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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 4h

This is in response to news that we’re never going to profit from TMX, despite the government regularly calling the project “wildly profitable.” Anyway, when the whole argument for the infrastructure to be built is PROFIT-BASED, (unlike Canada Post!) yes you do!!

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Elizabeth Anne, PhD @lacksauthority.bsky.social · 6h

never the wrong time for this classic

Screenshot of a tweet by @RobbtKraft reading “scientist: "does everyone here know what Watson and Crick discovered?"
me from back of room: "Rosalind Franklin's notes"”

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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 4h

Canadians will officially never recoup the costs of ***TMX*** and the government is going to drive the orcas to extinction for ANOTHER oil pipeline. Isn’t Carney supposed to be a great economic brain or something?? Why are we killing the whales for nothing?!

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 9h

Truly incredible that this is how the media is choosing to eulogize the longest-serving Republican Speaker of the House in US history, who was a serial sexual abuser of children. For all the talk about "deep state" plots to abuse children, no one even remembers this case.

From CBS News: "Former Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert, who represented Illinois for two decades in Congress and was later jailed for violating banking laws, has died."

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 7h

how are Rage Against the Machine still managing to shock people with their politics that band is 35 years old. are people shocked that woody guthrie was a leftist too? going on god’s own internet all ‘you’ll never believe what i just learned about karl marx’?

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Dylan MacKay @dylanmackayphd.bsky.social · 9h

Chat could we have known this though?

Then-governor of the Bank of England Mark Carney, second from left, attends the Wildness Festival with his wife Diana Fox, far right, and others including Ghislaine Maxwell, second from right, at Cornbury Park in Oxfordshire, England, on Aug. 10, 2013.

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Mark Kersten @markkersten.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

"Canada has therefore breached its obligations as a state party to the Rome Statute by allowing Netanyahu to enter Canadian airspace en route to the United States." - Ardi Imseis in this excellent piece by Evan Dyer CBC: www.cbc.ca/news/politic... #ICC #cdnpoli

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ANALYSIS | Netanyahu is flying freely over Canada as his international arrest warrant remains in place | CBC News

A review of two years of flights by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu shows that the Israeli leader is once again routinely taking a more direct path — through Canadian airspace — when travell...

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Yes, computers do everything at our company but don't worry, there's always a human reviewer. Nothing goes out the door without one of our highly trained shruggers briefly glancing at it and clicking Approve

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Ian @ianagp.bsky.social · 11h

In Iranian culture it's considered deeply offensive to bomb the country for a year. #Themoreyouknow

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

[centrist voice] whether your ideology favors murals or bombs, intellectual honesty means acknowledging that Picasso’s “Guernica” required both

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Bryan Based International Order 🇨🇦 @bryanpeeler.bsky.social · 23h

But Chinese electric cars!!!!

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Dylan MacKay @dylanmackayphd.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Going to start highlighting my slow and consistent publication record as a strength from on, also telling grad students less but better is more

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

and if you want to stop this @MarshaBlackburn and the Republicans will call you a communist How much longer will we fall for this?

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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

“GOTTA LEARN AI OR BE LEFT BEHIND.” Good. Fuck off! Leave me behind! Enjoy your artbarf rapture, your janky Temu future. I’ll be back here looking at real birds and writing weird, also real, books.

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Dylan MacKay @dylanmackayphd.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

My man actually looks like a sentient weißwurst, but I understand calling him a bratwurst because he'd like that less

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Dylan MacKay @dylanmackayphd.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

This of course does not extend to intolerance

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Michael Hendricks 🇨🇦 @michaelhendricks.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

This is Trump allies using the media to focus group excuses to see what might be viewed as exculpatory after he's dead.

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Mary Fernando M.D. 🇨🇦 @maryfernando.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Hilarious because it’s true. #Homeopathy

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jess m. ☕🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Something AI is responsible for that doesn't get enough talk: How, when it scrapes a website to illegally steal everything on it, it uses up a ton of its bandwidth allotment, crashing it or racking up massive fees for site owners.

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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

X is arguably the single most effective promoter of Nazism and yet remains the platform of choice for so many government institutions and officials

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Jim Woodgett @jwoodgett.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I have the confidence in my cognitive abilities to write perfectly well enough without resorting to tools built from stealing the writing of others. So do you. We’ve all been doing this for a long time. Don’t let people whose wealth depends on making you feel incompetent convince you otherwise.

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Best part of this muddled article by one of Bloomberg's money guys is that two of the charts make a compelling case that knee-jerk opposition to AI is wholly justified because technological progress doesn't increase productivity, it just enables greater income extraction by capital. Oops!

Productivity Growth Has Been Stuck Below Its Postwar Pace for 50 Years

Workers’ Slice Shrinks, Profits’ Slice Grows

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 29/09/2026

A key component of the Cambridge Analytica outrage was your friends subjecting you to data theft without your consent or knowledge. Facebook is running the same playbook on your text messages. Even if you’re not on Meta properties, they’re ingesting your interactions.

Aten installed Muse on both his iPhone and a Mac mini that he uses to test out various Al agents and tech. It took Meta a single day to begin "helpfully" pitching article ideas based on texts he'd sent to a podcast co-host.
When he asked Muse how it got the information, it said that it read banners from incoming texts. But that's not true, either.
After doing a little digging, Aten says Muse synced 187,000 lines from his Messages database, despite Full Disk Access being Off.

Unless Aten is the most popular person on the face of the planet, I sincerely doubt he'd gotten 187,000 lines of text in roughly 24 hours. What happened is that, without permission, Muse went into the app and downloaded the information.
He had not given Muse permission to access Messages, and full disk access was not enabled. It just went ahead and uploaded those texts anyway.
Muse can take "unexpected actions" indeed.

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The Web of Evil @webofevil.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Don't threaten me with a good time, etc

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The Breach @breachmedia.ca · 02/10/2026

Avi Lewis is a Jewish politician refusing to be silent about Israel’s genocide—and now he’s being threatened with violence. @judred.bsky.social writes that the lack of uproar reveals just how powerful the pro-Israel consensus remains among Canada’s elite. breachmedia.ca/im-familiar-...

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I’m familiar with death threats. They show Avi Lewis is having an impact ⋆ The Breach

The National Post has suggested violence is the way “to deal” with the NDP leader for his outspoken criticism of Israel

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Zen Faulkes @doctorzen.net · 03/10/2026

Researchers and academics who use AI are helping legitimize and entrench a technology that is specifically being aimed against us. The powerful WANT a lying machine that can undercut facts. neurodojo.blogspot.com/2026/09/we-w...

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“We will never let anyone tell us what to do again”

I’ve long thought that part of the anger of the right wing over the handling of the covid pandemic was the realization that, “Someone else c...

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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Convos about where AI is useful/appropriate and where it isn't also get confusing (by design) since AI, as a marketing term, is used to refer to so many products, including things folks have been using/developing since well before the AI boom.

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

with all respect: i'm losing touch with what AI does because i have no interest in it and it's not my business. nobody worries about me losing touch with developments in particle physics or artificial bull insemination. it's not my fault the richest guys on earth want me to make their toy my life

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Dylan MacKay @dylanmackayphd.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Don't give them these kind of ideas...

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an appliance is making a weird noise that isn't on youtube @jesseltaylor.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

one of the weirdest things about AI is imagining Microsoft releasing Office and then saying you only get a certain number of open documents per day

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Dylan MacKay @dylanmackayphd.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The all powerful AI running this hellish simulation

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How-Sen Chong @how-sen.com · 02/10/2026

Listen: I don’t want to minimize the danger of high e-bike speeds. But if the problem here is that stores sell e-bikes that can drive faster than legal limits, then where’s the story about how literally *every car dealership has been doing the same thing for decades*?!?

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Hidden cameras show some stores unlocking speed limits on e-bikes, selling e-scooters that go up to 120 km/h | CBC News

A new hidden camera investigation by Marketplace shows how some stores are selling e-scooters and e-bikes with top speeds much higher than provincial speed limits and with recommended rider ages young...

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Dylan MacKay @dylanmackayphd.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I am agreeing with the Pope much more than I am comfortable with these days

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Christi Belcourt @christibelcourt.com · 02/10/2026

I'm trying to locate these original paintings - I didn't write down who had purchased them from me at the time. Purchased in Ottawa about 20 -25 years ago. I'm wondering if anyone has either, could you let me know? Thank you.

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Max Fawcett @maxfawcett.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Behold, a column by the @theglobeandmail.com's Tony Keller that cries out for a debunking. Allow me. 🧵 www.theglobeandmail.com/business/com...

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Opinion: This was the week Canada stopped shooting its oil patch in the foot

We’re finally witnessing our country act with some sense of its own self-interest

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Max Fawcett @maxfawcett.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Keller then repeats the old "we should produce more oil and gas because we have so much of it." That might have been a competitive advantage in the 1970s. In the 2020s, as much of the world electrifies and decarbonizes, it becomes significantly less relevant.

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Dale Smith @journodale.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Mark Carney announces a new "national council" on digital asbestos, but so long as the underlying motivation is to find ways to force adoption on Canadians (usually by gaslighting us into believing that it's "safe" and "responsible"), it should be treated with derision.

Prime Minister Carney launches new National Council on Artificial Intelligence

October 2, 2026
Ottawa, Ontario

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is transforming the way Canadians live, work, and connect. The speed, scale, and intensity of this transformation present both opportunities and challenges. Canada’s government has a pragmatic, ambitious, and informed plan to ensure all Canadians are empowered to use AI in a safe and sovereign way.

AI for All is the government’s new national strategy to ensure that AI is adopted responsibly, in a way that truly serves all Canadians – building trust, expanding opportunities, and reinforcing our sovereignty. With investments, programs, and new measures underway, the strategy will help position Canada as a global leader in this field.

As AI becomes all-encompassing, spanning sectors, industries, and geography, an increasingly wide range of expertise and experience is required to understand and effectively harness this technology. To that end, the Prime Minister, Mark Carney, today announced the launch of a new council to provide independent, practical advice on Canada’s AI transformation.

The Prime Minister’s National Council on Artificial Intelligence will bring together public and private stakeholders and advise on the evolution of the government’s AI for All strategy, including accelerating adoption, fostering national champions, and building sovereign AI infrastructure. Its members will advise on making AI safer, protecting our democracy, and ensuring that all Canadians prosper from AI.

The Council will convene Canada’s leading thinkers, builders, researchers, entrepreneurs, investors, public servants, and international experts to advise on current challenges associated with AI, while helping to generate new ideas, partnerships, AI-focused missions, and initiatives. This includes world-leading experts on AI safety, governance, and oversight.

The Prime Minister is pleased to announce the following members:

Ajay Agrawa…

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Dylan MacKay @dylanmackayphd.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Yes perhaps a port course is what is needed to further my understanding of your perspective, lovely, but also still

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Randy Jackson: That's a No From Me, Dawg

Alt: Randy Jackson: That's a No From Me, Dawg

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Dylan MacKay @dylanmackayphd.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Maybe a little more wine then? Yes, but still no...

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researchmb.bsky.social @researchmb.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

We’re excited to launch our 2027 Studentships and Fellowships competition, supporting the next generation of Manitoba researchers at the master’s, PhD and postdoctoral levels. Deadline to apply is December 7, 2026. Learn more: researchmanitoba.ca/programs

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