Russell Brown
@publicaddress.bsky.social
Journalist, rider of bikes, cooker of food, seeker of joy. Dad-DJ. Cosmopolitan.
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...This photo of Ant with the Headless Chickens in 1990 is by Jonathan Ganley; the Headless Chickens story is by Russell Brown.
Our thoughts are with his family, and many friends. 2/2
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Our thoughts are with his family, and many friends. 2/2
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Incubator - Article | AudioCulture
Incubator control room, mid-1990s.
Incubator Studios was not a typical professional recording studio. Apart from anything else, it was situated in a six-bedroom flat. Yet it became a key part of Auckl...
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November 28, 2025 at 6:57 AM
...This photo of Ant with the Headless Chickens in 1990 is by Jonathan Ganley; the Headless Chickens story is by Russell Brown.
Our thoughts are with his family, and many friends. 2/2
www.audioculture.co.nz/articles/inc...
Our thoughts are with his family, and many friends. 2/2
www.audioculture.co.nz/articles/inc...
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We are terribly sad to hear that Ant Nevison has passed away. He played guitar in Headless Chickens, co-founded Incubator studio, was a highly respected film soundie – and an excellent human being... 1/2 audioculture.co.nz/profile/head...
November 28, 2025 at 6:57 AM
We are terribly sad to hear that Ant Nevison has passed away. He played guitar in Headless Chickens, co-founded Incubator studio, was a highly respected film soundie – and an excellent human being... 1/2 audioculture.co.nz/profile/head...
Lot of people in the music and screen communities hurting now at the news that Ant Nevison has died. Ant was a member of the Headless Chickens, co-founder of Incubator recording studio and a respected film soundie, and one of the most decent, good-natured and friendly people you could hope to meet.
November 28, 2025 at 4:17 AM
Lot of people in the music and screen communities hurting now at the news that Ant Nevison has died. Ant was a member of the Headless Chickens, co-founder of Incubator recording studio and a respected film soundie, and one of the most decent, good-natured and friendly people you could hope to meet.
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he’s fascinating to me to observe simply as an example of the varieties of human experience. Totally incapable of empathy or even the appropriateness that can serve as a guide to conceal the inability to feel empathy.
Q: Do you plan to attend Sarah's funeral?
TRUMP: I haven't thought about it yet, but it's certainly something I can conceive of. I love West Virginia. You know, I won West Virginia by one of the biggest margins of any president anywhere.
TRUMP: I haven't thought about it yet, but it's certainly something I can conceive of. I love West Virginia. You know, I won West Virginia by one of the biggest margins of any president anywhere.
November 28, 2025 at 2:47 AM
he’s fascinating to me to observe simply as an example of the varieties of human experience. Totally incapable of empathy or even the appropriateness that can serve as a guide to conceal the inability to feel empathy.
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No, sorry, I mean, fucking Christ, how many nurses is that we could have kept in ANZ? How many radiologists/radiographers is it? Enough to clear the eight-month wait list for a basic CT?
As Craig Renney revealed to a shocked Dr Gary Payinda, Te Whatu Ora underspent its wages budget by $500m which has been signed off by Willis & returned to general coffers. Let that sink in. The money was there, but they deliberately underspent. On orders?
November 27, 2025 at 1:06 AM
No, sorry, I mean, fucking Christ, how many nurses is that we could have kept in ANZ? How many radiologists/radiographers is it? Enough to clear the eight-month wait list for a basic CT?
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Wait. What? Why isn't there widespread reporting and public outrage about this?! #nzpol
As Craig Renney revealed to a shocked Dr Gary Payinda, Te Whatu Ora underspent its wages budget by $500m which has been signed off by Willis & returned to general coffers. Let that sink in. The money was there, but they deliberately underspent. On orders?
November 27, 2025 at 12:59 AM
Wait. What? Why isn't there widespread reporting and public outrage about this?! #nzpol
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On November 26th 1983, David Bowie's Serious Moonlight concert at Western Springs drew 82,500 people – the biggest concert ever held in Australasia. Were you there?
Hugh Lynn was the promoter, and here is his story, by Murray Cammick. audioculture.co.nz/profile/hugh...
Hugh Lynn was the promoter, and here is his story, by Murray Cammick. audioculture.co.nz/profile/hugh...
November 26, 2025 at 9:25 PM
On November 26th 1983, David Bowie's Serious Moonlight concert at Western Springs drew 82,500 people – the biggest concert ever held in Australasia. Were you there?
Hugh Lynn was the promoter, and here is his story, by Murray Cammick. audioculture.co.nz/profile/hugh...
Hugh Lynn was the promoter, and here is his story, by Murray Cammick. audioculture.co.nz/profile/hugh...
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How to lose money in an area rich with public transport, add car parking.
This is the idea of the Eden Park CE, and not a very smart one at that.
As well as pissing off everyone who lives there.
www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/auckland/...
This is the idea of the Eden Park CE, and not a very smart one at that.
As well as pissing off everyone who lives there.
www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/auckland/...
Eden Park eyes space for 1500 car parks to replace outer oval in stadium overhaul
Park bosses are also keen to see a footbridge connect directly with nearby Kingsland.
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November 26, 2025 at 9:21 PM
How to lose money in an area rich with public transport, add car parking.
This is the idea of the Eden Park CE, and not a very smart one at that.
As well as pissing off everyone who lives there.
www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/auckland/...
This is the idea of the Eden Park CE, and not a very smart one at that.
As well as pissing off everyone who lives there.
www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/auckland/...
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Perfect irony. Our substitute for an upper chamber includes the Select Committee process, which identified the RSB as trash. If we actually had an upper chamber, it would have refused to pass the RSB on account of it being a wasteful, undemocratic attempt at constitutional law by stealth.
November 26, 2025 at 9:52 AM
Perfect irony. Our substitute for an upper chamber includes the Select Committee process, which identified the RSB as trash. If we actually had an upper chamber, it would have refused to pass the RSB on account of it being a wasteful, undemocratic attempt at constitutional law by stealth.
Chris Knox listening to Groopchat playing his song ‘Lapse’ at the launch of Not Given Lightly. You can’t see it, but he was *beaming*.
November 26, 2025 at 6:50 AM
Chris Knox listening to Groopchat playing his song ‘Lapse’ at the launch of Not Given Lightly. You can’t see it, but he was *beaming*.
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I just want to point out that she pushed him and had this great line:
Gerson: “What I thought was really interesting about that column: at no point did you stop to consider whether or not America was a country worth joining.”
Douthat: “I did not.”
Gerson: “Which is a very American thing to do.”
Gerson: “What I thought was really interesting about that column: at no point did you stop to consider whether or not America was a country worth joining.”
Douthat: “I did not.”
Gerson: “Which is a very American thing to do.”
November 26, 2025 at 3:18 AM
I just want to point out that she pushed him and had this great line:
Gerson: “What I thought was really interesting about that column: at no point did you stop to consider whether or not America was a country worth joining.”
Douthat: “I did not.”
Gerson: “Which is a very American thing to do.”
Gerson: “What I thought was really interesting about that column: at no point did you stop to consider whether or not America was a country worth joining.”
Douthat: “I did not.”
Gerson: “Which is a very American thing to do.”
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"It is against the TOS to be talked into suicide by our LLM" is possibly the most evil tech bro thing I've ever read
Additionally, OpenAI argues its not liable because Raine, by using ChatGPT for self-harm, broke its terms of service
November 26, 2025 at 12:29 AM
"It is against the TOS to be talked into suicide by our LLM" is possibly the most evil tech bro thing I've ever read
Actually, the OCR isn't usually sharply cut because the economy is going *well* ...
November 26, 2025 at 2:32 AM
Actually, the OCR isn't usually sharply cut because the economy is going *well* ...
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We do love our pies very much; and Russell is quite right. Johnny Cooper and his band would go to the pie cart in Whanganui for “pea, pie and pud” after playing charity shows at the opera house. www.audioculture.co.nz/profile/john...
November 25, 2025 at 9:37 PM
We do love our pies very much; and Russell is quite right. Johnny Cooper and his band would go to the pie cart in Whanganui for “pea, pie and pud” after playing charity shows at the opera house. www.audioculture.co.nz/profile/john...
Yeah people, WE DID IT. Let's go for gold. #pies #piespiespies
November 25, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Yeah people, WE DID IT. Let's go for gold. #pies #piespiespies
Fun fact: New Zealand's first homegrown rock 'n' roll song was 'Pie Cart Rock 'n' Roll' (1957). It goes deep.
* New Zealand takes pies (namely, handheld meat pies) so seriously that there are National Pie Awards that get major media coverage. The New Zealand National Library has a whole dedicated category for “Pies — Competitions.”
Pie.
Pie.
November 25, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Fun fact: New Zealand's first homegrown rock 'n' roll song was 'Pie Cart Rock 'n' Roll' (1957). It goes deep.
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Paywall now lifted: Christopher Luxon said in 2023 he would ‘draw the line at’ using AI video ads, but after National published two AI videos in the past month, his office now says that only applied to fakes of real people.
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National deletes AI video of police seizing gang patches
Christopher Luxon said in 2023 he would 'draw the line at' using AI video ads, but his office now says that only applied to fakes of real people.
newsroom.co.nz
November 25, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Paywall now lifted: Christopher Luxon said in 2023 he would ‘draw the line at’ using AI video ads, but after National published two AI videos in the past month, his office now says that only applied to fakes of real people.
newsroom.co.nz/2025/11/25/n...
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A mayor who diametrically opposed himself from one week to the next would normally pay some sort of price. I think with Wayne Brown it's that he fully commits to whatever Wayne Brown he happens to be on the day. www.greaterauckland.org.nz/2025/11/26/h...
Wayne Brown vs Wayne Brown - Greater Auckland
Recently, under its new Mayor Andrew Little, Wellington City Council
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November 25, 2025 at 8:12 PM
A mayor who diametrically opposed himself from one week to the next would normally pay some sort of price. I think with Wayne Brown it's that he fully commits to whatever Wayne Brown he happens to be on the day. www.greaterauckland.org.nz/2025/11/26/h...
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when its definitely not a hostage situation
November 25, 2025 at 4:19 PM
when its definitely not a hostage situation
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The BBC removed a line about Trump being the most openly corrupt president in American history...from a lecture about the cowardice of today's elites.
I wonder if the BBC has heard of the Streisand Effect
I wonder if the BBC has heard of the Streisand Effect
I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
November 25, 2025 at 11:35 AM
The BBC removed a line about Trump being the most openly corrupt president in American history...from a lecture about the cowardice of today's elites.
I wonder if the BBC has heard of the Streisand Effect
I wonder if the BBC has heard of the Streisand Effect
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After sacking 50% of Te Whatu Ora tech workers. What could possibly go wrong.
Hospitals to move away from paper records to new digital systems
Hospitals to move away from paper records to new digital systems
More than 65 percent of hospitals still use paper notes, Health Minister Simeon Brown says.
www.rnz.co.nz
November 25, 2025 at 6:27 AM
After sacking 50% of Te Whatu Ora tech workers. What could possibly go wrong.
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They're good pies Doug
* New Zealand takes pies (namely, handheld meat pies) so seriously that there are National Pie Awards that get major media coverage. The New Zealand National Library has a whole dedicated category for “Pies — Competitions.”
Pie.
Pie.
November 25, 2025 at 6:09 AM
They're good pies Doug