Tom Eastman
@tom.eastman.nz
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.
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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when its definitely not a hostage situation
November 25, 2025 at 4:19 PM
when its definitely not a hostage situation
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It's weird to not only have lived through an information revolution but also now living through its undoing, all within less than a generation.
Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea
November 25, 2025 at 12:19 PM
It's weird to not only have lived through an information revolution but also now living through its undoing, all within less than a generation.
Oh look, it was about racism again.
Regardless of kayfabe comms and Nat equivocation in media, ACT always says the thing to its red-faced griefer audience
November 25, 2025 at 6:16 AM
Oh look, it was about racism again.
Corruption keeps the bubble up
November 25, 2025 at 2:41 AM
Corruption keeps the bubble up
You... can literally just buy whistles. 3D printing them is *already* an extravagance. The 3D printers are not a key part of the revolution.
How on earth can you claim to be a product designer and outright dismiss what people like as a consideration?
November 25, 2025 at 2:33 AM
You... can literally just buy whistles. 3D printing them is *already* an extravagance. The 3D printers are not a key part of the revolution.
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Realising that I can taste National's terrible economy: the bakeries are using less butter in their cookies.
November 23, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Realising that I can taste National's terrible economy: the bakeries are using less butter in their cookies.
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Let’s see if one single pundit who said there was some great realignment of American sentiment with this last election, based on what they saw on the Nazi-owned platform overrun by foreign actors, offers any retractions or corrections for their gullibility.
It’s hilarious and revelatory that a bunch of giant MAGA/America First X accounts are actually based in Eastern Europe and Nigeria.
Top MAGA Influencers Accidentally Unmasked as Foreign Actors
A new feature on Elon Musk’s X has given deeper insight into the online “America First” movement.
www.thedailybeast.com
November 23, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Let’s see if one single pundit who said there was some great realignment of American sentiment with this last election, based on what they saw on the Nazi-owned platform overrun by foreign actors, offers any retractions or corrections for their gullibility.
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For every carefree, "Don't stress, things always work themselves out!" person there is at least one extremely anxious, detail-oriented, forward-thinking loved one or coworker who has spent years behind the scenes making sure things work out
November 22, 2025 at 5:13 PM
For every carefree, "Don't stress, things always work themselves out!" person there is at least one extremely anxious, detail-oriented, forward-thinking loved one or coworker who has spent years behind the scenes making sure things work out
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5 years almost to the fucking day. Incredible. Can’t take the grift out of the girl
November 22, 2025 at 6:40 AM
5 years almost to the fucking day. Incredible. Can’t take the grift out of the girl
TEN MORE YEARS OF CONSULTATIONS.
Wellington will never, ever be allowed ro do anything. This town is a corpse.
Wellington will never, ever be allowed ro do anything. This town is a corpse.
📢 The area in the capital's CBD is in need of work, but the project has to be realistic and affordable, the mayor says.
Concern over 'cost blowouts' behind pause on Wellington's Golden Mile project
www.rnz.co.nz
November 21, 2025 at 8:34 AM
TEN MORE YEARS OF CONSULTATIONS.
Wellington will never, ever be allowed ro do anything. This town is a corpse.
Wellington will never, ever be allowed ro do anything. This town is a corpse.
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Give the wonderful folks on your systems and security teams lots of pats on the back.
This is the hellscape they inhabit daily.
This is the hellscape they inhabit daily.
November 20, 2025 at 11:49 PM
Give the wonderful folks on your systems and security teams lots of pats on the back.
This is the hellscape they inhabit daily.
This is the hellscape they inhabit daily.
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Musk has apparently manipulated Grok so much that it says he's a better athlete than LeBron James and a funnier comedian than Jerry Seinfeld.
Imagine being so insecure you need to program an LLM to boost you like that.
Imagine being so insecure you need to program an LLM to boost you like that.
November 20, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Musk has apparently manipulated Grok so much that it says he's a better athlete than LeBron James and a funnier comedian than Jerry Seinfeld.
Imagine being so insecure you need to program an LLM to boost you like that.
Imagine being so insecure you need to program an LLM to boost you like that.
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Weaver is the most prominent computer scientist to explain that cryptocurrency's value is completely derived from organized crime. And its invention dramatically increased ransomware attacks.
Watch him explain the unsustainability of Gen AI datacenters @davidgerard.co.uk
youtube.com/watch?v=a5rL...
Watch him explain the unsustainability of Gen AI datacenters @davidgerard.co.uk
youtube.com/watch?v=a5rL...
The futile future of the gigawatt datacenter
YouTube video by Pivot to AI
youtube.com
November 7, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Weaver is the most prominent computer scientist to explain that cryptocurrency's value is completely derived from organized crime. And its invention dramatically increased ransomware attacks.
Watch him explain the unsustainability of Gen AI datacenters @davidgerard.co.uk
youtube.com/watch?v=a5rL...
Watch him explain the unsustainability of Gen AI datacenters @davidgerard.co.uk
youtube.com/watch?v=a5rL...
There is nothing more sad than old rich comedians.
Young comedians have to be keyed-in to society to have the required intuition of what's funny.
Old rich comedians think they have authority to *decide* what's funny, and get more and more angry (and more and more Republican) when they don't.
Young comedians have to be keyed-in to society to have the required intuition of what's funny.
Old rich comedians think they have authority to *decide* what's funny, and get more and more angry (and more and more Republican) when they don't.
How is he a comedian who said that thinking it was a ha-ha joke, it’s not the kind of line you need to pause for laughter, idiot, it’s just a beat
bill maher with one of the craziest flop jokes i've ever seen in my life
November 19, 2025 at 2:12 AM
There is nothing more sad than old rich comedians.
Young comedians have to be keyed-in to society to have the required intuition of what's funny.
Old rich comedians think they have authority to *decide* what's funny, and get more and more angry (and more and more Republican) when they don't.
Young comedians have to be keyed-in to society to have the required intuition of what's funny.
Old rich comedians think they have authority to *decide* what's funny, and get more and more angry (and more and more Republican) when they don't.
A richly-earned accolade.
Government's appalling track record in health just got international recognition. NZ delegation at the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control meeting in Geneva received the Dirty Ashtray award. www.otago.ac.nz/news/newsroo...
Global meeting awards Aotearoa New Zealand ‘Dirty Ashtray’ award
Last night’s award of a ‘Dirty Ashtray’, a civil society award, to the New Zealand Government shows Aotearoa is now attracting international attention for all the wrong reasons, tobacco control resear...
www.otago.ac.nz
November 19, 2025 at 12:32 AM
A richly-earned accolade.
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Was just listening to a conversation between a VC and an author who writes about innovation, and they were discussing "why Elon couldn't successfully reform the government" and it was the dumbest conversation I've heard in a while. And I realized they were starting with the wrong premise...
November 18, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Was just listening to a conversation between a VC and an author who writes about innovation, and they were discussing "why Elon couldn't successfully reform the government" and it was the dumbest conversation I've heard in a while. And I realized they were starting with the wrong premise...
Mayor Little is off to a flying start being played for a chump by every chump around him.
Mayor Andrew Little says he and chief executive Matt Prosser have had assurances from Chung the situation was unintentional and that Chung has apologised.
Private council briefing blogged online after ‘hot mic’ moment
Wellington City councillor Ray Chung left an open phone line to a controversial social media figure for 40 minutes during a closed training session, the mayor has confirmed – the contents of which wer...
www.thepost.co.nz
November 18, 2025 at 6:51 AM
Mayor Little is off to a flying start being played for a chump by every chump around him.
My "in New Zealand, cars are citizens" theory of politics remains absolutely undefeated.
NEW: Chris Bishop used housing money to fund a bridge in his electorate his own Govt had killed off.
Officials were against the move and Labour say he shouldn’t have been anywhere near the decision.
www.thepost.co.nz/politics/360...
Officials were against the move and Labour say he shouldn’t have been anywhere near the decision.
www.thepost.co.nz/politics/360...
Chris Bishop diverts Kāinga Ora money to fund a bridge in his electorate
Officials warned against the use of housing funds for bridge building but Bishop says it was a “pragmatic choice”.
www.thepost.co.nz
November 17, 2025 at 7:37 PM
My "in New Zealand, cars are citizens" theory of politics remains absolutely undefeated.
The worst people in the literal world are selling at the peak of the bubble, and the clowns who thought this was the future will have blown near a trillion dollars on it and will make that back by laying off a couple hundred thousand employees.
Both the worst people and the clowns will be fine.
Both the worst people and the clowns will be fine.
Billionaire Peter Thiel’s latest 13F didn’t show off a mere trim, but a full-blown exit from AI bellwether Nvidia (NVDA).
November 17, 2025 at 5:38 AM
The worst people in the literal world are selling at the peak of the bubble, and the clowns who thought this was the future will have blown near a trillion dollars on it and will make that back by laying off a couple hundred thousand employees.
Both the worst people and the clowns will be fine.
Both the worst people and the clowns will be fine.
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Prendergast and I usually agree and I mostly concur here, excepting:
--addressable market is $60-65B, tops, with $1T+ in hand-wavey commitments everywhere that've juiced stock values
--there have, after **years,** emerged no good use cases for LLMs, not a one
The tech? It's not good, it's useless.
--addressable market is $60-65B, tops, with $1T+ in hand-wavey commitments everywhere that've juiced stock values
--there have, after **years,** emerged no good use cases for LLMs, not a one
The tech? It's not good, it's useless.
Look, transformers are solid tech. LLMs have real use cases. But that’s not the AI bubble and that won’t stop it from bursting.
The bubble is selling every CEO a dream that AI will 10x their workforce whilst they sack half their staff. The bubble is $600B in capex chasing $100B in revenue.
The bubble is selling every CEO a dream that AI will 10x their workforce whilst they sack half their staff. The bubble is $600B in capex chasing $100B in revenue.
November 15, 2025 at 6:04 AM
Prendergast and I usually agree and I mostly concur here, excepting:
--addressable market is $60-65B, tops, with $1T+ in hand-wavey commitments everywhere that've juiced stock values
--there have, after **years,** emerged no good use cases for LLMs, not a one
The tech? It's not good, it's useless.
--addressable market is $60-65B, tops, with $1T+ in hand-wavey commitments everywhere that've juiced stock values
--there have, after **years,** emerged no good use cases for LLMs, not a one
The tech? It's not good, it's useless.
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Every time Covid and learning loss hits the news, people act like the only factor is folk staying home and learning online, rather than… Living through a global mass death event.
November 14, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Every time Covid and learning loss hits the news, people act like the only factor is folk staying home and learning online, rather than… Living through a global mass death event.