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Mauro Meden

@mauromeden.ca
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Software developer, educator, political activist.

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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I regret to inform you that if you genuinely believe Mark “Zionist Palestine” Carney deserves the Nobel peace prize, you have molasses for brains ❤️
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
with all respect: i'm losing touch with what AI does because i have no interest in it and it's not my business. nobody worries about me losing touch with developments in particle physics or artificial bull insemination. it's not my fault the richest guys on earth want me to make their toy my life
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skdatacentrewatch.bsky.social @skdatacentrewatch.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
In #SK Scott Moe is bankrupting us to revitalize COAL production and allowing a new gas power plant (to be built adjacent to Regina, a migratory bird sanctuary, post secondary campuses, and a golf course) for a data centre. And he is pushing a nuclear future while actively suppressing renewables.
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Baldur Bjarnason @baldurbjarnason.com · 02/10/2026
I don’t begrudge anybody using—even enthusiastically—LLMs for coding. They’ve become mandatory in many workplaces. But if you’re promoting or normalising generative models then you’re allied with religious extremists, fascists, and grifters and you’ve already picked a side opposing the rest of us
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The Verge @theverge.com · 02/10/2026
Thanks to AI, the customer really isn’t always right. www.theverge.com/report/10029...
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AI hallucinations are making entitled customers even worse
Thanks to AI, the customer really isn’t always right.
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jon christian @jonchristian.net · 30/09/2026
NEW: People who chug their own piss have emerged as MAJOR supporters of AI futurism.com/artificial-i...
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People Who Drink Their Own Pee Are Obsessed With AI, Using It to Reassure Themselves That It's a Miraculous Cure-All
Urine therapy devotees are sharing ways to break past AI guardrails in order to brainstorm ways to use pee as medicine.
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Mauro Meden @mauromeden.ca · 29/09/2026
It isn't any less cowardly to destroy the testimony of residential schools survivors, nor to trump First Nations rights in general, @mark-carney.bsky.social www.cbc.ca/news/indigen...
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NDP @ndp.ca · 25/09/2026
BREAKING: Liberal MP Sean Casey was demoted for supporting NDP MP Jenny Kwan’s bill to close a loophole in Canada’s arms sales regime that allows weapons to be shipped via the US to Israel, a country that is still committing genocide against the Palestinian people. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
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Liberal MP says he was demoted for supporting NDP bill targeting arms export controls | CBC News
Charlottetown MP Sean Casey says he was removed from his position as parliamentary secretary to the minister of veterans affairs because he voted against the government and supported an NDP private me...
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Heather McPherson MP @heathermcpherson.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
It's clear as day - Bill C-39 undermines the fundamental right of workers to strike. This doublespeak from the Liberals does not change that. @canadianlabour.bsky.social @unifor.org @uswmetallos.bsky.social @teamsters.bsky.social @psac-afpc.bsky.social @cupescfp.bsky.social @pipsc-ipfpc.bsky.social
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Angella MacEwen @angella.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Solidarity with health care workers in Saskatchewan, who voted overwhelmingly in favour of a strike: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Health-care workers vote 99% in favour of job action in 'largest strike vote' in Saskatchewan's history | CBC News
Health-care workers represented by CUPE Local 5430 have voted 99 per cent in favour of job action, a move the union is calling the "largest strike vote" in Saskatchewan's history. Members of the Canad...
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BDS movement @bdsmovement.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
🚨Global call to action 20 - 29 Nov 🚨 As we approach the 3rd anniversary of Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza and the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People on 29 November, the Palestinian labor movement has issued an urgent call to workers and unions worldwide. loom.ly/_W6s6Xg
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Palestinian Unions: Global Call for Worker Action Against Genocide this November
Summary: The Palestinian labor movement reiterates its solidarity with workers across the world resisting all forms of oppression and calls for global action to end complicity in Israel's ongoing geno...
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Kerri Hoven (she/her) 🇨🇦 @kerrihoven.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
“Saddle Lake Cree First Nation has launched a GoFundMe fundraiser dedicated to the legal, governance and implementation work necessary to advance and defend Saddle Lake Cree Nation's Treaty health.” Here’s the GoFundMe link: gofund.me/c3a900a11
Scan the QR code to donate to Dr. James Makokis's fundraiser:

"Saddle Lake Cree Nation Treaty Health Legal Defense Fund"
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Mauro Meden @mauromeden.ca · 06/09/2026
I wonder how many other developers feel like this. I definitely do.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 28/08/2026
Wab Kinew reacts to Donald Trump renaming Lake Ontario: "You know when a rock band is really over the hill and you see them in a casino playing some song from like 50 years ago? I think that's the part of Donald Trump's presidency we're at now."
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Sasha Fury @sashafury.myatproto.social · 28/08/2026
It’s so tedious, this rah rah coming from Americans who don’t have a hot clue about Carney’s attacks on research, science, the arts, and so much more. If these Americans would stop talking about countries they don’t understand, they might realize Carney has more in common with Trump than not.
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Mauro Meden @mauromeden.ca · 26/08/2026
@proton.me "Error: servers are unreachable" for almost 30 minutes now on Proton Mail multiple devices, different connections). Am I the only one? The status page says everything is fine.
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Mauro Meden @mauromeden.ca · 26/08/2026
This is great for them. The only thing that could make it better would be if the companies building data centers would have to ensure an excess of renewable energy generation to put into the grid for free.
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Avi Lewis @avilewis.ca · 22/08/2026
1/5 The Prime Minister was right to walk away from the negotiating table last night. I believe Canadians are united in this crucial moment, on this crucial point: no deal is better than a bad deal.
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Mauro Meden @mauromeden.ca · 21/08/2026
It almost looks like we should do something about our relations with Israel 🤔
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Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · 19/08/2026
Looks like the Canadian political and financial class decided to play "let's make a deal," and elbow-up is just empty rhetoric. We will know in about three days who got thrown under the bus to save the auto industry. bsky.app/profile/soci...
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T. Ryan Gregory 🇨🇦 @tryangregory.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
AI drinks your water and eats your brain. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/10/u...
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A.I. Agents Are Taking Entire Online Courses for Cheating Students
As colleges and students embrace virtual classes, the ease of A.I. cheating is raising questions about the value of an online degree.
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Tech Policy Press @techpolicypress.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Sanctions from OFAC and the EU, FBI deployments, ASEAN declarations — and still the scam compounds move deeper into Myanmar and adopt AI tools, writes Laura Scherling. A 2026 OHCHR report finds them "still in place," more entrenched than ever.
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Amid Crackdown, Few Signs of a Slowdown in Scam Compounds
As crackdowns mount, scam compounds are moving deeper into Myanmar and adopting AI tools to target victims at scale, reporting shows.
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Dale Smith @journodale.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
For the Saturday crowd, my @xtramagazine.com column: Mark Carney is set to fold on trade. What's next? #canqueer #cdnpoli
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Mark Carney is set to fold on trade. What’s next? | Xtra Magazine
If the prime minister is willing to cave on this issue, it seems reasonable to expect there will be others down the line
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My IRL friends call me Chris @christyceeck.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
“You don’t withdraw from the global commons and then say you want to build a middle-power alliance.” A South African can see Carney more clearly here than most Canadians. #CdnPoli
OTTAWA — South Africa’s envoy to Ottawa says Canada’s decision to remove most of its peacekeepers from the continent doesn’t align with the Carney government’s pledge to get middle powers working together.

“I am saddened by the fact that the budget cuts (are) appearing to be a kind of withdrawal of Canada’s commitment towards peace in Africa,” High Commissioner Rieaz Shaik told The Canadian Press.

“You don’t withdraw from the global commons and then say you want to build a middle-power alliance.”
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Matthew Behrens @matthewbehrens.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Please sign & share. Canada has abandoned Canadian Muslim men, women and children to arbitrary detention for years, even though their captors have repeatedly asked Canada to repatriate them (as have the US State Dept., United Nations, and leading human rights groups). www.change.org/p/canada-mus...
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Steve Portigal @steveportigal.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
What Can I Do about the Climate Emergency? (A LOT! HERE’S HOW!) Everybody’s practical guide to what they can do against climate chaos and for a just and thriving natural and human world by Rebecca Solnit
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Nick Tsergas @nicktsergas.ca · 07/08/2026
Again and again, people have been asking for a national map. So we made one. Other maps exist, yes. But they're either out of date or woefully overinclusive. I don't need to see every hospital's tiny datacentre. stopthedatacentre.ca/map
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Datacentre proposals map · Stop the Datacentre
Interactive map of active datacentre proposals and local campaigns across Canada.
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Matthew Behrens @matthewbehrens.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Shooting into tents w/ arbitrarily detained women and children huddling inside is a sick criminal act. It is long past time that Canada repatriate remaining Canadian children, grant permits to their mothers, and bring home illegally detained Canadians from Iraq. www.middleeasteye.net/news/they-al...
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'They almost killed my child': Women in Syria's Roj camp describe night of gunfire and fear
Women detained in northeast Syria's Roj camp say bullets tore through tents housing children during a confrontation with Kurdish-led security forces
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jessamyn @librarian.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful
An aircraft passenger oxygen mask: a drop down passenger mask with air bag and yellow plastic mouth and nose cover, oxygen tube has been cut; Demonstration model used by flight attendant crew for passenger instruction. Has text on the side indicating that it's non-functional.
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T. Ryan Gregory 🇨🇦 @tryangregory.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Complicit rationalizer logic: Trump is gutting science, trashing the environment, enriching techbros, making deals with human rights abusers, and scapegoating immigrants because Trump is bad. Carney, by contrast, is doing all those things because Trump is bad.
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Canada's National Observer @nationalobserver.com · 30/07/2026
Wealthsimple has strict regulations around how its prediction app can work. But experts say it’s already playing coy with the rules allowing it to operate.
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Wealthsimple teases banned prediction markets as app launched
Wealthsimple's new prediction markets app shows Canadian users popular markets, such as who will win the 2028 US presidential election, even if the company can't let users bet on them due to Canadian ...
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 22/07/2026
If you really want an "AI strategy" for your country, it should be this: wait for the bubble to burst, then buy hardware and talent at fire-sale prices in the wave of ensuing bankruptcies, and use them to extract more performance from free, open source models. 50/
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Nick Tsergas @nicktsergas.ca · 23/07/2026
The datacentre debate is spreading across Canada. Are you a city councillor wondering what you can do to protect your community. Or maybe a very cool person who wants to stop one or more datacentres?
Image promoting webinar discussing Hamilton, Ontario’s datacentre pushback,  the story and tactics.

July 27 at 7pm. Info in thread.
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Mauro Meden @mauromeden.ca · 20/07/2026
Keep Hope Alive: a Gaza Giving Circle chuffed.org/project/hope...
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Keep Hope Alive: a Gaza Giving Circle
We are a team of volunteers in the US and UK, led by two sisters passionate about helping our friends on the ground keep their families and neighbors alive with food, water, & shelter. We saw that the...
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
I was always gonna boycott the Harry Potter TV series but I would urge anyone on the fence to stop engaging with the franchise as long as JKR is using her proceeds to fund her continued attacks on trans people and allies. Reheated nostalgia slop just isn’t worth it.
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Trapdinawrpool @trapdinawrpool.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
A gross dereliction of duty:Canada sent no-one to make its case against U.S. tariffs. So I went instead. What I saw sickened me archive.ph/C4oQ1
Compare that with the room. Mexico sent its Economy Minister to appear in person and argue that there was no legal basis for the action, and that Mexico should be excluded. Peru’s minister argued that the United States had not carried out the individualized analysis the statute requires. Those governments treated a tariff proceeding against their workers as a fight over law and jurisdiction. Canada treated it as a form to fill out, and left half the form blank. Canadians like to say we go into a fight with our elbows up. Canada sent no person into that room, and no elbows.

The people who pay for Canada’s absence were not in the room either. They are the autoworker whose plant went quiet, the steelworker whose shift was cut, the millwright in a town where the mill was the town, and then it wasn’t. Some of them have already lost the jobs this proceeding is about. They dismantled nothing, and they broke no rule. They are simply told, after the fact, what was decided about their livelihoods in a room their own country chose not to enter. They deserved someone there to defend their rights. They had an empty chair.
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Avi Lewis @avilewis.ca · 08/07/2026
PM Carney is once again supporting U.S. violence and impunity. Canada can’t control Trump’s chaos. But we can take a clear stand for lives, livelihoods, international law and global stability. New Democrats say: stop the war. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
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Carney backs latest U.S. strikes on Iran as Trump slams NATO allies | CBC News
Prime Minister Mark Carney endorsed the latest U.S. strikes on Iran as a justified response to ceasefire violations, even as President Donald Trump declared the truce finished and accused NATO allies ...
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Jen the Feisty Librarian @feistywaters.com · 08/07/2026
We need to resist this shit SO HARD. Fuck this guy and this data centre. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Meta building its first Canadian data centre northeast of Edmonton | CBC News
Meta was revealed Wednesday as the proponent of a data centre in Sturgeon County, northeast of Edmonton.
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PSAC-AFPC @psac-afpc.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
The Bank of Canada broke the law. The labour board just said so. 👇 Scabs = illegal during our strike. The Bank has 48 hours to stop using them. The fight isn’t over. We’ll keep fighting until workers get a fair deal. Learn more: psacunion.ca/major-win-ba...
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Climate Justice Victoria @climatejusticeyyj.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Prior to being elected prime minister, Carney dubbed climate change “an existential threat.” This week, he... greased the skids for a suite of LNG projects and a new million barrel-per-day oil pipeline to the West Coast. @chrishatch.bsky.social mailchi.mp/nationalobse... #bcpoli #cdnpoli
Screen shot of article with title "Carney's case for more carbon" and an image of Carney on youtube with the caption I want to be clear on this point. The changes we have made will meant that our emissions will
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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Powerlessnessmaxxing: watching the country careen toward unfettered oil and gas production as the country burns and drowns simultaneously, while people scream “yeah well he’s better than Poilievre” in your ear
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Julie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
It's +46C today in Ottawa because our governments sold this country to the oil and gas industry! Even though O&G represents only 5% of our GDP! Happy Canada Day! 🇨🇦
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Ian @ianagp.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
I hope everyone finds someone who looks at them like Mark Carney looks at pipelines.
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Beep Settler @bpsettler.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
My parents now have to spend their final years in tropical heat without air conditioning in a place where it never went above 25C until 2012. The poor, disabled, and elderly will suffer the consequences of billionaire sociopaths and their puppets like Carney. And ecosystems will suffer more.
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dyke macdonald @gaychel.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
I hope these fuckers lose in court so I can update my god damn ram without paying 600 bucks for it. kotaku.com/class-action...
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RAM Giants Accused Of Creating Artificial Scarcity In New Lawsuit
Samsung, SK Hynix, and Micron Technology are being sued by seventeen plaintiffs in the California Northern District Court, who allege that the three tech manufacturers are colluding to artificially in...
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Sean Tucker @seantucker.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Two weeks ago, minister @marcmillermp.bsky.social stated in the HoC “it is not the place of the minister … to dictate museum policy and what is curated and what is not.” Today, he abandoned his principles and called for changes to the @CMHR_News Nakba exhibit. Unbelievable.
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Mél Hogan / The Data Fix @melhogan.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
So you’re getting a data centre! Here’s what to know www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...
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So you’re getting a data centre! Here’s what to know | CCPA
Questions to ask your representatives when the next new data centre project comes to your town
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