After a MONTH of trying to reach the "Minister of AI and Digital Innovation" Evan Soloman's office and getting not a single human response, I finally got a pickup from the constituency office. The constituency assistant first told me it was a constituency office, not a policy office, to which I […]

We are excited to share that we are beginning work on a new onboarding experiment for #mastodon: Default Server Recommendations. Our intent for this experiment is to recommend the closest server geographically that is in the correct language during the sign-up flow. We will be running this […]

Yesterday's @TechConnectify was great! A much shorter unintentional followup from @hankgreen focusing on the stupidity of coal: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IfvBx4D0Cms #uspol #USPoli #USPolitics #Coal #electricity#uspolitics#coalElectrifyEverything #power

RE: https://mstdn.ca/@evdelen/115985741127484273 Watching this I can't help but recall the quarter BILLION dollars that #dougford spent to cancel renewable energy projects. Or the BILLIONS of dollars he is spending to build AMERICAN Small Modular Nuclear Reactors that can only be fuelled using […]

Watching this FANTASTIC @TechConnectify video on electrification and you must too! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtQ9nt2ZeGM #Electrification #ElectrifyEverything #electricity #power#electrifyeverything#electrification#hydro

I think the next big crisis to his the #usa will be an intra-state extradition crisis. I think Minnesota will charge Jonathan Ross with State Murder chargers and whatever red-state he came from will refuse to extradite him. What happens then? #uspol #USPoli #uspolitics

RE: https://mas.to/@thelocal/115938990795761883 “Ford's cash transfer did not improve access to cataract surgery for Ontarians overall—only the richest Ontarians got improved access to cataract care”. #onpoli

Grateful that #mstdnca is recovering today! Such a good story about the power of collaboration in the #fediverse! Thanks @chad#fediverse#mstdncaor your leadership and having the courage to ask for help!

#Toronto, this is a must watch if you're interested at all in #publictransit! It details all the ways that Conservative, Regressive councillors "Compromise" transit. Compromise ≠ Consensus. Conservatives know that and hijack the process of achieving Consensus - raising the bar to the highest […]

LOL, I thought this headline was referring to the picture of Doug Ford just next to it..🤣 🤣 🤣 I think someone at CBC is having a laugh with these layouts. #dougford #ontario #cdnpoli

RE: https://mstdn.ca/@idren/115893587798382640 Everyone should flood MP Greaves' inbox with praise for this decision! (Also, recommend joining Mastodon!) If he starts spreading the word to his colleagues in caucus about the positive flood of attention it may encourage others to take the […]

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It's telling that the constituency office for the Minister in charge of Child Pornography Dissemination - that is to say, the minister who is explicitly refusing to even endorse investigating Xitter over their generation of CSAM - is sending 100% of calls to […] [Original post on mstdn.ca]

RE: https://fosstodon.org/@AkaSci/115879698266181277 Holy Crap. So goes the independence of the US Federal Reserve, then goes anyone using US funds as a reserve. The US dollars value will plummet! #uspol #uspolitics #uspoli

Dutch railways: "oh no, it has snowed, we can't have a fully functioning schedule now" Canadian trains: TOOT TOOT

The #forkiverse influx has been fun for me because (I think) it’s the biggest instance I’ve seen join where the majority of users are unaware ahead of time that there are other instances that have been around much longer, so it’s just a stream of new accounts doing the Dr Who “it’s bigger on the […]

RE: https://mastodon.social/@andymckay/115872783759162875 What he says! What should be done is the Government of Canada should maintain a private Mastodon instance (just like they do with their website and RSS feed) and then Walled Garden Social Media can slurp up the feed.

RE: https://mstdn.ca/@Paulatics/115861469408403689 I would call my MPP and MP to tell them to get off the Paedo Platform, but given they are #dougford and #pierrepoilievre #conservative Caucus members my unlimited talk minutes would probably be wasted. #cdnpoli #canpoli #onpoli #canada #ontario

Maybe all of this <insert gif> is one of Robin Hanson's Great Filters for the Fermi Paradox... #showerthought

Are they seriously contemplating invading? No, probably not. That is probably the troll — but it's a bit of theatre designed to spur a pro-annexation movement in Greenland. (Not unlike Putin's efforts to foment anti-Europe sentiment in Ukraine, pre-2022.)

RE: https://mstdn.ca/@evdelen/115845254198082222 Continuing to listen to US based podcasts and read US based media which continue to miss the point about #trumps invasion of #venezuela They love splitting hairs about the fact that Trump is so blatant about it being about oil, saying things […]

For perspective, Doug is the same (and only) premier whose message to Canada's Indigenous community has been: 'They gotta stop coming cap-in-hand.' This upon Doug and his corporate co-conspirators making clear their intent to rip the mineral wealth out from under the province's First Peoples […]

If Ontarians spoke to Doug Ford the way Doug Ford speaks to Ontarians: 'It’s simple Doug: 'Don't eat so much and you won't be such a fat slobbering pig.' Needless to say, decent Ontarians can't imagine speaking in such an insulting, self-righteous, deeply ignorant manner to any human being […]

I keep seeing people with takes like "why is #trump going after the oil in #venezuela when the #US is in the middle of an oil boom?" Here is why: The kind of oil that the US produces today from fracking is called "Very Light Crude", it sort of has the colour of and viscosity of Mountain Dew […]

«Please, pretty please, don't call it slop. Do you have any idea how much money we sunk on this thing? Can you imagine what kind of about-face I'll have to make if this thing tanks for good? Our investors are going to cry so hard when they figure out that we lit their money in fire. So please be […]

Of course Ford is going to appeal the decision. Is this about pigheadedness, precedent or running the clock while Ford's in office bc there are calls he doesn't want us to see? Doug's fighting transparency again. Does anyone remember his staffer Travis Kann's 'unprecedented transparency' hashtag? 🙄

Do I think the #markcarney statement on #venezuela was tepid? Yes. Do I think that was necessary? Also yes. If you have a toddler who's holding a fully automatic machine gun, you don't make loud noises or sudden moves to get there attention lest you get shot. (Remember #dougford and his stupid […]

If the US economy were on the verge of a major meltdown, would now be a good time to make a bunch of purchases denominated in $USD under the presumption that the currency will devalue relative to the $CDN? #monetarypolicy #arbitrage #currencytrading

During World War II the Nazi's built Concentration Camps in conquered states and deported "undesirables" out of Germany. Bet's on how soon the US sets up a Concentration Camp in Venezuela to deport "undesirables" to? Bonus points if you can name the date that "they aren't due due process […]

US Liberals can do something right now to stop Trump: reduce the demand for oil! Make it a point to use less fossil fuels and eventually switch off of it altogether. Electricity might be expensive where you live, so buy solar panels! You cannot make your own fossil fuels, you'd need to have […]

I am sorry if you are too dense to understand this reality, but that's not my problem. You either need to stop letting yourself get misled so easily or you need to think a little harder about the status quo versus the future we obviously should be striving for. For countless reasons.

"but what about those minerals we need for batteries and solar panels?" those less capable of thinking a few steps ahead will shout. You see folks, using those other technologies doesn't require that you SET FIRE to the resource you've extracted. Those resources are still there to be recycled.

Allow me to connect some dots for you: Too much of the world currently relies for its basic functions on resources which must be continuously extracted. You burn that oil one time and oops, now you need more. Geopolitical horrors are, in fact, one of the reasons we need to move to renewables ASAP.

Though I have no doubt it will be a Kangaroo Court and Maduro will be "found" to be "guilty", it would be hilarious if after Trump kidnapped a foreign leader to "stand trial" in a US court, that leader got acquitted.

Never forget whose freedom you're fighting for ❤️

In any other country the people would be on the streets if their leaders illegally invaded another country. Heck, there were even protests in Russia in 2021 when they invaded Ukraine, though they were quickly suppressed by Putin. Will Americans have a similar reaction or will they collectively […]

RE: https://mstdn.ca/@evdelen/115826914852890243 As an aside, holy crap have the editorial standards at the Toronto Star ever fallen! Ever since the NordStar Capital takeover, the Toronto Star has been shedding it's Atkinsonian roots.

RE: https://mstdn.ca/@evdelen/115826914852890243 Anyone want to forward this to him on Blue Sky? I've had the displeasure of actually meeting with him in the past and to describe him as uninformed and supercilious would be a compliment. (The guy didn't even know that UofT and the City of […]

Change My Mind: Reece Martin of RMTransit is to Public Transit what RFK Jr. is to Public Health. #rmtransit #topoli #toronto #onpoli #transit #publictransit #TTC

You know what I find ironic, many thinkers that I enjoy reading or listening to who decry things like corporate owned algorithmic social media that incentivizes slop and misinformation, or calls for the publicization of rent-seeking privately owned or operated public services, etc. continue to […]

I can't believe I hadn't heard about this massively successful effort to not merely recruit, but to HIRE doctors as City employees, complete with an incredible benefits package including, get this, a defined benefits pension plan! I've been talking about doing this 2013 when I was a data and […]

RE: https://masto.ai/@rbreich/115803627289699671 The #usa is "The Wealthiest Country in the World", but what if you removed those 925 of 343,000,000 outliers? #theus is the land of mythology, chiefly about it's self. "USA, USA", "WE'RE NUMBER ONE", "THE GREATEST NATION IN THE WORLD", "If it's […]

There's a moment from the #markcarney #rosiebarton Year-End interview that I've been ruminating on, Rosie says something to the effect of "do you want to get a majority not via the ballot box but through Parliament" and he responded by saying he only needs to command the confidence of a majority […]

Here's a WIP #sneakpeek I needed this, built it. No idea what's the direction yet but it's fun. #phanpysocialdev (still on my local dev)

Re-watching A Christmas Story (1983) and can't help but to notice all of the #toronto locations in which they filmed. (Filming was split between Toronto and Cleveland, which is why it won a Genie but never an Oscar) Buying the Christmas Tree was filmed at what is now The Wharehouse at 232 Queen […]

LeoLabs says they see hundreds of debris objects from the Starlink failure event

The atomic ensemble time scale at the NIST Boulder campus has failed.

Watching the #cbc #atissue segment tonight and had to note a rare moment of agreement with Andrew Coyne in the "Premier of the Year" segment: Althia notes that choices of Chantel (Ford) and Coyne (Smith) should be disqualified because of the Conflict of Interest #scandals Ford is under as […]