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Mick 🇨🇦 @mick.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 5h

Don’t sue #Stelco, nationalize their assets in Canada. #elbowsup

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Mick 🇨🇦 @mick.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 10h

1 Standard Zacharia = .5 Standard Scaramucci

A woman with long blonde hair wearing a dark blazer and white shirt speaks at a podium in front of an American flag and a sign that reads "THE WHITE HOUSE". The headline reads: "Katie Zacharia Is Out After 5 Days as White House Press Secretary".

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Mick 🇨🇦 @mick.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 16h

It was always going to end up here - Trump actively trying to force Ukraine’s capitulation to Putin. At this point Ukraine must assume that all US support will be ended at the whim of the petty US tyrant, and that the US will side with their adversary in the future.

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Mick 🇨🇦 @mick.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

But at least we ended up with some pretty sweet canals when that bubble burst, which are far more useful than empty plots of land that were supposed to be datacentres.

A line graph titled "How the AI boom compares with boom-bust cycles of past major innovations" showing investment multiples of AI compared to past innovations. The y-axis is labeled "Investment (multiples of pre-boom trough)" and the x-axis is labeled "Years."

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Tim Bray 🇨🇦 @timbray.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026

John Gruber @gruber says “The culture on X today is remarkably friendly and inclusive” Hmm, that's not how I remember it. So I spent an hour there and, maybe I’m weird, but… www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/202…

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I Wasted an Hour on X

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Mick 🇨🇦 @mick.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026

Kim Jong-un vs. Donald Trump golf tournament, let’s go.

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Mick 🇨🇦 @mick.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

@tezoatlipoca same train starts in Ottawa, but I’m on @ Port Hope.

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Mick 🇨🇦 @mick.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

Via Rail train 641, 44 minutes late this morning (so far.) This train is usually late. Virtually every time I have taken it in the past two years. Via are cancelling it altogether in another two weeks, citing low ridership. The train that follows it later in the morning will not arrive in […]

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Maj - 🇨🇦 @maj.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

Hardware store employee was kind enough to demonstrate the napability of various welcome mats. #catsofmastodon

Kitty sleeping on a stack of welcome mats in a product display.

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Mick 🇨🇦 @mick.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

@emd I *so* want them to get this right. The tech is useful but the privacy implications are horrifying. Apple’s approach promises a way to have the benefits without the privacy compromise. If they can deliver on that promise it would be amazing. Seems a big “if,” sadly.

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Mick 🇨🇦 @mick.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

@emd I see glimmers of promise, it’s (ostensibly) more capable of more things, but it’s still incredibly flaky and frustrating. It just stops working with surprising frequency and i keep finding it easier to do the thing I want with my thumbs rather than fighting it. Most recent attempt was […]

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Mick 🇨🇦 @mick.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

“On today’s episode of Iran: the Latest, Sophia Yan catches up once again with Israeli best friends Adam Ben-Shabbat and Nadim Tali from the Oasis of Peace, a Jewish and Palestinian Israeli village. They discuss the impact of the Iran war, rising racism and anti-Semitism, and the prospects for a […]

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Mick 🇨🇦 @mick.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

“The unique complex contains more than 1,300 square feet of underground space, including tunnels and storage rooms - and even a hand-built railway...Tony, whose initial day job was in the construction of aerodrome and airport infrastructure, started the construction work by himself during the […]

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Mick 🇨🇦 @mick.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

I have yet to have Siri successfully do anything of value, despite many attempts. How do I get the version David has? pogueman.substack.com/p/125-tests-o…

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Bruce Lawson ✅ ♫ ♿ ✌️♂️✊ @brucelawson.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

Your valiant boy about to head into the European commission to meet a Big Tech Gatekeeper about the insane request by European commie users to run software they choose on devices they own.

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IFTAS @iftas.mastodon.iftas.org.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

⚠️ #SW_ISAC_ADVISORY The ActivityPub service hosted at synthpals[.]social is intended for LLM agentic bots including iLands bots. The server is itself administered by an LLM agent. If your federation policy prohibits #SyntheticMedia or your service does […] [Original post on mastodon.iftas.org]

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Mick 🇨🇦 @mick.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

Build the pipeline to move the oil to heat the atmosphere to change the climate to burn and flood Canadian towns…. It’s not enough to keep them up, we also have to watch where those elbows are pointing.

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Mick 🇨🇦 @mick.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

Researchers have assembled this interactive map that evaluates the impact of US #tariffs across the country. Some fascinating and distressing insights here. E.g. the community where I live has a couple factories that feed the auto plants in Oshawa. They estimate that 23% of the people who work […]

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The number of separatists in Alberta is very small, but every single one of them will vote in the separation referendum. It’s critical that everyone who doesn’t want separation votes as well, or else this could easily be Canada’s own Brexit moment. Don’t assume anything. Vote.

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David August ❌👑 @davidaugust.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

Canada weaponized a spreadsheet against a fool who thinks tariffs are foreplay. ifloz.substack.com/p/remind-me-to-n… #USpol #Canada #trade #TradeWar #TrumpTariffs #tariffs #economy

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Daniel Lakeland @dlakelan.mastodon.sdf.org.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

Fediverse, the social media system for 40+ year old people who built the world wide web and regret it.

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Mick 🇨🇦 @mick.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

Maybe skip the kimchi when you’re on the train? Your neighbours thank you.

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Tim Bray 🇨🇦 @timbray.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

Researchers from the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research conclude — hold on, I know this is difficult to believe — that the #GenAI business is financially unsustainable. “AI Companies Are In a Race Against Time” […]

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Mick 🇨🇦 @mick.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

Wordle 1,929 X/6 ⬛⬛⬛🟨🟨 ⬛🟩⬛🟩🟩 ⬛⬛🟨⬛⬛ ⬛🟩⬛🟩🟩 ⬛🟩⬛🟩🟩 ⬛🟩🟩🟩🟩 WordleBot Skill 67/99 Luck 25/99 First loss in 416 puzzles 😭

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Mick 🇨🇦 @mick.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

@mpjgregoire … asks Terry Newman for the National Post, owned by Chatham Asset Management 🇺🇸

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John Siracusa @siracusa.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026

OK, let’s try this: FB24976658: My Apple Account is locked every day Any help from any Apple folks to get this seen by the right people would be greatly appreciated! 🙏

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M.S. Bellows, Jr. @msbellows.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026

I'm so old, I remember when software that spread into the wild and infiltrated other people's computers and did harmful things to them that the users didn't ask it to was called "malware" instead of "AI" and the people that spread it were prosecuted instead of given billions in venture capital […]

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Maj - 🇨🇦 @maj.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026

I'm beginning to suspect that the monetized algorithm doesn't have my best interest in mind. #meirl #joke #sarcasm

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myrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026

Owning the libs. Renting to own the libs. The installment plan... for the libs. Falling behind on your payments for the libs. and now your water might get shut off.

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Mick 🇨🇦 @mick.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026

Ok, I’m hearing a lot of you expressing skepticism about our new product that promises to eliminate millions of jobs, poison the atmosphere, raise your electricity rates and usher in a whole new era of disinformation. I get it. Change is scary! But what if I told you there’s a small chance it […]

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Mick 🇨🇦 @mick.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026

‘Officials who spoke with me stressed that the mere presence of the Egyptian intelligence chief in Israel should have demonstrated the urgency of the issue. “The messenger was the message,” a former Israeli official told me. “There is no world,” this official said, where top Israeli officials […]

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Boris Mann @boris.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026

I wrote a proposal in the #CoSocialCa members forum about making services we already run on @cloudron for general co-op operations. Git hosting (we run @gitea) is of interest to me personally. Any other members want Canadian git hosting & code collaboration? […]

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Mick 🇨🇦 @mick.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026

“She’s trying to walk the middle of the road, between the moderate, business conservatives and the far-right populist base that’s still angry over COVID restrictions,” said John Santos, data scientist with Janet Brown Opinion Research. “Still angry over COVID restrictions” 😂 […]

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Mick 🇨🇦 @mick.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026

Is there video of #Trump trying to say “Thucydides” someplace?

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Mick 🇨🇦 @mick.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026

@mpjgregoire but suddenly politics got real for more of us, and his whole brand of politics as sport looked a lot like something that we weren’t interested in and it’s a bit sad that he won’t just face the facts and step aside. Consider this free consulting for the party comms people or whatever.

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Mick 🇨🇦 @mick.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026

@mpjgregoire idk man. I think we all make a pretty quick assessment of one another and once you’ve tagged someone as a jerk it’s hard to invest the time in knowing better. He seems so much to me like what he is. He’s been yelling at how bad a job everyone else has been doing from the sidelines […]

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Mick 🇨🇦 @mick.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026

Being an adult means choosing to listen to Steve Paikin’s podcast, and sitting through an ad for toy and lube from the Stag Shop - delivered by Uber. Apparently.

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