Ira

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Cloud and Security Engineer in Aotearoa/New Zealand

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- Political Shitposts
- Art I like
- InfoSec stuff
- Weird Cryptography
- Liberatory Technology

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Tim McKinnel wants to challenge our idea of what a criminal is in his new documentary Crime: Need vs Greed. The former detective and private investigator delves into the impact of white-collar crime in NZ, and why we punish the needy and let the greedy do as they please #nzpol

TVNZ’s new documentary wants to challenge our idea of what a criminal looks likethespinoff.co.nz Crime: Need vs Greed investigates the true cost of white collar crime.

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This is cruelly designed to be completely unachievable. All in 5 working days *from when you moved to orange*: - a letter to be printed - it arriving in the mail - book an appointment - attend the appointment - schedule an “activity” - do the “activity” - WINZ knowing you did the “activity”

Finally some good environmental news #kikorangi #environment www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3503...

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Hat tip to the person at Google who chose this photo for Judith Collins’ “Knowledge Panel” #nzpol

Big win for artists against AI

RT ‘til yer fingers scab over :D www.facebook.com/share/XqchHu...

Karla Ortizwww.facebook.com HUGE update on our case! We won BIG as the judge allowed ALL of our claims on copyright infringement to proceed and we historically move on The Lanham Act (trade dress) claims! We can now proceed...

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Not a single thing has changed since Southern/Molyneux: it's not about expressing ideas, it's about asserting power. If you understand it through the lens of "debate", you will miss the entire exchange.

Don Brash’s message to future ad platforms, its our way or we cancel you

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Our story is here if you want to watch it: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yw_Z...

The hapū that dared to dream they could get ancestral land back to house their whānau | The Hui 2024www.youtube.com YouTube video by The Hui

Time for a few pitchfork sharpening classes around the country #kikorangi? These benefit changes are fucked

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Reminder-- The terrorist came to New Zealand to obtain guns and carryout an act that couldn't be done in his home country because the guns were banned... Basically, weak guns laws welcomed him here... Now former lobbyist works to weaken them again www.stuff.co.nz/politics/350...

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Seeing a lot of first posts from what looks like another exodus from Twitter. Let’s speed this up!

Just locked in the pilot launch date for the new CoShop.nz app. It’s 10 days away, we don’t have a production environment or even a real dev environment and we haven’t successfully made a single real payment 😅 But 50 customers signed up so YOLO, pulling the trigger and letting pressure do the work.

How much of a snowflake do you need to be to ban Judy Blume? 😂

It’s wild that in 2024, assault weapons like the AR-15–style rifles are legal but we’re banning books. www.theguardian.com/...

Utah outlaws books by Judy Blume and Sarah J Maas in first statewide banwww.theguardian.com State has ordered 13 books by seven authors, six of them women, to be removed from every public school classroom and library

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I cannot wait to read this, not least because a magical school book that's about the *teachers* (written by someone who's worked as a teacher) sounds amazing.

What if the teachers at a magical school were actually doing their jobs? THE INCANDESCENT is a book about risk assessments, lesson planning, predicted grades, and how to prevent teenage magicians from enthusiastically feeding themselves to demons; also about privilege, power, and pedagogy.

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i love her.

ship of theseus dialoguewww.youtube.com dialogue inspired by the ship of theseus thought experiment. not a true representation of the original concept. i changed it because i wanted to (cue angry nerds in the comments)

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👀👀👀 #aotearoabooks #pukapuka

I have a brand new book, just released today! www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Su...

Reflecting on this from 1/2 a year ago and glad I never gave a cent to The New Zealand Herald #nzpol

Sadly there’s a lot of great journalism from Matt Nippert, Chris Keall and others but it’s in the Herald and usually behind a paywall. Would be happy to pay for that if it also didn’t ship a bunch of trash as well 😅

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Thanks. I can read. Hobson's Pledge is directly linked to Don Brash. But the Campaign Company (the domain admin) has a single director - Jordan Henry Williams. That tells us it's part of the TPU, FSU hydra. Ayn Randian cultists attacking indigenous rights to keep pillaging the environment. #nzpol

Directorsapp.companiesoffice.govt.nz

Can’t imagine Twitter/X ever muting racists at a platform level like @bsky.app. Feels good 😊

An interesting heatmap of NZ Job data, from @seaqub.bsky.social on LinkedIn #kikorangi

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Disappointed every time I see a cyber truck and the driver is not also low poly

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Just came across this on Mastodon and thought I'd share it for anyone wondering if adding image alt text is "worth it." ChanceyFleet: "As a Blind person i never thought i would be on social media savoring photos... all dispatches from a dimension of the world that i otherwise wouldn't experience."

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How racist and petty to remove the indigenous language from an invite to the first indigenous public holiday in the world. #nzpol It makes no sense unless you’re a racist in a racist government. These blokes go so very very low. Every time. www.1news.co.nz/2024/08/06/m...

Minister removed te reo greetings from official Matariki invitationwww.1news.co.nz A Māori advocate said the move made no sense as Matariki celebrates Māori culture.

Oh shit, #eqnz

Sitting in a coworking space resisting the urge to scream like seagull because I’m overhearing some nonsense about AI

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Maybe we need one of those wearable AI “friends” that just says “what the fuck are you doing, it’s 3am and you’re still staring at your phone?” Or blasts you with relentless positivity as you crawl out of bed bleary eyed. Horrible but anything that helps is good.

Oh shit, just realising that now that since Bluesky is public, SEO is pushing my shit posts up to the top of search for my name. Maybe to to switch to another profile name? 🥸 Or just YOLO and embrace it 🤷🏽

This is a great use of stats to show definitively 100% that the official Venezuelan election results are made up: statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2024/07/31/s...

Suspicious data pattern in recent Venezuelan election | Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu

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I put together an 11-minute supercut of Trump angrily self-immolating at the NABJ before his handlers pulled him from the stage.

Trump self-immolates at NABJ: a supercutwww.youtube.com Here are the most memorable lowlights from Donald Trump crashing and burning before his team pulled him from the stage before an audience of Black journalists at the NABJ in Chicago, July 31, 2024