How did I end up building myself a timeline where I have a high likelihood of playing "Is that Hawai'i or Iceland?" every few weeks? I love it, but it's made me notice that my brain parses the images in a split second but the words take a few full seconds to catch up, in between those I'm pondering

🚨 Bill C-22 forces every Canadian internet provider, messaging app & cloud service to build surveillance backdoors and store a year of your data. Foreign state hackers exploited similar legislation in the US. Shut the backdoor: openmedia.org/StopC22-bsky #BillC22

Me, describing the cats: They are jerks and one of them pooped all over the floor. Him, not understanding the context: I told you not to listen to the news in the morning.

Hrm, ok, that was a mistake. Back off to my own side of the Bridge fer now, ciao! Periodic reminder to please stop following this account & talk to my alter properly via @ap.brid.gy

Reshuffling all my digital identity cards again. If you discovered me via this account, follow @johannab.ca instead. If you have ATproto or AP preferences, take your pick @[email protected] for now. My sandbox is still a sand heap on a windy day, but reach out if you want to play.

@abosio@fosstodon.org is coming to FediForum to learn what the open social web is all about, and meet and connect with like-minded people. That's a major reason we do an unconference! They are really good at connecting people around topics they are passionate about. Join us?

NYC has committed to being a living urban futures lab. Skip the "AI" enabled digital twins, and PAY ATTENTION to things like this.

Sooo... my most-overdue climate model "lab report" is getting done. Couple of coding assistants helped me work this one into reusable functions at least. Anybody in Canada want me to throw your city's ClimateData.ca projections through the chartification loop? My misery would like the company.

Building the foundations and utilities connections and developing a catalogue of modular housing components for a land trust. Serviced foundations sold at cost, buyers choose a build that suits their budget, 20% minumum of trust lands preserved as common green space. No parking.

TIL that this is a thing that exists. @thedevilhistory.bsky.social have you heard this? Didn’t know it was ever a studio take. m.youtube.com/watch?v=C2hY...

Really enjoyed @ontariogreens.bsky.social comment on school funding today. 1997.gpo.ca

Okay, Fedifam, who here knew about Zooniverse.org and NEVER TOLD ME???? I get to find it as a frustrated mid-life career jumping grad student while mad at a weird assignment I couldn’t find a source for? I COULD HAVE SIGNED ON TO DOCUMENT MUSEUM ARTIFACTS FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD 5 YEARS AGO […]

It's happening! The Queen St. Commons is back! www.instagram.com/p/DV8sG3XCXS...

Continuing my effort as an to be an informed hater, I gave in to pressure at work to start using AI coding tools to see what it is actually like. Already paid for by my company so my ethical concerns are moot anyway. After a month, my verdict: I feel like I'm on cocaine (derogatory) 🧵

The frustrating thing about newfanglism is all of its adherents are profoundly bad at systems thinking, are aggressively antagonistic to any systems thinking that contradicts their newfanglism, and treat the completely predictable systems failures that result from their newfanglism as unsolvable.

I've been seeing chatter about someone using ChatGPT to cure their dog's cancer, so decided to go find out what that was actually about. Short 🧵>>

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)