New Zealand drama After the Party is a hell of a watch, diving into fraught and morally complex spaces, starring Robyn Malcolm in one of the best TV portrayals in recent years. My review for Guardian Australia theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2…

Weirdly - this tweet has been randomly retweeted by bots many times over the last 14 years. Happened again today with the news

POEM there are dogs in polling stations, or sitting outside, waiting for their democratic right to exercise #dogsatpollingstations

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This is a masterclass in photobombing.

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Statement from Scarlett Johansson on the OpenAI situation. Wow:

Stride of New Zealand: ancient ‘walking tree’ wins tree of the year theguardian.com/environment/ar…

From newyorker.com/cartoon/a28545

Today’s Daily Cartoon, by Lynn I. Hsu. #NewYorkerCartoons nyer.cm/XkRtsjM

OPC and UK counterpart ICO - Information Commissioner's Office launch joint investigation into 23andMe breach. priv.gc.ca/en/opc-news/ne…

I wondered what the limit was! Time for a cleanup!

Gosh - I still get a chill when I think of his character’s cold barbarity in Bertolucci’s 1900

Those pesky kids!!! Watch out for scams folks!!

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Someone posted that ChatGPT got the number of “r”s in “strawberry” wrong. So I thought I’d test Meta’s Llama 3.1. It did better. At first …