Eddie Clark
@dreddieclark.bsky.social
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Personal account so expect eclecticism. Law, politics, SFF books, anime, gaming, music. Queer stuff. Day job = Administrative law and public law theory.
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dreddieclark.bsky.social
Really feels today like everything is happening so much, so forgive me a #booksky metathread of book rec threads from me in my year on bluesky.

Maybe you'll find something to dive into if you, too, are finding things just a bit much at the moment.
dreddieclark.bsky.social
Watkins already giving herself cover to ignore that in an editorial today; turnout was low so it's not a real mandate. 👀👀👀

Like the non voters are more likely to be old and conservative. Sure, Tracy.
dreddieclark.bsky.social
Tossup on whether soft right old money Vision for Wellington or vitriolic Better Wellington is the bigger loser in terms of reactionary lobby group this time round.
dreddieclark.bsky.social
Just want to note that the local paper in Wellington spent an entire term of council proactively and in many cases irrationally campaigning against any urbanist initiatives whatsoever and the result has been a mayor perhaps slower on it but not opposed & a council table substantially more urbanist.
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nikkihessell.bsky.social
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faisalhamadah.bsky.social
Non-ironically my favorite genre of writing these days is a syntactically awkward student paper that is nevertheless brimming with ideas they’re trying on
sonjadrimmer.bsky.social
The palpable relief of reading a syntactically awkward student paper nevertheless brimming with ideas they’re trying on after having to consume the stale cardboard generalities of a Chat GPT essay.
dreddieclark.bsky.social
Congrats, Rebecca. Well deserved, you've been an excellent councillor both on policy & constituent stuff.

(now you're back in I'll email you about a crap resurfacing of our street next over the next little while. 😂)
dreddieclark.bsky.social
I was one of the folks on the other side of the table here; excellent game. Mid weight, lots of systems that interlock cleverly, minimise downtime & mean you always have something to do each turn. Gameplay nicely linked into the theme, too.

Keep an eye out for Shadow Moon Syndicates!
bootstheory.bsky.social
FINALLY got one of J's games to the table ❤️❤️❤️ @3mbg.bsky.social
Hey folks did you know my man is a bloody great game designer because it turns out...
Photo of a very bright cyberpunk board game set up on a table (Shadow Moon Syndicates, published by Arkus Games)
dreddieclark.bsky.social
Western looks reasonably close for 4th? Wouldn't put money on it but non zero chance he gets passed by Joy Gribben on specials.
dreddieclark.bsky.social
Looks like a slight shift to the left overall in numbers, if not intensity.
dreddieclark.bsky.social
Other than the mayor, which seems a reasonably foregone conclusion, genuinely uncertain of the parameters of the Council Wellington is going to get.

Could be a slight shift to the left, drift to the centre, or an increase in the hard right bloc.

Still 2 1/2 hours to vote if you want a say!
dreddieclark.bsky.social
may I ask for one final thing
dreddieclark.bsky.social
Currently watching an anime where the premise is that the main character saves the world by giving into her compulsion to punch awful men in the face.

That's it. That's the show. All text, all the time and it is magnificent.
dreddieclark.bsky.social
Get thee to the library/movie theatre/wherever the nearest orange wheely voting bin is stat!
dreddieclark.bsky.social
Normal people who seem to by and large have backgrounds and/or expertise related to the public function they want to fulfil.

As you say, a bit alarming that that is quite surprising!
dreddieclark.bsky.social
(and from another angle I find a bit less stressful, will be very interested in seeing who in the packed, generally really well qualified Wellington City GWRC candidates make it over the line. Lots of impressive bios in that lineup!)
dreddieclark.bsky.social
Other than the mayor, which seems a reasonably foregone conclusion, genuinely uncertain of the parameters of the Council Wellington is going to get.

Could be a slight shift to the left, drift to the centre, or an increase in the hard right bloc.

Still 2 1/2 hours to vote if you want a say!
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bioturbonick.net
They trained a specialized model on existing bacterial viruses and had it spit out genomes and some of them worked. And they probably could have done the same thing manually.

This was not "put in an English prompt to GPT and get a custom virus out with desired properties" and never will be.
mclem.org
“In September, scientists at Stanford reported they had used A.I. to design a virus for the first time.”
Opinion | The A.I. Prompt That Could End the World
www.nytimes.com
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jakecole.bsky.social
The final season of Babylon 5 is one of the strangest things I’ve ever seen. They so clearly worked the fourth season to tie everything up thinking it would be their last and then it got renewed after all so out of the gate each ep is just a strange little detour. It’s like all B-plots.
dreddieclark.bsky.social
note the byline lol. copy paste police press release?