I happened to be at the Riccarton Mall when Luxon was there. The โhugeโ crowd maybe was maybe three dozen, mostly his entourage and media crew. The Post is wildly exaggerating. www.thepress.co.nz/nz-news/3611...
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Asรญ pues, aquรญ estamos (So, here we are)
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Paint Your Wagon youtu.be/-jYk5u9vKfA?...
Bloody hell ๐ This is how Luxon answers questions, but with less charisma, lol. youtube.com/shorts/lItON...
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Hot take: I don't think social media made people dumber. We've been dumb this whole time. It's just that you used to have to have a job that people sent their dumb letters to, to notice. This made "Engaging with fools" an occupational hazard rather than the 24/7 experience it is presently.
No matter how bleak things may seem, just remember that in the 1960s the US Coast Guard received reems of earnest letters begging them to save those poor castaways on Gilligan's Island.
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Because so many large companies are staking their survival on the AI boom becoming real. "We put AI in your tea kettle!" "I hate that. Why do I need this? I put the kettle on the range, it makes hot water. Why AI?" "Because we're putting AI in your range!" "No!" "Just take the AI!"
Replace heart with arse in love song lyrics. Owner of a lonely arse Owner of a lonely arse (Much better than an) Owner of a broken arse Owner of a lonely arse
Replace heart with arse in love song lyrics These are my arse songs They never feel wrong And when I wake for goodness sake These are the songs I keep singin' (Arse Songs - Weezer)
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Somebody check on Renata Hakiwai. He may have fallen on his head and scrambled his brain. That, or he has taken an all expenses paid "study" trip to Israel and had a few convenient "revelations." Same same. www.teaonews.co.nz/2026/09/22/m...
What could possibly go wrong?
Youโre paying 4x more for RAM because memory that hasnโt been made has already been bought with money that doesnโt exist GPUs havenโt been built. Neither have data centers. Infrastructure to power them may never exist. All to satisfy demand that doesnโt exist & generate profits that are impossible
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Tama Potaka is an asshole. Vote him out. "No, I haven't heard or seen of that. And the advice that I've been receiving, and certainly not a priority for me, what is a priority for me is making sure we don't get any new taxes." www.1news.co.nz/2026/09/01/l...
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Introduce yourself with 10 acts youโve seen live. The Clash Dead Kennedys Boomtown Rats The Police Bruce Springsteen The Beat Farmers Peter Tosh Tina Turner The Byrds (lowkey playing in a bar in San Diego ๐ณ) So many punk bands whose names I can't remember who played at Mabuhay Gardens in SF.
Introduce yourself with 10 acts youโve seen live The Dream Syndicate The Cramps The Pogues The Clash Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds The Gun Club New Order The Sugarcubes Nirvana Earth Kitt
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FFS, Aotearoa. Grow the fuck up and legalise and regulate cannabis. www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/vietnames...
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If I were Grand Poohbah of the Universe Iโd declare that apostrophe abuse in the English speaking world would be deemed unacceptable and punished by nagging until the abusers got it right.
Whatโs a thing from your area of expertise (or special interest) that you think it would behoove everyone else to know?