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Kyhwana Pardus

@kyhwana.org
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Spottycats, infosec, furry, hamradio, absurdist, misanthrope, they/them. 🇳🇿 also at social.furry.nz/@kyhwana

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Kyhwana Pardus @kyhwana.org · 11/10/2026
Lol PC sales down 20%, wonder why that would be... arstechnica.com/information-...
arstechnica.com
PC shipments fall 20.1 percent in “sharpest decline” since Q1 2023
The current decline may be just the beginning of a new downward cycle."
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Kyhwana Pardus @kyhwana.org · 01/10/2026
Ohh new USCSB video! m.youtube.com/watch?v=HmiQ...
m.youtube.com
Alarming Mistakes, Deadly Decisions: Fatal Fire at BP-Husky
YouTube video by USCSB
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Kyhwana Pardus @kyhwana.org · 30/09/2026
@dylanreeve.com @themorgan.bsky.social bring back discourse votes 2026 and the cupcakes!
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Kyhwana Pardus @kyhwana.org · 29/09/2026
Grrr stupid time chaos week*
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Aotearoa's Electoral Orange Guy @poti-aotearoa.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
General Election 2026 Deadlines Days left to enrol for the first time: 29 days Switching rolls has closed, new enrollments can still choose rolls Enrol or update here: vote.nz/enrolling/enrol-or-update/e… Remind your Friends & Whanau #nzpol
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Marcus @utf9k.net · 23/09/2026
The NCSC's 2026 Cyber Report has a small factoid about the ManageMyHealth hack that I don't think was public before: > These [valid user] credentials had been stolen through a malware infection known as Lumma Stealer. www.ncsc.govt.nz/assets/insig...
ncsc.govt.nz
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Kyhwana Pardus @kyhwana.org · 24/09/2026
oop #eqnz..
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Kyhwana Pardus @kyhwana.org · 22/09/2026
oop smol #eqnz there?
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Kyhwana Pardus @kyhwana.org · 16/09/2026
Ah yes giving five year olds loaded machine guns.. I mean vibe coding up an ecommerce site strikes again.. www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3610...
stuff.co.nz
Ridiculous deals as store leaves website open for the public to edit
An Auckland convenience store is in the midst of an ongoing online battle after inadvertently allowing its website to be edited by the general public.
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Kyhwana Pardus @kyhwana.org · 14/09/2026
oop #eqnz
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Innsmouth Looksmaxxing @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
The Roaring 20s are back baby, everyone is still mentally ill from a plague and a war, importing Canadian booze is illegal, James Carville is alive
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Kyhwana Pardus @kyhwana.org · 08/09/2026
A random YouTube on NZ's addiction to duopolies. (We love* them so much) m.youtube.com/watch?v=Srdc...
m.youtube.com
New Zealand's Addiction to Duopoly
YouTube video by Limi
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blueminder @ohnoim.online · 04/09/2026
"rogue agents" aren't responsible for shit. they can't be. the fucking companies that release them are. all the computer crime laws on the books are only there for teenagers in their basements writing switch emulators, not negligent sociopaths that were made a load-bearing pillar of our economy
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NZ Earthquake Bot @nzquake.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
QUAKE: Mag 4.2, Sat, Sep 05 2026, 06:34:02 AM, 20 km north-west of Paraparaumu. Depth: 36 km #eqnz www.geonet.org.nz/earthquake/2026p6…
geonet.org.nz
GeoNet: Quake - 2026p666955GeoNet logoGeoNet logoEarth Sciences New Zealand logoNatural Hazards Commission Toka Tū Ake logoGeoNet logoEarth Sciences New Zealand logoEarth Sciences New Zealand logoNatural Hazards Commission Toka Tū Ake logoNatural Hazards Commission Toka Tū Ake logo
The quake may have been felt in Blenheim, Eketahuna, Feilding, French Pass, Levin, Martinborough, Masterton, Palmerston North, Paraparaumu, Picton, Wellington, Whanganui, and surrounding localities.
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Kyhwana Pardus @kyhwana.org · 04/09/2026
Aahh #eqnz!
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Dylan Reeve @dylanreeve.com · 30/08/2026
The political obsession with public debt and budget surpluses with no broader regard to the functional and social health of the nation is infuriating. Literally what is a government for if not to build a stronger and more functional society?
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Vote for hope in November! Toitū te Tiriti 🇳🇿 @mrjeffhowell.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
This government has given our young people no hope. Now it's giving them no money to survive unemployment. www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
rnz.co.nz
Thousands of youths to lose access to unemployment benefits after welfare law change
Thousands of youths across the country are set to lose access to unemployment benefits, after a welfare bill passed into law under urgency on Friday night.
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D Jukic She/her @dejanajuk.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Our power bill is $660. The cost of keeping us & the moko warm when ill. NZ has the flu because the govt defunded flu vaccines for under 12s in a cost of living crisis, & because people have to choose between heat, food & rent the hospitals they also underfunded & understaffed are buckling. #nzpol
VoteNZ orange man and dog image with the words: 

Enrol. Vote.
Be heard.
vote.nz
0800 36 76 56
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GrapheneOS @grapheneos.org · 29/08/2026
We have a partial port of GrapheneOS to the Pixel 11 series after a week of work on it. We're unable to complete the port due to lack of support for ARM hardware memory tagging in software, firmware and near certainly hardware. It appears Google cut an important security feature to save money.
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D Jukic She/her @dejanajuk.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
National/NZF/ACT gave us the flu epidemic we are having now. Kids are seriously ill and hospitals are buckling under the strain because they defunded the Flu vaccine for under 12s. Their slogan should be Vote for us We Make You Sick and then remove healthcare.
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Kyhwana Pardus @kyhwana.org · 26/08/2026
A #nzpol tale in 3 news articles 2024 www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa... This winter thespinoff.co.nz/society/18-0... NEK MINIT www.1news.co.nz/2026/08/26/f... Classic NZ ambo at the bottom of the cliff political behaviour
rnz.co.nz
Changes to flu vaccine eligibility missed opportunity to improve health equity
From this week, free influenza vaccination will be available to some New Zealanders (those over 65, with long-term conditions, pregnant or with specific mental health conditions), but Pharmac recently...
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Violet Blue® @violetblue.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
And at the same time New Zealand will plan a simultaneous bill requiring government entities down to the local level to issue urgent emergency warnings and disaster information on channels *not* on Facebook or Twitter/X ... right!?!
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Kyhwana Pardus @kyhwana.org · 25/08/2026
~/.. I'm floating through outer space, i'm lost and I can't find a way way... all the lights going dark and my hopes destroyed... Help me, is anybody there.. Save me, i'm running out of air, calling out mayday. It's so dark, its so dark out here in space.... and I feel like i'm going insane.. \~
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Kyhwana Pardus @kyhwana.org · 19/08/2026
Who knew tracking weather balloons would become srs bznis! sprocketfox.io/xssfox/2026/...
sprocketfox.io
How a joke domain purchase turned in geopolitical warfare
Why is the military and a cheese fortune teller contacting me about SondeHub.org
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Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
there is no such thing as "age verification." All "age verification" is actually "identity verification." You can coat it in glitter and "privacy-preserving" wrapping paper. But in the end, mandating age verification means mandating surveillance be built into software and hardware. Period.
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Michael Plank @michaelplanknz.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Flu season was late to get going this year, but it's here now (and not too late to get a flu jab) www.phfscience.nz/digital-libr...
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Kyhwana Pardus @kyhwana.org · 13/08/2026
#nzpol Wait, are you telling me the so called Free Speech Union are suppressing Free Speech?! (surprisedPikachu) www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/free-spee...
nzherald.co.nz
Free Speech Union council member revealed as complainant of 'ridiculing' posts
Ani O'Brien moved to lift her name suppression this morning in court.
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Kyhwana Pardus @kyhwana.org · 10/08/2026
Lmao www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08...
abc.net.au
How a simple request for AI to book a gym class exposed a major threat
When Andrew asked his AI personal assistant to book him a spot in a gym class, he had no idea he would accidentally initiate an autonomous cyber attack.
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The Cutting Room Floor @tcrf.net · 06/08/2026
Recently, there was some controversy, because an AI user pointed their automated tools at our website, and got a warning about a prompt injection. Nothing actually happened, mind, but our anti-AI page successfully annoyed the operator and interrupted their "work."
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 06/08/2026
For the Facebook and Instagram users who are about to be buried in an endless botshit avalanche, this is the beginning of the "Eternal Sloptember." From here on in, the slop only gets worse and thicker and harder to avoid. 42/
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Katya @nzkatya.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
So Luxon claims he has official advice that Data Centres won't increase energy costs but, when the Greens requested a copy of the advice via an OIA, his office says there wasn't any advice and Luxon was just repeating their talking points, then Nicola says MBIE gave her advice ....🤡 #nzpol
nzherald.co.nz
Luxon backpedals after office says 'official' data centre advice actually 'media talking points'
Prime Minister Christopher Luxon has landed in another controversy about the OIA.
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Kyhwana Pardus @kyhwana.org · 01/08/2026
Rip Hashigo Zake, my favourite bar that had a “reserved table” sign with my fursona x.x
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Kotaku @kotaku.com · 31/07/2026
YouTuber Hank Green Admits He Has Unhealthy Relationship With AI After Facing Backlash Over Recent Video 'The level of dopamine I've been getting from interacting with LLMs is not healthy for me,' said Green
kotaku.com
Hank Green Admits To Using AI After Fan Backlash Over Recent Video
'The level of dopamine I've been getting from interacting with LLMs is not healthy for me,' said Hank Green
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ceej @ceej.online · 31/07/2026
ANTHROPIC: Our son loves humanity and for the low price of trillions and trillions of dollars will usher in an era of unprecedented peace and prosperity! OPENAI: Our horrible oafish son is hacking web sites without our permission. ANTHROPIC: (eyes narrowing) Our son is also evil
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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
This is hilarious. The report exaggerates exceptionally tiny changes in the number of under-16s using age-restricted social media, downplays the number of under-16s moving to unmonitored private chats and sketchy sites, stomps its feet a lot about sites failing to accomplish the impossible,
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Kyhwana Pardus @kyhwana.org · 31/07/2026
Oop small #eqnz
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Kyhwana Pardus @kyhwana.org · 29/07/2026
Meeow I want to do blue team cybersecurity things but it is a never ending thing of stuff and uuggh
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Kyhwana Pardus @kyhwana.org · 29/07/2026
Chat, are we cyber cooked? I think we are cyber cooked. m.youtube.com/watch?v=9jK-...
m.youtube.com
Europe - The Final Countdown (Official Video)
YouTube video by EuropeVEVO
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Kyhwana Pardus @kyhwana.org · 27/07/2026
Ah yes it is too cold (3C) so now the trains in Wellington stop working..
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Jason Danner @jpdanner.com · 23/07/2026
Countdown to #InternetNZ board elections! My updated #INZReckons - preferred rankings as of 23/07/2026: 1 Bianca Grizhar 2 Daniel Spector 3 Nabil Sabio Azadi 4 Annette Culpan 5 Keoni Mahelona 6 David Chisholm 7 Jan Rivers No Douglas Brown No Jillaine Heather
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Kyhwana Pardus @kyhwana.org · 24/07/2026
TIL there's a bunch of seismographs in schools around NZ: nzseis-stations.auckland.ac.nz/index-leafle...
nzseis-stations.auckland.ac.nz
NZSEIS
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Kyhwana Pardus @kyhwana.org · 24/07/2026
lmao teams is fucked
list of issues with m365 (everything)
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Effin' Birds @effinbirds.com · 20/07/2026
A painting of a bird beside the text "I'm so fucking tired of being tired"
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Kyhwana Pardus @kyhwana.org · 20/07/2026
So, the NZ civildefence website went down during the last earthquake/tsunami alert and they were like "check our twitter/facebook for updates!" Now, if this stupid under-16's social media ban goes through, how are people under 16 meant to check the socials for potentially live-saving emergency info?
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Aardenvolk @aardenvolk.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
"It was 1988 when I saw my first computer. I still don't know what they're good for to this very day."
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Kyhwana Pardus @kyhwana.org · 18/07/2026
How’s that whole slop machine thing going in business land.. ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/ai-mani... Oh
ludic.mataroa.blog
AI Mania Is Eviscerating Global Decision-Making — Ludicity
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Kyhwana Pardus @kyhwana.org · 09/07/2026
Hot take, data sovereignty is fake and everyone just seems to pretend it isnt.
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Kyhwana Pardus @kyhwana.org · 09/07/2026
Oh that was a #eqnz and not the wind www.geonet.org.nz/earthquake/2...
geonet.org.nz
A magnitude 3.9 earthquake occurred 50 km south-west of Waverley, New Zealand on Thu Jul 9 2026 1:15 PM. The quake was 12 kilometres deep and the shaking was weak close to the quake.
The quake may have been felt in Hawera, Waverley, Whanganui, and surrounding localities.
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qdot @buttplug.engineer · 05/07/2026
Presenting my new project, QRTUBER Using constantly updating QRCodes for streamers to sync data to viewers! Doesn't even have to be sex toys being controlled, could be lights or gamepad state or whatever, but I'm me so that's what we're starting with. qrtuber.com
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