Dan
@danxduran
🎵 Anecdata - - music by a human about what it feels to be at threat of being replaced by a robot - digital news editor at RNZ
Turns out I really suck at this game I bought today with my birthday voucher money
Working on a little project and revisiting so many 'sweet summer child' vibed headlines
All of the hundreds of millions of dollars (and time) spent on probes and investigations and commissions of inquiry into NZ's response to Covid-19 could have been replaced by these few paragraphs on Wikipedia
Annoyed I spent so much of my younger years listening to second-rate Britpop when this existed, but I had no idea it even existed until relatively recently
Ham Awards on the TV news? I assume this guy won, since he's always way over the limit
A water mains has burst on our street, Watercare ain't answering the phone and the council says there's nothing they can do, lol
Being a film student at the turn of the millennium really paid off today, 1 July, 2026 5/5
Tonight's 1 News story about the immigration upgrade for some bizarre reason included a few seconds of the title sequence from a later-season episode of Person of Interest (spotted by @tariqa.bsky.social)
Reading a really good book which explains so much more about r recent history of AI tech than you'll ever see on Bluesky, but did not expect a literal Dr Evil quote 😂
Also pour one out for the t-shirt that contributed the x in my username, 1996-2026. Time to join the big UFO convention in the sky
OK, who the hell is in charge of building my Great Wall in this game? I have questions
Smokin' weed, smokin' whizz Doin' coke, drinkin' beers Drinkin' beers, beers, beers Rollin' fatties, smokin' blunts Who smokes the blunts? We smoke the blunts Rollin' blunts and smokin'
Good read so far though. It was published early last year which means it might be a little out of date already, such is the pace of development, but there's a lot of interesting 20th century history in here too
Pretty weird how one of the albums of the 1960s was actually recorded in the 1980s