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Tom Eastman

@tom.eastman.nz
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It might seem obvious that if you value something, you'll make an effort to get better at it. What's less intuitive is that if you make an effort to get better at something you're not good at, you'll learn its value.

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Molly White @molly.wiki · 20h
“You are infringing on the time and brainpower of people by pushing "your" content that little/no of your brainpower went into” is such a banger
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 05/10/2026
It's tempting to see this all as mere hypocrisy, but I think it's something far weirder and more disturbing. These men understand completely that scrutiny is antithetical to living as your authentic self.
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David Gerard @davidgerard.circumstances.run.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026
henstomper

oh my god the slot machine company says i have to keep putting coins in their machine or Im Gonna Get Left Behind. thats so scary. and it has to be true because they know more about slot machines than i do

oh my god the slot machine company says if we dont give them money to build the world's biggest slot machine the chinese are gonna build it first and win all the prizes. and then there wont be any prizes anymore
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Tom Eastman @tom.eastman.nz · 05/10/2026
I was absolutely traumatised as a tiny child by watching a huge man eat so much at a restaurant that he simply exploded on screen with blood and guts everywhere. Twenty years later, I had recently become a Monty Python fan and was watching their lower-quality backlog when...
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Tom Eastman @tom.eastman.nz · 02/10/2026
It's not my real answer but it did occur to me to wonder if it's just some lines from Hudson that are iconic but this video proves that it's literally EVERY line in the movie. www.youtube.com/watch?v=qrjF...
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Supercut: Private William Hudson in Aliens
YouTube video by Migliopolis
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Remain In Hell Without Despair @daphnelawless.com · 02/10/2026
 “Suppose one reads a story of filthy atrocities in the paper. Then suppose that something turns up suggesting that the story might not be quite true, or not quite so bad as it was made out. Is one's first feeling, 'Thank God, even they aren't quite so bad as that,' or is it a feeling of disappointment, and even a determination to cling to the first story for the sheer pleasure of thinking your enemies are as bad as possible? If it is the second then it is, I am afraid, the first step in a process which, if followed to the end, will make us into devils. You see, one is beginning to wish that black was a little blacker. If we give that wish its head, later on we shall wish to see grey as black, and then to see white itself as black. Finally we shall insist on seeing everything -- God and our friends and ourselves included -- as bad, and not be able to stop doing it: we shall be fixed for ever in a universe of pure hatred.”
― C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity
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Tom Eastman @tom.eastman.nz · 30/09/2026
After 20 years of Ubuntu on desktop, if I switched to Debian what would I lose?
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Benn Jordan @bennjordan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Jesus. I guess we can assume it isn't trained on siloed data. 😬
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ThatIngrid @thatingrid.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Overseas Kiwis: enrol to vote if you're eligible. Deadline to enrol is mid to late Oct. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...
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A tight election looms in New Zealand. This time, overseas voters could be bad news for the big parties
More than 100,000 have enrolled to vote from abroad in the November poll, and many are unhappy with how things look back home
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Tom Eastman @tom.eastman.nz · 30/09/2026
Easy. Hearing this song at about 13 years old cemented my taste in music for the rest of my famn life, and made me a musician. youtu.be/r80HF68KM8g?...
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Alice In Chains - No Excuses (Official Video)
YouTube video by AliceInChainsVEVO
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Tom Eastman @tom.eastman.nz · 29/09/2026
Christchurch, the garden [variety racists] city.
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Tom Eastman @tom.eastman.nz · 27/09/2026
That's what the friend would have thought they were doing: confiding in someone.
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Big Dracula Energy @mayawest.online · 27/09/2026
"it's not my story to tell" is a very simple sentence. people should try internalizing it.
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Tom Eastman @tom.eastman.nz · 26/09/2026
But... they could have just not paid the journalist who wrote the article. If they wanted to suppress the story. They simply would not write the story.
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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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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Reminder that in Canada upon becoming an engineer you get an iron ring made of a collapsed bridge, purposely designed to be uncomfortable, to remind you that your ethics demand you give a fuck even about the boring grudgework of such as double-checking your math. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Ring
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Iron Ring - Wikipedia
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Ann Leckie @annleckie.com · 24/09/2026
Sweet bleeding Mithras y'all, I get being an unhinged Astarion fan, that is one messed up guy, I like him and I don't usually have time for vampires. But you do realize that he's, like, pretend?? And that someone can have a different take on who he is or his story, right?
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The Rude Pundit @rudepundit.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Congratulations to every fucking prick who denied or didn't give a shit about the climate crisis. Walk through the fires to pick up your prize: a ruined planet. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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‘Jaw-dropping’ El Niño bursts through temperature record months before peak
‘Godzilla-level’ phenomenon is supercharging the climate crisis and will have a huge impact on communities across the world
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Tom Eastman @tom.eastman.nz · 24/09/2026
What exactly is your specific allegation here? That to disincentivise people reading the story the NZ Herald is hiding it behind the paywall?
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Tom Eastman @tom.eastman.nz · 24/09/2026
I wish I had Gabbro's chill.
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Tom Eastman @tom.eastman.nz · 24/09/2026
'so follow me into the desert as desperate as you are where the moon is glued to a picture of heaven and all the little pigs have god
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Paula Penfold @paulapenfold.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
DMs open
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Paul Le Comte 🇳🇿🇨🇦📷 @paullecomtephoto.nz · 22/09/2026
I don't know who needs to know this, but the fucking @greens.org.nz are KILLING this election campaign ❤️🖤💚
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Kate Pearce @secvalve.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The security team at Trade Me rarely has an opening, but right now we have one. We are an industry leader in securing and building for/against/with AI and cloud technologies. www.trademe.co.nz/a/jobs/it/se...
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Security Specialist - Intermediate, Trade Me | Trade Me Jobs
Security Specialist - Intermediate (Full time, Contract) for Trade Me in Wellington, Wellington.
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Tom Eastman @tom.eastman.nz · 22/09/2026
You just now that Luxon will need an aide to read him a summary of the AI summary of the book.
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Lyndon Hood @lyndonhood.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The guy in The Princess Bride does not list all the classic blunders but I guess one is doing Nicky Hager damage control when Nicky Hager was not thinking about you.
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Tom Eastman @tom.eastman.nz · 22/09/2026
Is "Dirty Work" being released as an ebook? I'm not sure I want to deal with that crowd.
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Tom Eastman @tom.eastman.nz · 22/09/2026
Welcome back!
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Bill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
As a pragmatic centrist, I read the Niemöller poem differently. After each group mentioned I pencil in what percentage of the population they are, and if it’s a small number I cross off their names as disposable. Poetry is fine but math wins elections!!
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Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Alex Karp of Palantir says the AI industry must be nationalized to protect it from lawsuits if it accidentally destroys the world. More likely, he sees the bubble about to burst and he wants to be bought out with our tax dollars before that happens.
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Twig @twigmouse.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I wish more people would realize this. Any AGI, when asked what to do to fix global warming, would respond “first turn me off, then do all the things your scientists have been telling you to do for decades” Either that or it would look at the data and respond “you’re too late”.
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Tom Eastman @tom.eastman.nz · 18/09/2026
I am old enough to remember when it was "every program expands until it has email built in"
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Tom Eastman @tom.eastman.nz · 18/09/2026
It makes more sense when you realize that everyone else has anatomy and internal organs, but Reacher has hit points.
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Sana @bigshika.com · 18/09/2026
The first in a sizzling new romantasy series by best-selling author Nicky Hager. A slow burn, spicy dark romantasy which follows the forbidden enemies-to-lovers romance between a girl and a dragon-shapeshifter Prince of the Fae. Perfect for fans of Fourth Wing and A Court of Thorns and Roses.
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newimprovedtom.bsky.social @newimprovedtom.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Live your life so that you don’t get nervous when Nicky Hager announces a book.
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Tom Eastman @tom.eastman.nz · 18/09/2026
We are both damaged.
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Keith Ng @keithng.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Aw, here we go again...
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Tom Eastman @tom.eastman.nz · 18/09/2026
Each of SMB1, 2, 3, and World represent a different key part of my childhood.
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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 17/09/2026
“A senior executive at Microsoft said A.I. systems built on the work of others will be seen as ‘an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions’ and possibly the greatest robbery of labor in human history, according to court documents unredacted Thursday in an ongoing Manhattan lawsuit.”
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Docs in A.I. copyright suit reveal startling admission by Microsoft exec over ‘astonishing theft’
The admission appeared in a newly unredacted filing in the landmark copyright infringement legal battle playing out between newspapers like the Orlando Sentinel and tech companies Microsoft and OpenAI...
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Warwick Gow @warwickgow.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
No notes, this is entirely accurate and unfortunately needs to be treated as essential knowledge at this point.
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SE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
If you've got a sex cult and a nice compound that was given to you for free with stolen money because you preached the gospel of doom really well, how could you stop preaching it? If elaborating upon doomsday prophesies is worth money -- and it is -- you will get more of them.
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🚄Rob✅✅🚆 @robdickinson.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Good news to those that will be dead soon! www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/1...
rnz.co.nz
Next few decades will be 'very difficult', economist Charles Goodhart warns
Charles Goodhart says growing political polarisation will make it harder to navigate big and necessary policy changes.
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Tom Eastman @tom.eastman.nz · 16/09/2026
Shokz OpenRun Pro 2 Premium
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Tom Eastman @tom.eastman.nz · 16/09/2026
Thanks for the promo deal, PBTech!
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Tom Eastman @tom.eastman.nz · 15/09/2026
Not gonna lie I kinda love seeing Mitch McConnell locked up in his own body with a silent shriek visible behind his twitching eyes. I hope he lives forever.
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Tom Eastman @tom.eastman.nz · 15/09/2026
There is no pain, you are receding
A distant ship, smoke on the horizon
You are only coming through in waves
Your lips move, but I can't hear what you're saying
When I was a child, I had a fever
My hands felt just like two balloons
Now I've got that feeling once again
I can't explain, you would not understand
This is not how I am
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Tom Eastman @tom.eastman.nz · 15/09/2026
Based on NZ's track record I can only assume that this means there are 21 more candidates for commissioner?
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👻 David Weiskopf believes in spooks 👻 @dave.bzky.team · 14/09/2026
A statistic that haunts me because it is 100% true and shocking and useless in advocacy precisely because it is true and shocking: Policy that enables a 1-car lifestyle rather than 2 is equivalent to giving a family a $25,000 annual pay raise.
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Daniel Ahmad @zhugeex.com · 14/09/2026
Trump has only declared victory in the Iran war once this month. Concerning.
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Luke Ontario @coolhand.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
With AGI overwhelming the news again, I repeat: There is no path to intelligence via LLM. But an LLM botnet choking the internet, or someone using a local model to attack aging infrastructure, are both real risks and too late to prevent. Pay no attention to the bogeymen, the harm is here today.
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