But the really the aim is to introduce a simple way for people to engage with a clear example of mutual aid and shift collective action into the economic sphere.