Remaining goth bar is being gothic tonight. Needs more support. Still trying to get a snakebite and black tho #toronto #goth #karaoke

TIL that ENIAC was base 10 https://ethw.org/ENIAC

Construction at Western Hospital for the new surgical tower. What kind of crystal would this lattice be? #toronto #photography

For those of you who still thought it had any hope of being the future of "decentralized" social networking, Bluesky has rolled out age restriction to users in select draconian jurisdictions. 🤡

Arrived early for #activityinthepub and managed to score a whole section! We are upstairs at the back, come on down to Paupers #toronto https://mobilisons.ch/events/2df6a596-7dee-4e14-a4f5-ad471c6bfbcb

Spotify Under Fire After AI Copy Replaces Real Band https://www.thedailybeast.com//spotify-under-fire-after-ai-copy-replaces-real-band-king-gizzard-the-lizard-wizard/?via=ios

#psa: I have word from a friend still in #electronics #retail: if anyone needs a new #computer, *this week* is the time to buy if you can. This is because the price of RAM and other computer components (which are in high demand for #ai chips) are about to push the price of personal computers up […]

Do you like bass? Looper pedals? In Toronto? You may not want to miss Luke Vajsar and bro playing at Motel tonight, building layers of music at 10pm. http://www.lukevajsar.com/shows.html #bass #guitar #toronto #gearsquad #loops

lol #cdnpoli https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/danielle-smith-recall-petition-approved-9.7001541

It's a world of slush out there

I know I posted about this last night, but doncha wanna know what happened internally that made this soooo important right now? At least kinda? https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/gartner-calls-for-pause-ai-browsers/ #gartner #comet

It’s time to get some meow meows :sleep: :stux: :nkoSleep: Goodnight my dear friends :mastodon: :fediverse: :blobcathearts: :blobcatsnuggle:

I am brimming with holiday spirit

Things are moving really fast, so I went on and created a Codeberg organization for coordinating a post-Calibre path forward for uniting readers and writers in the goal of archiving, organizing, and reading books. https://codeberg.org/rereading DNS is still propagating, but […]

MONDAY AAAAAAAA

ふがくしょけい ✨ #silentsunday #nature #japan

Well the Pluribus surprise wasn't very surprising they telegraphed it pretty hard

World keeps getting stabbier https://www.cp24.com/local/toronto/2025/12/06/ttc-employee-and-customer-charged-after-allegedly-stabbing-each-other-at-dundas-station/

Fuckall going on Fest-wise at the #gearyave Street Fest that BlogTO said was definitely still going on into the evening. Guess I'll just go home and watch Stranger Things? #toronto

I don't remember where I found this, but it still makes me laugh every time. #dadjokes

While I do not personally observe holiday traditions, I know that for many tonight is the most revered day of the year. So I wish a joyous Krampusnacht for all who celebrate.

Apparently those Waymos can't avoid small animals. After killing a cat, one ran over a dog. Also, they have learned passive voice from the police departments: "Unfortunately, a Waymo vehicle made contact with a small, unleashed dog in the roadway. " […]

um https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/04/robocop-statute-detroit

The Cold Moon rises once again

Fantastic DIY #flock camera detector (WIP) from Chuck Toussieng He reports that he a) will work on a case once he's ironed everything out b) will post to Github as well, after a) is complete #flockcameras https://chuckt.com/

AI and Crypto data centres are killing the consumer computer building industry. “A typical 32GB DDR5 RAM kit that cost around $82 in August now sells for about $310, and higher-capacity kits have seen even steeper increases.” #micron #crucial #ai #crypto #datacentre #waste #inflation #bubble […]

A small creek by a winter day. Photo taken in Beaconsfield, Québec :flagqc: on 4 December 2023 - - - Un petit ruisseau par un jour d'hiver. Photo prise à Beaconsfield, Québec :flagqc: le 4 décembre 2023 #Beaconsfield #Montréal #Snow #Neige #Winter #Hiver […] [Original post on mstdn.moimeme.ca]

I love the little intersections where I come across something Steve Mann is doing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJlu_oBhkZE #toronto

Yess Colbert covers drunk raccoon https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mhjy4PbxbSc

This place has urinal pads that smell like mulled cider wtf

Mix all the goodies and Pour all the cookies and Lick on the back of my spatula

The accompanying News & Views piece "Even in space, satellites photobomb telescopes" by @merrdiff.bsky.social is excellent! https://rdcu.be/eSZJX Here's a lovely space-based telescope image, with 560,000 satellite friends. Thanks, techbros.

AI Warning: Google has been caught A/B testing replacing real article headlines with AI-generated substitutes, which are of course sometimes wildly misleading/against journalistic ethics. If you see a blatantly horrible headline in a news aggregator, check whether the site's own page matches […]

Defensive Security Podcast Episode 331 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjBW2m-2vt4 https://defensivesecurity.org/defensive-security-podcast-episode-331/

HEY CANADA. MP Elizabeth May is sponsoring a petition to get Electoral Reform back in front of Parliament. Could all of us who were utterly betrayed in 2016 when JT reneged on this please go put our electrons onto this one? yes, yes, the petitions don't mean a thing WILL happen, but there was […]

Axios: Raccoon gets drunk at Ashland ABC store and passes out in bathroom https://www.axios.com/local/richmond/2025/12/02/drunk-raccoon-virginia-abc-store-break-in #raccoon #animals #wildlife

*Good question *It's gonna be plenty weird, that's for sure

Amazon Workers Issue Warning About Company’s ‘All-Costs-Justified’ Approach to AI Development Amazon Employees for Climate Justice says that over 1,000 workers have signed a petition raising “serious concerns” about the company’s “aggressive rollout” of artificial […] [Original post on ai6yr.org]

Sodden park

A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Programming Languages James Iry; Thursday, May 7, 2009 1801 - Joseph Marie Jacquard uses punch cards to instruct a loom to weave "hello, world" into a tapestry. Redditers of the time are not impressed due to the lack of tail call recursion […]

A tiny world on top of a fence post. #lichensubscribe #macro

Agentic OS is a trap

Amazon Data Center Linked to Cluster of Rare Cancers https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/amazon-data-center-oregon

I bet some of those tech billionaire CEOs are hooked on their own addictive drug. 🤔 Futurism: Meet the Group Breaking People Out of AI Delusions "We're seeing some people who are so deep in it that they don't need ChatGPT anymore. They see their delusion in everything." "...The content of […]

Last chance to see Orwell: 2+2=5 (a documentary about George Orwell and his relevance to modern times) in Toronto tomorrow at 5:15pm, you can get tickets here. https://hotdocs.ca/whats-on/films/orwell-2-3-5 #toronto #hotdocs #orwell #film #documentary

Israel’s genocide against Palestinians in Gaza continues unabated despite ceasefire https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2025/11/israels-genocide-against-palestinians-in-gaza-continues-unabated-despite-ceasefire/ #gaza #freegaza #genocide #fascistisrael #freepalestine

'Made-up quote' in Canadian satire site The Beaverton fools Time Magazine 'When your ambassador is SO deranged that Time Magazine says, "Yeah, that quote sounds real".' https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/beaverton-dupes-time-hoekstra-9.6996328 #cdnpoli #uspol #satire

You love to see it https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/spotify-streaming-platform-controversy-2025-9.6996115 #spotify #boycott

Beaverton is hitting it out of the park today. "“This is a matter for the courts, probably,” Carney said. “It’s not my place to get involved in interprovincial issues. Unless the extraction industry asks me to. Wait, have they asked? No? Not yet? Okay, then let the courts handle it until then […]

Just cancelled my Liberal Party membership. This is not what Carney ran on in the leadership campaign. This is not what the Liberals ran on in the election campaign. This is the planet-destroying conservative agenda, but with less bigotry. Carbon capture is a bluff, not a solution. #cdnpoli