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81st Column @81stcolumn.bsky.social · 10m

Americans have only herb of Cilantro, apparently.

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prosperglobal.bsky.social @prosperglobal.bsky.social · 21h

NZ student visa: lodge with a conditional offer and get approval in principle first. prosper.lk/post/new-zealand-student…

A smiling young woman sits on a sofa with her passport resting on a laptop, in front of a New Zealand lake print, ready to seek New Zealand student visa approval in principle, with the words "NZ student visa: apply before your offer is final".

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81st Column @81stcolumn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

In which we watch the clock wound back some 70 years or more, to a time when knowledge generation was a rich person's hobby. It seems probable that many subjects will disappear. Presently there is no one train as my successor, and I'm in my 60's.

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81st Column @81stcolumn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Parallel Distributed Processing, Volume 1: Explorations in the Microstructure of Cognition: Foundations - It wasn't all Hinton.....

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81st Column @81stcolumn.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Were I to put it so, this is a look out the window moment for @rnzrss.bsky.social Journalists. How about you analyse the review itself and report on that rather than the soundbite?

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81st Column @81stcolumn.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

That competition already exists between some supermarket brands does not logically lead to the conclusion that restructuring cannot increase competition further. This is a non sequitur existing competition and increased future competition are not mutually exclusive. The review does not address this.

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81st Column @81stcolumn.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

From the report: We don't know what they did in detail but we're gonna guess anyway.

MBIE released only the results and underlying methodology reported by Sense
Partners, with insufficient detail to allow the modelling to be replicated and its
sensitivity to key assumptions explored. Our review is therefore preliminary and
confined to what can be gleaned from the numbers as reported.

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81st Column @81stcolumn.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

There's a reason I call them studnets......

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81st Column @81stcolumn.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The situation has made me hesitant to receive any reviews at all, because I don't have the time to do verification at this level.

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81st Column @81stcolumn.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

"AI Is not for scientific writing" This is going to be a problem. A recent (bad) thesis I graded not only failed to properly justify a set of mediation/moderation hypotheses, but close to 40% of the related citations were incorrect.

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Azure Emerald Empire @azureemeraldempire.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

At the store reading the news

A printed note on a supermarket shelf:

The current shortage of sardines is primarily due to environmental and supply chain factors.
Key Reasons for the Shortage
Environmental Changes: Warmer ocean temperatures have disrupted the plankton supply, which is essential for sardine populations. This has made sardines harder to catch.
Export Restrictions: Morocco, the leading exporter of sardines, has halted frozen sardine exports to protect domestic supplies and stabilize prices.
• Increased Demand: There has been a surge in popularity for canned sardines, leading to higher demand that outpaces supply.
Global Supply Chain Issues: Various logistical challenges have compounded the availability of sardines in stores.

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81st Column @81stcolumn.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

No personal growth whatsoever? Sounds great ;-)

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81st Column @81stcolumn.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Uuggghhhh f*ck. I guess the race is ahead of you.

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81st Column @81stcolumn.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Hey, I may be an awful human being but I'm still here.

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81st Column @81stcolumn.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I should add for context: Boom, boom, boom, boom Esso Blue!

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81st Column @81stcolumn.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Pink don't stink but bloo don't pooh

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81st Column @81stcolumn.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

In that sense, it is a gift in more than one way: not only a gift of language, but also a gift of perspective, inviting us to reconsider our assumptions and broaden our understanding of our relationships with people, place, and knowledge.

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81st Column @81stcolumn.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Personally, as an autistic person who uses concepts such as epistemology in my day-to-day work, takiwaatanga is a powerful word. As a gift from a different worldview, it highlights the importance of seeing, understanding, and engaging with the world through alternative ways of knowing/being.

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81st Column @81stcolumn.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Pineapple removal team has been re-deployed.

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81st Column @81stcolumn.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I'm sure there will be a legion available to argue it's salmon (Just not Canadian).

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81st Column @81stcolumn.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Illusory #undulating pavement Customs St West #Auckland #Photography #Aotearoa #BlueSkyArtShow Our perception is dominated by light & shade. Our eyes eyes have 20x more rods (shade) than cones (colour). The brain processes edges separately to shade, hence the illusion, which is undone by motion.

3:2, #Monochrome, Landscape: A #blackandwhite #street #photograph looking down at a paved sidewalk, shot from a low, oblique angle. The paving stones are laid in straight, rectangular rows, but broad curved bands of light and shadow sweep diagonally across them, creating a striking optical illusion: the flat, straight-edged pavers appear to ripple and undulate, as if the ground itself were bowed or wave-like rather than flat. Fine texture and grain in the stone are picked out clearly by the light, along with visible joint lines and a couple of small drainage grates set into the paving. In the upper right, a pair of legs and feet in dark trousers and shoes are cropped at the top of the frame, mid-stride. Their long shadow stretches diagonally across the pavement toward the lower left, alongside a second, rounder shadow further up the frame suggesting another figure or object just out of view, possibly carrying something overhead. On the right edge, a metal grate or drain cover with fine parallel slats is partially visible, along with a faint reflection in a glossy strip of pavement. The overall effect is stark and graphic, with deep black shadow shapes, bright sunlit stone, and the illusion of a rolling, uneven surface produced entirely by the interplay of light and shade.

#Nikon #nz #Auckland #Photography #Aotearoa #BlueSkyArtShow #Undulating

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81st Column @81stcolumn.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

When overseen and directed appropriately this can be of high value to graduates. But...... If not done well the best you can hope for is to subsidise businesses with cheap dumb labour and the businesses know it. At worst it manages to harm the businesses involved too. After 20+ years I know.

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81st Column @81stcolumn.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Heh, not disputing this, but for a while I couldn't get over the idea of putting a screen next to my ear to make a call.

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81st Column @81stcolumn.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Nah he's already got that hat.

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81st Column @81stcolumn.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

On rare days you might be able to figure out what colour the top of my desk actually is......

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Surprised Cat Stare

ALT: Surprised Cat Stare

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81st Column @81stcolumn.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Oh that I should have such a tidy desk.......

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81st Column @81stcolumn.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Personally, I feel this misses the point. Yes, it may be argued that we are having the same debate. This presumes we are in the same discourse with the same "inevitable" conclusion. What we are not being encouraged to do is explore the ways in which this debate is different and IMHO it is.

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81st Column @81stcolumn.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Ohhhh smell - <walksintorestaurant><smellhits> "We're eating elsewhere thanks"

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81st Column @81stcolumn.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Just putting this out there... Vote early vote often Ruru!

A picture of morepork (Ninox novaeseelandiae) aka Ruru a small brown owl native to Aotearoa. Shot in my suburban yard last year.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morepork

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81st Column @81stcolumn.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

When I was in Sheffield I loved the trams. My flat overlooked one of the lines and I even grew to love the rumble.

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81st Column @81stcolumn.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

The following Summer I unused all my Summer job money to buy a ZX81.

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81st Column @81stcolumn.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I should perhaps explain, I was one of the first if not the first cohort to do computer studies as a secondary qualification (O level). Someone's parent donated half an old Honeywell 6000 to the school. By the time I'd finished we already had an RML308z in the chemistry lab.

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