Peach Sometimes
@ehjc.bsky.social
Aro Valley. Powerlifting. Feelings. Pākehā. Fatty. Queer + non-binary + femme. They/them. Non-monogamous. C-PTSD. Knows one good joke. Wedding celebrant. Muscle Pisces. https://famous-knots-of-history.ghost.io
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Peach Sometimes
@ehjc.bsky.social
· Jun 20
In very exciting news my next book is coming out in September! You can preorder here: aucklanduniversitypress.co.nz/if-we-knew-h...
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one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.
November 25, 2025 at 4:15 PM
one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.
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It's not even the quiet part out loud anymore
Regardless of kayfabe comms and Nat equivocation in media, ACT always says the thing to its red-faced griefer audience
November 25, 2025 at 6:13 AM
It's not even the quiet part out loud anymore
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In two years NZ govt intervention in regional councils has gone from planning co-governance with Mana Whenua to DOGE/Rogernomics scale austerity destruction.
November 25, 2025 at 4:48 AM
In two years NZ govt intervention in regional councils has gone from planning co-governance with Mana Whenua to DOGE/Rogernomics scale austerity destruction.
Just got my tenth Covid vaccine. That seems like quite a lot.
November 25, 2025 at 4:45 AM
Just got my tenth Covid vaccine. That seems like quite a lot.
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November 24, 2025 at 11:46 PM
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wtaf
It is understood reforms to be announced today will mean the dissolving of regional councils, and the first steps could be within this current three-year council term.
End of regional councils tipped in local government reforms
It is understood reforms to be announced today will mean the dissolving of regional councils, and the first steps could be within this current three-year council term.
dlvr.it
November 24, 2025 at 8:29 PM
wtaf
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Oh noooooo.... www.juliensauctions.com/en/auctions/...
The Jim Henson Company 70th Anniversary Auction
Julien’s Auctions is proud to present The Jim Henson Company 70th Anniversary Auction.
Over the course of its 70-year history, The Jim Henson Com...
www.juliensauctions.com
November 24, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Oh noooooo.... www.juliensauctions.com/en/auctions/...
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Neale Jones. Andrew Little's mate Neale Jones is the fuck face who suggested getting rid of Rongotai.
And bonus! Andrew Little was one of the fuck face commissioners responsible for making these dogshit changes!
And bonus! Andrew Little was one of the fuck face commissioners responsible for making these dogshit changes!
Fresh from being outraged about the name Wellington Bays I just found out the existence of Wellington North. What fuckface of a person came up with these stupid fucking names. I hope they step on several legos.
November 24, 2025 at 2:50 AM
Neale Jones. Andrew Little's mate Neale Jones is the fuck face who suggested getting rid of Rongotai.
And bonus! Andrew Little was one of the fuck face commissioners responsible for making these dogshit changes!
And bonus! Andrew Little was one of the fuck face commissioners responsible for making these dogshit changes!
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y'know, if tech companies weren't so fired up to call every single thing "AI" it would be a lot easier to distinguish "ML spam filter that is well-sandboxed and tuned on your emails" from "giant context and IP-eroding foundation model that makes people paranoid and unhappy"
since the "google is now training gemini on your email contents" thing keeps bumping around here: it's _not happening_. I say this not to defend google but because I know a lot of people that have broken their filtering and made their lives much more annoying from sheer misinformation.
The malwarebytes Google opting-your-emails-into-ai-training thing is not true. The post is based on one bad tweet.
I know anti-tech lamenting is a Bluesky core principle, but please use the same judgement you would for any other clickbait.
www.theverge.com/news/826902/...
I know anti-tech lamenting is a Bluesky core principle, but please use the same judgement you would for any other clickbait.
www.theverge.com/news/826902/...
November 23, 2025 at 12:58 PM
y'know, if tech companies weren't so fired up to call every single thing "AI" it would be a lot easier to distinguish "ML spam filter that is well-sandboxed and tuned on your emails" from "giant context and IP-eroding foundation model that makes people paranoid and unhappy"
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My partner @simoncarryer.bsky.social wrote an essay about it if you don’t mind graphic details. medium.com/@simoncarrye...
November 23, 2025 at 6:08 AM
My partner @simoncarryer.bsky.social wrote an essay about it if you don’t mind graphic details. medium.com/@simoncarrye...
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Cis allies, if you're not sure of a trans person's pronouns, be sure not to eat of their food or dance to their music, for if you do you may find yourself in the intoxicating reverie of the trans people for three hundred years, and though you age not a day, all your loved will be dead and gone.
November 22, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Cis allies, if you're not sure of a trans person's pronouns, be sure not to eat of their food or dance to their music, for if you do you may find yourself in the intoxicating reverie of the trans people for three hundred years, and though you age not a day, all your loved will be dead and gone.
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since the "google is now training gemini on your email contents" thing keeps bumping around here: it's _not happening_. I say this not to defend google but because I know a lot of people that have broken their filtering and made their lives much more annoying from sheer misinformation.
The malwarebytes Google opting-your-emails-into-ai-training thing is not true. The post is based on one bad tweet.
I know anti-tech lamenting is a Bluesky core principle, but please use the same judgement you would for any other clickbait.
www.theverge.com/news/826902/...
I know anti-tech lamenting is a Bluesky core principle, but please use the same judgement you would for any other clickbait.
www.theverge.com/news/826902/...
Google denies ‘misleading’ reports of Gmail using your emails to train AI
Google says “we do not use your Gmail content for training our Gemini AI model.”
www.theverge.com
November 22, 2025 at 9:30 PM
since the "google is now training gemini on your email contents" thing keeps bumping around here: it's _not happening_. I say this not to defend google but because I know a lot of people that have broken their filtering and made their lives much more annoying from sheer misinformation.
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November 22, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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It’s been a shit few days here at #COP30 so when I got the pānui that my iwi are taking the Crown to Court to protect our taiao and future generations it was pretty special.
A real demonstration of everything we’re preaching here - Indigenous Peoples are holding the line where states are failing!
A real demonstration of everything we’re preaching here - Indigenous Peoples are holding the line where states are failing!
Ngāi Tahu takes Crown to High Court over proposed changes to Conservation Act
Ngāi Tahu takes Crown to High Court over proposed changes to Conservation Act
Proposed changes include streamlining and centralising conservation land management, and a review of Section 4 of the Conservation Act.
www.rnz.co.nz
November 22, 2025 at 8:41 AM
It’s been a shit few days here at #COP30 so when I got the pānui that my iwi are taking the Crown to Court to protect our taiao and future generations it was pretty special.
A real demonstration of everything we’re preaching here - Indigenous Peoples are holding the line where states are failing!
A real demonstration of everything we’re preaching here - Indigenous Peoples are holding the line where states are failing!
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Excited for it just to mean Magic the Gathering again. A return to basics
November 22, 2025 at 1:40 AM
Excited for it just to mean Magic the Gathering again. A return to basics
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Sometimes when we say we live in "interesting times," it's not a euphemism for turmoil.
He said "Amen" straight into the drop
Lmao Pope Leo threw a rave for an archbishop's 75th birthday this is kind of incredible
Lmao Pope Leo threw a rave for an archbishop's 75th birthday this is kind of incredible
November 22, 2025 at 1:17 AM
Sometimes when we say we live in "interesting times," it's not a euphemism for turmoil.
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Good old Woz. Good for him.
November 21, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Good old Woz. Good for him.
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So in a few month's time when the govt is telling you the social media under 16 age ban is to protect children, remember that they don't actually care about children's safety. They don't care about trans kids. They don't care about tamariki Māori. They don't care about feeding kids. #nzpol
November 19, 2025 at 10:02 PM
So in a few month's time when the govt is telling you the social media under 16 age ban is to protect children, remember that they don't actually care about children's safety. They don't care about trans kids. They don't care about tamariki Māori. They don't care about feeding kids. #nzpol
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Please hear me when I say that
1) these anti-medical woo birth movements have been a primary feeder into anti-vaxx eugenic movements
2) they pre-date the age of social media
3) they exist because we have not addressed medical sexism and specifically obstetric violence
1) these anti-medical woo birth movements have been a primary feeder into anti-vaxx eugenic movements
2) they pre-date the age of social media
3) they exist because we have not addressed medical sexism and specifically obstetric violence
Influencers made millions pushing ‘wild’ births – now the Free Birth Society is linked to baby deaths around the world
Influencers made millions pushing ‘wild’ births – now the Free Birth Society is linked to baby deaths around the world
A year-long investigation reveals how mothers lost children after being radicalised by uplifting podcast tales of births without midwives or doctors
As Esau Lopez was asphyxiated for the first 17 minutes of his life on Earth, the atmosphere in the room remained serene, even ecstatic. Acoustic music crooned from a speaker in a modest two-bedroom apartment in a suburb of Pennsylvania. “You are a queen,” murmured one of three friends in the room.
Only Esau’s mother, Gabrielle Lopez, felt something was wrong. She was pushing hard, but her son would not be born. “Can you help [him] out?” she asked, as Esau crowned. “Baby is coming,” the friend replied. Four minutes later, Lopez asked again, “Can you grab [him]?” Another friend murmured, “Baby is safe.” Six minutes passed. Again, Lopez asked, “Can you grab [him]?” Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 22, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Please hear me when I say that
1) these anti-medical woo birth movements have been a primary feeder into anti-vaxx eugenic movements
2) they pre-date the age of social media
3) they exist because we have not addressed medical sexism and specifically obstetric violence
1) these anti-medical woo birth movements have been a primary feeder into anti-vaxx eugenic movements
2) they pre-date the age of social media
3) they exist because we have not addressed medical sexism and specifically obstetric violence
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"Mice seem to assist pregnant females when they get into difficulty giving birth, with experienced mothers being the most helpful. This is thought to be the first official sighting of such assistance in non-primates, and so expands our knowledge of caregiving behaviours across the animal kingdom."
Mouse 'midwives' help their pregnant companions give birth
Scientists have observed mice helping each other when they encounter difficulties during birth, prompting a rethink of caregiving among rodents and other animals
www.newscientist.com
November 22, 2025 at 4:37 PM
"Mice seem to assist pregnant females when they get into difficulty giving birth, with experienced mothers being the most helpful. This is thought to be the first official sighting of such assistance in non-primates, and so expands our knowledge of caregiving behaviours across the animal kingdom."
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Journalist challenge: Use “Machine Learning” when you mean machine learning and “LLM” when you mean LLM. Ditch “AI” as a catch-all term, it’s not useful for readers and it helps companies trying to confuse the public by obscuring the roles played by different technologies. 🧪
November 22, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Journalist challenge: Use “Machine Learning” when you mean machine learning and “LLM” when you mean LLM. Ditch “AI” as a catch-all term, it’s not useful for readers and it helps companies trying to confuse the public by obscuring the roles played by different technologies. 🧪
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Looks like LLMs are *very* vulnerable to attack via poetic allusion: "curated poetic prompts yielded high attack-success rates (ASR), with some providers exceeding 90% ..."
https://arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1
https://arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1
November 20, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Looks like LLMs are *very* vulnerable to attack via poetic allusion: "curated poetic prompts yielded high attack-success rates (ASR), with some providers exceeding 90% ..."
https://arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1
https://arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1
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At New Zealand's Kawaiican cybersecurity convention, organizers hacked together a way for attendees to track CO2 levels throughout the venue—even before they arrived. www.wired.com/story/this-h...
This Hacker Conference Installed a Literal Anti-Virus Monitoring System
At New Zealand's Kawaiican cybersecurity convention, organizers hacked together a way for attendees to track CO2 levels throughout the venue—even before they arrived.
www.wired.com
November 21, 2025 at 11:06 AM
At New Zealand's Kawaiican cybersecurity convention, organizers hacked together a way for attendees to track CO2 levels throughout the venue—even before they arrived. www.wired.com/story/this-h...
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We need to listen to experts and I'm sorry everyone, but if I understand the collected works of the menswear guy correctly this means all the gents in parliament gotta be buck naked like how the good Lord in his ineffeble wisdom made them
Brownlee has banned "clothing conveying a political message" from the House.
He's banned trans pins, pies, and shirts.
He's banned trans pins, pies, and shirts.
November 20, 2025 at 7:13 AM
We need to listen to experts and I'm sorry everyone, but if I understand the collected works of the menswear guy correctly this means all the gents in parliament gotta be buck naked like how the good Lord in his ineffeble wisdom made them