The Silver Fern

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    antipodeanA

    I feel Norths are trying to steal our draft picks

  • Rugby match threads

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    sparkyS

    Love, Numia and Iose were the pick of the Hurricanes tonight. All hopefully heading to higher honours in a few weeks time.

    I thought Kirifi and Lakai showed their limitations a bit.

  • Man of the match voting

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    DuluthD

    Blues picked Sotutu as their MOTM

  • Details of the competitions run by the TSF members

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    KiwiPieK

    Time to tip everyone - some tough choices this weekend I reckon https://thesilverfern.com/tipping-submit/

  • The place for non-sport topics. No politics.

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    MN5M

    @Bones said in The thread of learning something new every day:

    If Bon Scott hadn't removed himself with drink and drugs we probably wouldn't have known Brian Johnson

    Sounds like someone needs more Geordie in their life….

  • Fitness advice, progress journals

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    MN5M

    @antipodean said in Hubris:

    This popped up in my YT feed. Amusing and quite frankly alarming as I haven't trained since prepping to go to France last year.

    Doc says another week and the internal stitches should be dissolving so I can start training again. I already know it will be worse than the above video and certainly not as funny. Perhaps once you get over 50 there's such a thing as muscle amnesia?

    That was pretty cool, I liked his honesty and humbleness. I’m shocked he only managed FOUR dips though !

    You really do have to use it or lose it especially as the time passes.

    Thank goodness I have a garage gym ( which is also a garage bar but only when I’ve done said gym work )

  • Covid-19 chat

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    antipodeanA

  • Politics, Culture Wars, Foreign Policy etc

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    KirwanK

    If anyone wants to dig into the math, this is super interesting.

    Aug 15, 2023 What do I think about Community Notes? What do I think about Community Notes?

    Key takeaways for me is you can review the notes voting and see why it was surfaced or hidden. That sort of transparency is crucial for a context based system like this.

    Algorithmic based fact checking is a great way to handle the current polarisation where each side is trying to promote its own facts.

    In any case, this is a dramatically better system than the previous regime.

    The avalanche of new features is also a benefit to the app for me. Some will hit, others won’t.

    I’m tempted by the grok summary of news events and how they are going to expand that. Some interesting kernels of features starting to emerge.

    We had a good ten years of very little innovation, certainly not the case anymore. Almost too much to keep up with.

  • Technical help, report bugs, how to etc

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    DuluthD

    Looks like these had broken again. There was a small change to the instagram urls so I had to update the pattern matching.

    Should be good now. No idea how long it was broken

    [Edit] Actually there seem to be a couple of different urls styles now. So not every embed was broken. It works for both styles now