Isaac Freeman

@mementomaori@kind.social Everyone seems to hate daylight saving now. I don't remember anyone ever particularly liking it, but I swear when I was a kid the general attitude was mostly indifferent. I therefore blame neoliberalism. My theory is that so much of our leisure time has been taken away that changing the clock by one hour now legitimately looms as a significant impact on what remains of our own time.

Reflect Orbital: You know what people hate? Daylight saving. But what if there was a way we could take daylight saving and make it so very rich people can selfishly inflict it on you any time they choose? That's the part of daylight saving you hate, right? All doing it together?

Going well. I've already saved one hour of daylight, just today.

@mementomaori@kind.social You need like 80% earnest in your feed or the irony goes rancid.

I am in a big stadium watching adult sporting. This is new.

✅ Motion 6 is sensible. Tracking IPv6 uptake is a good task for InternetNZ. 🤷 Motion 7 seems fine to me. InternetNZ says it will do market research on why people choose and retain .nz domain names, so it seems harmless to require that the results be reported. ❌(ish) Motion 8 would establish a nominating committee. This is probably well-intentioned and a fairly common structure for a community institution, but I don't think the nominators have made a sufficient case explaining what problem it solves. My concern is that such a committee could be hijacked to make recommendations that favour white male conservatives. It feels like trying to solve a political problem with extra rules. I'm open to being persuaded on this by a good case at the AGM, but my inclination is to vote against it. #InternetNZ AGM is 5:30pm, Thursday 13 August. 2/2

The key words “INSHALLAH”, and “IF GOD SO WILLS” in this document WILL be interpreted as described in the Holy Quran, surah Al-Kahf verses 23-24. Inshallah.

@BobLefridge@mastodon.nz People apparently learn history from statues and monuments, so it's important they be regularly updated with the best available scholarship.

@mementomaori@kind.social Making a note not to mess with any of your ancestors.

@mementomaori@kind.social Like, one was Hinenuitepō, and another was presumably a dude who was good enough for Hinenuitepō.

I think it's nice that they made English an official language. Now let's do Samoan. That's the next one.

@nickofnz@mastodon.nz New Zealand making increasingly desperate attempts to have our corruption noticed by Transparency International. @greenpeace@mastodon.social

Also continuing with maths and financial skills and science and PE and such. Just also Reality.

The #InternetNZ AGM is on Thursday evening. Don't forget that you need to register your attendance by 5pm Tuesday (tomorrow)! If you're a member you should have an email with the link. https://internetnz.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_RWLlIEhCTfO0Fp2l2jX9Pw

If women’s clothing had pockets, I estimate that I would be approximately 5% more economically productive, due to the extra time that I currently devote to helping search for misplaced phones, earphones, keys, and purses.

@mementomaori@kind.social First we kill it in our hearts.

@pezmico@mastodon.nz There's a good deal of background work going on to prepare for doing more than bare minimum further along.

@sluttymayo@jorts.horse Hondy doo, Lonk Jonker. I am Minister Sponk from TV's Star Trenk. I do you a raised eyebrow and say Live Lonk and Love. @donni@mastodon.social

@juliaclement@mastodon.nz No problem. It's exactly the kind of problem that InternetNZ can lead on as a civil society organisation, and which private companies have manifestly failed to take seriously all over the world.

@slimhazard@mastodon.world @pluralistic@mamot.fr I'm all for the concept, but I feel the name is an unnecessary negative association. Yes, sewers are great and we should all want them to work, but also they remind people of shit. Most people who hear “sewer socialism” are going to need a whole lot of context to understand that it's supposed to be a good thing.

@mementomaori@kind.social Also idly wondering whether “ahau” derives from “a au” or whether that's just something paakehaa would do because we're not in the habit of articulating vowel sounds clearly. Or both maybe.

@mementomaori@kind.social Good work so far.

@mementomaori@kind.social I should probably check with the other one, but at least 50% of the shareholders in my company think I helped a bit, under the circumstances.

In fairness they did update it about ten minutes later to have some actual aspects of experience to rate.

@colinburgess@mastodon.nz I noped out when it had Trump and Musk in the trailer. Both of them are forced on my attention several times a day, and they make everything worse. @kottke@mastodon.social

@jardo@townwizard.net Yeah, I'm not attending an meetups at the moment. Partly because I'm doing less coding, but also because the opportunity to see good friends is slightly outweighed by the higher chance of sitting through another vibe coding demo.

@grumpasaurus@infosec.exchange I don't think they have that. I mean, I've never heard them talk about it.

Petition for every country to have a designated Example Street that's guaranteed not to exist, like example.com of a 555 number. @c0dedbad@mastodonapp.uk @DrorBedrack@mastodon.social @samuelpepys@mastodon.social

@obtener@mastodon.world Wait… there are Americans who think the Dust Bowl was a natural phenomenon?

@aurynn@cloudisland.nz And a very merry day later to you and yours.

@mementomaori@kind.social Not me though, I'm lovely.

@strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz It did its main job, which was to ensure there'll be no attempts at any meaningful regulation for another 5-10 years.

@HG@beige.party I'm in my early fifties. I can confidently say that I would not get this usage of “elders” from context, and I think if a first-grader explained it to me my first instinct would be that they must have misunderstood. To my mind an elder is an old person, and I don't even qualify myself. It's very unlikely that it would refer to a second-grader. I don't even trust that Mormons are called elders if they're under forty and not wearing a badge. I hope that the opinions of multiple parents would clue me in that some special jargon was in play, but I'd still want to confirm with the teacher. However… that's the problem with early dementia: the pattern becomes apparent even when each isolated incident can still be explained away. You know your mother, and if you're concerned you're probably right.

@byroncclark@mastodon.social Bold to assume that all National cabinet ministers have a higher profile than the top two or three people on a minor party list.

Looks like AI psychosis got Boy George. https://www.theguardian.com/music/2026/jul/27/you-say-genocide-i-say-war-boy-george-releases-pro-israel-song-we-will-dance-again

@LRRRonEarth@beige.party @ndnd@beige.party There is also a potential reading of Godzilla as a powerful nature spirit such as you find in Japanese folk religion. Like a giant Totoro turned monstrous and destructive by humanity's actions. This chimes with the experience of the war years, when an ultranationalist military emperor cult had dominated Japan with an ideology that laid claim to traditional Japanese culture and used it to cause immense suffering and ultimate humiliation.

@grumpasaurus@infosec.exchange Not 100% sure, but I feel like they'd have a less mainstream text.

@jardo@townwizard.net One panino please.

@c0dedbad@mastodonapp.uk Huh. Is there also a Nonesuch Place? If so, I'm going to need a new fake address for testing e-commerce checkouts. @DrorBedrack@mastodon.social @samuelpepys@mastodon.social

@jimkennedy@mas.to It means, of course, here is a song that I am obsessed with and I need to tell everybody. Previous entrants have included _Uptown Top Ranking_ by Althea & Donna, _Moribund the Burgermeister_ by Peter Gabriel, and _We're Not Gonna Take It_ by Twisted Sister.

@strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz It's on our list. We didn't originally plan to do website hosting, but we're hearing that it's something a lot of people need. The work to do is really to articulate which platforms are good for which jobs. I'm personally a fan of Drupal for many jobs, but it has a learning curve that's not going to work for most people. @webworm @disintermedia.net.nz @magnificent@social.magnificent.nz @lightweight@mastodon.nzoss.nz