Forum mods quickly learn who habitual line steppers are and the answer for them is almost always “no” & it’s fine to swiftly suspend and ban them for anything even questionably close to the line. Wasting your time with semantics is entertainment to them so they should be summarily destroyed imo.

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Hey Canadian friends, let's sign this petition!! It takes less than 2 minutes and is an official thing you can do 💪 For context, Canada's C-2 bill paves the way for the US gov't to access Canada's private civilian data based on "security of the border", and "other security measures". It's bad!

This should go without saying, but the best thing for Canada to do as the United States quickly spirals into fascism and corrupt autocracy, isn’t to try to seem more like the United States. It’s to quickly double down on being even MORE Canadian. That’s the big advantage, the big opportunity.

Hello I’ve been mostly offline the last few months and also wasn’t in Vegas for security summer camp this past week Please say hi to the reason for my absence, his name is Douglas and he’s the sweetest little potato He arrived in early June and we’re over the moon 🩵

Public cloud, public social media, public dating apps. It sounds unhinged at first but tbh I think creating alternatives with no profit motive could have extremely positive downstream effects to every aspect of society.

There’s a lesson here for Canada, if the good people at the CBC want to learn it.

I also worked at Stripe reasonably early on, and did well there (not "can retire", but "bought a house"), and am 🇨🇦. I really like this article from @avibryant.com, and wholeheartedly endorse this message. “I like to pay taxes. With them, I buy civilization”–Oliver Holmes macleans.ca/politics/tax...

If your law is good when there are good people in office, but dangerous when there are bad people in office, your law is bad.

It's amusing that Point Nemo is 1) the location of the city of R'lyeh and 2) the point where we aim for our deorbited junk to crash into the ocean. So we've been bombarding R'lyeh from orbit for decades now and sooner or later something down there is going to get cross.

I worry that escalating war with Iran will be used to whip up more fear and hate for non-white immigrants, particularly those of Arab descent, and be used for unjust deportations.

Adam and Eve had no stuff, and were happy. And so, Satan invented stuff. This caused greed, and envy—and worst of all, "needing to remember where you put the stuff." But our parents could still see their stuff, and inventory it. They weren't totally miserable. And so, Satan invented data.

The biggest mistake made by cyberpunk media of the 80s and 90s is that they didn’t anticipate the power of NIMBYs.

On the other site I said Visa and Mastercard are the unwilling de facto rulers of the adult industry. In this thread, we’ll dig into adult industry’s most exciting layer: financial plumbing! and explore weird content banned not by law, but by interpretation of card rules. 🧵

having worked with him for years I can confidently say that Parker is a hella force multiplier, hire him for all your comms / policy / devrel / puzzle needs

Canadians clutching their pearls about ICE barely know the Liberals are pushing through a bill right now giving the gov the ability to check your mail, get your IP and internet history, and makes immigration and asylum seeking way more difficult

My Canadian university, Queen's, is offering TWENTY 4-year funded PhDs (40k CAD/yr) for a student of ANY citizenship who has been accepted at a top 100 US university but have had offer rescinded OR are reconsidering offer due to US policy. Details found here👇 www.queensu.ca/grad-postdoc...

just watched a video on Obsidian that described it as "future-proof," i.e. it uses open file formats so you can easily migrate to a different note-taking app & you're not locked in. could borrow that to explain bluesky decentralized → open → billionaire-proof → future-proof

(if you want to do a neat mental exercise, imagine our current world under even a pre-1978 copyright law: 28 year duration. everything pre-1997 in public domain, as well as everything not explicitly registered. oh and no software. hahaha!)

To understand why Western automakers are so afraid of China's best-selling EV, we drove one on its home turf. It's simple. You get a dignified driving experience for $8,000. If you want that in America, go to the used car lot. insideevs.com/features/761...

I talked to 15 teachers/professors about how AI and ChatGPT is ruining their lives: www.404media.co/teachers-are...

Also, research shows that when anti-violence shelters come to a region, the murder rate against women ticks down a tiny amount, but the murder rate of men by women falls off a cliff. When women have other ways out of a bad relationships, they take them. When they have no hope, they kill.

1. Three AI data centres in Kamloops 2. The hottest city in Canada 3. With the most water stress of any city >100,000 people in the country 4. In a wildfire zone 5. In a semi-desert, semi-arid mountain climate I have Questions.

I do not have a job and I'm unlikely to get one any time soon, so I cannot give directly. What I can do, however, is offer shiny goodies. If you donate at least $20 to any of the three charities from earlier posts in this thread and DM me, I will send you one of these cute sparkly "Moxie" decals.

Things that feel better than doomscrolling: -cleaning your home -taking a walk -playing with a pet -calling a friend -donating to charity -reading a book -taking a hot shower -eating a meal -building a puzzle -stretching -working on a craft -planning how to spite your enemies -going to sleep early

Literally no one has ever changed their mind from a sufficient volume of strangers yelling at them on the internet, and what I said about morally motivated networked harassment applies to *everyone* regardless of which "side" they are on.

I do not care if Canada post is ever profitable. It is a public service, everyone owns it. That’s valuable in and of itself. We don’t ask the emergency room or public schools to turn a profit. We ask them to be accessible for everyone to use.

we got an EV recently for our limited car needs and, enh, it's a car, fine, but a thing that's interesting is how it reveals just how much energy driving takes; I am currently using V2L on our fridge during some electrical work and an 80% charge could keep our food cold for like 3 months

Love in the Time of *Gestures Frantically*

I got a speeding ticket from an automated camera but my lawyer got it dismissed by proving I was stationary at the time of the photo. Thank you to the fine attorneys at Zeno & Associates

LLMs are nifty. Kind of cool. How they're being offered is so very terrible that I think we'll never see the best applications of them because the marginal-to-absolute-garbage applications of them being shoehorned in wherever they might fit is causing the AI term to be toxic.

What has personally radicalized me on this is that there is basically a universal consensus in America (including both police and prosecutors) that it should be legal to murder people with your car, and as a pedestrian, I take that kind of personally.

I'm really sad that MinIO turned their self hosted version to shit considering it was actually kinda neat for reference, they basically nuked everything from their agpl builds: github.com/minio/object... 114k line removal btw

You can just take academic papers and paste them into Gemini 2.5/ChatGPT o3/Claude 4 with the prompt "build me a game based on this paper, make it interesting and thematic but still conveying key findings" and get a tiny working educational game. (In this case, I used Gemini)

is there any other decent marine internet solution other than starlink yet?

The thing I see missing in most of the discourse around fundraising scams (and non-scams) on here is the sheer degree to which fraud & scamming has become industrialized over the last 5-10 years. Folks working close to the problem know, but it’s hard to convey unless you’ve witnessed it directly.

Palestine *IS* experiencing a genocide right now. However, organized crime *IS* also using Gaza as a way to divert funds away from Palestine. Being “okay with getting scammed” isn’t a harmless choice; those funds support human trafficking in SE Asia. Donate to a reputable org, not an individual.

When I say "organized spam cartels", this is what I am talking about. People who don't know the scope of the problem or the egregious human rights abuses it involves always liken this to a person saying "if you give a homeless person $20, they'll only use it to buy drugs" and similar bullshit.

While in the LOTR movies Denethor just randomly went crazy, that's not the whole story. Denethor became a doomer. He spent all night scrolling through bad news on his magic device, because the Dark Lord only let him see bad news and not good, until he lost all hope and it broke him.

If you are going to be angry, be angry the spam cartels have managed to divert so much money that people want to go to aiding Gazans into supporting human trafficking! And, of course, angry at the crisis that means pretending to be a Gazan in need is a successful tactic for them to engage in.

I spent 72 hours checking the posting times of every Gazan account I saw fundraising. More than 2/3 of them were inconsistent with Gaza but consistent with Myanmar or Cambodia, where hundreds of thousands of people are trafficked into doing scam work under threat of violence or death.

Here's a gift article folks because it is really good. www.thestar.com/business/opi...

Albertans have good reason to be angry: their real wages are down 10%, their minimum wage is frozen, their inflation is worst in Canada, their health care's at risk. None of that was caused by the rest of Canada. My take in today's @TorontoStar: www.thestar.com/business/opi.... #cdnecon

The steady deterioration of First Amendment rights and the conflation of violence with dissent is a result not just of an authoritarian regime but of a press culture that is feckless at best and authoritarian-fluffers at worst. The New York Times is beyond redemption.

Nation building project! It could be the first of many. Nice to see the Yukon and British Columbia signing an agreement to explore connecting our electrical grids. An electrified North benefits Canada as a nation: www.yukon-news.com/news/nation-...

Beginning at 2:01 AM UTC on Friday morning, May 23, all British territories will have been simultaneously forsaken by the sun.

The hell with generative AI, I want *degenerative AI* - Servers based in Innsmouth, MA - Literally hallucinates 119% of the time - Extra fingers and bulging eyes are not a mistake - The stars are right - Lose 1d4 SAN - Is it REALLY hallucinating though? - You see farther than any person before - Ia

Courtesy of another thread here, I’m reminded of one of my favourite weird metal albums: Caladan Brood’s “Echoes Of Battle”. It’s an album about the series Malazan Book of the Fallen, and is some of the absolute best epic black metal I have ever listened to. caladanbrood.bandcamp.com/album/echoes...

I see once again I’m going to have to beg pundits who haven’t lived outside of Toronto in decades to stop opining on how useful Canada Post is. I don’t care how little you personally get or send mail. A public postal service with a mandate to get mail to every address in Canada is a public good.