Caleb Moses

Imagine one of the kindest humans who ever lived, who had love and compassion in her heart for all of God’s creations alike being asked for her last words and her choice was to point right at you like “I don’t like that guy”

I wonder what it felt like for Elon to be publicly rebuked by Dr Jane Goodall from beyond the grave

Toitū Te Tiriti's Eru Kapa-Kingi rules out starting rival political party after split from Te Pāti Māori The activist hopes the split will spur Te Pāti Māori into creating genuine change from the inside.

hate to say it but people like sina and i who’ve been around more than 5 minutes have been warning about the direction TPM’s been travelling in since at least 2023. it’s a highly divisive party, especially within māori society itself. solidarity with eru www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

All of the rhetoric about people pushing Māori down peoples throats in the media etc leads down this same road

They are, and they're also fun. I think that people don't assign much value to actually knowing which dialect they speak. Consequently most people speak a mish-mash (which is what standard kinda is) and otherwise don't think about it much.

Also it's not like I'm going to be able to cover every dialect, so I'm aware that only some people are going to be interested.

I'm mostly wondering if I'm somehow excluding people by assuming they wouldn't be interested.

I think this is common sense, and also what a fair number of people recommend. But I think that on some level the issue is availability of resources.

There just aren't a lot of dialect level language resources generally, so it makes sense to start with the stuff that's more voluminous.

But I'm going to be using these to learn myself and I don't speak a lot so it actually might be possible to make a resource that would work for most people.

Are you talking about OpenAI or ChatGPT 😂

I feel pretty vindicated fwiw. Not by their paper, but by the present state of the field.

It’s true. If anything it should be considered a big backpedal compared to their previous statements.

Where the separate divisions of ANTIFA landed on the beaches of Normandy on June 6, 1944:

As a kiwi, I approve

D includes the Middle East which is also top tier for desserts

NZ has the best ice cream and with Australia, most of the British baked desserts courtesy of bakery culture and Cambodians.

Vietnamese people can make our baguettes in D-Team.

Playing doom with my vape smoke

I’m picking D for sure. G is my only regret bc of Mexico.

Also someone needs to redo the boundaries so that they at least cover equal surface area.

The myth of sovereign AI: Countries rely on U.S. and Chinese tech As countries pursue self-sufficiency in AI, they risk depending on foreign companies, undermining their independence and their goals.

“States should think very carefully about what they actually want to get out of this before spending hundreds of billions of dollars trying to indigenize the entire AI stack. You still won’t be able to eliminate dependencies and vulnerabilities on foreign states.”

restofworld.org/2025/chinese...

Keep paying taxes, and get used to the idea of getting nothing for that.

Ask not what your country can do for you. Definitely, definitely don’t ask what your country can do for you. I beg you, seriously.

Yeah, I should’ve said “it’ll be Labour’s fault *again*”

I’m on team we need to axe Hipkins while we have the chance, and before he has the chance to throw another election. There’s more than enough people who are unhappy with the current govt. If we lose this election, it’ll be Labour’s fault.

How about in future we don’t trust the multinational corporation to swoop in and save our economy and instead expect it to swoop in, break a bunch of s**t and then bounce, giving money to an Australian company instead just to save face

It’s pretty funny that Amazon rug pulled their data centre plans moments after Luxon tried to take credit for them.

If he kept his mouth shut then he could’ve blamed the rug pull on labour but now he looks like a dunce even though it’s literally not his fault. Amazon predictably doesn’t give a f-

In case anyone is curious, the three bird + plant pictures are credited to Ross Murray and the other two are credited to Iska Montero.

In case anyone thinks the AI art ones look good, I really don’t think they do. I bought these five postcards instead and I quite like them.

It's funny because "bumble kiwi" is exactly the kind of thing that sounds like it was made by a prompt engineer. But when I looked at the line-work closely I could tell it was handmade. Once I saw the human artist on the back I felt vindicated.

A postcard with a hand drawn image of a pou and a tūī with a geyser in the back. It says “Rotorua, New Zealand” on the bottom.

A picture of a pencil drawn “bumble kiwi” on a postcard

The blank back side of a postcard credited to Nick Eggleston

For contrast, here’s some postcards by the same company with human art on them. You can see the back of the cards assign credit to a human.

I guess this means there’s a market for artists who want to launder AI art, unfortunately paying a human for any kind of work sort of defeats the purpose.

An AI generated postcard depicting an image of a kororā. It’s more of an attempt than a depiction.

An AI art postcard image of a Kiwi.

The back side of a postcard, it is copyrighted to “Pikitia”, the postcard company

I noticed today that they’re starting to sell postcards at the magazine shop with AI art on them.

You can tell which because they don’t credit an artist on the back. The irony of using a picture of a native bird to sell AI art is not lost on me.

Labour is not going to win a majority for a very long time for the precise reason that they did very little lasting good of substance the last time it happened.

I’d be afraid of getting a majority if I were them because once they got it there was no way to hide that they didn’t want to do anything.