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🇨🇦 Mike S

@gnuwf.bsky.social
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Physics grad. 30 years in high tech, including remote sensing, astronomy, atmospheric physics, numerical HPC, digital finance and digital security.

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🇨🇦 Mike S @gnuwf.bsky.social · 14h
Great news! Here's hoping they don't develop a resistance to that too.
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The Beaverton @thebeaverton.com · 26/09/2026
David Eby losing election to TBD
thebeaverton.com
David Eby losing election to TBD
VICTORIA, BC - After capitalizing on the disarray of the opposition Conservative party and calling a snap election, David Eby finds himself trailing in the polls to a leader to be determined at a late...
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🇨🇦 Mike S @gnuwf.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Correction: *Probability* not risk is the highest
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🇨🇦 Mike S @gnuwf.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
"extreme tail risk" = very low probability, but very high impact. The risk is the highest since we became a country, but it's still very low. Risk analysis usually looks at probability multiplied by impact for total risk. I doubt our government has never explored that possibility in detail before.
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🇨🇦 Mike S @gnuwf.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Aren't they the ones who are building huge underground luxury bunkers?
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Oh The Urbanity! @ohtheurbanity.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
They’re calling it the biggest mandate to do something big anyone’s ever seen!
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It's The Weekend 😌 @craigweekend.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Ladies and gentlemen... the weekend. (also: you are important and are not alone 🧡)
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
DoorDash spent $1.4M trying to stop Zohran Mamdani from becoming mayor. This week's historic $131.5M enforcement action against DoorDash for underpaying NYC delivery workers shows why. Yet another reminder that the only thing that can beat organized money is organized people.
theintercept.com
DoorDash Spent $1.4 Million Trying to Stop Mamdani From Becoming Mayor. Now We Know Why.
In a wage-theft settlement, DoorDash now has to pay its workers around 100 times what it spent trying to beat Zohran Mam
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🇨🇦 Mike S @gnuwf.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Canada, here is where the US is kicking our asses. We didn't create YouTube, or Amazon, or Google. We did create PornHub, Shopify and Verafin so large best in field digital companies can exist here. It's just very rare in Canada. Even the modern LLM was created in Canada.
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🇨🇦 Mike S @gnuwf.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
@mark-carney.bsky.social Send Cut Send is a type of business that can easily exist in and needs to be in Canada. It accelerates and de-costs hobbyist projects, which can also be the embryo of new businesses (manufacturing or other) by offering one off jobs at very affordable prices.
youtube.com
How SendCutSend Is Changing The Way We Build
YouTube video by SuperfastMatt
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Chris Mihos @chrismihos.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I get really annoyed seeing so many people say "Since everyone uses AI to write papers..." or "Referee reports now are just written by AI..." Look: Everything I have written has, for better or worse, been my own writing. Don't project your cynical expectations on my work. Seriously, screw gen-AI.
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🇨🇦 Mike S @gnuwf.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I doubt there's an industry that's not operated in some fraction by furries. The fact that they are in an industry that demands the highest of operational safety is saying a lot for them. The fact that your government is directed by a large number of selfish billionaires is terrifying.
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🇨🇦 Mike S @gnuwf.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
An attack on a country rarely if ever dislodges a government, but rather increases nationalism and thus support for it. This was seen in Iran, and now with the trade war against Canada, an administration that was about to topple is now seeing historic support.
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🇨🇦 Mike S @gnuwf.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Tax season: Paying a private company to give the government information they already have.
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🇨🇦 Mike S @gnuwf.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
How a super El Niño affects the hurricane season. Turbocharge the Pacific and more the Atlantic. Yet NA hardly hear about those hurricanes.
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Astronomy Picture of the Day 🪐 @apod.shinyakato.dev · 23/09/2026
🔭 A New Lunar Crater: McGetchin Image Credit: NASA/GSFC/Intuitive Machines Text: Keighley Rockcliffe (NASA GSFC, UMBC CSST, CRESST II) ap260923
Two images. The before image shows a lunar surface sprinkled with small craters. The after image shows the same location but taken over by a large dark impression surrounding by a ridge that slopes down to the surface.
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🇨🇦 Mike S @gnuwf.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Andrew MacDougall and Rob Russo have an excellent discussion today about how the trust in news media has eroded, the purpose of the opposition, and what Pollievre needs to do, especially in times like this.
pca.st
Trump Versus the U.S. Media -- Has The Media Finally Stiffened Its Spine?
With Althia in sick bay, Andrew MacDougall joins Rob Russo for the latest Reporter's Notebook. While Andrew writes the occasional opinion piece, he's not really a reporter -- but he sure…
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🇨🇦 Mike S @gnuwf.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
We have videos of Scots visiting Nova Scotia and Irish visiting Newfoundland. Keep it going!
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A Scottish Person's First Impressions Of Canada
YouTube video by Ruth Aisling
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consbegone.bsky.social @consbegone.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Climate scientists say there is no going back. We can only mitigate the damage and the suffering. Summers are never going back to normal. It only gets hotter. We are out of time! Carney saying we can’t afford to deal with emissions until later is ignorance or a devastating lie. We have no choice!
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🇨🇦 Mike S @gnuwf.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
We go down the slippery slope of eliminating the right to strike for some, while dismantling the environmental safeguards we have in place. I am for the elimination of red tape, but not at the cost of worker and environmental rights.
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🇨🇦 Mike S @gnuwf.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Spiral galaxies are stunning. M64 has massive amounts of dust, waves of young blue star forming regions, a yellow core of old stars, tightly wound density enhancements wrapping many times around it and what looks like a tidal tail remnant on the upper right indicating a merger.
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🇨🇦 Mike S @gnuwf.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Seth from Berm Peak has created some fantastic pure traditional hacking videos. On e-bikes instead of standalone computers, but they embody what traditional hacking is all about. Figuring out how a system works, and usually fixing the problems the system had in the first place, and making it better.
youtube.com
I Had To Hack This E-Bike To Make It Work Right
YouTube video by Berm Peak
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🇨🇦 Mike S @gnuwf.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
It was only a matter of time before those street burnouts appeared here. It needs to be shut down immediately.
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Stephen Judkins @stephenjudkins.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
This post by @lastpositivist.bsky.social remains the single best take on effective altruism
Adding a single principle to utilitarianism ("ok, but no galaxy brain stuff, alright?") and thereby perfecting moral philosophy.
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joão ruas @feralkid.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
st christopher II - pencil on paper
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Sevtap Savas, PhD🫐 🇨🇦🍁 @savaslab.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
vocm.com/2026/09/18/s...
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SportNL Launches Anti-Racism Campaign
Those who run our sports programs in Newfoundland and Labrador have launched a campaign to wipe out racism on ...
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🇨🇦 Mike S @gnuwf.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Holy cow, I wasn't at the extreme snowfall anomaly for NDJF when I made that comment. #nlwx
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🇨🇦 Mike S @gnuwf.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
@isotachtics.bsky.social Think this year the Avalon will have a winter where the snow doesn't persist? The temperature anomaly is high for DJF on the northern and eastern parts of Canada with very high confidence. (You can skip to 11:49 to see the forecast) #nlwx
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🚨Super El Niño UPDATE: Canada's fall and winter forecast
YouTube video by Kyle's Forecasts
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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
This is the most masculine video on the internet right now
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🇨🇦 Mike S @gnuwf.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
If we really want to worry about and stop what will actually kill us, halt the production of cigarettes. They will kill about 300 million people between now and 2050. They have already killed about 250 million between 1900 and now.
nature.com
Avoidable global cancer deaths and total deaths from smoking - Nature Reviews Cancer
Death due to smoking — from cancer, vascular disease or tuberculosis — is growing worldwide, particularly in low- and middle-income countries, in which the prevalence of smoking is increasing. How man...
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🇨🇦 Mike S @gnuwf.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
@sciencevs.bsky.social Ok, ok, I get it. It's on people's minds. Thankfully Betteridge's law of headlines applies. #thebridge #petermansbridge
Science Vs. and The Bridge have nearly identical headlines for their podcasts: Will AI kill us all?
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🇨🇦 Mike S @gnuwf.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Canada is performing its own dismantling of its environmental standards and promises in the name of economic sovereignty.
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🇨🇦 Mike S @gnuwf.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I want to hear @iwriteok.bsky.social's verification on this.
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EmmanuelSPV @emmanuelspv.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Avant / Après la nouvelle rue aux écoles Fernand Labori dans le 18ème arrondissement, terminée en Mars 2026. En plus de retirer le stationnement, il y a des barrières aux deux bouts pour diminuer le trafic de passage.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 17/09/2026
New Yorkers should know whether the apartment they’re looking at is real. That’s why we’re working to require apartment listings to clearly disclose when images and videos have been generated by AI. Finding a home in New York is hard enough without artificially generating more problems.
nytimes.com
Is That Fireplace Real or A.I.?
Listing sites are littered with homes with fake fireplaces, improved views and virtual landscaping, raising false advertising concerns.
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🇨🇦 Mike S @gnuwf.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Are you thinking what I'm thinking Pinky?
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Pinky and Brain: Uncomfortable Pantyhose
Alt: Pinky and the Brain in a rodent cage while Brain reads the paper. Pinky says: "Well, I think so Brain, but pantyhose are so uncomfortable in the summer time."
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🇨🇦 Mike S @gnuwf.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Earlier studies conflated Warm and fuzzy "i feel good when I cooperate with others" collectivism vs. deep commitment "I'll take care of my aging parents at home" responsabilism, getting mixed results.
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Observing The City @observingthecity.ca · 02/09/2026
Brad Bradford says that 50% of roadway cannot be allocated to 1% of users. Good thing it isn't. Only about 1% of all of Toronto's road space is allocated to bike lanes. I showed my work, and used Danforth (the lanes he fought so hard to get added) as an example.
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🇨🇦 Mike S @gnuwf.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Like @terryoinfluence.bsky.social said, most companies don't realize the effect bad ads have on business. I'll actively avoid a company if their ads are bad.
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🇨🇦 Mike S @gnuwf.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I don't know what the ChatGPT folk are thinking when they made those ads from the phone's pov. The strangers are sweaty, eating a sandwich or doing something equally effective in eliciting a negative visceral reaction. I don't want a person looking down my face taking a big bite of a sandwich.
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🇨🇦 Mike S @gnuwf.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
TOS S2E06 The Doomsday Machine: It shows how little people appreciate the scales of things. The machine was "miles long" yet it could destroy a planet. It's like a personal drone trying to destroy the Skydome.
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🇨🇦 Mike S @gnuwf.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
I've seen it in action and it's eye opening but it ain't changing the nature of humanity. The theory of evolution, geology and astrophysics leading to the appreciation of deep time, refrigeration, vaccines and the germ theory of disease did that.
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🇨🇦 Bernice Hillier 🇨🇦 @bernicecb.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Port Union wasn’t just run by unions, it was founded by one. Parks Canada and the Government of Newfoundland and Labrador call it Canada’s only union-built town. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
cbc.ca
The story of Canada’s 'only union-built town' | CBC News
Founded on Newfoundland's Bonavista Peninsula more than a century ago, Port Union is called Canada’s only union-built town. It was the brainchild of union organizer William F. Coaker, who wanted to he...
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Charlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
This is my Grandfather Joe MacNeil with his annual silicosis photograph. Joe was a beautiful man who died from deliberate poisoning. He was forced to breathe aluminum dust every day at work. The aluminum coated men's lungs and hid evidence of lesions in x-rays. Labour Day matters. Now more than ever
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MapQuest @mapquest.com · 07/09/2026
Meet the designer behind the Questies: Reis O’Brien. If you’ve seen the Grogu balloon in the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, you’ve seen Reis’s work. He has designed collectibles with Lucasfilm, Disney, Warner Bros., Marvel, and DC Comics. Pop Culture Hall of Fame inductee, c/o 2019.
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🇨🇦 Mike S @gnuwf.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Shocking but completely unsurprising. I'd bet money an independent audit of just about any jurisdiction would see the same numbers.
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🇨🇦 Mike S @gnuwf.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Would you not let someone work for you if they refuse to use Adobe products? Microsoft?
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🇨🇦 Mike S @gnuwf.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
It's not that activity per se but the tool that was used, the parent company's extreme trillion dollar valuation, how the tool has come about, its expansion and it's immense environmental footprint.
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🇨🇦 Mike S @gnuwf.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
There are alternatives to cars that are much safer, and much better for the environment. There are applications of machine learning which are showing great promise, but in this context and others, overall results, medium and long term effects are still far from known.
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🇨🇦 Mike S @gnuwf.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Because Apple doesn't have more f*cking money than God already? In the current economy, if a company's profit numbers aren't exponentially increasing through compound percent increases quarter after quarter, it isn't worth anything.
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