@amackenzie37.bsky.social
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One of the easiest ways to shoot down the idea that "AI" is an expert is to show how it deals with something people know about.
Younger readers may not get this as most appliances come pre-wired, but anyone 35+ can see these are chaotic fire hazards.
From Mastodon, AI asked how to wire a plug:
Younger readers may not get this as most appliances come pre-wired, but anyone 35+ can see these are chaotic fire hazards.
From Mastodon, AI asked how to wire a plug:
February 6, 2026 at 5:20 PM
One of the easiest ways to shoot down the idea that "AI" is an expert is to show how it deals with something people know about.
Younger readers may not get this as most appliances come pre-wired, but anyone 35+ can see these are chaotic fire hazards.
From Mastodon, AI asked how to wire a plug:
Younger readers may not get this as most appliances come pre-wired, but anyone 35+ can see these are chaotic fire hazards.
From Mastodon, AI asked how to wire a plug:
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Postdoctoral Fellow in Frailty, Aging, and Cardiovascular Health Halifax NS, Canada #Epijobs ·
dal.peopleadmin.ca/postings/20175
dal.peopleadmin.ca/postings/20175
February 7, 2026 at 10:55 PM
Postdoctoral Fellow in Frailty, Aging, and Cardiovascular Health Halifax NS, Canada #Epijobs ·
dal.peopleadmin.ca/postings/20175
dal.peopleadmin.ca/postings/20175
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Only white people need studies to prove what they intended to do is what they actually did.
British colonists committed genocide against Australia's Indigenous population in Victoria, a landmark Aboriginal-led inquiry has found www.bbc.com/news/article...
Inquiry finds British committed genocide on Indigenous Australians - BBC News
It is the country's first formal "truth-telling" inquiry that ran for four years from 2021.
www.bbc.com
February 6, 2026 at 3:58 PM
Only white people need studies to prove what they intended to do is what they actually did.
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No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition.
Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Gladys Mae West obituary: mathematician who pioneered GPS technology
She made key contributions to US cold-war science despite facing huge barriers as a Black woman.
www.nature.com
February 6, 2026 at 9:09 AM
No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition.
Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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It will take so long to recover from the anti-science commentary coming from the likes of Charlebois.
Here is my latest. Sylvain Charlebois, Canada's beloved commentator on the food industry, thinks that not giving us access to raw milk is communism.
noraloreto.substack.com/p/canadas-fo...
noraloreto.substack.com/p/canadas-fo...
Canada's Food Professor wants you to buy raw milk
Sylvain Charlebois drops his mask on far-right podcast
noraloreto.substack.com
February 5, 2026 at 7:00 PM
It will take so long to recover from the anti-science commentary coming from the likes of Charlebois.
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Halifax ✔️✔️✔️✔️✔️✔️
you don't know your neighbors because of cars
your city doesn't make enough in taxes because of cars
busses are slow because of cars
they won't build light rail because of cars
your city's air is awful because of cars
one of the leading causes of death and injury from accident: cars
your city doesn't make enough in taxes because of cars
busses are slow because of cars
they won't build light rail because of cars
your city's air is awful because of cars
one of the leading causes of death and injury from accident: cars
February 5, 2026 at 6:29 PM
Halifax ✔️✔️✔️✔️✔️✔️
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The CMHA National Push Up Challenge launched today.
Our CMHA Halifax Dartmouth Team is Beacon of Light.
Team Captain - Bev Cadham
www.thepushupchallenge.ca/fundraisers/...
Our CMHA Halifax Dartmouth Team is Beacon of Light.
Team Captain - Bev Cadham
www.thepushupchallenge.ca/fundraisers/...
February 6, 2026 at 12:54 AM
The CMHA National Push Up Challenge launched today.
Our CMHA Halifax Dartmouth Team is Beacon of Light.
Team Captain - Bev Cadham
www.thepushupchallenge.ca/fundraisers/...
Our CMHA Halifax Dartmouth Team is Beacon of Light.
Team Captain - Bev Cadham
www.thepushupchallenge.ca/fundraisers/...
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Nova Scotia, what are we waiting for?
New Brunswick, an east coast Canadian province of about 900,000 people, will no longer use billionaire Elon Musk’s social media platform X for routine government communications, its leader announced
Canadian Province New Brunswick to Quit Using Elon Musk’s X
New Brunswick, an east coast Canadian province of about 900,000 people, will no longer use billionaire Elon Musk’s social media platform X for routine government communications, its leader announced Thursday.
bloom.bg
February 5, 2026 at 10:16 PM
Nova Scotia, what are we waiting for?
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Reporter Kenneth Jackson sets out to expose how wartime industrial and government decisions poisoned land and water in a small Ontario town.
It’s just another chapter of Canada’s toxic legacy in the heart of Anishinaabe territory, as contamination remains today.
It’s just another chapter of Canada’s toxic legacy in the heart of Anishinaabe territory, as contamination remains today.
February 5, 2026 at 10:43 PM
Reporter Kenneth Jackson sets out to expose how wartime industrial and government decisions poisoned land and water in a small Ontario town.
It’s just another chapter of Canada’s toxic legacy in the heart of Anishinaabe territory, as contamination remains today.
It’s just another chapter of Canada’s toxic legacy in the heart of Anishinaabe territory, as contamination remains today.
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Alt headline: Halifax considers decreasing ruinous driving subsidies.
Halifax considering paid parking on Saturdays: ‘It’s going to be a hornet’s nest’ www.saltwire.com/nova-scotia/...
Halifax considering paid parking on Saturdays: ‘It’s going to be a hornets’ nest’
Councillors expecting plenty of negative feedback as HRM looks to raise parking rates by 25 per cent
www.saltwire.com
February 5, 2026 at 11:23 AM
Alt headline: Halifax considers decreasing ruinous driving subsidies.
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Canada is not only complicit with the presence of ICE officers but through the mass deportations that began at the end of the Trudeau government and escalated further by the Carney government. Not to mention the brutality of closing the door to asylum seekers crossing at the border through SCTA.
February 5, 2026 at 4:13 PM
Canada is not only complicit with the presence of ICE officers but through the mass deportations that began at the end of the Trudeau government and escalated further by the Carney government. Not to mention the brutality of closing the door to asylum seekers crossing at the border through SCTA.
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How to improve Halifax traffic, provincial government edition:
1) Incentivize more drivers to go through two ridiculous bottlenecks to cram more cars onto the Peninsula.
2) Gaze in astonishment when you make things WORSE.
3) Blame bike lanes because you're angry that cyclists keep passing you.
1) Incentivize more drivers to go through two ridiculous bottlenecks to cram more cars onto the Peninsula.
2) Gaze in astonishment when you make things WORSE.
3) Blame bike lanes because you're angry that cyclists keep passing you.
Collisions on BOTH sides of the Macdonald...
One was near the HFX-Side, and that was earlier.
But NOW - another collision at the former tolls of the Macdonald. Expect big extended delays #HFXTraffic
One was near the HFX-Side, and that was earlier.
But NOW - another collision at the former tolls of the Macdonald. Expect big extended delays #HFXTraffic
February 4, 2026 at 12:51 PM
How to improve Halifax traffic, provincial government edition:
1) Incentivize more drivers to go through two ridiculous bottlenecks to cram more cars onto the Peninsula.
2) Gaze in astonishment when you make things WORSE.
3) Blame bike lanes because you're angry that cyclists keep passing you.
1) Incentivize more drivers to go through two ridiculous bottlenecks to cram more cars onto the Peninsula.
2) Gaze in astonishment when you make things WORSE.
3) Blame bike lanes because you're angry that cyclists keep passing you.
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In Halifax I propose we do the same for City councillors and mayor. Drop them in Burnside and have them get to City Hall with a $20 bill. (they can figure out the app if they want)
If I were Mayor of Ottawa, I would drive the @octranspo.com management team to Westboro, dump them on a random side street and give them 1 hour to get back to City Hall using only a Presto card
Whoever makes it back in time gets to keep their job
Whoever makes it back in time gets to keep their job
February 4, 2026 at 3:57 PM
In Halifax I propose we do the same for City councillors and mayor. Drop them in Burnside and have them get to City Hall with a $20 bill. (they can figure out the app if they want)
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Fillmore, Gillis, Hendsbee, and Purdy are not even interested in debating putting a little more money towards saving lives on Halifax streets.
February 4, 2026 at 5:41 PM
Fillmore, Gillis, Hendsbee, and Purdy are not even interested in debating putting a little more money towards saving lives on Halifax streets.
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Media coverage of Gaza has plummeted. So today on @thenation.com, we're doing something pretty special: we're only running pieces by people in and from Gaza.
We're calling it "A Day for Gaza." You can find links to all of the incredible pieces here. Please read! www.thenation.com/article/worl...
We're calling it "A Day for Gaza." You can find links to all of the incredible pieces here. Please read! www.thenation.com/article/worl...
A Day for Gaza
Today, The Nation is turning over its website exclusively to stories from Gaza and its people. This is why.
www.thenation.com
February 3, 2026 at 2:54 PM
Media coverage of Gaza has plummeted. So today on @thenation.com, we're doing something pretty special: we're only running pieces by people in and from Gaza.
We're calling it "A Day for Gaza." You can find links to all of the incredible pieces here. Please read! www.thenation.com/article/worl...
We're calling it "A Day for Gaza." You can find links to all of the incredible pieces here. Please read! www.thenation.com/article/worl...
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Health-related research and innovation in Nova Scotia is driving discoveries that improve lives locally and globally.
Keep up with the latest news: lnkd.in/eXN_eyzc
Keep up with the latest news: lnkd.in/eXN_eyzc
February 3, 2026 at 5:17 PM
Health-related research and innovation in Nova Scotia is driving discoveries that improve lives locally and globally.
Keep up with the latest news: lnkd.in/eXN_eyzc
Keep up with the latest news: lnkd.in/eXN_eyzc
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Important education message: "independent research has made clear that technology rarely boosts learning in schools—and often impairs it."
A few profit and the most vulnerable pay
www.economist.com/united-state...
A few profit and the most vulnerable pay
www.economist.com/united-state...
Ed tech is profitable. It is also mostly useless
Independent research identifies few learning gains
www.economist.com
February 1, 2026 at 3:25 PM
Important education message: "independent research has made clear that technology rarely boosts learning in schools—and often impairs it."
A few profit and the most vulnerable pay
www.economist.com/united-state...
A few profit and the most vulnerable pay
www.economist.com/united-state...
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But we desperately needed a police tank, folks
Recommended to save teeny tiny amounts of money:
-Reduce Transit Stop Snow Standards to 48 hours
-Eliminate the large item pickup on trash day
-Eliminate all sidewalk & accessibility ramp clearing outside the core
-Reduce Transit Stop Snow Standards to 48 hours
-Eliminate the large item pickup on trash day
-Eliminate all sidewalk & accessibility ramp clearing outside the core
January 31, 2026 at 12:43 PM
But we desperately needed a police tank, folks
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Halifax! There is a trial of an inhaled vaccine for COVID that you can enrol in right now!
Phase 2 Clinical Trial Evaluating an Inhaled Aerosol COVID-19 Vaccine
Study description
www.ccfv.ca
January 29, 2026 at 3:27 PM
Halifax! There is a trial of an inhaled vaccine for COVID that you can enrol in right now!
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Good morning.
The four districts that are cashflow positive on residential properties (7, 8, 9, and 16) generate an estimated $80m in surplus in residential and an additional $51m in commercial surplus each year.
Or: About one Halifax Forum per year above their estimated operating costs.
The four districts that are cashflow positive on residential properties (7, 8, 9, and 16) generate an estimated $80m in surplus in residential and an additional $51m in commercial surplus each year.
Or: About one Halifax Forum per year above their estimated operating costs.
January 30, 2026 at 10:21 AM
Good morning.
The four districts that are cashflow positive on residential properties (7, 8, 9, and 16) generate an estimated $80m in surplus in residential and an additional $51m in commercial surplus each year.
Or: About one Halifax Forum per year above their estimated operating costs.
The four districts that are cashflow positive on residential properties (7, 8, 9, and 16) generate an estimated $80m in surplus in residential and an additional $51m in commercial surplus each year.
Or: About one Halifax Forum per year above their estimated operating costs.
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"During the last 12 years of construction on the bike lane network, Halifax spent $900 million on road maintenance."
We are optimizing spending on a small fraction of our budget while ignoring the largest part? That's doing the most work for the least gain.
www.halifaxexaminer.ca/government/c...
We are optimizing spending on a small fraction of our budget while ignoring the largest part? That's doing the most work for the least gain.
www.halifaxexaminer.ca/government/c...
Halifax council votes in favour of two cheaper bike lane alternatives - Halifax Examiner
Novalea Drive and Welsford Street bikeway get yes votes, while Sam Austin asks to keep original plan for Victoria Road and Highfield Park Drive.
www.halifaxexaminer.ca
January 29, 2026 at 4:26 PM
"During the last 12 years of construction on the bike lane network, Halifax spent $900 million on road maintenance."
We are optimizing spending on a small fraction of our budget while ignoring the largest part? That's doing the most work for the least gain.
www.halifaxexaminer.ca/government/c...
We are optimizing spending on a small fraction of our budget while ignoring the largest part? That's doing the most work for the least gain.
www.halifaxexaminer.ca/government/c...
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Starfish Properties is a virus that is killing Downtown Halifax
January 29, 2026 at 3:56 PM
Starfish Properties is a virus that is killing Downtown Halifax
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It's an older meme, sir, but it checks out.
#StarTrek #StarTrekMemes #TrekMemes #StarTrekFamily #NuTrek #woke
#StarTrek #StarTrekMemes #TrekMemes #StarTrekFamily #NuTrek #woke
January 29, 2026 at 10:49 PM
It's an older meme, sir, but it checks out.
#StarTrek #StarTrekMemes #TrekMemes #StarTrekFamily #NuTrek #woke
#StarTrek #StarTrekMemes #TrekMemes #StarTrekFamily #NuTrek #woke
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This is who the separatists are. Huge thanks to my colleague @arnokopecky.bsky.social for getting that on the record. #abpoli
www.nationalobserver.com/2026/01/29/n...
www.nationalobserver.com/2026/01/29/n...
'They're trying to replace us': the conspiracy theories driving the man behind Alberta separatism
Mitch Sylvestre says the Canadian government is criminal, he has fears of a communist takeover and he's 'cured of federalism.' Arno Kopecky spoke with him about the allegations of coordination with US...
www.nationalobserver.com
January 30, 2026 at 12:45 AM
This is who the separatists are. Huge thanks to my colleague @arnokopecky.bsky.social for getting that on the record. #abpoli
www.nationalobserver.com/2026/01/29/n...
www.nationalobserver.com/2026/01/29/n...