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Cam Bennett @cambennett.bsky.social · 22h

I work near K road and I cannot overstate the positive impact the CRL appears to be having on it. The streets were semi deserted most days. Theres now a steady stream of people on the street. It’s amazing what decent transit can facilitate.

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Richard Maxwell @joditheentitled.bsky.social · 44m

Hot takes * LLMs are out of Pandora's box. Don't try to put it back in, it's too late. * AI trained on stolen data should be 100% illegal, all work created from it illegal, and confiscated as such. * Peoples likeness belongs to the person and never be given away.

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Richard Maxwell @joditheentitled.bsky.social · 49m

Pay people for their labour, give proper attribution, regulate so that we don't let control of it all go to a select few. Luddite things. I've removed all AI from my personal workflow now, I've tried it out, formed my opinions. Experiment over.

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Richard Maxwell @joditheentitled.bsky.social · 52m

I stopped when I wanted to get stuff out of my head into a picture. I can't draw. Shoving the words into a LLM would probably get me what I want. How would concept artists like this? Cos that's their job. So that's why I feel like I'm a Luddite.

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Richard Maxwell @joditheentitled.bsky.social · 1h

Of course there is nuance, but the internet is bad at that, so I have to lead with the blunt stance first. * Have I tried AI? Yes * Was it useful? Yes * Did I suffer the "inaccurate for my job, but fine for others jobs" fallacy? Yes

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Richard Maxwell @joditheentitled.bsky.social · 1h

What's sad is seeing the easy way that FUD was used to kill it. So many people with genuine concerns that could have been sincerely answered, instead having those weaponised against the effort. Yup, US rules, plus lack of union creation general knowledge made it easy for the bad actors.

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Richard Maxwell @joditheentitled.bsky.social · 1h

Stance on 2026 AI, LLMs, etc Against Unfortunately we are repeating the Luddite timeline all over again en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luddites

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Luddites - Wikipedia

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Richard Maxwell @joditheentitled.bsky.social · 2h

Article showed exactly why that place needed a union. And how union busting can be done by social violence just as much as physical. Oof. Thanks for reposting.

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Richard Maxwell @joditheentitled.bsky.social · 2h

Spoke to lots of students and indies presenting games at nzgdc recently and lots were women, and everyone loved talking UI and UX when I brought it up. The kids are alright. ❤️ Job market though - still brutal. LLMs used, but majority wanted it managed or gone. Voice actor rights are shockingly bad.

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Yamino @yamino.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

At the skatepark this morning, I saw a younger woman hanging back nervously holding on to her skateboard, clearly a newbie who was super intimidated. I waved her over and chatted with her little bit, reminded her that the park is for her too. I've been there before! I love being skate park auntie

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Rachel Parris @rachelparris.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Hey folks. In total honesty my tour is NOT selling well. I’ve sold 30 tickets in a 400 seater in Birmingham, and not much more elsewhere. If you like musical comedy, if you like standup, then please come see my show! And spread the word! The Rachel Parris Songbook tour starts in Nov! Link in bio! 🎶

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sam | リノ 🥊 MIGW @rinoaskyes.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Hello! I'm in Melbourne until Sunday. Looking to connect with Asian-Australian game developers, especially those from Southeast Asian diaspora. Mostly to yap about @seagshowcase.bsky.social 🙏 Reposts appreciated! 🇦🇺

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Jacco Bikker 🎦 @jbikker.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

New in TinyBVH 1.9.1, dev branch: github.com/jbikker/tiny... Initial RDNA3/4 hardware ray tracing support! By Alessandro Salo, Utrecht University. The OpenCL kernel uses intrinsics for ray/tri & ray/aabb intersection, as well as stack management. For primary rays it matches native DXR performance.

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GitHub - jbikker/tinybvh: Header-only dependency-free BVH construction and traversal library.

Header-only dependency-free BVH construction and traversal library. - jbikker/tinybvh

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Dave Kellett @davekellett.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

TODAY'S COMIC: Rise and Grind! www.sheldoncomics.com/comic/rise-a...

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LukHash @lukhash.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Track #6 on new album 🤟💀 lukhash.bandcamp.com/album/neon-a...

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Richard Maxwell @joditheentitled.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Nice to know the ivy is making its home again on the Onewa Rd last bus stop after the shelter was replaced a couple of years ago.

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Oli - something or other @olimnz.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

What has this government been up to? Brad knows. Brad's been keeping a list (over on FB)... #nzpol

Over the last three years, I’ve been keeping a list of the rubbish this Government has done.
Stopped work on Auckland light rail.
Stopped all work on the Lake Onslow renewable battery project.
Disestablish the Ministry for the Environment.
Scrapped the smoke-free law to fund tax cuts.
Scrapped Fair Pay Agreements.
Gave $3 billion in tax cuts to landlords.
Tired to paid himself $52,000 to live in one of his own many properties, on top of his half a million dollar salary.
The so-called party of infrastructure ... cut Cook Strait ferry deal, then paid $8 million for consultants to tell them they need new ships. $700 million wasted in total. Still no ships.
Stopped the Clean Car Discount, after Luxon took an $8,000 discount himself.
Blocked statistical reporting on who does and doesn’t pay their share of tax. Think about that!
Broke its election promise and didn’t scrap the app tax.
Scrapped Three Waters, pushing costs onto ratepayers and increasing rates.
Used $4,150 of taxpayers’ money to pay for his te reo Māori classes after saying, “People in the real world should pay for it themselves.”
Halved the crayfish take for locals, but cut the commercial take by only one-fifth.
Gutted freshwater protections so cruel intensive winter grazing could continue to pollute water ways.
Took $80 million from hospitals.
Cut DOC funding by $125 million.
Scrapped the First Home Grant.
Gave half a million dollars of taxpayers’ money to their mate Bill English to do a "review".
Blew $8 million on consultants for a proposed tunnel under Wellington.
Wasted $4 million on a six-person advisory group to talk about crime and reduce youth offending. They achieved nothing.
Gave big tobacco a $216 million tax cut.
Refused to reinstate Jobs for Nature while unemployment soared.
Reduced the qualifications needed for relief teachers.
Introduced new road tolls.
Deprioritised police responses to mental health and family violence call-outs.
Slashed $107 million a year from school lunches, costing…

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worm @rfksbrainworm.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

If you ever wondered why visible light is those particular wavelengths, it's because life evolved to see in the narrow range where water is transparent

Diagram of absorption of emf by water. There's a gap right that dips in the 500 nm range

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paulinabarry.bsky.social @paulinabarry.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Since the last tui I made sold to a lovely person in Auckland, I thought it was time to paint another one! #tui #nzbirds #handmade #teacup #birdart

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Ryan C. Gordon @icculus.icculus.org · 03/10/2026

Monthly SDL3 patch release 3.4.18 is out: github.com/libsdl-org/S... We're going to start pounding on 3.6.0 now (new features, bug fixes that need larger changes than we can justify in a stable release series, etc).

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Release 3.4.18 · libsdl-org/SDL

This is a stable bugfix release, with the following changes: Fixed crashing at startup if a broken EZFRD64.DLL is installed Fixed a crash at shutdown if X11 IME services restarted during the sessi...

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Nayan Ramachandran @thetrin.blacksky.app · 02/10/2026

The Butlerian Jihad is real.

Pope Leo XIV: In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgent 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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a team of bumblebees @saramchenry.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

bury me in khakis and a lanyard so hell knows an expert is coming

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Benjamin @benjaminschneider.ch · 01/10/2026

just came across this incredible picture of Terry Pratchett

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Richard Maxwell @joditheentitled.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Now that I know the generic slide landing image of all the conference rooms is an AI pic of Auckland the more I hate it.

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✧°･:* izzie *:･°✧ @winterwhe.at · 02/10/2026

in funnier news. new zealand's state owned retail bank is apparently causing controversy by issuing DMCA notices to people making erotic art of their new mascot and also people who makes erotic art that even looks like their new mascot. also they designed her to look like this

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Richard Maxwell @joditheentitled.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

My entergy app profile has my real face on it. Honest!

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Cat Hicks @grimalkina.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I'm obsessed with this distinction being made in this talk because it's a huge pet peeve of mine that we call loads of things "imposter syndrome" that aren't in tech! Drawing attention to external social pressures and getting sabotaged by pushback #monktoberfest

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Vajra Chandrasekera @vajra.me · 30/09/2026

My third novel, HERO COME HOME, officially has a cover! Preorderable from the usual places us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

The cover of my third novel, HERO COME HOME. Four human figures centred, the main image being that of a bearded man looking back over his shoulder (that's Oro, the protagonist), with a circle of symbols behind him. We can see a swan and a key. In the foreground are three people: two women, one with a mysterious marking? scar? who knows!? on her cheek and the other carrying a sword, flanking an older, balding man holding up a pistol. The possibly-scarred woman looks ever so slightly amused, and that is certainly very like her. Everybody else is not happy to be here, or indeed, anywhere

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

You'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)

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Sarah Manvel @cairdiul.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Opportunities in games journalism, which are indeed paid, for a site owned and run by a woman here

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greg @greg.nz · 01/10/2026

jammed a game. it was pretty fun. its very demo, due to wild ambition not even Act 1 of the story is fully complete, but I do really like what we have submitted. seereeh.itch.io/restless-is-...

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Restless is the Night (Demo) by Seereeh, creature124, Aris.omnia

The princesses are hiding something. You have three days to find out why.

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Reina Lim✨ @artofreinav.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Omggg i need to try this! I kept locking my car and forgetting 🤣🤣

Its a twitter post by @dollyqwe1 and someone named @hell_line0 quote tweeting that post.

Original post says,

'Drop a neurodivergent tip below that actually works for you..

Not the stuff they tell you in therapy.
...'

Quote tweet says:

'Make a stupid sound when you unplug the straightener or hot tool. Then you can remember unplugging it cause the vocal stim releases dopamine.

This is a well known Japanese technique called Shisa Kanko and it totally works!!!!'

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Daniel Lemire @lemire.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Parsing compressed JSON at 40 GB/s lemire.me/blog/2026/10/01/parsing-c…

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Simon Kuestenmacher @simongerman600.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

New Zealand superimposed on Japan. 4.9 million people vs 126 million. Source: buff.ly/2ZLxp4e

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zach @extrafabulous.bsky.social · 04/11/2024

www.kickstarter.com/projects/ext...

Man, standing on a cliff in front of a lighthouse: I am a lighthouse keeper
man scrubbing wall of lighthouse: I keep her bricks nice and clean
Man turning off the power to the lighthouse at night: I turn her light off at night so she can sleep
Man cleaning up shipwrecked bodies off the shore in front of lighthouse: I clean her Beach every morning

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Lia @liasae.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The big online archive of weaving documents has scans of La Méthode des Initiales for example, but the drawdowns got seriously damaged by the scan and could use a better version www2.cs.arizona.edu/patterns//we...

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On-Line Digital Archive of Documents on Weaving and Related Topics

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Steenz! @oheysteenz.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I had a conversation w a Lyft driver a few weeks ago that I still think about. I hope this musician, eager to share her art, finds her way to teaching. While the conversation started rocky, Im glad she got an opportunity to talk about her ambitions. Piano teachers are way more valuable than A.I.

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Richard Maxwell @joditheentitled.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Its the point. Part of selling of public stuff to private corps pipeline.

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Elizabeth Bear @matociquala.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

2003: whatever you do, don't source your research from Wikipedia. 2026: Wikipedia is the safest online source to start general research from.

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Martin @tuxedopato.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Horse animation set done 🐴 I can finally have quadruped animation for my reel lol Model: 战双帕弥什/1010浣

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