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ben dafydd gillard

@benchaotica@mastodon.nz

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Abolish police, prisons, borders, and private property. Go on without hope. No self, no will. Hard Determinist. they/them

*avatar description: head of a thin white man, very short grey hair, unshaven, wearing roundish glasses, unsmiling.
*header description: dirty lower surface of an aeroplane wing

105 Followers

44 Following

22 Posts

Joined November 14, 2022

home page:

https://chaos.org.nz

ben dafydd gillard @benchaotica@mastodon.nz

· 2w ago

nzpol

ben dafydd gillard @benchaotica@mastodon.nz

· 2mo ago

Smart glasses with a built in laser that targets the camera in other smart glasses.

ben dafydd gillard @benchaotica@mastodon.nz

· 2mo ago

nzpol, unemployment.

ben dafydd gillard @benchaotica@mastodon.nz

· 4mo ago

From NACTFirst's point of view, so-called AI replacing public service jobs is a win-win: either it can more or less do the work, in which case they are rid of those annoying human workers and their annoying union, or it fails and destroys the public service.

ben dafydd gillard @benchaotica@mastodon.nz

· 2mo ago

Replying to

@ZLabe@fediscience.org that's interesting. That warm year around 1877/78 corresponds with the most extreme El Niño on record.

ben dafydd gillard @benchaotica@mastodon.nz

· 4mo ago

Apparently an Antonov An-124 landed at Auckland yesterday. An uncommon visitor. Blurb says it was private cargo from (or via) Hawaii.

-> youtube video of landing, taxi.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=H9URL9_EKbQ

Antonov An-124 Ruslan has landed at Auckland Airport.

ben dafydd gillard @benchaotica@mastodon.nz

· 4mo ago

Nap after dinner was a tactical success but a strategic failure.

ben dafydd gillard @benchaotica@mastodon.nz

· 4mo ago

The increasing heat in the UK will only be a problem for a few decades. When the AMOC collapses, cold will be the main problem for them.

ben dafydd gillard @benchaotica@mastodon.nz

· 2mo ago

Replying to

@elonjet@mastodon.social does anyone know what is in Eagle, Colorado that's so interesting to Musk? Data centre? Bunker?

ben dafydd gillard @benchaotica@mastodon.nz

· 4mo ago

Re: the "AI Bubble", something to keep in mind is that the so-called AI industry is not a purely commercial endeavour, like tulips or labubus. It's more like the Manhattan Project, or the even more expensive B-29 programme, or the space race, or the arms race. In that sense the financial concerns are not the primary governing influence.

ben dafydd gillard @benchaotica@mastodon.nz

· 6mo ago

Boil water notice issued for parts of Royal Oak, Hillsborough, Mount Roskill and Three Kings. [In Tāmaki Makaurau / Auckland]

Article has link to map of affected streets.

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/591610/boil-water-notice-for-auckland-suburbs-until-further-notice

rnz.co.nz

ben dafydd gillard @benchaotica@mastodon.nz

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@nixCraft@mastodon.social are these human-discovered? Or are they leaks from Claude Mythos?

ben dafydd gillard @benchaotica@mastodon.nz

· 4mo ago

Last night i enjoyed the films "We're All Gonna Die" (road trip, mild sci fi, grief + feels, humour, bees, mild romance) and "Iron Lung" (horror, blood, confined space, bleak, tedium, shouting). Both are on YouTube. Use uBlock Origin to cancel the ads.

ben dafydd gillard @benchaotica@mastodon.nz

· 4mo ago

In a way it's comforting to have normal grotty QBW weather for QBW. Perhaps a little warmer than it used to be though?

ben dafydd gillard @benchaotica@mastodon.nz

· 4mo ago

Eye-opening. Neatly clarifies a range of confusions i had about fascism. Much to think about.

From the blurb: "No direct sci-fi angle here, just a clarification of a widely-held misconception about what Fascists believed, exemplified by an oft-repeated fake quote."

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jwGSKr0tw2M

Corporatism and Fake Mussolini

ben dafydd gillard @benchaotica@mastodon.nz

· 7mo ago

Replying to

@ptoothfish my pet conspiracy theory is that the atmospheric pollution is the true intended purpose of these satellites. A giant unregulated geoengineering scheme under the guise of providing global telecoms.

ben dafydd gillard @benchaotica@mastodon.nz

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@aly as i understand it, the server is getting pummeled by so-called-AI scrapers.

ben dafydd gillard @benchaotica@mastodon.nz

· 6mo ago

Replying to

@nickofnz i think oil is definitely one factor but the various people have various motives. Some want a destabilised middle east. Some want biblical final battles or the return of messiahs. Some such as Trump and Netanyahu want to stay out of prison.

ben dafydd gillard @benchaotica@mastodon.nz

· 6mo ago

Replying to

@elonjet what is he up to? Japan, india, japan again.

ben dafydd gillard @benchaotica@mastodon.nz

· 2w ago

Replying to

@JodiTheEntitled@mastodon.nz occasionally YT shows me something worthwhile, but not reliably. Works best when you align the algorithm by actively going down a rabbit hole. Mastodon has music hash tags where people post tracks on a theme, like #ThursdayFiveList and #JukeboxFridayNight There's at least one music podcast advertising on here with a collaborative track list, #ThePlaylist . Obviously not the same as an algo that suggests music similar to what you listen to, but a way to hear new things.

ben dafydd gillard @benchaotica@mastodon.nz

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@janef0421@mastodon.nz good observation. "The Burnout Society" by Byung-Chul Han. We, citizens of neoliberal societies, have fully internalised the compulsion to work, to use every minute for work or for increasing our productivity in other ways. In authoritarian societies that compulsion was externally applied with propaganda, peer pressure, fear, etc. None of that is necessary now. We are our own overseers.

ben dafydd gillard @benchaotica@mastodon.nz

· 4mo ago

Replying to

@reedmideke@mastodon.social that makes sense, thanks for the extra information.