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Oliver Moore @oliver-moore.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

This is a long way* from my wheelhouse, but it seems obvious that as slop and hallucinations proliferate chatbots will be sampling ever-worse info and generating ever-worse answers, feeding on themselves in an ouroboros of garbage *it’s possible everyone else has already concluded this

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André Picard @picardonhealth @picardonhealth.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

Emergency room wait times are bad. But they are going to get worse. The recent Ontario budget falls far short of the funding needed to maintain even the current level of hospital services, by @drgorfinkel.bsky.social www.thestar.com/opinion/cont... via @thestar.com

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Iris Gorfinkel: Emergency room wait times: They are going to get worse in Ontario

The recent budget falls far short of the funding needed to maintain even the current level of hospital services, turning its back on an aging population with more complex health

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Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦 @emmettmacfarlane.com · 19/06/2025

Keep re-electing Ford majorities and keep getting this, people.

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Sarah Goodyear @sgoodyear.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

Check out @pattybikes.com . This is the energy we need!

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PEIPolitical 🇨🇦 @peipolitical.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

Canada announces plan to make major tourist destinations in Canada free to all Canadians. Including rail passes for children and transportation access. #cdnpoli

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dissected @trepanation.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

a trans person has never negatively impacted my life. politicians and billionaires sure have

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Tom Flood @tomflood.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

"did you get my text?" creative done with @thebikinglawyer.bsky.social

a phone lock screen with a text from Pedestrian: Would you mind putting your phone down Im waling in front of your car.

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Taras Grescoe 🚇 @taras-grescoe.com · 19/06/2025

"A cyclist can go 3 or 4 times faster than a pedestrian, but uses 5 times less energy. The bicycle is the perfect transducer to match metabolic energy to impedance of locomotion. Equipped with this tool, man outstrips efficiency of not only all machines, but all other animals as well." —Ivan Illich

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 19/06/2025

When a chatbot gets something wrong, it’s not because it made an error. It’s because on that roll of the dice, it happened to string together a group of words that, when read by a human, represents something false. But it was working entirely as designed. It was supposed to make a sentence & it did.

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 19/06/2025

I expect that consumer-facing AI programs will continue to improve and they may become much more useful tools for everyday life in the future. But I think it was a disastrous mistake that today’s models were taught to be convincing before they were taught to be right.

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Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦 @emmettmacfarlane.com · 19/06/2025

Which is another reason their use by students to *do* the work of research and writing for them is skills-annihilating. No, LLMs are NOT just like calculators, a simple tool that can be used well or not. In math you still have to show your work. 1/n

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Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦 @emmettmacfarlane.com · 19/06/2025

LLM use in research and writing doesn't just mean students aren't doing the work, it means they literally abandon the very skills development and knowledge acquisition necessary for any intellectual job, let alone to know whether or when LLMs are giving them bullshit or useful info. 2/n

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Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦 @emmettmacfarlane.com · 19/06/2025

When educators freak out about AI, it's not because we're lamplighters fighting the invention of the lightbulb, or because we're lazy and don't want to innovate our teaching methods - it's because there's a genuine learning crisis at hand, the stupifying of society. 3/3

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Charlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

Benjamin Netanyahu is an indicted war criminal. And yet, the west obediently fall into line when he carries his permanent war campaign into more and more treacherous waters. The bombing of Iran had nothing to do with nuclear threat, it was about regime change. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

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Israeli defence minister says he ordered attacks on Iran to ‘undermine regime’

Israel Katz officially acknowledges goal of war, as Iranian missile hits hospital and Israel strikes nuclear site

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Glen 🇨🇦 part owner of Canada* @honestcanadian.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

Kentucky exports over $9.3 billion worth of products to Canada per year. Replacing that with Canadian keeps $9.3 billion in Canada. That money goes to Canadian farmers, workers, truckers, O&G, investors etc. There is no downside. #ElbowsUp means supporting Canadian workers.

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Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁 @minibubbly.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

The London Abused Women’s Centre (LAWC) has launched a new program to support survivors of sexual assault, intimate partner violence and human trafficking. #London #AskForAngela #Ontario www.ctvnews.ca/london/artic...

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‘Ask for Angela’ campaign launches in London

The London Abused Women’s Centre (LAWC) has launched a new program to support survivors of sexual assault, intimate partner violence and human trafficking.

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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 24/03/2025

The biggest problem with putting plans for bombing Yemen in a group chat is that THE UNITED STATES HAS BOMBED YEMEN ALMOST FIVE HUNDRED TIMES SINCE 2002, NOT INCLUDING THE ILLEGAL CLUSTER MUNITIONS AND OTHER WEAPONS WE GAVE THE SAUDIS TO ALSO USE TO BOMB YEMEN. WE SHOULD STOP BOMBING YEMEN.

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Lanrick Bennett @lanrickbennett.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

#IdeasAtWork Hoping @mayoroliviachow.ca is able to take part. Kidical Mass Bike Ride for Kids, Families & Everyone! SAT. APRIL 5TH 2 PM - 4 PM Queen's Park, South Lawn h/t @kidicalmassto.bsky.social @greenpeaceca.bsky.social @cycletoronto.bsky.social #ONpoli #TOpoli #VisionZero #BikeTO

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SAVE OUR BIKE LANES!
PROTECT OUR KIDS!
Kidical Mass Bike Ride for Kids, Families & Everyone!
SAT. APRIL 5TH 2 PM - 4 PM
Queen's Park, South Lawn
Rain Date
SUN. APRIL 13TH
if it rains, the event will happen on April 13 instead.
What to Expect:
• Rally followed by a bike ride around Queen's Park.
• CycleTO marshals will be there to support.
• Decorate your bike, jazz up your helmet, or wear a costume get creative and have fun!
• A slow-paced loop for riders of all ages and abilities.

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Tom Flood @tomflood.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Be as passionate about something as a child is over the toys they haven’t looked at in 5 years that you’re about to donate.

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Philippe J. Fournier @338canada.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

338Canada🍁federal update | March 24, 2025 Details here → 338canada.com/federal.htm

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Truthout @truthout.org · 20/03/2025

Border officials refused to allow a French scientist to enter the country after searching his electronic devices and discovering messages to his colleagues that were critical of Trump, saying they could be “qualified as terrorism.”

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Customs Officials Deny French Scientist U.S. Entry Over His Anti-Trump Texts

An FBI inquiry was briefly opened, then dropped, after which the scientist was deported to France.

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Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦 @emmettmacfarlane.com · 20/03/2025

The White House has openly created a law firm protection racket, openly blackmailing law firms into doing their illegal, unconstitutional, and fascist bidding. Stop talking about the "Decline of American Democracy." It's dead. No pulse.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

AOC: Fox News and the right-wing would have you believe that these American values are something out of The Communist Manifesto. But let me tell you Fox News, I don’t believe in healthcare, labor, and human rights because I’m a Marxist.. I believe it because I was a waitress.

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RadioFreeBronx | MD ANT 🥇 @radiofreebronx.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

UK Subs detained

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Opinion Editor @ Bluesky @dly.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

it's fine guys, I fixed it (I went to journalism school)

the same article as original post but altered so that the headline reads "why are men?"

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Arrête Mark Carney ⚜️ @lalegault.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Albertans and Americans always take exception about generalizing but when a critical max of you vote for a lunatic don’t get chippy in the comments. I am from Ontario, roast me, we deserve it. Look who we elected. I have a sense of humour. Acquire one!

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Em Ellis 🇨🇦 📚 🍱 📷 ☕️ @msemellis.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Dear America I’m going to hold your hand for a moment while I say this: No one is coming to save you. We’re busy trying to save ourselves from your wannabe dictator. We can’t pour from empty cups. You going to have to start the work to save yourselves. There are a multitude of resources. 🧵

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Tom Flood @tomflood.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

the radical tour rolls on.

album cover with sound of music biking scene and the text Meet The radical Cyclists.
no helmets - no lights - no hi viz - riding in a pack - distracted - taking the lane.

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Tom Flood @tomflood.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Some Canadian dates to be announced soon too.

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onion person @junlper.beer · 15/03/2025

this is CRAZY

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Cairistiona J @cairistionaj.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

#DanielleSmith is terrified of unity. #Vote out hate #abpoli #cdnpoli

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Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁 @minibubbly.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Top 4 Fruit Growers in Canada 1. British Columbia 2. Quebec 3. Ontario 4. Nova Scotia The types of Fruits grown in Canada Lowbush Blueberries Apples Grapes Highbush Blueberries Cranberries Strawberries Cherries (sweet) Peaches Raspberries Haskaps Saskatoon Berries Pears Cherries (sour) /1

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Avis Favaro @avisfavaro.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

This is Canada's new federal minister of health - and first nurse, to my knowledge, to hold this position. She worked in the oncology unit at St. Joseph’s Health Centre in Toronto. @unityhealthto.bsky.social www.pm.gc.ca/en/cabinet/h...

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The Honourable Kamal Khera

The Honourable Kamal Khera - Minister of Diversity, Inclusion and Persons with Disabilities

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Susan🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇨🇦🥊🐶 @bellwhitworth.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Damn straight. We’re all Howard Beale: ‘I’m mad as Hell and I’m not going to take this anymore!’ (Network) #ElbowsUp 🇨🇦

Howard Beale in the film, Network, angry with his hands raised

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Froggles 🇨🇦 @froggles42.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

*amid hostile annexation attempt* There. Fixed it.

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David Moscrop @davidmoscrop.com · 12/03/2025

Why won't Donald Trump shut up about Canada? Because he wants to dominate the continent. And we're in the way. This is war by other means. thewalrus.ca/why-wont-tru...

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Why Won’t Trump Shut Up about Canada? | The Walrus

The president sees us as standing in the way of plans for hemispheric dominance

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Your Honor, pls @mrmambo.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Haha, nice little cleft chin you got there, might need that looked at

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gardendiva3.bsky.social @gardendiva3.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

A friend in Victoria said a local grocer has gone 100% Canadian produce. He couldn’t sell US lettuce at cost. No one would buy it. He also refused an entire shipment of American produce. Keep up the good work people!

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Jack Hopkins-The Original @therealjackhopkins.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Trump just stated a moment ago that Canada will be our 51st state. He's stuck on this. Canada....increase the tariffs by 200% and shut off the electricity. It's the only language this incompetent f*ck understands.

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Charlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

Na na na na hey hey hey bye bye. #elbowsup #strongasfuck

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TinAstina 🇺🇦☮️ @tinastina.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

In Denmark 🇩🇰 we have a massive movement boycotting everything from USA. Some of our shop chains are with us and marking products so that we can avoid US origin ones. Also, Canadian made products are high in our purchase list. We got this. 🇩🇰🇨🇦

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