Nat Torkington

The Portland frog backing down an army of jackboots

When your custom character appears in a cut scene

Work will never love you back. Consistently make regular time for your physical and mental health and your relationships.

Lest folks think I'm randomly retweeting chaotic swears, this is an allusion to the puerile yet legendary British comic Viz. It was used in several places but Rude Boy (literally, that's the entirety of the premise for this recurring character) probably gave it the heaviest workout.

Piss up a rope, fuckstick

A little of each. Main party in govt would like to start a defense industry and is probably wary of alienating USD. Foreign Minister leads the minority party that's been bought by every lobbyist, can't see why not Israel too. He's also famously random. Neolib minority party has supported Palestine.

As always, the only reason we haven't experienced the benefits of Trickle Down is that the wealthy aren't wealthy enough. Mmm hmm.

The one untaxed income source grows to dominate the economy. WHO WOULD HAVE THOUGHT?

"…and Magda Goebbels made a great strudel.”

"We have agreed that we can see other platforms while we are working on our relationship. We're putting the Open in OpenAI."

No word on whether Microsoft gets a chair to watch.

A joint statement from OpenAI and Microsoft OpenAI and Microsoft sign a new MOU, reinforcing their partnership and shared commitment to AI safety and innovation.

Microsoft and OpenAI have announced that their conscious uncoupling has progressed to the Memorandum of Understanding phase. Please respect the privacy of their children in this difficult time by not using Microsoft 365 Copilot. openai.com/index/joint-...

But design is my passion, Ben.

Opinion: Amazon gives up building its own Auckland data centre, as power prices soar The aborted construction of Amazon's west Auckland data centre shows just how much has changed in four years.

Just found it. I’m so glad there’s a journalist able to understand these things and ask the right questions.

www.rnz.co.nz/news/busines...

I don't believe the data center will make any profits here that can be taxed. I'd love to know if that's not the case.

Christopher Luxon hypes re-announcement of $7.5 billion Amazon investment from 2021 The Prime Minister says Amazon is spending $7b on data centres - a move announced by the company four years ago.

www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

"Boost GDP by $11B," you say? I'd love to see the maths behind that.

There's a lot of one-offs in construction. I imagine they'd import as much of the specialist materials as they can.

Annual component is electricity and water (ffs), and a handful? of engineers?

Well? How many Rs *are* there in "strawberry"?!

Woke Numberologist to the Stars

Thanks for the tip-off. This has been the one time that Hacker News comments were useful. I scanned the comments, figured out that I would be triggered as fuck, and clicked away.

For once the Hacker News triggering wasn't because of AGI crypto boosterism.

Remember to ask the docent at the British Museum exactly what moral leg they have to stand on when you shoplift from the gift shop. They love that question.

I thought it an unusual choice to determine monetary policy but I'm sure you've got the right dog for the job.

Excellent! So how does it work? When you move to Wellington are you automatically assigned a region of the country to make arbitrary decisions for, or do you have to start at the bottom and work your way up from Invercargill and Westport?

The marginal pricing BLEW MY MIND when I first learned about it. The idea that you get paid by the most expensive kW going into the grid. The incentives this creates are great for adding more solar but lousy for actually retiring coal.

Housing affordability: a crisis of our own making OPINION: Our generation broke the market for owner-occupiers by preferencing residential property over other investments in our tax system.

“A graduate starting salary is now between $50,000 and $60,000 pa. if you can get a job. That house is now over 35 times that starting salary.“

Article by Dr. Rod Carr, former chair Climate Change Commission.

Hoorah! So happy you've finally got closure on WRE. Let the next chapter truly begin!

Do you have a place at last?

Went through our ewaste box and found a T-Mobile Sidekick if you need a smartphone that's a few IQ points lower, just for your sanity's sake.

Percentage of NZES respondents saying they had 0 covid vaccinations as percent of vote share (weighted)

I think it says a lot about NZ's Green Party being environment/ecosystem/science based rather than some of the cultural trends in other countries, that the Green Party had the fewest voters who had never had a covid vaccination 0.34%.
32.5% of NZ First voters say they never had a covid vaccination.

The maddest someone has ever gotten at me was when I talked about the child sized manacles Jefferson had at Monticello for 9 year old children. They could not cope with the idea that a child the same age as their child had been enslaved. And it made them angry that I made them know facts

Headline: Man 'very disappointed' after brothel plan abandoned

Kudos to the subbie at Radio New Zealand.

Lead actor with short and wide oval glasses that look vaguely like animal eyes.

But the fashion is totally a vibe. Sunglasses and hair styles ... I'd have told my kids that I looked like this in the 90s but they saw the photos. We who did real computer shit in the early-to-mid 90s never looked like this.

Orbital was the bomb, tho. Peace, out.