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  • DaVinci Resolve – How software can find it’s way back

    This video starts as a fairly typical “whale being unseated by minnow” kind of story – but it turns into something more fundamental. It shows how eschewing the software status quo can both return software to it’s social roots and also be fabulously profitable. It is a story about how vertical integration can enable companies…

  • Leftists: Play the game, win the game, destroy the game – IN THAT ORDER

    About 10 or so years ago I was privy to the mechanics of a prominent left-wing party here in NZ. The single thing that stuck out: they were afraid of winning, because that meant they had to be The Man. It is very hard to be The Man when you’re identity is tied up in…

  • Tesla Insiders Admit Self-Driving Is a Complete Disaster

    One erstwhile worker told the publication they wouldn’t ride in a Tesla robotaxi “if you f**king paid me.” https://futurism.com/advanced-transport/tesla-insiders-self-driving-disaster

  • When Peter Thiel and Don Jr. Lose, It’s a Great Week for Humanity

    “Like most bad ideas,” wrote Mitchell Duran for Yahoo Finance, “Enhanced Games was born from a mix of grievance and the belief that, with the right amount of tech, financing, and new-age, untested science, any human being can transcend any and all natural limitations.” Tech and money sure do make a lot of damn winners in this…

  • New Right Wing talking point: Welfare make governments broke

    Here Stephen Miller tries to convince us the paying welfare is somehow making governments broke (obviously ignoring military spending): It turns out that Tony Blair leans on the same shitty neo-lib maths in his latest missive: It is no coincidence that Miller and Blair are trying to convince us to “other” the sick and weak…

  • Tony Blair: Arsonist Fire Fighter

    Blairs treatment as some sort of left-wing voice has mystified me. Even the Wicked Witch of the West saw through him: In 2002, twelve years after Margaret Thatcher left office, she was asked at a dinner what was her greatest achievement. Thatcher replied: “Tony Blair and New Labour. We forced our opponents to change their minds.”…

  • Don’t let the door hit you on the way out

    Good riddance… Why would Citizen Thiel abandon the downunder bosom, swap the land of the hobbits for the land of the Pumas? Is he mad about Rod Drury, one of his referees on his application for citizenship, being awarded New Zealander of the Year before he was? Is he mad about the authorities rejecting his bid to…

  • If Starbucks can’t get AI to work, what makes you think you can run a governement with it?

    The tool, which was deployed across its North American stores, was designed to automate inventory management with the goal of providing accurate real-time information that could help Starbucks address ingredient shortages at its locations.  But according to previous Reuters reporting, the error-prone AI frequently miscounted and mislabeled items, confusing different types of milk and sometimes forgetting to count…

  • This is the sort of tech leadership we need…

    The tech leaders of the 80s were/are problematic (Woz, much less so)… but there was a distinct feeling that improving the human condition was the goal. “You should always try to think different,” he said. “Don’t follow the same steps as a million other people. Think, is there something I can do a little different?”…

  • A hour of delightful chaos

    Exactly 24 hours after Stephen Colbert signed off from “The Late Show” on CBS for the very last time on May 21, 2026, a small community show episode mysteriously appeared on a Michigan Public-Access station without warning—hosted by none other than Stephen Colbert.