Sage Anastasi

Protesters: NZ space launches are enabling genocide

Judith Collins: "Perfectly comfortable" with the ethics and work of the industry, the protesters "live in another world"

1 News: Yeah, actually, we OIAd that shit and the human rights abuse warnings about the launches were there from the start

NYT rendering of Trump White House ballroom plan, with a massive thing bigger than the White House proper replacing the East Wing, and also showing the much smaller West Wing.

You might say this will, among other problems, look weirdly lopsided, but I think the obvious implication is he's totally planning to do the West Wing next.

Cool. Cool cool cool.

I have never been more confident of anything than I am in my prediction that this is going to lead to someone wearing perfectly ordinary glasses getting their face smashed in at a children's gymnastics event or something.

It is pretty funny that he and Seymour both thought the were good enough, and also correct enough, to try this.

This is also my explanation for why the far-right grew so fast in Sweden: because they basically promised "social democracy for white people". For very many Swedish people (especially men) this was merely saying a quiet part out loud.

I found an unexpected benefit of waking up from dreams where my teeth were falling out and immediately going "haha, no they weren't" 🤣

New measles cases in Taranaki and Wellington, risk of further cases ‘very high’ Several of the current infections are linked to an exposure event on the Bluebridge Ferry on October 3.

I'm of the age where we only got 1 dose of measles vaccine at school. Last outbreak we had I went and got much delayed booster. Do consider doing the same if you only had one shot as kid.

www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3608...

singal messages: person: At this rate you're going to get a scots translation and end up being a formative modern text in the preservation attempts for the language me: LMFAO. COULD YOU FUCKING IMAGINE person: actually yes

okay chat how do we make a scots translation of pghrt.diy happen because the comedic potential here is significant on top of the important linguistic potential

An engraving from the 1870s of a large banner with the words 8 hours labour 8 hours recreation 8 hours rest.

Folks, wishing everyone a restful & restorative Labour weekend, wherein we give thanks to Sam Parnell & the Labour movement & unions for the 8 hr day:

Meet the woman who fought Northwest Nazis Nearly a century before Patriot Front, Margaret L. Weaver was confronting the forces of white supremacy and intolerance.

Just found this fucking amazing article about the woman who organized Spokane's first anti-fascist rally. Against the Silver Shirts. In 1938.

(No wonder they want to kill PBS)

www.cascadepbs.org/mossback/202...

Caerphilly byelection result live: Plaid Cyrmu beats challenge from Reform UK to win pivotal Welsh parliament vote Party that wants Wales to become independent seizes constituency from Labour and resists a fierce challenge from Reform UK

This is good, too.

www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

chan is married to mark zuckerberg, who has helped more than most to destroy US public health & biomedical research capacity, so pardon me if i roll my eyes

The Canadian blu ay of the Coen Brothers movie Miller’s Crossing, with the Quebec title ‘Un Cadavre Sous le Chapeau’, which translates as A Corpse Under the Hat

The Quebec title for Miller’s Crossing might be better than the English one.

Scientists can tell you exactly how much protein rats need, because they can keep rats captive for their entire lives, feed different groups different amounts of protein, and see which ones survive. In human studies, that’s frowned upon.

Understatement is a wonderful literary tool

www.washingtonpost.com/food/2025/10...

as usual they leave it to the tenth paragraph to say she's been living rent free with her parents and borrowed $400k interest free off them

Filmmaker Guillermo del Toro says 'I'd rather die' than use generative AI Del Toro's new Frankenstein adaption reimagines Mary Shelley's 1818 Gothic novel. Frankenstein was like a tech bro: "creating something without considering the consequences," he explains.

“I am not interested, nor will I ever be interested. I'm 61, and I hope to be able to remain uninterested in using it at all until I croak. ... The other day, somebody wrote me an email, said, ‘What is your stance on AI?’ And my answer was very short. I said, ‘I'd rather die.’” 🫡

Bertold Brecht (1953)

"... the people
Had squandered the confidence of the government
And could only win it back
By redoubled work. Would it not in that case
Be simpler for the government
To dissolve the people
And elect another?"

I know a lot of absolutely wonderful straight cis men, and I think writing them all off as unredeemable is quite frankly letting the miserable assholes among them off way to easy

Diss Tumblr at your peril. 😏

Tighter rules may be needed to stem flow of public submissions, says MP 'Coordinated, largely online campaigns' make it harder for politicians to consider good-faith submissions on laws

A govt seriously concerned with good faith would have a care for the quality of the bills it introduced to Parliament, and refrain from introducing bills based on partisan lies simply to patronise its client parties

Rather than further rationing democratic engagement

newsroom.co.nz/2025/10/23/t...

We're here. We're queer. We oppose the quartering of soldiers in our homes.

Yeah, I overall agree with "'this is bad' submissions should be a petition", but that requires an honest accounting of why people don't seem to have faith in the petition process

No one should EVER monitor Nazi space without a strong support network that can check them regularly and watch for signs that the propaganda is taking hold, and address that reality promptly.

Without a rock solid accountability network, it is playing with fire.

Yeah, once my kid got old enough to be curious about screens I almost entirely stopped doing the direct monitoring work.

It might be overkill but I don't want any of those symbols to be familiar from childhood, even just seen occasionally in passing.

And it was SO good for my brain and spirit.

Barbara Gips Dies: Tagline Writer Responsible For Iconic “In Space No One Can Hear You Scream” Was 89 Barbara Gips, who wrote some of the most iconic movie taglines of the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s, died on October 16, in the Bronx.

An unsung hero of the ALIEN franchise (and terrific ad copy) has departed. deadline.com/2025/10/barb...

Comedy Wildlife Awards 2025 – in pictures From a red-throated loon touching down on water, to good and bad hair days, and an airborne squirrel, here is a selection of the finalists in this year’s Nikon Comedy Wildlife awards

Comedy Wildlife Awards 2025 – in pictures

Three panel thing. In the left panel we use error bars. In the second, we take statistical significance as the biggest number but still have error bars. In LLM science, we just have the biggest number

What if we did a single run and declared victory

EMILY DICKINSON, JEDI KNIGHT

Not so clumsy, nor so random -
As a blaster - in its rage

More elegant - the weapon
More civilized - the age

MPI handout showing two views of the yellow-legged hornet, noting the yellow 4th abdominal segment and bright yellow lower legs.

Yellow-legged hornets have been found Glenfield and two other spots in Auckland. We don't want these here! They're twice the size of our other introduced wasps, kill and eat honeybees and lots of native species, and have a nasty sting. www.mpi.govt.nz/news/media-r...

My department (Computer science) is recruiting a postdoc (18 months) on any topics related to trust and AI (could be a philosophical project or a more empirically minded one). Belgian postdoc salaries are competitive. To apply: jobs.unamur.be/emploi.2025-...