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Jen Taub @jentaub.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Still trying to understand how Napster got shut down, but Anthropic is going public and still hasn’t paid us authors yet after stealing our work.

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Ian Hecht 🇨🇦 @ianhecht.com · 14/10/2026

Dear Bluesky, how can I "not like" a post?

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Ian Hecht 🇨🇦 @ianhecht.com · 14/10/2026

Yeah, he was hiding his true nature, but the upcoming elections have unmasked that he's clearly Putin's stooge.

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Ian Hecht 🇨🇦 @ianhecht.com · 13/10/2026

Do they happen to say who they think is making Richmond unsafe? Does it rhyme with hymmigrants?

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Ian Hecht 🇨🇦 @ianhecht.com · 10/10/2026

I was today years old when I learned that the phrases "to buy a pig in a poke" and "let the cat out of the bag" are related: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pig_in_...

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Pig in a poke - Wikipedia

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

statler and waldorf but it’s al-sayed and ossoff heckling republicans

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Ian Hecht 🇨🇦 @ianhecht.com · 10/10/2026

Me, when I see how my family loads the bowls in the dishwasher...

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Ian Hecht 🇨🇦 @ianhecht.com · 09/10/2026

Listening to some of the EAs in the staffroom complain about what girls are wearing to school these days, as if the same conversation hasn't taken place every generation... "what is she thinking showing her ankles like that!" "Why can you see her knees in that skirt?" "Girls in trousers! For shame!"

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Ian Hecht 🇨🇦 @ianhecht.com · 05/10/2026

Not surprised. Break the system, then find a scapegoat.

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Ian Hecht 🇨🇦 @ianhecht.com · 04/10/2026

Basically, the bet board in Cabin in the Woods:

Screenshot of the movie Cabin in the Woods, where the characters are looking at a giant whiteboard of all the possible demises their victims could suffer. *Spoiler alert* by the end of the film, all of the creatures have escaped and killed everyone on-screen.

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Gail Simone @gailsimone.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

You guys want to hear a short but adorable story that happened right in front of me at the baggage claim in NYC yesterday? I wasn't part of it and there are bits I didn't catch but holy crap, I can't stop thinking about it.

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Ian Hecht 🇨🇦 @ianhecht.com · 03/10/2026

Every now and then, when I'm sitting in some presentation on trends in education, the turbo encabulator video pops into my head... for no reason, I'm sure. youtu.be/Ac7G7xOG2Ag Reticulating dingle-arm gets me every time.

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"Turbo Encabulator" the Original

YouTube video by Dave Rondot

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Ian Hecht 🇨🇦 @ianhecht.com · 28/09/2026

The "old" joke that AI really stands for "absent Indian" because some poor schmuck in Hyderabad is doing the actual work.

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Ian Hecht 🇨🇦 @ianhecht.com · 28/09/2026

Couldn't decide between this gif and the "That's not how any of this works", but either way, Trump's an idiot.

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Nathan Fillion Speechless

Alt: Nathan Fillion Speechless

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Ian Hecht 🇨🇦 @ianhecht.com · 25/09/2026

I'm so old... I think the last game I put any serious time into was Portal 2 💀

A grid of 9 PC games, mostly from the 1980s and 90s. The most recent is from 2004.

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Ian Hecht 🇨🇦 @ianhecht.com · 23/09/2026

Most Canadian experience: opening your garage door to leave for work and there's a moose on the driveway...

Photo of a city residential street with two houses and driveways visible. In front of one house's lawn, there isa moose, approximately six feet tall, walking with an extreme absence of chalance, down the right side of the street.

The moose is now moving at a slightly faster pace down the neighbourhood street, as if embarrassed to be caught out in the suburbs.

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Ian Hecht 🇨🇦 @ianhecht.com · 22/09/2026

I get this one and Dark Matter mixed up, since they came out around the same time. This is the bounty hunter one?

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Ian Hecht 🇨🇦 @ianhecht.com · 22/09/2026

It's because gas costs an arm and a leg

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Gail Simone @gailsimone.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

NEWS: I don’t like transphobes and here is a short list of why. 1) They are full of shit.

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Ian Hecht 🇨🇦 @ianhecht.com · 19/09/2026

Teachers who use ChatGPT to create assignments have no moral leg to stand on to complain about students using it to complete them.

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Ian Hecht 🇨🇦 @ianhecht.com · 18/09/2026

"Baby come back. You know I didn't mean it. It's just sometimes you make me so angry..." wapo.st/4iv7BWh 🎁

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Opinion | Canada’s great European misadventure

Donald Trump is for now. A Brussels bureaucrat is forever.

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Ian Hecht 🇨🇦 @ianhecht.com · 13/09/2026

"Suffering from" sudden wealth? Aw.. muffin... Read free: archive.ph/xm80s

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Thinking about how a girl at Christian summer camp asked me if my dad was in Al Qaeda and I got in trouble for asking if her dad was a Klansman bc “her question was understandable”

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

This is also a big reason why there's nothing worthwhile coming out of Silicon Valley anymore. Like 6 people have all the money and they're all morons who got rich stealing other people's ideas and now that they have to come up with something new the best they got was the plagiarism machine

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Ian Hecht 🇨🇦 @ianhecht.com · 07/09/2026

"Women aren’t resisting AI—they’re recognizing risks that many organizations have yet to address." "Women’s concerns should not be dismissed; they offer valuable insight into the risks AI can create without sufficient safeguards." Reasonable responses to AI. www.fastcompany.com/91584377/wom...

These biases stem from how AI works. LLMs do not generate new knowledge. Instead, they predict each word fragment based on enormous collections of preexisting text, prioritizing linguistic fluency. Because datasets often reflect historical and societal biases, AI can reproduce and amplify them. While an AI sentence may be well written and sound confident, it may be factually incorrect and perpetuate stereotypes.

Beyond bias, the risks of AI are not evenly distributed. Privacy is one example. Because generative AI systems can retain user inputs, it is often unclear what information is stored, how it may be used, or how to prevent one’s data from training the AI model. That uncertainty can make sharing sensitive information feel risky. These concerns are reflected in how women use AI. Survey research has found that women are significantly less interested than men in relying on generative AI for personal matters like finances, relationships, or health, suggesting they are more sensitive to entrusting AI to handle deeply personal information.

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Ian Hecht 🇨🇦 @ianhecht.com · 02/09/2026

When wealth is a virtue, poverty becomes a vice, which means it's a choice so we can blame those who are poor.

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Julie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Every back to school season, I remind parents to not post their children's photos online. The downsides of doing so now include the reality that all photos are scraped by AI. Lots of parents get mad at me every year, but maybe this new ruling will smarten them up!

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Judges rule AI child abuse images are protected in your own home

A federal appeals court ruled that privately possessing AI-generated child sexual abuse material is protected speech and urged Supreme Court review.

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Ian Hecht 🇨🇦 @ianhecht.com · 29/08/2026

Of course it's fucking Cockrill, fresh off his excellent tenure as education minister, which saw the first province-wide teacher strikes in Saskatchewan history.

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Ian Hecht 🇨🇦 @ianhecht.com · 28/08/2026

I was actually wondering if the new Circle Dr speed cameras were Flock ALPRs, so thanks for posting this.

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Niko Stratis @nikostratis.com · 25/08/2026

It’s fine, you can’t change the name of anything referenced in “Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald”, it’s a legal document

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Ian Hecht 🇨🇦 @ianhecht.com · 27/08/2026

How many of the news outlets breathlessly reporting on Trump's latest Sharpie-fumes-induced stupidity mention that the tariffs that Canada "unfairly" retaliated against were deemed illegal by his own high court?

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