iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Ottawa is so geographically huge I can't imagine that people using their rec facilities from outside can be that much of a problem.

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Martin Z @pxtl.ca · 10h

Horrifying. A Hanlon's Razor ouroboros.

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Martin Z @pxtl.ca · 10h

I mean 8 years ago it would've been a bit weird but mostly fine, but now? "Oh I've awoken to a cyberpunk dystopia. Rad."

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Martin Z @pxtl.ca · 11h

Still not low enough.

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Martin Z @pxtl.ca · 11h

I keep pretending it's people who cross the border for work or other commitments. Like I'm not blaming somebody for going to visit their sister or for driving a transport truck.

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Martin Z @pxtl.ca · 11h

The rest of the world has two kinds of people: 1) People who would be sent to a concentration camp if they visited the USA. 2) People who live in US-allied countries that the mad king loves to constantly threaten. ... and realistically a good number are both.

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Martin Z @pxtl.ca · 12h

I was talking to my son who's a huge TCG buff and he was joking about how there was this famously awful NFL Uno-based TCG but because fans NFL are so fixated it was popular. It occurred to me a proper NFL TCG with cards for players & plays & teams & yardage scores would be a license to print money.

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Martin Z @pxtl.ca · 21h

I like their Harvest Rye okay but I'm mostly sad that when they make a nice upper-middle shelf product like Blender's Select or Blender's Mash, those are always limited time. Either way haven't bought CR since the factory-closing scandal.

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Martin Z @pxtl.ca · 21h

So what's the enforcement? I assume the people negatively impacted by abuse of Strong Mayor powers have to sue to get the mayor's action overturned. So they'd need judge (or housing tribunal?) to say that the mayor's decision didn't align with the prov and was therefore illegal?

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Martin Z @pxtl.ca · 30/09/2026

Not just "sold as" but wasn't it literally part of the law that they could only use the powers to align with provincial priorities? Using it to fight against housing is supposedly illegal. But as we've all spent the last few years learning: laws are fake if they're not enforced.

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Martin Z @pxtl.ca · 30/09/2026

Not their regular "fine de luxe" product, right? Please? I love my country but not *that* much.

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Martin Z @pxtl.ca · 30/09/2026

Such irresponsible parenting

"urban babies wear black" children's book.

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Martin Z @pxtl.ca · 30/09/2026

Known in the biblical sense

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Martin Z @pxtl.ca · 30/09/2026

Sorta... I turn 45 in a few weeks and this is Hawkeye:

1980s purple and blue Hawkeye sitting at an office desk with his feet up.

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Martin Z @pxtl.ca · 30/09/2026

Wait what's going on with the wheels there?

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Martin Z @pxtl.ca · 30/09/2026

It was basically the backbone of British aristocracy during the peak of the Empire. An endless parade of boys abusing each other in the f***ing system to train them up to abuse the entire global South.

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Martin Z @pxtl.ca · 29/09/2026

Affordable housing is good! But expecting it to be made by developers in exchange for the right to build market-rate housing is bananas when we don't have enough market-rate housing *either*. Just fund it! Tax the rich landed gentry and fund building affordable housing.

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feeb @magicmooshka.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

it’s come to my attention that my tumblr post has been crossposted to bluesky, so I’m posting it on my account here #AntiAI #GenAI

recently my friend's comics professor told her that it's acceptable to use gen AI for script-writing but not for art, since a machine can't generate meaningful artistic work. meanwhile, my sister's screenwriting professor said that they can use gen AI for concept art and visualization, but that it won't be able to generate a script that's any good. and at my job, it seems like each department says that AI can be useful in every field except the one that they know best.

It's only ever the jobs we're unfamiliar with that we assume can be replaced with automation. The more attuned we are with certain processes, crafts, and occupations, the more we realize that gen AI will never be able to provide a suitable replacement. The case for its existence relies on our ignorance of the work and skill required to do everything we don't.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 29/09/2026

Jonathan McKinsey, a transgender New Times executive who was head of engineering at NYT games, was murdered by his in laws over the weekend. This follows years of allegations that the in laws were abusive to him over his gender identity. edition.cnn.com/2026/09/28/u...

edition.cnn.com

New York Times executive killed by his elderly in-laws, police say | CNN

A couple in their late 70s gunned down their son-in-law in a California city park over the weekend, authorities said, and court documents showed the victim had been in a bitter custody dispute with th...

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Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

How it started/how it’s going

Trevor Lee
@VoteTrevorLee
Thanks @nickshirleyy for hoodie.
We're cleaning up the fraud in Utah

BREAKING: Utah state Rep. Trevor Lee has been charged with mortgage and communications fraud ksl.com/article/
516296... #utpol @KSLcom @KSL5TV

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Martin Z @pxtl.ca · 29/09/2026

Same except I think it's been since around 2011 or so.

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Martin Z @pxtl.ca · 29/09/2026

I'm gonna disagree on "suicide" being the description, since the folks making the decisions and the folks dying aren't the same people.

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Martin Z @pxtl.ca · 29/09/2026

Just listening to ep 28 and "walking into Lake America with rock-filled pockets" got me busting out laughing in the middle of the night.

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Martin Z @pxtl.ca · 29/09/2026

Either way I switched to building a docker container to imprison it and let it go wild in its pen.

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Martin Z @pxtl.ca · 29/09/2026

My experience with gh-copilot is that agents will gish gallop you with permission requests until you cave and let them go yolo mode.

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Martin Z @pxtl.ca · 29/09/2026

Well now Palestine looks like Hiroshima in 1946, so that kinda rhymes.

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Avi Lewis @avilewis.ca · 28/09/2026

It's outrageous that an American company is laying off hundreds of steelworkers, breaking their promise even after being offered financial support from the federal government to weather the tariffs. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

cbc.ca

Hamilton steel plant to lay off hundreds of workers as U.S. tariffs prompt 'survival' move | CBC News

Steelmaker Stelco Holdings says it's idling some production at its Hamilton plant in response to U.S. tariffs.

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Martin Z @pxtl.ca · 29/09/2026

Just dump them both in a glass with some rum and milk and sugar and call it art nog.

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gamera obscura @ohrobin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Google earth has updated its satellite images of Gaza. The destruction is almost incomprehensible.

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Vote Loomis | Keanin Loomis for Mayor @voteloomis.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Statement from Keanin Loomis on the Stelco layoffs. #HamOnt

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Martin Z @pxtl.ca · 29/09/2026

Laws are for poor people and Democrats

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Martin Z @pxtl.ca · 28/09/2026

The MongoDB CEO is going to lead an AI strategy team at Meta. Mongo is the textbook success of "Zero friction and slick marketing beats good engineering discipline". From a technical standpoint? Very different. From a marketing standpoint when selling AI to software-dev clients? Same space.

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Martin Z @pxtl.ca · 28/09/2026

Honestly as a winter cyclist in #HamOnt, it's the ice and snow that get me off the bike. The cold just means I'm not bundled up enough.

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a moron in a hurry @w0hq.org · 27/09/2026

The Grammy for Best Record is officially called “Best Record Aside From Dragula”

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Martin Z @pxtl.ca · 27/09/2026

Except the study showed that coconut oil fat didn't produce the same outcomes. But I don't know what I don't know about every other fat. I wish we could get a holistic look at all this data. The loot-crawl equipment sheet of "this one is +1 inflammation, that one is +1 weird hormone effects".

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Martin Z @pxtl.ca · 27/09/2026

There have actually been some studies showing that specifically soybean oil plays merry hell with your hypothalamus but nobody can have a normal conversation about that because it falls under the umbrella of the MAHA freaks' culture wars.

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Jane Ball (living dead girl) @jane.inurhead.lol · 27/09/2026

well of course, the weird lesbians feuding in a rural massachusetts town is of far greater national significance than a group of men at one of the ivy league schools drugging and raping a woman and the school reducing the punishments for most of the men

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Martin Z @pxtl.ca · 27/09/2026

Oh yay my ssd is reporting 0 bytes I long for the sweet release that only death can bring

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Martin Z @pxtl.ca · 26/09/2026

Yubikeys and the like. Give me an NFC ring to wear to sign things. Then it carries between devices but the private data never has to leave meatspace like it would if it lived in a phone or PC as you move it between devices.

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Martin Z @pxtl.ca · 26/09/2026

That's not practical. What would be practical is it's signed with a human ID of some kind, so there's a reputation: "this person's ID is a frequent known slop poster". There is no shortcut for credibility, so all we can do is make people put their names behind their content.

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Martin Z @pxtl.ca · 26/09/2026

That doesn't make sense because it isn't a good criteria. Couldn't you realise there've gotta be a lot of contractions that your rule might've applied to?

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