Dave Moskovitz (((❤️)))

Building the world I want to live in. Chartered Director & Startup Investor; Business Geek, Tohunga Rorohiko, Lexicographer, Klezmer, Reprobate.

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Whenua: Whetū Kairangi, Aotearoa
Location: Wellington, New Zealand
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Blog URL: https://dave.mosk.nz/

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2026-03-30 20:33:03 UTC

Green tech could add $22b to annual GDP growth in 10 years – report
https://newsroom.co.nz/2026/03/31/green-tech-could-add-22b-to-gdp-in-10-years-report/
Investing in green innovation now could prevent declines in agriculture and tourism as customers seek low-emissions products and services.

2026-03-30 17:23:04 UTC

Microsoft Copilot is now injecting ads into pull requests on GitHub - Neowin
https://www.neowin.net/news/microsoft-copilot-is-now-injecting-ads-into-pull-requests-on-github-gitlab/
It was inevitable. After three years in the ad-free
"honeymoon" phase, ads are slowly creeping into generative AI products, including Copilot.

2026-03-26 19:53:03 UTC

Almost Two-Thirds of Europeans Back Replacing US Tech, Poll Finds
https://www.techpolicy.press/almost-two-thirds-of-europeans-back-replacing-us-tech-poll-finds/
EU leaders are pursuing digital sovereignty plans to reduce the 27-country bloc’s dependence on the United States, writes Mark Scott.

2026-03-10 20:41:30 UTC

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The business model for https://perceptive.news/ is a small [monthly or annual] subscription. It's free during our beta, and we'll work out the details of the revenue model later. We are not a data farm and will not sell advertising or personal info.
We're not aiming for a unicorn here, my main goal is to provide a useful service that lets people be in control of the news they consume, disempower the manipulative platforms, and combat disinformation. We are unlikely to need investment, and looking to grow organically.

2026-03-10 02:19:30 UTC

I've built a news aggregator where you have absolute control over your sources and algorithm. Get more news and less noise.
https://perceptive.news/
You can give it RSS feeds, mastodon, bluesky, or reddit URLs, and it will even build a scraper for you for sites without proper feeds.

2026-02-16 21:33:04 UTC

Anthropic's CEO says we're in the 'centaur phase' of software engineering
https://www.businessinsider.com/anthropic-ceo-dario-amodei-centaur-phase-of-software-engineering-jobs-2026-2
Dario Amodei compared AI and humans working together to a mythical creature — the centaur.

2026-01-30 01:44:17 UTC

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It doesn't make sense in a New Zealand context. A huge proportion of church-going Christians in Aotearoa are not privileged Pākehā. There are many Māori, Pasifika, and other minority immigrants, as well as a majority of women. If you think of most Christians as Bible thumping Baptists, that's your stereotype at work. In the same way that most Muslims are not Arabs, and most Jews are not Israeli.

2026-01-29 19:07:30 UTC

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I'm not defending anyone who is bigoted. I am defending the right of people to practise their belief system without being denigrated by others who assume that all people who claim to adhere to that belief system act in a particular way.

2026-01-29 18:02:25 UTC

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Most of us religious people would be grateful if you didn't tell us how to be better religious people. I wouldn't presume to tell you how to be a better atheist, notwithstanding that I do have some opinions on this topic that I wouldn't share with anyone.
Please do call out bigotry when you see it, but to denigrate an entire group of people just because of a label, is, well, bigoted.

2025-11-19 07:14:27 UTC

I know quite a few dual US/NZ citizens who are renouncing their US citizenship. I've put together a signal group for expatriators to trade experiences. DM me if you'd like to join.

2025-07-28 02:13:05 UTC

Human Brains Rapidly Aged in The Pandemic, And It Wasn't Just The Virus
https://www.sciencealert.com/human-brains-rapidly-aged-in-the-pandemic-and-it-wasnt-just-the-virus
Even when people didn't get sick.

2025-07-28 02:06:22 UTC

Microsoft, AWS, and even France-based OVHCloud say that they can't keep the US Government's hands off your data, if requested under the CLOUD Act.
👉 You can't guarantee data sovereignty using a provider that is subject to US law, even if your data is housed outside the US.
https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/25/microsoft_admits_it_cannot_guarantee/

2025-05-14 03:23:03 UTC

Analyzing moral conundrums from Reddit's 'AITA?' board
https://phys.org/news/2025-05-moral-conundrums-reddit-aita-board.html
Researchers often use moral dilemmas to probe the contours of human moral intuitions, but such studies typically take place in depersonalized contexts in which the precise relations between actors are ...

2024-11-14 23:59:23 UTC

A report from the DECULT conference | FACT Aotearoa
The DECULT conference in Christchurch brought together experts and former cult members to discuss high-control organisations. Topics included sex trafficking, labour exploitation, and the overlap between cults and extremism. The conference revealed that 50,000 New Zealanders have been impacted by cults, from new age groups to Christian sects.
https://factaotearoa.nz/a-report-from-the-decult-conference/

2024-10-24 01:50:22 UTC

Disney to release Moana 2 and reo Māori adaptation on same day | RNZ News
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/531782/disney-to-release-moana-2-and-reo-maori-adaptation-on-same-day

2024-09-27 09:58:57 UTC

Ouch I almost got phished by a very convincing PB Tech lookalike scam. Be careful out there!