Author: Jane Shearer

Heads in the Sand?

NZ’s government refuses to talk about fuel rationing in the face of the ongoing closure of the Strait of Hormuz, through which 20% of the world’s oil transits. Is this like an ostrich sticking its head in the sand. Do ostriches stick their heads in the sand?

No Yips for Donald

Why does Donald Trump keep referring to the yips, as in “I don’t have the yips about boots on the ground?” Is he worried he might be getting yippy? Or is it just because he loves golf?

Bottom Lines

Without a sewage system a city, or a vessel is…in the shit? Wellington’s sewage situation is anything but rosy. As is the plight of the USS Ford, bobbing of the coast of Iran with barely a head to piss in.

AI and social cohesion

As we hand more person-person tasks off to AI in the name of efficiency, what will the resultant trajectories be for human societies? What weight of human interactions are essential to maintaining social bonds?

Limits to Everything

There are limits to everything, including life, and energy and materials on a finite planet. This week we helped our cat die and I wondered about the sanity of the government’s LNG plant plans.

What is a mukbang?

People like videos way more than words…you could ask why I’m writing a blog rather than vlogging. But do you know what a mukbang is?

Waterloo & Haiku

Is Greenland a route to Trump’s Waterloo? Let’s hope it invokes sufficient masses to unite against him. And, as a diversion from Trump, here’s some haiku inspired by snowy Japan.