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Scott FitzGerald

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Just a Canadian paying attention. Views are my own, not those of my employer.

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Electrek @electrek.co · 5h
Tesla leaned on Dutch regulator to ease its FSD review, emails show
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Tesla leaned on Dutch regulator to ease its FSD review, emails show
Tesla spent months pushing the Dutch vehicle regulator RDW to scale back its review of “Full Self-Driving (Supervised),” including disputing a €365,000 bill, according to emails obtained by Reuters. RDW later approved the system and is now asking the EU to do the same. That Dutch approval is the foundation of Tesla’s entire FSD push in Europe. Eight EU countries now allow the system, and a bloc-wide vote could come as early as December. more…
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Ben Shultz @benmshultz.net · 14h
Global Affairs Canada (GAC) claims it dropped out of #Disinfo2026 "following changes to the framing of several panel discussions." GAC was scheduled to chair my panel today on disinformation in the Arctic. But, our panel description hasn't changed since June...! Receipts in the next post below.
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Canada drops sponsorship of conference that cites U.S. as foreign-interference actor
Officials will no longer chair sessions at the event in Lithuania, including one on disinformation in the Arctic
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Ah! This is very good. From the utterly indefatigable @normeisen.bsky.social newrepublic.com/article/2161...
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The Long and Extremely Urgent To-Do List if Democrats Take the House
If House Democrats don’t use every tool at their disposal to name names, kick ass, and stop further destruction, there will be hell to pay with the base.
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World Lacrosse @worldlacrosse.sport · 03/10/2026
QUALIFIED 🇨🇦✔️ Canada's men move on to the medal rounds and punch their ticket to the 2027 World Lacrosse Sixes Championships, where the Olympic dream will continue. #PASLC26 #WLSC
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World Lacrosse @worldlacrosse.sport · 03/10/2026
STEP 1️⃣ COMPLETE 🇨🇦 Canada's women have booked their place at the 2027 World Lacrosse Sixes Championships in Colorado Springs. Next up: playing for another Pan-American medal on home soil 🤩 #PASLC26 #WLSC
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Jimmy Thomson @jameswsthomson.com · 02/10/2026
Ok sorry but Tim Hodgson's interview on Power and Politics really gives the game away. He's asked, isn't there language in Bill C-5 that all projects listed as in the national interest should be considered for how they *contribute to Canada's clean growth and climate goals*? Oh! There it is 👇
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(6) In deciding whether to make an order under subsection (1) or (4) in respect of a project, the Governor in Council may consider any factor that the Governor in Council considers relevant, including the extent to which the project can
(a) strengthen Canada’s autonomy, resilience and security;

(b) provide economic or other benefits to Canada;

(c) have a high likelihood of successful execution;

(d) advance the interests of Indigenous peoples; and

(e) contribute to clean growth and to meeting Canada’s objectives with respect to climate change.
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Wire Report @wirereport.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Shesterkin scores first goalie goal in Rangers history — The strike came in New York's home opener 🎥 via @espn (X) wire.report/article/shesterkin-scor…
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Alex Boyd @alexboyd.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
My favourite sub-type of news story: child(ren) wander off, are found by dog(s). www.outsideonline.com/outdoor-adve...
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The Search for Three Missing Children Came Down to One Very Good Nose
Three children wandered 1.5 miles from their family’s campsite near Buena Vista. A search-and-rescue team, led by K-9 Archie, tracked them down in the Colorado backcountry.
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Scott FitzGerald @fitzstartz.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Heinous
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Charlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Standing outside the gates of the Qu'Appelle Indian residential school.This a haunted dark place. A 5-year-old taken through these gates had a lower chance of survival than a Canadian soldier fighting in WW2. The red dress and the orange shirt hang on the gates. We remember #orangeshirtday
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Patrick De Haan @gasbuddyguy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
the Fuel Clock shows Americans have paid $74.4 billion more on gasoline & $47.5 billion more on diesel since March 1 compared to a year ago. Total cost will hit $122 billion today. also updated the state map where you can find out how much more you're paying. link in my profile.
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Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Can't think of any reporter who speaks for me more than this guy— a Canadian. "Hundreds of hours immersed in Trump’s rhetoric has given me some insights and personal opinions about the nature of his lying, how it is received by the public and how it is covered..." www.cnn.com/2026/09/27/p...
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I started fact-checking Trump 10 years ago. Here are 15 things I’ve learned | CNN Politics
Ten years ago this month, in my old job as Washington correspondent for the Toronto Star, I started what I believed would be a quick little side project: fact-checking underdog presidential candidate ...
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Dale Smith @journodale.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Jamil Jivani and the Very Masculine™ Jacob Mantle think that acknowledging homosexuality in schools is "a threat" as they spout debunked "gender ideology" bullshit, while calling people traitors. Yeah, the Conservative Party is headed down a really healthy path, guys. Yikes. #canqueer
provincialtimes.ca
ADAMS: Inside the Restore the North event at Liberty Church
Inside a church in his own riding, the fury Jamil Jivani has spent a year channeling finally turned on a constituent who asked the wrong question
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Scott FitzGerald @fitzstartz.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
[Metallica voice] Free speech for the dumb FREE FUCKING SPEECH
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WIRED @wired.com · 25/09/2026
26 years ago, she published a wildly prophetic book about Silicon Valley. Then she disappeared. What happened to tech writer Paulina Borsook?
wired.com
Who Killed Paulina Borsook’s Career?
A quarter-century ago, Borsook published a wildly prophetic, penetrating book about Silicon Valley called Cyberselfish. Then she disappeared.
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Elise Thomas @elisethomas.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
If an individual did this, we'd treat it as a crime. We should treat this as a crime too, and hold OpenAI liable for what its models, under its supervision, did. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09...
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OpenAI agent hacked Medicare portal, PM says
Anthony Albanese says he has spoken to the Open AI chief executive to express his concern about the incident and the length of time it took the tech company to inform the government of the breach.
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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 23/09/2026
SORRY JUST FREAKING OUT A LITTLE RIGHT NOW BUT HOW TF DID SEMAFOR MISS THIS SCREAMINGLY OBVIOUS ANGLE????
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AlanR @alan2210.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Trump Ordered Illegal Removal of Braille "Get rid of the [expletive] braille. No blind people are going to live in Trump Tower," Trump shouted, according to Res. "Just do it." www.newsweek.com/donald-trump...
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Trump Vetoed Braille and Blind People at Trump Tower
"Get rid of the [expletive] braille," Trump apparently shouted. "Just do it."
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Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦 @emmettmacfarlane.com · 22/09/2026
Funny, because the Truckers got three weeks to hang out before police lifted a finger. Interesting.
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sam³⁰⁰⁰ @samgavin.com · 22/09/2026
this is a real pin from a real company designed by a real person and I own it
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Strike Gently - Horse Pin
1.25 inchesHard enamel with gold platingDeluxe clasp backingShipped with love from our warehouse in LA.
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World Lacrosse @worldlacrosse.sport · 22/09/2026
BACK-2️⃣-BACK! From the shores of Lake Ontario to the golden sands of the Sunshine Coast, our #LA28 Olympic journey begins with 12 huge days of non-stop men's and women's sixes action 🥍 📍 #PASLC26 - Oshawa, Canada 🇨🇦 (Sep 29-Oct 4) 📍 #APSLC26 - Sunshine Coast, Australia 🇦🇺 (Oct 5-10)
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Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦 @emmettmacfarlane.com · 21/09/2026
What's happening in Alberta is even more batshit than I ever thought. Danielle Smith is a dangerous psychopath, and the AB separatist movement largely exists because COVID broke far-right brains, and is led by Christo-fascist religious white nationalists, relying on dark money. 2/n
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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
He is not wrong. "There are reasonable grounds to believe that the reported 68 attacks that killed 223 people constituted crimes against humanity of murder under customary international law" - United Nations Special Rapporteur on U.S. Killing “Narco-Terrorists” at Sea www.ohchr.org/sites/defaul...
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Astronomer Royal for Scotland | Catherine Heymans @astroroyalscot.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
NASA picture of the day today is a real 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿beauty! This is a composite image of the ~5000yo Callanish Stones on the Isle of Lewis. The amazing Giuseppe Petricca has only gone and photographed the Sun at noon there, every few days, for a whole year. #Dedication 🔭🧪👌 ℹ️: science.nasa.gov/image-articl...
The imposing Callanish Stones stand talk with their shadows spanning out across the glass.  It's a super clear sky, but looks cold. Above the central stone is a strange figure-of-8 shape of dots.  This is the location of the Sun, at noon, on various different days across the year.
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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I keep seeing posts about a “sex cult” running Silicon Valley. What is it? People speak as if everyone knows. I don’t know! Googling “sex cult” would, I think, not be productive. Is there a good *reported* account to share?
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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 17/09/2026
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Lisa Guerrero @lisaguerrero.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Not only did I meet Robert Kraft, I worked for him. His kid Jonathan asked me to “remove the black music” from my gameday playlist in ‘94 & I refused so they fired me. I was the cheerleader director at the time.  I sued them for wrongful termination and won. So yes, I know that motherfucker. 
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Occasionally Spooky Transpo @occtranspo.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
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Micah Lee @micahflee.com · 16/09/2026
This Flock camera is running obsolete, end-of-life software. - It's on Android 8.1, released in 2017, support ended in 2021 - It's on Android patch level 2018-06-5 - It's running Linux 3.18, released in 2017 This shit is like 8 or 9 years old, and full of vulnerabilities.
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Scott FitzGerald @fitzstartz.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
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Scott FitzGerald @fitzstartz.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Nope... 10k launches per year in 5 years is the target everyone is valuing the IPO against... Trivial, really, considering the 170 they did in 2025. #MuskMath aiaa.org/2026/05/21/s...
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SpaceX Targets 10,000 Launches a Year within Five Years
Reuters reports, "SpaceX aims to reach 10,000 launches annually within five years, but government officials will need to see improved...
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Scott FitzGerald @fitzstartz.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
"Massive applause in the room."
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Leonardo DiCaprio Clapping - Very Good
ALT: Leonardo DiCaprio Clapping - Very Good
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Transgender World @transgenderreport.com · 15/09/2026
Governor Abigail Spanberger quietly ended a rulemaking process initiated in the waning days of former-governor Glenn Youngkin’s administration. The rule would have limited transgender students' ability to play sports and use facilities. www.wvtf.org/news/20... #transgender
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Spanberger quietly kills Youngkin-era transgender rulemaking effort
“There’s no legal authority to move forward with rulemaking and prior administrations may have tried to create lanes and we’re not doing that,” Gov. Abigail Spanberger said.
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Scott FitzGerald @fitzstartz.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Utter ignorance. And yet: "Perhaps the biggest benefactor of a bill of this magnitude, would be Canada's women's hockey system." Combined with "a generational investment" in Canadian sport... Canada need's to seize the opportunity. www.thestar.com/sports/amate...
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Scott FitzGerald @fitzstartz.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Douche company. "...being cryptic about how autonomous its vehicles actually are is part of Tesla’s usual playbook"
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Wagatwe Wanjuki @wagatwe.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
see, this is why I say "cancel culture" isn't real. it was framed as a new, dangerous phenomenon when people with power have been making moves like this forever.
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Scott FitzGerald @fitzstartz.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Isn't the fact that they "remain incredibly grateful" entirely the point?! Grateful (adj.) 1a: appreciative of benefits received: feeling or showing thanks
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Scott FitzGerald @fitzstartz.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Weddingmaxxing... "The president’s son had undergone treatment to better define his jawline for the occasion." Such gross, fake people... geuninely hilarious. A psych major's walking textbook.
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Philippe J. Fournier @338canada.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
🟥Single-poll projection using Léger's latest federal numbers... 📊Details : 338canada.com/20260906-leg...
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Bruce Arthur @brucearthur.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Adam van Koeverden promised people in the Canadian sports system change was coming. Well, here it comes, faster than Canada usually moves, finally. www.thestar.com/sports/amate...
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
“AI IS INEVITABLE AND YOU BETTER ACCEPT IT AND IT MIGHT MURDER YOU BUT ACTUALLY SLOW DOWN SO WE CAN MANIPULATE THE MARKET A LITTLE MORE” this is all such bullshit.
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A.J. Wilden🏳️‍⚧️ @wcwit.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
"They're not misunderstanding the film; they're co-opting a message"
Screencap from the interview linked in the quoted post

Marlow Stern (the interviewer):  You have one of the most renowned replies in Twitter history. Elon Musk tweeted out, “Take the red pill,” then Ivanka Trump enthusiastically wrote, “Taken!” to him, and then you replied, “Fuck both of you.” I’m curious how you feel about the co-opting of “The Matrix” by those on the right who don’t really seem to understand its messaging.

Lilly Wachowski: I mean, I can’t sit in a room and explain the movie to every single person who watches it. Even if I did sit in a room with Elon Musk and Ivanka Trump — yikes — it doesn’t matter. They’re not misunderstanding the film; they’re co-opting a message. And that’s what fascists do: They co-opt the messages of progressives and use it to their benefit to confuse and obfuscate what is going on and the intention of their ideology. They do it with everything. They do it with Martin Luther King Jr. Look at how they’ve changed the idea of what antisemitism is.
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Polling Canada @canadianpolling.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Pierre Poilievre Net-Approval Polling: ⚫️All: -28% 🟢SK: +5% 🟢AB: +3% ⚫️BC: -17% ⚫️MB: -26% ⚫️QC: -43% ⚫️ATL: -54% ⚫️ON: -30% ⚫️Men: -22% ⚫️Women: -34% ⚫️18-34 Year Olds: -26% ⚫️35-54 Year Olds: -13% ⚫️55+ Year Olds: -44% Angus Reid / Sept 7, 2026
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
“In 2022, Delo pleaded guilty to a United States Bank Secrecy Act violation and received a 30-month probation sentence. In 2025, Delo was pardoned by President Donald Trump.”
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
You might be wondering, hey, is it bad that this young American man was obsessed with a white supremacist nation that ceased to exist decades before he was even born? Well, remember that Dylann Roof wore a jacket with a Rhodesian flag on it and posted his racist manifesto to "lastrhodesian.com"
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kate conger @kateconger.com · 11/09/2026
Over six months, we tracked the appearance of child sexual abuse material on X. We found images from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children's database, which is considered one of the most highly vetted and which many tech companies block on upload. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/11/t...
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Elon Musk Has Pledged to Rid His Platform, X, of Child Sexual Abuse, but It Persists
Reviews by the Canadian Center for Child Protection and The New York Times found that explicit images of children remain on the social media site owned by Elon Musk.
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Scott FitzGerald @fitzstartz.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Dammit. Very disappointing, Ottawa! (And Philly.)
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Scott FitzGerald @fitzstartz.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
"Musk isn’t a particularly high profile gamer" ?!?! Tell me you don't know Musk... (I mean, nuance... because Musk certainly THINKS he is a high profile gamer... but still)
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Since becoming president again, Trump has promised: -$5000 stimulus checks via "DOGE dividend" -$2000 stimulus checks via "tariff dividend" -$1000+ checks via "savings" from expiring ACA subsidies -$5000 "dividend" if Rs win midterms No checks have been issued www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-magi...
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