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@alalune.bsky.social
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40+ Canadian nerd. Into UX, data, digital art & humanities. Expect posts about the Critically Acclaimed MMO™ Final Fantasy 14. EN/FR/(下手な)JP. NFT/Crypto/Gen AI chuds instablocked <3 En français ici: @verlune.bsky.social

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Matthew Mendelsohn @mendelmatt.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Want to track what's going on with Canada's agreements with middle powers and democratic allies around the world? The Shield Institute, the Gloves Off podcast and @scpartners.bsky.social are updating our Variable Geometry map every day (almost every day?). Check it out. variablegeometry.ca
variablegeometry.ca
Tracking Canada's Agreements
An interactive global map of Canada's recent international agreements, updated live.
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Charlie Stross @cstross.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Oh my: LibreOffice just made "no AI" one of their official features: blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/09...
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Yes, no AI is now a feature - TDF Community Blog
One of the comments on the announcement of LibreOffice 26.8 was a simple question: “So, no AI is now a feature?” LibreOffice does not reject artificial intelligence out of hand, but an office suite us...
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Gavin Werbeloff @travelbuddha.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
🍌🍌🍌 bsky.app/profile/pear...
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John Leavitt @leavittalone.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Schizophrenia As A Service
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Tech Policy Press @techpolicypress.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Most state attorneys general released Meta from Cambridge Analytica-related claims as part of the child safety settlement. New Mexico wasn't part of that deal, and a jury there just found 26 of 29 past statements about Cambridge Analytica, hate speech and misinformation willfully deceptive.
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Eight Years On, Cambridge Analytica Scandal Catches Up With Meta in Santa Fe
A jury found that Meta—then Facebook—misled the public in statements about Cambridge Analytica and its policies on hate speech, violence and misinformation.
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Aaron Vegh @vegh.ca · 04/10/2026
I'm too angry to finish reading this. Here's a gift link to the Globe story about how the fucking Yanks are at it again, trying to break our country. Show me where the line crosses to treason and let's put some assholes in prison.
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The elephant in the room
Alberta separatists have gone to D.C. offering fresh water and oil in exchange for American support – and Republican operatives have provided tactical assistance inside the province
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I don't think they'll ever recreate what it was like to be on twitter in the 2010s. Soap opera stuff happening constantly. Poster you were vaguely aware of involved in federal fentanyl bust. Poster whose jokes you occasionally liked posed as his aunt (or wife?) for 6 years. Pastor who steals jokes
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CCPA — Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives @policyalternatives.ca · 01/10/2026
”...provinces [that] have been aggressively promoting for-profit delivery of surgeries and diagnostic imaging are also (seeing) lengthening wait times and...struggling with getting patients into services quickly.” @alonghurst.bsky.social #onpoli www.insidehalton.com/news/ontario...
insidehalton.com
Ontario spent $280M on private health clinics but wait times got worse says new study
Ontario MRI, cancer surgery, and cataract wait times all rose from 2017–2025, despite $280M spent licensing private health clinics, a new Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives study found.
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NosferaPru @prufrockluvsong.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Please stop calling me on my phone that's not what it's for
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nyamei 🌸 @nyameipol.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
FFXI FREE TRIAL TIME RESTRICTION HAS BEEN REMOVED!! HAVE YOU HEARD OF THE CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED MMO FINAL FANTASY XI, WITH ITS UNLIMITED TIME FREE TRIAL, AND YOU CAN PLAY UP TO LEVEL 75?
Two adevnturers from FFXI with a dragon silhoutte in the background. Text reads "The free trial just got even freer!"
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Rick Schmitz @rickschmitz.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This is a really important point. With virtually all VC money going toward AI, all other investment, including game start ups, has dried up. Sadly, when the AI bubble bursts there will be a potentially long period of time when all the VC money will be wiped out, so still none for start ups.
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026
“The aim is to deliver an instant verdict on whether a voice is AI-generated during calls, in voice messages, and in other audio, without the audio ever leaving the device.”
techcrunch.com
After a deepfake voice fooled her grandfather, this founder sprang into action | TechCrunch
After her grandfather was scammed by a deepfake of his brother's voice, Tarini Padmanabhuni founded DetectifAI, a San Francisco startup building AI models small enough to run directly on smartphones a...
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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
if you show me an AI video you are my enemy
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✨John Carpenter’s BOObies✨ @ourflagmeansbeth.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This is such a grift it’s unbelievable.
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tinybaby @tiny.baby · 22/09/2026
what do people put on linkedin when they go to prison
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Tim Price @timprice.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
You joined "grand vizier chat (secret)" You: dark rumors from aboard You: abroad* fuck Sssnakecharmer: mf said aboard WhispersintheChapel: ahoy matey lol PonderMyOrb changed the group name to "rumors from aboard"
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PL @yomyamn.bsky.social · 17/10/2024
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more mr. spice guy @juniorhoncho.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Can a dog be shot and killed by a finger gun? It can at least act like it was
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Kit Juniper @vulpine.meme · 24/09/2026
Here’s the full text of the anti-trans motions the #UCP AGM will be considering. #ABPOLI #Alberta #CDNPoli
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Erika Shaker @ershaker.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc... 'Together, these new laws are likely to significantly increase business and employer health care costs—just as private health insurance drives up business costs in the United States.' @policyalternatives.ca @alonghurst.bsky.social
policyalternatives.ca
Alberta’s U.S.-style health care reforms will increase costs for businesses | CCPA
The benefits of single-payer medicare are undeniable. Alberta’s reforms upend the economic benefits of public health insurance
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Ryan North @ryannorth.ca · 23/09/2026
Pompeii is a UNESCO world heritage site not because it was remarkable in its prime, but because it survived to our era untouched: one moment, preserved for all time. But future generations won't know what OUR world was like unless we do the same. This is why we MUST bury Toronto with a volcano
Picture of the streets of Pompeii, from https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pompei_-_panoramio_(26).jpg. Taken by Tanya Dedyukhina, used under CC
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Tamper Proof Lid @readuction.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Sending my wife and Outlook Calendar Invite with the title “I’m getting in bed babe”
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Kate Armstrong @brainchain.ca · 23/09/2026
Yassssssssssssss! www.cbc.ca/music/events...
cbc.ca
Quebec duo Angine de Poitrine wins 2026 Polaris Music Prize | CBC Music Events
Angine de Poitrine, the masked and ornately costumed band from Saguenay, Que., has won the 2026 Polaris Music Prize.
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ceej @ceej.online · 30/10/2024
Apple Computer? From Richard Scarry’s Busytown?
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karanormal activity 💜 @deadontheoutside.bsky.social · 14/11/2023
🎶keep scrollin', scrollin', scrollin' through the screams and trollin' keep them skeets a flowin', bluesky
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Stardust 🌏🎬 @stardustbluepr.com · 23/09/2026
An Army of Paid Creators Is Carpeting the Web With Political Content ➡️ In reality, Drew was a man from Utah named Alex Forrester, who said he was now in Florida. “All of it was paid for,” he said in a video posted in late June, which was later deleted. “I don’t even live in Texas.”
nytimes.com
An Army of Paid Creators Is Carpeting the Web With Political Content (Gift Article)
Unlike celebrity influencers with large followings, these creators produce a blizzard of videos for a fraction of the cost of traditional online campaigns and, in the process, shift public conversatio...
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Jimmy Two Heads 💀🎃 @jimmytwohands.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Someone made this event 10 years ago and it’s fast approaching and while I said I was going as a joke way back when, I think this is very important and I will be there with any priestly amulets that are needed to make this come true
Facebook event

Friday, January 1, 2027 at 12 AM - 3PM
Open the Cloud Gate and Summon Anubis to Smite the Unworthy
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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 19/09/2026
THESE are the real "existential risks" of "AI": People almost Dying because other people trust bullshit engines because said people have been sold a bill of goods as to how "powerful" "AI" is instead of understanding that its bullshit comes from the same place as its seemingly factual outputs.
cnn.com
Exclusive: US military had close call after using AI for false intelligence report, sources say | CNN Politics
The episode shows the risks of using this new, relatively poorly understood technology in the middle of the Iran war
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Blue sky nice ghost @rajandelman.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Breaking: Tilly Norwood has been deleted from the server to make room for best_football_crotchshots.wmv
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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
my brilliant colleague @robertshrimsley.bsky.social on the threat from Elon Musk’s X platform www.ft.com/content/f270...
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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
When I tell you this is one of the most riveting, concise and accurate depictions of the catastrophically defective thought processes behind Effective Altruism and the larger Broligarch Epistemic Universe... Run, don't walk, to read the whole thing (link below), which concludes thus:
Example of the problematic thinking behind Effective Altruism.
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Logging off the zoom meeting
john brown
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Robert Dale Parker @robertdaleparker.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
A new AI abomination in journalism, giving new meaning to the damning term "Pretendian": www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... @criticalai-journal.bsky.social #AI #Journalism #Indigenous
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‘Very harmful’: website uses AI to generate northern Indigenous news ‘correspondents’ | CBC News
The website WE NEWS has three northern Indigenous 'AI correspondents.' Their profiles say they are 'a member of Yukon First Nation,' 'of Dene heritage,' and 'an Inuk raised in the North.' Experts in t...
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Rural Indexing Project @ruralindexing.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Computer Rage Marinette, WI
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🇨🇦Joe Vipond🇨🇦 @jvipondmd.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
this is chilling. From Univ of Calgary prof Barry Cooper
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Jason Markusoff @markusoff.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Here's what I'm blinking in disbelief about today, locally at least. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Former Elections Alberta staff raise ‘mismanagement’ concerns about 'Water Not Coal' petition verification | CBC News
Five former Elections Alberta employees are raising “mismanagement” concerns about how Corb Lund's citizen initiative petition was validated, alleging procedures changed and that there was a lack of t...
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jon christian @jonchristian.net · 17/09/2026
NEW: We spent months investigating a little-known media startup called Brown Brothers Media, which buys legit news sites and turns them into AI-powered zombie content farms What blew my mind was its traffic -- it appears to be getting more readers than NPR or CBS News futurism.com/artificial-i...
futurism.com
How Three Brothers Built an AI Slop Empire by Buying Legitimate News Sites and Turning Them Into Zombie Content Farms That They Say Get 50 Million Page Views per Month
Brown Brothers Media is a media empire raking in millions of clicks with AI, fake writers, and plagiarism.
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Garth Marenghi's Catbus @catbus.phd · 17/09/2026
great art articulates eternal truths
script of the end of Waiting for Godot which has been modified to read

ESTRAGON: Well, shall we log off?
VLADIMIR: Yes, let's log off.
   [They do not log off]

                                  CURTAIN
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Drew @4484.cool · 17/09/2026
If your post is good enough, you don't need replies. The post has already said all that needs to be said.
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cm 🍁 @cmcalgary.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Starting October 1, 2026, Calgarians will be able to recycle more than ever as new materials will be accepted in the blue cart. via www.calgary.ca/waste/reside... #Calgary #Alberta
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Haus of Decline @hausofdecline.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Hobo influencers doing everyday carry posts. "What's in my bindle?"
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cm 🍁 @cmcalgary.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Today the UCP released a report they had commissioned from the University of Calgary School of Public Policy on the potential impacts of #Alberta separation from Canada. It has two potential outcomes, a smooth scenario and a difficult scenario, both of which are pretty bleak. PDF: tr.ee/RsvN3X
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Drew Magary @drewmagary.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
In the midst of all this AI doom talk, I'll remind you of this story I wrote last week. I assure you that any forthcoming apocalypse will be the work of humans, and not a bunch of busted-ass software. www.sfgate.com/local/articl...
sfgate.com
SF's AI-run store is losing money fast. After a visit, I'm not surprised.
SFGATE's Drew Magary visited Andon Market and all he got was a lousy soda.
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J.D. Porter @jdporter.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I saw this painting today (“Seine”, by Ellsworth Kelly), and I’m increasingly convinced that modernism holds an answer for us about how AI art will be received if it ever becomes pretty indistinguishable from human art.
The painting “Seine” by Ellsworth Kelly. Small black and white rectangles are scattered across a long horizontal wooden canvas, like a pixelated distillation of light reflecting off a river.
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Museum of Twitter @museum-of-twitter.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
@dril

i pray my IQ forever remains in the "Sweet Spot" wherein its high enough to call out the BS but too low to recognize the Futility of Posting
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Seth Klein @sethdklein.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
A US-linked network of fake websites is promoting Alberta separatism to AI chatbots. Amazing investigative work by @nationalobserver.com's @rorywh.bsky.social. Please read: www.nationalobserver.com/2026/09/04/i...
nationalobserver.com
A US-linked network of fake websites is promoting Alberta separatism to AI chatbots
The websites present crude, AI-generated slop disguised as the voice of real Albertans. But they're made in Florida — and they're not even targeting Albertans directly.
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⊹.🎃₊˚𖦹⋆spookiki ⋆⁺₊🧿.˚⊹ @yourmotherxo.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
To be an artist. Make some art > does it look terrible? > yes / no > you are an artist > make more art
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🔫🎃Scott Martian Invaders 🎃🛼 @youcaughtscott.com · 13/09/2026
Che lining up twice to do a double tap
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Better Pensions BC 🇨🇦🇺🇦 - now with 50% more anti-fascism! @betterpensionsbc.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Building on the post above, here now is confirmation that fascist Russia and the Trump regime are actively trying to weaken 🇨🇦 by exploiting the situation in Alberta. “Researchers described Russia's engagement with Alberta separatism as covert; it appears "doctrinal, operational and sustained".”
bbc.com
US and Russia fuelling separatist debate in Canada, new report says
Researchers warn that foreign actors are meddling in the Alberta separatist movement in ways that threaten Canada’s "democratic integrity".
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