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Michael Wheeler @michaelcwheeler.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The people on charge of AI are so obviously myopic, smart in one specific way that allowed them to maximize shareholder value, while also having extremely limited broad intelligence, that they are clearly not acting in the public interest. Maybe AI is cool? Hard to know with this crew in charge.

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Michael Wheeler @michaelcwheeler.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The reason I'm excited about Kawhi has nothing to do with nostalgia and everything to do with watching the first half of West Coast games last year after kids go to bed. He's stll very, very good. Different now, less athletic, but a better shooter (and Steph level FTs). Mama here comes that cyborg.

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Michael Wheeler @michaelcwheeler.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Sascha Cole as Artistic Producer with Kevin Matthew Wong maybe Factory's not done yet ppl.

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Michael Wheeler @michaelcwheeler.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Being right about Apple scrapping its launch of airpods with cameras in them has me ready to make a new prediction: 3 times this week i have heard the assertion "agentic AI will be a trillion dollar consumer industry by 2030". Absolute nonsense. The tech is incredibly unpopular with consumers.

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Michael Wheeler @michaelcwheeler.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I'm so old I remember when Chris Alexander was a thoughtful and well-respected diplomat. Now he's the guy who promoted a racist government snitch line as Minister and ran for mayor on *checks notes* raising TTC fares.

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Michael Wheeler @michaelcwheeler.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Cool news but also keep it on the DL until after the Alberta referendum. Thx so much.

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Michael Wheeler @michaelcwheeler.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

This is a very theatre professor thing to tweet, but looking back at what David Mamet had to offer theatre, Practical Aesthetics completely overshadows every text but one, and even that one is not aging well.

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Rodney 🚧🚇 @chanface.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Ford wants to make it unsafe for this family to bike.

Parents and children biking at bloor and Brunswick

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Michael Wheeler @michaelcwheeler.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I don't love how this is shaking out for Canada. Dems want the midterms to be about Canada because it is a clear cost-of-living argument in Red states they need to flip. Trumpists want the same because they like the macho we can kick the cat around vibes after Iran the fiasco. Stakes is high.

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Trump posts map with American flag emblazoned over Canada, Greenland, Mexico

President Trump posted a map with an American flag covering most of North America, as well as Iceland and islands in the Caribbean, on Monday morning, a post that follows his previous pushes to tak…

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Michael Wheeler @michaelcwheeler.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Grabbing a couple of hours in the evening where I don't have kids to get some work done and Outlook is putting AI generated prompts into where I find emails prompting me to "wrap up my day" and when you click it is a bunch of nonsense about summarizing things i don't need summarized. Thx guys.

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Michael Wheeler @michaelcwheeler.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

From the Hamilton sub I wonder what the spending limit for a by-election is? Libs dropped 10K on FB to claim only they could win before coming a distant 3rd. www.reddit.com/r/Hamilton/c...

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Michael Wheeler @michaelcwheeler.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

While it is not becoming to celebrate the misfortune of others... Before Raps won it all in 2019 the Clippers were really pushing the envelope sending execs to EVERY GAME he played trying to illegally recruit him as a Raptor. Unsurprising they went along with Uncle Dennis. Anyhow, 10 1st Rd Picks!

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Michael Wheeler @michaelcwheeler.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

kinda chic to move back to a place where the government is obsessively working to make life less safe for me and my family.

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John Michael McGrath @jm-mcgrath.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

"we should rename Mar-a-Lago something funny, make Google display that" My brother in Christ, the Ontario legislature can declare Google's workers in Ontario to be unionized and assign their collective labour rights to whichever union will be most militant, think bigger

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Michael Wheeler @michaelcwheeler.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

If nothing else, all of this has justified my longtime interest in US politics. Our politics is your politics, we just don't get to vote.

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Michael Wheeler @michaelcwheeler.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

You can't afford to take VIA unless it's for work - but you can't use it to get to work because you have no idea when you will get there. There is no use case for rail travel in this country.

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Michael Wheeler @michaelcwheeler.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

This is succinct, and sums up why as a Canadian i'm consuming news hourly all of a sudden. Did i even watch the TV news once when we negotiated CUSMA? No. Did I watch it the last 4 days? Yes. Tariffs are a cypher for will we become a client state of a country run be the actual worst people.

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Michael Wheeler @michaelcwheeler.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

I'm sure Ford thinks this is an appropriate move for his 'tell it like it is' brand, but he has a responsibility to the people of Ontario to act at a higher standard in a crisis. This is not a hash dealer running for student council.

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Michael Wheeler @michaelcwheeler.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Jamil Jivani is opening up an interesting discussion about what constitutes treason in Canada. We have the VP of an adversary country promoting his interference in negotiations our PM has characterized as an "attack" and he is a sitting Opposition MP saying this: nationalpost.com/news/canada/...

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Jivani calls Carney's dollar-for-dollar tariff response an 'overreaction' that will 'accelerate conflict'

Conservative MP Jamil Jivani says that Prime Mark Carney is erring in trying to "accelerate conflict" with the U.S., following the collapse

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Michael Wheeler @michaelcwheeler.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Carney told reporters 3 major changes the US position late were: 1 Still big tariffs on trucks. 2 Limit other trade deals. 3 Reduced protections for culture and identity. I can't imagine any scenario Mark Carney agrees to number 2, and so that leads me to wonder if it was a deliberate poison pill.

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James Andrew Smith @drsmith.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Canadian universities, colleges and public school boards need to find non-American software suppliers. We need alternatives to Meta, Google and Amazon.

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Michael Wheeler @michaelcwheeler.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Because we're only a few hours from understanding the US Canada trade deal, my personal opinion on what is important is that the auto industry is doomedeither way and fossil fuels will ruin the planet, while digital sovereignty will continue to grow in importance over time.

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Michael Wheeler @michaelcwheeler.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Today I took my kids to the pool in Ottawa and the municipal government charged me $28.50. Last week I took my kids to the pool in Toronto and the municipal government charged me $0.

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Michael Wheeler @michaelcwheeler.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Honestly, this guy is such a jerk, so willing to leverage and boost our worst impulses to gain power, that I would like the hazing ritual to last 2 years minimum. The political culture would benefit if he leaves a broken politician. A cautionary tale. www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...

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Opinion: The humiliation of Pierre Poilievre continues

After losing yet another MP from his caucus, the Conservative Leader is looking awfully weak

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Michael Wheeler @michaelcwheeler.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Just here to make this prediction: The new AirPods with cameras in them will be cancelled before they become comerically available. Meta didn't do enough to avoid the 'glasshole' problem with their glasses and secret cameras are not kewl. Apple doesn't need how toxic this is for brands right now.

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Michael Wheeler @michaelcwheeler.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

IMO Kevin Matthew Wong 4 Factory is a pretty good choice. Tough gig, but whereas before I was sceptical, now I am intrigued bordering on hopeful.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Poll results vs. how poll results are presented in the Wall Street Journal.

Zohran with a 69% approval to 24% approval, highest favorably for a New York Mayor since LaGuardia announced the free candy and handjobs for all program.

WSJ: Mamdani’s Honeymoon With New York is Over

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Michael Wheeler @michaelcwheeler.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Part of this makes me mad for obv reasons, but also Brad Brad is getting smoked so bad AGAIN and i see positive downstream effects because this is a policy position to take if you're a loser who loses over and over. www.thestar.com/news/gta/bra...

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Brad Bradford pledges to rip up Bloor Street bike lanes, build up ravine trails if elected mayor

The mayoral candidate conceded that in 2023 he voted to build the lanes he’s now pledging to remove.

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Michael Wheeler @michaelcwheeler.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

One of the things im really guarding myself against with AI, is using it to summarize documents i should read to understand fully, and yet I do not feel this impulse when i consider Zuck's opus on why we need AI and particular his AI. www.meta.com/thefutureisf...

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The Future is for Everyone

Read Mark Zuckerberg’s piece on our values for building superintelligence for everyone.

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Michael Wheeler @michaelcwheeler.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Hmmmmmm a lot of people are dunking on this, but we know what is true has been taking a whooping lately. He may be making a smarter bet about whether or not facts such as this matter politically.

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Michael Wheeler @michaelcwheeler.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

An unavoidable feature of life this summer is spending part of every work day in a Starbucks- not an activity in the regular flow of my days. As a theatre prof, who had many service jobs in his past, I'm getting pretty distracted by the performance of positivity required of employees.

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Michael Wheeler @michaelcwheeler.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Wow Brad Brad has 10X the amount of support from last time he ran and this is 8x the support Alexander got in the Conservative Leadership race. #topoli

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Michael Wheeler @michaelcwheeler.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

If you consider that the political forces south of the border often manifest a few years later up here, it's a good time to be Avi Lewis methodically building up organizing capacity.

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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 27/07/2026

The Hugging Face incident was “both notable and alarming,” EFF’s @evacide.bsky.social told @sfexaminer.bsky.social, “not because ‘ooh, the model’s so powerful,’ but because it demonstrates a colossal failure on the part of OpenAI to secure the sandbox in which it was testing its model.”

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OpenAI hacking incident highlights AI cyberrisks

Experts take company to task for safety efforts

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weeder @weeder.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Nobody ever explained to me what a passkey is or how they work. Websites just started asking me for passkeys like it's something we talked about.

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Sassy0210 @sassy0210.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Right. And studies have technically not ruled out the possibility that stepping on a crack will break your mother's back. 🙄

Screenshot of a tweet claiming the CDC website says vaccines may cause autism, showing a highlighted section with false information about vaccine safety and autism.

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Michael Wheeler @michaelcwheeler.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

I'm starting to write grants more colloquially under the theory the text is more accurately identified as organic, which will separate a lot of wheat from chaff.

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Michael Wheeler @michaelcwheeler.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

I don't want to do this again. Miller became Mayor as a darkhorse because politicians couldn't realize how unpopular this stupid idea is, and now Carney has had to backtrack and drop it after it became a major issue for his TO MPs. Wrecking the waterfront sux. Stop propsing it.

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Michael Wheeler @michaelcwheeler.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Bah. This is a tough time to be Canada. He's very obviously losing in Iran, losing on inflation, and losing in the polls. He's looking around for a way to demonstrate he has power.

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Queen of Jeans @queenofjeans.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

they announced that we got LeBron over the PA speakers at the Acme lmao

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Michael Wheeler @michaelcwheeler.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

If Lebron and Embid are playoff healthy, gonna be hard to stop, but I dunno if that's going to happen. Nick Nurse is a proven load managemnet coach though, so they have a shot.

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