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Nimesh Patel's definition of DEI is sending me 🤣🤣🤣

Today I moved an amendment to ensure we have a BDS approach to our new Disaster Resilience Fund. This means we will not invest in Israeli government bonds or businesses that support the genocide or illegal occupation of Palestinian land. It's the right thing to do. #nzpol

🧠 The more I see AI-written pieces on LinkedIn and across the tech industry, the more convinced I am that long-form reading and writing regularly is a critical practice to keep from thinking and sounding like everyone else. I will fire the newsletter up again, and prob move off substack 😔

My tattoo artist brother always been the outspoken one, from local government corruption (see: ABA, Avondale), all the way to genocides on the other side of the world. Been saying it with his whole chest since the beginning ❤️ #FreePalestine 🇵🇸

Too much "we're cooked" & not enough "we're not gonna take this shit"

💯 loved this talk @scott.hanselman.com well done! We're from the same generation of tech, similar socio-economic level too; and saw the same promise in it back then. Awesome call-outs on current state! Big s/o to teachers & human beings like Mrs Hill who see and foster their students passions ❤️🙏🏽

❓❓❓ What's everyone's method/technique/system of consuming daily or realtime news while minimising bias and creating an echo chamber? Keen to hear how others are doing it before having to build something myself.

Sooo... the swamp on X is feeling some type of way today 🤣

is it better to remove "Palestine" and "genocide" from your keynote so that it goes ahead cos its a big tech event? or take that as a sign that a talk that included those words should make a stand given that choice? idealistic sure, but I thought that would've been the stakes, no?

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💯 this is what I'm talking about tech/hacker frenz.

rinse. repeat.

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this is awesome! more of this 💯

I'm just a simple country conflict tracker but someone once told me attacking a neutral flagged civilian vessel in international waters was a grave crime against the international community that only Iran-backed Houthi terrorists would stoop to

If the media does not attack this issue with the longrunning ferocity of the media attacking any given brown woman MP who is not actually in government for breathing wrong, I will be wondering about stuff out loud.

I was running a hackathon with a bunch of high school students for techweeknz, they had to solve local problems picked out of a hat, per team- my team picked this very problem: "local food distribution system". 🙌🏽 this looks very cool, check it out y'all.

why are people like this? I'm sort of done with the era where there's some acceptable reason why people aren't equipped with some fundamentals. what happened to just being shit, and needing to improve? we excuse everything away until it comes for you, and THEN it's not cool.

people who don't know how to ask for something annoy me. trying to frame things to look like me, spending time and effort for something that only benefits you, as something that benefits me, is... a good way to keep it a solid "no".

💯 Bill Burr. still the fucking best 😂

I was happy to get my copy in the mail today, looking forward to reading and not being surprised by anything OpenAI has done, in this book 😂

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That's all. *sees nz socials kicking off about something that happened in parliament/government today* 👋🏽🏃🏽💨

Reading RNZ, I'm often left thinking "wtaf is this piece saying or not saying and does it need to be this long to say it?" controversial take: if this is human news writing, I'll take the AI summary, thanks. www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

👏👏👏👏 #nzpol #TaxWealthMore #TaxWorkLess #PeopleOverProfit

I have this weird thing where I get super curious when I see a new AI-related capability come out... but I get legit excited when I see how that new capability can be pwned 😈 last week it was "look at this MCP thing I built"... this week: hey, let's break MCP to pieces! arxiv.org/pdf/2503.232...

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Home now. Almost 3 hours to get home to West Auckland, from the airport... this skeet feels very deja vu... So yea, a flight from SYD to AKL could have taken off and landed in the time it took me to drive 20km home. A-mazing.

Pretty sure we're so stationary I could Panda Express some food to the Uber, and I'd have a good chance of getting it delivered to my window in the next 20mins.

Got in my Uber AKL airport 5.14pm, immediately ran into traffic. ETA to get home/West AKL is currently 7.10PM. The flight from Sydney was 3Hrs.

😂 -- I think coding up "chaos monkey" automations across the internet that does this kind of thing is the utopian future I envisioned when I got into tech. I'm not kidding.

💯 solid piece by my man @dznz.bsky.social diving into what the experience and *event* of covid has done to us, society, humanity- or maybe finally just revealed reality to us all? ⬇️

Drifting through my teenage years nostalgia tonight sitting in front of my IDE...

"archive...plaintext" 👀 *checks the calendar, nope it definitely says 2025* 😂🤣🥲😭 <-cries in *just fuck security as an idea/concept/princple aye*

today's random thought after seeing another marketing company pile on the "fucks" to (I'm assuming) show their edgy side... saying "fuck" in every sentence doesn't make you edgy or cool, or whatever good you think it's doing for you...

🤣 A-Mazing.

❤️ this. just a person who saw a need, and did something about it. And the philosophical dilemma, in the midst of the advocacy: "The perfect threatens to become the enemy of the good, but the good threatens to become the enemy of the fundamental." ✅ recommended read.

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🤖 Finally had time to sit down and see what I could do with MCP, with one of the only use cases I find interesting with AI agents = hacker bots 😂. Setup a local DVWA container, short python script worked, so onto a more sophisticated LLM agent next.

If you see this, post the energy you bring to bsky

I forgot what a pain in the ass getting various containers running on Mac is, compared to Linux 😮‍💨 🐧

👀 returning to this throwback for.... reasons.

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⚠️ Anthropic's Claude helps adversaries orchestrate influence ops. Adversaries running "Influence-as-a-Service" ops for various campaigns, using  Claude, bypassed several safety mechanisms. 1000's of bot accounts, interacting with 10s of 1000's of real accounts. They weren't going for "virality"..

I know this is the wrong side of the internet to have the opinion "I don't think AI is going anywhere, and it's useful"- is not going to be popular. I'm not trying to be controversial. and anyone who knows me, knows I'm no "techbro". Folks saying AI will go the way of <insert-tech-here> and yet...

Respect and honour to the fallen, who gave their lives for the idea of freedom and liberty for all, despite the reality of the world, and what they came back to at home. Lest we forget the human cost of war. Onward.

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"All of your problems are idiosyncratic problems if you’re not a coward" 🤣💯 Posting this kick-ass article on MCP's on this headline alone by @honeycomb.io 🙌🏽