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Moebius Stripper

@moebiusstripper.bsky.social

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Twisted, one-sided commentary. Canadian (the human kind, not the emotional support animal kind).

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Moebius Stripper @moebiusstripper.bsky.social · 27d

Quoting this because you can't pin other people's posts

Jacqueline @cuddlefishj.bsky.social · 27d

I think the overarching message is to follow as few Americans as you can get away with.

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Moebius Stripper @moebiusstripper.bsky.social · 1h

People who are more practical and less vengeful than me have suggested a lightweight lock for the pannier, enough to deter opportunists. I'm going to do that.

Moebius Stripper @moebiusstripper.bsky.social · 2h

Someone else suggested locking the pannier. That's probably the best idea. What type of lock do you use?

Moebius Stripper @moebiusstripper.bsky.social · 13h

The smart but annoying thing to do would be to take my pannier with me whenever I leave my bike outdoors and out of sight for literally any amount of time. The spiteful thing to do would be to stick a tracker in the new pannier. Obviously I am ordering a tracker.

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Moebius Stripper @moebiusstripper.bsky.social · 16h

Fortunately my laptop survived the downpour. But, ow, my shoulder...

Moebius Stripper @moebiusstripper.bsky.social · 16h

I had a portable bike pump, an inner tube, and some tire levers, and some random junk. It will probably cost around $200 or so to replace everything, including the pannier. It's more annoying than anything else. I had to bike home in the rain with my laptop in a canvas shoulder bag.

Moebius Stripper @moebiusstripper.bsky.social · 17h

I'm so mad

Moebius Stripper @moebiusstripper.bsky.social · 17h

LONG AND HARD

Moebius Stripper @moebiusstripper.bsky.social · 17h

Happy Thanksgiving to everyone except the tremendous asshole who just stole my pannier!

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Moebius Stripper @moebiusstripper.bsky.social · 20h

That, plus politicians are competing for social media likes.

This is why one of my ballot box municipal issues is "what do you plan to do about the fact that the sidewalks are unworkable after a snowfall?" Ie, what thought have you given to boring but important issue within your jurisdiction?

Moebius Stripper @moebiusstripper.bsky.social · 20h

In a way, yeah. I think it's realized that it can't deliver on its loftier promises. It's still quite far left in terms of cultural stuff, especially the kind that doesn't cost much money

Moebius Stripper @moebiusstripper.bsky.social · 20h

*so much _as it is_ that I'm less susceptible

Moebius Stripper @moebiusstripper.bsky.social · 20h

It's truly depressing how many people you can rule out on that basis alone

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Moebius Stripper @moebiusstripper.bsky.social · 20h

There's a trope about people becoming more conservative as they get older. While that's been functionally true for me, it's not that my values have changed so much that I'm less susceptible to branding. I don't care the the NDP are the warm and compassionate ones, I just want a damn vaccine

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Moebius Stripper @moebiusstripper.bsky.social · 20h

If you're medically vulnerable and live in "anti-vaxx" Alberta, you can get your COVID shot now. If you're medically vulnerable and live in "pro-vaxx" BC, you have to wait a week or more.

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Moebius Stripper @moebiusstripper.bsky.social · 20h

BC used to charge for the flu vaccine, unless you were in a high-risk category. I told them I was asthmatic, which was true, but they didn't ask for proof

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Alex Usher @alexusherhesa.bsky.social · 21h

There are 11 recommendations in here. Recs 3, 4, 6, 8, 9 and 10 are all good, require no comment - just do them! The rest I will talk about in this thread.

Alex Usher @alexusherhesa.bsky.social · 1d

The Alberta post-secondary review is out. For the most part this is a very sensible set of recommendations. I would hazard a guess that it is not quite what the provincial government was expecting.

Alberta panel suggests new post-secondary funding model, institutional neutrality | CBC News

A panel that studied Alberta's post-secondary institutions has released its recommendations, which include replacing the funding framework, providing more assistance like grants and scholarships to st...

www.cbc.ca

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Jason Furman @jasonfurman.bsky.social · 1d

The other day a student asked me about the prevalence of insider trading in prediction markets. I now have an answer.

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Moebius Stripper @moebiusstripper.bsky.social · 20h

My experience with flu shots in BC, not that I am recommending this of course, is that if you say you're in a high risk category, they take your word for it

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Moebius Stripper @moebiusstripper.bsky.social · 23h

The government employees rightly feared losing their jobs if they didn't reply, or didn't reply "properly", to Elon. The college admin people OTOH had the option of ignoring the request and going back to their work as usual.

Moebius Stripper @moebiusstripper.bsky.social · 23h

On the flip side of this, remember the student journalist who asked a bunch of admin how they spent their day, and he was disciplined? The whole reason it was outrageous when Elon did it was because Elon was in a position of sketchily-earned power over them. Not so for the student journalist!

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RE 🇨🇦 @hewer-of-code.bsky.social · 1d

Let's pause for a moment to ponder how useless a Minister of Artificial Intelligence and Digital Innovation is if all they're going to is parrot big tech marketing.

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RE 🇨🇦 @hewer-of-code.bsky.social · 1d

Minister Of Things That Would Happen Anyway Even If There Were No Minister of Artificial Intelligence and Digital Innovation

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Moebius Stripper @moebiusstripper.bsky.social · 1d

Thought experiment: if our minister of AI (sigh) owned a lot of stock in the big AI companies, what would he be doing differently?

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Daniel Munro @dkmunro.bsky.social · 1d

January: Elbows up.

July: Elbows down.

October: Elbows nudge nudge, wink wink.

blair @blairaf.com · 2d

Looks like Canada's approach to "sovereign AI" will involve creating structural dependencies on large US tech companies

Excerpt from an article that reads: Lehane met with AI Minister Evan Solomon on Monday. Solomon told The Logic in June that his mission is to “create sovereign AI.” But “sovereignty is not solitude,” Solomon said, noting that Canada still needs technology and capital from other countries.

OpenAI is participating in similar initiatives in other advanced economies. In May, the firm launched OpenAI for Countries, a new program that localizes ChatGPT and its underlying models for a nation’s particular customs and the requirements of its public sector. It is also offering to build data centres for countries that help pay for the infrastructure.

Countries are turning to OpenAI because of its “cutting-edge technology,” which can be used to build homegrown tools and applications, and because the firm can help stimulate their domestic AI ecosystems by building or buying compute capacity, Lehane said.

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Moebius Stripper @moebiusstripper.bsky.social · 1d

Same and same (UW alum?)