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Bruce Buckman @brucebuckman.bsky.social · 14h

Oh well I’m on Windows so 🤷‍♂️

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Bruce Buckman @brucebuckman.bsky.social · 15h

Hmm I don’t see pre-roll ads.

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Bruce Buckman @brucebuckman.bsky.social · 17h

Firefox + uBlock Origin. Sssh, don’t tell anyone.

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evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 22h

Wikimedia Foundation: "AI companies are not doing enough to secure their systems and protect the public from the harm they cause. That burden is falling onto everyone else, including smaller organizations." wikimediafoundation.org/news/2026/10...

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OpenAI “rogue” agent activities found on Wikimedia projects – Wikimedia Foundation

Wikimedia Foundation found “rogue” OpenAI agents on its wikis, raising concerns about risks to its free knowledge projects and the open web.

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Bruce Buckman @brucebuckman.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I hope every racist bitching about immigration has to face the reality of aged care one day. Who do you think is caring for your mum? I guarantee they speak more languages than you.

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Bruce Buckman @brucebuckman.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

“Genuinely shared” Nothing has been less genuine in the history of sharing things.

Today was a great opportunity to share our love of reading and books, something that was genuinely shared by every Minister we met, and to talk about our experience starting and scaling a business in New Zealand.

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Dr Bex @drbex.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The headline buries the lede: ❌️ Cutting benefit rates after 2yrs ❌️ Incr stand down to 26wks (up from 13wks) ❌️ Incr minimum residence period to qualify benefits from 2yrs to 5yrs These are awful, horrifying policies that will drive povery and misery #nzpol www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

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National promises random drug testing for jobseeker beneficiaries

National is promising to introduce random drug testing for those on the jobseeker benefit to ensure they're "ready for work".

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Bruce Buckman @brucebuckman.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

1980s Parnell doing the heavy lifting as the set for that ad.

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Rachel Smythe @rachelsmythe.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Next week!!!!!! I'm so excited. tinyurl.com/y5dsewcr

Hades and Persephone bookends by Weta workshop

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CEO Johnny Cans @oldmatecans.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Oh look bang on time Winston trying to undermine the other bit of LGBTQ progress we all got done when he was on his arse out of Parliament fuck you man

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Katya @nzkatya.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Harete Hipango's Wikipedia page: "Hipango acknowledged that she had asked a member of her staff to edit her Wikipedia biography to remove any mention of negative or controversial issues that Hipango was involved in, including her attendance at anti-vaccination rallies" She's no.7 on NZF's list

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Workers First Union @workersfirstunion.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Auckland drivers who work for Waste Management go from job security, guaranteed hours, minimum wage protections, holidays, KiwiSaver contributions, a union and the right to bargain collectively... to contractors with no job protection or work rights and massive financial debt to the company. #nzpol

text reading "Today's ridiculous news:
Waste Management makes drivers buy their own rubbish truck - and lose their work rights."

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Russell Brown @publicaddress.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Just through helping a friend who got scammed trying to buy a rubbish bin. The site she got caught by, brabantia-nz[dot]com, is the top Google result for the term "Brabantia NZ". One of a large cluster of scam sites, most seem to use vvservicecare[dot]com as the order confirmation email address

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Bruce Buckman @brucebuckman.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

My favourite is when they can’t fit everything on the slide using the defined style so they just start changing point sizes, reducing margins, maybe even just dropping in a completely untemplated slide to truly free themselves from those pesky restrictions.

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 06/10/2026

The 2026 version of being asked to train your cheap replacement.

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Bruce Buckman @brucebuckman.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

LOL a 47 point plan. I’ve more experience than I want of business dudes who think the secret to making their pitch more impressive is to add a shit ton of slides to the PowerPoint. www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

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National unveils 47-point small business plan

The National Party has unveiled a plan to support small businesses by cutting compliance costs.

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

One thing I find endlessly funny about the rise of AI is that it has revealed that there is a large number of people who believe that the reason they wrote essays at school or university is their teachers were desperately waiting for them to provide a definite answer to “Lear: what’s up with him?”

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samuel mehr @mehr.nz · 06/10/2026

the lady in red is every NZ scientist in this election #nzpol

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Bruce Buckman @brucebuckman.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Luxon with same real Melania Trump vibes. The man has a natural talent for coming across as a total prick. You can’t teach that.

Frankly, I don't care’, Luxon says as undecided panel favour Hipkins after leaders debate

He said he wasn't bothered by the undecided voters panel siding with Hipkins. Luxon scored only 24% with that panel of 100 voters, while 27% remained undecided.

"I mean, there'll be a number of other people with a number of other views. Frankly, I don't care," he said.

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Tze Ming Mok 莫志明 @tzemingdynasty.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Mani Dunlop seemed very weird in her focus on theatre. Girl, you want excitement? In this economy? We are tired. The country wants a man who stands very still and looks with anger at Christopher Luxon like he hates and disdains him, because according to polling this is highly relatable.

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Bruce Buckman @brucebuckman.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The government’s austerity ideology and its atrocious overreach into local body funding is creating a bleak future to which the only counter the govt has is to point at a spreadsheet and declare “look, number go down” like a toddler pleased with its finger painting. www.rnz.co.nz/news/regions...

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'Nasty decisions' for Wellington councillors looking to find $60m in savings

Funding for Te Papa, opening hours for galleries, the city's new years' eve fireworks display, and school swimming subsidies, are on the chopping block as Wellington City Council tries to meet rates c...

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Bruce Buckman @brucebuckman.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I regularly have to take a screenshot from a video of an interview done with a webcam and somehow turn it into a promo tile for the interview. No one seems to bother having a professional shot of themselves anymore 🤷‍♂️

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Terry Baucher @trabaq.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

#nzpol " I find no evidence of significant outmigration or reduced inflows of startup founders or inventors." Well, well, well.

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Bruce Buckman @brucebuckman.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I’ve tried in the past to give clients an idiot’s guide to taking a head-n-shoulders photo cause lots just don’t think they need to pay to have a pro take their staff photos. Now they just run a phone snap through AI and think they’re Annie Leibovitz.

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Una mujer y dos gatos 🐈🐈‍⬛ @losgatos.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

If this is now $1B for 11km of road, that is what the new Dunedin hospital is meant to cost. ELEVEN KILOMETRES of ROAD or one brand new hospital for 300k people. #ohffs #nzpol

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Bruce Buckman @brucebuckman.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

In this case the marketing manager will wrangle them into submission but as a trend it’s bleak. It used to be the mythical nephew who could do the job better and cheaper. Now that mythical nephew exists in AI and it’s not better but the people using it can’t see that. It’s a tsunami of blandness.

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Bruce Buckman @brucebuckman.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

And because they don’t understand messaging, or design, or marketing, they don’t know that what they’re pushing is horrible. It’s now their darling idea, given life. Look at that funky font! Look at that cartoon art style! Yeah bro, it’s the same shit that’s everywhere. The world is drowning in it.

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Bruce Buckman @brucebuckman.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Now that email comes with a whole bunch of their ideas transformed into ‘art’ by AI. And making bad ideas manifest as bad art makes them hold on to those ideas more strongly. Now your own designer’s original work is being judged against bad AI that someone thinks is wonderful.

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Bruce Buckman @brucebuckman.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Previously those ideas would be an email and because they can’t implement those ideas themselves you can talk them out of it. It’s not their job, they’re not going to waste lots of time arguing about it. You move on. But now we’re in the age of AI slop. Oh boy.

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Bruce Buckman @brucebuckman.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Now in these scenarios there are always multiple ‘stakeholders’ outside of marketing who get to have their say. Often their feedback is fine, a different viewpoint you hadn’t thought of. Sometimes it’s less helpful - twee or stupid ideas from folks who don’t understand marketing.

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Bruce Buckman @brucebuckman.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

So today I came across a really annoying side effect of the AI slop era. A client needs some fun-but-still-on-brand stickers created for laptops. This is the kind of thing where normally you work with the marketing manager, to-and-fro, do design iterations, until you dial it in.

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jess m. ☕🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Something AI is responsible for that doesn't get enough talk: How, when it scrapes a website to illegally steal everything on it, it uses up a ton of its bandwidth allotment, crashing it or racking up massive fees for site owners.

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Alex Turner @turnerinroc.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Reading "Life After Cars" and was blown away by this fact. A light rail station being added to a rural area in Japan reduced health care costs in that community to the tune of $600 per person per year!! 🤯

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Bruce Buckman @brucebuckman.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

It seems like one of the biggest takeaways our RW parties have taken from the state of US politics is that lies no longer need to be subtle, and indeed blatant lies are preferable.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 04/10/2026

if you’ve ever wondered about this one: he’s dressed like a pirate and he has a cockatoo that, instead of “pieces of eight”, says “twelve and a half percent” which, if you do the math, is 1/8 god dammit, Terry

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Jolisa Gracewood @nzdodo.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

“Ministers must put a value on natural buffers in every business case that touches public land. Parliament must fund protection & restoration of wetlands, forests & floodplains before the next cyclone arrives, not after. We already know what the alternative costs.” www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/there-is-...

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There is an $11b benefit that belies the Govt's flawed conservation reforms

OPINION: Pitting economic development against conservation is becoming a false choice.

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Bruce Buckman @brucebuckman.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Reducing the tax take and reducing both government spending and the size of government is basically a vote for taking money out of the economy. It’s so weird how so many people seem to just accept that it in fact will benefit the economy. 🤷‍♂️

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Bruce Buckman @brucebuckman.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

You’ve gutted government spending, slashed the public service, under-funded the health system to the point of collapse and what you want to campaign on as a government is collecting even less tax and further reduce govt spending & size. At what point do you cease to be a government?

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Bruce Buckman @brucebuckman.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Are you talking about Twitter or modern customer support?

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New Zealand Council of Trade Unions @nzctu.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Because of gender and ethnic pay gaps in Aotearoa, Pacific women are now working for free until the end of the year. This election year, we need to vote for pay equity. It’s the only way to make sure that all working people are respected, valued, and paid what they’re owed. #nzpol

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Semafor @semafor.com · 30/09/2026

Visitors to the US are on track to drop by almost two million year-on-year. “We’re the only major country in the world losing visitation,” the head of the US Travel Association said. “It’s mind-boggling.” www.semafor.com/article/09/2...

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