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National are proposing to drug test all job seekers. That sounds pretty expensive! If they don't do that, how many more people could the government employ? #nzpol #national

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Low Quality Facts @lowqualityfacts.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

Friendly reminder that megacorporations like Amazon are ruining the world, and you can instead support small independent businesses that make weird little things like today's Low Quality Ad, this Glocktopus Pin. collabs.shop/ion9he

An enamel pin of an orange octopus holding various firearms in its tentacles, with smoke and muzzle flashes coming from some of the guns.

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Rach "pumpkin spice butt girl" @ykantrachelread.social.treehouse.systems.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

every branch of right-wing pseudo-intellectualism is named something like "super-rational objective humanist altruism" and then you look at what they believe and it's some variant of "corporations should legally be able to murder kids"

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Mu @mu.mastodon.nz.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

What is this wetness on my face? Oh, right, I'm trying to do something on Linux again. Why do I do this to myself? #linux #why #designedToHurt

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Robert Kingett @weirdwriter.caneandable.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026

Keep this #NoAI website, featuring software, communities, and more, without the use of any AI in the code bases or have an openly NoAI stance and policy noailist.org #AI

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NoAiList.org

NoAiList.org Lists projects that have specifically chosen not to use AI. No AI List is for No AI Projects. Anti-AI

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Mu @mu.mastodon.nz.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026

I managed to fix a corrupt Linux installation. This might be the only positive experience I have had with Linux. It usually makes me cry. #linux #ubuntu #whyIsItSoAwfulToUseAfterAllThisTime

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Prof. Sam Lawler @sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026

Ok last post stewing about this: I just looked more carefully and pretty much all of the citations are wrong in some strange way. But they're all clearly based on citations that I've used in writing. Don't use genAI for science, kids.

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ari :ariYeah: @fedi.arimelody.space · 24/09/2026

niri has officially banned AI code contributions and issues, leaving a carve-out for machine translation provided the original text is also presented: github.com/niri-wm/niri/commit/7256ccf6274a1f953c6987ade34ea1c0e4944c27

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Nick Young @nickofnz.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Here’s Nicky Hager’s Dirty Work: The Taxpayers' Union and New Zealand's Hard Right book launch. #HagerBook #nzpol www.youtube.com/live/k4m_-zw...

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NZ Herald Live: Nicky Hager book launch

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Mu @mu.mastodon.nz.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026

#nzpol I'm almost certain to be voting Green this election, unless something weird happens. They aren't perfect, I don't agree with every policy, but I agree with the broad thrust of their politics, and I think most of their policies are pretty good.

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argonaut @argonaut.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026

people: ai is going to kill us all so we need to do something to stop it now! same people, 4 years ago: i know covid has killed millions but it’s not a big deal and it’ll pass and i’m not wearing a mask because i look silly #ai #covid #silly #people

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🐶🐙Dr. Caffiend☕️😷 @captcaffiend.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

This group has been lobbying the political parties and looks like NZ First has used lots of their talking points for the health policy. Several of the advisors for this group were “Plan B” advocates when it came to the Covid response. makenewzealandhealthy.co.nz

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Make New Zealand Healthy | Ending Chronic Disease Through Prevention

Join the Make New Zealand Healthy movement. Advocating for prevention-first healthcare, chronic disease reduction, better nutrition, informed choice, and lasting health reform across New Zealand.

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MinmiTheDino @minmi.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026

RE: tldr.nettime.org/@tante/11728072284… May god bless and keep mcsweeneys forever

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daniel:// stenberg:// @bagder.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026

"for months on end now, most of our teams have just been triaging bugs and coordinating releases. It has truly taken all the fun out of the job"

unbound vulnerabilities year to year showing 2026 take off like a rocket

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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Macklemore shared a long statement here www.instagram.com/p/DdRdsy0m2HK/

I'm not sure how to start this. So I'm going to speak from the heart and share the truth. Ed Sheeran and his team have made the decision to remove me from The Loop tour.
But before I get into it, I want to say something that should be obvious. In this moment I think it matters. I am not a victim. Ed Sheeran is not a victim. Pink is not a victim. We have careers, money, opportunities, safety and audiences around the world. Whatever consequences any of us face for what we say, we get to go home to our families.

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River 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @riverseeber.net · 13/09/2026

I need to find more GenZ and/or queer/trans folks to follow on Mastodon. Especially looking for more mutuals tbh. It would be nice to make some more actual friends on Fedi. Everyone should boost this to help me make more mutuals. :cyber_boost_request: And come follow me if you fit either of […]

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MrAlanCooper @mralancooper.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 13/09/2026

COVID-19 took over the planet and it wasn't intelligent at all. "AI" isn't intelligent, it's just dangerous and malicious, like a deadly virus propagated for profit by amoral billionaires.

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Mu @mu.mastodon.nz.ap.brid.gy · 13/09/2026

Ata marie Aotearoa, ke te peheia hoe?

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[object Object] @zzt.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 11/09/2026

you’ll be left behind unless you program in java. one billion devices run java. java is incredibly powerful but incredibly dangerous and you can pay oracle for a license today. java will replace all programming languages. only luddites don’t like java.

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Mu @mu.mastodon.nz.ap.brid.gy · 11/09/2026

I haven't argued with AI bros today, and I feel much happier and less stressed. Maybe this is the way.

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Dan Fixes Coin-Ops @ifixcoinops.retro.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026

I started around 8pm and had maybe an hours' worth of breaks and it's now 1am and it's probably about as clean as it's gonna get. The base is absolutely awful for getting clumps of pissy clay stuck all up in the crevices (pic alt text: pissy clay in crevices) […] [Original post on retro.social]

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Wendy Palmer @wendypalmer.mastodon.au.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026

Had to explain writer scams to my partner today 😂 Him: are you sure these emails in the spam folder aren’t legitimate? They sound plausible Me: smoothly, blandly plausible, yes, they want a response, then they’ll start asking for money Him: but they’re so nice about your books! Me […]

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Mu @mu.mastodon.nz.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2026

Good morning beautiful people, I hope your day is relaxing and fulfilling!

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Mu @mu.mastodon.nz.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2026

First! (Non-grumpy post of the day)

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Bernard Hickey @bernardchickey.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

My daily email out in full for paying subscribers: Meth use hits 2m/week in April; Opportunity below 5% in new poll; ACT & NZ First campaign to pull out of Paris; Greens propose KiwiMart; National to double income threshold for 1st home loan to $300k #nzpol thekaka.substack.com/p/meth-use-h...

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Meth use hits record high as election campaigning starts

Meth use hits 2m/week in April; Opportunity below 5% in new poll; ACT & NZ First campaign to pull out of Paris; Greens propose KiwiMart; National to double income threshold for 1st home loan to $300k

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samuel mehr @mehr.nz · 05/09/2026

happy father's day to everyone currently half-listening to their children, downstairs, who are bickering over who gets to use which coloured pencils to make a father's day card

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David Gerard @davidgerard.circumstances.run.ap.brid.gy · 05/09/2026

these days i feel i have to mention it every time to remind people that these uwu smol bean rationalist effective altruist kids are also nazis yes those tech nazis no their disagreement with trump is that they think he's gauche and not their variety of nerd

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highly praised and little read @hannah.posts.rat.pictures.ap.brid.gy · 05/09/2026

Too bad its never like “our ai agent went rogue and deleted ten billion dollars of medical debt”

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Daniel Moser @dmoser.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Pollution levels in London after 10 years of advancing sustainable transport.

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Phil Stevens :tinoflag: @phil-stevens.mastodon.nz.ap.brid.gy · 03/09/2026

Here we are over a quarter of the way through the 21st century and the state of browsing the web is every link you click sends you on a mandatory side quest to prove you're not a snotty little script whose existence is predicated on sucking the creative joy out of everything that humanity does.

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Orion Ussner kidder @orionkidder.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 03/09/2026

I'm so glad I never gave #Framework my money. Dodged a Nazi bullet. I would have learned about #Omarchy and then *hated* the machine I was using. I wouldn't even be able to give it away in good conscience. #FOSS #FLOSS #OpenSource #Linux #computers #laptops #fascism

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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

"We need AI to democratize art" I wrote my first spec script at my kitchen table with a bic pen in the hour every morning before I went to work on a natural gas pipeline, based on a screenwriting book I got at the public library. We good

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The Broke Bonsai Bloke me my coffee & bonsai🇳🇿🌳✂️🌲☕️ @memycoffeenbonsai.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Research Is Work! All Research & not just scientific lS work But I don't know what Research work is/looks like day to day. I bet most "folks out there" don't either. So part of the campaign may call for stories from researchers the actual PEOPLE doing the WORK. What does this/your WORK Do? #NZpol

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David Gerard @davidgerard.circumstances.run.ap.brid.gy · 30/08/2026

ya know i was specifically wondering what joey hess would make of this debian LLM bullshit, his response is what i expected joeyh.name/blog/entry/Debian_and_th…

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Debian and the sirens

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[object Object] @zzt.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 30/08/2026

debian, a conservative linux distro, made the conservative choice and like all conservatives, they voted for the option that’s maximally damaging while pretending to be fair, balanced, and centrist you’ve, uh, seen this show before, haven’t you

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Rach "pumpkin spice butt girl" @ykantrachelread.social.treehouse.systems.ap.brid.gy · 28/08/2026

_["nuanced opinions on AI" voice]_ ...and so, in my opinion, all of you anti-book-burning people out there should go to book-burning rallies, learn how to properly burn books, learn their chants and slogans, maybe toss a few into the fire yourselves. that way, you can teach the people in your […]

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David Gerard @davidgerard.circumstances.run.ap.brid.gy · 27/08/2026

Your AGENTS.md file doesn’t actually do anything except cost you more tokens www.youtube.com/watch?v=QAq45fJln70… - video pivottoai.libsyn.com/20260827-your-… - podcast time: 4 min 53 sec

bored robot with notebook falling asleep

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Prof. Sam Lawler @sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/08/2026

A few good suggestions so far, but here's more info because the questions made me realize I really didn't include enough: I just want students to be able to watch pre-recorded lecture videos. I don't want them to easily download videos (not sure if that's a silly ask), or easily feed […]

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b4ux1t3 :trek_ds9_sisko:#1️⃣ @b4ux1t3.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 22/08/2026

I know I’m not the only one, but.. If you know of a company that needs a very senior developer and won’t force them to use AI for literally every single thing, I’d love to hear about it. I am literally miserable where I am. I don’t care what you’re building, what language, it doesn’t matter […]

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Phil @paw.mstdn.io.ap.brid.gy · 16/08/2026

RE: mastodon.social/@MugsysRapSheet/117… Good thing National would never do anything like this. It would be so desperate and cynical.

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