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Sean Boots @bluesky.sboots.ca · 3d

Love it! 😄

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Dale Smith @journodale.bsky.social · 3d

Or, hear me out, the provinces need to step up and do their fucking jobs and fund their own services properly. They are not helpless. They can raise their own revenues.

The Hill Times @hilltimes.com · 3d

Canadians could be facing a “perfect storm” in mental health challenges due to insufficient supports and a trend of growing economic stressors—which will need to be addressed through greater federal funding.

www.hilltimes.com/story/2025/1...

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Bruce Arthur @brucearthur.bsky.social · 3d

I keep saying: the corruption of the Supreme Court is the biggest problem in the collapse of the republic

Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 3d

It is pretty galling that the Supreme Court spent four years telling Biden "you can't do that without Congress" then allowed Trump to seize a once-unthinkable amount of power from Congress within nine months and concentrate law-making authority almost entirely in the executive branch.

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Rick Downer @rkdowner.bsky.social · 3d

$A flow chart with a bubble that asks "Do I need AI?" There is only one path out of the bubble and it leads to a box that says "No" It's really a poor flowchart, because the question should be in a decision diamond and it should lead to an end state oval labeled "No," but it's an internet meme so what do you want ¯\_(ツ)_/¯$

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Sharon Lerner @fastlerner.bsky.social · 3d

NEW An EPA report found that PFNA, a chemical in the drinking water of some 26M people, interferes with development and likely causes liver problems & male reproductive harms. The report was done in April, scientists told me. But the agency hasn't released it

www.propublica.org/article/epa-...

Scientists Completed a Toxicity Report on This Forever Chemical. The EPA Hasn’t Released It.

Agency scientists found that PFNA could cause developmental, liver and reproductive harms. Their final report was ready in mid-April, according to an internal document reviewed by ProPublica, but the ...

www.propublica.org

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Erica Ifill @wickdchiq.bsky.social · 3d

Bring back the Dewey Decimal system

a cartoon of a man with the words to the library on the bottom

ALT: a cartoon of a man with the words to the library on the bottom

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Erica Ifill @wickdchiq.bsky.social · 3d

We need to go back to doing things the old way like looking up shit in a library because this tech will track you down and implicate you
Another reason not to use ChatGPT

Megan Gray @megangray.bsky.social · 3d

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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bianca wylie @biancawylie.com · 4d

"What is needed now is not more big ideas or breakthrough products. It is repair. Design as repair means paying attention to what is already in motion." - @ronbronson.com

blog.ronbronson.com/design-as-re...

Design As Repair - Ron Bronson | Ron Bronson

Note: These are the prepared remarks I wrote for my talk at IxDA Oslo. In the end, I spoke more extemporaneously, but I thought at least I could

blog.ronbronson.com

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Sean Boots @bluesky.sboots.ca · 3d

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bianca wylie @biancawylie.com · 4d

time relates to quality of relationships with each other, and with the land. inefficiency can create unexpected and welcome moments for building collectives. these themes can inform tech organizing and advocacy efforts.

biancawylie.medium.com/tech-isnt-th...

tech isn’t the future it’s just capitalism faster

responding with slowness in relations

biancawylie.medium.com

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bianca wylie @biancawylie.com · 4d

a lot of people in a range of sectors are looking for permission to slow down tech adoption, but are scared that they're going to miss out or be at a disadvantage if they do so. there are structured ways to approach this problem.

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Waldo Jaquith, but Spooky @waldo.net · 4d

www.nextgov.com/people/2025/...

In a list of the Office of Personnel
Management director's priorities for the federal workforce, technology is "number one, two and three."

"We have a real, acute shortage of people who have what I would call very cutting-edge, modern tech skills," said Scott Kupor, director of the government's personnel agency.

A man dressed in a hot dog suit, saying “We’re all trying to find the guy who did this.”

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Sean Boots @bluesky.sboots.ca · 4d

All of these are, uh, very on point.

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Let the Right Hon In @danhon.com · 4d

NYT Opinion headlines as Culture ship names:

GOU Make No Mistake About Where We Are (28 Sep)

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Let the Right Hon In @danhon.com · 4d

NYT Opinion headlines as Culture ship names:

ROU When Authoritarianism Looms, Old Friends Reunite (11 Sep)

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Let the Right Hon In @danhon.com · 4d

NYT Opinion headlines as Culture ship names:

MSV We Take Clouds for Granted (10 Sep)

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Let the Right Hon In @danhon.com · 4d

Needless to say I think this is brilliant.

theoatmeal.com/comics/ai_art

A cartoonist's review of AI art - The Oatmeal

This is a comic about AI art.

theoatmeal.com

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Dale Smith @journodale.bsky.social · 4d

For the late/west coast crowd, my latest for @cba-nationalmag.bsky.social: Supreme Court of Canada holds first ceremonial opening in 39 years #SCC #cdnlaw

Supreme Court of Canada holds first ceremonial opening in 39 years

CBA President Bianca Kratt says the court is a testament to the stability a country can enjoy when its legal institutions remain respected, independent, and grounded in the rule of law

nationalmagazine.ca

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 5d

“In a city once choked with cars and infamous for its traffic snarls, Paris has pulled off a remarkable turnaround…the French capital has officially become Europe’s best city for children to walk, cycle, and move around independently.” Via @momentummag.bsky.social

A victory for FAST leadership.

Paris Pedals to the Top: How the City of Light Became Europe’s Best for Young Cyclists

The French capital has officially become Europe’s best city for children to walk, cycle, and move around independently

momentummag.com

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Sean Boots @bluesky.sboots.ca · 4d

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Waldo Jaquith, but Spooky @waldo.net · 4d

Consulting firms have long covered their vast collection of $300/hour-billable recent college graduates with the fig leaf of $600/hour-billable actual experts. Maybe the plan is to drop 90% of the recent college graduates, and basically just keep the fig leaf? IDK. It'll be fun to watch.

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Waldo Jaquith, but Spooky @waldo.net · 4d

To the extent to which big consulting firms don't feel threatened by AI, it's because they understand that a big part of their job is merely decision-laundering. A big organization wants to do a thing, and they need somebody to blame in case that thing goes wrong? Time to bring on a big consultant!

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Waldo Jaquith, but Spooky @waldo.net · 4d

The big consulting firms are bragging about their use of AI because they're always chasing trends (blockchain, IoT, etc.) and selling them to governments and corporations. But they don't seem to get that AI is the one that threatens to undermine their existence.

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Waldo Jaquith, but Spooky @waldo.net · 5d

If I ran a consulting firm, I'd be yelling as loudly as I could that we will never use LLMs in lieu of the work of our experienced, talented, brilliant people. If a consulting firm's work is so shitty that it can be replaced with an LLM, then they should go out of business as soon as possible.

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Waldo Jaquith, but Spooky @waldo.net · 5d

Now, I'm just a simple unfrozen caveman, but it seems to me that the competitive advantage of Deloitte et al used to be "we hire experienced, talent, brilliant people, if you pay us, you can have access to them." What I'm hearing here is, instead, "we have a subscription to ChatGPT." 🤔

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