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Oliver L

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just setting up my bsky

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If we rebrand "making OIA requests" as Integrity Sport, we could be eligible for a lot of grants. šŸ¤”

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I love* charity funding bodies whose grant criteria do not allow grants for "operating costs." I understand it's nice to be able to show they funded a "project" that achieved something additional, but these policies do nothing to build a sustainable charity sector. *do not love

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I want to put that sentence on a wall to remind me.

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Idiot/Savant's avatar Idiot/Savant @norightturnnz.bsky.social
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"Costello also failed to supply the Ombudsman with information he required for his investigation." That's actually a crime (s30(b) OA via s29 OIA). The penalty is trivial, but a prosecution may encourage les autres.

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Oliver L's avatar Oliver L @eey0re.bsky.social
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All this comes back to: the Ombudsman may not be able to penalise agencies but you still Do Not Ignore The Ombudsman.

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Oliver L's avatar Oliver L @eey0re.bsky.social
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We sort of do, it's just unevenly distributed. Councils "work with" farmers in breach of RMA (even to the extent of transferring them land). Regulators like Privacy Commissioner prefer education first. Police have discretion not to charge.

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(Veto an ombudsman recommendation I mean, before it becomes binding.)

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It's pretty rare I think. The one that comes to mind is the SG vs the CHEs, and I recall they complied before there was a judgment. Ministers can also veto a decision using an Order in Council but I don't think that's been used since the late 80s. Either thing would be scandalous.

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s 32 tho. If they ignore an ombudsman recommendation they may find themselves in court.

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Martin Rosenbaum's avatar Martin Rosenbaum @mrosenbaum.bsky.social
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The ICO has issued an Enforcement Notice to the MetPolice due to its persistent failure to meet legal FOI deadlines. The ICO has now taken action against 10 of the 44 police forces in E&W&NI, 23% of them, due to non-compliance with FOI. For a sector meant to uphold the law, this record is appalling.

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Byron C Clark's avatar Byron C Clark @byroncclark.bsky.social
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I was in a court of law, reading out posts calling for my execution, posts about how how Arps was preparing his oven for me, and yet I was not able to get legal protection

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Oliver L's avatar Oliver L @eey0re.bsky.social
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Oh I see. I never read that one. Should I?

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Oliver L's avatar Oliver L @eey0re.bsky.social
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They built Te Awe and Arapaki so quickly after central was closed, it was impressive. They just launched a new website this week I'm still adjusting to. Tip: "Research databases" is a lot more than just research databases.

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I don't understand which hand that is. Shouldn't it be fourth?

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Tash šŸ‰'s avatar Tash šŸ‰ @tashmahal.bsky.social
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I changed my KiwiSaver to Simplicity years ago, on the basis of their promise to invest ethically, nō reira am appalled to discover tis not the case. Thereā€™s no place in Aotearoa for any person or business complicit in, profiteering from, or in any way aiding the genocide & apartheid of Palestinians

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Dr Nessa Lynch @neasanil.bsky.social writes about the EU's AI Act, its strengths and risks, and compares Aotearoa's weak regulatory regime.

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Survivor of the Norwegian butter crisis 2011's avatar Survivor of the Norwegian butter crisis 2011 @lilliansoe.bsky.social
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The Jewish Council of Australia

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Oliver L's avatar Oliver L @eey0re.bsky.social
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Next time they tell you you're imagining things, ask for the raw real-time information data for that run. They have all the data.

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Is the lettuce still available?

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Oliver L's avatar Oliver L @eey0re.bsky.social
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Also surprisingly honest about Kent Terrace. (Must be a Sunday to be that quiet at sunset.)

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Honest of them to illustrate the property investor themselves standing in their vacant building wondering where it all went so wrong.

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The Keith Ng to know about this property

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Oliver L's avatar Oliver L @eey0re.bsky.social
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That's Stephanie a Keith Ng to remember.

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Oliver L's avatar Oliver L @eey0re.bsky.social
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There's also a Keith Ng to highlight, which implies another Keith Ng to hide or redact.

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NZ Council for Civil Liberties's avatar NZ Council for Civil Liberties @nzccl.org.nz
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Facial recognition and the NZ Police.

Webinar with Andrew Chen from the NZ Police Tech Assurance team discussing the issues around police use of facial recognition technology.

Noon, Wednesday July 10th (this week!)

Register here: nzccl.org.nz/10th-july-20...

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Oliver L's avatar Oliver L @eey0re.bsky.social
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Yes, the overseas income and FIF tax rules are extra confusing and I can't help there.

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Oliver L's avatar Oliver L @eey0re.bsky.social
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Technically, if you want to be complicated about it, the part of the annual subscription that extends into next FY is an asset. But you should not need to be doing accrual accounting to that level of detail.

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Oliver L's avatar Oliver L @eey0re.bsky.social
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Depreciation is just a way of accounting for an expense across all the periods it was used (the "matching principle"). You used this in one year, so it's just an expense in that year.

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Oliver L's avatar Oliver L @eey0re.bsky.social
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It's just an expense, like a mobile phone subscription or a newspaper subscription. Calling it an asset and depreciating it 100% in the same year is just a complicated way of counting it as an expense.

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Oliver L's avatar Oliver L @eey0re.bsky.social
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This place has 90s halogen wall uplights. Wonderfully bright, warm, and dimmable but insane power consumption. I just can't find similarly bright LEDs at all, let alone a pleasant colour. Let alone dimmable. Let alone smart.

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UK labour people on my feed gloating about their "good politics" of winning by *checks notes* a massive proportion of their opponent's voters staying home rather than vote for anyone let alone you. Inspiring, sustainable leadership there. Nice one. Good politics.

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Oliver L's avatar Oliver L @eey0re.bsky.social
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You guys are hilarious.

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Every UK outlet is using the phrase "Labour landslide," implying a major shift towards Labour. It's not true. 2019 (Corbyn) Labour votes: 10,269,051 2024 (Starmer) Labour votes: 9,650,254 (99.69% counted) A stunning result, but for a different reason than the news is implying.

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Sadly, unlike SIU/SIA/SWA/SIA, the same people won't be doing the same job at the same place tomorrow.

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Oliver L's avatar Oliver L @eey0re.bsky.social
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ThreeNews is a new news programme produced by Stuff which is to air on TV3 from 6 July 2024. Not to be confused with 3 News, a news programme produced by TV3, renamed Newshub in 2016, and disestablished on 5 July 2024.

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Oliver L's avatar Oliver L @eey0re.bsky.social
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"Bespoke LLM" is probably not the best term, but customised LLMs are certainly possible and available as a service from e.g. Azure. Not from scratch: model customisation starts from the public data base model and is then trained further on your private data. It's just a waste of time and money. šŸ˜†

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Oliver L's avatar Oliver L @eey0re.bsky.social
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As widely expected, conservatives have won re-election to government in the UK.

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Not sure why they're missing 4.

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It doesn't mean much. Just the classic pattern (especially in FPP elections including for our electorate seats): people are more inclined to vote for minor parties when it's unlikely to affect the result.

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Oliver L's avatar Oliver L @eey0re.bsky.social
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Israel must release all its hostages.

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Paul Duane's avatar Paul Duane @paulduane.bsky.social
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Three adjacent headlines that say it all.

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Oliver L's avatar Oliver L @eey0re.bsky.social
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I actually started watching it but it's a bit much right now

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Byron C Clark's avatar Byron C Clark @byroncclark.bsky.social
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Is she calling for Māori to violently force Pākehā into enclaves, create the conditions for famine and then drop 70,000 tons of bombs on us?

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Andrew's avatar Andrew @openpolicy.bsky.social
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Statement from MFAT on the NZ governmentā€™s objection this afternoon to Israel ā€˜legalisingā€™ settlements in the West Bank.

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