A colleague just did a new, video-base object recognition system, one that avoids the "birthday paradox" https://github.com/headertag/compare?tab=readme-ov-file#-compare

RE: https://mastodon.social/@patrickleavy/115527237322837610 A cool ides: walk away from the evil parts or Big Tech

RE: https://mastodon.social/@grrlscientist/115525325739550750 Definitely including Canada

RE: https://mastodon.social/@agreeable_landfall/115519161526777388 From a discussion of historic income tax laws (historic like after WWI (:-))

We should also be on the offence. Courtesy of Your Local Epidemiologist https://yourlocalepidemiologist.substack.com/p/a-good-defense-demands-offense?utm_campaign=email-half-post&r=l2c0u&utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

RE: https://mastodon.social/@rabbleca/115506008618117069 An analysis or Mr Trump's attractiveness, by a Canadian non-profit. The name is a dig at would-be aristocrats calling everyone else "rabble"

@Toasterson You wrote: Yeah in some situations it has "bad" triggers like it gets confused by the limits a Oxide Rack can take. Not ideal for single source study but with the sources It gets you to a good start. I'm idly curious. What were you interested in, in the Oxide rack? [email protected]

For Toronto residents: a petition to the city to not give in to Ontario Hydro| https://www.cleanairalliance.org/win/

A petition to Canadians to send Mr Hoekstra home https://c.org/PjkH55qvPG

My submission to the Competition Bureau of Canada about the new and current Android restrictions, https://competition-bureau.canada.ca/en Google has announced that it will stop permitting me from writing my own apps for Android unless I both register with them and seek their approval on an […]

Seen in passing […]

A petition/signup against M Poilievere and Ms Smith https://forwardcanada.ca/stopmaga

YAY! Here's the ad Mr Ford made of president Ronald Reagan speaking harshly about tarriffs https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/video/9.6951639

News from Gander.social, in Canada What a week. Honestly, we’re still catching our breath. When we opened our investment campaign last Thursday, we raised $500,000 in the first six hours. Six. Hours. We were absolutely blown away by the support from our earliest backers. Since then, the total […]

Scoopy, new, by me: Canada Fines Cybercrime Friendly Cryptomus $176 Million Financial regulators in Canada this week levied $176 million in fines against Cryptomus, a digital payments platform that supports dozens of Russian cryptocurrency exchanges and […] [Original post on infosec.exchange]

My letter to the Globe: Re: Canada’s costly EV scheme stalls out again (October 20). We might think back to when we started the Auto Pact. If we say to China "for each EV you build here, you can sell us another one", then we can get both some really significant cost savings, and a growing […]

My letter to the Editor of the Globe and Mail: In the article on Cloud Control (October 18), one of the big questions is "how". How are countries to provide cloud computing without depending on US companies like Amazon's AWS? About one half of that is a _solved problem in computer science_ […]

From Howard NYC: "Colbert 4 POTUS 2028" After all, we've elected a clown whose missteps no longer funny... So now we ought to try a comedian with a proven record of deeply thoughtful humor... It's worked well for Ukraine

A petition to stop bill C-2, the more MAGA -esque of C-2 and -12. Neither of these belong in Canada […]

Courtesy of faceplant (:-))

Remember I mentioned Gander Social? Investment is now open at https://www.frontfundr.com/gandersocial

A petition asking Mr Ford to _not_ remove speed cameras from in front of my local school. http://progresstoronto.ca/petition-protect-kids-keep-speed-cameras

Could I ask a favor? Can you encourage folks to pronounce the name anti-fa instead of an-TEE-fa? A gazillion people think it's the name of some organization. possibly from Antigua (:-)) The don't know it's anti-fascists. I don't expect the papers to get it right, but we could at least be […]

Courtesy of Cj Cherryh "Shouldn't be pronouncing antifa anTEEfa. Oughta be AN-ti-FA. Sound it like it is." The wrong/common pronunciation make it sound like a drug (like "Advil" or "Allegra"), or something anatomical or medical (prefix "anti-" is common in medicine).

It's becoming increasingly clear to me that Reflect Orbital's fucking stupid giant mirror satellite, with absolutely NOTHING useful to offer, which will cause countless safety issues, ecological disasters, and destroy the night sky, is going to launch. A bunch of astronomers and I have sent out […]

For Canadian's interested in co-ownership of Gander, here's their pitch: "From the start, you’ve believed social media could be something better. Together, we’ve built a community of tens of thousands who want respect, accountability, and Canadian values online. Now we’re taking the next step […]

@b0rk I know about you through Kate, who just had her second child, a little boy. Of course I'm interested in you git-ish-ness!

Courtesy of David Reed: It seems not to be in the National news media yet, but in Boston a couple nights ago, a crowd/mob formed to block intersections and attack police who responded, setting fire to a police car. The police announced that out of state instigators have been arrested. Don't […]

Just some prompts for dealing with voice-to-text transcripts https://leaflessca.wordpress.com/2025/10/07/my-transcript-prompts/

From Gil Duran.com Curtis Yarvin—JD Vance guru—Plans to Flee USA https://www.thenerdreich.com/panicked-curtis-yarvin-jd-vance-guru-plans-to-flee-usa/?ref=the-nerd-reich-newsletter

John Fallows on "Air travel during the shutdown", https://fallows.substack.com/p/air-travel-during-the-shutdown-do?utm_campaign=email-half-post&r=l2c0u&utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

The canceling of ICEBlock is more evidence, were any needed, that the Web is the platform of the future, the only platform without a controlling vendor. Anything controversial should be available through a pure browser interface. #uspolitics

My thanks to Betty Cracker for the pointer. 2025 premiums vs 2026 premiums for someone making $65k a year. Up from $307.20 to $964.30 a month

In which I (probably foolishly) make a bunch of predictions about the future of #genai: https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2025/09/26/GenAI-Predictions

First update of the travel warnings for the US: Passport with "X" gender identifier While the Government of Canada issues passports with a “X” gender identifier, it cannot guarantee your entry or transit through other countries. You might face entry restrictions in countries that do not […]

Courtesy of Christine Forber. 1 of several · They said our library was poisoning kids with pages, that ink could corrupt faster than drugs or TikTok; I unlocked the doors and put every book on trial. I’m Tasha Green, the high school librarian. I file dreams by […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

I'm following this with interest. Although it's centralised, it's also Canadian.

In https://sfba.social/@karlauerbach/115256736167969262 Karl Aurbach found that Mr Trump has the same opinion about bike lanes and safety as Mr Ford. The halt, leading the blind.

It will fail to do what it's supposed to do. On the other hand, it will harm everyone. Win-win (:-))

On Tyranny by Timothy Snyder is a valuable thing to have by your side in these times of increasing fascism. Each chapter begins with a short bit of advice as it's title, followed by a sentence or two on it's potential importance. The rest of the chapter provides […] [Original post on sfba.social]

Coming up this Saturday, The Collingwood Art (and Music) Crawl. My neighbour Brigitte's at the Metra Fashion House, 93 Hurontario St, 4-8 PM

Putting my "Dr Evil" hat on, I therefor suggest that all legislation about LLMs prohibit them from telling untruths.

Monday is the beginning of the remedies phase for Google monopolising online ads. I'm following it via https://www.usvgoogleads.com/ [I'm writing books now, but I used to be in the online ads business. Google used to be the agent for the seller, the agent for the buyer, and the auction house […]

A petition to demand Mr Scheer apologise to a reporter for doxing her and subjecting her to rape and death threats https://chng.it/kcRyks4Jct

Courtesy of David Knopf: the detailed effect of global warming on the United States and Canada. https://projects.propublica.org/climate-migration/?utm_campaign=propublica-sprout&utm_content=1755777731&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook

Ha, Joyce caught me replacing a bench that had been broken by a falling limb

Coderabbit is doing more toward providing _critiques_: they just added wrappers around popular static-analysis "linters" in their for-money offerings

Hey, happy Saint-Jean-Baptiste day / Fete national! I'd entirely forgotten