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Keith Bolland

@fretfultexts.club
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Left-justified and ancient. Seldom extant.

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Keith Bolland @fretfultexts.club · 2h
Is this stupid government the most anti-growth government Aotearoa has ever seen? I feel like it might be. Oh, they say the words, but the purpose of a system is what it does, and what this one does is constantly kick the economy in the guts for asinine ideological reasons.
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Keith Bolland @fretfultexts.club · 21h
I let a chatbot interview me about what I think of chatbots. I had some fun.
[A screenshot of text:] As for work—LLMs have the potential to make people significantly more productive at Graeberian bullshit jobs, but, again, that is an indication that the jobs are fundamentally bullshit and shouldn’t exist. This is the original sin of contemporary AI culture: most of the things it is focused on improving are social poisons that should be abolished.
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Keith Bolland @fretfultexts.club · 22/09/2026
An intentionally poorly edited version of a TV screengrab showing Pat Robertson praying. The caption from the broadcast reads “JESUS, I SEE WHAT YOU’VE DONE FOR OTHER PEOPLE, AND I WANT THAT FOR ME.” “JESUS” has been crossed out and “Nicky” written above it, and “ME.” has been crossed out with “Jordan Williams” written next to it.
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Keith Bolland @fretfultexts.club · 22/09/2026
As always with a good scandal, what’s remarkable here isn’t that this happened, but that someone was incautious enough to say the quiet part loud and near a recording device. www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
rnz.co.nz
Senior official appearing to try hide information being taken 'very seriously'
This story has been updated to clarify the Public Service Commissioner is not investigating the matter
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Keith Bolland @fretfultexts.club · 19/09/2026
Today I heard someone retell a garbled version of Borges‘ ‘Del rigor en la ciencia’ (also known as The Map Story) and attribute it to Yuval Noah Hariri, and I can’t convey what a sense of absolute revulsion this brought up in me.
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Keith Bolland @fretfultexts.club · 15/09/2026
I was reading some terrible LLM-extruded prose—staccato assertions, wanton conjunction abuse, words used without reference to meaning—and I realised that what its style was reminding me of was the infamous Shingy lightbulbs video.
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Keith Bolland @fretfultexts.club · 15/09/2026
I still don’t like Wayne Brown, but it has been quite satisfying to watch him discover that the right-wing forces he once treated as his natural constituency are, in fact, mindless wreckers who will wreck his shit as gladly as a more progressive mayor’s.
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Keith Bolland @fretfultexts.club · 25/08/2026
If we could, Fahrenheit 451-style, each memorise and preserve one tweet from Before, this is the one I’d choose.
Screenshot of a tweet by @robdubbin:

MY MAN: (comes home)
ME: (nervous) how was the store
MY MAN: fine
ME: oh thank g —
MY MAN: ran into jolene
ME: oh no
MY MAN: she mentioned you left kind of an intense voicemail

12:50 AM • Jul 29, 2019
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Keith Bolland @fretfultexts.club · 26/07/2026
I was today years old when I learned about the Capacitor Plague, fascinating not just as a supply chain-induced failure but also because the piece of tech that failed was stolen not once but twice during its journey to the supply chain: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacit...
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Capacitor plague - Wikipedia
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