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Labour orders its Auckland Central candidate to toe the party foreign policy line, as Naisi Chen made foreign affairs promises to Chinese-speaking voters that are absent from its own foreign policy spokesperson's speeches. www.thepost.co.nz/nz-news/3611...

"AI can draft an essay for you, especially if you give it a high quality prompt." Really? This is what MIT thinks high schoolers should learn? MIT's "Day of AI" dayofai.org provides materials for K-12 teachers and claims to have reached over 5,000,000 students to date. 1/2

China’s first AI-generated theatrical film, ‘Sanxingdui: Future Past’, has bombed at their domestic box office, only making $121,000 USD against a budget of $1.5M USD. In contrast, the crudely animated ‘Niu Lai’ made nearly $10M USD against a budget of $200-500 USD.

"libertarian candidate for state senate in north carolina is currently in a shootout with the cops and live-tweeting his planned suicide", while not exactly surprising, is still a weird thing to read

If the golem becomes ensorcelled, the coven may need to assume operational burdens related to ensorcellation and the golem’s fel status. This may cost extra mana points.

bsky has four types of users

The past few DS Labs, the guest Lab Mgrs have mentioned the {waldo} pckg, & many folks didn't know it! I think it's such a helpful itty #rstats 📦 {waldo} shows you the diffs between 2 R objects 🔍 even ggplot2 objs! That's kinda it! Helpful for tests, students, etc! But... it doesn't have a hex 🥺

In one day, two politicians - Bolsonaro in Brazil and Vucic in Serbia - with ties to Trump have lost surprise elections thanks to high turnout. The rise of the international far-right is not inevitable.

Institutionalized democracy doesn't work with this level of bad faith!

When political scientists first raised concerns about this new restriction last year we were told we were being ‘alarmist’ to suggest tilting the playing field unfairly like this by one party can undermine the legitimacy of the election out come for all Kiwis in a tight race I’m still ‘alarmed’…

This is a great piece about the state of things. He describes the process as essentially AI brute forcing... everything. It's not necessarily smart, or even new, but the scale and volume of the thing is going to make all possible targets into viable targets. www.404media.co/php2shell-bl...

You probably know about the Jaffa Cakes VAT thing, but here are a bunch of others compiled for your tax nerdy pleasure by @timharford.ft.com www.ft.com/content/2b77...

New Zealand mentioned

Former presidents are just roasting the hell out of the White House redo today and it’s going to drive Trump absolutely insane

#hugops to everyone else maintaining a lot of digital infrastructure and apps and websites this week #four #php #memes

"a distinctively British approach to artificial intelligence"

I hope the Lossless Convexification of Nonconvex Control Bound and Pointing Constraints of the Soft Landing Optimal Control Problem section of the drivers licence test is multi choice.

#bransennn Perfect lip sync as usual 😂

The dreams of wannabe Epstein island invitees side-swiping bollards and instantly pink misting will never die

Ah, the auto influencers have explained that this carbon fiber-wrapped ball, which sits right behind the driver's head, holds about 100kg of nitrogen pressurized to about 10,000 psi. Let me just go review the tolerances people found in their Cyber Trucks

they finally made douglas adams' electric monk!

If you have a Internet, turn it off immediately

whomst among us

Maybe the BBC should get someone who actually knows what he is talking about then.

Incredible

Great @jamellebouie.net piece. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/21/o...

The Numberwang will be temporarily unavailable as the world waits for a patch due to a very serious security flaw discovered in PHP

keep your php websites down until you see an all-clear message from the php website, which will be down until they see the all-clear message...

I know things are very contextual & I very much appreciate knowledgeable people sharing their expertise but it is a little confusing as a layman when some computer thing happens & the reaction of computer knower 1 is ‘ehh you’re fine’ & the advice of computers knower 2 is ‘buy a gun, its happening’