Reposted by arydirt squirrel @dirtsquirrel.bsky.social · 17hnot only do these people think "the poors" (everyone but them) are dumber than dogshit, they are plainly not targeting "ai skeptics", they are targeting children. because they're easier to propagandize. these people have addresses 24112
Reposted by aryEdward Xie @edwardxie.bsky.social · 02/10/2026In ERs, we see the impact of unsafe roads regularly. Cities with good bike infrastructure have fewer deaths and greater safety for all, regardless of whether they’re walking, cycling or driving. Ontario gov should reconsider how to spend $48 mil Improve lives - not put them at risk #bikeTO #onpoliyoutube.comWhy hundreds of doctors are fighting Ford’s removal of Toronto bike lanesYouTube video by CBC News Toronto 118692
Reposted by aryMike Schreiner @mikeschreiner.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Doug Ford is all words, no action. He promised $5 billion to protect Ontario businesses from Trump's tariffs. Two years in, he's given $100m to one steel company and only spent $40M across all other businesses.globalnews.caFord government ‘Protect Ontario’ tariff program spent $140 million so far | Globalnews.caOn Tuesday, during committee at Queen's Park, Finance Minister Peter Bethlenfalvy was grilled by opposition MPPs on how much of that cash has actually been deployed. 611751
Reposted by aryA @millvsspqr.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Doing this the day after National Day for Truth and Reconciliation is a choice. What this (Bill C-39) and Bill C-5 have in common with residentials schools is a complete disregard for Indigenous sovereignty and rights 084
Reposted by aryMarco Chitti @chittimarco.bsky.social · 01/10/2026"The share of non-paying passengers is lower than the perception that most of the population has of "large numbers": the estimate is 2.5%-3.7%" from a recent article by Cityrailways analyzing recent ridership trends of Rome's metro: cityrailways.com/speciale/big... 1377
Reposted by aryShawn Micallef @shawnmicallef.bsky.social · 30/09/2026So much respect for this, and the framing. ABC, the right wing version of Progress Toronto, has used health care workers/hospitals as reason to rip them out. This puts a lie to that (and on University ambulances can bypass cars in the wide bikelanes if needed). So many lies. 48637
Reposted by aryMarco Chitti @chittimarco.bsky.social · 30/09/2026My most radical take is that TOD is a scam invented by single-family home preservationists to find a scientifically sound way to concentrate "those people" is specific areas outside of where real people live, and urbanists have embraced it because it's better than nothing. 1413217
Reposted by aryNate @nkb121.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Chabot is a fan favourite today but he also endured a lot of nonsense from some prominent segments of the fanbase for years without even the slightest hint it was bothering him. He just went about his business crushing the competition and never complaining. bsky.app/profile/alex... 0344
Reposted by aryMatt Elliott @graphicmatt.com · 29/09/2026My @thestar.com column: Brad Bradford and Chris Alexander talk about Toronto's budget like it's some mystery we need outside experts to solve. But the mayor's spending record is all public, and tells a simple story of priorities. No mystery. Just math. www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...thestar.comMatt Elliott: There’s no mystery behind Mayor Olivia Chow’s budget record — there’s just mathLately, the leading candidates taking on Mayor Olivia Chow in the race for mayor have taken to referring to the city’s budget like it’s some great cosmic mystery. A riddle 47226
Reposted by aryfeeb | yuritober!! @magicmooshka.bsky.social · 09/01/2026it’s come to my attention that my tumblr post has been crossposted to bluesky, so I’m posting it on my account here #AntiAI #GenAI 113136056608
Reposted by aryBrad T @sammich-blt.bsky.social · 28/09/2026The obvious direction! Glad they're doing it. 1152
Reposted by aryRodney 🚧🚇 @chanface.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Finch West LRT finally has real transit signal priority! Phase rotation is active at multiple intersections, such as Finch & Signet/Arrow. This means adjusting the car left-turn signal in real time based on predicted LRT arrivals to minimize transit delay. Video: @ontariotrafficman.bsky.socialyoutube.comTransit priority phase rotation is active at Finch & Signet/Arrow!YouTube video by Ontario Traffic Man Clips 3449
Reposted by aryMurray Pam @pammerhockey.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Senators roster a lot more clearer after loaning players to Belleville. Of note; forwards Warren Foegele, Kurtis Macdermid, Blake Montgomery, defensemen Jorian Donovan, Artem Zub all likely to placed on IR. @HockeyHStove 1112
Reposted by aryzoë @zo-e.xyz · 27/09/2026nah, I don't actually want any of the earth's resources used on LLM chatbots in any way, hope this helps 2444
Reposted by aryThe Tyee @thetyee.ca · 26/09/2026"Similarities between the far right in Canada and the United States suggest a certain amount of contagion across the border, but Alberta separatism is a home-grown movement." An excerpt from a new book on polarization by UBC political scientist Max Cameron. thetyee.ca/Culture/2026...thetyee.caThe Uncomfortable Roots of Alberta Separatism | The TyeeIt’s a home-grown movement sparked by the Freedom Convoy protests. An excerpt from ‘Divided We Fall.’ 109133
Reposted by aryRebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 25/09/2026So much of schools "responding to rape" is preventing the legal system from doing so. This is a report on seven adults who committed serious felonies for which there is a legal system to remind them and their pals that they are felonies. 251373409
Reposted by aryButt teeth! Butt teeth! Butt teeth! @panic.gay · 25/09/2026THIS. AI isn't "going rogue" any more than those exploding Samsung galaxy phones from 2016 went rogue. Human engineers poorly deployed a technology and there were negative consequences. The responsibility falls entirely on humans. 6331107
Reposted by aryAP Stylebook @apstylebook.com · 23/09/2026Artificial intelligence systems do not think, feel, want or understand. Avoid language that gives them human characteristics.apnews.comhttps://apnews.com/article/openai-safety-ai-framework-089e75b95bc935af092da7b79d92706d 5542341627
Reposted by aryMicah McCurdy @hockeyviz.com · 24/09/2026Feels like a lot of the "AI will rise up and lay waste to us all!!" being peddled by the various companies themselves is primarily in service of avoiding responsibility for crimes. 48212
Reposted by aryRodney 🚧🚇 @chanface.bsky.social · 22/09/2026TorontoToday analyzed 12 years’ worth of subway data to see where preventable delays are most common — and where platform edge doors would deliver the biggest benefit 1. Bloor-Yonge (Line 1) 2. Bloor-Yonge (Line 2) 3. TMU 4. St. George (Line 2) 5. Union www.torontotoday.ca/local/transp... 1274
Reposted by aryVarada @varada.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Season preview: Using the remaining Panther picks they got in the Brady trade, the Sens trade for Crosby and Karlsson at the deadline and napalm our way to the Cup Final, where they defeat the Winnipeg Jets and their new starting goaltender, Morpheus from The Matrix 1131
Reposted by aryRachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 21/09/2026This is actually a great point that the Bloc Quebecois leader (yes, really) made today. I'm paraphrasing from memory, but he basically said Carney is undoing stuff in minutes that took years to fight for. 428070
Reposted by ary🐶🐙Dr. Caffiend☕️😷 @captcaffiend.bsky.social · 21/09/2026So any appliances I wouldn’t have thought of are collecting data www.consumer.org.nz/consumer-rig...consumer.org.nzA student on a mission: the dark side of smart appliancesHigh school student Liam Martin is asking the government to stop the sale of data collected by smart appliances in New Zealand homes. 1119
Reposted by aryJoshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 21/09/2026“Everything is 40% more expensive because of AI” is a great line for an opposition party trying to unseat the AI-supported incumbents, if any Democratic consultants wanted to take a short break from dehumanizing trans kids to actually try winning a contested election. 12038642
Reposted by aryMicah McCurdy @hockeyviz.com · 21/09/2026Advertising is like any other kind of pollution. A certain amount of it might be unavoidable in a modern world but we should still try to suppress it as much as possible. 0588
Reposted by aryMicah @rincewind.run · 21/09/2026congratulations to everyone on reinventing Worse Cable 94115062837
Reposted by aryParis Marx @parismarx.com · 20/09/2026“privatization doesn’t mean prices will go up,” they told us last week. but of course they will, and they’re starting to have to admit it. the reason why investors are so desperate to get our airports is precisely because they know they’ll be able to make monopoly profits. 6328152
Reposted by arybeata @cbeatae.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Something I've been thinking about a lot lately re: the captaincy is how people have talked so much about how Brady was tired of being "the guy" in Ottawa, and yet Thomas Chabot has dealt with more responsiblity and pressure and handled it with so much more grace. 1264
Reposted by arytweety fish oh wow like a chimera or something spoooky @sifu.tweety.fish · 19/09/2026eliminate EV subsidies, ban cheap overseas EVs, ban EV component import, deport people bringing battery technology to the US, pay billions to kill clean energy projects, end fuel economy standards, and then do THIS is such an elaborate prank on the American people you almost have to respect it 453184752
ary @carteciel.bsky.social · 20/09/2026I *think* these are the right units to start with, even though I'd experiment with the extra F on PP2 to fit Halliday or Spence in over Burakovsky and Chabot. 041
Reposted by aryTechnology Connections @techconnectify.bsky.social · 19/09/2026"Are you selling me a solution or a dependency?" is a question I think more people should ask. 4639431081
Reposted by aryCanadian History Ehx @cdnhistoryehx.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Within Lake Ontario, according to First Nations mythology, a great serpent lives under the waters. Known as Gá:šöje:ta’ (Gaasyendietha), the serpent is said to have arrived on Earth in a meteor. This is the story of the Meteor Dragon. 📸 NASA 🧵 1/6 4284111
Reposted by aryKieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 18/09/2026This is the far more likely pathway for how AI will end us all, btw. Not via some superintelligent swarm of paperclip maximizers, but by a cascading sequence of dumb fuckups driven by human beings who have arranged things to be fast-moving and catastrophically fragile while also being really lazy. 17391150
Reposted by aryTyler King @tyleraking.com · 17/09/2026“A senior executive at Microsoft said A.I. systems built on the work of others will be seen as ‘an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions’ and possibly the greatest robbery of labor in human history, according to court documents unredacted Thursday in an ongoing Manhattan lawsuit.”orlandosentinel.comDocs in A.I. copyright suit reveal startling admission by Microsoft exec over ‘astonishing theft’The admission appeared in a newly unredacted filing in the landmark copyright infringement legal battle playing out between newspapers like the Orlando Sentinel and tech companies Microsoft and OpenAI... 9555462163
Reposted by aryAlejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 17/09/2026Called it. The father was charged with punching the child while the mother did witness intimidation to cover it up. www.wbur.org/news/2026/09... 212606750
Reposted by aryNicolas Hénin @nicolashenin.net · 17/09/2026Nice campaign by the Norwegian Consumer Council about the declining lifespan of products. Enjoy! 180140536472
ary @carteciel.bsky.social · 17/09/2026@louisboulet.bsky.social do you have any Zub contract estimates or comparisons? 😵 130
Reposted by aryKanchan @kayehm.bsky.social · 16/09/2026It's not common for Engineers to take a stand on anything (much to my frustration), that's why this statement from OSPE about Bill 212 and the recent court ruling is so important. ospe.on.ca/advocacy/osp...ospe.on.caOSPE Statement: Where Things Stand on Bill 212 and Toronto's Bike LanesExplore the OSPE Statement on Bill 212 and its impact on Toronto's bike lanes and transportation planning. 16531
Reposted by aryJim Stanford @jimbostanford.bsky.social · 15/09/2026This column draws on research described fully in our report copublished with @abfedlabour.bsky.social: afl.org/wp-content/u.... We show why workers are especially exposed to the economic risks of separatism--and why their (legitimate) grievances stem from problems that started right at home.afl.org 04314
Reposted by aryJim Stanford @jimbostanford.bsky.social · 15/09/2026The myth Alberta 'subsidizes' the rest of Canada is the most powerful meme in the separatist armoury. But it's utterly false. I show that most Albertans get more back from federal programs than they personally pay in federal taxes, for @thetyee.ca: thetyee.ca/Opinion/2026... #abpoli /2thetyee.caNo, Alberta Does Not ‘Subsidize’ the Rest of Canada | The TyeeThe vast majority of workers get more from federal programs than they give. 18531269
Reposted by ary🔫🎃Scott Martian Invaders 🎃🛼 @youcaughtscott.com · 15/09/2026When Australia privatized their airports, their Competition Bureau found that consumers paid $1.6 billion in extra fees.abc.net.auLack of airport regulation costs consumers up to $1.6b in fees: ACCCAirlines and their passengers have paid up to $1.6 billion too much for airport access over the past decade due to a textbook example of how not to privatise monopoly assets, the competition regulator... 15300199
Reposted by aryBrad T @sammich-blt.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Nearly 1100 words for @silversevensens.com to explain how to watch all of the Sens games this season? Yep. Out of market blackouts always got a bit complicated, but even in market viewing is getting messy.silversevensens.comWhere to Watch the Ottawa Senators in 2026-27The broadcast landscape is shifting again this season 3176
Reposted by aryBlayne Haggart @bhaggart.bsky.social · 15/09/2026The details matter. We haven’t spent nearly enough time evaluating Carney’s strategies and absolutely no time considering alternatives. Instead, Canadians are left on the sidelines, guessing at what, exactly, Carney is doing, treated as spectators, not participants, in the country’s fate. 18220
Reposted by aryBlayne Haggart @bhaggart.bsky.social · 15/09/2026It’s a bit odd to talk about potential costs when in reality nobody has *any* idea what Carney actually has in mind, I can’t remember a single time in the past 50 years where one man was given such latitude to determine Canada’s future in the absence of *any* public debate or discussion.thestar.comThere are costs for Mark Carney’s closer ties with EuropeThere could be a political cost in addition to the financial price tag for Canada’s proposed “unique alliance” with the European Union. 2225598
Reposted by arySome guy @personreading.bsky.social · 14/09/2026My brain won't melt like that, I believe in science and objective reality! The science and objective reality: bsky.app/profile/seam... 16517
