Keith Bolland @fretfultexts.club · 2hIs 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. 210
Keith Bolland @fretfultexts.club · 21hI let a chatbot interview me about what I think of chatbots. I had some fun. 100
Keith Bolland @fretfultexts.club · 22/09/2026As 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.nzSenior 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 110
Keith Bolland @fretfultexts.club · 19/09/2026Today 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. 130
Keith Bolland @fretfultexts.club · 15/09/2026I 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. 100
Keith Bolland @fretfultexts.club · 15/09/2026I 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. 130
Keith Bolland @fretfultexts.club · 25/08/2026If we could, Fahrenheit 451-style, each memorise and preserve one tweet from Before, this is the one I’d choose. 030
Keith Bolland @fretfultexts.club · 26/07/2026I 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...en.wikipedia.orgCapacitor plague - Wikipedia 020