real bummer finding out that literally everything was on the honor system this whole time

"Hey Alexa, are you recording this?"

Yes, the answer is yes. Amazon is killing its “Do Not Send Voice Recordings” privacy feature on March 28 as the company aims to bolster Alexa+, its new subscription assistant.

Tropical Cyclone Alfred information Bulletin 16:39 EST Sunday

Main points are to expect significant coastal swell beginning Monday and locally intense rainfall from Wednesday as the cyclone moves south towards northern NSW

Flood watches are in place

NEW: 2024 has just been confirmed as the warmest year on record, and the first to breach the 1.5C threshold.

We used a ridgeline (Joy Division inspired) chart to visualise daily temperature anomalies since 1940.

2024 clearly stands out with 100% of its days above 1.3C and 75% above 1.5C.

Have to trot out the obligatory XKCD tonight. No aurora in Hawaii, we've got massive amounts of clouds and rain in any case. :) 🧪

Fun Aurora fact. The reason folks are seeing red/purple Aurora is that the current storm is strong enough that it's pushing deep (<90km) into the atmosphere & interacting with nitrogen. The "regular" green Aurora is due to interaction with higher level oxygen

If anybody ever wants to hear me rant for days on end just ask me about the Chinese Exclusion Act and what it truly stemmed from (white-boy sexual insecurity, mostly)

#Webcomics Hey kids! Here's a fun game! They just dropped a list of All the artists that Midjourney admits to having scraped to train its A.I. engine. Are YOU on it? (We are) Do you have a good lawyer? (We do) (storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...)

I, too, saw a bad person say a bad thing on another social media website.

I chose not to screenshot it and share it here.

This is an option available to you as well.

We've written up a short guide on how to navigate social media at a time rife with misinformation. Read our tips here: www.bellingcat.com/resources/ho...

So Reti owns shares in the Whangarei private hospital, so directly benefiting from Whangarei public being a mess. It's fine. It's all fine. Ffs

Wow, look at this chart
www.axios.com/2023/10/03/s...

For my sins I watched the entire Luxo standup today and whenever he has no idea what he's talking about or is obviously lying he licks his lips or bites his lower lip like David Brent and it makes me want to crawl under a duvet for the next three years #nzpol

Fifteen of my books are apparently being used to train AI without my permission using the Books3 dataset. Fucking hell.

this image really perfectly summarizes why I prefer BlueSky right now