Nat Torkington

waugh I'm in California then! I'm cursed!

YouTube video by Béla Fleck - Topic Frosty Morning

The instrumental track #3 is Frosty Morning, off his first album "Crossing the Tracks". www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNl5...

I can imagine mine: nasty, brutish, and short.

This is brilliant! I've known Gary and Alan for years and never knew! Opening for BLERTA even ... legends. Thanks for all you do, and especially for this one.

Dude, you gotta just go to live shows. Go see live music. You don’t have to pay $400 for a ticket. You can pay $40 for two tickets and see two incredible bands that will stick with you forever, AND get half the band to sign your shirt at the merch table and it’s the coolest shit on the planet.

BDSM enjoyers LLM enthusiasts

🤝

“Let me show you my custom harness”

My pitch to Jason Statham. Sorry, couldn't stop myself.

I decided to write a movie for Jason Statham in which ICE invades the small midwestern town of Tinyville and EX-DELTA FORCE SAS NAVY SEAL SHERIFF MASON MCKILLCHAIN must choose between the law and revenge, but not for long.

I do enjoy the Guardian style guide:
start up verb; startup noun (as in business startup); star tup top-performing ram

i hope they replied “could just be Dunning-Kruger” :)

Hoorah! It’s also streamable on Spotify and downloadable on Bandcamp.

Thank you for your support during the Kickstarter! We debuted at #2 on the NZ music charts and you helped!

Screen capture from a session with Claude: "Context left until auto-compact: 1%".

Current state: watching Claude lurch closer and closer towards a lobotomy.

(sets a timer until someone says "but the Beatles!")

I assume that’s to avoid Jones thinking “they’re a lost cause no need to court them”.

on the whole, I would not recommend “the long september 11th” as an era in which to spend one’s entire adult life

A holographic glass cube with Alberts Molecular Biology Of The Cell in it.

ohhh ‘democracy dies in darkness’ was aspirational

Do something small and meaningful for your future self: go and save the voicemail messages on your phone from loved ones. Download them to your own storage.
One day the most trivial becomes precious

"... it’s even easier to be a crook when no one knows you’re a crook, haha. But coppering depends on people believing you’re a copper."

Vimes is the best, and never been more relevant.

"Beating people up in little rooms…he knew where that led. And if you did it for a good reason, you’d do it for a bad one. You couldn’t say ‘We’re the good guys’ and do bad-guy things."

Pratchett knew what was talking about.

Oh gawd who now? I spent a half hour searching for people I knew in my US time, to make sure they weren't in there. Thank god the closest is the ex-business partner of a friend and a friend whose job it was to know everyone to raise money for her non-profit and whose email did not mention islands.

It's so impressive she still hasn't succumbed to the "have more than $100M, turned into a Death Eater" syndrome that got ... everyone else who has more than $100M. She still seems human, sane, and kind. Such an accomplishment when you're in a bubble that is predicated on your being special.

Anyway my new startup is IndirectNuclearFusion and we just install solar panels and batteries, it was easier to get NZ government funding that way. Our reactor? It’s 150M km away, for safety reasons

Gas Town is the Stanford prison experiment for LLMs. We can all discover our inner Zimbardo. It's a genius art work and social commentary, albeit perhaps one that's difficult to engage with because of the comical amounts of peyote that seem to have gone into its design and documentation.

Wait what? It's called "Gobbler's Knob" and people are able to say this without sniggering to death? How is that even possible?!

David Seymour says Kiwis are too squeamish about privatisation – history shows why they lost the appetite The ACT Party leader believes government assets should provide a return or be sold. But a majority of New Zealanders are consistently opposed to more privatisation.

David Seymour says kiwis are squeamish about handing state assets - paid for by everyone - to ACT party donors to make profits they don’t need & reduce services & supports we require for a dignified life. #nzpol

Yeah David we’re as understandably squeamish as you are self-serving. Hugely. #ACTout

Hard recommend. Took them to Taylor Swift in Sydney. They let the love in, and kept the hearing loss out. 🥰

I can recommend these. I'm perennially amazed that so many of my more (ahem) vintage friends go to gigs without earplugs. You might not use them every time, but you really want the option.

they should make a movie series about how it’s irresponsible to use technology to mess with the natural order of things for profit

Jeffrey Epstein emailing Peter Thiel: Finding things on their way to collapse was much easier than finding the next bargain. ... Return to tribalism. Counter to globalization. Amazing new alliances.

Definitely seems like they destroyed the country on purpose.

I’ve lost my replacement bus service of thought