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Radical Graffiti @radicalgraffiti.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

"Growth for the sake of Growth is the ideology of the cancer cell” Edward Abbey quote poster spotted in Carlton, Victoria

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Martin Sasseville @kvlt667.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Le Dôme...

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Martin Sasseville @kvlt667.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Intentions de votes à 21% et 6 circonscriptions projetées... VOUS AVIEZ JUSTE À FAIRE PASSER LE VOTE PROPORTIONNEL!!!

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Réflexion d'un vieux boomer @andrecotte.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Le Québec compte 11 360 entreprises d’économie sociale, qui génèrent à elles seules 53,6 milliards de dollars de revenus et emploient plus de 248 000 salariés. Malgré cette présence bien établie... il s’agit encore d’un modèle économique relativement méconnu du grand public. Le Devoir

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Adam Rose @adamrose.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Hahaha. Best thing on the internet today. Some adults still think they can trade away everyone else's rights in some pointless effort to keep kids off the internet. Not only will kids win in the long run, they'll humble adults in the funniest ways to do it. @npr.org out here catching strays. 😭😭😭

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Jean-Pierre Couture 🇺🇦🇵🇸🇻🇪🇬🇱🇨🇺 @jeanpierrecouture.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

L’humour fasciste, c’est de détourner la libération de « balance ton porc » par le « balance ton Claude ». Tout comme l’antiracisme de « touche pas à mon pote » avait été recyclé malicieusement en « touche pas à ma pute » et le « mon corps, mon choix » féministe en antivaxx complotiste. 🤮

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Alexandre Shields @alexandreshields.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Certains évoquent une «guerre à l'auto» au Québec. Rappel factuel: la croissance du parc automobile depuis 1990 au Québec est près de deux fois plus importante que la croissance démographique. www.ledevoir.com/actualites/e...

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Le Québec est trop dépendant de la voiture, selon le comité climatique qui conseille le gouvernement

Une réduction de l’auto solo serait bénéfique pour la santé publique et les finances des citoyens, croient les experts.

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Alain Lépine @alainlepine.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

"entre 1990 et 2023, le nombre de véhicules à usage personnel a grimpé de 53 %, soit une hausse presque 2X fois supérieure à la croissance de la population." C'est l'auto qui nous fait la guerre. 👉 Notre capacité d'accueil est dépassée. 👉 Il faut réduire le nombre d'auto qui passe à la frontière.

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 18/09/2026

I'll to come right out and say it: statistical extrapolation is *fine*. One of the most useful ways to understand the present and anticipate the future is measuring the things that happened in the past, find the correlations among them, and extrapolate likely future outcomes from those correlations.

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Jay Van Bavel, PhD @jayvanbavel.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Social media discourse is driven by false #polarization We find that: 1) ideologues post opinions more than moderates 2) extreme attitudes are posted more than moderate one 3) This replicates in 40 countries 4) Opinions that users post are more hostile than the beliefs they keep to themselves

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 11/09/2026

I'm excited to share this preprint by my wonderful MSc student Yihsin who's thought deeply about how psychological & neurocognitive theories relate to different types of evidence. Beyond Empirical Success: Evaluating Theoretical Virtue Across the Computational Modeling Chain doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

Beyond Empirical Success: Evaluating Theoretical Virtue Across the Computational Modeling Chain
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Chuang, Yihsin
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Computational models in psychology are typically judged by a single standard: empirical fit. Unfortunately, fit is insufficient, even misleading as a sole criterion, as the same result can arise from fundamentally different situations: theoretically faithful models, mathematically flexible ones, miscalibrated operationalizations, or implementations that compute something other than intended. Distinguishing between these is vital. Our evaluative metatheoretical account recognises that models stand in three distinct relations: a) toward the theory whose causal commitments it purports to capture, b) toward the specification and implementation it purports to compute, and c) toward the phenomenon it purports to explain. Each relation can succeed or fail independently, governed by criteria local to that stage. Importantly, relations are ordered such that theoretical content is transmitted or lost, and losses at earlier transitions are irrecoverable downstream. What a model's empirical success implicates about its theoretical commitments, therefore, depends on whether transitions are secured. Some success or failure profiles support explanatory claims; others only prediction; others establish theoretical coherence without empirical contact. Our account diagnoses what a given model shows, replacing the implicit assumption that empirical success transfers automatically to theoretical understanding with an explicit conditional rendition of what models can and cannot establish.

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🤘Chromate🤘 @chromate.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

ÇA j'appuis! #voivod

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🇨🇦 Stéphanie Desrochers 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇪🇺🇲🇽 @funkycrapet.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Tout le monde parle du 11 septembre 2001. Évènement très tragique. Mais peu parle du 11 septembre 1973 où un gouvernement de gauche élu démocratiquement a été renversé par une junte militaire soutenue par les États-Unis. 1/2

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Jean-Frédéric Martin ⚜️ 🇨🇦 @jeanfredmartin.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Pour une deuxième journée consécutive : #Godin @ledevoir.com

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🛸Actualité web roxanefutur @roxanenadeau.com · 06/09/2026

Que Trump débaptise le lac Ontario était peut-être la goutte de trop pour vous, et c’est le moment de couper les ponts avec Google. D’autres gens ont pris en grippe les géants américains du web depuis bien longtemps et ont déjà bâti leur radeau de secours.

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Sortir Google de sa vie, le guide des Canadiens qui boycottent les USA - Roxane Nadeau

Vous avez en grippe les géants américains du web? Naviguez avec moi dans le monde des solutions de rechange.

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Patrick Bourgeois @patbourge.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

"So, while Duhaime’s campaign rhetoric rings true for corporations, high-income earners, and childless individuals, Quebec's system of government transfers means lower-income families actually face some of the lightest net tax burdens on the continent."

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École ensemble @ecoleensemble.com · 03/09/2026

Caricature de Godin dans @ledevoir.com.

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Vero B 🇨🇦☮️ @mlleverob.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

J'adore. 🤎

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tbabb @tbabb.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

my car is throwing an engine trouble code, and I can just directly plug an intelligence into it and it will talk to the car computer and just figure it out the present is unbelievably cyberpunk

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

🤡🤡🤡🤡

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Patrick Déry @patrickdery.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

« Avançons » ?

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Fred Bourget @fredbourget.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

😅😂

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Martine St-Victor @martinemontreal.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Breaking news.

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Fred Bourget @fredbourget.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

😅😂

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Blue Oleta @blue-oleta.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

And you definitely don't want to use a high-powered 532nm green laser, because it can permanently burn and disable digital camera CMOS or CCD sensors. Green light is absorbed at a very high efficiency by these electronic sensors, meaning concentrated beams easily melt or overload the pixel array.

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Jeff est de retour @jfabel.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Étude auprès d’élèves de 12 à 18 ans : l’utilisation de l’IA augmente les notes des devoirs, mais fait baisser celles des examens.🧐 www.economist.com/graphic-deta...

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Michael Scott's Shocked Reaction

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Raphael van Lierop 🇨🇦 @raphlife.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

Techbros seem to love Tolkien, so here's an analogy to help you understand what genAI is. GenAI is The One Ring. You think your use is justified, b/c you don't have evil in your heart. But it came from evil, it is intended for evil purpose, & anything you do with it will be twisted to that end.

Boromir from THE LORD OF THE RINGS, holding The One Ring. He thought he could use it for good, but everything done with the ring turns to evil. He was one of the mightiest warriors of middle earth, and he could not resist its powers. Others even mightier fell to the ring. Do you think you are stronger than them? The One Ring is generative AI.

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Le Devoir @ledevoir.com · 21/08/2026

Le regard de notre caricaturiste Chloé sur l'actualité du jour 👉 bit.ly/4ild9Cr

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H.E. Cas Piancey @cascoinfoundation.org · 02/03/2026

My first editor forced every journalist to include *at least* three hyperlinks in any story and that taught me that 1. extraordinary proof is necessary for extraordinary claims 2. attribution for other writers and outlets is good and necessary 3. an intelligent audience appreciates references

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Earl K. Miller @earlkmiller.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Most neurons seem to be generalists, not specialists. Cortical circuits prioritize diversity over categorical structure. Rarely categorical, highly separable representations along the cortical hierarchy www.nature.com/articles/s41... #neuroscience www.newscientist.com/article/2581...

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Rarely categorical, highly separable representations along the cortical hierarchy - Nature

Cortical circuits prioritize diversity over categorical structure, supporting a computational regime geared towards high-dimensional, highly separable neural representations.

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Albin Wagener @albinwagener.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Coup de cœur pour Happy Valley, série policière britannique qui prend aux tripes, avec pour une fois une héroïne quinqua qui enquête avec ses tripes, sa vie esquintée et son caractère de cochon. Beaucoup de codes du genre réinventés ici : je recommande chaudement !

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Dans une petite ville du Yorkshire rongée par la drogue et l’alcoolisme, la policière Catherine Cawood voit son monde basculer lorsque le violeur de sa fille sort de prison. Série policière multirécom...

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Canadian Loyalist 🇨🇦 @shakespearesgal.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Yup … technology is not all it’s cracked up to be … #cdnpoli

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Dave @dletaquin.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Ceux qui avaient peur de la diarrhée explosive peuvent dormir tranquille, Taco Bell assure que consommer leur nourriture ne donnera qu’une diarrhée normale! #DiarrhéeNormale

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🫧 Laurent Potelle 🔻 🐝 @laurentpotelle.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

À la fin d'un dîner dans un grand restaurant, on apporta le Livre d'Or à Pierre Desproges qui y inscrivit : "Je m'est bien régalé" en signant Jean d'Ormesson... 🤭

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sjvn @sjvn.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

My first search engine.

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Matt Wallace @mattfnwallace.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Actually flawless.

A four panel comic strip by Twonks featuring a round headed figure demanding a pizza at a restaurant then proclaiming “wow look what I made” when the waiter brings him the pizza

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 08/07/2026

absolutely insane story, and yeah, just looking at this chart... with the exception of maybe two people, this entire class was cheating like motherfuckers