Raymond Neilson
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Mostly lurking. He/him. Halifax
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Winnipeg Police Cause Harm
1 day ago
Thatās how you know itās bad
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David Burbach šŗšø
4 days ago
No worries, everyone. Top men at Miskatonic are on it.
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Adrian Tchaikovsky
5 days ago
I've been trying to think who Altman reminds me of and he's the spitting image of Burke from Aliens
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Dale Smith
8 days ago
If every privacy expert in this country says that this legislation allows the government to mandate encryption backdoors and to turn mobile phones into tracking devices, maybe your legislation is flawed and not being "misinterpreted."
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Facing mounting backlash, Anandasangaree says U.S. tech companies are 'misinterpreting' his lawful access bill | CBC News
Public Safety Minister Gary Anandasangaree accused U.S. tech giants of "misinterpreting" his lawful access bill, which promises to give police and spies faster access to Canadians' information during ...
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/facing-mounting-backlash-anandasangaree-says-u-s-tech-companies-are-misinterpreting-his-lawful-access-bill-9.7198017
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Stephanie Carvin
7 days ago
I would have an easier time accepting this argument (agree amendments needed) if it wasnāt being put forward by US tech companies that have done EVERYTHING they can to help ICE. These are not civil liberties advocates.
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Bruce Arthur
7 days ago
The most rigorous, precise, brilliant piece I have read on Albertan separatism.
www.readtheline.ca/p/clarke-rie...
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Clarke Ries: How two Alberta judges shot separatist delusions to death
(And, not for nothing, they probably just wrecked Quebec separatism, too.)
https://www.readtheline.ca/p/clarke-ries-how-two-alberta-judges
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"We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be" said the prophet
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Bruce Arthur
8 days ago
The fact that Signal has threatened to pull out of Canada should be a five-alarm fire for the Carney people. This bill is illiberal.
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As ever: fuck the traitor Danielle Smith
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8 days ago
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Dale Smith
8 days ago
The court gave Danielle Smith an off-ramp for the referendum, and she is rejecting it. Of course she is. She is not fit for office.
#PnPCBC
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Emmett Macfarlane šØš¦
8 days ago
The only logical reason for Danielle Smith to react like this would be if she were a separatist. Therefore, either Danielle Smith is insane, or she is a separatist.
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Slightly increase a band Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeahs
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Bailey Poletti
11 days ago
Happy Mother's Day (You don't need to be blood to be family)
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ULTRAšøBLAST
12 days ago
Happy Mother's Day
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While I'm sympathetic in a lot of ways, a) Canada Post is indeed kinda different (we should change that tho), and b) actually yes, there's a *lot* of discussion of keeping hospitals afloat, because their finances are stupidly complex and they do actually have constraints
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Oh The Urbanity!
11 days ago
The difference is that the Canada Post mandate explicitly says that itās supposed to be financially self-sustaining. Maybe thatās unrealistic these days and should be changed? But for the moment itās not like any other service.
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Bruce Arthur
14 days ago
Covid-fueled delusion, convoy redux, genuine mental illness, whatever it is: We really need to understand: when Jason kenney said in those leaked recordings that he was worried the lunatics would be running the asylum if he stepped down as premier, this is what he was talking about
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I'm from Edmonton. My family's there. I hate these people with the fire of ten thousand suns.
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Oh The Urbanity!
14 days ago
I know this describes a lot of people on here.
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Local nerd disappointed he didnāt get the long form census
TATAMAGOUCHE, NS - An event five years in anticipation turned to bitter disappointment this week, as a local census dweeb did not receive the coveted long form questionnaire.
https://thebeaverton.com/2026/05/local-nerd-disappointed-he-didnt-get-the-long-form-census/
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"BYD is expected to bring the Atto 3, Seal, Dolphin, and Seagull to Canada, with industry estimates putting the Seagull as low as ~C$25,000 and the Dolphin around C$31,000." *Well* now...
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15 days ago
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Holy fucking shit
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16 days ago
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At this point I wonder if the absolute best thing to happen would actually be for them to limp *just* across the new lower threshold, forcing Smith to decide if she still wants to lash herself to this gang of loser asswipes
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Max Fawcett
17 days ago
From the recent op-ed by the Pathways Alliance. Gee, folks, maybe there's some other factor here that caused upstream investment to drop starting in 2014?
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I never know what to make about this counterargument - like, woohoo more planets! That's fun! (My objection to "dwarf" planets is specifically grounded in "orbit-clearing" and its highly arbitrary definition) ((Ceres was originally considered a planet, so y'all know))
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Duane BrattšØš¦
23 days ago
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
If an election was held today, the UCP would win a bigger majority than in 2023 according to the latest Janet Brown poll
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An extended 'honeymoon' not seen since Ralph Klein: poll shows strong support for UCP | CBC News
Three years into her mandate, Premier Danielle Smith and her United Conservative Party government continue to enjoy solid approval ratings ā and would increase the size of their majority if an electio...
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/janet-brown-poll-ucp-danielle-smith-road-ahead-9.7177527?__vfz=medium%3Dsharebar
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Bill Chambers
25 days ago
FFC review: MICHAEL (2026), by Walter Chaw (
@mangiotto.bsky.social
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filmfreakcentral.net/2026/04/mich...
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Michael (2026) - FILM FREAK CENTRAL
ZERO STARS/****starring Jaafar Jackson, Nia Long, Miles Teller, Colman Domingowritten by John Logandirected by Antoine Fuqua by Walter Chaw I didnāt want to review Michael because talking about this f...
https://filmfreakcentral.net/2026/04/michael-2026/
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Bring a Trailer
26 days ago
Can you make it on the podium? š
https://bringatrailer.com/listing/2014-porsche-911-gt3-cup-991-1/
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A K
26 days ago
I have now seen āloud noiseā, āshooter is deadā, and āshooter is in custodyā, love this age of instant news
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So is it someone rushing the place and shot dead, or just dishes falling?
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The anti-anti-data-centre counter-backlash often characterizes (often specifically AI-centric) DCs as "light industrial" -- there is nothing "light" about this scale of power usage As I keep saying, the water concerns might be overblown, but the power concerns absolutely are not
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Speaking as a Canadian, I think this particular war of one particular man's choice does indeed need to end in a full and humiliating loss, so that said particular man's other ideas for wars of choice are much less likely to happen
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John Michael McGrath
27 days ago
Cannot get drivers to signal consistently, something so trivially easy it was literally a cartoonish bit of dialogue in the otherwise forgettable Clive Owens action film SHOOT 'EM UP (2007)
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This pattern seems to repeat a lot, lately, where some technology *in theory* allows a policy which would (potentially) be a net social good, but then the actual efficacy and reliability of the technology is entirely elided in favor of arguing about the policy
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tweety fish
27 days ago
one of the (many) problems with gaze direction approaches to detecting attention--which is what in-car systems use--is that over and above the failure mode described herein it is perfectly possible to be paying attention to something you aren't looking directly at
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tweety fish
27 days ago
there are other problems: detecting actual eyegaze direction is hard (eyes are small, people wear sunglasses) so you have to use head direction, which is a REALLY crude measure; it's perfectly possible to be spaced out and not see something you're looking directly at. /
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Too Big to Fail
27 days ago
As noted in this thread, a problem with this technology is that it doesn't actually work. Example: because of a medical condition I have, I cannot use GM's SuperCruise highway self-driving system, which uses similar tech, because it thinks I'm not looking at the road and so it shuts itself off.
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The Canadian left, post-Carney, needs to stop scribbling in the margins of corporate power, like their most recent mostly-fantasy about surveillance pricing, and start promising things like holding directors and officers of corporations jointly and severally liable for all kinds of malfeasance
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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist
27 days ago
jail
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Colin
27 days ago
the companies that make these should be fined one million dollars per false match
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It's amazing to me that Microsoft Research - a department of the documents and AI corp - has enough freedom to release this paper, which details how AI will mangle your documents over time (Interestingly, agent harnesses hurt instead of helping)
arxiv.org/abs/2604.15597
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LLMs Corrupt Your Documents When You Delegate
Large Language Models (LLMs) are poised to disrupt knowledge work, with the emergence of delegated work as a new interaction paradigm (e.g., vibe coding). Delegation requires trust - the expectation t...
https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.15597
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Mark J. Nelson
28 days ago
Interesting new agent benchmark from MSR, DELEGATE-52, that "simulates long delegated workflows that require in-depth document editing across 52 professional domains". Main finding is that even frontier models, for the modeled workflows, end up corrupting large parts of documents along the way.
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LLMs Corrupt Your Documents When You Delegate
Large Language Models (LLMs) are poised to disrupt knowledge work, with the emergence of delegated work as a new interaction paradigm (e.g., vibe coding). Delegation requires trust - the expectation t...
https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.15597
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There's a surprisingly common assumption that AVs will *inevitably* be safer than human drivers, and a few even claim this *today* - I wish it was more obvious that this is, as the kids say, *pure ideology*
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tweety fish
28 days ago
one thing I wish I could talk people out of is responding "they can hardly be worse than people!" when talking about autonomous vehicles. Humans are often _impaired_ drivers in various ways but a skilled, attentive human driver is vastly more effective and flexible than AVs are ever likely to be
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As ever, fuck Doug Ford
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Matt Blair
29 days ago
Itās kind of fun that the CBCās position here is āFine, if you think thereās a ādouble standardā at play when it comes to scrutinizing premiers, then weāll ask all the other premiers if they fly on private jets, but youāre not going to like the answers.ā
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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We asked Canada's premiers if they fly private. Here's what they said | CBC News
Ontario Premier Doug Ford has reversed course on the purchase of a $28.9-million private jet for his travel ā a controversy that has raised questions about how often Canada's leaders fly on private ai...
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/premiers-private-flights-commercial-9.7171284
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This whole thing still boggles my mind, at least in the "how has it gone on so long" way
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Physician, heal thyself
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James McLeod
about 1 month ago
People feel a lot of ways about the economy right now, but the Bank of Canada getting inflation under control without triggering a full-blown recession is actually pretty impressive and good. CPI in March 2.4% year-over-year. Right in the BoC target range.
www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/daily-quo...
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In the proud nerd dad department: my 6 year old is currently practicing typing by transcribing...his calculator manual
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Joan Baxter
about 1 month ago
A good time to also tell the Canadian government to do something about bloated SUVs and pickups big as tanks, with deadly, blunt front ends, making life on the roads extremely dangerous for pedestrians, cyclists and passengers in small vehicles.
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