Bruce Elrick
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Married to a wonderful wife with with two adult sons, living in Calgary. I like getting out on my bike. I care about social justice. Unemployed or […] 🌉 bridged from https://cosocial.ca/@virtuous_sloth on the fediverse by https://fed.brid.gy/
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[Survivor/ALDS spoilers]

Jays defeat Yankees and the two Canadians in Survivor are off the island tonight.
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@chad My wife and I lived in Toronto while I was going to graduate school and the Jays won their first World Series. We were at a watch party at a friend's downtown and it was electrical pouring out onto Yonge Street with tens of thousands (it had to be more than 100,000). It was amazing.

I […]
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[Is "Heritage American" the new "Aryan"?]

Hitler learned from the American South's Jim Crow laws when he rose to power and it sounds like the American South has learned from Hitler, coining a new name for former slave owners […]
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@meejah
It pays to be kind to future-you. Practice positive self-karma!
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Don't you love being surprised by past-you with a gift?
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Mind-blowing fact from @ben during #fediforum : in an fundraising experiment, he was able to raise more donations for #propublica on the Fediverse than on any other social channel. 🤯
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Finally, FINALLY getting around to watching Brooklyn: Nine-Nine.

I've seen enough bits of it in the past to know it will absolutely be my jam.
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@bruces Maybe this will force Cory to write Discipline and Punish much like that company with a software service on the web had to add a feature that ChatGPT would tell people it had.

I'd read it.

I'd read anything by Cory, mind you.
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@docpop
LoL AI says "yes, President Trump is showing signs of dementia"
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Corporate America's horniness for AI supports David Graeber's thesis about so many white collar jobs being bullshit, meant to occupy people instead of reducing the work week for everyone.
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@timbray I think your confidence that the AI meltdown will be less worse than 2008 assumes that American banks aren't wound up in all the credit flying back and for to pay for real chip manufacturing and real datacenter builds.

I am not confident about that assumption.

If they are exposed […]
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[Seeing Ezra Klein eulogize the "good parts" of Charlie Kirk while being confronted by Ta-Nehesi Coats about the reality of America shows a profound naiveté.]

Charlie Kirk was providing hateful cover for people who would lynch a Black person in a hot minute and he knew it. Even if Kirk would […]
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Booked for latest COVID and Influenza vaccines on Sunday, October 5.
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Does anyone else find Naked Capitalism's comment section to be very orthodox in its heterodoxy?

I mean sure, it's natural for them to get angry when some stranger comes in a repeats a truly orthodox take on something but their reaction feels similarly orthodox.
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Mustn't forget to give the dog his daily medication.
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Screenshot of Android Clock app alarm set for every day at 8:30 am titled "Cheese tax" since we wrap the pill in a bit of a processed cheese slice.

Other dog gets an unadulterated cheese tax payment as well.