When oil shortages loom it makes sense to want our country to be more self-reliant. It seems obvious our country should rapidly install solar power and wind turbines at scale. Or does it? What makes sense for a home may not make sense for a country.
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.
I finally got some work to do – a good thing! Or a bad thing? Because the work I do is fundamentally about growing the economy, which I don’t believe in. How do I deal with being compromised?
There’s gold fever in the air in Central Otago as Santana Minerals pushes their gold mining consent forward in the Fast Track application process. Why do we love gold so much?
Should we be polite to large language models like ChatGPT? There are good arguments on both sides of the debate.
Changes to the New Zealand research funding meeting may spell the end of my career but, more importantly, what do they spell for research and science?
When in Japan, where do you put your rubbish, given the complete lack of public bins?
Autumn is right time to extend pa harakeke’s plantings – “Why are you doing this?” a visiting cycle tourist asked. “As reciprocity for being part of the biosphere,” could be my answer.
If you think AI dominating the world might be a problem, have you also thought about the risks created by AI’s need for vast amounts of energy? How much energy does AI need and where will it come from?
