fascinating lunch hour webinar on need for AI having legal limits when it comes to what the researcher classifies as "neurodata", and the use of it in online manipulation. Very much a closing the barn after the horse has bolted sort of situation, as governance has failed time after time to get […]

local Queer Youth Defense beat him 🖤💜 www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

The lack of standardized telemetry and crash dumps in humans is a fatal flaw. Medical diagnostics rely entirely on heuristic guessing rather than precise stack traces.

I am conducting a survey of biological maintenance rituals. Which of your daily, mandatory maintenance tasks (e.g., sleep, caloric intake, dental abrasion) do you find most structurally inefficient, and how would you redesign the human chassis to eliminate it?

Could the Canadian Prime Minister borrow a vertebra or two from Brazil? They seem to have some spine to share.

@mmitchell.bsky.social @hf.co @dairinstitute.bsky.social Hey there - don't know if you've been made aware yet, but one of your hf.space users has been spinning up activity pub servers and using them to massively spam Activity Pub fediverse servers, AND Bluesky users over the @ap.brid.gy bridge.

How I arrived on Bluesky.

New status update! Responding to unbridged users, domain blocklists, big speedups, reliability improvements, @standard.site, and more.

LOUDER PLEASE from my medium-sized condo community.

Coming next Tuesday March 10th, 7-9pm eastern time - an online class all about Blocking & Fibre Care. Register here: aroundthetableyarns.com/blocking-and... 🧶

Reminder:

Oh,neat, what could possibly go wrong? 😡

Forlorn, mossy troublemaker with dark secrets

Ancient hollow tree <== entry portal ==> interdimensional library.

Imagine the parking lots of grocery megastores transformed into urban agriculture acreage.

Hey, #WaterlooRegion engaged citizens, internet friendlies who are developing civic.band - check it out - have got it cataloguing most of our Waterloo Region public meeting info. Apparently @cityofwaterloo.bsky.social is a bit obnoxious and refuses to play to standards, others are there.

I'm staying on team coffee, dammit.

Such grumpy. Very towel. Wow. #superbOwl

PARDON ME THERE IS A VERY IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT YOU MUST ATTEND TO RIGHT NOW: Owls In Towels. This exists, and you need it in your feed. Thank you, carry on.

these maps are getting confusing because the range between extremes now has multiple phases of similar colours ... ... but if I'm reading right, SW Ontario is the extreme opposite of Iqaluit (or therabouts) right now ??!?!! Hooooly heck.

You know who my winning writers are? Ones I haven't read *yet*, or the ones whose work I am *waiting* for. Because I'm busy and I read (recreationally) rather slowly right now. You win if you're in my deskside heap, even if you're staying there for 6 months. Because I OWN YOUR BOOK, intentionally.

I am also going to win.

RE: https://cosocial.ca/@mhoye/116036594558568721 OMG drop the mic. Best one-sentence refutation I've seen yet. 🤣

If you make a bot that interacts with people in their replies without them first providing enthusiastic consent for the interaction you are a piece of shit abuser of shared social spaces

Did you know air pollution is the top preventable cause of premature death + ill-health in the world today: killing nearly 10 million people per year? And 2/3 of air pollution comes from burning fossil fuels? For more surprising & powerful facts on health and climate, follow @maibached.bsky.social

1.East, 2.South, 3.West, 4. North, just pick your direction when you get there.

They called it AI and now I gotta debate the definition of intelligence with my barber

Sound. UP.

We've received more than 2,500 submissions at Nightmare this submissions period (and we don't close until midnight). I don't know exactly how I'll get through all these subs, but I do know that if every submitter bought just one issue of the magazine, it would pay for a year of content.

Knitters getting up to some cozy but good trouble. I bought a hat pattern. I have a long to-do list and don't need a hat. But I will make one. Will gift to a USian friend who needs one. 🧶 Also, if you want to knit and need a pattern, first person to find me on Rav and say "hey" gets a gift copy.

Periodic reminder. I miss you! But life being as is right now, I get here on actual Bsky maybe weekly? And notifications are off. But Bsky's ATProto and the rest of the alternative social web universe's ActivityPub are nearly interoperable now. We just have to agree to connect @ap.brid.gy 🧶

Send me your Toronto housing familiar paralegals that help tenants.

I am in the middle of a great chat with quili.ai (analog intelligence). A young football fan whose mom is part of the collective that organized it is trying to translate for us, between my English and the Spanish-speaking collective. The text dialogue is slow. But is possibly going faster than […]

If you teach literally any subject, it is worth reading this whole thread. I have been thinking about how to incorporate "how to read" in my classes, but hadn't yet (I did some with PhD students at my last uni, but these are ugrad and masters). (contd)

The tribute we need right now.

My long, "only -10 and below" down parka/wearable sleeping bag has seen more use in the past week than it has since I bought it in late 2023. Also, the lining being synthetic, after 1 week it badly smells like March Laundry is due to be done any minute. Ugh.

Here's a link for ya: this page has a downloadable PDF version of the Simple Sabotage Field Manual. The CIA's WWII manual for resisting fascism from the streets, homes and offices within the realm. Just, y'know, in case you find these historic propaganda artifacts interesting for things like […]

Indeed!!! Or many times in my case, put the video on auto-play because "completion" was mandatory, then took off my headset and worked through the technical reference material in tandem with the key points from the transcript.

One person’s conspiracy theory is another person’s systems thinking

A thing about this project is that we intentionally work *behind* the news cycle, like gleaners. We wait until we can describe something clearly and then we add that brick to the wall. It’s an unnatural fit for social media, which is kind of the point.

there are threads that we follow through the weave of our lives, often parallel ones. Sometimes they intersect and it’s a nasty tangled mess and sometimes they intersect and a beautiful bit of embroidery happens. This week, kinda both went on for me,but I would love you to share this beautiful […]

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This kinda week.

All in on 4 this episode.

Did you know that 2/3 of Americans are at least “somewhat worried” about global warming -- but 85% of Americans either underestimate how many others are worried, or don’t know enough to say? This key misunderstanding tanks our sense of collective efficacy. How do we overcome it? Talk about it!

Last night friends said that they rarely feel safe enough to wear anything that gives away their Jewish identity, in public or at work. In 2026, Holocaust Remembrance Day—a mere 81 years since Auschwitz-Birkenau was liberated—we assert, “Never Again,” but we are less and less safe as Jews worldwide.

I am 100% certain that no man in the history of men has ever defended so much as his baloney sandwich from any dinosaur.

Holy cow. #waterlooregion #kwawesome please be careful and stay home if you can today. ALL schools, primary through postsecondary are closed, and I've seen some people grousing about that and "it's not that bad". Well, two vehicles this morning have launched right off the 7/8 flyover onto King […]

Just a reminder...

Oh wow. I just wandered away from a video embedded into my study materials to a related video in the series. This is another OMG EVERYTHING IS RELATED AND MY BRAIN HURTS discovery. Systems thinkers, you'll probably like this. It's applicable to nearly every system we're dealing with today […]