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Bo Thompson @gaudipern.bsky.social · 1d

The use of AI to marionette a woman whose tortured existence was spent trying to carve her own life and identity out of the space men forced her into is both damningly macabre and a surprisingly perfect encapsulation of the problems with this ghoulish use of technology.

Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 2d

Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies

Want to See Marilyn Monroe in Game of Thrones? AI Could Make It Soon

Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies

www.scientificamerican.com

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Richard McElreath 🐈‍⬛ @rmcelreath.bsky.social · 1d

"Dunbar's Number" is a zombie that lives forever in the science press it seems. Estimates of Dunbar's Number with 95% intervals, for a range of model specifications (from doi.org/10.1098/rsbl... ):

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David Hood @thoughtfulnz.bsky.social · 2d

talking with a colleague I was reminded of some accessibility infographics I saw about a decade ago, and was able to find them again. I think they are still pretty good accessibility.blog.gov.uk/2016/09/02/d...

A direct link to the English language pdf set is github.com/UKHomeOffice...

Dos and don'ts on designing for accessibility

Karwai Pun is an interaction designer currently working on Service Optimisation to make existing and new services better for our users. Karwai is part of an accessibility group at Home Office Digital,...

accessibility.blog.gov.uk

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newimprovedtom.bsky.social @newimprovedtom.bsky.social · 2d

It’s actually refreshing to see a forecast chart with realistic estimates of potential errors!

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 2d

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Keith Ng @keithng.bsky.social · 2d

Boo you're not allowed to use a normal ship as an amphibious landing craft unless you're the NZ navy

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😶 stuart reeves 😶 @5tuartreeves.bsky.social · 2d

the Adeptus Mechanicus Tech-Priest whispers the final canticle to the LLM before pressing the polished plasteel enter key, invoking the Emperor's name while praying for a successful Generation

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LindasHadEnough @lindawarner.bsky.social · 3d

Never come for Derek

Meme showing a variety of predators including Derek Guy with the term Apex Predators in the middle of the meme.

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Paul Thistoll @pault.bsky.social · 2d

Wish me luck, team - I am appearing in front of the Governance and Administration Committee tomorrow at 8am to make my oral submission against the Public Service Amendment Bill.

Once again, it is a bill not grounded in evidence. DEI is crucial for avoiding bias in organisations.

Governance and Administration Subcommittee A

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Room 5, Parliament House

Public Service Amendment Bill

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Rights Aotearoa

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Paul Thistoll, CEO

Trust Democracy

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Simon Right, Chair

Professor Jonathan Boston

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Interested Citizens Group - Hamilton

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newimprovedtom.bsky.social @newimprovedtom.bsky.social · 2d

An image of Jerry Seinfeld opening his door to Gary Numan, with the text “Hello, Numan”.

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newimprovedtom.bsky.social @newimprovedtom.bsky.social · 2d

Today in “Living in the Enshittiverse”: trying to attend a free public-sector event without downloading and signing up for a commercial third-party app.

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Slurmsadako MacKenzie @slurmsmackenzie.bsky.social · 4d

GenAI truly was the worst technology to come along at this moment.

An energy and water guzzler when we most urgently need to take climate action.

A disinformation machine as our journalism fails.

A bias machine as fascism takes root.

A job killer in a cost of living crisis.

Bria "tries to write a book" Horses @thevoidencore.bsky.social · 9d

The "cognitive decline and brain damage from repeat COVID infections" and "easy to use robot that makes slop and melts your critical thinking skills" is a hell of a combo in a post-fact media ecosystem

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 2d

A reminder.

Humanity has never removed an atmospheric pollutant at a global, continental or, even, regional scale — we have only ever shut down the source and let nature do the clearing up. This is the case for chlorofluorocarbons and stratospheric ozone destruction, for sulfur dioxide and acid rain, and for sulfur and nitrogen oxides and photochemical smog. We must be prepared for CDR to be a failure, leaving us to rely on the environment to stabilize atmospheric CO₂ over thousands of years. This is another argument for rapid decarbonization.

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newimprovedtom.bsky.social @newimprovedtom.bsky.social · 3d

Wonderful! Thanks for chasing it up.

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newimprovedtom.bsky.social @newimprovedtom.bsky.social · 3d

It’s great to catch up on old posts again! Though I’m getting errors when trying to reach the second page of comments.

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newimprovedtom.bsky.social @newimprovedtom.bsky.social · 3d

Hooray! I was looking for something recently and was sad to see that it had gone.

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Russell Brown @publicaddress.bsky.social · 3d

You probably didn't notice that the archived Public Address has been down for several weeks – something was sucking up the CPU on the hosting server. But it's back, thanks to the kind folk at CactusLab – who, by the way, also had a great 25th birthday party last week. publicaddress.net

Public Address

publicaddress.net

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David Hood @thoughtfulnz.bsky.social · 3d

The local irony reading this is the guy running for mayor as a vampire ("Drain the rich") got twice the votes of the anti-vaccination candidate.

abc @thekitchentapes.bsky.social · 3d

"dracula complaining about the price of groceries" -- that's an incredible line

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James Renwick @cubaraglanguy.bsky.social · 3d

An excellent article from Marc Daalder, if you want all the shifty details.
newsroom.co.nz/2025/10/13/f...

Farmers off the hook on climate means rest of us pick up the slack

Comment: The Government's methane announcement is the policy equivalent of a steaming cowpat on cross-partisan climate consensus.

newsroom.co.nz

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 4d

seems like a non-insignificant percentage of rage against the machine's fanbase are young republican men driving SUVs bopping their head to anti-oil, pro-immigrant songs thinking the lyrics are about how they wish their suburban parents would get off their back

Tom Morello tweets: "Fascinating that all those “don’t tread on me” posers and their AR-15’s are nowhere to be seen and government tyranny is instead being opposed by a guy in an inflatable frog suit."

Someone named Manny replies: "@grok
why do some people say Tom Morello and band mates are RAGE FOR THE MACHINE and not against ?"

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Lynn Stahl @msbtterswrth.altgov.info · 4d

Hot off the presses! If you need a bigger size to print your stickers let me know!

The Portland frog as a founding father, surround by the words "give me ribberty or give me death"

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12 Spoons 🇺🇦 @johnfw.bsky.social · 4d

Somebody who thinks an ai summary is the same as reading a document would go to a restaurant and eat the menu

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Alex @shakingstick.bsky.social · 5d

Media reporting Thiel talk series on the antichrist and not using the words or phrases 'gibberish' 'laughable nonsense' "stupid fucker' 'sweet lord almighty what does he take us for' this guy fucking sucks lol', I see you

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newimprovedtom.bsky.social @newimprovedtom.bsky.social · 5d

I like to wait for most of the campaign to play out so I can see whether any of my “maybes” make an absolute dick of themselves.

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Wellington Journal and Sketch Club @journalsketchclub.bsky.social · 5d

At the big table up the front for today’s journal and sketch club! On until 12pm at Southern Cross!

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David Mead @seethingmead.bsky.social · 5d

“Bringing facts to a vibes fight” deserves an entry into 2025 phrase of the year

Absolute genius

UK Constitutional Law Association @ukcla.bsky.social · 6d

Alan Greene: Bringing facts to a vibes fight: Kayfabe and debates on the UK and the ECHR ukconstitutionallaw.org/2025/10/09/a...

Alan Greene: Bringing facts to a vibes fight: Kayfabe and debates on the UK and the ECHR

It is now 25 years since the Human Rights Act 1998 (HRA) entered into force and far from this endurance cementing its legitimacy, the judicial protection of human rights in the UK finds itself in t…

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