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Certainly the best science fiction alien contact graphic novel I read last year.

r/analytics • IOh We just found out our AI has been making up analytics data for 3 months and I'm gonna throw up. Support So we've been using an Al agent since November to answer leadership questions about metrics. It seemed amazing at first fast answers, detailed explanations, everyone loved it. I just found out it's been hallucinating numbers this entire time. Our VP of sales made territory decisions based on data that didn't exist. Our CFO showed the board a deck with fake insights. The Al was just inventing plausible sounding percentages. I only caught it by accident when someone asked me to double check something. I started digging, and holy shit, it's bad.

lol this is gonna burst so fucking hard

"All these hundred-year events that happen every few years, something's changed hasn't it?"

Masterful understatement from Waikato man.

www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

I make my work available for free on yokai.com my ebooks are relatively cheap specifically because I love yokai and want to share this culture with the world. So it's all the more infuriating when some charlatan not only steals my content but gets the facts wrong. It undoes so much of my hard work.

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These absolute weirdos and their obsession with the bike lanes they imagine are costing all the money.

Known in the trade as “ReBoot Time!” 🥳

Aka
We have the technology to Frankenstein our Dead Horse! Death is not an excuse to a void the beating!

I don’t usually agree with either of these guys, but…ya think? 🤔🙄 #nzpol #OneTermGovernment #CaputredCoalition

Water, water everywhere.
Can't drink it, can't swim in it, can't survive it.
Remember clean green? Being proud of AoNZ?
We need serious leadership.
Now.
#nzpol

Weather whiplash: Northland soaked with 299% of normal January rain Some of Northland's east coast areas measured six or seven times their usual January rain.

PERFECTLY NORMAL

The horrors persist, but so do we (and the Kākāpō!)

"Kākāpō are almost perfectly calibrated to go extinct... with the population dropping to just 51 in the mid-90s. This breeding season... 170 eggs have been laid so far.

Out of this joy-starved summer, an army of fat parrots will emerge."

Interesting; did my 1st print run last year & the colours came out darker than expected.
I clocked it was cos I’d been looking at the bright computer screen projecting light when colouring in - whereas the print colours are the reflected light of print = but how would you end up with darker colours?

@pearced.bsky.social

Why not spend $2.7b on solar & batteries instead? Govt to pay up to $180m/year or $2.7b over 15 years to lease LNG re-gasification plant, paid for by $15-$30 'levy' per household per year. That $2.7b would build four Benmore Dams worth of electricity

Govt to pay up to $180m/year or $2.7b over 15 years to lease LNG re-gasification plant, paid for by $15-$30 'levy' per household per year. That $2.7b would build four Benmore Dams worth of electricity #nzpol open.substack.com/pub/thekaka/...

Lies are going around about the Greens after Scoop published a bullshit article about Wellington Council not prioritising water management in 2021 when the facts show they invested a record $2.4b

The lies have been spreading fast. The piece was written by NZCPR i.e. the ACT Party affiliated group

We choose to go to the moon, not because it's easy. But because it's easier than Mars.

Salted Heart adventurers ... from 6 years ago?!

@malcolmcraig.bsky.social isn’t quite your area but some what adjacent - maybe of interest

A major win for the ocean ✊✊

An Australian company’s bid to mine the seabed off Aotearoa, New Zealand has been rejected after regulators found it would cause serious harm to marine life, including whales and penguins. 🌊🌊

Amanda Lee Franck Amanda Lee Franck - A Bestiary and Complete World Atlas

if you are working on something for Zine Month & need a little spot art for your zine i have SO MUCH
available here:https://www.patreon.com/cw/ABestiaryandCompleteWorldAtlas
or: comradery.co/amandalee

If Jeff Bezos could afford to spend $75 million on the Melania movie & $500 million for a yacht to sail off to his $55 million wedding to give his wife a $5 million ring, please don't tell me he needed to fire one-third of the Washington Post staff.

Democracy dies in oligarchy.

Who could have foreseen that making a lot of people redundant while doing nothing much to bring the economy back into growth for a whole year would result in high unemployment

It's a mystery for the ages

Government rejects plan to prevent landslides and save hundreds of millions in Gisborne Plan pitched as a model for other regions too.

97% of central govt expenditure was on responding to and recovering from natural disasters, only 3% spent on risk reduction and resilience.

Yet…“the Government cannot commit to providing financial support for the business case at this stage”.

#nzpol

www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3609...

Happy Anniversary to those who celebrate cat attorneys.

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Not a million miles away from the truth; given both creators were given Carte Blanche (/*or spent their own money*) - &so could pretty much anything they wanted!

@coachbilly.bsky.social
@fromthemorgue.bsky.social
No real surprise