Giovanni Tiso

They're also so expensive in New Zealand. It was one of the first shocks I got when I moved here.

This kind of racism will never get hold in New Zealand — because we hate it when housing prices go down.

football’s all like gimme that coconut i want it it’s beautiful but tennis is all like fuck this stupid lemon i hate it

Yeah that seems kinda quaint in comparison!

What I just realise now is that it was a podcast. The two AI voices were asking each other questions. The absolute fuckery of it all.

Who the fuck is she, indeed.

Kristol is finally invading the Iraq of his own mind.

There also doesn't seem to be a way of persuading Chrome to just read the fucking thing instead. A classic example of the "take it or lump it" approach to selling AI by big tech.

Occasionally when I'm out and about I get Chrome to read me a long article or essay from the web. Today I tried doing that and it launched an AI "summary" consisting of two voices, one male one female, discussing the text badly. It was bone-chilling.

Said biggest discovery, as the joke goes, were of course Rosalind Franklin's notes

Demoted four times, threatened with deportation and faced with grant rejections, 2023 medicine laureate Katalin Karikó's journey to becoming a Nobel Prize laureate was far from smooth.

Or the people who write for the goddamn Nobel Prize Facebook page.

"If OpenAI goes down it'll be the glorious achievement of authors and publishers." There, fixed.

Strong disclaimed: I'm not a scholar of political philosophy or political theorist, just some guy who has read Gramsci a bunch.

GRAMSCI AND THE MODERN PRINCE 10 NOVEMBER, 5:30 PM Trades Hall, 124 Vivian Street It was imprisonment by the fascists that made a philosopher out of Gramsci. In his reading of Machiavelli's _The Prince_ in the _Prison Notebooks_, Gramsci subverts the traditional image of Machiavelli as a theorist of the limits of political action, presenting him instead as a utopian writer and his prince as useful model for thinking of how to organise and direct popular collective will towards revolutionary objectives. We will discuss Gramsci's view of the political party, and most specifically the communist party, as a modern embodiment of Machiavelli's ideal — at the same time an instrument for education of the masses and the reform of society, and a vehicle for attaining cultural hegemony and laying the foundations for a radically new democratic social order. No readings necessary, but there will be copies of Gramsci's work available in person

I'm doing this thing on Monday at Trades Hall in Pōneke. Full blurb in the alt-text.

"Inside you are two bricks". Beautiful work.

Ah, haven't seen that section yet. I'll look out for it.

Oh which one is it? Justine will know them I'm sure.

A frosted glass window onto which the silhouettes of two children and a woman are projected — this is part of a tryptic.

Exposure — the graduate showcase from the university's college of creative arts — is on at the Massey campus in Pōneke. Free entry and, as always, worth the trip. This is a detail from Ana Johnston's beautiful installation, "little bird nestless"

The first two episodes of breaking bad - speaking of how his shows start - were ridiculously good.

I don't know who it was who said that the only thing that happens in season one of better call saul is that jimmy makes some photocopies, but it was accurate and also I loved it for it. When the drug trade made its appearance, I lost most of my interest.

F and M trains will swap routes between Manhattan and Queens starting in December 2025 We're making this change to improve reliability. Here's what you need to know about how your trip may change. New York City Transit

I can’t believe Zohran is transing the trains already

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The temptation to change my name to Pizza Lenin by deed poll remains strong to this day.

My reaction to receiving his first contribution some years ago is akin to when I discovered that Paris Marx is Paris Marx's real name.

An absolute thrill to publish this.

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(With that said, the "us all" in the headline does a lot of work - the profiling is quite obviously racial as explained in the article.)

Perfectly working facial recognition is the scenario of Enemy of the State which I hope we can all agree was a dystopian movie.

Another way of looking at it is that the society that allows for masked thugs to abduct migrants at will probably deserves to be "all in danger". Maybe all of ICE's detainments are wrongful and that is your actual problem.

The first thing was the humble sewing machine spindle.