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Covered Bridge in Winter
Maud Lewis
c. 1967
Maud Lewis
c. 1967
December 25, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Covered Bridge in Winter
Maud Lewis
c. 1967
Maud Lewis
c. 1967
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my festive spirit amidst our grimly stupid reality (2025)
December 23, 2025 at 9:34 PM
my festive spirit amidst our grimly stupid reality (2025)
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your moment of calm is from much earlier this year, back in those innocent days of "wtf" not "*unending soundless scream*"...
December 19, 2025 at 10:02 PM
your moment of calm is from much earlier this year, back in those innocent days of "wtf" not "*unending soundless scream*"...
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old holiday movies all revolve around the plot of “busy, financially successful dad has forgotten the true meaning of Christmas”. A movie set in 2025 would be about Santa helping Dad deliver DoorDash orders early so he can see his kids on Christmas before his next shift starts.
December 15, 2025 at 11:39 PM
old holiday movies all revolve around the plot of “busy, financially successful dad has forgotten the true meaning of Christmas”. A movie set in 2025 would be about Santa helping Dad deliver DoorDash orders early so he can see his kids on Christmas before his next shift starts.
First day of the season at Big White was a success! With blue skies and mild temperatures, it felt like Spring skiing, in December.
December 9, 2025 at 10:17 PM
First day of the season at Big White was a success! With blue skies and mild temperatures, it felt like Spring skiing, in December.
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This might be the most Nelson story ever. Like you could take the name of the town out of the story and ask people where it would take place and most people who know anything about Nelson would say Nelson. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
November 29, 2025 at 3:57 PM
This might be the most Nelson story ever. Like you could take the name of the town out of the story and ask people where it would take place and most people who know anything about Nelson would say Nelson. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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November 26, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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bluesky checked the IP addresses of pro-turkey posters and they're all posting from hungry
November 23, 2025 at 8:47 PM
bluesky checked the IP addresses of pro-turkey posters and they're all posting from hungry
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Not a single one of the big pro-Trump "Canadian MAGA" accounts is actually Canadian.
November 23, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Not a single one of the big pro-Trump "Canadian MAGA" accounts is actually Canadian.
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“Meta shut down internal research into the mental health effects of Facebook after finding causal evidence that its products harmed users’ mental health, according to unredacted filings in a lawsuit by U.S. school districts against Meta and other social media platforms.”
Meta buried 'causal' evidence of social media harm, US court filings allege - The Economic Times
Meta reportedly halted internal research into the mental health impacts of Facebook and Instagram after finding causal evidence of harm. Internal documents revealed users reported lower depression and...
m.economictimes.com
November 23, 2025 at 4:46 PM
“Meta shut down internal research into the mental health effects of Facebook after finding causal evidence that its products harmed users’ mental health, according to unredacted filings in a lawsuit by U.S. school districts against Meta and other social media platforms.”
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I do not like your AI slop
I do not want this worthless glop
I do not read its overviews
I don't care what Grok says is true
I do not like it here nor there
I'm tired of it everywhere
I do not want this worthless glop
I do not read its overviews
I don't care what Grok says is true
I do not like it here nor there
I'm tired of it everywhere
November 22, 2025 at 1:15 AM
I do not like your AI slop
I do not want this worthless glop
I do not read its overviews
I don't care what Grok says is true
I do not like it here nor there
I'm tired of it everywhere
I do not want this worthless glop
I do not read its overviews
I don't care what Grok says is true
I do not like it here nor there
I'm tired of it everywhere
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Oath of the Engineer: "In my profession I take deep pride. To it I owe solemn obligations. ... I shall participate in none but honest enterprises. ... In the performance of duty, and in fidelity to my profession, I shall give the utmost."
Oath of the Software Engineer: Fuck it we ball
Oath of the Software Engineer: Fuck it we ball
Microsoft warns that Windows 11's agentic AI could install malware on your PC: "Only enable this feature if you understand the security implications"
Microsoft is pushing ahead with its plan to add agentic capabilities to Windows 11 but has issued an important security warning for anyone who is interested in trying it out.
www.windowscentral.com
November 18, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Oath of the Engineer: "In my profession I take deep pride. To it I owe solemn obligations. ... I shall participate in none but honest enterprises. ... In the performance of duty, and in fidelity to my profession, I shall give the utmost."
Oath of the Software Engineer: Fuck it we ball
Oath of the Software Engineer: Fuck it we ball
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READ THIS!
www.canadianaffairs.news/2025/11/12/o...
$200K to litigate a case against a social assistance recipient who *may* have received $10K in CERB overpayments is not an "inefficiency", but collecting unpaid taxes on luxury yachts or planes *is* a waste of bureaucratic time?
MAKE IT MAKE SENSE
www.canadianaffairs.news/2025/11/12/o...
$200K to litigate a case against a social assistance recipient who *may* have received $10K in CERB overpayments is not an "inefficiency", but collecting unpaid taxes on luxury yachts or planes *is* a waste of bureaucratic time?
MAKE IT MAKE SENSE
Op-Ed: Ottawa's costly pursuit of the poor
The government cites inefficiency as a reason to end taxes on vacant homes and yachts — yet keeps pouring money into futile litigation over pandemic-era benefits
www.canadianaffairs.news
November 13, 2025 at 6:16 PM
READ THIS!
www.canadianaffairs.news/2025/11/12/o...
$200K to litigate a case against a social assistance recipient who *may* have received $10K in CERB overpayments is not an "inefficiency", but collecting unpaid taxes on luxury yachts or planes *is* a waste of bureaucratic time?
MAKE IT MAKE SENSE
www.canadianaffairs.news/2025/11/12/o...
$200K to litigate a case against a social assistance recipient who *may* have received $10K in CERB overpayments is not an "inefficiency", but collecting unpaid taxes on luxury yachts or planes *is* a waste of bureaucratic time?
MAKE IT MAKE SENSE
Holy shit, it’s only been 80 years, and we already forgot ALL the lessons!
As Remembrance Day marks 80 years since WWII, fewer surviving veterans remain (Canada)
As Remembrance Day marks 80 years since WWII, fewer surviving veterans remain - Business News
Eighty years after the end of the deadliest conflict in history, the number of living Second World War veterans has dwindled to a few thousand.
www.castanet.net
November 11, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Holy shit, it’s only been 80 years, and we already forgot ALL the lessons!
Nuclear powered quantum computing crypto weed, thank you for my next startup idea.
Tale of today's tape:
The Spec Wreck
-quantum computing
-nuclear
-crypto
-crypto-turned-data-center
-weed
sherwood.news/markets/reta...
The Spec Wreck
-quantum computing
-nuclear
-crypto
-crypto-turned-data-center
-weed
sherwood.news/markets/reta...
Retail traders’ favorite risky, speculative stocks are getting taken to the woodshed
A bad day for risky, recently high-flying stocks....
sherwood.news
October 16, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Nuclear powered quantum computing crypto weed, thank you for my next startup idea.
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peter thiel (clutching chrome plated human skull) tell me oracle... does the world end in fire, or ice? the passionate flames of the activist thunberg, or the frozen doom yudkowski demands?
chatGPT: ✨ What a great question, Peter! ✨
Let's break that tough Q down 🕺, in your favorite epic style:
chatGPT: ✨ What a great question, Peter! ✨
Let's break that tough Q down 🕺, in your favorite epic style:
October 10, 2025 at 5:27 PM
peter thiel (clutching chrome plated human skull) tell me oracle... does the world end in fire, or ice? the passionate flames of the activist thunberg, or the frozen doom yudkowski demands?
chatGPT: ✨ What a great question, Peter! ✨
Let's break that tough Q down 🕺, in your favorite epic style:
chatGPT: ✨ What a great question, Peter! ✨
Let's break that tough Q down 🕺, in your favorite epic style:
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Good morning Bluesky !
September 28, 2025 at 6:18 AM
Good morning Bluesky !
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These disconnects always reveal how the point of algorithmic culture, recommender algorithms, and now “AI”, isn’t to give you agency or help you find more of what you want; it’s to influence your behavior and attitudes towards what the people running the algorithms want. Programmable people.
Entire GDP built around algorithms and my music app still can't figure out that if I skip a song every single time it's served up I NEVER WANNA HEAR THAT SONG.
October 6, 2025 at 2:58 PM
These disconnects always reveal how the point of algorithmic culture, recommender algorithms, and now “AI”, isn’t to give you agency or help you find more of what you want; it’s to influence your behavior and attitudes towards what the people running the algorithms want. Programmable people.
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In non-LLM AI news, Waymo has quietly been involved in two fatal car crashes in 2025. Phil Koopman details that this fatality rate is now comparable to humans.
People: 7/billion miles in all conditions
Waymo: 5/billion miles in geofenced conditions
People: 7/billion miles in all conditions
Waymo: 5/billion miles in geofenced conditions
Blame-Free Robotaxi Crashes Are Still Crashes
The tricky logic behind robotaxi crash metrics
philkoopman.substack.com
October 5, 2025 at 2:03 PM
In non-LLM AI news, Waymo has quietly been involved in two fatal car crashes in 2025. Phil Koopman details that this fatality rate is now comparable to humans.
People: 7/billion miles in all conditions
Waymo: 5/billion miles in geofenced conditions
People: 7/billion miles in all conditions
Waymo: 5/billion miles in geofenced conditions
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when I was a kid my mom would make me give my little brother a turn on Crash Bandicoot and I would have to sit there and watch him run off the map and waste all my extra lives and that's sort of how it feels to watch the news right now
September 29, 2025 at 12:28 AM
when I was a kid my mom would make me give my little brother a turn on Crash Bandicoot and I would have to sit there and watch him run off the map and waste all my extra lives and that's sort of how it feels to watch the news right now
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Canada Post “lost” 1 billion dollars last year?
How about, “it cost Canadians 1 billion dollars to have a national postal service” which works out to costing about $25 a year per person (population of Canada in 2024 = 40 million). Seems like a pretty reasonable cost to me.
How about, “it cost Canadians 1 billion dollars to have a national postal service” which works out to costing about $25 a year per person (population of Canada in 2024 = 40 million). Seems like a pretty reasonable cost to me.
"Canada Post is on track to lose money" Hum. Duh. It cost less than a toonie to send a letter across Canada.
"Canada Post is a service and not a business" was common knowledge until late stage capitalism brain rotted most people into think if it ain't making money for shareholders, it's failing.
"Canada Post is a service and not a business" was common knowledge until late stage capitalism brain rotted most people into think if it ain't making money for shareholders, it's failing.
September 25, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Canada Post “lost” 1 billion dollars last year?
How about, “it cost Canadians 1 billion dollars to have a national postal service” which works out to costing about $25 a year per person (population of Canada in 2024 = 40 million). Seems like a pretty reasonable cost to me.
How about, “it cost Canadians 1 billion dollars to have a national postal service” which works out to costing about $25 a year per person (population of Canada in 2024 = 40 million). Seems like a pretty reasonable cost to me.
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you can totally love your Tesla without supporting its CEO, as long as you never have it repaired, or use Superchargers, or pay for connectivity 🙂
A slightly more defiant version of the anti-Elon sticker.
September 25, 2025 at 3:35 PM
you can totally love your Tesla without supporting its CEO, as long as you never have it repaired, or use Superchargers, or pay for connectivity 🙂
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intriguing. i came to the same conclusion separately, writing this in 2007
unfortunately i don’t remember hearing about her writing or “cyberselfish” even tho i was around and reading that kind of thing then
unfortunately i don’t remember hearing about her writing or “cyberselfish” even tho i was around and reading that kind of thing then
September 25, 2025 at 2:25 AM
intriguing. i came to the same conclusion separately, writing this in 2007
unfortunately i don’t remember hearing about her writing or “cyberselfish” even tho i was around and reading that kind of thing then
unfortunately i don’t remember hearing about her writing or “cyberselfish” even tho i was around and reading that kind of thing then