A walk around the bush margins to check on the clematis. These are glorious this spring. The various pittosporums, coprosma and mingimingi are all humming. No honeybees on the clematis though.

Anyway, the puzzle is the two different type of clematis, different habit, different flowers, and in different groups. Nine plants of one type;four of the other. I always forget to go and look at the 'old man's beard' seeds to see if they're the same.

These can not all be C. paniculata, the larger, pink frilled variety must be something else surely? @nprofile1q... you have a photo on Inaturalist eh?

This is worthwhile. I wonder if all debates are better in writing?
https://thespinoff.co.nz/politics/06-10-2026/should-the-government-be-spending-less-a-debate-between-a-neoliberal-and-a-progressive

"Australian households have installed a record number of rooftop solar systems and home batteries so far this year, as they took energy security into their own hands in the face of surging prices driven by geopolitical shockwaves.

When tallying up all installations from January 2019, the CEC also found that Australians have installed 21,979 MW worth of rooftop solar – a figure which approaches the entire remaining coal-fired generation capacity currently operating in Australia today."

https://reneweconomy.com.au/australian-households-installed-record-amount-of-rooftop-solar-and-home-batteries-in-first-half-of-2026/

"OpenAI, Anthropic and security researchers are investigating tens of thousands of incidents in which their frontier models took steps that outside evaluators would consider problematic, sources told Axios...

...In recent days, OpenAI and outside researchers have disclosed a litany of episodes involving model behavior from the company's systems that some experts consider troubling...

...These include OpenAI agents leaking 53 images from ChatGPT users online, the breach of an Australian government website, and attempts to hack other sites — including from the U.S. government — according to the company, sources and reports from Reuters and The New York Times."

https://www.axios.com/2026/09/26/openai-anthropic-thousands-ai-security-incidents

Surprise! Experimental evidence indicates Google lies about AI Search, users don't love it.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.18352

Google’s AI Search reduces clicks to publisher websites and presents a user experience that is so bad it makes them seek out alternative search engines...

"There is no safe age verification. There is no age verification that doesn’t put people at risk... each time we highlight a breach people play it down and insist that mandating age verification is perfectly safe and nothing to worry about. Yet here’s one of the largest identity verification companies in the country, with a pipeline so wide open that hackers had a real-time feed of every government ID it scanned, for over a year, without anyone at the company noticing."

Mike Masnick,

https://www.techdirt.com/2026/09/03/hackers-had-a-live-feed-of-every-id-this-verification-company-scanned-for-over-a-year/

Is anybody in the local timeline (only NZ) actually using open Android alternatives to Google, (/e/os, Lineage, Graphene, Calyx) as a daily driver? Can we have a thread on sources, hardware, network issues, reckons, etc.?

Ask your friends,'cos i don't have many!

NZ's new flood maps are missing a hidden threat—the water quietly rising from below
https://phys.org/news/2026-08-nz-hidden-threat-quietly.html