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Lecturer in Product Design at UCNZ. Tech industry dropout. Narrative systems and geoscience meddler. Old school web sectary. Frankenbike curator. Waste stream wrangler.
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This was also a feature of the riots and arson at the NZ parliament grounds in 2022. Beyond the angry disenfranchised antivaxxers, there was huge financial support from small/medium businesses and a convoy of people in expensive SUVs lining up to hate on the govt.

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the rise of the fascist nerds was anticipated by Ellen Ullman's 1995 essay "Out of Time: Reflections on the Programming Life."

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Yep

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Wall Street returning to open outcry trading and bucket shops in Q2

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Tomorrow! If you want to let Destiny know they're outnumbered by people who love and support our queer community, please come. We'll see you there.

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The world belongs to high agency, high IQ guys, we just live in it.

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The doco film about Lachlan Morton’s loop around the whole of Australia is finally out, and really opens the door on one of the most extraordinary feats of human endurance ever.

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"Young Australian women are moving sharply to the left. But unlike in many other countries, young Australian men are also shifting left, just at a slower pace" theconversation.com/i-looked-at-...

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Run it like a business that you bought in a leveraged buyout that you intend to asset strip to enrich yourself while screwing over the other shareholders and then run into the ground and then make the flaming dumpster fire someone else's problem... that kind of business.

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments

Tech billionaires heavily using hallucinogens & ketamine for the first time in their middle age is such a disaster, everyone should have those experiences when they are young cos you get up the next day and go 'oh haha yeah I was at one with the universe but obviously I'm still a loser & not a god'.

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This is such a strong piece with more grace than warranted, given how cynical and dishonest the campaign against trans participation in elite sport has been. www.theguardian.com/sport/commen...

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The “run it like a start up” grift is a more extreme version of the “run it like a business” trend for infrastructure. We had decades of people trying to run things like businesses they never should have—public goods, like schools, universities, and hospitals. That, plus technophilia, got us here.

submitted 3 days ago • 4 comments

I will never stop thinking about this Gabe Newell quote

submitted 3 days ago • 33 comments

Valve releasing the Team Fortress 2 source code to everyone is huge news; can't help but expect a ton of intriguing new free games. www.eurogamer.net/valve-releas...

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How much of this is real, and how much is just that Auror has made it easier to report shoplifting?

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"The govt’s unique structure + position allow it to play a distinct role from the private sector... Focusing on near-term returns will not make public investments more efficient in the long run. It merely eliminates the govt's unique advantages to advance scientific research for the public benefit."

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Rare artefacts from 1996–97. Avid’s first generation linear pull ‘V brakes’. Quite a different design from what eventually went into mass production. Note the cantilever style smooth stud pads. This method of mounting brake pads had all but disappeared by the end of the 90s.

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i don’t think this work is totally valueless, but framing it as being about “gameplay ideation” is so specifically annoying to me there’s 2+ decades of pre-LLM research on generating novel gameplay with much greater diversity than this ojs.aaai.org/index.php/AI...

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Stand by this: www.politico.com/newsletters/...

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Just had a very fun chat on RNZ Nights about the Poly-1 computer and tech innovation in NZ. Am also getting emails from all over the world from people reminiscing about it. Amazing how this forgotten little computer has such a story. www.rnz.co.nz/national/pro...

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