mastodon 4.6.8electronically-mediated musings at the intersection of finance; I’m in Aotearoa NZ and mostly take photos of native plants, insects, and birds. #iNaturalist #Nature #birds #radio #NZpol (alas) #pf2050 #solar
Dear #LazyWeb (especially in Aotearoa New Zealand) :
Does anyone have the link to the research about how air filters in classrooms increases academic performance
and the air quality standards for classrooms (eg, network CO2 sensors). I've found some PDFs for this but not really a good overview, and they all seem to be optional and not mandatory.
Do I trust my UPS batteries enough that I can whip out the cable, add a ESPhome plug, and plug them back in again without causing them to keel over?
My attempt to capture the #TinyBalancingSheep
Behind him is is a valley with a tomo.
Chatting to the postie. He says he's delivering a lot of passports recently for people who are moving overseas.
Remember, you can still vote the NAct coalition out from overseas.
Blame & The Pedge
Avalon
Solar subsidy better value than winter payment
An energy hardship researcher at Otago University is suggesting repurposing the winter energy payment and putting that money towards solar subsidies for households. Senior research fellow Kimberley O'Sullivan says because the price of power has increased so much in recent years, the winter payment covers less and less heating. She says switching the half a billion dollars the Government spends on the programme to #solar ...
Just noticed my EV has exceeded 100,000km driven. Huzzah!
At my typical driving efficiency that works out to a consumption of …
🔋 15.15MWh (mega-Watt hours)
⛽️ 0 litres petrol
🛞 8 tyres
At this year’s average of 50g CO₂ / kWh that works out to 7,575kg of CO₂
For some reason turned on the radio news at 5am this morning and it was pretty close to my Mastodon feed:
* US doing something goddamn stupid and hurting their trade partners
* AI hurting the environment
* National Coalition doing something mad (probably damaging the Treaty or punishing beneficiaries -- I had tuned out by that point)
Add a train and it'd be just about done!
How a Few Hundred Dollars Could Manipulate Election Prediction Markets
Touted as a truth serum for political forecasting, they’re vulnerable to distortion, sometimes at surprisingly low cost.
By Liam Vaughan
… The odds fell back as switched-on traders hoovered up “no” contracts in response, but the following day Polymarket still gave Mahan a 36% chance of replacing Gavin Newsom. Traditional polls had him around 4%.
Complained to the ombudsman because the Ministers for Energy are playing musical chairs instead of responding to my OIA request.
Read a very interesting presentation from Contact Energy regarding their aspirations, trying to drum up interest from investors.
Starts off with a lovely photo of their new battery electric storage system at Glenbrook.
This slide poked me in the eye. Left hand column. One of these projected numbers is not like the others. It’s double its peers, and it’s a new company with nothing built. That makes me think it’s bullshit.
Met Police's Palantir deployment has its own officers watching their backs
> “we were never informed that the upgrade would include the deployment of Palantir's artificial intelligence. This continuous 24/7 geo-location tracking is highly intrusive and risks monitoring officers when they are off duty, on rest days, or at home. This presumption of wrongdoing and attack on officer's personal lives is unacceptable."
Well said! It is highly intrusive! I agree! Ban it!
https://www.theregister.com/2026/04/30/met_police_palantir_deployment_cop_probe/
Automated transcriptions on YouTube are getting worse.
bass guitar strum -> "Heat" (??!!)
tap on a cymbal -> "[Applause]"
Interesting.
Heat. Heat. Heat. [Applause] Heat.
Marcus Intalex
Deep Stepper
Are you doing enough to protect local wildlife from your cat?
A while back I made some edits to a map on OpenStreetMap, mainly correcting some hut details and direction that streams were flowing (downhill, typically).
How can I find *my* changesets? Is there a filter for that? There are recent changesets in this area but I can't find a way to just get mine.
https://www.openstreetmap.org/history#map=13/-37.76949/175.92939
Found it:
Top Right > My Profile > My Edits
https ://www.openstreetmap.org/user//history
