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Mike Dickison
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Absolutely; we have another teen in our local editor group. She’s welcome to come along.
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My Jeopardy categories would be Wikipedia, natural history of Aotearoa, Sondheim musicals, bird bones, and enough typography to get me into trouble. Ōtautahi, Dr Him
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Mike Dickison
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Absolutely; we have another teen in our local editor group. She’s welcome to come along.
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Paris Marx
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Google’s emissions are up 48% in 5 years. Microsoft’s are up 30% since 2020. Those soaring figures are being driven by mass investments in data centers to power AI tools. Generative AI is a climate disaster and data center expansion must be stopped.
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Mike Dickison
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If anyone in Ōtautahi Christchurch is interested in Wikipedia and becoming a volunteer editor, we're having a meetup on Sunday morning in Tūranga cafe (which also has amazing cheese scones).
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiped...
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Mike Dickison
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It seems to be extremely local; everyone in Wellington knew and loved the memorial, as they drove past it from the airport; out-of-towners were always surprised.
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Mike Dickison
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Oops excuse terrible typos. Thank you for spotlighting this wonderful street art.
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Mike Dickison
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All contained in here (i ised tk lice just down the road) www.museumswellington.org.nz/walking-in-s...
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Mike Dickison
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The classic view from Lake Matheson?
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Gavin Shoebridge
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You might've seen the fabricated 'study' that's doing the rounds this week, claiming that most EV drivers are all desperate to go back to slower, more expensive combustion cars, being tied to the pump. 😂LOL yeah right. Well, here's an actual study done on actual drivers.
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Shiv Ramdas
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the absolute funniest shit about CNN being like "we can't fact check Trump its not what we do" is that after the Rice Truck Debacle incident with my family they were in my inbox(and those of others) running various fact checks and clarifications on that absolutely zero significance event for DAYS
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Mike Dickison
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Working today in the Stewart Library and Archives in the Christchurch Art Gallery, a cosy institution packed with artist files in actual filing cabinets and probably every book on NZ fine art ever written.
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Kingfisher & Wombat
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“Check out a musical instrument with your library card, and reserve one of our recording studios to play in!”
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Mike Dickison
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The best bit about Oodi is the design. It’s a ship with a prow where the floor slopes up, to the point where you can have a lie down and look out over the city.
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Mike Dickison
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I’ve been having these exact conversations with one institution I’ve been working with. Someone told them they could protect themselves with “blockchain”.
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Mike Dickison
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No but easily confused with him.
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Mike Dickison
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This Friday's #CritterOfTheWeek on RNZ is Aotearoa's most toxic animal. It may not be what you had in mind. 📷 Tiffany Kosch CC BY-SA.
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scott⚡️mccloud
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As well-meaning publishers try to navigate the coming storm of state laws against diversity, I hope they'll consider Timothy Snyder's Rule #1 (from his slim book ON TYRANNY).
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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow
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on the one hand, SCOTUS has ignored precedent, taken away rights, consolidated their own power and declared Donald Trump a special boy who can do all the crime he wants, but on the other hand, we must respect our sacred norms
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
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Dr Hu
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the sad part of this is people are still dying with covid and we all move on as though its normal.. no more interventions, no more caring about those most at risk and the continuation of the destruction of our public health system, just sad,
www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
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Idiot/Savant
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"It's a perfect example of how we in government could use AI because the rules around Official Information Act requests are very clear." Um, no. No, no, no. Trained, hard-working public servants frequently manage to get it wrong. And on top of that, there's the public interest test. No.
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Sarah
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Apropos of nothing, if your child needs help researching they can get it from actual information experts by going to AnyQuestions.govt.nz and get help from librarians who will direct them to reliable resources they can use. We should fund more things along this line and not fall back on AI.
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Mike Dickison
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About halfway through I was sort of hoping for some analysis or critique of Collins’s confused claims, e.g. the biggest problem with LLMs is false information, not privacy breaches. Perhaps that will come.
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Mike Dickison
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I’m part of a group using a repurposed classroom to run citizen science workshops in Christchurch’s red zone. If you know an Ōtautahi teen who’s interested in nature and wants to learn some entomology or ecology, one of us is starting an after-school club. Spread the word.
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Sarabeee #ToitūTeTiriti 💚
@sarabeee.bsky.social
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Special.
www.odt.co.nz/news/dunedin...
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Mike Dickison
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Let’s start a petition to replace Judith Collins with ChatGPT, the environmental costs would be outweighed by the mediocre but harmless results. youtu.be/TtVJ4JDM7eM?...
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Mike Dickison
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Also AI diagnostic tools are sexist and racist. medicalxpress.com/news/2024-06...
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Mike Dickison
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“The effect of AI assistance was inconsistent and varied across radiologists, with the performance of some radiologists improving with AI and worsening in others.” hms.harvard.edu/news/does-ai...
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Mike Dickison
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Nooo, AI is bullshit and Collins is deluded and incompetent, but don’t quote the doomsaying AI techbros! They’re equally full of crap! Maybe just point out to at AI can’t teach maths because it doesn’t understand maths and can’t add up properly. www.rnz.co.nz/news/in-dept...
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Jonathan Tonkin
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Waiau River, New Zealand. Current channel vs. historical. That’s a lot of function and biodiversity that’s been gobbled up by centre-pivot irrigators.
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Emma Evans
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It's important to note that Trump tried to order this at least twice we know of during his regime.
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Marie Phillips
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New newsletter! On the joy of learning - take a class mariephillips.beehiiv.com/p/learning-d...
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Colleen Theisen
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UCLA Special Collections has an original illustration as their home page image. I've never seen that before, but I love it and now I am fully converted to Special Collections commissioning original artwork, especially with the sudden appearance of AI art. 📜 www.library.ucla.edu/visit/locati...
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Mike Dickison
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Yes, I picked a bad example with the KM book! But you're right, the assumption seems to be that NZETC holds the copyright for all their digitisations, which doesn't seem defensible.
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Mike Dickison
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20 years ago the understanding of CC licenses and what in the heritage sector you could apply them to was pretty rough and ready – and in some institutions it still is.
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Mike Dickison
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The same goes for OCR/transcription – even if they put a huge amount of work into transcribing and proofreading, an accurate digitisation is still not copyrightable. So I can’t fathom the CC licence.
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Mike Dickison
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No, they’ve not reached the threshold of creativity to do so – if they’re claiming it’s a faithful digitisation. Generally in NZ mere photography/scanning of a work isn’t enough to create a new copyright.
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Mike Dickison
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Hmm, quite a stretch to describe King Penguins are native to NZ; they’re found in the subantarctics and only occasionally wind up in the mainland by mistake.
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Mike Dickison
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Both the work and the typographic copyright had expired when that was digitised. And, yes, we humans in the know can ignore it, but most people and bots will be assuming the NLNZ is authoritative and knows what it’s doing.
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Mike Dickison
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Ordered!
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Mike Dickison
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It’s a shame the NZETC archive will be retaining the incorrectly-applied Creative Commons licenses: for example this letter by Katherine Mansfield’s copyright expired many years ago, but it still has Attribution Share-Alike restrictions. nzetc.victoria.ac.nz/tm/scholarly...
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momo (theythem)
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this is so important every form of media, whether paper, CDROM, flash drive, disk drive, solid state drive, or even cloud storage ALL have known and posted shelf lives. like if there's a CD you burned with music from the Napster days? check in on it, cause there's a REAL GOOD CHANCE it's shot.
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Mike Dickison
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Yes, and there’s very little evidence. Certainly no evidence rodents ever suppressed all regeneration on other Pacific islands to the extent the archaeologists (who are not botanists) propose.
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Phil Garnock-Jones 🇺🇦🎸
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My discussion with a tradie at home: Me: I should tell you, we have a covid patient inside. T: Covid? Is that still a thing? Me: oh yes. There’s still 35 people a week dying from it in NZ. T: oh I don’t trust those statistics. People say they have covid when they don’t. Me: …
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Mike Dickison
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The beaches would have been a giant seal colony (all gone) and the hill slopes full of nesting seabirds (all gone except on a few islets nearby). The island would have supported thousands more than later could survive off dryland agriculture. It’s very disingenuous to say there was no collapse.
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Mike Dickison
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There’s a push to recast Easter Islanders as living in sustainable harmony, but they arrived on a lush Pacific island and in a few generations had completely deforested it, wiping out every land species except for a few insects and turning it into a parched wasteland. www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
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David Hood
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Both the link and card work for me on the laptop with web browser. It did not work for me with the iPhone app until I actually upgraded to the version that supports starter packs (just thought I should spell that out) when I got a "open in Bluesy?" dialog and everything worked.
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Mike Dickison
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Astounding statements from Microsoft’s AI CEO, who says anything on the web can be fed into their plagiarism machine. “Social contract”? I think he means “popular misunderstanding” This is how a 12-year-old views web content, not a grown up tech industry exec. Screw him.
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Mike Dickison
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Weird, the link and the card go to the same place for me internally, and externally it goes to the following: I don’t know what else to do and will just blame BlueSky.
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Mike Dickison
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Done!
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Mike Dickison
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Weird, works fine for me within Bluesky, and resolves to this when I paste it into Firefox: bsky.app/start/did:pl...
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Mike Dickison
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Hmm, it seems to give a link aimed at people outside BlueSky who want to switch.
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