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.
Author: Jane Shearer
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?
E-biking & AI – what’s the link?
E-biking and AI – both allow you to do things more easily and faster. Is this good, leading to more productivity? Or is the inherent work we are handing off essential to training ourselves?
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.
Overton Windows
Is Trump smashing Overton Windows, in his attack on general world order, including proposing to take over Greenland? And what is an Overton Window?
Barrels of oil
Chris looking at a ‘nodding donkey’ in Utah – a pump used to bring oil to the surface on land I felt […]
Kakapo and Grommets
When do you have to choose between saving a kakapo and inserting a grommet in a child’s ear? When you are a government.
Xmas Rituals
We all have our rituals for events like Xmas, even people who don’t think they have any…