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Ira

@ira.bailey.nz

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Cloud and Security Engineer in Aotearoa/New Zealand Things I repost: - Political Shitposts - Art I like - InfoSec stuff - Weird Cryptography - Liberatory Technology


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Protest and Survive's avatar Protest and Survive @postnatodepression.bsky.social
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Anti-war badges from the UK, all via Glasgow Women's Library. Check alt text for object numbers.

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Oh wow, WTF

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Oh I was thinking more of the rather dramatic public campaigning that Led by Donkeys is doing, not the investigative journalism into campaigning

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Not exactly a role for journalists, we need a new body for this kind of work

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Soon to be followed by “No, not like that!!”

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It a bit of a numbers game though, and Twitter has the number. Unfortunately a large amount of those numbers are bots or inflated.

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I’ve got too many rants building up in my head, it’s going to 🤯 Might be time to set up a blog or newsletter.

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This right here is why Bluesky is awesome

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Is there a labeller? No alt-text, GTFO of my feeds

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First time I’ve seen this, great work! ❤️

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Potato enthusiast 's avatar Potato enthusiast @br3nda.bsky.social
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A bunch of us nerds worked with lawyers and community agencies to make this a couple years ago.
it's just been updated. It's neutral interpretation of the rules around benefits, such as job seeker and more

No AI, just the rules, based on answering some questions.
benefitme.nz

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So experts fact checking the LLMs fact checking politicians? Obviously needs some fact checking on those experts as well!

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This seems like a great use case for ChatGPT right? 🤠

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Considering startup Volpara Health’s NZ$300M May “exit” sale to a Korean company - one of the largest in NZ startup history - she much be rather out of touch with what is exactly going on in the NZ tech sector.

www.medicaldevice-network.com/news/lunit-a...

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Judith Collins suggesting we should be using AI to detect breast cancer in mammograms 🤦🏽‍♂️

You would think as Minister for Science, Innovation and Technology she would know that NZ has been a world leader in this field for over a decade.

www.rnz.co.nz/news/in-dept...

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She’s all aboard the hype train created by self-appointed AI experts.

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What she means is the pay PWC $10m to do a scoping and engagement exercise for a “one size fits all” approach then drop $100m to develop something so broken and old that they need to pay Infosys $20m a year to run.

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Sweet, they made it!

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Only about $3k away from hitting the target, otherwise they get nothing!!

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If you want to support the disabled community here in Aotearoa, please think about donating some money to the Volition's PledgeMe campaign - closes in about 4 hours!

Designed by and for disabled people to better communicate to carer's their preferences and needs:
www.pledgeme.co.nz/projects/785...

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He only spent 9 weeks memorizing french though, so not a huge waste of time

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Oof so true

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You’ve got to micromanage their egos otherwise they rampage through the city

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Why not literally anyone else? Are they all focused on bickering over who’s up next to do anything about the present moment?

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Shoshana 🏳️‍⚧️'s avatar Shoshana 🏳️‍⚧️ @shoshana.bsky.social
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It’s time we admitted Scrum isn’t working for software development. It’s time to embrace CULT™: Collaborative Understanding and Lean Tooling! If you’re a Scrum Master, sign up for my course to become a CULT Leader!

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I wouldn’t be surprised if it did happen TBH. But there aren’t any high profile candidates that I can see that could win against Trump. Amazing to think Trump will be back in power in November, but that’s what it’s looking like.

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Puck 🧚✨'s avatar Puck 🧚✨ @ahjeez.bsky.social
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This meeting should have been a prolonged shrieking session in the moonlit woods.

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No one should own land

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David Farrier's avatar David Farrier @davidfarrier.bsky.social
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i’ve always found brooke fraser’s career kinda weird, because her pitch-perfect, blemish-free empire was built hand-in-hand with an abusive megachurch. please RT this story, i think it's important... and it gets kinda weird: www.webworm.co/p/brookefraser

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Unfortunately I think you’re exactly right there

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Will Burrows 🖖🍞🥀's avatar Will Burrows 🖖🍞🥀 @dwighttokem.bsky.social
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Just learned the Spanish version of "righty tighty, lefty loosey" translates as "the right oppresses, the left liberates" and holy shit that goes hard.

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Michael 🦃. Levy's avatar Michael 🦃. Levy @professorlevy.bsky.social
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Imagining a world where environmentalists are so well funded that they have an airborne division.

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Samuel 🦋's avatar Samuel 🦋 @samuel.bsky.team
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hear me out: each label should have a Wikipedia-style talk page

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🌏🐶🦕🥳 Vegetable Gremlin ⍼​👻🥦💥🏠♫'s avatar 🌏🐶🦕🥳 Vegetable Gremlin ⍼​👻🥦💥🏠♫ @vegetablegremlin.bsky.social
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“Discord” is a portmanteau of “discourse” and “honda accord”

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Unlikely Cyclists / Jenn 's avatar Unlikely Cyclists / Jenn @unlikelyjenn.bsky.social
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Sold some stickers and games and zines, and someone drew me selling stickers and games and zines. Such a fun morning at Taranaki Zinefest!

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Byron C Clark's avatar Byron C Clark @byroncclark.bsky.social
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Well, some of them are built so they don't run aground at all

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lol, it’s a bit on the nose isn’t it?

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Looks like you only need to pay that fee though if informal mediation fails, which I assume will be the case, unfortunately.

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Heh, that’s definitely the best pub in Welly! I was probably just behind you having a ginger beer about 2 hours ago.

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Oh wow, didn’t know you had to stump up $2k to get a decision. I assumed it would just be a clear cut violation.

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Hmm wouldn’t the courts just tell you to first raise a dispute with the Domain Name Commission? Unless they are actively using your trademark?

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Literally would take max 20 mins to undo those anchor point nuts.

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TBH there were ~15 5G towers in NZ that were pulled over or set alight in NZ during 2020-2021. My first thought is that this is obviously sabotage

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It's still bugging me after 7 months!

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