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I'm trying to learn Mandarin but i just need enough to get by and to focus on the few things I like doing. So i made a new app for it, not learning to pass a test but enough to be functional in your own passion, be it rock climbing or yoga or being a vegetarian foodie apps.apple.com/us/app/chine...

Divine got named 2026 Software Innovation of the year by Time Magazine time.com/collection/b...

after so many bad AI model and agent harness names, i gotta give it to Meta... Muse and their newly released Muse Wonder Full model, it's brilliant. research.meta.ai/blog/muse-wo...

1/6 Divine 1.0.24 is out. Six seconds. More room to play. Animate your layers, make effects hit on the beat, shape your sound, and pass camera clips to a friend to make something together. Plus better captions and a screen that stays clear when you ask it to. Here's what's new.

could anyone help me share this, very unique thing, its a democratically run wifi coop in Gaza City, with many attestations to the effort here is the mobilize event Oct 17 to learn more www.mobilize.us/dashboard/in... and here is a page about it act.raisethevoices.org/c/jreas-coop/ @masnick.com

So #wsocial fundamentally doesn't understand the dynamics about what makes social media safe or what should be kept private.

Milestone, we've hit our 10,000th PR on @divine.video github.com/divinevideo/...

There is nobody who has played a bigger role in inventing marketing on social media than @garyvee.com. I sat down with him to talk about where we came from and how to understand the future in the era of AI. www.youtube.com/watch?v=VOKQ...

Human made social media has a soul. This week we gathered amazing humans in new york to explore using the newest release of @divine.video. Look at what we created! This is so much better than AI slop chasing algorithmic reach! divine.video/list/fc7031a...

This is a master class example of digital storytelling and visual exploration how data can be represented. Kyle has made something here which is Tufte level good. thoseasters.com/trips/ditch/

Finally saw myself out here boooooiiiiii

India thinks they can stop us with #bitchat by removing it from the appstore. But at least on android the bitchat app has the ability for you to directly send the full apk of the app via bluetooth from one user to another. It's also open source, so we're seeing a flood of compatible apps.

A couple years ago i got frustrated with 1password, they have some sketchy business practices and weird relationship to open source / self hosting. So i tried bitwarden... well it's just not so good, switching back to 1password, it's gotten better. Frustrating when the tech is so good it overrides

Shocking, Sam Altman and OpenAI haven't been ethical or responsible in terms of AI safety. archive.is/lhYzZ Let's clearly setup a system by which they promise to hold back, but Sam Altman skipped the whitehouse let's be responsible and hold back session, to announce a ton of new releases.

Auckland Wayne Brown wants to promote startups in Auckland and then goes to say the reason Auckland is a good spot to do it is Auckland's a beautiful place to be rich and retire. He clearly knows nothing about why tech founders create startups. #nzpol thespinoff.co.nz/partner/28-0...

@joelmacmanus.bsky.social Yes we need internet regulation in New Zealand, but Australia is the last place we should look. We should create regulation based on science and good public policy, not random hunches funded by right wing foundations using moral panics. www.techdirt.com/2026/02/17/a...

Why don't NZ campaign signs have slogans or say much of anything but the name of the politician, a photo, and their party!? #nzpol What are they trying to accomplish? thespinoff.co.nz/politics/29-...

This is how you know that New Zealand has nobody really inspiring people when it comes to this election. www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic... Preferred prime minister: Christopher Luxon: 19% - up 2 Chris Hipkins: 14% - down 1 Chlöe Swarbrick: 8%, up 2 David Seymour: 7% , up 2 Winston Peters: 7%, steady

crowdfunding human social video creation platform lilbit.social

Interested in solving the housing cost problem in the anglo world? This podcast looking at New Zealand from the perspective of a Portland Oregon based housing activists is amazing. In particular because I moved form Portland to New Zealand and I have seen housing prices drop in NZ since moving.

to be clear, the admin is alleged to have deported AT LEAST 25,447 individuals TO COUNTRIES THAT ARE NOT THEIR OWN with, evidently, ZERO PROTECTIONS. this is a scandal and crime of historic proportions.

this podcast by an american housing activist interviewing New Zealanders is fascinating. Housing prices have dropped a lot in the last few years in NZ, it still has a long ways to go. rss.com/podcasts/yim...

This news piece on how @nzlabour.bsky.social is not doing well with their electoral strategy of campaigning without enthusiasm or policies flows in to a hard hitting piece on the state of bird sex in New Zealand. #nzpol www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z22h...

Americans make up the largest source of undocumented immigrants in New Zealand. www.rnz.co.nz/news/communi...

I feel so lucky to have users who are passionate fans of the app I built. Social software is nothing without the community of users.

with @blackskyweb.xyz taking steps towards software sovereignty instead of relying on direct forks from @bsky.app, they have the ability to possibly move towards setting up private accounts! now is a great time to migrate to blacksky! move.blacksky.community

The world is paying attention 👀 “[Divine] hopes to show that social networks can flourish without being huge, powerful money machines whose overlords call all the shots.” – @harrymccracken.com Thank you @cnn.com, @fastcompany.com, @wsj.com & @engadget.com and the many others covering our story.

Hurts to learn of the passing of Rev/Awo Lynny Duncan (formerly Rev. Lenny Duncan) today. If you weren’t familiar with their work, which I have promoted in my own Substack at least twice, please visit here: www.lennyaduncan.com/about Prayers for their family, children, partners, loved ones.

What are we doing with @divine? Bringing back the spirit and content of vine but without AI slop www.wired.me/story/vine-i...

Karen Attiah just won her case against the Washington Post. Fired for posts following Charlie Kirk’s death, an arbitrator ruled the Post violated her union-protected rights & ordered her reinstated. Before the ruling, @karenattiah.bsky.social sat down with @rabble.nz to tell her story.

Tired of AI slop? OG Vine creators like JimmyHere love moments of authentic human creativity online, not something manufactured through a prompt. Hear more from JimmyHere and Divine’s @rabble.nz, @lizsweig.bsky.social, and @ac555.bsky.social: www.youtube.com/live/XJufDZp...

I’m really excited to see the new Blacksky.cash from @blackskyweb.xyz come together. Community controlled money is an important step towards autonomy and self determination.

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Auckland is opening it's inner city loop CRL, and it's really nice, amazing stations, beautiful public infrastructure. I'm glad it's here. But it was also a colossal disaster. It cost many times more than it needed in order to satisfy a broken model of private contractors and failed cost controls.

JimmyHere’s decade-old Vine just proved that great creativity never expires. Vote to hear JimmyHere and @ac555.bsky.social unpack internet culture, creator longevity, and how to make timeless creative content at @sxsw.com. Voting ends August 23rd:

And @divine.video is launched and open to the world. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kv7n...

To hear the full story of Divine’s release, check out this video with @rabble.nz and @ac555.bsky.social. youtu.be/Kv7nwHwTJLg

We’ve launched. No more invite codes for @divine.video www.bbc.com/news/article...

Nostr has proven itself as the superior decentralized social protocol by doing something no other protocol could. The sacred carmel apple empanada and the beefy crunch burrito is back. If only they could of done the same for our dearly departed, the loaded potato griller

we recorded a little live stream to celebrate the launch of divine. www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJuf...

I thought it'd take a few weeks to get @divine.video fully launched when we announced it in November, and it took 9 months, but were here! www.engadget.com/2239070/vine...

TacoBell's helping us launch @divine.video in to the world. Join with the invite code TACOBELL.

@divine.video is opening up! we're launching without invite codes. And we're doing it with the help of a brand partner, TacoBell, to bring back 2016 in 2026. www.prnewswire.com/news-release...

New Zealand hits %48 EV for new imports. This is based on passenger vehicle prices not number of vehicles, and ev's are more expensive then petrol cars, so it's not quite half of the market, but it's a huge shift. www.rnz.co.nz/news/chinese...

And that’s what we got. A weakened but not replaced Luxon. His own MPs didn’t support him unanimously but there was nobody else with enough support to replace him. If only Labour ran a campaign or politician with charisma. I mean it worked running Jacinda. But I guess they don’t like winning. 🤦🏼‍♂️

We’ve been missing the point talking about “decentralized” social media, says New_ Public’s @blaine.bsky.social. In this conversation with @rabble.nz, they talk about what’s needed to create a healthier, more human internet. www.youtube.com/watch?v=TX8P...

Isn't the best possible outcome for New Zealand that Luxon survives but is increasingly wounded by National MP's trying to organize coup after coup? #nzpol