Wait. The Finch West LRT doesn't have priority signaling‽ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OsCFS-Mxzyo

RE: https://flipboard.com/@cbcnews/business-5o2kkapsz/-/a-4STZGgOFSyuPUDCjzujr3A%3Aa%3A107108217-%2F0 I mean, this is just bad. The US has let way too much vertical integration happen, and so more mergers which strip once good companies for parts are inevitable.[1] IMO, every one of these […]

RE: https://flipboard.com/@cbcnews/politics-2qr4m137z/-/a-R6y3nBoIQmKPotdzr0qTYg%3Aa%3A107108217-%2F0 Reading this, it is clear that Guilbeault and May were both betrayed by this deal with Smith. I can't blame them, TBH.

"The worst part of getting #LongCovid was the cruelty of the disease, a punitive unraveling of my health and identity. The next-worst part, and just as heartbreaking, was discovering how few of my friends and loved ones could engage with my illness in ways that felt caring." […]

So back in 1944, a German U-Boat Commander named Heinz-Wilhelm Eck did exactly what US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth ordered US military forces to do - kill the survivors of a destroyed boat at sea. Now, as then, this is considered a War Crime. In 1945, Commander Eck was tried, found guilty […]

So ashamed of Canada 🥺

FWIW I read this as a not-very-coded warning to governments that they need to get their wallets out. They learned from the banks that as long as they got "too big to fail" they could knowingly inflate this bubble without personal consequences. #AI #Google #USpol #ukpol #TechNews […]

Four years since Apple figured we give free support to their users. https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2021/11/18/free-apple-support/

Yes, this will be more efficient. Not everything is about efficiency. Sometimes it's about local responsiveness, which we will lose by combining these organizations. This is just like forced municipal amalgamation. I don't know a single Ontario municipality that likes their amalgamated form […]

MLB ignores Toronto again. https://www.cbc.ca/sports/baseball/mlb/blue-jays-john-schneider-al-manager-of-the-year-runner-up-9.6975656

Someone put this "blue plaque" on a London Tesla showroom to mark his becoming the world's first trillionaire. “World’s first trillionaire Elon Musk. Could have solved world hunger but funded fascists instead. Bellend.” […] [Original post on social.vivaldi.net]

Periodic reminder for people interested in #homelab There is a @homelab bot that replaces the old gup.pe homelab bot. Mention it in your homelab posts and it will boost them. Follow it to see all the homelab posts it boosts that may not normally get federated to your instance.

My husband, watching a streamer go gremlin mode in detective simulator Shadows of Doubt: I could play this game with way more caution and patience [half an hour later] Me: you’re dying of hypothermia because you’re waiting on a bench instead of going home. Him: it’s fine, I’ll break into the […]

We keep seeing startups who want to replace something valuable (therapy, counseling, tutoring, artistic expression) with some tech bullshit under the banner of democratization. But why do we need to invest so much in bad tech that doesn't work instead of just giving people access to what they […]

I had to double-check that I didn't miss a whole inning... Fluharty only pitching to two batters? Is the match with him and Ohtani that bad? I mean, it worked out, but... #worldseries #gojaysgo #bluejays

There we go, that's what we like to see! HR Varsho! #bluejays #worldseries #gojaysgo

“Just because we are in a rural town, it’s very hard to get another internet provider ... Ah, the fabled "perfect competition" of neoliberalism's fairy tales. Cable damage leaves Telus customers along Alberta’s Highway 43 without Internet, mobile, 911 services […]

This really is insane… #trumpadministration #ice

So Big Journalism is definitely in the tank for the Republican spin on the shutdown.

“Fuck them kids.” That’s literally what an ICE agent said when ICE, the FBI et al. raided an apartment in Chicago, including with a Blackhawk helicopter, separated children from their parents, and zip-tied them to each other. abc7chicago.com/post/ice-chi...

Throughout history the majority of people do not try to pack-up and leave until it's too late. Two prudent things you can do: 1. Write a list of redlines for when you'd immigrate. 2. Research the answer to questions like "Where will I go?" and "How do I get my money/family out?" etc.

White House Deputy Press Secretary seen here posting data showing how much more prevalent right wing domestic terrorism is than left wing domestic terrorism... while thinking she's showing the reverse. Apparently she can only read headlines, but not the actual graph with the data.

Me and my wife put some of our savings into a few renewable energy projects starting in 2018. This morning I received the report with the repayments of our investments for the past 12 months. The return is higher than predicted and it's the 7th year in a row that it beat the expectations. One […]

Google deletes history: https://www.thebriefing.ie/google-just-erased-7-years-of-our-political-history/

Bruce Schneier has a good high-level look at threat-modeling under an authoritarian government. Alas, it’s not amenable to a simple recipe approach, but involves carefully thinking through the tradeoffs […] [Original post on infosec.exchange]

There are six states in the United States where data centres already consume over 10% of the electricity supply, with Virginia leading at 25%. https://www.iea.org/reports/energy-and-ai/understanding-the-energy-ai-nexus#abstract

Coverage of the penalty phase of the Google Ads Monopoly trial continues to be fascinating […]

I just love that there's this whole alternate universe of home automation stuff that just works, costs 20% of what stuff from Home Depot or wherever costs, doesn't need an app, and doesn't talk to the cloud. It's good shit, you just have to look for it ever so slightly.

Whenever you see someone recommend Cloudflare or something else that decrypts and re-encrypts TLS for something, esp. for something related to open social media or media storage etc., reply with this picture from the Snowden leaks

Tim Berners-Lee explains why he gave away the #www for free. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/sep/28/why-i-gave-the-world-wide-web-away-for-free "For the web to have everything on it, everyone had to be able to use it, and want to do so. This was already asking a lot. I couldn’t also […]

#giftarticle What the Public Memory of #charliekirk Revealed For those who felt denigrated by his rhetoric, the bipartisan tributes to him as a champion of free speech augured something dangerous: the #mainstreaming of formerly #extremist views. By Nikole Hannah-Jones […]

The free Wrigley field bike valet

Port of Vancouver handles record volumes as Canadian trade shifts toward Asia - The Globe and Mail https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/article-port-of-vancouver-handles-record-volumes-as-canadian-trade-shifts/ https://archive.md/QoGc3

Totally agree with Cory. Today’s “AI” may or may not be useful to you or your company, but there is no way that it is financially sustainable. And giving the sheer outrageous magnitude of money involved, when the crash comes — and it will — it will likely be worse than any other crash we’ve ever […]

Rural eastern Ontarians worried about losing home mail delivery https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/rural-eastern-ontarians-worried-about-losing-home-mail-delivery-1.7645478

https://open.substack.com/pub/kenklippenstein/p/trumps-nspm-7-labels-common-beliefs?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=9zc7r Antifa isn't an organization so how will #BigHands determine who are left-wing radical violent extreme terrorists? Forget the […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Worth repeating and reinforcing: Trump is a total fucking pig. ‘Total Filth’: Trump Reportedly Left Windsor Castle a Mess with Orange-Stained Sheets and ‘Takeout Trash’ as Melania Refused to Stay in the Same Room […]

Trump has ordered the military to an American city that is not under any threat except from his regime. Here’s #oregon Governor Tina Kotek on the situation in #portland, posted on Bluesky at about 10 am pacific time.

Asking “…all the soldiers of the army of the US not to point their rifles at humanity," is _not_ having “…urged U.S. soldiers to…incite violence,” in fact seems to be the opposite of a call for violence (it is a call to be peaceful). Petro is the current […] [Original post on mastodon.online]

"Who would have predicted this?" - Black women did. - Trans people did. - The *entire* disability community did. - The anarchists did. - Post-Evangelicals did. "Well why didn't I hear them." You did. But you disregarded us as "extremists" and "alarmists". And you are still calling us that.

Attention Gen Xers and boomers with registered domain names 🚨 If you, like me, put a fictitious organization in your domain name registration 25 years ago because NetSol or ICANN did not allow you to leave that field blank, recent policy changes will make that organization name the *legal […]

[repost of an old favorite] robot: why are children like that human: imagine if it took 20 years to build your processor, component by component… but it was trying to execute your operating system the entire time robot: ada lovelace christ

So, I guess SOUND OF MUSIC is now about an insufferably woke family.

«BERLIN, Feb. 3 [1939].—Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels today ended the professional careers of five "Aryan" actors and cabaret announcers by expelling them from the Reich's Chamber of Culture on the grounds that “in their public appearances they displayed a lack of any positive attitude […]

"The report says there are early signs of decreasing food insecurity due to recent federal programs like dental care and the $13-billion pledge to build more housing." Ummm... shouldn't employment and trickle down benefits from structuring our economic system for investors' benefit do that? […]

Today's decision being heavily criticized by Past Brendan Carr