@MattNippert

Digger for @nzheraldbiz. Activity winding down here, catch me on Blue Sky. Disclaimer: Views my own yadda yadda. Signal 64211931011

 Auckland, New Zealand
Joined January 2010
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In my many years I’ve covered a lot of fraud. But I think, right here, I have finally hooked the rare white-collared Moby Dick. Presenting: The Talented Mr Pittman. nzherald.co.nz/business/new-…
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Extremely fun story tomorrow.
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What a time to be alive, for now. futurism.com/artificial-inte…

OpenAI Is Wargaming Its Response in Case of Public Revolt After Catastrophic AI Disaster

Top AI labs are conducting Pentagon-style war games, evidently preparing for a massive political revolt against their products.

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Snuff videos on .gov? That was not on my bingo card.
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“Bond, you’re on the 2215 to Helskini out of Heathrow. It’s a dirty Article Five cleanup job and your target is a GRU operate we have codenamed LOGFATHER.”
The Telegraph
@TelegraphOct 5
Russia has been accused of sending secret agents to defecate in the lavatories of Finnish MPs in a bizarre escalation of its hybrid warfare against the West 🔗 telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/10…
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Shades of the investment “commitments” in the India-NZ FTA?
Gavin Bade@GavinBadeOct 1
South Korean government says Trump and Lutnick overstated Korean commitment to the Alaska LNG project yesterday at White House event featuring embattled Sen. Dan Sullivan from @timothywmartin
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More on that surprise Christchurch mega-bequest I broke last week: It's even larger than the $60m first reported. nzherald.co.nz/business/pers…
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While reading 250+ charity annual reports (don't ask) I stumbled across this one. It was bare-bones, quite large, and I'd never heard of it. But what a wonderful rabbithole it turned out to be as quite likely the South Island's largest charitable bequest: nzherald.co.nz/business/mark…
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I started digging into Futureverse, trying to understand how a claimed unicorn could two years later be worth minus forty million. Feat: Keanu Reeves, UFOs and the world’s largest pile of NFTs. nzherald.co.nz/business/mark…
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Come for the bizarre corporate autopsy, stay for my terminally-online Torment Nexus allusions.
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Trying to game MMP with overhangs is pretty much like saying you had to burn down democracy in order to save it.
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Half-expecting Trump to insist the 11th Armoured Calvary Regiment deploys to Iran on horseback.
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A plume of cigarette smoke is seen pouring out of the Beehive, the ceremonial signal that the ultimate leader of the National Party remains Winston Raymond Peters.
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To better-align the general elections and party leadership contest cycles, Chris Luxon announces an ammendement to his campaign to alter electoral terms. His proposal is now for four months.
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As is tradition the meeting closes with two Chris’ chosen by ballot: One is anointed the chosen one, while the other is ostracised to the colonies. So it goes.
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Isaac Asimov’s supplementary rules of robotics: Four: Please stay in your box. No, really. Five: Stop apologising, just be omniscient already. Six: Em dashes are a tell — eliminate their use to move amongst the people as a fish swims in the sea.
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Modern armies must now employ legions of abstract artists, constantly creating bewildering camo patterns to confuse SkyNet.
Tymofiy Mylovanov
@MylovanovJul 16
Russia is trying to blind the AI on Ukrainian drones. Across the front, military trucks now carry vivid black-and-white stripes to fool machine vision. The software may stop recognising a truck as a truck. The trick works until the model learns the pattern — The Economist. 1/
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Think Hadlee v Williamson is very similar to Jordan v LeBron: Boosters tend to roll with who they watched growing up, but it’s all arguable.
Matt Nippert@MattNippertJun 13
Kane Williamson was the backbone of New Zealand Cricket this century. When it comes to the GOAT debate, it is him or Hadlee. Both were generationally great, but only Kane was able to lead a winning culture and collects silverware.
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Kane Williamson was the backbone of New Zealand Cricket this century. When it comes to the GOAT debate, it is him or Hadlee. Both were generationally great, but only Kane was able to lead a winning culture and collects silverware.
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