@gnat

Banjo, host of Kiwi Foo, CTO of a 35-person software company, built the first website in New Zealand last millennium. @gnat@mastodon.social

 Ti Point, New Zealand
nathan.torkington.com/
Joined March 2007
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Nat Torkington retweeted
Richard Easther@REasther14 May 2024
So, ChatGPT is not a dirty minded teenager, but it is a nerd... Here are the results of asking it to choose a random number between 1 and 100.
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oakleigh 🫡@oaklleiigh17 Apr 2024
every time courtney love is making the news again i am reminded of the fact she was expelled from my high school in nelson new zealand
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People will budget $2k for flowers at their wedding and then try to find a string quartet for $100/hour. FOH
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Music careers are crazy because people will look you straight in the eye and offer you $30/hour for a bespoke, professional level performance where you provide all transportation and gear
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oakleigh 🫡@oaklleiigh18 Sep 2023
just left work an hour and a half after i finish. still have a million things to do. now i gotta go home and cook dinner. why couldn’t my parents have had safer sex
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In an effort to bring you the most authentic sounding version of ‘Horse Power’ as possible the concerts will be mixed on this laptop using ProTools 5.2 with D-Verb all the way. TRUE DIGITAL VINTAGE.
Lukasz Pawel Buda@LukaszBuda6 Sep 2023
Got my 2005 PowerBook G4 out from the deep freeze to see if I could open ancient @phoenixfound ‘Horse Power’ sessions on ancient ProTools formats. Unfortunately it does not seem to be drawing power. Good bye buddy!
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When I first asked about the etiquette surrounding land acknowledgments somebody sent me this
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Jack Kevorkian
@kevorkian822 Sep 2023
Wife has declared that Father’s Day celebrations should only last about 2 minutes and Mother’s Day about 9 months because that’s the level of input required to create the child
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Adam Roberts@arrroberts1 Sep 2023
Some body once told me that on a desert stroll he saw two vast and trunkless stone legs they were looking kind of dumb with a shattered visage sunk in the sand from its chin to its forehead
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LaurieWired
@lauriewired30 Aug 2023
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Wow is this what those stadiums look like when Taylor Swift isn't there?
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SQL is easy
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If you missed this yesterday, it's really worth your time.
Paul Casserly@Drunkmuldoon11 Aug 2023
NZ Live: Strawpeople rnz.co.nz/national/programme…

NZ Live: Strawpeople

Trail-blazing electro-pop duo Strawpeople have just released their first album in 19 years - Knucklebones.

rnz.co.nz
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Andrew Frame@NapierinFrame11 Aug 2023
Yet another misleading NZME headline Large Takeaway Coffee $6 (in Napier) + Lunch = $14 at most = $20/day $1mill would buy you 50,000 $20 coffee/lunch combos. $20/day EVERY 365 days a year would take you 136 years $20/day every 260 WORK day a year would take you 192 years.
nzherald@nzherald11 Aug 2023
Mary Holm: Cutting out buying coffees and lunch could save you up to $1m #HeraldPremium nzherald.co.nz/business/mary…
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My next book is *The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation.* It's a recipe to disenshittify the web and bring back the old good internet. The book is from @VersoBoooks, but the #audiobook is from me - because Amazon refuses to sell it: kickstarter.com/projects/doc… 1/
My forthcoming book 'The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation' in various editions: Verso hardcover, audiobook displayed on a phone, and ebook displayed on an e-ink reader.

ALT My forthcoming book 'The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation' in various editions: Verso hardcover, audiobook displayed on a phone, and ebook displayed on an e-ink reader.

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Boss: Alright folks, you've logged 70 hours of device test time, ready to write that NYT piece? Testers, messy-haired and euphoric: I think we're gonna need another... 80 hours of testing. And some Gatorade
The New York Times
@nytimes30 Jul 2023
After 150 hours of research and testing, @Wirecutter testers believe they have found the five best clitoral vibrators. No toy offers the level of power and intensity as the widely beloved Magic Wand. nyti.ms/3O4MBF3
A hand holding the long, white Magic Wand vibrator over a round wooden table that has candles and books.

ALT A hand holding the long, white Magic Wand vibrator over a round wooden table that has candles and books.

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Nat Torkington@gnat28 Apr 2020
Middle-age is amazing. When you were young, you read and watched movies and identified with the protagonist. After you turn 45, you can rerun everything as an NPC. I found myself watching Harry Potter #4, thinking "how will Dumbledore finesse THIS in his board report?".
Nat Torkington@gnat28 Apr 2020
Oof, that moment when you realize you're not Mr Darcy, you're Mr Bennet.
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I'm in an IETF seminar where the speaker just used the term "pocket-switched network" for people trading USB sticks.
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Mark@maetl26 Jul 2023
“The privilege of being able to ask questions carries with it the responsibility of asking good questions.”
Mark@maetl13 Sep 2021
Replying to @maetl
When thinking about how to be more resilient to damage from this zero sum psychosis, I keep coming back to media ethics and Nicky Hager’s advice from 2011.
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EL@ebonylamb_music22 Jul 2023
Thanks for sharing the love of MY DAUGHTER MY SISTER MY SON - Heard it on @radionzmusic 101 today ❤️‍🔥 4 UR PLEASURE 🔻 linktr.ee/ebonylambmusic
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