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Fernando Medrano @fmed.bsky.social · 1h

Does the data contain passenger count?

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Fernando Medrano @fmed.bsky.social · 1h

The problem with BlueSky is that it seems to be uninteresting.

Fernando Medrano @fmed.bsky.social · 12h

Getting high on his own supply.

Business Insider @businessinsider.com · 12h

The CEO said that he copied his investor's questions into Perplexity and asked the AI tool to answer it like he would.

Perplexity's CEO turns to AI for investor pitches instead of building decks

The CEO said that he copied his investor's questions into Perplexity and asked the AI tool to answer it like he would.

www.businessinsider.com

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Fernando Medrano @fmed.bsky.social · 14h

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Chris Larsen @chrislarsen.bsky.social · 15h

Canada has the same problem with the NDP.

And yes, I blame this on the late Jack Layton. He moved the party to the right, and now it's worthless.

Eddy St Clair @eddystcclair.bsky.social · 16h

The Democratic Party hates progressives, and actively works and schemes to keep them from winning elections, and blocks them from leadership when they do. This is why they lose!

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karen ward @kwardvancouver.bsky.social · 16h

ken sim accepting the endorsement of the Vancouver police union on October 5 2022

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Mary Gillis @marygillis.bsky.social · 20h

The way everyone in a position of power in the government and at Canada Post refuses to entertain any of the proven methods that have saved other post offices and made them profitable is pathological.

How would they be behaving any differently if they were actively trying to make Canada Post fail?

Would you go to Canada Post for your mortgage? Why advocates think postal banking could be a lifeline for the Crown corp.

Amidst the labour dispute between Canada Post and the Canadian Union of Postal Workers, a debate concerning the future of post offices across the country has once again taken the stage: Should Canada ...

www.thestar.com

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Fernando Medrano @fmed.bsky.social · 17h

I missed all this.

The Globe and Mail @theglobeandmail.com · 17h

Blue Jays’ playoff run inspires fans across Canada

Blue Jays fever has spread to parts of the country where enthusiasm for the team – and Toronto in general – isn’t always a given

www.theglobeandmail.com

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 23h

Also, using “thought police” to describe the *critics* of someone who literally launched her career by trying to police the thoughts of her pro-Palestinian professors at Columbia is AMAZING

Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 23h

I know it's basically just bait so whatever but if you use "thought police" unironically you should be forced to sit in a corner without your phone for a full hour

Sally Jenkins post with a link to whatever awful Atlantic piece about Bari Weiss reading "Ratio me. Please. It's a badge of honor. If you don't like a link, go follow some chicken-heart who needs the approval of the thought-police. Caitlin Flanagan of
@theatlantic.com
is a tremendous writer and this piece is an excellent read. "

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Fernando Medrano @fmed.bsky.social · 23h

Great wide ranging interview with economist and commentator Kathryn Anne Edwards. Much of the discussion can be applied to the Canadian context. Worthy of a listen.

youtube.com/watch?v=qSnO...

How Policy is Failing the American Workforce — ft. Kathryn Anne Edwards | Prof G Markets

YouTube video by The Prof G Pod – Scott Galloway

youtube.com

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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 1d

In 2004, Parisian police were conducting a training exercise in the french catacombs and found, after moving past a desk and a tape playing audio of snarling dogs, a fully functional movie theater and bar. When they returned 3 days later, the equipment was gone, with a note: “Do not try to find us.”

Members of the force's sports squad, responsible
- among other tasks - for policing the 170 miles of tunnels, caves, galleries and catacombs that underlie large parts of Paris, stumbled on the complex while on a training exercise beneath the Palais de Chaillot, across the Seine from the Eiffel Tower.
After entering the network through a drain next to the Trocadero, the officers came across a tarpaulin marked: Building site, No access.
Behind that, a tunnel held a desk and a closed-circuit TV camera set to automatically record images of anyone passing. The mechanism also triggered a tape of dogs barking, "clearly designed to frighten people off," the spokesman said.
Further along, the tunnel opened into a vast 400 sq metre cave some 18m underground, "like an underground amphitheatre, with terraces cut into the rock and chairs".

There the police found a full-sized cinema screen, projection equipment, and tapes of a wide variety of films, including 1950s film noir classics and more recent thrillers. None of the films were banned or even offensive, the spokesman said.
A smaller cave next door had been turned into an informal restaurant and bar. "There were bottles of whisky and other spirits behind a bar, tables and chairs, a pressure-cooker for making couscous," the spokesman said.
"The whole thing ran off a professionally installed electricity system and there were at least three phone lines down there."
Three days later, when the police returned accompanied by experts from the French electricity board to see where the power was coming from, the phone and electricity lines had been cut and a note was lying in the middle of the floor: "Do not," it said, "try to find us."

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Middle East Eye (Unofficial) @middleeasteye-rss.bsky.social · 1d

Recognition amid genocide seeks to undermine Palestinian anti-colonial resistance - https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/recognition-amid-genocide-seeks-undermine-palestinian-anti-colonial-resistance

Gaza genocide: The urgent task is not symbolic recognition but holding Israel accountable

Contrary to claims of advancing peace, recognising 'Palestine' gives cover to Israel's settler-colonial project while Palestinians are starved, dispossessed and denied genuine sovereignty

www.middleeasteye.net

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Emily "Babe" St. James @emilystjams.bsky.social · 1d

There are a lot of things I would do to get Canadian citizenship too.

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 1d

chat it's happening

uk.news.yahoo.com/katy-perry-j...

Katy Perry and Justin Trudeau appear to confirm romance - report

After months of rumours, proof seems to be in that Katy Perry is dating former Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. The loved-up couple were spotted kissing and cuddling on board Perry's 24-metre y...

uk.news.yahoo.com

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karen ward @kwardvancouver.bsky.social · 2d

Sept 27, 2023

"The chief told the board Sept. 21 the VPD is no longer have recruiting problems."

watch the video below.

the chair of the police board is (AGAIN) lying to YOU

while the VPD continue, outrageously, defunding us.

www.vancouverisawesome.com/local-news/v...

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 1d

Tens of millions of people have died from Covid.

Every country should have responded with record investments in public health infrastructure.

Instead the US government is putting us all at greater risk of more catastrophes by firing hundreds of top scientists whose job is to prevent outbreaks.

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 2d

every single tech idea is like “soon our robots will be capable of playing catch with your kid, freeing you up to spend more time working on your employers’ spreadsheets”

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Fernando Medrano @fmed.bsky.social · 1d

I wish we had one when my kids were in diapers.

Fernando Medrano @fmed.bsky.social · 1d

The best kind are “bum guns”. Very common in parts of Asia. Basically the same kind of handheld jet spray you often see in kitchens. You should also have a regular cotton bum towel to dry off.

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Fernando Medrano @fmed.bsky.social · 2d

“We expect greatness from our athletes”. No we don’t. They are usually pieces of shit.

San Francisco Chronicle @sfchronicle.com · 2d

OPINION: We expect greatness from our athletes. We also expect them to make a buck. But LeBron James teasing tipple was probably the tone-deaf tout none of us needed now, Scott Ostler writes.

Let them drink cognac? C’mon, LeBron, this wasn’t what America needs from sports

OPINION: We expect greatness from our athletes. We also expect them to make a buck. But LeBron James teasing tipple was probably the tone-deaf tout none of us needed now, Scott Ostler writes.

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Fernando Medrano @fmed.bsky.social · 2d

Christmas morning will be bleak.

TechCrunch @techcrunch.com · 2d

President Donald Trump declared Friday that he will impose a 100% tariff on all imports from China, while also imposing export controls on “any and all critical software” from the United States.