Sage Anastasi

Poem title: At the Intersection The poem is divided into two overlapping circles. The left-hand circle is titled ‘me’ and the text reads: the day we went out to have an ice-cream, we said nothing just let our silence melt in the air as we walked across the common our love never tiring at all The right-hand circle is titled ‘you’ and the text reads: we should have talked it over but nothing ever seems to get in your fat head. You are so common that I wish we’d never met at all and I’d married Tim instead In the intersection of the poem (where the two circles overlap), the text reads: we have nothing in common at all

The mathematician John Venn was born on this day in 1834. To commemorate the occasion, here’s a poem in the form of a Venn diagram.

For people and planet We are building a future where we do more, faster, to protect our planet and make sure everyone is treated equally.

The Greens' local body guide is out and it's GOOD! 💚

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take a topic people generally understand and have views on, add computers, and suddenly everyone loses their minds.

you keep kids safe online the same way you keep them safe offline. give them appropriate vocabulary and emotional tools and safe places to talk about things they see/experience.

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Yeah, if the incentives to be more racist are both practical (it helps me to amass political power) and psychological (I get the dopamine hit of likes from my supporters and delicious outrage from my enemies), a lot of mildly racist people can become much nastier very quickly.

The idea of a lot of these heteronormative dynamics where like. People have no conversations with members of the "opposite gender" in case their partner surveils the message, and language like "emotional infidelity" to justify cutting off various friendships in work or social spaces is messed up

The way that surveillance behaviours and abusive and controlling behaviours are being re-adjusted and renamed in order to allow coercion in hetero relationships is really fucked up

Terms like "emotional infidelity" and "emotional affair" to justify punishment or invading your partners privacy

Guy Montgomery won the Graham Kennedy Award for Most Popular New Talent for Guy Montgomery's Spelling Bee. {photo with alt text "Guy Montgomery smiling, holding a Logie and speaking into a microphone"} "This is really crazy," Montgomery said. "I am from New Zealand … so I am so sorry to all of your country, but suck it: We got one up on you this time."

From Australia (the Logies). I am glad the show translates enough to receive appreciation there too.

I was shocked to learn how many ppl my age have not done any one sport/art/hobby in their life for minimum 10 yrs w consistency. I hope everyone finds a thing they love enough to keep at for a decade, bc reflecting on it afterwards will instantly demystify skill acquisition + the myth of Talent.

USAID was simultaneously a tool of realpolitik that gave the USA quite a lot of both soft and material power over various places and also, you know, straightforwardly saved lives - that was how it achieved the former, after all. Just turning it off DOGE did is both very stupid and very very evil.

World Athletics’ mandatory genetic test for women athletes is misguided. I should know – I discovered the relevant gene in 1990 World Athletics says its genetic test for women ensures ‘the integrity of women’s sport’ – but science does not support this overly simplistic idea.

Every TERF is like 'birds and bees, it's easy, folks' and (almost) every scientist actually working on questions of sex is like 'oof guys, what can I tell you, I have been working on this question for 52 years, and frankly, I know less and less every year' theconversation.com/world-athlet...

definitive proof that all those miserable spam texts you hate and can’t get rid of aren’t even raising money for the candidates they say they are

shut the entire machine down immediately

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got an email from the Greens earlier with a link to help folks find their local Green MPs to vote for in the local body elections this year, so i thought i'd share here in case anyone needs it #nzpol www.greens.org.nz/local?utm_ca...

Feel like its a bad sign about the health of the republic that Pritzker has to talk about TX Dems like they’re the Polish government-in-exile in London

Also everyone who ever gets impeached was legitimately elected, that's the entire point of the thing

*nodnodnodnodnod*

I feel really strongly about this, and have memories linked to my grandfather about basically the same conversation: www.pillowfort.social/posts/2770874

A fun reminder that a loss of 60,000 jobs in and around academia is ~50% more than all coal mining jobs in the entire country.

Olivier sums up what is problematic about so much disinformation research

so the reason bro thinks this is true is because American HS swimming is in yards and Olympics is in meters lol

there are geniuses among us, and they're not talking to chatgpt about physics

What annoys me about this debate is no one seems to have talked to a petroleum geologist who’s looked at the surveys in the Taranaki basin for the last 50 years. If they had, the issue is more stark: there’s no easily drillable gas fields to drill. Drill baby drill doesn’t work if there’s no gas.

a fun game to play with BLS numbers is to go “that’s stupid, why do they do it that way” and then go find the paper explaining why they do it that way to see if you still think it’s stupid, and if you do, you win

I am like 0 for 19 lifetime at this game

Lot of discussion on how to assess young people going on right now, but if you want an example of how best to teach in an engaging manner then this is a Very Good Read.

Just catching up with last weeks NZ public data releases. Life expectancy at birth for 2022-2024 had the smallest 5 year increase since the 1990s. But it increased, unlike most of the world.

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Also, my interpretation is that there has not been an official way...

NCEA is older than smart phones. Windows XP was released the October before NCEA began its phase-in. I have grown from a 15 year old to a 38 year old since NCEA began.

Lets face it... if you don't understand how NCEA works at this point, you've never cared...

Kriegsmesser are the coolest Medieval/Early Modern sword; they're like if a katana were German. A Krautana, as it were.

Bro, it’s probably nothing but your theme in the score has a very ominous leitmotif. Lots of triads, a couple of crashing minor cords. I don’t want to make a big deal or anything but I couldn’t help but notice it’s really dissonant???

I had to pivot an entire chapter of my thesis because of him closing the academic API lol

The Biden administration had wire and securities fraud charges in motion against Musk for doing this.

Elon Musk bought the election for Donald Trump because doing this, lying about the current and future capabilities of the vehicles he sells, is the foundation of his entire fortune.