Notices by Simon Green (salty@mastodon.nz)

@patrickcmiller I assume a16z will have all their disclaimers in place ready for the first time the AI recommends boiling the baby in acetone or feeding it razor blades and some numbnuts goes ahead and does it.

@cstross @aka_quant_noir And look where that got Ukraine... There may have been a case for them to have kept them and cracked the codes over a year or two to gain full control. OTOH it may not have made any difference and Russia might have still invaded anyway, or even invaded earlier specifically *because* Ukraine was keeping the nukes.

#nerd

You have FOUR DAYS in which to make a submission against the reopening of new exploration and extraction for oil and gas.

FOUR DAYS.

Get to it.

https://www.parliament.nz/en/pb/sc/make-a-submission/document/54SCEDSI_SCF_81DBD590-6E68-48D1-8BE4-08DCDC4C6A57/crown-minerals-amendment-bill

#nzpol

@liztai They're not wrong when they describe it as "aromatic" though

@thomasfuchs @gsuberland @srtcd424 Yep. Of course I can’t too much on my high horse about it given my country just voted out out the govt that banned smoking in favour of a bunch of right wing clown show f***wits who, amongst other things, are repealing it. The new Health ‘Minister’ is a doctor FFS. I hope the licensing council does find a way to deregister him over it.

@thomasfuchs @gsuberland @srtcd424 Me? 48, I definitely remember the days of ubiquitous tobacco smoking.

@gsuberland @srtcd424 @thomasfuchs I think I’d take stale tobacco smoke over vape stench. Smells like someone jizzed on a box of donuts.

@KimSJ @srtcd424 @thomasfuchs Which one is that?

@passenger @KimSJ @srtcd424 @thomasfuchs OIC… I don’t get it…

@passenger @KimSJ @srtcd424 @thomasfuchs Ah. Have you ever watched Fight Club?

@passenger @KimSJ @srtcd424 @thomasfuchs Then you remember that the unnamed narrator turns out to BE Tyler Durden. He had a psychotic break because his job was to decide whether it was cheaper to let his company’s cars kill people and pay out on lawsuits or recall & fix them to save lives.

About 20 years before Tesla built their first car. Or VW diesel engines, or Jeeps that squash you against your garage, or Toyotas with self-removing wheels, etc.

I get it, Musk is a born-rich prick with

@iamkale @mmasnick "I can agree that concept like “de-growth” are generally ridiculous and ignorant..."

What part of the concept that it is physically impossible to have eternal infinite growth on a finite planet is ridiculous and ignorant, Mike?

@babe @lanodan @diffractie like that old dr seuss story “did I ever tell you that tess mceve had 23 pets and named them all peeve?”

@patrickcmiller No, they already have enough info on what sites I use despite me taking reasonable precautions to limit it.

@strypey Orwell *and* Huxley. They were both right, and both wrong. We have telescreens and Big Brother, but we also have soma.