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• Post #4353384

  Imagine the fun we're going to have when AI breaks into the banking system unbeknownst to anyone. #ai #finance #economy

• Post #4230898

  Here's a handy 'how it works' item on the demise of planet Earth. It's truly shocking our government is actively turning away from a desperately needed conversation around our use of fossil fuels. Sick, in fact. https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/pyrocumulonimbus-explainer-9.7287545 #climatechange #environment

• Post #4230897

  A rare culinary post... Every now and then, I get the notion Brussels sprouts would make a great—if labour intensive—sauerkraut prime mover. Anyone tried them? #cooking #quisine #preserves #fermentation

• Post #4230896

  At some point, people who've never used #AI will be like that guy running the clandestine Bradbury Building lab in the original 'Blade Runner' sought after, then... #ai #science #scifi #literature #movies

• Post #4164776

  A huge (but little-reported) stat: 'In the particularly bad stretch from 2023 to 2025, some 8 percent of Canada’s forests burned' One wonders what the figure is after this summer's infernos. As the item points out, the issue is not just destruction and smoke -- before burning these forests 'act as massive vaults for carbon [...and] have become their own notable source of greenhouse gases' 14-day gift read https://www.theatlantic.com/science/2026/07/canadian-forests-are-...

• Post #3946331

  'Give raw power to the cause of order.' It's decades ahead of its time. That's why we don't understand it. #monsterdon

• Post #3867374

  Just finished this one. A couple of factual inaccuracies (no, 'G' in physics does not mean 100 times your weight - it is earth's gravitational constant 'g' in this context, and yes, chimps do actually teach one another), plus some idiocy no fault of the author (chimps don't understand 'zero' dear researchers, true, but neither did humans until a millennium or so ago)... But overall, a well-researched informative read - highly recommend. #science #nature #liter...

• Post #3848521

  Kids, old guy who's gonna croak way before you (if Mother Nature cuts you a break), here to say: 1. Never was I denied the privilege of going outside to play as a kid because the air was shit. 2. Most of our consumer crap is unnecessary, oversized, energy-greedy, colossally wasteful shit. 3. Advertising is 99.999% lies designed to feed your primal impulses with zero regard for anyone else. 4. #climatechange is real. 5. Your parents/ teachers are ghouls if they've not been telling yo...

• Post #3791063

  How come Friday-the-13th's unlucky, but Monday-the-13th gets a pass? #science

• Post #3789609

  When will the CBC and Canada's (liberal-in-name-only) Tory Carney government stop pretending this is normal? https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/heat-warnings-central-eastern-canada-9.7267980 #environment #climate #climatechange #cbc #media #journalism #markcarney #canada

• Post #3524393

  35.1 C in Stratford, Ontario, Canada 1830h UTC. From when I visited this place regularly decades ago as a student, I recall zero 3-4 day stretches of such weather. Meanwhile, our PM coddles an-oil-industry-intoxicated Alberta toward adding a million barrels a day to our contribution. To an atmosphere so thin, it looks like a lightly drawn pencil-line from space -- our last shield against death by radiation. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/alberta-bc-oil-pipeline-9.7253528 #w...

• Post #3460863

  Here's a place in Southwest Ontario hosting tribute bands for those of longer aged vintages. Anything from swing to near-contemporary (meaning the 90's and early-aughts). I've seen one show: commendable, if workmanlike, periodically corny, touching, and, therefore, inevitably formulaic, if well-organized. I didn't not enjoy it. Think Eagles or Billy Joel and picture a country Saturday afternoon tribute crowd. Bet I don't need to write another word. #music #ontario #can...

• Post #3353407

  Still a fave... edits: alt text fixed #mastodon #fediverse #comics

• Post #2335941

  Free speech being kicked out of America by zealots. Free 14-day read: https://www.theatlantic.com/national-security/archive/2025/10/pentagon-press-corps-hegseth/684570/?gift=rMst1BY9gP1HWgkOEVmAK-r0I6iV9166NTpFtfEKfQ8&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share #politics #uspol #journalism #media

• Post #2157147

  Small steps: Recently, I moved from VS Code to VS Codium (same app sans Microsoft surveillance - see https://vscodium.com/). This morning, I migrated from github to Codeberg (https://codeberg.org/), integrating the latter with VS Codium (this move negating MS github surveillance). With minor issues resolved (mostly due to my own noobness with all this stuff), all good. Fellow coders: PM if you'd like details - happy to help if able. @pluralistic #linux #tech #vscode #github #codeb...

• Post #2020168

  #ai #love #tech

• Post #1783864

  This is such a cunning, shameless, beautiful scam. Got an email from Equifax (who exposed zillions of records to hackers not long ago if memory serves), the gist of which was: 'Nice credit rating you got there. Be a shame if something happened to it...' I took the bait and logged in. The images tell the story. It's a sublime shakedown. @pluralistic #economics #equifax #security #tech

• Post #1677227

  Meanwhile housing development for the well-heeled continues apace (on cheaply acquired farmland made easy to grab as a reward to Doug's developer donors) and Ford himself still talks of throwing billions into a hole so we and our petro-guzzling fleet of personal vehicles can enjoy traffic jams and MVA's in a 25-mile tunnel under the current 12-lane cross-city highway 401. Any FOI scrutiny having this week been defenestrated. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/ontario-hospit...

• Post #1677221

  Got his code running... 'Oh, hello, Purina server farm!' #caturday #photography

• Post #1665933

  Why in eff won't Firefox present mastodon images in-line with my VPN on, yet I can copy the image links from the panes in the failing tab to a new tab in the same browser instance and see them fine, no change to VPN status? Anyone know how to fix this? Or is it some mastodon client or server config issue? I'm simply visiting mastodon.online via browser at present. VPN off it's no problem, but that's not what VPN's are for, if I may mangle the aphorism...

• Post #1470121

  Imagine the pretzels into which the Ontario government's procurement staff would have had to twist themselves to help Ford buy his $30M luxury Challenger jet. Or the conversation at Cabinet, assuming its approval was even sought. No wonder our former high school hash dealer premier is doing his damnedest to bind and gag FOI and dump it in the cargo hold for his corrupt administration. But hey, trans kids and bike lanes are our biggest problems, right? #onpoli #trumpminime #aviation...

• Post #821580

  This one's worth a re-post. A longish read, but useful in placing Carney's recent comments in perspective. 'Winston Churchill [...]: “The League did not fail because of its principles or conceptions. It failed because those principles were deserted by those states which brought it into being, because the governments of those states feared to face the facts and act while time remained.”' thetyee.ca/Analysis/2026/03/23/Carney-Defeatist-Dismissal-International-La...

• Post #774252

  Folks I've said this before and I just heard a radio personality cajoled into doing it on air: NEVER share your correct birthdate on social networking or publicly. Ever. It’s strongly identifying. And unlike your name or your whatever official number issued to you from wherever, you cannot change it. Once it’s out, it’s out. The bad guys will eventually get their dirty fingers on it. #technology #socialmedia #privacy

• Post #752846

  AI, what does 'hypocrisy' mean? 14-day gift read @pluralistic #ai #technology https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2026/03/hypocrisy-ai-industry/686477/?gift=rMst1BY9gP1HWgkOEVmAK_pbvSf6lI_dTpOBwnyhuSc&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share

• Post #737156

  What threatens Ontario jobs is not western provinces having electric vehicle mandates, but a drug-dealing-addled Ontario premier unwilling to make the health, educational, social and industrial investments needed to put Ontario's auto industry first and on track in the obvious direction the global industry is taking. But he's a dirt bag, spewing hot air and CO2, not to mention Trump's secret BFF. #climate #cdnpoli #onpoli

• Post #414093

  David Frum is alternately insightful and obdurately partisan, but he gets right this brief deconstruction of sex-offender Trump's SOTU address. 14-day gift read https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/02/trumps-childish-state-of-the-union/686133/?gift=rMst1BY9gP1HWgkOEVmAKw-q7jxKsdcCD8BxHa1KMN0&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share #politics #uspol #sexoffenderpresident #trump #maga

• Post #339787

  Why is health care (amongst so much else) going down the toilet in Ontario? Because our premier is an ignorant floater already swirling in the bowl and he wants everyone down there with him. 'Now that OSAP was cut, Nusir said he may not be able to afford to go to medical school, which he hopes to get into in his fourth year of university. ' https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/doug-ford-osap-cuts-9.7094009' #onpoli #education #health

• Post #65475

  @cstross@wandering.shop Same. And once had a 70's era Honda 750 for which 'cruise control' was a thumb-operated handlebar throttle clamp.