guy said, “Do you like Marx?” I said, “I haven’t met him.” Guy said, “No, no, he’s dead.” “Wow, what happened?” “No, no, he died long ago.” I thought the guy Marx had just died. So then, “Why are you asking me if he died long ago?” “No, he wrote a lot. He wrote that poor people should not be poor.” I said, “Sounds amazing.” I’m giving you a sense of how naïve I was. After they left, I went to the library to look for Marx. So that was my introduction to Karl Marx. BS: The FBI. MM: The FBI. Then, of course, I took a class on Marx. Couldn’t just get Marx out of the library. But,

good morning specifically to the FBI agent who introduced Mamdani’s dad to Marx

I was thinking Newmarket or Parnell, but same same.

😎😎😎😎 GOOD THINGS CAN STILL HAPPEN 😎😎😎😎

The other thing I like about it is that the low model count means there's a vaguely plausible amount of space on the board. "Big" 40k games that end up more as a traffic jam than a battle fail my suspension of disbelief. Epic scale is an alternative solution here of course.

Zomg!

Wait, are they coming to NZ?? Or just the Adelaide show that was and already.

Douglas Adams was a true visionary for realizing that if doors could talk, that would actually be really terrible.

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Hypebole I guess, but thousands, not millions.

www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/

It's wild that the new zealand govt sees what's going on in the states and rather than going "wow we have a huge opportunity to recruit foreign talent, let's invest" (like aus, canada, EU etc have done) instead they're like "ooh cutting science to the bone, cool idea bro" #nzpol

Reti earmarks $70m of new agency's budget for AI commercialisation grants

new zealand government reaching new heights of stupidity

next year our public dollars will go more to AI grants ($70 million) than all investigator-initiated basic science combined ($56 million in the Marsden fund)

lol keep asking Luxon why he shouldn't pay tax on the 600k profit he made selling some of his houses recently (after changing the bright line test in his favour)

keep listening to him say 'it's not about me',

and keep replying 'it kinda is though, and it's kinda obvs you don't have an answer'

“So either he’s (Luxon) totally insincere, and he was bullshitting me, or he’s incompetent and doesn’t realise that he, himself – and his own Government, the people he’s put in power – have signed off on pennies on the dollar for scientific funding in this country"

"Awesome", no wait not that meaning.

Or if i remember right, unicodedata.normalize("NFKC", "foo")

sqlpey.com/python/how-t...

Normalize Unicode Text This utility converts Unicode text back to regular text. It's free, gets the job done quickly, and it's entirely browser-based. Try it out!

Something like this might help

onlinetools.com/unicode/norm...

Windows 10 support has ended, but here's how to get an extra year for free Thanks to Extended Security Updates, you don't have to make the switch to Windows 11 just yet.

you can keep windows 10 with security updates for at least another year so you don't have to deal with all the AI shit in windows 11 www.engadget.com/computing/wi...

Now with chatgpt everyone gets to be a copyeditor.

Anyone else noticed a huge number of false positives in their gmail spam folder recently? Like 90% of spam folder is non-spam mail lists or notifications today, I'm pretty sure it wasn't like this a few weeks ago.

I'm expecting a spike in Google searches for Helonium today #connections

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Television - PBS - Before Stonewall : PBS : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive ripped from VHS

also archive.org/details/tele...

YouTube video by Radfem Archive Before Stonewall (1984)

The clip is at about 1:14:30

youtu.be/rHodi71OqMA?...

A yellow road bike on a cute white kei truck

Bike on a Kei truck, seen in Cornwall Park, Auckland. I thought this was delightful.

Isn't it just to indicate that she used the word?

St Stephen's ave & Gladstone Road in Parnell, Auckland.

Cycling south on Gladstone into St Stephen's I always make eye contact and signal right, because just occasionally people going north on St Stephen's blow straight through the Give Way. Would be great if this was a roundabout.

It was top story on RNZ most of the afternoon, but yeah displaced pretty quickly, I think it's dropped off homepage now.

Yeah, still the same CNN article up on RNZ from this morning, though it's been knocked off the homepage by the Auckland Palestine protest at least.

Israel strikes Hamas officials in Qatar Smoke could be seen billowing after the explosions in the capital, Doha.

Rnz report here btw, it's at the bottom of "more top stories" on the homepage, took me a while to find it www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/5...

One of Britain’s most senior police officers has launched an angry tirade against Extinction Rebellion protesters going “all floppy” when they get arrested. Sir Stephen House, the deputy commissioner of the Metropolitan police, said the tactic of going limp was a “flipping nuisance” as it required extra officers to drag protesters away. House told a London assembly police and crime committee hearing: “We have asked them to stop being floppy. And that might seem like a silly thing to say, but when we arrest them and pick them up, they go all floppy, which is why you see four or five officers carrying them away. It’s a complete waste of officers’ time, and a complete pain in the neck.” Extinction Rebellion: how successful were the latest protests? Read more House also expressed annoyance at how the tactic made the police look heavy-handed. He said: “The problem with them going floppy and four offices carrying them away [is that it] looks to the general public like police are overreacting here. We’re not making them go floppy. They’re just sort of being a nuisance.”

This gets progressively funnier with every use of the term "floppy".

Old Soviet joke for today:

A man walks into a newsstand every day, looks around, and leaves.

After a long time of this, the owner says “Can I help you find something?”

“I’m looking for the obituaries.”

“The obituaries are in the back of the newspaper, comrade.”

“Not the one I’m looking for.”