I have a book club on my pasifika discord, and I really just read "But I know some folks that would love to join in on the discussion without the pressure of reading." from someone...just, no words 🤦.
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If you'd like to hear what I/we sound like, here is a link to our trailer: between-the-waves.pinecast.co/episode/133b... Episode 1 premiers on May 5 CHST!
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Ocean Lani 🇲🇵🇬🇺@oceanlani.bsky.social · 5mo agoAbout to launch my 2nd co-produced Pacific women's podcast in a few days 🥹💙🌊 Blessed 🙏🏽
Fuck all the way right off with this reputation laundering of this gutless wonder.
you want to socialise, share ideas, connect. you don't want to do the monkey dance for the algorithm just to get read. so: agents, automation, clone armies. and in among the soulless machines, real thoughts. let's play.
Check out this cool project by my friend @wadepool.wtf -- support if you can! #nzmusic #amps #history
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Reason #202382847 why you should never believe zio's. 2026 and still still running the bull 💩 like we're not watching what they're doing, and reading what they're saying, every day for the last 3 years. smh. Free 🇵🇸
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Voting in InternetNZ AGM? me too. this is my background check on the candidates
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You see the OpenAI/Hugging face hack? You reckon it was all shit? Maybe? Maybe not? Type shit I have a rant about, if you're into that sort of thing. bee.uncommonengineer.com/subscribe?utm_source=bluesky
📚 Essays I've written about Pacific AI & Data Sovereignty...
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👋 I don't check in here much, but still write an post my work on my site
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Listening to any news from BBC, CNN or other western media is like suffering a brain damage event where they're talking about an alternate reality, like we don't have other sources of info to refer to.
oh, do we suddenly care about how children are treated RNZ? Fuck ALL the way off #RNZ How about NZ focus on fixing our home grown CSA predator networks instead www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
Update: Media Council ruled on my RNZ complaint. Not upheld. My name's on the ruling but my arguments aren't in either write-up. So I thought I'd published the full record.
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Jesus on an alternate-reality stick! how long have we been living in this fever-dream reality now?
Matt Nippert@mattnippert.bsky.social · 7mo agoWhat war? We never declared war. But we're claiming mission accomplished in this war, in which we definitely forced the enemy into unconditional surrender. Cue the V-Day parades!
😩 It sucks that apps like this need to be built, but one thing techies can bring to any situation, is the ability to build things that can help. My Lebanese friend and fellow geek:
Building Makan: A place to find help in Lebanon
Finding help in a crisis shouldn't be this hard. I built something to make it easier
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I have a gripe about people who join discussions only linking to resources and not actually having or saying what their opinion is on the matter. Grow a pair and risk taking a stance on something, jay-sus.
created myself a blacksky.community login, and I gotta say, the vibes and just general *feel* of that space (clean slate, accepted all recommended follows) is just... more comfortable? worlds still 💩 but least you feel like we're on the same page. big ups @rude1.blacksky.team and the team 💯
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is saying "my ai agent deleted my email" the new "my dog ate my homework"? 😂
💯 good to see *nuance* entering the chat...
Timnit Gebru@timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 7mo agoI need people to understand that "AI" used in moderation isn't necessarily the "AI" of ChatGPT + friends or synthetic text extruding machines, or LLMs. There's stuff lumped under "AI", as the term is a marketing term, that is actually useful and important for flagging stuff on social media.
I try not to have any feel-good music on when I'm on my petty shit. Don't want any of that redemption-arc behaviour to interrupt the dark art 😂👀🤣 #GTFOHRNZ
The general consensus of everyone I have had coffee with is there will be a tsunami of AI slop this election year. Also a consensus of try not to add to it by sharing it yourself even if you like examples, and to talk to people person to person as much as you can.
Dr. Cassandra Mudgway@legallyfeminist.bsky.social · 7mo agoThis is a significant issue for democracy and trust in news media (already dismal, as we know). I'm so glad that Meta is taking action against this automated AI slop on their platforms by doing... *checks notes* nothing. #nzpol www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
it's a bit of a late 90's early 2000's coding night tonight and I forgot just how many hits Dashboard Confessionals had back in the day 🫡 music.apple.com/nz/album/sto...
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Summed it up perfectly in 7 words. Family Guy with the colour swatch has been that meme since forever ago, none of this shit should be a surprise to anyone.
David Milner@davemilbo.bsky.social · 8mo agoHere's me. "It's only terrorism if they're not white"
everyone else get the bullshit response from Andrew Holden this morning? 🙄
Ron Amosa@uncommonengineer.com · 8mo agoThat RNZ 'New Gaza' article pissed me off enough to submit a complaint via RNZ's online complaint form and document how you too can submit a complaint and use my notes, if you wanted. Free Palestine 🇵🇸
Genuinely bummed about the fact I haven't touched a drumkit in... *checks watch* a couple of years 😞. I've been on or around drumkits since I was a teenager, former professional, gigs big & small, always had sticks, practice pads everywhere. I miss just playing. I will remedy that this year.