Reposted by DangRachael the Spicy Hobbit @rachael-the-hobbit.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Oh, so a woman who works hard all day at the cotton swab factory can't wind down once in a while 1349
Reposted by Dangc0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 01/10/2026You've seen fireworks that look like jellyfish, but what about a jellyfish that looks like fireworks? The E/V Nautilus filmed this rare Halitrephes maasi jellyfish glowing like a firework at a depth of 4,019 feet (1,225 meters) off the coast of Baja California, Mexico. (📷: Ocean Exploration Trust) 8648261465
Dang @danox.bsky.social · 30/09/2026I have a feeling that all AI startups are really just a thin website layered over an offshore outsourcing project. 041
Dang @danox.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Worst possible conclusion www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09...abc.net.auOpenAI breach proves need for more data centres, major parties sayLabor, Coalition agree OpenAI's Medicare breach proves the need for Australia to secure "a seat at the AI table" by rolling out data centres nationally. 000
Reposted by DangPavel @spavel.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Sure, on the one hand Muse doesn't really do anything, but on the other hand it opens up a massive attack surface on literally all your shitarstechnica.comMuse, Meta's extraordinarily privileged AI assistant, has a serious 0-dayA simple ClickFix attack is only one way to completely hijack the new agent. 1217372
Reposted by DangDavid Farrier @davidfarrier.com · 23/09/2026an amazing new project launches today in new zealand: people can report sexual harm, and get matched with others who reported the same person. when you report, you get a lawyer - and lawyer-client privilege. for free. i profile the website, technology, charity, & law firm here: www.webworm.co/tika/webworm.coThis Could Change The Way Victims Get JusticeDavid Farrier's Webworm looks at Alison Mau and Zoë Lawton's Tika: a new way to report sexual harm in Aotearoa, New Zealand. 8350188
Dang @danox.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Better than usual reporting: they are blaming the company openAI for allowing their online tools to be used for hacking. But it still brushes up against assigning personhood to an algorithm run in an unattended loop. www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/1...rnz.co.nzOpenAI hacked Medicare portal, Australia Prime Minister Anthony Albanese saysPrime Minister Anthony Albanese has revealed an AI agent hacked into an Australian Medicare data portal earlier this year. 020
Dang @danox.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Can't make myself care about a ball, who has it or which direction it's going. 010
Dang @danox.bsky.social · 23/09/2026A decade later and I'm still amused by the manosphere's oblivious use of "red pill", a term they use proudly, coined by trans women as an allegory to waking up to the truth about yourself, something they go to great lengths to avoid. 130
Dang @danox.bsky.social · 23/09/2026This kinda feels like they are encouraging people to fly here and go to Waitaki and grab fossilised whale bones from properties 🤔 www.rnz.co.nz/life/lifesty...rnz.co.nzWhich NZ destinations have made the Lonely Planet 2027 list?The two places featured on the list showcase the “best of the quirkiness that New Zealand has to offer”. 110
Dang @danox.bsky.social · 23/09/2026If you really want to get into conspiracy theories, you should focus on the patriarchy as the power structure because whatever theory you come up with, it's probably true. 010
Dang @danox.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Wore my moisture-wicking clothes all day. Now my moisture's all been wicked away. 230
Reposted by DangScarred For Life Books @scarredforlife.bsky.social · 22/09/2026The first episode of WORZEL GUMMIDGE (1979) sees the loveable scarecrow come alive for the first time, and it's directed like a scene from an Italian zombie film. Lucio Fulci would approve! 26447126
Dang @danox.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Technology simply cannot replace humans for human-centric tasks. It just makes our roles more isolated from each other. 110
Dang @danox.bsky.social · 22/09/2026The PCjr version of Alley Cat, my dad brought it home from work on a 3 1/2 inch floppy. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alley_C...en.wikipedia.orgAlley Cat (video game) - Wikipedia 020
Dang @danox.bsky.social · 22/09/2026So now I'm reading this en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debt:_T...en.wikipedia.orgDebt: The First 5,000 Years - Wikipedia 130
Reposted by DangMary Shelly Beans 🎃 🫘 @billhookunion.beanyear.com · 21/09/2026More adventures in how the Food Industry talks with itself about You. Bonus edition: if US consumption ever slows down a little every company will entirely collapse “In households containing at least one person taking weight loss drugs, grocery spending fell 6%,” www.fooddive.com/news/glp-1-d...fooddive.comGLP-1 drugs put $73B in global food value at risk, report findsPepsiCo’s Lay’s is the most exposed food brand, with Doritos, Hershey's, Cheetos, Kellogg's and Reese's also vulnerable, Brand Finance determined. 57325
Dang @danox.bsky.social · 21/09/2026The New Zealand government has a complete absence of regulation around government lobbying. thekaka.substack.com/p/how-nzs-ca...thekaka.substack.comHow NZ’s captured economy is eroding democracy & choking progressLabour wants to structurally separate groceries duopoly; National wants to break up Foodstuffs; But will either actually happen? It’ll be hard without lobbyist & donor reform; NZ First loves vitamins 000
Reposted by DangJo 🦇🕸🕷 @shesquiteadelight.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Not to brag, but i can count my farts without smart underwear. I'm on 6 today. 7397
Dang @danox.bsky.social · 21/09/2026I'm used to being the coolest person in the company that I work for, but now I work in a company entirely comprised of cool people and I don't know who I am anymore. 020
Reposted by DangAndrew @openpolicy.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Thread for those who are concerned about the state of democracy in Aotearoa. The MoJ quietly slipped out a paper on how they propose to constrain a review of the #OIA. They will focus on restricting what is official information and making withholding grounds easier for agencies to cite. #nzpol 12217
Dang @danox.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Physical media is better than streaming www.rnz.co.nz/life/screens...rnz.co.nzThe viewers ditching streaming 'rot' in favour of DVDsA survey suggests streaming subscription numbers are down, and film critic Dan Slevin reckons “we’re starting to realise the rot of it”. 010
Dang @danox.bsky.social · 20/09/2026We'd like to tighten regulations around government lobbying, but the lobbyists are really against it. 000
Dang @danox.bsky.social · 20/09/2026I remember hearing about this kind of thing in the early 2000's and chalked it up to Americans. Then I lived in the USA and discovered that most people there are quite normal and this really is as fucking weird as it sounded. Cool to see that the creepy Jesus freaks are running the country now. 131
Dang @danox.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Star Treks voyager and enterprise both feature highly intelligent, emotionally stunted, bodysuit-wearing women who are sexually unavailable yet deeply horny and have a very close relationship to the ship's captain. 330
Dang @danox.bsky.social · 19/09/2026the third season of Star Trek: Enterprise is great! Love the spacial anomalies, aggressive insectoids, horniness and scott bacula's eyebrows used in anger. 221
Dang @danox.bsky.social · 19/09/2026So, I have a claude code subscription, and I get emails from them. The big features they are touting are things like being able to start a session on your phone, then pick it up later on your computer. This is just Saas stuff. There's no significant improvement in the "intelligence" of the product. 100
Reposted by DangCity Rhymez @cityrhymez.bsky.social · 22/06/2026Kim Gordon skateboarding in front of Spinhead Studios during Sonic Youth's recording of "Made In USA." (1986) photo by Dave Markey #Photography #DaveMarkey #SonicYouth 3929
Dang @danox.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Why would we, in the southern hemisphere, join a union on the other side of the world? We should invest in the south pacific and strengthen our Polynesian neighbours. 110
Reposted by DangNBC News @nbcnews.com · 17/09/2026The new wild cat species is about the size of a domestic kitten and lives in Bolivia.nbcnews.toNew wild cat species is identified for first time in 100 years, researchers sayA type of tiger cat, the animal is smaller than a house cat, slender and spotted. It lives in the Bolivian cloud forest. 13156461873
Dang @danox.bsky.social · 17/09/2026If you build some crappy software that runs commands on a computer and then give it access to a bunch of computers, it's going to do some crappy things on those computers. This should be the narrative, instead the narrative is: the God slave we created is powerful and evil, we need more money! 010
Reposted by DangNBC News @nbcnews.com · 16/09/2026A New Hampshire man took advantage of his library's "fine freeze" by returning a magazine from 1894 that was 48,220 days overdue, avoiding a $12,055 fine.nbcnews.toMagazine from 1894 is finally returned to New Hampshire public library“I honestly thought it was going to be from the 1980s, ’90s or 2000s. But then he pulled this out, and I was like, ‘Ooo, tell me more!’” librarian Jennifer Needham said. 4306
Dang @danox.bsky.social · 15/09/2026youtu.be/aK2nLNiFEAQ?...youtu.beHow modern fascism works | End Times Fascism | Naomi Klein and Astra TaylorYouTube video by Naomi Klein 010
Dang @danox.bsky.social · 15/09/2026There's products out there, but how many of them might kill all humans? My product has a 10% chance of ending all life as we know it, it's really that good! Investors, line up. 110
Dang @danox.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Started using Duck Duck Go for work and I love how it will actually search stack overflow and give me useful results. You know, like Google used to do. 020
Dang @danox.bsky.social · 12/09/2026This is not great thedreydossier.substack.com/p/the-nation...thedreydossier.substack.comThe National ID Nobody Voted ForTwenty-five years ago today, the United States entered the most frightened period in its modern history, and Americans who had spent the previous decade watching the internet pull more of their lives ... 000
Dang @danox.bsky.social · 12/09/2026I love that the progression of music through my life has always tended towards less rules. 010
Reposted by DangAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11/09/2026Trump: "Please right your right hand. I pledge to the greatest president in the history of the United States. That loves us so much he can't even breath. That I will go out with my family, my friends, I'll do it any way - I don't care if I'm registered or not, I'm going to try to cheat like hell..." 130252302018
Dang @danox.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Growing out my pubes, since that's the only hair on my body that hasn't gone grey. No one will mistake me for an old man now! 030
Reposted by DangImani Gandy @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 10/09/2026It's always a good time to share this. 9247871577
Reposted by DangScarred For Life Books @scarredforlife.bsky.social · 10/09/2026HAMMER HOUSE OF HORROR: THE HOUSE THAT BLED TO DEATH (1980) Aired a week after The Housing Act 1980 became law, this homage to The Amityville Horror, about a couple with an obsessive attitude to home ownership, featured one of the most iconic horror scenes of the decade... 8485
Dang @danox.bsky.social · 10/09/2026youtu.be/J---aiyznGQ?...youtu.beKeyboard Cat! - THE ORIGINAL!YouTube video by Keyboard Cat! 110
Dang @danox.bsky.social · 10/09/2026ACT is trying to push this idea of "originalism", which seems lifted from the USA. all decisions around law must be made in accordance with the original intent of the law. whoever has control over current narratives can argue about what that intent actually was. www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...rnz.co.nzACT sets out plan to wind up Waitangi TribunalThe ACT Party wants to wind up the Waitangi Tribunal, saying its contemporary inquiries have become increasingly ideological and expansive. 100
Dang @danox.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Kamasi Washington makes music that really helps me write code. 010
Reposted by DangDr Craig R McClain @drcraigmc.bsky.social · 25/08/2026A giant clam can top 200 kg and live over a century, but it barely feeds. It farms algae in its colorful mantle, living on the sugar they make in sunlight. Its blue-green cells act like lenses, aiming light at the captive gardens inside. Sunlight built this giant. 🧪 #HowToBuildAGiant #marinelife 621658
Dang @danox.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Extremely misleading headline. This article is a pro-executive apology piece. They don't quote a single person in favour of income caps. 100
Dang @danox.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Is it possible to get non-branded Activewear? I can't figure this out. 110
Dang @danox.bsky.social · 08/09/2026I'm don't hate LLM technology. But here are some related things I think should not exist: - late capitalism - technology being used to disempower humans - fraudulent CEOs - collective mania fuelled by immoral media - corporate consolidation and monopoly power - billionaires 141
