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Peter Milley 🇨🇦

@petermilley.bsky.social
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Canadian, ex-mathematician, vaguely burnt-out software developer. Proudly not American. He/Him.

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Joshua Keep @jekeep.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
People who expect me to be calm, measured and understanding about their "nuanced" AI take are insufferable. They stole my life's work with the express purpose of ruining my career and leaving me destitute. Fuck you.
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Peter Milley 🇨🇦 @petermilley.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Naomi Klein must be so exasperated at the state of Canada right now. "The Shock Doctrine" is nearly 20 years old and yet, *waves hands at everything*
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Peter Milley 🇨🇦 @petermilley.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
In a just world, someone would answer for how LLM's have ruined customer service even more than it had already been ruined.
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Trapdinawrpool @trapdinawrpool.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
There’s No Good Reason for Carney to Privatize Canada’s Airports The plan would worsen labour conditions and make flying more expensive. thetyee.ca/Opinion/2026...
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There’s No Good Reason for Carney to Privatize Canada’s Airports | The Tyee
The plan would worsen labour conditions and make flying more expensive.
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Peter Milley 🇨🇦 @petermilley.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I read this again and again and I can't help but wonder why Canada and the EU expressing a desire for autonomy and self-determination is so *shocking*. What did you *expect*?
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James Harbeck @sesquiotic.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Just had the thought that effective altruism and evolutionary psychology are functionally chronological mirrors, in that each confects fantasies over states across the passage of time to justify whatever thing the person wants to be true in the present, just with opposite arrows of causality.
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Peter Milley 🇨🇦 @petermilley.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Lots of people in the world have Main Character Syndrome, it's a pretty human foible, but by god is it endemic in the US. And not just Trump supporters, either.
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Peter Milley 🇨🇦 @petermilley.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Americans stop taking it as a personal insult when other countries seek partnerships with countries besides the USA challenge, difficult level: impossible
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Peter Milley 🇨🇦 @petermilley.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
One of the great things about growing up is that you can just...make a cake. Just make it and then eat cake. Or pie. (But today, cake.)
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Peter Milley 🇨🇦 @petermilley.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Ed Sheeran's tour is moving forward with the professionalism and competence you'd expect.
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christoaivalis.bsky.social @christoaivalis.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
My NEW article for @canadiandimension.bsky.social, where I explore Carney's looming airport privatization disaster: canadiandimension.com/articles/vie...
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Carney’s airport privatization is a looming disaster: ‘Highway 407 of the skies’
Mark Carney took another giant step in his right-wing crusade Tuesday, announcing a plan to effectively privatize four of Canada’s largest airports. The deal risks becoming “Highway 407 of the skies”:...
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Blayne Haggart @bhaggart.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Pretty much every Carney policy has come from left field, justified not by careful study or enacting long-discussed plans, but by his assertion that he’s the Smartest Man in the Room and if we don’t do exactly what he says right now, the Americans will get us.
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Blayne Haggart @bhaggart.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
There are any number of reasons to question each of Carney’s policies. But it might help to go to the root of the problem: Mark Carney is pre-empting an actual discussion of what kind of Canada Canadians want to build. This is not how our liberal democracy is supposed to work.
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David Forbes @davidforbes.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Let's talk about an excuse I'm seeing, that politicians are just using transphobic rhetoric to temporarily win conservatives and will revert to more pro-trans positions in office. So we should vote for them anyway. I've investigated governments for over 20 years. That ain't ever how it works.🧵...
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Adrian Harewood @caradrianh.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
1. In late Sept. 2002 just a year after the Al-Qaeda led Sept. 11th attacks on the US & in the midst of the so called War on Terror that followed #9/11, #MaherArar, a Syrian-born-McGill University-educated engineer, was on his way home to Canada following a family trip to Tunisia.
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Paul Tobin @paultobin.bsky.social · 07/11/2023
My favorite Wolverine is @danschkade.bsky.social's Wolverine.
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Dr. Tanya Lentz, R.Psych. @pednpsy.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
John A. MacDonald was the first Prime Minister of Canada. In that role, he took bribes from business men for the railroad, executed Louis Riel, imposed the Chinese head tax which limited the ability for Chinese people to immigrate to Canada after they completed work on the railroad, and
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Morgan Johnson @poormojo.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
This ridiculous song has been in my head all day
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Sean Kelly @storyslug.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
If that candidate had gone up on stage and said the n-word you'd call for him to step down immediately, you wouldn't be lecturing Black people to suck it up and vote for the "lesser of too evils." The difference is which bigotry you find acceptable.
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Peter Milley 🇨🇦 @petermilley.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
So 🍊, predictably, is having a tantrum and threatening an EO to rename Lake Ontario. The depressing part, for me, is that if he does Google (my former employer) will meekly cave and slap the name Trump wants on the map even for non-US users. I need to de-Googlify myself a lot more.
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Carolyn 🇨🇦 @carolynp.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Meme from Lord of the Rings. Gimli: never thought I’d die fighting side by side with Doug Ford. Legolas: I’m gonna rip out all the bike lanes. Gimli: Christ alive you’re the worst.
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Christopher Bird @mightygodking.com · 24/08/2026
i swear to Christ if external events once again conspire to save Doug Ford's political career by letting him earn cred for doing the most basic shit I will lose my mind
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Peter Milley 🇨🇦 @petermilley.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Happy 212th anniversary of the burning of the White House in the war of 1812 to all who celebrate.
An image of Tom Freeman's painting "Days of Destruction" showing the burning of the White House by British Troops on August 24, 1814. Flames and thick smoke pour out of the colonial house in front of a dark sky as British troops march past in the foreground.
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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Standardizing English spellings (catalog vs catalogue edition): 🇺🇸 fog 🇬🇧 fogue 🇺🇸 frog 🇬🇧 frogue 🇺🇸 hedgehog 🇬🇧 hedgehogue 🇺🇸 morg 🇬🇧 morgue 🇺🇸 tong 🇬🇧 tongue 🇺🇸 vog 🇬🇧 vogue 🇺🇸 fug 🇬🇧 fugue 🇺🇸 rog 🇬🇧 rogue 🇺🇸 vag 🇬🇧 vague
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 15/08/2026
That's why I generally vote for the furthest left candidate on my ballot - because I'm looking for the person who's gonna throw the least number of people under the bus. And that's why I yell at whoever represents me whenever they throw anyone under the bus. No one goes under the fucking bus.
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 15/08/2026
The older I get, the more clear it is that all our safety and well-being is intertwined. The same forces pushing racism are targeting trans people and immiserating the disabled and extracting everything they can from all of us. We gotta stand up for everyone because everyone is all of us.
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Peter Milley 🇨🇦 @petermilley.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
"Hi, it's Doug Ford...do you support our plan to bring more jobs across Ontario?" *deeeeeep inhale*
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Peter Milley 🇨🇦 @petermilley.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
A very polite Google recruiter just asked me over email if I wanted to apply to a Google Cloud position at my old office (at one level higher then I was when I left, no less) and while that's gratifying I admit surprise; I would have thought a recruiter would have read my LinkedIn posts.
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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
I've decided to compile a definitive thread of photos of the best sheep I've photographed during my walks in the countryside, together with supporting biographical information. I will put the vital story associated with each sheep in the alt text, since some of it is a little long to fit in a post.
A nihilistic sheep, who, like so many other sheep, just wants to watch the world burn, staring at me insouciantly, moments after it has set fire to a large portion of the United Kingdom.
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Ben Schwarz @benschwarz.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Australia’s eSafety commissioner buried a report (released Friday afternoon) that shows the under 16 social media ban didn’t tangibly reduce teen social media use, and also resulted in parents tuning out of kids usage. We traded our privacy for no reason. theconversation.com/more-than-80...
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More than 80% of kids still using social media despite ban, new eSafety report finds
The report provides more evidence Australia’s world-leading social media ban isn’t going to plan.
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Peter Milley 🇨🇦 @petermilley.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Metrolinx: their service is meh and their expansion is glacial, and OH YEAH they dumped diesel fuel in Lake Simcoe.
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軽laura @keilaura.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
if an elite lobbying effort can convince you that you have to ban trans people from sports to survive in politics you straightforwardly do not have it in you to pass electoral reform, or stand up to the fossil fuel lobby, or do any of the difficult things that have to be done
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Peter Milley 🇨🇦 @petermilley.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Today's utterly random thought: there are three works of fiction where my suspension of disbelief has been utterly derailed by what amounts to a math error.
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Daniel Fedor @dcfedor.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Blue Bottle Games, as a policy, does not use generative AI. It's something we've discussed as a team, weighing the pros and cons, and ultimately, we decided it was not for us. Recently, while chatting with a colleague, she mentioned it was useful hearing our reasoning. So: Sharing time! 1/12
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James Davis Nicoll @jdnicoll.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Every summer, the university of Waterloo puts the top five floors of Dana Porter Arts Library into storage, as there is insufficient demand to justify a ten story building. The edifice is on casters, and is rotated 90 degrees once per term to spread out sunlight damage to the books.
Dana Porter Arts Library, all ten floors: a big white sugar cube.Dana Porter Arts Library, in summer mode.
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Com-👻Boo!👻-ter Crimes 🦇☠️💾✨️ @esquiring.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Apollo, Gift of Prophesy dodgeball meme

Jorts the Cat for Some Reason is the target
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Shepherd @neolithicsheep.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
But the thing is that a feeling of control over your life is highly correlated with happiness. A feeling of not being able to control your life is highly correlated with being depressed and unhappy. So yes, of course people seek ways to feel in control of their lives.
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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
So many people still think fertile farmland can simply up stakes and move north, displacing the miles and miles of peat bogs that dominate the north and will never grow anything except forests and forest fires
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Peter Milley 🇨🇦 @petermilley.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
The sky here has been goddamned orange all day and my Prime Minister is cheerfully posting about the "lasting benefits" of more oil.
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Blayne Haggart @bhaggart.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
“One risk of releasing the details now if they offer little benefit to the United States in terms of profit sharing is that it could prompt Mr. Trump to demand more.” This is a remarkable statement, with profound implications that aren’t even hinted at in this story.
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Ottawa makes no promise to release text of new Gordie Howe bridge deal
Canada will share toll profits with the U.S. for the next decade and a half, according to the agreement
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Andrew Lewis FC @andrewlewisfc.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
A 186 AQI in Toronto is normal. The smoke stinging your eyes & making you wheeze 2000km from wildfires is normal. It's always been this way. Every summer since you were a child was like this. As you were. Let's get those pipelines up and running @mark-carney.bsky.social & @juliedabrusin.bsky.social
Air quality index in Toronto of 186 rated as "unhealthy".
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Connie @captainconstance.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Who wore it better?
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Michelle Cohen @docmcohen.medsky.social · 07/07/2026
Canadian politics in a nutshell: imitating an unhinged American war criminal while dressed like a fancy bag of milk.
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Clare Blackwood @clareblackwood.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Couldn't sleep last night because it was too hot outside so instead I ruminated on the 63 billion dollars we've allocated for defence spending www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
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Carney says Trudeau-era climate plan was 'too expensive' and 'divisive' | CBC News
Prime Minister Mark Carney echoed critics of the previous Liberal government's climate plan in a video posted on Tuesday, saying the plan he inherited was too expensive and divisive.
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Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
If bluejays were rare, people would pay tens of thousands of dollars to go on safaris to see them.
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T. Ryan Gregory 🇨🇦 @tryangregory.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Two must-read, humourous, but painfully on point takes on AI. 1) www.halifaxexaminer.ca/morning-file...
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Mark Carney's new plan: Hot Dogs for All - Halifax Examiner
The hot dog industry encourages people to eat hot dogs raw. The government announces it is now approving raw hot dogs as a way to cut down on red tape.
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Peter Milley 🇨🇦 @petermilley.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
@ericlippert.com I suspect this will tickle your fancy if it hasn't already.
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Putri Prihatini @putriprihatini.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Singaporean artist Leia Ham reimagined LotR as Tale of the Middle Kingdom, since Chinese name for China (Zhōngguó) means "The Middle Kingdom." Her concept art includes the Fellowship, armors, buildings like Bag End, props like Aragorn's banner and Fellowship brooches, and more. #TolkienTrewsday
An illustration of the Fellowship, reimagined with Chinese-style period outfits.An illustration of armors of Gondor, Rohan, and Rivendell Elves, reimagined using different periods of Chinese armors as concepts. On the top right are three side profiles of Rohan man, Gondorian, and Elf with different Chinese hairstyles. On the bottom right is Aragorn's banner redrawn with Chinese influence.A concept art of Bag End reimagined as Chinese court houses, with tall stone gates, round wooden doors, curved roofs, and open courtyard, nestled in a hill.A concept art of Rivendell in the style of Chinese painting. Next to it are several props drawn in Chinese style such as Fellowship brooch based on gingko leaves, lembas in the shape of mooncake, Elfstone as round jade, Galadriel's phial in a green jade bottle, and shards of Narsil.
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Seonaid Lee @seonaid-lee.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Risk factors: We are bad at business, our governance structure is patently evil, and our technologies are almost all fictional. Also, we're planning to steal your 401K. www.youtube.com/watch?v=uyyV...
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SpaceX IPO: What They're Not Telling Retail Investors
YouTube video by UNFTR Media
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