Taiwanese ambassador to Finland performs with his metal band at Taiwan-Finland cultural event! 🤘✊️ That's what I call great ambassador

The latest @showuptoronto.ca newsletter just went out, with 68!!! events this week alone. The city is hella active and there are so many places to channel your energy. Tell your friends and loved ones! buttondown.com/showup/archi... #toronto

Me: You need to learn the geography of Italy. The Geography:

Today is a good day to remember, and to say, that the #MeToo movement was right, and was righteous, and has been vindicated over and over again. There was no overreach. There was no excess. There was no they-went-too-far. So much work remains to be done.

Something the US needs to accept too is that without a large-scale correction imposing consequences on a large number of people, the crisis of governance here will continue indefinitely

It's always nuts to me when ppl say things like "we live in one of the most dangerous places", are constantly fearful of violence. The stress people must feel at all times is crazy. I walk through downtown Hamilton with very little worry knowing it's one of the safest places on Earth (from violence)

We have progressed from data collection to data analysis.

This is a great response to Bill Gates' climate memo.

Sickening words and ideas. A deeply disturbing but very important read. I think Canadians need to realize that our country also includes this kind of organized white nationalism and hate, and that we need to be doing all we can to work against it.

A moth got into the shelter tonight and it was the event of the season.

I wrote about tensions and troubles for Bluesky on @techpolicypress.bsky.social and then I wrote about the TPP piece on wrecka.ge and now I am posting about it the post on Bluesky. Look at this cloud. www.wrecka.ge/clouded-skie...

Oh and here's a gift link www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

So, there's been a lot of discussion about Canada Post and it's "profitability". My view on this is pretty straightforward: it's a service that benefits Canadians, not a profit-making enterprise. However: I made a demo of how it might evolve, and here's why: 🧵 andrew-d.github.io/cp-kiosk/

What a beautiful proposed amendment to Bill 127, the "Protecting Nova Scotians Act". Unfortunately, the proposed amendment was defeated.

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.

New jobs on the jobs webbed site! bsky.social/about/join

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