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Chris Larsen @chrislarsen.bsky.social · 8h

I'm Canadian and I've been to four. Two of them were layovers though, so I'm not sure if that counts.

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Chris Larsen @chrislarsen.bsky.social · 9h

Good timing then that I went NC with my family before the pandemic.

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Chris Larsen @chrislarsen.bsky.social · 13h

This morning I coughed up a pawn, a knight and a bishop.

I must have a chess infection.

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Chris Larsen @chrislarsen.bsky.social · 14h

Cabs are evil, take an Uber.

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Chris Larsen @chrislarsen.bsky.social · 14h

Truer words about Toronto were never spoken.

matrraka.bsky.social @matrraka.bsky.social · 22h

The city is only “fine” for people who can afford it

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Sasha the Furious Ghost 👻 @sashafury.blackskycomra.de · 18h

Carney has no ethical compass to speak of.

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Normal Island News @normalisland.co.uk · 23h

Huge congratulations to Maria Corina Machado who has won the Nobel Imperialism Prize for steadfastly supporting Israel's genocide and calling on the US to invade her own country so she can be installed as puppet leader while Trump takes Venezuela's oil ♥️

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Chris Larsen @chrislarsen.bsky.social · 1d

Good idea. Toronto can only be handled in small doses.

Chris Larsen @chrislarsen.bsky.social · 1d

Toronto? Yeah. Moved from Toronto to Mississauga 11 years ago and never looked back.

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MS Kohut @mskohut.bsky.social · 2d

I’ve been around wealthy people. I’ve been around people living with very little. And everywhere in between. The wealthy people are always the least generous. By FAR. Wealth degrades humanity. It’s not used to help us flourish. Not at all.

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Chris Larsen @chrislarsen.bsky.social · 1d

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Danya Glabau @allergyphd.bsky.social · 1d

Ok friends, it's your time to shine: What visual metaphors are out there for LLM/AI resistance and refusal? Making slides for a thing!

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r @recombobulating.bsky.social · 1d

it seems to be grounded in a belief that there was nothing but brutality and violence in the world until Europeans got enlightened and started to 'civilise' it under colonialism

it's a fundamentally anti human attitude

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emily moonlight @threnody.bsky.social · 1d

just watched a dozen people ask microsoft copilot experts their most pressing questions and those questions were 90% “how do i turn it off?” and “when i turn it off, is it really off or is it spying on me?”

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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 1d

New from 404 Media: the Discord hack is every users' worst nightmare. Yesterday the hackers started posting Discord users' selfies, identity documents, email addresses, phone numbers, more. I watched in real time. This is risk of tech storing ID for age verification
www.404media.co/the-discord-...

The Discord Hack is Every Users’ Worst Nightmare

A hack impacting Discord’s age verification process shows in stark terms the risk of tech companies collecting users’ ID documents. Now the hackers are posting peoples’ IDs and other sensitive informa...

www.404media.co

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Erica Ifill @wickdchiq.bsky.social · 2d

Ta-Nehesi Coates with the caption “Wow, that was really racist”

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Chris Larsen @chrislarsen.bsky.social · 2d

Plus, there's the age old argument that physical media can't be modified, except in extremely obvious ways.

Digital, online sources? They can update the server whenever they want.

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Chris Larsen @chrislarsen.bsky.social · 2d

Very, very true.

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Chris Larsen @chrislarsen.bsky.social · 2d

Fuck Microsoft.

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Chris Larsen @chrislarsen.bsky.social · 2d

Don't trust American tech companies with your thoughts or your data.

Seriously, just don't.

Megan Gray @megangray.bsky.social · 2d

Police arrest man based on his ChatGPT prompts. Did they issue a warrant to OpenAI, did company give notice to the accused? How was the prompt “found?”

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Chris Larsen @chrislarsen.bsky.social · 2d

Don't trust American tech companies.

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Chris Larsen @chrislarsen.bsky.social · 2d

Always a good time for a Sokka gif.

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Chris Larsen @chrislarsen.bsky.social · 2d

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Chris Larsen @chrislarsen.bsky.social · 2d

A lot of people got their minds stuck in the 80s, where sports were for "jocks."

Chris Larsen @chrislarsen.bsky.social · 2d

Definitely cowards. This is a really awesome game idea.

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