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There people are precisely as incompetent as they have always appeared.
This does not appear to have made them less dangerous.
Are there any language-interested economists out there who'd be keen to collaborate on a potential publication? It's fairly short time line, so more than happy to have a chat to check on the feasibility of this idea!
Happy birthday @marinalostetter.bsky.social
I've highly enjoyed Marina's work, both with near to far future SF as well as her fantasy. She's a multimodal talent and her books are (mostly) big, phat, and an excellent way to spend your reading time, or your commute or long drive time.
+1 on this. Need more attention!
(am currently re-reading Michelle West's Essalieyan series and I think it does this staggeringly well)
Great observation! I think this is also reflected, in books which do this most successfully, in the elevated tone of language. It feels slightly stylised while in that context still somehow feeling natural.
Looking at the homepage of all of our news organisations, you'd be excused to think that war is happening on a different planet, and its effects are limited to costly/inconvenient supply chain disruptions. It's like we're not living through history. (See also: muted, cowardly coverage of Gaza.)
It's too bad these tools have gone this way, because I can see some uses for analysis of writing, showing us our habits, for example -- not as a replacement for editing, but because pattern recognition is a thing computers are good at. But "let the computer do what it's good at" is not a money-maker
I've talked about this here before, but my experience as a journalism instructor is that Grammarly makes students' writing worse. This was true even several years ago, pre-GenAI hype. The mushy, even incoherent sentences it created were what caused me to start warning them off it.
The 3 genders
A fun new twist to the Stringer Bell Rule:
Asking a chatbot for legal advice about your crimes also counts as writing them down.
Should be clear I'm not damning with faint praise here; I genuinely really like the series. The reason I mention the first book is the weakest is to make the point that if you liked it well enough (and I did!) every book after it is even better.
Casually queer friendly too, which sadly fewer books than should be in this subgenre are.
Oh cool! These books are a lot of fun; a good midpoint between mainstream fantasy and the nerdier subgenre of progression fantasy/lit RPG.
First book is solid - while also being the weakest in the series. The remaining books are a steady upward trajectory to truly excellent commercial fantasy.
I do not understand how the ABSOLUTELY VOLUNTARY destruction of the original ferry replacement is not a massive political scandal?!
It was a reflexive ideological decision that has disadvantaged the country significantly.
Probably permaculturalists as well.
TFW you failed to adequately rig your cynically-politicised election year inquiry into shit that happened five years ago, so you demand yet another one on top of the other other one that the govt already announced for an October surprise www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360...
If I can get anyone to read some of these they didn't get to back then I see it as a win. Some of these I think are SO good and got hardly any attention. The Lisbeth Campbell is probably the most obscure but any of them tbh. Even Harrow people did *not* get after Gideon. & the Larkwood was SO fun.
Think snr had some dreadful back problems. Thought he was a hell of a bowler - a left armer with sharp inswing is a rare thing - if just 5 ks or so too slow to be truly deadly.
@drdrehistorian.bsky.social This looks like a think you'd be interested in. Shayne O'Connor's kid with 13 wickets in his 4th First Class match. If you click on the video of the wickets, his action quite a lot like his dad; looks to be half a yard faster.
JuCo continues her odd (and welcome!) "I actually do the job of AG well and in good faith" streak here. An eminently qualified, orthodox appointment of the new solicitor-general.
(Anna Adams, latterly of Bankside Chambers, previously of Meredith Connell)
www.beehive.govt.nz/release/new-...
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Crawford jury has a *hell* of a track record.
If you click through the database link in the first post and go through each year you'll see the honour list is similarly (if not quite) as strong; Emma Torz! Maya Deane! Premee Mohamed! Kathleen Jennings! Jenn Lyons! Emily Tesh! Isaac Fellman! Kate Heartfeld! Ruthanna Emrys! Indra Das!
Did you read the Raven Scholar last year? Similar. Great book, bloody long, easy read.
I can lean on my actual experience to yell at everyone that this won't work! You can't identify emerging customer needs by aggregating data from the past! We tried this already with personas and again with big data! This is like the stupid business version of the problem of induction.
Just maybe, despite all of the post-modern critiques of geopolitics as discourse, the physical reality that the Islamic Republic has a lot of cheap drones in mountainous terrain overlooking a 24-mile wide strait through which 20% of the world's oil passes isn't an easily mutable fact
(I'll also note that I did pick that there'd be enough there'd floor-crossers from CPC and NDP to get the Grits to this position the day after the election).
