Author: Josh Drummond
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Mike Hosking but it’s an actual AI this time
A while back I used an AI-powered predictive text keyboard called Botnik to create Mike Hosking columns. It was fun, and the results were definitely more entertaining than actual Mike Hosking columns. Since then the field of using AI to generate text has only got more interesting. Of course, I understand very little of what’s…
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Ghost clean-up industry knew houses were safe, now the game’s up
Hamilton homeowner Rebecca Radford went through a lot of stress and paid a $37,000 ghost decontamination bill after traces of departed spirits were found in her house. She says she’s devastated to learn it wasn’t necessary. Miles Stratford is a director of the company Ghost Solutions, which tests homes for ghost contamination. A Hawke’s Bay-based…
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Why I unfollowed everyone on Twitter
A few days ago I unfollowed everyone I was following on Twitter, and deleted all my old tweets. If I was following you: It wasn’t personal. Although, unless you were using one of those narcissism and anxiety-stoking unfollow bots, you probably haven’t actually noticed. I wasn’t following a huge number of people, as these things…
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A column by Mike Hosking, except it’s an AI predictive text bot
It’s probably safe to say that people hold many and varied opinions on Mike Hosking. Some, like my solidly National-voting in-laws, will lurch for the remote to change the channel should he appear. Others, like me, consider him essential. Even if you can’t stomach his sounds-of-a-dying-wasp-nest drone on radio, Mike Hosking’s most-days printed mindfart is…
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In which I apply for a job
I haven’t done the fake job application shtick for a long while, but this was too good to pass up. Duncan Garner found this beauty and posted it on Twitter. Keen to work on a dairy farm? pic.twitter.com/wQNZa1YUjY — Duncan Garner (@DuncanGarnerNZ) June 11, 2017 It has to be a joke of some kind. “Reply with handwritten…
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What I’ve been up to, April 2017
I was just typing the “2017” in the title above and got a strong sense of how weird that was. Growing up, all the weird dystopian movies seemed to be set around now. Guess they got that right. Anyway, here are some of the things I’ve been up to lately! Birds in Hats I’ve finished…
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Movember
I’m doing Movember this year. The only problem is that I already have a beard. I had the same problem last year, so I shaved it off and started Movember from scratch. Literally. It was scratchy as hell. It was also kind of cold. I don’t get how people get around without hair on their faces. It…
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Book Review: Mysterious Mysteries of the Aro Valley
I got an e-book review copy of Mysterious Mysteries of the Aro Valley, which is a great book by blogger Danyl McLauchlan, by asking the publishers for one on Twitter. I read it over the next week and then didn’t review it for a month, mainly because I am not very good at reviewing things. Part…
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Horoscopes for 11 July 2016
Aries You’re interested in everything today! Look around you. Isn’t life wonderful? Oh, look, The Void! Stare into it. Let us know if it stares back. Leo The moon is in your quadrant this month, and as we all know, this makes you fantastic at differential equations. If you’ve been looking at engineering as a…
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Birds in Hats
Thanks for checking out my Birds in Hats! If you’d like to own one, you can purchase prints at my shop, tworuru.bigcartel.com. If you’d like a bird on a shirt, you can get those here. Email me at josh (at) joshuadrummond.com if you’d like a custom print (different sizes etc) that isn’t offered in my…