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Try it again now. I did push a new version that did have some big changes this week, so it's possible clearing your cache and re-signing in might help as well to be sure.

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James Harris @jbwharr.is · 3h

I’ll see what’s up. I had another site on my hosting get bot bombed, but they applied a bot challenge to all my domains. I’ll see if I can get them to remove it

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James Harris @jbwharr.is · 3h

There was that too 😂

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James Harris @jbwharr.is · 02/10/2026

TSN bought it, so odds are pretty low

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The Rundown @therundowntvo.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Are Toronto's bike lanes really empty? Charlie Buckley hit the streets to count cyclists, dug into city data, and compared the numbers with major cycling cities around the world.

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James Harris @jbwharr.is · 02/10/2026

Makes me think of how Microsoft skipped Windows v9 and went to 10 because they didn’t want to be behind OS X (10), only for Apple to start iterating 11, 12, 13, 14 & 15 after iterating v10 for 19 years.

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James Harris @jbwharr.is · 02/10/2026

But he’s a Canadian 😂

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James Harris @jbwharr.is · 02/10/2026

I so wish they were able to swing the Canadian charitable status, would be ideal

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James Harris @jbwharr.is · 30/09/2026

who want to listen to Rage Against The Machine, but don’t agree with the political lyrics. Or someone wanting Born In The USA to be a patriotic song instead of an indictment of America. It’s just embarrassing stuff. You get Kid Rock and Lee Westwood and you’ll like it.

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James Harris @jbwharr.is · 30/09/2026

I was speaking with an AI bro who had built this whole vibe coded music app. While it was technically interesting, his explanation left me floored. Basically said what if someone likes the sound of the music, but finds the lyrical content objectionable? All I could think was this was for Republicans

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James Harris @jbwharr.is · 30/09/2026

I could agree with that. I feel like this era was also around when I started exploring and listening to WOXY and my disdain for corporate radio started to build.

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James Harris @jbwharr.is · 29/09/2026

Honestly that’s a very solid chart with quite a few all-timers in the list. The Nu-Metal era was definitely in full swing. I find I always look at these charts through the lens of songs that still get play on corporate radio and there’s lots.

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James Harris @jbwharr.is · 28/09/2026

Feels like an eternity since I pushed a release, but it's finally rounding into shape the structural rethink.

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James Harris @jbwharr.is · 28/09/2026

That was so brutal. Though the optics between Marsden being old and dying versus a guy they fired last week ending his life are definitely worlds apart.

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James Harris @jbwharr.is · 28/09/2026

I don’t think there’s any way they could ignore it. It’s practically a marketing opportunity to get people to tune in.

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James Harris @jbwharr.is · 28/09/2026

You’re not alone on that one. I track my listening through lastfm pretty religiously and do most of my listening through radio. If it happens to be played on one of the mixed genre stations I listen to, that’s fine, but it’s been a year and I haven’t heard it in the 22k different tracks I’ve heard.

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James Harris @jbwharr.is · 28/09/2026

Damn, sad day for Toronto radio for sure

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 26/09/2026

This is another great, approachable explainer on “the rationalist wackos who have managed to take over much of the AI industry, and who now have tons of money and political power.” www.iankduncan.com/personal/202...

iankduncan.com

Sex, AI, and the Apocalypse - Ian Duncan

How a community devoted to thinking clearly incubated salvation stories, abusive experiments, race science, and an affection for autocracy, and why that history matters now that its alumni are asking ...

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James Harris @jbwharr.is · 27/09/2026

Good to know, added it to my list, literally

My list of restaurants to check out around Ontario. Just in case I’m ever in the neighbourhood and not aware of it

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James Harris @jbwharr.is · 27/09/2026

Never heard of that one before, definitely intrigued

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James Harris @jbwharr.is · 27/09/2026

Corporate Country is like that. It’s entirely possible to live your life without having it cross your path in any fashion.

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James Harris @jbwharr.is · 27/09/2026

This feels like demographic splintering, in the same way shows I’m familiar with, like Widow’s Bay and Pluribus, clean up at the Emmys, and some people are like “WTF, I’ve never even heard of these shows”. I watch AppleTV all the time, but do understand it’s a microniche of online streaming services

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James Harris @jbwharr.is · 27/09/2026

I listen to a lot of music, 27,654 different tracks in the last year. I’ve never heard this song. And looking at the lastfm stats, it’s not a tremendously popular song, though I’d say lastfm’s serve userbase doesn’t tend to skew Country.

42,498 scrobbles
12,384 artists
22,166 albums
27,654 individual tracks

Choosin’ Texas stats from last.fm. The scrobbles to listener in split is 3,329,113 to 365,234 which means each listener has averaged about 11 listens each

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James Harris @jbwharr.is · 26/09/2026

There’s even one just off the 401 at Hespeler Road

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James Harris @jbwharr.is · 26/09/2026

Yes, I like to refer to Cambridge as the Fast Eddie’s capital of Canada, since we have 3 locations 😂

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James Harris @jbwharr.is · 26/09/2026

The annual last weekend pilgrimage

Dairee Delite, the 🐐 of ice cream places

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James Harris @jbwharr.is · 24/09/2026

I only had to feel the pain periodically with a job where the office was Downtown, but the idea of putting up with it week or worse, daily, was totally untenable. But as we're seeing with the high speed rail between Montreal and Toronto there's always people putting blocks in place to stop progress.

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James Harris @jbwharr.is · 24/09/2026

Absolutely, but I live in Cambridge and it appears abundantly clear we’re a GO Train afterthought even within Waterloo Region. I’d accept these crumbs of making Downtown more accessible. As it is most people here drive to Aldershot to take the GO because the Kitchener line doesn’t work for us.

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Spudislander45 🇨🇦❤️🌎💪🫡 @spudislander45.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

#Canadian comedy #ThisHour tries to sell #DATACENTRES A SOUND #INVESTMENT … for the people that don’t live here. #cdnpoli #abpoli

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Solomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 24/09/2026

lol lol lol lol lol lol lol

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James Harris @jbwharr.is · 24/09/2026

Every person in Waterloo Region who’s ever went to a Jays game wants this

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James Harris @jbwharr.is · 23/09/2026

Did you check the top of your head?

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Justin Jest @justinjest.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

As we suspected:

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James Harris @jbwharr.is · 23/09/2026

It’s now in next months playlist 😁

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James Harris @jbwharr.is · 22/09/2026

The sleep wake for that particular Hackintosh is like 30 seconds to wake up because the only way it’ll work is using hibernate. It’s so nice being able to use the keyboard or mouse to wake from sleep again, and it’s back in like 3-5 seconds waking my attached monitor too.

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James Harris @jbwharr.is · 22/09/2026

I’m bad for watching these complex shows, then not stringing the episodes together, so best to try and get engaged, then tackle them in a shorter period of time. Can’t say I can binge these hour shows though, don’t gave that kind of time

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Phil @philmarfisi.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

"Unfortunately, the changes proposed Monday... allow the Carney government to do the same run around Canada’s environmental protections for species at risk, like the orcas, just without the public closely watching." Famously, nothing bad has befallen those who have crossed the orcas.

thestar.com

Althia Raj: Whatever good is in Mark Carney’s Building Canada Strong Act is poisoned by the toxic rest

The Mark Carney government frames this law as part of its “Canada Strong” plan — and frankly, some parts are good — but toxic with good is still bad.

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James Harris @jbwharr.is · 22/09/2026

And so far it seems like the whole setup puts less load on the CPU and the fans fire up less often. The Surface Laptop is a nice piece of hardware, just doesn’t have the benefit of being an ARM processor.

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James Harris @jbwharr.is · 22/09/2026

The irony to this is I’m finding Ubuntu actually works similar to what I want macOS to do, like having an App grid that’s similar to LaunchPad. And many of the things that worked a little janky on my Hackintosh, like sleep wake work butter smooth on Ubuntu. Just need to work on my dev setup now.

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James Harris @jbwharr.is · 22/09/2026

So I ended up with Ubuntu, which I’ve used years before. And honestly it’s pretty good so far. I felt like one of my big hurdles was I always hated the more Windows style key bindings, and I seem to have solved that so far reassigning the alt and ctrl keys. I was even able to get iCloud working.

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James Harris @jbwharr.is · 22/09/2026

I tried Solus first, but it didn’t feel right. Then I tried to install ElementaryOS and couldn’t even get it to install for some reason, it kept giving me issues about the EFI, so I gave up. I demoed PearOS, which was honestly kind of embarrassing. It tries to be macOS, but is so rough.

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James Harris @jbwharr.is · 22/09/2026

Have been giving Ubuntu an honest to goodness shot this week. I have a Surface Laptop 3 I bought awhile back and has been running macOS Tahoe on it. But Tahoe isn’t great and being stuck on it for awhile as Apple has left Intel software support behind, I thought I’d see what else was out there.

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James Harris @jbwharr.is · 22/09/2026

I’ve been saving up to binge Dark Matter S2. Sci-fi fans have been eating good this year on Apple TV.

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