David Hood

In Ōtepoti I had a choice of same day times with an online booking last week.

I did contemplate a walk to the Hocken Archive to consult the copy of Helen Leach's recipe index lodged there, but even with a look through papers past I began to get too many epiestemological questions about when is a pie a pie.

As I was flicking through papers past, I did see what might be a history of pies made from curried ingredients, so butter chicken would be a pretty natural progression of that.

There are around 2 million private dwellings in New Zealand, so without quibbling exact finer detail, 200,000 is ballpark 1 home in 10.

Dominion, Volume 33, Issue 178, 23 April

I did also find this very near cousin to a mince and cheese pie in the 1930s- a (tomato and egg and) mince and white sauce pie, though in modern terms I might call it more of a pastaless lasagna (because of the ingredients and layering).

Yes. Yes it is I'm afraid.

While having a look myself, I did find this abomination of a quote "pie" unquote from the 1980s

by the way, all those benign AI bots crawling the internet for for-profit LLMs, yeah it turns out when 9,000 hit your archive catalogue or image database all at once they break the system. This is an emerging sector issue.

The last weeks have literally seen humans labouring to feed the machines...

This is going around again and it is not true. Like every site on the internet, Bluesky uses machine learning to do a first-pass approximation of image classification to detect and label content. They have repeatedly confirmed outside services do not use Bluesky user data to train their models.

AI generated false references.

For a discussion with grad students, I asked ChatGPT for 10 academic papers with summaries on a topic I know well.

6/10 were made up citations that sounded possible (1 by me!).

Of the 4 real papers, the summaries all were over-general and included errors.

The image presents a comparison of the leading causes of death in the United States for 2023 and the media coverage these causes receive from three news outlets: The New York Times, The Washington Post, and Fox News. In the footer, it notes the data sources, indicating that the information is based on media mentions from Media Cloud (2025) and death data from the US CDC (2025) and the Global Terrorism Index, with a clarification that values are normalized to sum to 100%.

Does the news reflect what we die from?

Will do

"What this report says is that flooding will be so common in large parts of Australia, you will not be able to insure.

"You can only insure against unlikely events."

-co-CEO Richard Denniss appearing at the Senate Environment Committee
#auspol @richarddenniss.bsky.social

I agree with every word Zelda Williams says. And this at the end from OpenAI makes me want to go full Ned Ludd. Creators can’t have a blanket opt-out on copyright infringement of their work and have to fill out a form appealing to OpenAI’s mercy every time? Fuck off into the sun

City lawyers tried to ‘silence’ police fraud investigator Carter-Ruck launched campaign against London detective on behalf of $4bn crypto scam, according to court documents

London libel firm Carter-Ruck tried to “silence” a police investigator who had been trying to protect the public from a $4bn crypto scam, new court documents reveal

That said, I am assuming I will be using my lunchbreak on my own time to go and be supportive of the nearest action.

We (assuming you are the same union as me) are not in collective bargaining talks or have serious health and safety concerns about our workplace (and NZ can't legally do general sympathy action).
The government has opened themselves to this day by not settling a whole bunch of contracts.

Yes, I replied to that email with similar thoughts that I have independently expressed directly. Haven't heard any updates yet.

I have talked directly, if informally, to various policy forming people about thinking ahead about future options for what is internal vs. public info, role vs. personal contacts etc.

As someone who has been targeted by the far right, I thought the institution I am linked to's policy being developed in this area wasn't too bad for responding to things that happen, but I have been empathic in my feedback that it needed defensive consideration of what information needs to be public

Ok i need y’all in Ōtepotī to realise that we have one of the best gelato places I’ve been to in the whole country.

Gelato Junky; up on the octy has a vegan lemon meringue that I swear to god is TRANSPORTIVE.

Call it around 3% of all 2.8 million workers (full and part time together)

Carbon offsets fail to cut global heating due to ‘intractable’ systemic problems, study says Analysis of 25 years of evidence shows most schemes are poor quality and fail to lower emissions

“We must stop expecting carbon offsetting to work at scale. […] We have assessed 25 years of evidence and almost everything up until this point has failed.”

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

The fact they jumped straight to AI actors modeled after women when, if I’m not mistaken, male actors are a higher labor cost kind of says it all doesn’t it,

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A key tactic in anti-vaxx, anti-establishment, anti-government, far-right toolkit, when adopted by others invites rapid escalation in political violence that can't be contained to any one in-group. Everyone's risk increases, esp. those most vulnerable already - from left, Maori, minorities, & woman.

When all the politicians they see as on the same "side" (though historically the NZ right of centre has been nowhere near as right some other places) jump off a bridge, the peer pressure to (and acceptance among their peers when doing so) is a hell of a drug.

I remember when a protester punched the co-leader of the Greens in the face.

Hana Maipi-Clarke had her home broken into by a political stalker.

I recall VFF protesting outside Clarke's parents' home while Jacinda was on holiday.

I dont remember hearing about National's concerns back then??

There is certainly a wealth of never before captured data on the transition of this infectious respiratory disease from acute pandemic to ongoing endemic, but I don't think that we fully understand all the waning immunity/ community exposure patterns yet.

Now this, this is an all time low for New Zealand