michael lascarides

Ooof. That’s Not Good. Thinking of the people who need to quarantine until the 16th.

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Accessibility benefits EVERYONE.

Onion headline: "Standard Deviation Not Enough For Perverted Statistician."

Perfect pairing with…

When your country's collective ability to bullshit on the internet is extensive enough to shape AI slop.

boop

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“We completely blew out the value of a life. I’ve never seen such a high value put on life.”

Rates caps may mean more expensive parking, libraries and pools, mayors say Councils might consider raising fees for things like pools, recreation centres and other community facilities, Wellington mayor Andrew Little says.

Yes that is entirely the point.

Force user-pays on everybody so that the wealthy can have a nice society that the poor aren't able to participate in but have to prop up.

I call my fists Patience and Fortitude because you’re about to read between the lions.

This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥

THE STENCIL.

Not surprised. I know CSS well, and I am hard-pressed to think of a single example of a problem where "describe the desired output in detail" would be quicker than coding my way through. CSS code is already a shorthand for describing layouts!

I just treat any output that comes out of an LLM as if the prompt (no matter what it is) was prefixed with "Tell me a bedtime story about…"

"I'm going to tax the everloving shit out of the rich people who made your life miserable and put every masked thug who broke the law or traitor who wrecked the government for their own profit in prison" I admit is too long for a sign, but at the very least this should be the spirit of the thing.

I would be very curious to know whether the amount of prompting you needed to type was more or less than the resulting code. CSS is not very verbose! I would have strongly preferred to sketch that idea in code rather than trying to explain it in prose.

Some scientist believes this machine is sentient and capable of feeling hope; critics disagree

But but but how did they get those tens of thousands of people there without the dozen or so on-street parking spaces they surely removed?

Whitebait species at risk from declining state of waterways A new freshwater fish report has found 28 percent of species are facing extinction and 32 percent are at risk of becoming threatened.

The most maddening thing about this is that restoring inanga spawning habitat is really easy. Like, the easiest, fastest results I've seen in any project. We've got to stop monitoring towards extinction and actually start spending money on fixing the problems! www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

We're blessed with a good set of critters. (Also I met you briefly once at a conference, so I can probably guess the year you were here, haha!)

Introduce yourself with 5 animals you've seen in the wild:
- Yellow-eyed penguin
- Royal albatross
- Elephant seal
- Orca
- Royal spoonbill

(Also the answer to "tell me where you live with 5 animals you've seen in your neighbourhood")

Hey, anyone who works in a library in Aotearoa Te Waipounamu - there's books mentioned in some of the resource sections at end of chapters. If your library doesn't have already, could be worth suggesting? Support your local trans community + healthcare professionals to be able to offer booklist

There are a few times a year that essentially 10% of the population of Ōtepoti either want to leave or arrive in the city. It would be good for passenger rail to be a competitor to air at those times.

We used to spend time - real, substantive time - on "what does the data mean", "what are we trying to emphasise", "how is it going to be interpreted". But the slop is just... "dear sirmedem have gud ibfrograohic". It's *worse* than any of the bullshit we've ever had.

Justice Committee recommends passing Electoral Amendment Bill with some amendments The bill would prevent same-day enrolments, ban prisoners from voting, and tighten up the rules around treating.

This Bill could invalidate the votes of enough people to swing the next election in favour of the current government for no reason other than that they failed to fill out the correct piece of paper by the "proper" time (as defined by the people who benefit from the rule change).

If I'm spending $100K on a truck it better be a 15-year-old Hilux with $80K in cash on the passenger seat.

I keep a txt file open as a tiny work diary. Month headings, followed by a quick bullet point for each discrete piece of work I delivered or people I collaborated with. Since starting this practice, am amazed how often I forget things I did three weeks ago.

Art Deco entrance to the Cranbrook Academy of Art Library

The Art Deco entrance to the Cranbrook Academy of Art Library
Location: Bloomfield Hills, Michigan

Handing back student work that’s been written by ChatGPT with a 0 followed by the comment “This essay will never stand in authentic wonder before the Beauty of God’s creation.”

What the hell is going on with the new New Zealand school curriculum, and what does it have to do with the Atlas Network? (No, really!)

A thread:

#nzpol #kikorangi

Post your warning label.