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I expect this from ABC but I also want to fire it into the sun

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This is good. On the linguistic roots why, people say Mandami and why it's not just linguistics (i.e. the impulse is linguistic but at this point for certain people it's deliberate)

It’s cool that Chuck Schumer, Kiersten Gillibrand, and Hakeem Jeffries just proved to every future dem that establishment approval is irrelevant tbh

"What we see, I think, are a bunch of rich guys who have been comically out of touch with normal people for many decades, and more recently have blowtorched their brains into a smoking pile of ash on Elon Musk’s Twitter/X and in various group chats." Via @ryanlcooper.com prospect.org/2025/11/04/a...

Can NYC folks explain what the deal is with Staten Island?

The Canadian Parliamentary Standing Committee on Science and Research is launching a US-style attack on EDI in Tri-Council funding. As part of this attack, they are demanding disclosure of confidential demographic info + reviewer comments of all Canadian researchers who have applied b/w 2000-2025.

Learning a lot about what people don't understand about AI systems by who uncritically reposts that thing about the east wing not being demolished. It's obviously just that the demolition happened after the model cutoff date, but people are acting like the model is being intentionally subversive.

Engineers: I'm doing some exploratory analytic work on open source projects. What are the projects you look at which have vibrant and healthy public community? 1/4

Just finished watching this incredible talk by Dr. Greg Wilson (sadly I can't find a bsky account for him, find him at third-bit.com ) which cites a lot of great work including that of the incomparable @grimalkina.bsky.social - really a masterclass, I highly recommend it.

Anyone else getting weird loading problems from bsky all of a sudden? Haha, I guess I won't see your reply unless it clears up.

BREAKING: Andrew Cuomo endorses Mamdani

imo this is a manifestation of colonialism/frontierism in tech, e.g. "they're not using it," "they don't care if we have my data as long as we give them something for it".

The problem is devs want to treat data as a property rights issue when personal data are actually observations of behavior to be used as evidence—primarily for social surveillance and control. It is rendering people in your community into relationships with power outside of their control or consent.

Dear Vancouver, please figure this out

Ok, this is a lot. 😮‍💨 But he’s one HUNDRED percent on point both on content and appropriateness of tone. @pearlmania500.bsky.social

Canada can do this as well we don't need to buy stuff from the Nazi billionaire.

Poll: Would you be annoyed if I started talking a lot more about software, software development, and management of software teams?

I always feel like Somebody's watching meeeee

I saw a tragically AI-generated version of this poster, so I have recreated a 100% human-made version for all your protest sign needs.

But we are essentially pack animals. We need one another, for our survival, for our wellbeing. When we rise above "Me First" thinking, there's nothing we can't achieve. Some thoughts for what it means to rise up together, and do each a solid, on what I hope will be a historic day.

"Money is like sea-water: The more we drink the thirstier we become; and the same is true of fame." ~ Arthur Schopenhauer Without rules and a shared sense of a public good, there's never enough for those who already have a lot

Canada here. Fun facts Short 🧵 Insulin was first discovered at UofT here in 1921 thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/t... Mass production (and export!) of insulin was on a strictly non-profit/cost-recovery basis by 1923. connaught.research.utoronto.ca/about/histor...

This is amazing, you need to see this. I'm floored at how awesome this is.

this app cascade + current events have broken my executive function beyond repair. every trip across the apartment or opened window on my laptop is a journey to a new thing i've forgotten about and/or will forget about by the time i return to the station i just left to go retrieve or do something

People want to be judged so bad, look at this thread

Realizing how different formal, written French as it's taught to foreigners is from the French language as it's normally spoken—and not just slang—was a game changer. This paper identifies many of the things that would leave learners confused if they're not aware. www.jstor.org/stable/3132776

OK, so if Bluesky's days are numbered, where's next? The Mastodon hate is real. What next?

"This website is free" No. This website comes at a terrible cost

Shaking, crying, renouncing my citizenship

Before we panic about government spending, @iglikaivanova.bsky.social examines what really created BC’s current fiscal challenge. The numbers tell a clear story she says. #bcpoli

“We should want to take advantage of the post office’s unique, nationwide infrastructure to provide more and better services to Canadians instead of dismantling something that we may never be able to rebuild.” @parismarx.com

Everybody said the rapture didn't happen but that's not the funniest interpretation. That's if the rapture really did happen but literally everyone you know was rejected

Why do economists care about inequality in incomes and wealth? 1) Inequality tends to dampen overall economic performance. One of most immediacy effects is on consumer spending. Low-and middle-income households spend a larger percentage of each dollar that they earn when more spending is in…

The thing that really blows my mind is how easy it would be for a party to make language like Angella's their main messaging. Where are the people boldly articulating a vision for what we could be doing for and with each other as Canadians? Why is it only about austerity and pandering to capital?

Breaking - Canadian federal government to rip up all highways because they are losing too much money.

Canada Post “lost” 1 billion dollars last year? How about, “it cost Canadians 1 billion dollars to have a national postal service” which works out to costing about $25 a year per person (population of Canada in 2024 = 40 million). Seems like a pretty reasonable cost to me.

Anyway, I find it despicable to make the political choice to construct a world wherein the regular ideologically-motivated murder of children doesn’t “count” as political violence in order to legitimate data bullshit that will stoke actual political violence and persecution against innoncents

One time at a CTV party around Season 3 of Degrassi, I was standing in line to get food with some other cast members, and Mulroney came up to us and said "you're on TV, you don't need to wait in line, just go take" and I think about it and how he's a Conservative stooge all the time

Angus: Trump, says lumber from Canadian mills represents a national security threat. You’d use that language about buddy going down to the Home Depot in Arkansas to buy some 2x4s?

If The point becomes winning alone then there is no point beyond desiring power

How should Canada respond to Trump’s economic attacks? Economist @jimbostanford.bsky.social joins RadioLabour to lay out a progressive plan. #canlab #canpoli rabble.ca/podcast/how-...

PLEASE LET'S HAVE AIRSHIPS

Americans, broadly, have simply forgotten the difference between public performance and social organization, and this is reflected throughout all of our politics, on all sides

B.C. Conservatives face allegations of fake memberships & ballot stuffing under John Rustad. CBC exposed it - proof of why public media matters. That’s why Poilievre & the Conservatives want CBC gone. 📰 r.pebmac.ca/https://www.... #SaveTheCBC

Premier Smith touts new citizenship markers on driver’s licenses and provincial IDs as means of preserving “election integrity” and “streamlining services.” Those justifications aren't borne out by evidence, leading critics to conclude there's an ulterior motive. @jaredwesley.ca writes. #abpoli

Even better, these investments help insulate the economy against Trump's trade war. At the same time, enhancing supply of clean energy will also support value-adding exports like manufacturing & tech. This should be at the top of our nation-building economic agenda. #cdnecon

That's a step increase in employment of 20-30% for building trades employment. Sean Strickland from @cdntrades.bsky.social sums it up perfectly: "Canada’s transition to a cleaner economy represents one of the most significant job creation opportunities in our country’s history." #canlab /4

I helped the Centre for Civic Governance on an exciting new report about the jobs potential of renewable energy and energy conservation investments in Canada. The numbers are huge: 6.3 to 9.5 million job years of new construction work from now to 2050: ccg.eco/research/job.... /2