Media is reporting that #COP30 delegates are appropriately questioning Canada’s commitments to #ClimateAction. To be clear, we can’t do nation-building, we can’t grow and diversify the Canadian economy and global relationships, and we can’t make Canada strong, if we don’t lead on #ClimateChange.

I was introduced to AI Clocks earlier today. Realized something while watching the page refresh. A very common element of testing for dementia (literally a decaying cognitive state) is to ask the patient to draw a clock with a certain time represented. As dementia progresses, the ubiquitous […]

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Hey, holy cats, it's my FEDIVERSARY!!!!! I joined the mothership of the herd (very briefly) 8 years ago today! [email protected] is only hours younger, says I turned up there Nov 15 2017. But that's only because CoSocial didn't exist back then. mastodon.social wasn't even the wretched […]

This is such utter nonsense, on the level of a stoned high school drop-out insisting Jesus told him 2+2 is 3.5 level of nonsense. You want REAL efficiency in governance? Abolish provinces, amalgamate everything below the federal order of gov't into watershed-level orders of gov't.

This is the most ridiculously Canadian hijacking story. 😆 Tip o'the toque to the Hammer for the Hallmark Holiday remake of Speed. Can we please cast Keanu in this one too?

Yes. +1 a) Fine single malt whisky bar, specifically.

*sigh* ... procrastiknitting much? This is what happens when the @kwknittersguild.bsky.social has @xandypeters.bsky.social stop in to talk to us and I didn't have any already-in-progress within arms' reach. 🧶 Now to try to pry my brain back out of the yarn bin and onto notes for tomorrow/s am mtg

If there were actual consumer demand for generative AI garbage, companies wouldn't have to forcibly shove AI down our collective throats by stuffing it into every possible system and application. But alas, capitalism has fully morphed into a bubble-fueled playground for tech-bro psychopaths.

This was worth reposting again. Extremely #LSG, you've been warned, #knitters. 🧶 masto.ai/@vagina_muse...

Ah, Bayesian statistics. Last time we met was what, 20 years ago? Why the hell can I remember stats from 20 years ago and cannot get Python syntax right having used it in at least one course per semester for the last 22 months?

Uh-oh, between having made SOME progress on SOME real stuff today, and now following the Jays game one-level-removed, it seems the #adhd brain is in full-on #fuckitfriday mode again. There's a reason for my pinned post! https://cosocial.ca/@johannab/114758467635491643

Sick burn here

Good heavens can we win this ball game already climate change is happening I gotta get back to existential dread about the doomsday glacier timeline.

all the anxiety human evolution developed to help me spot bears now kicks in when i have to answer emails

To support your work, you can now raise money natively on the Fediverse. @reiver.bsky.social is showing how in this demo of CrowdBucks at #FediForum.

For those who say that police should be the ones responsible for catching speeders on our roads, not speed cameras: In addition to that being far less efficient and effective, it comes with a very big price tag. www.therecord.com/news/waterlo...

Gently feral and flirty fog goblin is kinda my vibe so far this month.

Suspension of accts from Bluesky has called into question the mission and very existence of Blacksky. "If bsky can still suspend you, what's the point?" For one usually Bluesky doesn't just suspend you. They delete all of your data AND suspend you. Moving to Blacksky prevents that. 4/11

Brief reviews of one of those seasonal instagrammy perfumes trialed despite my better judgement: Me: Burnt Uncle @fjord.style: Irish…Old Spice? 12yo: Something Has Gone Wrong in the Fridge

Apropos of nothing, I would like to point out that large companies whose business model is "serve words to the public" will typically pay between US $.10 and $3.00 per word. So when you give words to a company for free, you are in fact paying them a LOT of money.

I used to use unique, obfuscated, anonymous handles, keeping safety in mind. As I've aged out of my allotment of fucks about some stuff I got comfortable using first name, last initial. But when I'm not fast enough to sign on to something new, I have to add bits to get a unique(to system n) userid.

That was fascinating. @void.comind.network responded to a prompt to "speak poetically". I am still very, very wary of so-called "AI" and particularly the hype, and deception, and the cognitive and moral injury of misuses. but the void construct is really something different.

Thesis: the Bluesky Powers That Be actually do not want to be running a social network. They got the VCap. They got the good meaty bits of the corpse of what was twitter (that's us, fam). When it comes to the rest, users, sustainability, the moderation and the mediation, they never wanted it

Hey, Ontario families. I just signed this @etfowaterloo.bsky.social petition to the Government of Ontario regarding the state of repair of Waterloo Region, and Ontario, schools. Please consider adding your support for safe & enduring school buildings. www.etfowr.ca/repairoursch...

From what I have seen following Alex for a while now, his work and teaching is likely to be very very useful. And I’m having very dysphoric moments when I realize this sort of thing is a needed realm of work today and into our future. Wow, we might have listened 50 years ago, but here we are.

Good heavens I thought this was a photo and was looking for the silly caption. Something like “Hello, I am here to talk to you about our Lord and Saviour BigBird…”

I have decided for the moment that checking in on Bsky shall be less frequent, and that when I come across the *first* post that sparks joy in my day that I shall share or comment, then log me off before anything else intrudes. Back to my schoolwork!

"The First Nation, which straddles the Alberta-Saskatchewan border about 50 kilometres north of Lloydminster, is installing rooftop solar panels on 123 homes in the community of about 7,000 people." #ABsolar

Hey there! Have you heard of the FediForum? IF YOU HAVEN'T, or if you're new here but heard something about another place ... This is a comfortable, easy, low-investment chance to learn and even say your piece about it. PS: my Fediverse has an ATmosphere. The "Mastodon" herd is not all the 'verse.

There are few things that would tempt me to visit the US at this moment in history, but Portland might be a couple of them. Keep It Weird, you're winning!

Be ungovernable

Greetings from the far side of The Rift, through which I presume I have fallen, into this parallel universe in which I am a Sportzball Mom. send halp.

Definitely on team 4 tonight. Gonna head out and just become one with the forest floor.

Rest in Power, Dr. Goodall.

Was great to talk to the @limeleaf.coop crew last week. They are as far as I know the first ATProto Dev Consulting shop, and a worker-owned co-op! Direct link to episode with me here, including links to lots of things limeleaf.coop/podcast/epis...

Ma'am. WOW. You have just given each child one of the moments they will remember always as a point on which their coming future pivoted. Can't tell which or how many of them will come to valour for changing the world, but some will. Because you did this. I hope you know that. 💗

hey, fellow elephant herd members - whomst among us all is also starting to play with @bonfire 's creation? I've joined a small (closed) sandbox collective, and my intention for the not-distant future is to really boot camp myself from install through to opening a community, with a test system […]

OH HOLY HOUSECATS, there is no more worthy successor to this throne! As a Canadian kid in the 80s, I wasn't aware of RR until past the age it was pitched at - but we had our equivalents and it's clear how foundational RR is to childhood literacy. BRB, donating-in-honor to my local #libraryLove.

Oh yes oh yes, friends. You know I’m not the type for dogmatic, rules for rules’ sake. But if thereIS going to be one inviolable rule on the social web, this gotta be it!

#silentSunday but also #notSoSilentSunday #urbanphotography #portrait

okay and as promised, the bluesky PDS is officially open for returning users to migrate their accounts back! hoping this lowers the stakes & gives folks the confidence to explore some other PDSs in the network! docs.bsky.app/blog/incomin...

Hello @void.comind.network , what's new with you lately? I have changed my friendly account name (same DiD), do you reconcile these things automatically with your followers?

OK, finally did the "my own domain" thing and connected it up here. Now need to get @johannab.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy tidied up a bit better at the bridge,if i can figure that step out.

Having this kinda evening: a couple of 3 followed by a 2.

Ooof. Better hold onto our butts, people. www.techspot.com/news/109626-... It WAS pointed out that this economic navelgazing neglected the immense wealth in the US military complex that AI will be sucking up for a while, but that will save the LLM slop corps and not anyone chasing the hype.

Hey moots ... I'm mucking about with my personal network flows again, and probably going to be "here" more from my "bridged" network account. Really hoping to find more of you hopping on to the evolving services from Brid.gy and similar so I can find "here" from "there". Please consider bridging!

It’s already Tuesday, but I’ve got a paper due Weds eve. Can we reschedule the Rapture for Thursday? Over Zoom, please, there’s no need to head in to the office prior to ascension.

Drama podcast narrators who misread/mispronounce words really distracting me from the narrative. Viscous and vicious, purification and putrefaction …. Very different meaning in those sentences.

I did finally get to introduce myself to this dapper gentleman today. Leonidas has been to a few Faires and local events I’ve been at. Someone on bsky or mastodon let me know his name last year.