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There was a guest on Zitron's podcast that said the Hugging Face debacle is similar to strapping a weedwhacker to a dog. Works great until a squirrel goes by and that's the predictable outcome.

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Toast Conger @toastchanges.com · 19/09/2026

This is like when Americans assert they have the #1 healthcare on the planet and you have to remind them which #1 metrics.

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Toast Conger @toastchanges.com · 19/09/2026

"overreliance on AI" Sure team. Let's just keep letting them do whatever the f* they want with AI.

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Toast Conger @toastchanges.com · 19/09/2026

Before there was AI slop there was accenture slop. This feels very fox + chicken house adjacent.

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Toast Conger @toastchanges.com · 17/09/2026

Oh that's depressing. Every time DrC and I visited California, we'd pop in there. Going to miss the experience.

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Nicolas Hénin @nicolashenin.net · 17/09/2026

Nice campaign by the Norwegian Consumer Council about the declining lifespan of products. Enjoy!

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Toast Conger @toastchanges.com · 17/09/2026

The AIs are not sentient. They are doing what they were programmed to do. The problem is that they were programmed with the same ethical baseline as the idiot savants who created them. In other words, a bunch pathological sociopaths made a machine which is doing illegal, dangerous shit. Surprise!!

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Toast Conger @toastchanges.com · 17/09/2026

Hell I'd like to see all the parties use this. Opportunity: We're fighting for a universal basic income so everyone can eat and be warm in winter. Luxon: Cry me a river. Greens: We're fighting to save our planet and ensure a fair go for all New Zealanders. Luxon: Cry me a river. Writes itself.

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Toast Conger @toastchanges.com · 17/09/2026

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Toast Conger @toastchanges.com · 17/09/2026

Ooo... someone's going to be in trouble

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Dylan Reeve @dylanreeve.com · 15/09/2026

Good thing New Zealand isn't blindly pursuing a massive investment in LNG importation infrastructure... That would be a very stupid and poorly timed decision.

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Toast Conger @toastchanges.com · 15/09/2026

Well. That did not go where I expected.

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Toast Conger @toastchanges.com · 15/09/2026

I wonder if SCOTUS has added 2+2 and realised that if Trump shot them on 5th Avenue as 'part of his official duties as president' there is literally nothing they could do about it because they gave him full immunity.

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Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

This is a compelling argument well worth your consideration. I think that a convention which produced no substantive changes whatsoever would be a colossal failure, and that it would be worth doing as much as possible to prevent the convention process from replicating the Constitution's own flaws.

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Toast Conger @toastchanges.com · 15/09/2026

So don't use any thing that requires electricity or water and oh by the way we're holding the walls together by the skin of our teeth

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Toast Conger @toastchanges.com · 15/09/2026

So sadly, the AI talent agent with whom I was enjoying an increasingly unhinged conversation is definitely a scam. Too bad. Would have loved the job described. Heh.

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Toast Conger @toastchanges.com · 15/09/2026

I think that's what I'll have to do. Now I just have to find a ruler that measures in inches. Lol. This is getting complicated.

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Toast Conger @toastchanges.com · 15/09/2026

I love how difficult it is to get your US passport renewed. Must print the form on 8.5 x 11 inch paper. Where the hell am I going to get that?

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Toast Conger @toastchanges.com · 14/09/2026

Their balls for mincing into dog food. Let's start with that.

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Toast Conger @toastchanges.com · 14/09/2026

Dammit that was my thought. I'm not a huge BL watcher but for these two? Oh sign.me.up.

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Toast Conger @toastchanges.com · 14/09/2026

This times 1000. It's not that this tech isn't dangerous. It is, but virtually entirely because it's so damn literal and in the hands of complete assholes.

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Toast Conger @toastchanges.com · 14/09/2026

Was the prompt some sexual fetish fantasy?

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Toast Conger @toastchanges.com · 14/09/2026

There are hard empirical measures of the political economy that do predict sentiment: trust in govt, social cohesion, intergovernmental stability (e.g. wars, tariffs, etc.), mortality trends. All of these are also predictive of future economic 'hard' metrics.

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Toast Conger @toastchanges.com · 14/09/2026

When economics as a field separated from politics, sociology, social psychology and all of these other fields, it thought it was becoming more scientific. Instead, it became reductionist. People can and do interpret the 'economy' through the lens of more than classical economic metrics.

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