Josh | writer, painter, tinkerer

this is good advice. this includes things like quote dunking and sharing screenshots. we don't need to engage with any of these jackasses at all, and angrily boosting them helps literally no one

In case anyone is wondering: this is not true. There are dozens of reasons to criticise Opportunity without making up nonsense about their policies

Well this is eleventy-million kinds of Fucked Up. @latimes.com (who once contracted with me as a freelance reviewer and whom I struggled to get paid by) asserts that *merely reading its website* constitutes a permanent waiver of your right to sue it under *any circumstances*.

if, like me, you get a daily jumpscare upon logging in and seeing the Absolute State of Things and you want a break from it all, might I suggest signing up for the no-AI offline-first drawing course that I am building mostly in public www.arti.ly

If (when?) Labour loses this election, and the regime ushers in another 3 years of cruel, corrupt, bigoted tyranny, we will know exactly who to blame: Chris Hipkins. This mediocrity was so afraid of winning and having to do things, he's now sabotaging his own campaign.

my modest proposal is: what if as a country we just stopped listening to the people who are always wrong and did things that need doing www.emilywrites.co.nz/some-banter-...

guys the PHP vuln is the real version of that fake “Ukraine destroyed a Russian datacenter and all the botnets stopped” story

my modest proposal is: what if as a country we just stopped listening to the people who are always wrong and did things that need doing www.emilywrites.co.nz/some-banter-...

There are all kinds of problems with politics and politicians but a non-trivial number of them derive directly the unhinged way the media treat the subject (and the people)

Curia/TPU run the most rock-solid parliamentary makeup polling op in NZ because it gives them impeccable cover for all the actually malfeasant shit they do

NZ First leader Winston Peters walks out of a press conference after being questioned about his views on the Covid-19 vaccine by Newsroom.

If I'd hit the repost button any harder I'd have punched through the phone.

Financials aside, this is a great line

you'll know you've made it when you try to press ctrl+z on your actual physical desktop

hello friends TMI but webworm could use your help! pulling the curtain back a little (embarassing, kiwis aren't wired for this). eternal gratitude if you can be fucked reading x me www.webworm.co/webwormsos/

We must rid ourselves of this fucked up one-term clowncar.

I’m just a green voter begging green voters to stop reposting nonsense about a party that’s not *for* you and go canvass for the greens instead

It’s literally not, but don’t let that stop you

can we change the name from Effective Altruism to Defective Altruism already

there has never before been such an exemplar of our utterly stupid times but I confidently expect a new, even better one to drop before lunchtime

there's a higher-than-usual level of deranged discourse about Opportunity on this left-ish website so I'm just going to leave this here again www.emilywrites.co.nz/should-you-v... in which I completely bastardize the concept of the Hegelian dialectic but hopefully also make some good points

To those implying that Kremlin-controlled social media bot/troll farms became silent after Ukraine hit a Yandex data center, posting this CloudFare chart ( radar.cloudflare.com/bots/as13238 ): Hate to disappoint you all ⤵️

if, like me, you get a daily jumpscare upon logging in and seeing the Absolute State of Things and you want a break from it all, might I suggest signing up for the no-AI offline-first drawing course that I am building mostly in public www.arti.ly

So for the people who do seemingly genuinely believe that Claude or whatever is a real conscious being what is their actual response to the fairly reasonable charge of "so you enslaved an intelligent living thing and you don't have any problems with that?"

This is as good as measured but pointed media critique gets

It’s extremely demoralizing to have known how much all these guys sucked for literally decades now and still watch them get richer and richer and more and more powerful. I don’t know how to describe what that’s done to my view of whether there’s anything about this country worth saving.

Why isn't this on every TV screen and not the fairy tale of killer robots

Lmao at Ben Thomas contradicting himself within 30 seconds of opening his savvy hole

Impossible to invent something as absurd as the Minister for Cracking Down On Truancy And School Lunches not knowing it is the school holidays www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

This is how AI will kill us all

new photorealistc portrait needed

Confession: I still love AI stuff from back when it was cursed and not *a* curse