sallyp

I pressed the button, has it reset yet?

"No take, only throw" ass government

It's all very simple, the government
*WANT high unemployment
*DO NOT WANT people on the benefit
*WANT people out of public housing
*DO NOT WANT homeless people
*WANT low wages
*DO NOT WANT people moving to Australia.
It's so straightforward, dunno why anyone has trouble complying

'The invisible unemployed': Too much for a benefit, not enough to make ends meet While the rising number of beneficiaries is plain to see, there is another layer of people struggling.

This is a good piece. I've found myself unable to access any government assistance over the last year and a half, despite being unable to pay my rent or bills several times. The system sucks and needs to be overhauled.

"the precursor to Doing is Saying" is an admirably precise way of explaining why more Dems need to be Saying, loudly, even if they do not currently have the power to Do

This makes me think of the "ai is like having 30 PhDs in your pocket" thing, where a PhD is a relatively large unit of measure, like a kilometer

I'm realising again that the push for more AI data centres is based on a conceptual mistake: they think that "intelligence" is some kind of simple scalar quality, not a categorical threshold. If you get it doing more, that means it's smarter. It's "2 rats are twice as smart as 1 rat" logic.

Raprock is like 50% cryptids

LIVESCIENCE TRENDING Health 'Rectal garlic insertion for immune support': Medical chatbots confidently give disastrously misguided advice, experts say

AI is out there telling people to put garlic in their buttholes. Just thought you'd want to know.

'AI Is African Intelligence': The Workers Who Train AI Are Fighting Back Kenyan workers are still the underpaid labor behind AI training, moderation, and sex chatbots. The Data Labelers Association is fighting back.

I met with AI data labelers in Kenya who are organizing their colleagues to fight the brutal working conditions and horrible pay given to the workers at the "bottom of the AI supply chain." They believe the NDAs they've signed are unenforceable so are speaking out:

www.404media.co/ai-is-africa...

wondering if everyone scooting around in their own personal little bubbles with sealed windows that turn everyone that isn't them into either competition for space or churned-up meat is good for the human brain. it probably is

I have no doubt that the intentions are very good but arriving at work to find a large sign declaring it to be 'Mental Health Prevention Week' gives one the tiniest pause

mcgruff the crime dog on instagram (@mcgruffatncpc) standing next to the text "VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN PLEDGE"

crime dog you gotta find some better wording for this

If, like me, you joined InternetNZ last year to ensure your point of view was not overwhelmed when it came to board election (thanks) and AGM voting, then it's coming up time to renew your membership to continue that mission.

If you didn't join last year, maybe you'd like to this year?

Hell yeah

InternetNZ shouldn’t be the battleground of a ‘free speech’-inspired culture war Why is the members-run not-for-profit that manages the .nz domain the target of a campaign against 'censorship'?

Here's a rundown of the problem from last year. They're trying it again! thespinoff.co.nz/internet/04-...

Time to do it again, folks

Cook Strait ferry out of action with fault Interislander is operating with just one ferry till Sunday due to a fault on the Kaiārahi.

Lol
www.1news.co.nz/2026/03/12/c...

interesting justification being given for accepting significant toxic donation, definitely worth taking note of & remembering this

“just about every party” isnt even factually correct and doing a lot of work to elide which parties didn’t get a large donation

also note “hard to”, ie not impossible…

Lisa Roberts floating like an orb

Yeah apparently the chain's values involve being trash

It's a new dawn, it's a new day, it's a new life, and I'm....

‘Not the Kiwi way’: Auckland business associations call on PM to axe move-on orders In an open letter to Christopher Luxon, the Karangahape Road and Uptown business associations said the orders send the “wrong message about our society”.

Get you some business association managers like Jamey from Karangahape Road, and Brent from Uptown 👏👏👏
And big shout out to the businesses behind them, who support doing what actually works to help those without homes rather than vice signalling.

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

Assigned Firefighter At Birth

Honestly, whomst ushered in this shit? Who put the world on the pathway that lead to this?

I just wanna have a talk to them

how are they bamboozling all the reporters into thinking this is a new kind of thing? Gorillaz, Hatsune Miku, Crazy Frog, Alvin and the Chipmunks

Sidenote: Alvin and the chipmunks have had a hit movie but i ain't seen one from tilly norwood

the most thoroughly vindicated man in hollywood.

trade disputes and conspiracies ✔️

republic subverted over sex hangups ✔️

“sand people” killed, royalty indifferent ✔️

naive idiot casts vote for tyranny ✔️

villains with silly names like “dooku” ✔️

powerful clerical order screwing up ✔️

list goes on