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Harold Jarche

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If we don't help our human, social networks get smarter and able to make better decisions, who will? Interests include getting through this global mess we are in […] 🌉 bridged from ⁂ mastodon.social/@harold, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact

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Harold Jarche @harold.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 13h
Got shingles. Other two yearly. Just booked RSV. Be a maxi-vaxxer! Live long & prosper. Yes, my arm hurts a bit, but it's a good pain :)
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Harold Jarche @harold.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026
Diversity > Learning > Trust — become the key elements in building better organizational structures that can help us differentiate between stark reality and blatant lies. These elements are how we should connect because it’s in the connections that we can […] [Original post on mastodon.social]
"Unlike mechanical systems, human systems thrive on variety and diversity." -Esko Kilpi
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Harold Jarche @harold.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026
Diversity > Learning > Trust — become the key elements in building better organizational structures that can help us differentiate between stark reality and blatant lies. These elements are how we should connect because it’s in the connections that we can […] [Original post on mastodon.social]
"Unlike mechanical systems, human systems thrive on variety and diversity." -Esko Kilpi
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Harold Jarche @harold.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 20h
"There is, today, only one truly serious philosophical problem, and that is whether, in an artificial world, humans can still be reached by what matters most. How that question is met will decide, in the end, whether a life is fully lived or merely administered. " —Kenneth Mikkelsen […]
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Stephen Rees :verifiedgreen: @stephenrees.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 19/10/2026
From the Vancouver Green Party "Last night, Vancouver elected its first Green mayor. We are honoured, and grateful to every one of you who made it possible. Every one of our Green candidates was elected, and we are ready to start the hard work of representing this […] [Original post on mas.to]
"We Did It Vancouver!"
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Harold Jarche @harold.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/10/2026
What kind of money-obsessed capitalist system would allow a gas pipeline to be built through a military base that conducts regular live-fire exercises? Asking as a veteran who knows that training area www.cbc.ca/lite/story/9.7385537
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Mick 🇨🇦 @mick.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 18/10/2026
The far-right will never be satisfied by electoral politics. Their desires cannot be fulfilled from within a system of representative democracy, because they demand benefits for a tiny slice of the electorate at the expense of the majority. Attempts to yoke […] [Original post on cosocial.ca]
Daniel Smith pictured wearing a black jacket with the word “CANADA” printed on it speaks into a microphone. At the bottom, the text reads: “The separatists who helped bring Danielle Smith to power are trying to unseat her.”
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Anna Haunthro @annaanthro.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/10/2026
“ At least seven people are dead and dozens more left injured from an explosion and fire at the Canadian Forces Base #Wainwright, on the outskirts of #Edmonton, #Alberta.  The explosion was caused by a live-fire training exercise hitting a gas line or gas well on the base around 4 p.m. MT […]
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Harold Jarche @harold.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/10/2026
My thoughts are with our comrades at CFB Wainwright. In the 1980s Wainwright was my second home at the PPCLI Battle School. Early reports look like it was a major disaster. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/liv…
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Harold Jarche @harold.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026
Fort Worth elite tried to erase this book, but decades later it's back www.dallasobserver.com/arts-culture… “As quickly as ‘The Inheritors’ grew in notoriety, it was pulled from shelves. Scandal erupted […]
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Harold Jarche @harold.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026
Communities across Canada are confronting proposals for #AI datacentres. Find your local campaign. Or start one. stopthedatacentre.ca #CdnPoli #FossilFuels
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Stop the Data⁠centre
Communities across Canada are organizing around AI datacentre proposals. Find your local campaign or start one.
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Harold Jarche @harold.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026
The fact that some political parties are finally leaving the cesspool known as X is rather mute. Ya shoulda left a couple of years ago, ya dupes
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Harold Jarche @harold.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026
Congresswoman Ilhan Omar’s cell phone confiscated, family members subpoenaed | Middle East Eye www.middleeasteye.net/news/trump-ju…
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Congresswoman Ilhan Omar’s cell phone confiscated, family members subpoenaed
Critics have called the investigation a witch hunt, citing President Donald Trump's past remarks to 'send her back' to Somalia
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Harold Jarche @harold.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026
Donald Trump 'openly financing Russia's war with Ukraine', Nobel peace laureate says - France 24 www.france24.com/en/donald-trump-op…
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Donald Trump 'openly financing Russia's war with Ukraine', Nobel peace laureate says
Speaking with FRANCE 24's Mark Owen, Nobel Peace laureate Oleksandra Matviichuk, Director of the Centre for Civil Liberties, says that with the diesel-supply deal with Moscow Donald Trump "is openly…
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Harold Jarche @harold.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026
There is a reason why my writing might sound like AI. The LLM scraped all of my public writing @atomicpoet atomicpoet.org/objects/baf99191-c17…
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If you’re changing your writing style to sound “non-AI”—thinking this will make you more authentic—you are wrong. You’re pretending to be someone else so as to be identifiably “NON AI”. If you were authentic, you would express yourself as you are—not in reaction to AI.
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Fabio Manganiello @fabio.manganiello.eu.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026
There’s no sovereignty in a world where the US can simply call for a server that didn’t violate any law in the Netherlands to be switched off, and that server immediately goes off. America is a terrorist State. And we don’t deal with terrorists.
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Harold Jarche @harold.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026
#AI does not hallucinate, it's just crappy code and too often used by lazy people, like our Department of Education. We don't need AI literacy, we need an understanding of first principles of human learning www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswic… #NBPoli
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Harold Jarche @harold.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026
undecided voter = a person who has not bothered to be informed
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Harold Jarche @harold.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026
Is there a nice Canadian way to say, F*CK YOU, to the the US ambassador to Canada? Just asking for a friend. www.cbc.ca/news/politics/hoekstra-w… #CdnPoli
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Harold Jarche @harold.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026
«“I packed everything up and then just kind of sat there,” Fred said. “Then they just came along and took everything.” What authorities didn’t realize was that some of the donated items were being closely tracked by De Facto. As part of an investigation into what happens to unhoused residents’ […]
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Tim Bray 🇨🇦 @timbray.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026
John Gruber @gruber says “The culture on X today is remarkably friendly and inclusive” Hmm, that's not how I remember it. So I spent an hour there and, maybe I’m weird, but… www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/202…
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I Wasted an Hour on X
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Harold Jarche @harold.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026
“It will mutate, and everyone who caught #COVID before will catch it again, because your immunity is no longer going to work. Your immune system tends to forget about COVID fairly quickly, and then you also have it mutating away from the immunity that you do have,” [Dr] Thirsk said.
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Ed @edcates.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026
Data: - LLMs are killing the planet - LLMs are raising utility prices - LLMs are raising computer prices - LLMs give you teh dums - LLMs show negligible increases in net productivity - LLM costs are going up - LLMs run on stolen content - LLM companies keep breaking laws and saying, "Oopsie!" […]
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Harold Jarche @harold.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026
The only thing worse than being an enemy of the USA is to be their 'friend' www.cbc.ca/news/canada/canadian-cyb… #CdnPoli
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Stefan Bohacek @fediverse.stefanbohacek.online · 12/10/2026
Happy Indigenous Peoples' Day! "Be humble and keep learning—especially when it’s hard." www.greenpeace.org/usa/10-ways-to-b… en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indigenous_Pe… ✊ #solidarity […] [Original post on stefanbohacek.online]
A scene from the TV show The Good Place where one character explains:

"Fun fact, Columbus is in The Bad Place because of all the raping, slave trade, and genocide."
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Harold Jarche @harold.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026
Voice of the People rally for clean energy on Tuesday 20 October at noon at the NB Legislature. Later is too late. www.youtube.com/shorts/7qlTxIlo-Fw #NBPoli #FossilFuel #ClimateChange
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Harold Jarche @harold.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026
@ChrisCorrigan Just another techno-capitalist platform. BTW we are loving Vancouver. Off to the market shortly
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Harold Jarche @harold.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026
"In January 2022, the Center for Countering Digital Hate accused Substack of allowing content that could be dangerous to public health. The Center estimated that the company earned $2.5M per year from the top 5 anti-vaccine authors alone. The 3 founders responded via blog post affirming their […]
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Harold Jarche @harold.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026
«A document meant for a behind-closed-doors group of fossil fuel advocates earlier this year got right to the point: Canada’s policies to fight the climate crisis, protect nature & defend Indigenous Rights are a “problem,” & environmental organizations are “opponents.” It was part of a session […]
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Harold Jarche @harold.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026
Nope, never any disinformation from the USA. For sure. Of course. NOT www.cbc.ca/news/politics/gac-disinf…
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Harold Jarche @harold.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026
Screenshot of MacOS27 Golden Gate system systems. Why, except in hell, would I want to use ChatGPT to do anything for me? And this was on by default
Screenshot of system settings:

Extension: Your Mac can use ChatGPT to help you write text, create an image, answer questions, and more
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Harold Jarche @harold.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026
All of these #ElbowsUp Canadians pushing to buy Canadian products and services make me despair as they share and organize on Facebook, X, and Instagram. WTF #CdnPoli
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Deborah Preuss, pcc 🇨🇦 @deborahh.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026
"Canada’s Department of National Defence (DND) has already more than doubled the total value of its new contracts signed with American tech giants this year, according to a new analysis by The Maple." "National Defence Has Doubled New Contracts With U.S. Tech Giants" […]
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 05/10/2026
Holy shit.
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Harold Jarche @harold.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026
It looks like the PQ may win in the Québec election. Just what Canada needs is another separation-focused government.
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Harold Jarche @harold.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026
If police do not pay a price for their behaviour, will their behaviour change? Rhetorical question. Of course the answer is no. www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/milwau…
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Harold Jarche @harold.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026
My now deceased father-in-law published a book with the University of Toronto Press which is now putting out an audio book — to be narrated by Gen #AI. In reading the contract, there is no recourse to this abuse of human talent and labour […]
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Harold Jarche @harold.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/09/2026
In 2014 I started the first of the online #PKM workshops, based on a model of three activities per week over six weeks to be done as a cohort with a common start and finish date. I would be available to respond to participants and provide support as required […] [Original post on mastodon.social]
Working Smarter with Personal Knowledge Mastery

Connect with Others through Knowledge Networks
Challenge Assumptions through Communities of Practice
Co-create Value through Project & Work Teams
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Harold Jarche @harold.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026
I remember spending 6 weeks outdoors near Fort Wainwright, Alaska in the middle of Winter. This was just normal stuff for Canadian soldiers in the 1980s. www.cbc.ca/news/politics/arctic-war…
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ElwoodCity_Blues @elwoodcity.thecanadian.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026
@harold @cdnpoli Yes
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Harold Jarche @harold.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026
Is it only white Albertans who favour separation? Is this a racist movement? www.cbc.ca/news/canada/first-person… #ABPoli @cdnpoli
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Harold Jarche @harold.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026
RE: mas.to/@BruceMirken/117378034564592… I think that anyone who is considering a new car should look at electric. If you normally drive less than 300 km per day then an EV with a level 2 charger at home just makes sense. A full charge for me costs about $5. How much was your last […]
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Harold Jarche @harold.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026
My grandfather served in the German Army, the Reichswehr, from 1919 to 1928. He was later drafted into the Wehrmacht, under the Nazis, in the early 1940s. He refused to join the Nazi party and as a result could not get a ration card for his family of 6 children. My mother remembers fishing for […]
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Tim Bray 🇨🇦 @timbray.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026
Hey, still more not-exactly-hippies casting side-eyes on the financial prospects for #GenAI, in this case the Wall Street Journal, in “Will America Spend 9% of Its GDP on AI? The Industry Is Counting on It To justify staggering investment sums, Americans will […] [Original post on cosocial.ca]
Will America Spend 9% of Its GDP on AI? The Industry Is Counting on It
To justify staggering investment sums, Americans will have to spend as much of their income on this one technology as they do on food

Greg Ip
Oct. 2, 2026 at 5:30 am ET

Bar graph of proportions of GDP for
Health: 18%
Food 9.1%
AI services (assumed for 2032) 8.8%
Energy: 5.1%
Construction: 4.4%
Computers, software: 4.4%
Defense: 2.8%
Communication, Internet: 1.22%
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Harold Jarche @harold.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026
Voice of the People Rally 20 October at noon Outside the NB Legislature in Fredericton Let's speak up for clean, affordable, renewable energy for all! No more expensive, polluting energy projects in New Brunswick. Let's make it LOUD & CLEAR! atlanticwildlife.ca/pcic #NBPoli
Voice of the People Rally

No more EXPENSIVE, POLLUTING energy projects in New Brunswick!

Tuesday, October 20, Legislature, Fredericton
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Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸 @chris.mstdn.chrisalemany.ca.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026
I am reminded that we are the only country in the western world that I know of that is still expanding fossil fuel infrastructure. Not even the U-S-of-A is building as fast as us. yay us. 🫠🤮 #burnBabyburn #ClimateEmergency #EndFossilFuels #CanPoli #CdnPoli #TransMountain #Carney […]
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David August ❌👑 @davidaugust.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026
Canada weaponized a spreadsheet against a fool who thinks tariffs are foreplay. ifloz.substack.com/p/remind-me-to-n… #USpol #Canada #trade #TradeWar #TrumpTariffs #tariffs #economy
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Harold Jarche @harold.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026
@EdwinG We used to have the Radio Canada International towers in our back yard, here in Sackville, NB. Until they tore them down and decided that there was no more need for short wave radio
RCI towers for shortwave transmissions near Sackville, NB in 2004
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Daniel Lakeland @dlakelan.mastodon.sdf.org.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026
Fediverse, the social media system for 40+ year old people who built the world wide web and regret it.
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Chris Corrigan @chriscorrigan.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026
Thank god the climate crisis is over and we’ve just invested $40 billion in renewable energy generation for all Canadians so that every person can afford to heat their home and power their cars with the cleanest energy possible for their context. Oh wait? We’re exporting oil to enrich a few […]
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