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    Mr Salteena is not quite a gentleman (stephen@microbe.vital.org.nz)'s status on Tuesday, 20-May-2025 06:16:41 JST Mr Salteena is not quite a gentleman Mr Salteena is not quite a gentleman
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    • Adrianna Tan
    @skinnylatte I realise this isn't what you meant, but my very first thought when I read "I don’t even know if it’s a restaurant, really" is that you are striding into someone's home, eating their meal and they then sheepishly accept some money, wondering what the hell is happening.
    In conversation about 18 days ago from microbe.vital.org.nz permalink
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    Mr Salteena is not quite a gentleman (stephen@microbe.vital.org.nz)'s status on Tuesday, 06-May-2025 13:33:27 JST Mr Salteena is not quite a gentleman Mr Salteena is not quite a gentleman
    I like this. CCC using cameras to see where people like to cross a busy road, and then building pedestrian infrastructure in those places: https://letstalk.ccc.govt.nz/ferryroadimprovements
    In conversation about a month ago from microbe.vital.org.nz permalink

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      Ferry Road pedestrian safety improvements
      We have a plan to make it safer for people wanting to cross Ferry Road between Wilsons Road and Aldwins Road. Tell us what you think by 26 May 2025.
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    Mr Salteena is not quite a gentleman (stephen@microbe.vital.org.nz)'s status on Saturday, 26-Apr-2025 20:50:22 JST Mr Salteena is not quite a gentleman Mr Salteena is not quite a gentleman
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    • mhoye
    @mhoye not being shitty about people building things with Excel would be a good start... I would love an "intro to programming" pathway that starts with spreadsheets and formulas because it's actually just functional programming, but with a tool most people in a business computing environment already know and kind of understand. And if they don't like it, at least they'll be better at spreadsheets!
    In conversation about a month ago from microbe.vital.org.nz permalink
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    Mr Salteena is not quite a gentleman (stephen@microbe.vital.org.nz)'s status on Tuesday, 08-Apr-2025 06:02:52 JST Mr Salteena is not quite a gentleman Mr Salteena is not quite a gentleman
    Pretty disturbing to me. Especially read with the report a few days back of how many New Zealanders would be open to a "strong leader" with no democratic accountability.

    And then: "... a quarter of New Zealanders reported sometimes or often going without meals"

    What the fuck? This is a disgrace, a shame, a scandal, a disaster

    https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/thedetail/557455/on-every-dimension-nz-is-falling-behind-the-struggle-for-social-cohesion
    In conversation about 2 months ago from microbe.vital.org.nz permalink

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      'On every dimension, NZ is falling behind': The struggle for 'social cohesion'
      The results of a new report are so poor they even surprised the author.
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    Mr Salteena is not quite a gentleman (stephen@microbe.vital.org.nz)'s status on Tuesday, 18-Mar-2025 13:51:20 JST Mr Salteena is not quite a gentleman Mr Salteena is not quite a gentleman
    Incredible paragraph in this essay by David Marx (of Ametora fame):

    "There is no question that the poptimists won this debate, and by the mid-Aughts, all lingering anxieties about selling out evaporated from youth culture. The Columbia University students who formed Vampire Weekend didn’t have to take day jobs at Accenture, because they could make a decent living composing Honda ditties alongside their catchy odes to generational wealth."

    https://culture.ghost.io/the-age-of-the-double-sell-out/
    In conversation about 3 months ago from microbe.vital.org.nz permalink

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      The Age of the Double Sell-Out
      from @wdavidmarx
      In the last three decades, youth culture has moved from a deep suspicion of commerce to a passionate defense of anti-anti-commerce to an entire generation of "creatives” who leverage the commercial market… to do even more commerce In the 1990s, there was a single ethical principle at the heart of
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    Mr Salteena is not quite a gentleman (stephen@microbe.vital.org.nz)'s status on Monday, 10-Mar-2025 09:23:32 JST Mr Salteena is not quite a gentleman Mr Salteena is not quite a gentleman
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    • Adrianna Tan
    @skinnylatte an unexciting centrist who is a much more competent and experienced politician - if in a coalition with the Greens and Te Pāti Māori, not the worst of options by a long chalk.
    In conversation about 3 months ago from microbe.vital.org.nz permalink
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    Mr Salteena is not quite a gentleman (stephen@microbe.vital.org.nz)'s status on Monday, 10-Mar-2025 09:03:51 JST Mr Salteena is not quite a gentleman Mr Salteena is not quite a gentleman
    OK, I think this is the beginning of the end for Luxon.

    https://www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360608833/poll-shows-labour-ahead-national-hipkins-ahead-luxon-preferred-pm
    In conversation about 3 months ago from microbe.vital.org.nz permalink

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      Stuff
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    Mr Salteena is not quite a gentleman (stephen@microbe.vital.org.nz)'s status on Monday, 03-Mar-2025 06:43:38 JST Mr Salteena is not quite a gentleman Mr Salteena is not quite a gentleman
    Surprisingly detailed and honest, given OneRoof mostly exists for property spruiking.

    https://www.oneroof.co.nz/news/how-did-nz-house-prices-quadruple-in-the-space-of-25-years-47093
    In conversation about 3 months ago from microbe.vital.org.nz permalink

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      How did NZ house prices quadruple in the space of 25 years?
      from Catherine Masters
      A quarter of a century on - what NZ got right and wrong about real estate.
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    Mr Salteena is not quite a gentleman (stephen@microbe.vital.org.nz)'s status on Friday, 17-Jan-2025 04:19:14 JST Mr Salteena is not quite a gentleman Mr Salteena is not quite a gentleman
    • Adrianna Tan
    • T Chu 朱
    @chu @skinnylatte the acidity is mostly to do with the fermentation temperature. Tell your friend to try a warmer, faster ferment maybe with a more liquid starter and see if that helps. But also, cultures change over time depending on what you feed them and the influence of your ambient bugs, so it may actually be different at this point.
    In conversation about 5 months ago from microbe.vital.org.nz permalink
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    Mr Salteena is not quite a gentleman (stephen@microbe.vital.org.nz)'s status on Thursday, 09-Jan-2025 12:35:12 JST Mr Salteena is not quite a gentleman Mr Salteena is not quite a gentleman
    • Ada Palmer
    Very excited to hear about Ada Palmer's (@adapalmer) new book coming out. Sounds very much like my cup of tea https://www.exurbe.com/5966-2/
    In conversation about 5 months ago from microbe.vital.org.nz permalink

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      Inventing the Reniassance (book) coming out!
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    Mr Salteena is not quite a gentleman (stephen@microbe.vital.org.nz)'s status on Friday, 29-Nov-2024 18:09:38 JST Mr Salteena is not quite a gentleman Mr Salteena is not quite a gentleman
    This Fanon quotation is something I try to keep in mind when reading certain claims that might seem a bit overblown:

    "The passion with which native intellectuals defend the existence of their national culture may be a source of amazement; but those who condemn this exaggerated passion are strangely apt to forget that their own psyche and their own selves are conveniently sheltered behind a French or German culture which has given full proof of its existence and which is uncontested.”
    In conversation about 6 months ago from microbe.vital.org.nz permalink
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    Mr Salteena is not quite a gentleman (stephen@microbe.vital.org.nz)'s status on Wednesday, 13-Nov-2024 19:11:16 JST Mr Salteena is not quite a gentleman Mr Salteena is not quite a gentleman
    I like items:
    • One
    • Two
    • Three

    And quotes

    syntax error
    In conversation about 7 months ago from microbe.vital.org.nz permalink
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    Mr Salteena is not quite a gentleman (stephen@microbe.vital.org.nz)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Nov-2024 15:50:14 JST Mr Salteena is not quite a gentleman Mr Salteena is not quite a gentleman
    Two weeks after my prescription sunglasses mysteriously vanished, I have given in and ordered new ones.

    I fear there is a high likelihood they will now turn up from wherever they have been hiding...
    In conversation about 7 months ago from microbe.vital.org.nz permalink
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    Mr Salteena is not quite a gentleman (stephen@microbe.vital.org.nz)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Nov-2024 05:01:54 JST Mr Salteena is not quite a gentleman Mr Salteena is not quite a gentleman
    Research has already shown that when you couple AI with a human judgement test, humans defer to the AI even when they are right and the AI is wrong... so this seems like a bad use of AI in government.

    https://pivot-to-ai.com/2024/11/11/uk-home-office-speeds-up-visa-and-refugee-processing-with-copilot-ai-reject-a-bot/
    In conversation about 7 months ago from microbe.vital.org.nz permalink

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      UK Home Office speeds up visa and refugee processing with Copilot AI reject-a-bot
      Under years of pressure from the right-wing press, the previous and current UK governments have required the Home Office to reduce immigration numbers by any means possible — whether it makes sense…
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    Mr Salteena is not quite a gentleman (stephen@microbe.vital.org.nz)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Nov-2024 05:01:53 JST Mr Salteena is not quite a gentleman Mr Salteena is not quite a gentleman
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    • Mr Salteena is not quite a gentleman
    The research I referred to. The technical term is "automation bias".

    https://www.brainfacts.org/neuroscience-in-society/tech-and-the-brain/2024/why-ai-can-push-you-to-make-the-wrong-decision-at-work-090324
    In conversation about 7 months ago from microbe.vital.org.nz permalink

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      Why AI Can Push You to Make the Wrong Decision at Work
      from Simon Spichak
      Automation bias is the tendency to be less vigilant when a process is automated. But can we effectively check ourselves against AI before making a wrong decision?
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    Mr Salteena is not quite a gentleman (stephen@microbe.vital.org.nz)'s status on Friday, 20-Sep-2024 10:31:09 JST Mr Salteena is not quite a gentleman Mr Salteena is not quite a gentleman
    I became incautious and now I have COVID for the second time. Meh. So far not as bad as last time.
    In conversation about 9 months ago from microbe.vital.org.nz permalink
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    Mr Salteena is not quite a gentleman (stephen@microbe.vital.org.nz)'s status on Tuesday, 11-Jun-2024 12:21:04 JST Mr Salteena is not quite a gentleman Mr Salteena is not quite a gentleman
    • Andrew BoostsWithWildAbandon
    "The very best thing to keep the web partly alive is to maintain some content yourself - start a blog, join a forum and contribute to the conversation, even podcast if that is your thing. But that takes a lot of time and not everyone has the energy or the knowhow to create like this.

    The second best thing to do is to show your support for pages you enjoy by being nice and making a slight effort. There are different levels of Niceness but roughly from least to most effort:

    - Liking or upvoting a URL on a forum or social media that someone else posted.
    - Commenting on a URL somebody else posted saying how much you enjoyed the content.
    - Posting a URL on social media/discord server yourself, suggesting that others might also like to read it.
    - Dropping a quick note of appreciation to the author via email or DM.
    - Actually paying money for the content via Patreon, etc.
    "

    Sound advice on how to keep the web alive by being nice, from @sheephorse here: https://sheep.horse/2024/4/save_the_web_by_being_nice.html
    In conversation about a year ago from microbe.vital.org.nz permalink

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      Save the Web by Being Nice
      from Andrew Stephens
      A common complaint amongst the old guard bloggers is that the old web as we knew it is dying. This is false.The old web has actually been dead for many...
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    Mr Salteena is not quite a gentleman (stephen@microbe.vital.org.nz)'s status on Monday, 20-May-2024 09:54:40 JST Mr Salteena is not quite a gentleman Mr Salteena is not quite a gentleman
    Talked to a very smart person this afternoon who reminded me: climate fatalism ("it's too late") is a soft form of denialism.

    Everything we do from here is worthwhile. It counts, it makes a difference. No matter what damage has been done, we can still make things better than if we had done nothing. We can still look after the world, look after our friends and family. Action has results.
    In conversation about a year ago from microbe.vital.org.nz permalink
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    Mr Salteena is not quite a gentleman (stephen@microbe.vital.org.nz)'s status on Saturday, 04-May-2024 19:43:39 JST Mr Salteena is not quite a gentleman Mr Salteena is not quite a gentleman
    Something I think about on Anzac Day is the traumatising impact of war on all who live through it. What did that do to us as a society, all those damaged men trying to return to normality? What was it like in places where the war was fought and no one was spared seeing it? What is it like right now, wherever there is conflict?
    In conversation about a year ago from microbe.vital.org.nz permalink
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    Mr Salteena is not quite a gentleman (stephen@microbe.vital.org.nz)'s status on Monday, 04-Dec-2023 04:18:43 JST Mr Salteena is not quite a gentleman Mr Salteena is not quite a gentleman
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    • Ames
    @runoutgroover I loved reading this book. Even while I suspect it has a polemic aspect I don't get as an amateur reader, it's a *different* Just So story to current Just So stories.
    In conversation Monday, 04-Dec-2023 04:18:43 JST from microbe.vital.org.nz permalink
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    I am interested in things. Lots of things.I am not quite a gentleman but you would hardly notice it but it cant be helped anyhow. I'm the operator of this tiny service, a researcher, musician, capoeirista, wanna-be flâneur. If you want to know things about me, you can always ask. Meanwhile, why not read https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/TheYoungVisiters

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