I firmly believe that we are in an overblown moral panic over AI and data centers and that much of the left is making themselves useful idiots by letting themselves be distracted from freeway expansions, defunding of transit/climate science, and attacks on renewable energy Come yell at me

"You have to check Trivago!"

Opinion: The Globe can fuck all the way off

It’s tired. Yeah man, me too. Me too.

It’s so fucking lazy it’s offensive

Duolingo should give a free streak freeze if you’re in the country that speaks the language you’re practicing. I’m IN Mexico owl. Leave me alone, I know how to ask where the bathroom is.

Why the fuck are we sending Microsoft software to the moon? It’s irresponsible not to keep it contained here.

I saw the Challenger explosion on live tv… so I am always vaguely nervous when I watch a space mission begin

Shout-out to every other Gen Xer that was holding their breath the entire time for the first five mintues of the launch For r e a s o n s

Starting to think there are a few of them

Avi Lewis: "I can't wait for Carla Beck to be the Premier of Saskatchewan, and I can't wait for Naheed Nenshi to be the Premier of Alberta. I think there would be a massive improvement for both of those provinces who are suffering under extreme, regressive right-wing governments."

I’m in Mexico. Holy shit you guys, there’s an iguana here!

It’s worth mentioning that 32% of her own party voted for Kaitlyn Harvey, an environmentalist and progressive candidate. That was after a short campaign with wildly lopsided institutional support and funding in Beck’s favour. She literally attacking her own party when she attacks Lewis.

Hell of a way to find out @avilewis.ca is married to the author of This Changes Everything, @naomiaklein.bsky.social That book reframed the conversation of climate change for me and I can’t recommend that book enough.

The pundit and columnist class meltdown from folks who have never supported the NDP honestly suggests to me that the NDP is doing something significant that’s worth paying attention to. Those who defend power tend to screech the loudest when power is genuinely threatened.

“he wants Ottawa to get into the grocery business.” Hey, hold up. Why the fuck is selling groceries a business at all? Why are we tolerating corporations profiting off selling the things we need to live? So yeah, fuck it. Get the government in there and make food affordable.

OMG never mind. Carla Beck says “The positions that you have expressed publicly in this leadership race, and in your prior interactions with the New Democratic Party, are antithetical to the values of a party built with and for working people”.

Sask NDP continues to boldly say nothing very quietly out of fear of making someone somewhere mad.

I have not been following the federal NDP leadership race (despite receiving thousands of emails) and I don’t know anything about this Avi Lewis fellow. I do see a lot of the correct people being very upset though, so that’s a good start.

"If I am elected NDP leader tomorrow, I pledge to Send Less E-mails" Nope, none of them had the GUTS

Boost your unit's morale with this easy trick discovered by a Brigadier. Enemy generals hate it!

I should finish my silly little #ATProto app. It’s like 75% done but that last 25% is going to be 10000% of the work. Augmented reality is tricky.

We live in such interesting times, this could literally be about anything.

Scrubs is the spiritual sequel to M*A*S*H.

This is cool but it’s stressing me out for some reason. I think my monkey brain is just done for the day.

investor: can i call them "meat sacks" comms person: please don't investor: i'm gonna do it comms person: how about "nonsentient, headless bodyoid" investor: perfect

Jesus, they weren’t bloody joking.

Finally saw Wake Up Dead Man and it was a pretty good Knives Out movie. Was not expecting a VERY Lord of the Rings inspired scene but it was a cool surprise and it had to be intentional.

My BlueSky experience has settled into a weird state where I am always aware that there is a conversation happening about a thing, and I am sometimes aware of what the thing is, but somehow I consistently manage to avoid experiencing the conversation directly.

To the person from Costco tasked with following up and notifying me about a product recall: I’m sorry I’m not answering your calls. I promise not to eat the broken glass.

Tidal got a nice little UI refresh on iOS and I like it. Nothing I like more than a little UI refresh, it’s a little treat for my eyes.

I have a half formed idea that is being reinforced by this app. We have a well defined protocol for storing records. We don’t really have a well defined standard for defining UI for those records?

I signed in and started playing with it and it immediately clicked for me and I feel dumb I didn’t think of this before. @aetheros.computer is a really unique ATProto client you can log in to and do all your ATProto stuff in one spot. Really highlights the idea that your PDS is a file system.

Whatever this is looks pretty cool. But I don’t understand what it is. Understanding what it is is important to me before signing in and playing with it.

I hid the Talking Flower above our kitchen cabinets. This morning, I got home from some errands and found a note on the counter.

A friendly reminder to remind Claude that they are doing a great job and that we're very proud of them. You know. Just in case.

If you want to have nice labels in your timeline (like for @eurosky.social), consider to subscribe to the PDS-Labeler here: bsky.app/profile/did:...

We all owe @blackskyweb.xyz a debt of gratitude for splitting from BlueSky and for moving the technology forward. They’ve proven it can be done, and they’ve paved the way for other communities to do the same. Fuck yeah.

Pretty crazy how important the blockade of a trade route is right now

This is Summit. He is a friend to pretty much everyone he meets. But has a special soft spot for the little critters who stop long enough for him to say hello. 13/10 (IG: bakerbarnes)

Hey. All ya’ll should give this person a little bit of money.

bluesky being immediately negatively polarized into going with skeets because we were asked not to was the first sign that we were going to make it as a posting site every true posting forum declares forever war against the mods

Hot damn there’s some good curling happening at the Brier. There usually is, but wow, this year feels different.

Some Hollywood exec is going to see this and in two years we’re going to be talking about the newest Cats adaptation

I’m thinking about @matrix.org and #ATProto. I want my data to be mine, and so I want to be able to log in to things as my ATProto handle. #Matrix is an awesome federated chat protocol. How would someone go about smooshing them together?

“Hey Siri, tell my wife I love her” Siri’s message: “I love her”

If you’re coding with AI and you’re making apps for public consumption, please listen to the parts that matter when people are complaining about “AI slop”. If the software was working well, would people be complaining? Well, probably, but likely a lot less.