Dr. Curiosity

Even the bloody hailstones in Australia could kill you!

Have you or someone you know been turned away from voting? Newsroom wants to hear from you! newsroom.co.nz/2026/10/27/e...

My heart is heavy. Walter Koenig, our Ensign Pavel Chekov, passed away early today. Walter and I met on the bridge of the Enterprise in the 1960s, and we stayed friends for nearly six decades. When Brad and I married in 2008, Walter stood beside us as our best man.

Stella Henderson, who wrote as Vesta, was a 🇳🇿 feminist, university graduate and journalist. She was the first woman parliamentary reporter for a major New Zealand newspaper and, not surprisingly, the men opposed her joining the press gallery. Born #OTD 1871 @wikimediaaotearoa.bsky.social

This auction may be of interest to former staff of The Press, in Christchurch, and early Christchurch families. www.houseofhuia.co.nz/auctions/200

Rename a book or movie for this economy. Slumdog Homeowner

Okay, my special vote process is completed. Now comes everything else.

When you read the link description and go "Oh hey it's Ondrej from ppa:ondrej/php" :-D

Just over two-thirds of votes counted now and Lula's lead has grown

that part. this is why we need to teach critical thinking not “how to use ai”

Seeing "thank you for your attention in this matter" always reminds me of the Hitchhiker's Guide, and Prostetnic Vogon Jeltz addressing us all with "People of Earth, your attention please..." two minutes before demolishing the planet.

Oh fun. Just heard an account of someone getting a phone call from a politician, that was not a call from a politician. I'm not hugely surprised that it's now a vector for donation money scamming and disinformation peddling in New Zealand, but dismayed just the same.

Tenured faculty members at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are decorating the university’s surveillance cameras with googly eyes, rhinestones, and glitzy decorations to protest its investment in what they call “Big Brother technology.”

What a day to computers.

Central Ōtautahi has Opinions.

Diminish an anime: Spirited Just Over There

Make sure you’re enrolled to vote before the sun sets on Sunday! vote.nz

📢 With less than a week before enrolment closes, the Electoral Commission says delivery of EasyVote cards is going well - despite some redirection to spam folders.

An old friend of mine who went through the same high-decile assaults at school that I did recently had his ribs cracked while living in social housing, so... yeah. Let's not kid ourselves that this is only a problem of poverty, and only counts once people have reached the very bottom of the cliff.

If you’re on the eastside of Ōtautahi and know a young person who hasn’t enrolled to vote there are other young folks ready and waiting to enroll them at Eastgate Mall.

this is so perfect, so pure

Dunedin (as of the 30 of September figures that are currently on the elections webpage) got the distinction of 53.6% 18-24 enrolment and 105.01% for 25-29 year olds. Which is really just an indication of transient populations meeting estimated residential population denominators.

We'd now like to welcome our Sunni Diamond, Gold, and Platinum Reserve members for boarding through the priority lane. And now any Israeli Hexagon Alliance members

If you know young people who are not enrolled to vote yet but will be eligible on November 7th, please encourage them to enrol and quickly. They don't have to know who they're going to vote for right away, but this at least gives them a choice. * vote.nz/enrolling/en... * vote.nz/enrolling/en...

Americans and other white people with strong passports are absolutely going to drive me to a bottle of whiskey with the perpetual, "my company shouldn't complain when I work with no proper visa or authorisation from a foreign county, without asking" comments, and I'm a huge remote work advocate.

Not so much mask off for the AI services as all this was predictable (and widely predicted) by experts in these various industries. But perhaps is mask off for contemporary management practices and managers, in case anyone still had illusions about modus operandi. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

In Brazil, President Lula sues Zuckerberg, producing evidence that Meta was suppressing pro-Lula accounts in the run up to the last election round. paydayreport.com/lula-files-l...

#NZpol Caught in passing a mention to "relax copyright laws" to support 'AI' companies on 1News. I didn’t pick up if they meant in NZ or Australia, but either doesn’t sound good, and some politicians point at Australia to copycat (rather than examine and critique).

How cool is this? Two people who were part of the APRA Silver Scroll ceremony on Wednesday were named 2026 Arts Laureates last night: Madeleine Sami and Victoria Kelly. This is just a tiny snippet of Kelly's CV (there's much more in her AudioCulture... 🧵 audioculture.co.nz/profile/vict...

it seems to shock the New Zealand government that Peter Jackson, Taika Waititi, and the Conchords etc all emerged from the same city in the same span, which coincidentally is when Wellington rent was dirt-cheap and there were heaps of empty industrial buildings around

Penguin Colony is now available store.steampowered.com/app/3695930/...

I'm thrilled to share my first foray into nature writing. I describe my travels through Aotearoa New Zealand to see the country's rarest birds—and use this as a vehicle to tell the stories of the islands' evolutionary history and the bold conservation efforts that saved these creatures. Gift link