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niche Calgary skeet: whoever designed the parkade at the Foothills hospital clearly hated everyone and everything with the force of a thousand dying suns.

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andy s 🇨🇦 @nsnw.ca · 30/09/2026

yeah, like both of these things can be true at once, and not only that they can absolutely both influence each other.

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andy s 🇨🇦 @nsnw.ca · 30/09/2026

I mean a good chunk of us here can't stand them either, which only makes it more annoying in some ways. fwiw I'm in no way a proponent of oil and gas, but it's complicated™. I just wish we could have proper conversations about it but that's not gonna happen with the current dipshits in charge.

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ACARS Drama @acarsdrama.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Air to Ground Message: UNDERSTOOD YOU LOST MY LUGGAGE. PLS ADVISE HOW I RECOVER IT Area: Somerville, NJ, USA Type: Boeing 777-300ER A: #a8e4ec80dc9 F: #f28ebf952bf

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andy s 🇨🇦 @nsnw.ca · 30/09/2026

you take that back right now.

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andy s 🇨🇦 @nsnw.ca · 29/09/2026

I'll be honest: I don't like Avi Lewis. I'm fairly sure I agree with him on policy about 90% of the time, but he rubs me the wrong way. It's also fairly clear he doesn't like Alberta, which doesn't help. none of this will stop me voting NDP but my point is that none of this surprises me.

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andy s 🇨🇦 @nsnw.ca · 29/09/2026

that's cool and all but have you considered that everyone is different? I have ADHD and there are absolutely things it helps me with. there's also the same productivity traps you get with anything else, but to me figuring that out and making them work for me _is_ enriching.

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andy s 🇨🇦 @nsnw.ca · 29/09/2026

I have ADHD, some of these tools help me a ton, people like this can suck it.

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Was interviewed by a US journalist today who asked if we were all panicking about terrorists at Fairford, which ended with me trying to explain dogging.

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andy s 🇨🇦 @nsnw.ca · 29/09/2026

as someone also in Alberta who will still vote NDP anyway, he comes across as someone who just doesn't like Alberta. and maybe he doesn't, and that's fine, but I don't think the federal NDP should be surprised as a result.

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andy s 🇨🇦 @nsnw.ca · 29/09/2026

a lot of this is "my life sucks and so yours should too". I'm not sure if it's better or worse that most of the time the people doing it don't realise that that's what they're doing.

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andy s 🇨🇦 @nsnw.ca · 29/09/2026

just let us have this one Mark!

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andy s 🇨🇦 @nsnw.ca · 29/09/2026

somewhat related, I didn't notice the name change at first and was like "oh, someone else who uses 'yes' at the end of their username like... ohhhhhhh". hi Natalie!

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andy s 🇨🇦 @nsnw.ca · 29/09/2026

Doug Ford has the opportunity to do the funniest thing right now.

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andy s 🇨🇦 @nsnw.ca · 29/09/2026

Amazon: can you return it me: no Amazon: why me:

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andy s 🇨🇦 @nsnw.ca · 29/09/2026

hilariously the Amazon packaging is not damaged, so this was fucked before it even left Amazon.

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andy s 🇨🇦 @nsnw.ca · 29/09/2026

spoiler alert: it is fucked.

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andy s 🇨🇦 @nsnw.ca · 29/09/2026

sometimes you get a package and you know it's going to be fucked before you even open it.

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andy s 🇨🇦 @nsnw.ca · 26/09/2026

Danielle Smith polling lower than the separatist figureheads is *chef's kiss*.

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👻 Jack Djinn Wail 🧞 @jacktindale.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Good Evening. “Pierre Poilievre” was a four year psephological experiment conducted by the Department of Political Science at the University of Calgary. We are now complete with our study. Thank you for your time.

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andy s 🇨🇦 @nsnw.ca · 26/09/2026

"oh so THAT'S why it was taller than the fence".

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Bruce Arthur @brucearthur.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Be right back, buying drones and fireworks that will spell out F U C K O F F across the night sky

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andy s 🇨🇦 @nsnw.ca · 25/09/2026

I can't remember the official definition but I'm sure it's got something to do with sustained breeding populations. (something something the only rats we have are in the provincial legislature etc etc)

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andy s 🇨🇦 @nsnw.ca · 25/09/2026

I feel like I spend more time than I should have to explaining that it's possible to think the tech is cool but that the people involved all suck shit.

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andy s 🇨🇦 @nsnw.ca · 25/09/2026

as a 25 year veteran of the tech industry, I can wholeheartedly say it only has itself to blame.

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andy s 🇨🇦 @nsnw.ca · 25/09/2026

s/Meta/Chase but the point still stands.

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andy s 🇨🇦 @nsnw.ca · 25/09/2026

good lord what the fuck. were Meta's lawyers on drugs when they okayed this?

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 24/09/2026

I genuinely feel bad for Eliezer Yudkowsky and his partner over the very real terror they seem to feel about AI killing us all - but these are not well people and they need therapy, not insanely influential advisory roles at the top of government and industry. time.com/6266923/ai-e...

On March 16, my partner sent me this email. (She later gave me permission to excerpt it here.)
"Nina lost a tooth! In the usual way that children do, not out of carelessness! Seeing GPT4 blow away those standardized tests on the same day that Nina hit a childhood milestone brought an emotional surge that swept me off my feet for a minute. It's all going too fast. I worry that sharing this will heighten your own grief, but I'd rather be known to you than for each of us to suffer aloneỊạ
When the insider conversation is about the grief of seeing your daughter lose her first tooth, and thinking she's not going to get a chance to grow up, I believe we are past the point of playing political chess about a six-month moratorium.

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andy s 🇨🇦 @nsnw.ca · 24/09/2026

anyway this is all rambling bullshit I wrote while on lunch. as I said before I'm happy to be corrected or to have my mind changed on things.

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andy s 🇨🇦 @nsnw.ca · 24/09/2026

the cynic in me though can see that if your opinion is that AI sucks, this is great example to point at and go "see, it's evil!". that's fine, and I'd happily watch Sam Altman get fired into the sun too, but I think people should be honest about it because there's unintended side effects.

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andy s 🇨🇦 @nsnw.ca · 24/09/2026

now maybe your response to both these points is "sucks to be OpenAI, I don't care" and again I don't think I necessarily disagree. they're a company and they get to deal with the pros and cons of providing a service so the burden is on them.

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andy s 🇨🇦 @nsnw.ca · 24/09/2026

an AI company is going to use AI to do things at scale, so going down this path inevitably means someone is going to get a knock on their door because their local PD has been informed that it sounds like they're trying to build a nuke in their shed.

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andy s 🇨🇦 @nsnw.ca · 24/09/2026

I'm not sure I'm comfortable with the idea of authorities being contacted based on conversations with a chatbot. if something has been escalated to human review and the reviewer determines that's warranted, then that's the right thing to do and isn't new. the problem though is at scale.

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andy s 🇨🇦 @nsnw.ca · 24/09/2026

people writing fucked-up fantasies isn't new. I have no idea how you systematically determine what crosses the line between "okay, that's a bit much" and "time to call 911" but needless to say there's a long history there. which leads me into my second point...

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andy s 🇨🇦 @nsnw.ca · 24/09/2026

OpenAI banned them once so clearly they know they have some responsibility here, although reading the article it's kinda nuts they didn't ban them again. however...

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andy s 🇨🇦 @nsnw.ca · 24/09/2026

honestly, having a passing knowledge of how LLMs work I know it's genuinely difficult to prevent 'jailbreaking' like the killer basically did by framing things as fictional or hypothetical. you might think that's not a good reason to not do more to prevent it, and I don't disagree really.

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andy s 🇨🇦 @nsnw.ca · 24/09/2026

would they have done this without ChatGPT? probably. were they more 'successful' in what they did because of ChatGPT? quite possibly. could they have used a search engine instead? almost certainly.

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andy s 🇨🇦 @nsnw.ca · 24/09/2026

I have a lot of thoughts about this, OpenAI's part in it and the response to it. I am an idiot with opinions so I'm quite happy to have my mind changed on some of them. full disclosure: I would describe my views on AI as somewhere in the centre but I have no love for OpenAI et al.

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andy s 🇨🇦 @nsnw.ca · 24/09/2026

100%. the thing for me though is that the information itself is freely available, so it's more about the fact that ChatGPT made it more accessible.

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andy s 🇨🇦 @nsnw.ca · 24/09/2026

my hot take is that this is "video games make kids violent" but leftishly. I'm also not sure we want to go down the road of the authorities being notified if you type something that a computer thinks is sus.

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