Andy O'Brien
@spadge.bsky.social
Originally from Scotland. I'm a guest in Aotearoa, who works in public service. I try to do IT Security stuff. He/Him.🏳️⚧️Ally.
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November 29, 2025 at 1:27 AM
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Seymour yet again finding a way to enshittify school lunches
"Mila described the move to tie funding to attendance as "disgusting". "To have the Government take the school lunches programme and try to make it a carrot for attendance.. it's just terrible.""
I agree, Mila, I 💯 agree
#nzpol
"Mila described the move to tie funding to attendance as "disgusting". "To have the Government take the school lunches programme and try to make it a carrot for attendance.. it's just terrible.""
I agree, Mila, I 💯 agree
#nzpol
Not only is this blatantly unfair, but for a Party that doesnt believe in collective responsibility,theyre holding ALL children responsible for the actions of others...
www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3609...
www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3609...
Lunch funding to be tied to attendance for hundreds more schools
Next year funding for school lunches delivered through the internal model will be tied to attendance.
www.stuff.co.nz
November 28, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Seymour yet again finding a way to enshittify school lunches
"Mila described the move to tie funding to attendance as "disgusting". "To have the Government take the school lunches programme and try to make it a carrot for attendance.. it's just terrible.""
I agree, Mila, I 💯 agree
#nzpol
"Mila described the move to tie funding to attendance as "disgusting". "To have the Government take the school lunches programme and try to make it a carrot for attendance.. it's just terrible.""
I agree, Mila, I 💯 agree
#nzpol
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Trickery and fuckery.
'Trickery and f...ery': Agency under fire over senior manager's 'serious' privacy breach
A senior manager at the Crown Response Office accidentally exposed the identities of more than 30 Lake Alice torture survivors in a breach former staff say was predictable
www.stuff.co.nz
November 28, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Trickery and fuckery.
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Love articles featuring lil octogenarians in knitted gloves moaning about a tax on houses worth millions.
Say when the times were good buying a MASSIVE old Bentley. Now the Bentley is worth loads but you can’t afford to fuel/fix it.
Tough. Get rid.
Buy a Mazda you can afford and put the heating on.
Say when the times were good buying a MASSIVE old Bentley. Now the Bentley is worth loads but you can’t afford to fuel/fix it.
Tough. Get rid.
Buy a Mazda you can afford and put the heating on.
November 28, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Love articles featuring lil octogenarians in knitted gloves moaning about a tax on houses worth millions.
Say when the times were good buying a MASSIVE old Bentley. Now the Bentley is worth loads but you can’t afford to fuel/fix it.
Tough. Get rid.
Buy a Mazda you can afford and put the heating on.
Say when the times were good buying a MASSIVE old Bentley. Now the Bentley is worth loads but you can’t afford to fuel/fix it.
Tough. Get rid.
Buy a Mazda you can afford and put the heating on.
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Great story from Matt Nippert - www.nzherald.co.nz/business/com... The dark fleet hiding in our own backyard: How the Cook Islands sold its flag to Moscow and Tehran
November 28, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Great story from Matt Nippert - www.nzherald.co.nz/business/com... The dark fleet hiding in our own backyard: How the Cook Islands sold its flag to Moscow and Tehran
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If you said you were drunk but thankfully you barely drove home without passing out it would be universally agreed you should go to jail. It’s maddening how apparently if you own a Tesla, though, you’re allowed to brag about getting behind the wheel while impaired to the point of unconsciousness.
Working 36 hours straight on Thanksgiving so Grok says Elon is in better shape than LeBron
November 28, 2025 at 7:09 PM
If you said you were drunk but thankfully you barely drove home without passing out it would be universally agreed you should go to jail. It’s maddening how apparently if you own a Tesla, though, you’re allowed to brag about getting behind the wheel while impaired to the point of unconsciousness.
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Quite a bold claim.
November 28, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Quite a bold claim.
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The irony is rich.
November 28, 2025 at 7:39 PM
The irony is rich.
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#National - putting #taxes on things we have already paid for, & selling them off, making kiwis doubly poorer! #privatisation #assetsales #roads #tolls are taxes! #nzpol
November 28, 2025 at 6:58 PM
#National - putting #taxes on things we have already paid for, & selling them off, making kiwis doubly poorer! #privatisation #assetsales #roads #tolls are taxes! #nzpol
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We’ve mapped the mansion tax.
You can see who's paying - which constituency, which postcode - and how many "mansions" are near you.
Full interactive map here 👇
You can see who's paying - which constituency, which postcode - and how many "mansions" are near you.
Full interactive map here 👇
November 28, 2025 at 9:34 AM
We’ve mapped the mansion tax.
You can see who's paying - which constituency, which postcode - and how many "mansions" are near you.
Full interactive map here 👇
You can see who's paying - which constituency, which postcode - and how many "mansions" are near you.
Full interactive map here 👇
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There is a lot of appalling shit in the world right now. But this really made my blood boil
Money buys *everything*, even things that were previously beyond its reaches
www.theguardian.com/football/202...
Money buys *everything*, even things that were previously beyond its reaches
www.theguardian.com/football/202...
Cristiano Ronaldo clear to start World Cup after Fifa suspends two games of his ban
Cristiano Ronaldo will serve the final two games of his ban only if he is guilty of a similar infringement in the next year
www.theguardian.com
November 28, 2025 at 8:35 AM
There is a lot of appalling shit in the world right now. But this really made my blood boil
Money buys *everything*, even things that were previously beyond its reaches
www.theguardian.com/football/202...
Money buys *everything*, even things that were previously beyond its reaches
www.theguardian.com/football/202...
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In other shocking news, adjascent apples in same barrel also appear brownish.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
PS I know it shouldn't surprise me, but OF COURSE he lives in France.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
PS I know it shouldn't surprise me, but OF COURSE he lives in France.
Former Brexit Party MEP denies taking payment from pro-Russian campaign
A prominent former MEP for Nigel Farage's old party denies taking bribes in a pro-Russian campaign.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 28, 2025 at 9:46 AM
In other shocking news, adjascent apples in same barrel also appear brownish.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
PS I know it shouldn't surprise me, but OF COURSE he lives in France.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
PS I know it shouldn't surprise me, but OF COURSE he lives in France.
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‘they become evil’
Grown ups are writing this
Grown ups are writing this
Researchers are using reverse psychology to try and fix badly behaved chatbots
When LLMs learn to take shortcuts, they become evil
The fix is to use some reverse psychology when training a model
econ.st
November 28, 2025 at 9:51 AM
‘they become evil’
Grown ups are writing this
Grown ups are writing this
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In case you needed one more reason not to use AI …
The CEO of ChatGPT is blaming a teen’s suicide on his failure to follow the terms of service:
Adam Raine, 16, told ChatGPT he was suicidal and the AI bot told him his feelings were valid and even provided suggestions and detailed instructions.
The CEO of ChatGPT is blaming a teen’s suicide on his failure to follow the terms of service:
Adam Raine, 16, told ChatGPT he was suicidal and the AI bot told him his feelings were valid and even provided suggestions and detailed instructions.
OpenAI says teen's 'misuse' of ChatGPT is to blame for his suicide, because he broke the TOU: 'Users must comply with OpenAI's Usage Policies, which prohibit the use of ChatGPT for suicide or self-har...
The lawyer presenting Adam Raine's family calls the response "disturbing" and I have to agree.
www.pcgamer.com
November 27, 2025 at 8:33 PM
In case you needed one more reason not to use AI …
The CEO of ChatGPT is blaming a teen’s suicide on his failure to follow the terms of service:
Adam Raine, 16, told ChatGPT he was suicidal and the AI bot told him his feelings were valid and even provided suggestions and detailed instructions.
The CEO of ChatGPT is blaming a teen’s suicide on his failure to follow the terms of service:
Adam Raine, 16, told ChatGPT he was suicidal and the AI bot told him his feelings were valid and even provided suggestions and detailed instructions.
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This is a big signal that Nvidia's cash flow is becoming a tangible problem.
Remember when Elon Musk stopped paying Google Cloud bills so he could keep the electricity on at Twitter?
Cutting non-critical expenses when cash gets tight, even if it makes operations harder, is the Death Spiral.
Remember when Elon Musk stopped paying Google Cloud bills so he could keep the electricity on at Twitter?
Cutting non-critical expenses when cash gets tight, even if it makes operations harder, is the Death Spiral.
November 27, 2025 at 8:01 PM
This is a big signal that Nvidia's cash flow is becoming a tangible problem.
Remember when Elon Musk stopped paying Google Cloud bills so he could keep the electricity on at Twitter?
Cutting non-critical expenses when cash gets tight, even if it makes operations harder, is the Death Spiral.
Remember when Elon Musk stopped paying Google Cloud bills so he could keep the electricity on at Twitter?
Cutting non-critical expenses when cash gets tight, even if it makes operations harder, is the Death Spiral.
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Not only is this blatantly unfair, but for a Party that doesnt believe in collective responsibility,theyre holding ALL children responsible for the actions of others...
www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3609...
www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3609...
Lunch funding to be tied to attendance for hundreds more schools
Next year funding for school lunches delivered through the internal model will be tied to attendance.
www.stuff.co.nz
November 28, 2025 at 3:45 AM
Not only is this blatantly unfair, but for a Party that doesnt believe in collective responsibility,theyre holding ALL children responsible for the actions of others...
www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3609...
www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3609...
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Why is it "frankly disgusting" for parents and schools to stand up for what THEY believe is right for their tamariki? Why is the PM allowing his MPs to spread anti-worker, anti-Te Tiriti disinformation on social media?
#nzpol
#nzpol
November 28, 2025 at 3:09 AM
Why is it "frankly disgusting" for parents and schools to stand up for what THEY believe is right for their tamariki? Why is the PM allowing his MPs to spread anti-worker, anti-Te Tiriti disinformation on social media?
#nzpol
#nzpol
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Every prompt to chatbot software is “generate me some text.” If it generated you some text, it performed its function correctly. It never lies, it never wants anything, it’s text generating software that generates text.
Not wanting to disappoint you so much that it lies is the last quality I want in a computer.
November 28, 2025 at 3:25 AM
Every prompt to chatbot software is “generate me some text.” If it generated you some text, it performed its function correctly. It never lies, it never wants anything, it’s text generating software that generates text.
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Weapon Added To Each Thanksgiving Place Setting In Preparation For Blowout Family Argument
November 27, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Weapon Added To Each Thanksgiving Place Setting In Preparation For Blowout Family Argument
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thanksgiving reminder: after your turkey comes out of the oven it is important to let it rest inside a wall or floor for 1 to 2 hours
November 27, 2025 at 7:11 PM
thanksgiving reminder: after your turkey comes out of the oven it is important to let it rest inside a wall or floor for 1 to 2 hours
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Remember: if you destroy a trash can and a whole cooked roast falls out, this is fine. The roast is fresh and hot and ready to consume. Doing so will heal you completely, through the magic of Thanksgiving. A holiday miracle!
November 27, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Remember: if you destroy a trash can and a whole cooked roast falls out, this is fine. The roast is fresh and hot and ready to consume. Doing so will heal you completely, through the magic of Thanksgiving. A holiday miracle!
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If Musk put his money into a basic UK savings account paying 4%, this is the interest he would earn:
Per year: £14.4 billion
Per day: £39.45 million
Per hour: £1.64 million
Just the interest = 370,000 average UK earners.
And he doesn't work interest.
And he wants to pay less tax.
Per year: £14.4 billion
Per day: £39.45 million
Per hour: £1.64 million
Just the interest = 370,000 average UK earners.
And he doesn't work interest.
And he wants to pay less tax.
It’s hard to imagine the vast fortune that is Elon’s net worth currently estimated at $476.4billion or £360billion. If it helps, someone on an average salary who wanted to save up this much would have to had started saving in the Miocene epoch 12 million years ago. (assuming they saved every penny)
November 27, 2025 at 11:02 PM
If Musk put his money into a basic UK savings account paying 4%, this is the interest he would earn:
Per year: £14.4 billion
Per day: £39.45 million
Per hour: £1.64 million
Just the interest = 370,000 average UK earners.
And he doesn't work interest.
And he wants to pay less tax.
Per year: £14.4 billion
Per day: £39.45 million
Per hour: £1.64 million
Just the interest = 370,000 average UK earners.
And he doesn't work interest.
And he wants to pay less tax.
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This is why OpenAI is selling so aggressively to education at all levels—they want to create entire generations of users incapable of reading, writing and thinking without ChatGPT to hold their hands
And teachers and professors should call this out for what it actually is
And teachers and professors should call this out for what it actually is
To bear out this rosy projection, HSBC assumes that OpenAI will become "as ubiquitous [...] as Microsoft 365" (345mm users worldwide) while bringing in 10x the number of users (3bn).
November 25, 2025 at 11:11 PM
This is why OpenAI is selling so aggressively to education at all levels—they want to create entire generations of users incapable of reading, writing and thinking without ChatGPT to hold their hands
And teachers and professors should call this out for what it actually is
And teachers and professors should call this out for what it actually is