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AI is putting me out of a job

Justin Bieber’s YouTube Coachella set had nothing to do with who owns his music “The Daily Mail is wrong about that.”

Evergreen quote

> “That’s not how this works,” says James Grimmelmann, a professor of digital and information law at Cornell Tech and Cornell Law School. “That’s not how any of it works.”

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Lift Off YouTube video by World

I haven't watched it yet (and won't for a bit because WrestleMania is on) but the replay is up

www.youtube.com/watch?v=dAuD...

A photo of a magazine rack. Various magazines are visible with "Essential Guide To ChatGPT" being the focal point. In the top right corner is a badge that says "Written by experts, not AI"

A photo of the inside of the ChatGPT magazine. A screenshot is visible with a callout box that says "Having a conversation with Steve Jobs via ChatGPT can be a great way to come up with ideas."

I had a browse of the magazine rack while I was getting groceries and stumbled upon some sage advice

I procrastinated getting groceries for an hour because I ended up watching this

All of the live streams were taken down unfortunately and I didn't get up at 5am to watch it

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AI’s New Training Data: Your Old Work Slacks And Emails AI’s New Training Data: Your Old Work Slacks And Emails

"Defunct startups are being liquidated for their Slack archives, Jira tickets, and email threads—operational exhaust that AI labs now treat as premium training data."

Lift Off - A World event Come back to tune into the Lift Off livestream

Sam Altman's World project (the startup that scans your retinas) is announcing some stuff at 5am (NZT) tomorrow

world.org/liftoff

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Good spotting! Thanks 😀

It's certainly a choice to write "[as] we learned more about the types of organisations responsible for these cyber breaches" only to later say "we continue to invest heavily in cyber security best practice measures"

I would have thought being heavily invested in cyber means you're already aware 🤷‍♂️

IntraCare have put out another release, mostly the same as last time but sharing the email that was sent directly to patients

intracare.co.nz/information-...

It's gone now after I finally emailed to give them a heads up

EXCLUSIVE: How Palantir found itself used in the wake of the Christchurch massacre New Zealand Police's"free trial" of Palantir software, the company's increasing presence domestically, and who helped make it happen

EXCLUSIVE: EXIT FROM AFFCO can reveal NZ Police used Palantir after the Christchurch massacre to "analyse data including social media returns". How did they enter NZ, and why are we growing closer with a company accused of mass surveillance and war crimes? www.exitfromaffco.com/p/exclusive-...

At the time, it gave me a huge amount of grief and through an extremely handwavy series of events, managed to affect both my personal and work life at the time so you can bet I had fun explaining all of that to a therapist in my mid-20s

There was a whole investigation so it's definitely documented

While I didn't know about any of the above, I have been waiting for the day that someone writes a book about Xero

It's not really my story to tell and unrelated to Exec but I personally was in the blast radius of another saga that probably would reflect pretty badly if it came out

Xero launches review over misconduct allegations about co-founder, former CEO Sir Rod Drury Sir Rod Drury, the 2026 New Zealander of the Year, was the accounting software giant's chief until 2018.

I never knew Ally (she left just before my time at Xero) but I hope she manages to get some amount of peace out of this in the end

I definitely remember the transition felt pretty abrupt internally on the day that it was announced

www.rnz.co.nz/news/busines...

The correct answer is presumably "Nope, sounds good to me"

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New evergreen content from my manager who asked if anyone had any thoughts on a decision

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Homelab is down bad

Liked songs appear empty across devices We’re receiving reports from users unable to access their Liked Songs. The playlist either appears empty or is missing entirely from Your Library across devices. In some cases, users report seeing few...

As I just discovered today, Spotify has a confirmed issue for almost a week now where if you set up a new iOS device, your Liked Songs will just be completely empty

community.spotify.com/t5/Ongoing-I...

From the Association of Salaried Medical Specialists:

"There's irony in the way Health NZ says it's concerned about 'public confusion' over retaining the Te Whatu Ora web address, while all its email addresses remain @tewhatuora.govt.nz."

> The umbrella site was now at www.healthnz.govt.nz. HNZ told the [Association of Salaried Medical Specialists] it did not think that would get confused with the policy-related Ministry of Health website

www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

For Spark, you can do an iPhone-to-iPhone transfer nowadays which cuts out all of this junk but nothing cross OS. I can't say I've noticed any technical difference between the two. I actually had gone back to a physical SIM but accidentally "converted" it to an eSIM when transferring devices once

A message from a user with the initial "D" saying "Can I please confirm the number you would like to move from android to iPhone ?"

A message from a user with the initial "M" saying "just wondering if your number is still active?" and "and you are able to receive text messages"

A message from a user with the initial "M" saying "Yes can do, I sent a verification code to you can you tell me the code please?"

A message from a user with the initial "T" saying "Hi Marcus, I am really sorry for the confusion howeber we cannot do a sim swap over messaging. This needs to happen in a store with Photo ID"

cool

The proving your identity to reduce SIM swapping stuff I get but it's always mostly time wasted on explaining that I would like to swap my eSIM and no my phone is working fine, I'm after a barcode on a piece of paper or via email no don't transfer my request ahhhhh

In my experience, eSIMs are technically nicer than SIMs but are organisationally worse because I always end up having to waste 100x longer interacting with telcos to get an eSIM transfer request issued (which is never as simple as it should be for some reason)

Exciting stuff!