Reposted by Colin BowernDan of the Year @downwithdan.bsky.social · 17hWhen you have no concept of how people engage with music 4956923758
Colin Bowern @colinbowern.com · 13hPeople upset that gambling with family home prices ends up having a consequence. 🤷♂️ No magical way out of overpriced housing market. www.stuff.co.nz/home-propert...stuff.co.nzThe $1.6m homes nobody wants: the property mismatch keeping boomer sellers stuckAnd the fresh data which reveals just how hard the market’s most expensive homes have fallen. 110
Reposted by Colin BowernThe Beaverton @thebeaverton.com · 27/09/2026Meta unsure why women not buying pervert glassesthebeaverton.comMeta unsure why women not buying pervert glassesMENLO PARK, CA — As Meta’s totally cool, definitely-not-creepy smart glasses become more popular with tech bros and straight-up pervs, the tech company is reportedly baffled as to why their glasses wh... 1241927548
Reposted by Colin BowernDare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Saturday Night Live skit of an interview with Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei. 616339
Reposted by Colin BowernRob✅✅ @robdickinson.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Jordan Williams’ nefarious network #nzpol 47537
Colin Bowern @colinbowern.com · 27/09/2026I don’t want an ACT person representing my kids education after seeing the slop they call lunch. #nzpol This smells like the Taxpayers Union in sheep’s clothing. www.rnz.co.nz/national/pro...rnz.co.nzThe new education group that wants to represent parents' voicesA new advocacy group has launched with the aim of giving parents a more organised voice in New Zealand's ongoing debates around education. The Parents' Alliance says it wants to be evidence-based and ... 36316
Reposted by Colin BowernLan Pham @lanpham.greens.org.nz · 27/09/2026The Government is consistently play kiwis for chumps. They make laws that benefit big polluters and fossil fuel corporates who make record profits while the rest of us pick up the tab with more polluted drinking water and rivers and beaches we can't swim in. It's time to take the power back ✊️🌏 04916
Reposted by Colin BowernAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 26/09/2026"Why should Canadians trust Americans who have twice elected someone they consider a venal, dangerous buffoon? They could excuse them for being 'tricked' the first time. But electing him again, by a bigger margin the second time, tells them all they need to know." — @brynntannehill.bsky.socialpublicnotice.coThe view from Canada: Make America Think AgainRebuilding trust will take generations. 858122703182
Reposted by Colin BowernRich Burroughs @somewhattolerable.com · 26/09/2026It’s wild when people try to accuse her of having some political agenda. Her agenda is for kids to be safe and well cared for. 22612
Colin Bowern @colinbowern.com · 26/09/2026If a nation state or individual did this, they wouldn’t get called to come explain themselves. Why are companies getting a light touch on the damages they are causing? www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...theguardian.comHeads of OpenAI and Anthropic called to face Senate inquiry after rogue agent incidentsSam Altman and Dario Amodei have been invited to appear before the Greens-led inquiry into AI and datacentres 031
Colin Bowern @colinbowern.com · 26/09/2026Good news. We solved the housing problem by ignoring it completely in favour of data centers. 210
Colin Bowern @colinbowern.com · 26/09/2026Any applied physics resources for a year 10 student? Formulas alone aren’t doing it. 000
Colin Bowern @colinbowern.com · 25/09/2026Honestly, just burn Meta down if this is how the culture mocks safety. www.theverge.com/tech/1000370...theverge.comMeta employees ordered ‘attorney/client privilege’ hats while fighting child safety disclosuresBut with no Meta or Instagram logos present. 031
Colin Bowern @colinbowern.com · 24/09/2026Note to self: Holiday accommodation across from a large mall with mid- to high-end stores while travelling with teenagers was an unwise choice. I’ve used the word “no” a lot today. 121
Colin Bowern @colinbowern.com · 24/09/2026Congrats Silicon Valley. You have discovered self-directed learning. Check your hubris, it’s not something you invented while tripping out at Burning Man. 020
Colin Bowern @colinbowern.com · 24/09/2026And when does Open AI plan to pay for damages and restitution? www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/1...rnz.co.nzOpenAI hacked Medicare portal, Australia Prime Minister Anthony Albanese saysPrime Minister Anthony Albanese has revealed an AI agent hacked into an Australian Medicare data portal earlier this year. 011
Colin Bowern @colinbowern.com · 23/09/2026More like renters subsidising landlords asset portfolios? www.interest.co.nz/investing/14...interest.co.nzNZ landlords are subsidising tenantsJoseph Darby says rising costs have widened the gap between what a tenant pays and what their house costs to provide with the owner paying the difference. Why does the shortfall exist, and what's the ... 230
Reposted by Colin BowernRob✅✅ @robdickinson.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Finally a good election sign! #nzpol 619755
Colin Bowern @colinbowern.com · 19/09/2026As predictable as ERP projects blowing their budgets. arstechnica.com/health/2023/...arstechnica.comUnitedHealth uses AI model with 90% error rate to deny care, lawsuit allegesFor the largest health insurer in the US, AI's error rate is like a feature, not a bug. 000
Colin Bowern @colinbowern.com · 18/09/2026This is a plausible scenario of how AI ends humanity? Incompetent operators using it to produce unverified reports that are not accurate or true. Nukes launched, world war started. www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/1...rnz.co.nzAI chatbot's false report nearly sparked war with China, sources sayThe intelligence report, circulated across the US military this spring in the midst of the war with Iran, immediately set off alarm bells: a Chinese ship in the Middle East was transporting components... 000
Colin Bowern @colinbowern.com · 18/09/2026This one hits home. Has business daddy fixed the basics yet? It’s been three years. #nzpol 0256
Reposted by Colin BowernSteve Lafleur @stevelafleur.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Look, it's a free country. You just have to walk around with ID at all times or you'll get the shit kicked out of you. 1125
Colin Bowern @colinbowern.com · 18/09/2026Looks like the chickens came home to roost. techcrunch.com/2026/09/17/m...techcrunch.comMicrosoft exec called AI scraping ‘the largest theft of labor in human history,' new unredacted filings reveal | TechCrunchNewly unsealed court filings show Microsoft privately called OpenAI's data practices "theft" while both companies scraped paywalled Times content, built datasets from it, and warned internally it woul... 031
Reposted by Colin BowernWiredferret! @wiredferret.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Next talk at @LDX3NYC - @charity.wtf What hand-crafted servers taught us about hand-coded code Until recently, we were obsessed with code readability and understandability, because good code was rare and expensive. So your ability to understand code gates the change. 162
Colin Bowern @colinbowern.com · 14/09/2026So let me get this straight. 🤔 If humans inject malware into places that don’t want it, that is crime. If an AI lab lets a bunch of automation do the same, it’s not a crime? 110
Reposted by Colin BowernOops𓅓 @vodkula.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Due to economic conditions i had to downsize 2546649
Colin Bowern @colinbowern.com · 14/09/2026Remember the days when personal email servers and laptops were the rage inducing events? www.huffpost.com/entry/donald...huffpost.comDonald Trump Jr.’s Bahamas Wedding Was Secretly Bankrolled By Russian Oligarch Close To PutinThe oligarch, Umar Kremlev, appears to have met Trump Jr. only recently, but he attended the intimate wedding with a large group of other Russian guests. 010
Reposted by Colin Bowern404 Media @404media.co · 14/09/2026EXCLUSIVE: Humans are reading ChatGPT users’ prompts to improve OpenAI’s models, and those chats can include sensitive, personal information, according to leaked internal documents and real prompts seen by 404 Media.404media.coInside ‘Project Lily’: The Humans Reading Your ChatGPT ChatsHumans are reading ChatGPT users’ prompts to improve OpenAI’s models, and those chats can include sensitive, personal information, according to leaked internal documents and real prompts seen by 404 M... 29815435
Reposted by Colin BowernMusical Chairs @musicalchairs.bsky.social · 14/09/2026I cannot emphasise enough how bad Luxon's economic speech was today - a veritable torrent of crap. Seriously. If this is what Treasury are giving him to say they should be thoroughly ashamed of themselves. I'll try and keep my critique to six points.... [🧵 1/n] www.1news.co.nz/2026/09/14/w...1news.co.nzFull video: PM Luxon holds post-Cabinet media briefingThis is the second to last week that Parliament is sitting before it rises for the election. 518178
Colin Bowern @colinbowern.com · 14/09/2026You know how we solve this? Looking upstream to why people are risking lives to get any sort of income. www.rnz.co.nz/news/crime-a...rnz.co.nzDangerous copper, metals thefts causing millions in damageThe growing problem of the theft of copper and other recyclable metals is causing millions of dollars of damage to infrastructure and endangering perpetrators and the public. 100
Colin Bowern @colinbowern.com · 13/09/2026Two layers into reseasoning the blue steel wok I noticed ridges forming. Perhaps a bit too much oil. Does this mean abort and start over? #cooking #kitchen #wok 010
Reposted by Colin BowernJon Skeet @jonskeet.uk · 12/09/2026I'm such a @felienne.bsky.social fan-boy. This is amazing. www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-6-...youtube.comAI made me doubt everything about programming by Felienne Hermans - DDD Europe 2026YouTube video by Domain-Driven Design Europe 1153
Colin Bowern @colinbowern.com · 12/09/2026Housing for all is an economic argument, not just a human right argument. 000
Colin Bowern @colinbowern.com · 12/09/2026Looks like ACT’s feelings were hurt again, so free speech absolutism is getting put to the side. 000
Colin Bowern @colinbowern.com · 12/09/2026This doesn’t make ultra wealthy look very good for society. 😅 castro.fm/episode/2x1qmScastro.fmUnder the Influence with Terry O'Reilly: Billionaire Tourism for the Super Wealthy (27m)An encore episode from the Under The Influence Archives. A very interesting favourite. Most tourism marketing aims at the largest audience possible. This week, we look at a sub-category aimed at the s... 010
Colin Bowern @colinbowern.com · 10/09/2026Want to solve AI safety? Hold AI companies and users liable for damages, with no limits. 4132
Reposted by Colin BowernSteve Fenton @stevefenton.co.uk · 10/09/2026Why #DevOps isn't dead, even if you want to stop using the name. If you still think you should remove friction between silos, it's not dead. If you still think software needs solid technical practices, it's not dead. If it still needs dependable deployment pipelines, it's not dead. 031
Colin Bowern @colinbowern.com · 10/09/2026It shouldn’t surprise anyone. Multiple school shootings and no movement on gun control made it acceptable to kill kids. Then electing a pedophile to lead. Now promoting watching snuff films. Next up - the hunger games and squid games double feature? 020
Colin Bowern @colinbowern.com · 10/09/2026You are in government now. You promise to end a war, bring down gas prices, fix things after the election. Why not start now? 242
Colin Bowern @colinbowern.com · 08/09/2026Is this the opening episode of The Last of Us? www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...theguardian.com‘This is dangerous’: slime moulds and the bitter debate over the nature of intelligenceThe long read: Scientists are battling over whether supposedly simple organisms should be considered ‘intelligent’. The outcome could reshape our understanding of the natural world – and our own place... 010
Colin Bowern @colinbowern.com · 06/09/2026I don’t think you understand what the word “partnership” means. When there is an economic gun to the head it’s more like “hostage”. 000
Colin Bowern @colinbowern.com · 06/09/2026I can’t help but wonder if Alberta secretly yearns to become fossils, transforming into oil for whatever comes after humanity’s demise. albertapolitics.ca/2026/09/ucp-...albertapolitics.caUCP slaps ‘punitive tax’ on solar panels, opening new front in its War on Renewable Energy - Alberta PoliticsNever let it be said that the Alberta’s United Conservative Party government isn’t in favour of recycling stuff – at least as long as that can be used to create higher costs and more red tape to help ... 000