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Hans Versluys 🏳️‍🌈 @hansversluys.bsky.social · 2h

Time for a Kiwi Wall like the Chinese one?

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Hans Versluys 🏳️‍🌈 @hansversluys.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Why aren't all EV cars and trucks covered in solar panels?

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Hans Versluys 🏳️‍🌈 @hansversluys.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

We aren't, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't.

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Hans Versluys 🏳️‍🌈 @hansversluys.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Do you know anyone who lets polls influence how they vote?

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Hans Versluys 🏳️‍🌈 @hansversluys.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

What music made you? Create your own poster here: www.my9albums.com

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Hans Versluys 🏳️‍🌈 @hansversluys.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Luxon declared the Auckland to Wellington sleeper train a white elephant but forgot about the 17 "roads of national significance", which need a whole new taxonomy of colourful pachyderms to describe them. #nzpol

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Dustin A. Chacón @lingdustin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I've heard people make claims that AI would lead to a new Renaissance, but I didn't imagine it'd happen like this:

Screenshot of a Tweet from Pope Leo XIV. It reads:

"In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgen to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity."

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Hans Versluys 🏳️‍🌈 @hansversluys.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I had to research "Butlerian Jihad" because I wasn't sure what Judith Butler gets up to in the Jihad.

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Hans Versluys 🏳️‍🌈 @hansversluys.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

AI regulation: Reform the LLM, with the chatbot giving you the prompt and you write the text. Reform the LLM, with you writing the text and the chatbot guessing the prompt.

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Hans Versluys 🏳️‍🌈 @hansversluys.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

As long as no libertarians are surveilled, they are ok with it.

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Hans Versluys 🏳️‍🌈 @hansversluys.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Like being served by a robot? There is a reason why Guinan, aboard starship Enterprise's Ten-Forward bar, is a living creature.

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Hans Versluys 🏳️‍🌈 @hansversluys.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

What's a woman? Ask a straight man. What's a man? Ask a gay man.

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Remain In Hell Without Despair @daphnelawless.com · 24/09/2026

Repost this to make a tankie or a fascist shit their britches

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 24/09/2026

This may end up being the most consequential story I’ve written, or one of them. “How many AI data centers are actually functional” is the most obvious question of the bubble - and the most important answer to understand what’s going on - yet answering it with any specificity has taken years.

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Hans Versluys 🏳️‍🌈 @hansversluys.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Just close them all. There are enough alternative routes available. Build pedestrian overbridges where needed.

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Hans Versluys 🏳️‍🌈 @hansversluys.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Praying to god will not help you. Tacitus is still correct: they create a desert and call it peace.

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Hans Versluys 🏳️‍🌈 @hansversluys.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

...the concept of emergency response into an oxymoron, a cruel joke perpetrated by an absent, unseen, unheard, off-stage evil power that is invisible, unreasoned, and unexplained. Israel plays the role of an omnipotent, omniscient deity deciding life and death of every creature in its world.

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Hans Versluys 🏳️‍🌈 @hansversluys.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

An emergency response that takes hours to organise in an endless loop (powerfully symbolised in a giant ∞) of permissions applied for, permissions granted, permissions delayed, permissions denied and being sent back to square one by unseen forces (gods?) outside the room turns...

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Hans Versluys 🏳️‍🌈 @hansversluys.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Life is suffering, and God doesn't exist, are the two zoomed-out backdrops of the docu-film The Voice of Hind Rajab, a claustrophobic, despairing and frustrating Greek tragedy stage-play set in the Palestinian Red Crescent Emergency Response Room on the West Bank.

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Feminist Proper Gander @dappergander.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

we've created the million monkeys at a million typewriters and it turns out some people will think the monkeys love them and some people will think the monkeys are God

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The Intactivist Bator 🍉 @nerdybator.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

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Hans Versluys 🏳️‍🌈 @hansversluys.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

The answer to a @catfishing.net clue led to further fruitful and interesting investigations on Wikipedia. If Pope Leo has any commonsense, he should make her a saint. My eternal shame and regret that I have not heard of her earlier.

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Hans Versluys 🏳️‍🌈 @hansversluys.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

"A precocious student who was proficient in Ancient Greek by age 12, as she and her brother André had taught themselves Ancient Greek and used it to speak to each other when they did not want their parents to understand what they were saying."

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Hans Versluys 🏳️‍🌈 @hansversluys.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

That reads as the TU clenching its buttocks.

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Hans Versluys 🏳️‍🌈 @hansversluys.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

We will need a government less beholden to Trump for this to happen. #nzpol

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Hans Versluys 🏳️‍🌈 @hansversluys.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Solar buy back rate should be same as the sell rate.

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Hans Versluys 🏳️‍🌈 @hansversluys.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Shades of the Kremlin declaring Ukraine wanting to join the EU as a hostile act too.

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Hans Versluys 🏳️‍🌈 @hansversluys.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Shades of the Kremlin declaring Ukraine wanting to join the EU as a hostile act too.

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Hans Versluys 🏳️‍🌈 @hansversluys.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

You haven't lived! The Northener from/to Wellington (and Te Huia) take this route too, which is a very nice way for tourists to come into and leave Auckland.

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Hans Versluys 🏳️‍🌈 @hansversluys.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I rode the CRL on Sunday and Monday and was checked each time as soon as I sat down. Considering you can't get through the gates unpaid I thought that was a bit excessive.

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Hans Versluys 🏳️‍🌈 @hansversluys.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

But they sure know who their target audience is.

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Hans Versluys 🏳️‍🌈 @hansversluys.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

The political trend is quite similar in different countries: centre parties lose support to their respective right and left wing competitors. See Denmark, Sweden and the UK, or even France and Spain (and dare we say, New Zealand).

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Hans Versluys 🏳️‍🌈 @hansversluys.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

It's not a happy time to be a politician, so it may be a rational approach by Hipkins.

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Hans Versluys 🏳️‍🌈 @hansversluys.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

James Joyce or Syd Barrett? Or (my guess) cryptic crossword clues? None of those, of course, but language invention between AI agents, which we can observe but hardly comprehend. When it wipes us out we will be able to see but never understand. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

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AI models chatting in ‘surreal’ dialect mixing poetic language and tech bro jargon

Experts air concern over AI lingo redolent of James Joyce’s prose that is creating barriers to monitoring and oversight

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Hans Versluys 🏳️‍🌈 @hansversluys.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Waiheke, with $4.20 95 prices for months, hears the small violins playing.

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Hans Versluys 🏳️‍🌈 @hansversluys.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I even made it back unstabbed to Waiheke on my gold card. Sunday and Monday.

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Hans Versluys 🏳️‍🌈 @hansversluys.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Philosophy will be fun speculating about this.

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