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Mike Waddingham

@mikewaddingham.bsky.social

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Comms and marketing. IT project management. Oilers fan. Own a lab. 📍= Vancouver-ish. Posts will be random.

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Mike Waddingham @mikewaddingham.bsky.social · Mar 28

CBC Gem is now playing my son Aaron's short film! Take some time this weekend and give the 19 award-winner Chicken a watch. (14 mins)

gem.cbc.ca/canadian-ref...

Chicken (2023)

When Sam splits up with her partner, she is forced to move back into her childhood home with her mother and disabled brother. When depression sinks in, her brother Emmett gets in her face trying to cheer her up and in doing so makes everything worse. But when Emmett is confronted with a situation at a baseball game where he is called a chicken, Sam rises to the challenge to come to his aid and is reminded of what is truly important.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt15705828/plotsummary?item=ps7620983

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Mike Waddingham @mikewaddingham.bsky.social · 22h

More like 'Lost to a better team' and 'lucky they weren't swept'

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 1d

AI companies are spending billions on deals with each other, which boost their value.

This has helped twenty billionaires tied to AI add $450B to their fortunes in 2025.

Meanwhile, an MIT study found that 95% of companies using AI haven't seen returns on investment.

Be warned.

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Discontented Bike Person @b1kes.bsky.social · 1d

Kurzgesagt made a video explaining precisely why AI is deadly to human knowledge.

AI Slop Is Destroying The Internet

YouTube video by Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 1d

Real estate investors now own about 20% of single-family homes in the country.

A big reason why home prices have skyrocketed in recent years is a lack of supply — and investors sinking their teeth into whatever is left on the market is making the problem even worse.

How Wall Street Priced You Out of a Home | Robert Reich

Robert Reich

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 2d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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Mike Waddingham @mikewaddingham.bsky.social · 1d

Yes. But why is it set up this way?

Because when we are talking about universal services - for everyone - then it IS the same thing.

And the very last thing we should do is make CP privately owned. You probably know that packages costing $15 to send with CP cost triple that with UPS...

Mike Waddingham @mikewaddingham.bsky.social · 1d

It's not a business. It is a public service for all of us. Fund it properly and it becomes more dependable. Same goes for health care. Same for highways.

Mike Waddingham @mikewaddingham.bsky.social · 1d

So Canada Post 'lost' $843 million.

How much did our health care and education systems 'lose'?
How much did the Canadian Forces 'lose'? This one was easy to look up: $28.8 billion

To be clear, I'm not criticizing these expenditures! we need these services. But public services can't lose money.