Zane Bruce
@iarnulfr.bsky.social
Disgruntled anarcho-geologist.
It makes me geologically and mineralogically sad that Aotearoa/NZ doesn't have any large deposits of quick clay for me to poke and play with, but it also makes me Geotechnically Relieved that we don't have quick clays to make our already myriad landslide hazards worse:
eos.org/articles/ins...
eos.org/articles/ins...
Insights for Making Quick Clay Landslides Less Quick - Eos
In a quick clay landslide, solid soil liquefies suddenly, sometimes washing over entire towns. New modeling examines what kinds of salts could help stabilize these clays.
eos.org
February 1, 2026 at 10:08 PM
It makes me geologically and mineralogically sad that Aotearoa/NZ doesn't have any large deposits of quick clay for me to poke and play with, but it also makes me Geotechnically Relieved that we don't have quick clays to make our already myriad landslide hazards worse:
eos.org/articles/ins...
eos.org/articles/ins...
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Dr Glaucomflecken, an actual ophthalmologist, with helpful instructions for dealing with pepper spray to the face.
youtube.com/shorts/z4dy0...
youtube.com/shorts/z4dy0...
What To Do If You Get Pepper Sprayed
YouTube video by Dr. Glaucomflecken
youtube.com
January 29, 2026 at 11:45 PM
Dr Glaucomflecken, an actual ophthalmologist, with helpful instructions for dealing with pepper spray to the face.
youtube.com/shorts/z4dy0...
youtube.com/shorts/z4dy0...
The call is coming from inside the house. Authoritarian systems attract authoritarian people, which includes those who are authoritarian abusers. There's no philosophy/religion/political system that prevents you from being a dickhead, but many systems are built to encourage and accept it.
It won't surprise any of you to find out who exactly joined the Republican pedophile army newrepublic.com/post/205719/...
Here’s How Many ICE and CBP Agents Allegedly Preyed on Children
Apparently the institutions are riddled with accused sex criminals.
newrepublic.com
January 30, 2026 at 12:47 AM
The call is coming from inside the house. Authoritarian systems attract authoritarian people, which includes those who are authoritarian abusers. There's no philosophy/religion/political system that prevents you from being a dickhead, but many systems are built to encourage and accept it.
The only current cost effective and functionally appropriate use of Generative AI in the language, image and video field is to solve wages and democracy, by the elimination of both in favour of authoritarianism: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
January 15, 2026 at 6:09 AM
The only current cost effective and functionally appropriate use of Generative AI in the language, image and video field is to solve wages and democracy, by the elimination of both in favour of authoritarianism: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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It's difficult to stress just how badly it goes for repressive regimes when they publicly hurt or kill people that aren't, in some sense, acceptable targets. It happened in Poland when Anna Walentynowicz was fired for illegal union activity: when some weirdo intellectual is persecuted, it's kinda
i think these absolutely deranged right-wingers have convinced themselves that the average American believes that it's acceptable to publicly execute nice white mothers because they have pronouns in their bios
i also think this is a gross misrreading of actual public opinion
i also think this is a gross misrreading of actual public opinion
they really do think that "she had PRONOUNS" and "She was A LESBIAN" will cause people to suddenly go "hm yes, it was justified, what a disgusting person she was, she deserved it" don't they
January 9, 2026 at 9:39 PM
It's difficult to stress just how badly it goes for repressive regimes when they publicly hurt or kill people that aren't, in some sense, acceptable targets. It happened in Poland when Anna Walentynowicz was fired for illegal union activity: when some weirdo intellectual is persecuted, it's kinda
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This I think gets at this deep feeling of dread I’m experiencing in the pit of my stomach.
I’ve long held that the parallel system change to our time isn’t WWI or WWII, it’s the European Wars of Religion.
I’ve long held that the parallel system change to our time isn’t WWI or WWII, it’s the European Wars of Religion.
January 6, 2026 at 1:53 AM
This I think gets at this deep feeling of dread I’m experiencing in the pit of my stomach.
I’ve long held that the parallel system change to our time isn’t WWI or WWII, it’s the European Wars of Religion.
I’ve long held that the parallel system change to our time isn’t WWI or WWII, it’s the European Wars of Religion.
There's no reason to be on twitter any more, and every reason to block it at the nation state level, and sue the operator
The increasing threat posed by xAI’s Grok to women, girls, and public figures
www.linkedin.com/pulse/increa... (LinkedIn)
sanjanah.wordpress.com/2026/01/06/t... (WordPress)
www.linkedin.com/pulse/increa... (LinkedIn)
sanjanah.wordpress.com/2026/01/06/t... (WordPress)
January 7, 2026 at 6:28 AM
There's no reason to be on twitter any more, and every reason to block it at the nation state level, and sue the operator
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Re-sharing for the new year, which is also an election year! If you agree, help us out by emailing your local MP asking why Labour and National have not yet signed this letter or committed to regulating AI deployment in NZ. #nzpol
We’ve published an Open Letter calling on NZ leaders to deliver risk-based AI regulation & a national oversight body. AI has huge potential, but harms (deepfakes, gendered abuse, bias) are real and rising. Read the Letter (and sign it if you agree!) #nzpol
regulateai.nz
regulateai.nz
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A call to the NZ Parliament to regulate AI
regulateai.nz
January 6, 2026 at 7:45 AM
Re-sharing for the new year, which is also an election year! If you agree, help us out by emailing your local MP asking why Labour and National have not yet signed this letter or committed to regulating AI deployment in NZ. #nzpol
What the eugenicist cyberphrenosexologist dating coaches are are up to these days:
If you made a Venn diagram of every weird person I knew in Silicon Valley during the first dot-com boom, centrifuged it, extracted the pellet, and re-suspended it in high-proof eugenics with a splash of AI, you'd end up with something like this.
It'll take a strong stomach to read this "gift" link.
It'll take a strong stomach to read this "gift" link.
Can You Optimize Love?
www.nytimes.com
January 7, 2026 at 2:42 AM
What the eugenicist cyberphrenosexologist dating coaches are are up to these days:
I'm waiting for someone to trot out 'There is no peace beyond the Line' from the 17th century again (See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lines_o...)
January 6, 2026 at 4:50 AM
I'm waiting for someone to trot out 'There is no peace beyond the Line' from the 17th century again (See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lines_o...)
'80s soviet imperialist diplomacy on point about modern American imperialist diplomacy:
January 3, 2026 at 9:59 PM
'80s soviet imperialist diplomacy on point about modern American imperialist diplomacy:
I'm sure I've actually run into cookers in the wild who think like this. Poes Law strikes.
January 3, 2026 at 3:53 AM
I'm sure I've actually run into cookers in the wild who think like this. Poes Law strikes.
Ea Nasir's collection of clay tablet complaint letters on copper quality.
Ok, everyone, what book is sacred enough to you to get sworn in on?
Strange takes on Mayor Zamdani swearing his oath on the Qu’ran. It has nothing to do with church & state. The point of the oath is for the person swearing in to do so upon some text that is sacred TO THEM. Some Presidents swore in w/o any book. John Quincy Adams was sworn on a law book. His choice.
January 2, 2026 at 5:30 AM
Ea Nasir's collection of clay tablet complaint letters on copper quality.
See also the fact that so much AI is still relying on a large Mechanical Turk workforce from the global south, with these educational language styles, for much of it's moderation and training data corpus so of course it sounds like these workforces:
time.com/6247678/open...
time.com/6247678/open...
December 30, 2025 at 10:38 PM
See also the fact that so much AI is still relying on a large Mechanical Turk workforce from the global south, with these educational language styles, for much of it's moderation and training data corpus so of course it sounds like these workforces:
time.com/6247678/open...
time.com/6247678/open...
Just seen the 'but one big volc. eruption could outpace human CO2' bollocks in the wild, I tap the Sign: We (thru all our CO2 activities, slash n burn agriculture to fossil fueled megacity) realease ~ 1 Mt St Helens '81 eruption of CO2 every 2.5 hours, & ~1 Mt Pinatubo '91 eruption of CO2 daily.
December 30, 2025 at 3:15 AM
Just seen the 'but one big volc. eruption could outpace human CO2' bollocks in the wild, I tap the Sign: We (thru all our CO2 activities, slash n burn agriculture to fossil fueled megacity) realease ~ 1 Mt St Helens '81 eruption of CO2 every 2.5 hours, & ~1 Mt Pinatubo '91 eruption of CO2 daily.
this book was immensely useful, both for myself and for people I know who needed to come to terms with historical abuse.
Monthly reminder to read "Why does he do that?" because many people are bullied growing up & we don't turn into abusers. The narrative these people are victims is perverse to the goal of stopping abuse because it's not only false but contributes to the cycle.
dn790007.ca.archive.org/0/items/Lund...
dn790007.ca.archive.org/0/items/Lund...
dn790007.ca.archive.org
December 17, 2025 at 9:54 AM
this book was immensely useful, both for myself and for people I know who needed to come to terms with historical abuse.
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<chucks in an OIA to see just what the cost saving was>
I’m actually a bit gutted about FluTracking ending. It was an important part of the COVID response and made me feel part of a team; I dutifully did my survey every Monday morning. And now this excellent crowdsourced science tool has been casually axed, yesterday it turns out. info.flutracking.net
December 16, 2025 at 3:35 AM
<chucks in an OIA to see just what the cost saving was>
I mean, we could just air drop them over the ocean. That would work well.
Michael C. Rockefeller got shipwrecked in 1963, washed up on an island, and was promptly eaten by cannibals.
December 13, 2025 at 9:26 PM
I mean, we could just air drop them over the ocean. That would work well.
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[taps the sign again]
Don't fuck with general license radioactive material, people. Stop it.
www.funraniumlabs.com/2014/08/plea...
Don't fuck with general license radioactive material, people. Stop it.
www.funraniumlabs.com/2014/08/plea...
PLEASE Don't Open That - A Rant on Generally Licensed Materials - Funranium Labs
Let’s start this out right by terrifying people. If your home hasn’t had any major renovation since 2001, I can almost guarantee you have radioactive materials in it. I’m not talking natural occurring...
www.funraniumlabs.com
December 13, 2025 at 5:17 AM
[taps the sign again]
Don't fuck with general license radioactive material, people. Stop it.
www.funraniumlabs.com/2014/08/plea...
Don't fuck with general license radioactive material, people. Stop it.
www.funraniumlabs.com/2014/08/plea...
Exciting new career prospects for bear and trashpanda equivalent species coming up in several locations:
Yet another example of what Michael Lewis has described as “an experiment in capitalism with too much money”. Searching for this kind of ‘spatial fix’ not new, as @quinnslobodian.com describes in Crack-up Capitalism.
www.ft.com/content/b127... Tech elites are starting their own for-profit cities
www.ft.com/content/b127... Tech elites are starting their own for-profit cities
Tech elites are starting their own for-profit cities
They want to escape from regulation and ‘failing’ democracy — but are they more opportunistic than libertarian?
www.ft.com
December 8, 2025 at 5:39 AM
Exciting new career prospects for bear and trashpanda equivalent species coming up in several locations: