Not here often - honestly, on social media in general far less these days ( Read more... )

After a Facebook discussion this RNZ article on Microsoft wanting to push AI systems in New Zealand schools, I got into a conversation with a local hydrologist (also Leon's mum) about cloud services and resilience, especially in light of the devastation wrought by Cyclone Gabrielle recently.

Marianne writes:
I'm genuinely curious as to what the ( Read more... )

Another one coming out of messageboard conversations on a local tragic online dating site. Trying to get the tone right for having that conversation with less socially progressive men in a constructive way.

( CW: talking about rape, mention of mass shootings by comparison )

This time I've been playing too much Hardspace: Shipbreaker, a spaceship demolition game set in a dystopian corporate future. So it's a good fit for space bluegrass...

I Am A Man with Constant Splitsaw (Oh Cutter, Where Art Thou?)

I am a man with constant splitsaw
I've been cutting all my days
I bid farewell to another Javelin
The kind where I was born ( Read more... )

So, just for amusement value, I've rewritten my profile on a local dating site. With a little inspiration along the way from Mitchell and Webb and cameos from Taken, Scarfolk and Zombieland.

Remember: REMAIN INDOORS!I have spent most of the last few months of my life huddled in a small, poorly-lit room. Now that this appears to be becoming the ( Read more... )

Today I finally got official paperwork saying this:
Congratulations ( Read more... )

[Originally posted on Dreamwidth a few days ago, but LJ crossposting is apparently b0rked right now ( Read more... )

I spent some time today catching up with someone who I went to primary and intermediate school with. Neither of us fit in especially well, and in a time of "boys will be boys, they get into fights" we both paid a heavy price for that ( Read more... )

This phrase came up again in conversation with a particular friend of mine, so I took the time to try to clarify an issue I see with this kind of "play" in the discourse of the Internet Shouting Factories.
The original principle of the historical role of Devil's Advocate was that extraordinary claims require extraordinary scrutiny, and thus must ( Read more... )

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