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(I know a lot but at a 2024 vintage)

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ngers corporate emissions data

Emissions from Australia's biggest data centre operator are *definitely* growing. Airtrunk is the worst but everyone's on the way up. This isn't projections and possibilities, anymore.

www.crikey.com.au/2026/03/04/a...

Thanks! Really enjoying the show otherwise!

YouTube video by ABC News In-depth The Home Ownership Collapse | Black Swans 2 | If You're Listening

@mattbevan.bsky.social hi, we have been really enjoying Black Swans. Except for 24:53 into this where there is a horrible high pitched noise in the TV clip youtu.be/qr7oj5_o5x8?...

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A book called “teeth are not for biting”

A bite out of a book called “teeth are not for biting”

This library book tells an extra story

A photo taken by a baby who has borrowed a phone. A blue sky with a couple of distinct wispy clouds. The top of a crane. The top of a baby’s head.

Photography by baby

That’s the one

Setting a New Standard for Connected, Patient-Centred Care – Digital Health Association A new partnership between Webtools, Tū Ora Compass Health, and Health Hawke’s Bay is launching Tō Mai—a modern, user-friendly patient portal designed to improve healthcare access. Initially available ...

It’s the PHO one. Mine and Oliver’s GPs have moved to it too www.dha.org.nz/member-news/...

Probably have the same PHO

I don’t think there’s a phrase as elegant. It’s all “making an oblique reference to” or “indirectly referencing” but they’re stripped of the gossipy subtext

Have you also made observations on the ads? There were a lot of life insurance ads when I was there

It also recommends Chris Brown and Drake artist radio??

I don’t know, I feel like they could have been a little more personalised here

6. I’m the Problem - Morgan Wallen (6/37 songs greyed out for explicit language)
7. Hit me hard and soft - Billie Eilish (no explicit language apparently)
8. Best White Noise For Sleeping Baby
(no explicit language)
9. 10 Hours of Continuous Rain Sounds for Sleeping (no explicit language)

For a 1 year old they recommend, in order:
1. Rumours - Fleetwood Mac
2. channel ORANGE - Frank Ocean (9/16 tracks greyed out for explicit language)
3. Blond - Frank Ocean (7/17 tracks greyed out)
4. You’ll be all right kid - Alex Warren (0 grey)
5. Short n sweet - Sabrina Carpenter (7/12 grey)

Just made a Spotify account for the baby so we can play her baby stuff. It’s a special supervised kids account, included her date of birth in 2025, specified that she should not be able to access explicit music.

Guess how many of the 10 albums on the landing page have tracks with explicit language

The tragic loss of lives in NZ flooding events this week are climate change deaths. Media and govt are avoiding the topic.

Leaders and commentators must acknowledge the emerging reality of ordinary summer rainstorms carrying volumes of water akin to tropical cyclones of previous decades.

GitHub - minhealthnz/nzcovidtracer-docs: Information about the technology and architecture of the NZ COVID Tracer app Information about the technology and architecture of the NZ COVID Tracer app - minhealthnz/nzcovidtracer-docs

You know what is still online actually - github.com/minhealthnz/...

I think it might have been eaten by redirects and content migrations. I’ll follow up. It’s a stellar PIA and nobody should miss it

Happy to answer any questions. The PIA is probably the most thorough documentation but I actually can’t find it with a quick google 😟

Let's talk about generative AI, contaminated information, and rhubarb.

Once upon a time, Europe was at war.

Food was scarce, and the government of the quote-unquote United Kingdom looked for alternatives. 1/

At least you’re on the best New World now

More info…
Palestine Solidarity market: www.eventfinda.co.nz/2025/palesti...
Cuba St summer series: www.eventfinda.co.nz/2025/cuba-st...
Christmas in the Quarters: www.eventfinda.co.nz/2025/christm...?

It’s an amazing, lively, sunny day in Cuba St. Christmas in the Quarters in Glover Park, Palestine market on Left Bank, and the street closed off between Ghuznee and Vivian with a delightful craft market on Swan Lane. So good

Data Journalist - BusinessDesk - NZME Join BusinessDesk as a Data Journalist—break market-moving stories, visualise insights, and set the global benchmark for data-driven reporting.

BusinessDesk has a fantastic (and rare) for a data journalist in New Zealand. The Herald and BusinessDesk are separate publications, but whoever is in this role will work with me on projects like Budget day visualisations 1/2

careers.nzme.co.nz/jobs/6697721...

Finding simple recipes online is so dire now. Search results are full of websites that are unusable because they’re so full of ads, and the content often looks AI generated. I can see why it’s appealing to use an AI agent directly for things like this even knowing that it’s what poisoned the well

I saw a Blunt umbrella in a bin on Molesworth St, as a measure of wind strength in Wellington today

Like you experience enough of this regurgitated AI information, and then everything that’s in the same format just feels inherently suspicious, even when it’s not necessarily from AI but from the stuff it’s trained on

I feel like the impact of AI on the information ecosystem is kind of like when you drink too much of a particular liquor, have a horrible time throwing up all night, and then for the rest of your life you can no longer drink it without being viscerally reminded of vomit