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🇨🇦 Mike S @gnuwf.bsky.social · 16h

Great news! Here's hoping they don't develop a resistance to that too.

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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 · 29/09/2026

Correction: *Probability* not risk is the highest

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🇨🇦 Mike S @gnuwf.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Great work! It's a lovely full send off that blue tee.

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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

The best and the brightest have headed south for decades. The only reason for a reverse flow is because of the destruction of their government. Deregulation, removing climate change policies and cutting funding to necessary watchdog government departments isn't the way to do it.

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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

They charge affordable prices, yet they pay well and their quality is better than overseas. It *is* possible to run a profitable business in Canada without paying your employees terrible wages.

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🇨🇦 Mike S @gnuwf.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

It is a foothold for foundation level manufacturing and industry that Canada needs to rebuild. Their secret is software driven job management, able to give near instant and automated quotes, and queue up otherwise cost ineffective smaller jobs into much larger batch jobs, cutting per-order overhead.

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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!

youtube.com

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 · 19/09/2026

For you guys yeah. It didn't stop for us. But we won't have to dig out the tee pads like we did last year!

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🇨🇦 Mike S @gnuwf.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Nope. You're someone who wants a usable bike rather than a fashion accessory for their car.

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🇨🇦 Mike S @gnuwf.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

The wide field view in the wikipedia article is just as stunning.

en.wikipedia.org

Black Eye Galaxy - Wikipedia

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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

That pig was 32 kg and was utterly useless for any task.

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🇨🇦 Mike S @gnuwf.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I think a lot of the car companies had branded mountain or hybrid bikes and for the most part they were trash. Hummer and Jeep come to mind.

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🇨🇦 Mike S @gnuwf.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

It was wasn't it? Both the review and pimping it up videos. The bike is the embodiment of the general hubris in silicon valley that they can solve any problem with white sheet design and a 14 year old would find cool. See the Cybertruck.

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🇨🇦 Mike S @gnuwf.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

DIY Perks is another brilliant channel with does some extremely elegant hacking to create beautiful devices that breathes new life into broken or outdated hardware.

youtube.com

A new way to build a PC in 2026!

YouTube video by DIY Perks

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🇨🇦 Mike S @gnuwf.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

This is better than from scratch engineering videos where they use tens of thousands of dollars of high end machines in pure wild west chaos, months of chasing failures due to the creation process to make a machine that does something that really has no purpose.

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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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🇨🇦 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

Already, most winters there is green grass on my neighbours lawn into the middle of December.

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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

youtu.be

🚨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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