“Where we’ve been able to drive our own vaccination strategies, we’ve done well. That, right there, is the demonstration that success lies in self-determination.” — @TinaNgataPublic e-tangata.co.nz/comment-and-an…

Celebrating Te Reo Māori without honouring Nga Tamatoa wipes out and invisibilizes the hard and lonely fight Maori activists did in the 1970s to put Te Reo Māori and Te Tiriti on the modern political agenda

fuck it. the philosophical reason that people hate NFTs is that they make you reckon with ✨ownership✨ as if it’s some mystical property of the real world and not a bullshit story rich people made up to steal land from peasants

crypto folks take note

A city in the Netherlands? Nope, it’s outside Christchurch hospital. Build safe bike infrastructure and they will come, love your work Ōtautahi. 🤩🚲👏🏻

Radiohead understood the assignment

We've just gone live with Ep 17 of Keywords in Play - our first for 2022! We talk with april about the paper "Off-Peak: An Examination of Ordinary Player Experience" which questions ideas of flow and intensity. podbean.com/media/share/pb… OA paper: dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.114…

the right one is me, the left one is Damian damian 🙃

For example, this in 2009 with Daito Manabe @JGL damian vimeo.com/4706049

Academia is when you work incredibly hard to finally realise that nothing is real, then you must immediately enter into a binding social contract to pretend things are real because someone wants you to fill out a form

Did you know! AI cannot actually “take” anything? They don’t have hands. They can, however, be *given* your job by your boss and manager. It’s true!

been trying to get audiocraft magnet to run on my mac with apple silicon GPU. in the process, I found another fairly substantial MPS bug on pytorch github.com/pytorch/pytorc…