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Ryan Robinson @ryanrobinson.ca · 20h

Meta violating privacy? No way! (Beyond the parts that they do openly admit to, I mean)

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Ryan Robinson @ryanrobinson.ca · 21h

This is the primary thing I liked about Gemini when I had a Pro trial free from buying my Pixel phone. It answered the question, succinctly, without tangents, and then stopped without trying to encourage me to ask a bunch of follow-up questions.

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Ryan Robinson @ryanrobinson.ca · 21h

Some of them clearly already do try to optimize for more usage, like how Copilot always insists on going on 8 tangents I didn't ask about, but at least it does usually answer the actual question somewhere in there.

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Ryan Robinson @ryanrobinson.ca · 21h

I absolutely think the frontier US cloud AI companies would already be trying to enshittify like this if it weren't for the challenge of open models giving users other choices.

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Tim Amor @timamor.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Having children feel safe & welcome as full participants as part of our churches on Sunday morning is more important than an adult’s preference for things that cater to them. We’re the adults. They’re the kids. Let’s stop throwing our selfish, self-serving tantrums.

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Ryan Robinson @ryanrobinson.ca · 22h

Many of the worst AI boosters have an unspoken assumption that the goal is more stuff for the sake of more stuff. But why? We'll never read or watch or listen to it. It's just in the way of the quality stuff.

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Perrsun @perrsun.bsky.social · 23h

Work IT just sent out an email saying “Stop clicking on web ads and pop ups” with info about fake download/error buttons, etc. I (not-IT) want to just tell them “You either deploy adblockers or you deploy malware” but will probably have to find a gentler way to do so.

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Ryan Robinson @ryanrobinson.ca · 22h

Solving Toronto traffic with flying cars once the Ford government has finished paving all the land to make more lanes?

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Mark Jones @markjonesmotion.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Fever fans gonna Fever…

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Doug Gordon @brooklynspoke.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

WNBA Finals broadcast schedule: Game 1: ABC/ESPN Game 2: USA/CNBC Game 3: Fubo/Ask a Neighbor If You Can Come Over Game 4: Radio only Game 5: Projected Onto the Underside of the Kosciuszko Bridge (Barge reservation req'd) Game 6: Buy an old Nintendo DS on eBay Game 7: Read About it the Day After

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Ryan Robinson @ryanrobinson.ca · 29/09/2026

I do really hope the candidate who proposed a 15km/h speed limit on the trail made a typo and meant 25 (otherwise she seems good).

Tri-Cities Transport Action Group @tritag.ca · 29/09/2026

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Announcing our Waterloo Region election questionnaire for 2026! We have had 84 candidates respond so far to our questionnaire on key issues around walking, biking, and transit:

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Waterloo Region Election 2026

Municipal candidate responses to our top transportation policy questions

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Lanrick Bennett @lanrickbennett.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

#IdeasAtWork When has car parking ever helped to reduce or eliminate congestion on roads? Wonderful explainer of maximum road capacity, with fancy colours overlaid on of most recent Critical Mass ride for context by Brian Tao h/t @thebikinglawyer.bsky.social @ffsafestreets.bsky.social #BikeTO

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Ryan Robinson @ryanrobinson.ca · 29/09/2026

FYI: the Pixel Watch has a theatre mode to stop the screen from turning on every time you reach for popcorn.

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The US oligarchs don't only control the US government; they have a massive influence over pretty much the entire world. Maybe we should try allowing some of our companies to compete with them instead of anti-circumvention laws, or at minimum move our governments away from giving them more power?

Not that Toronto is perfect when it comes to cars by any means, but I see pictures like this and am so thankful that all the Toronto teams either play right beside the big central train station or one train stop away on the most busy line.

Phil @philmarfisi.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

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The government of self-professed fiscal responsibility and congestion relief is setting millions of dollars on fire to tear up our provincial capital's busiest roads and make congestion far worse, all because of a manufactured culture war that a rounding error of residents care about.

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But these are for the manliest of manly men who want to spend 30% of their income looking tough instead of on their families. Scooters and bikes are just for women and the poors and the disabled, right? We barely count. (Not to do an "everything is gender" meme, but yeah, it kind of is)

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I mostly listen to podcasts rather than music, so the couple times a month I do put on music I usually just hit the Supermix button on YouTube Music and trust the all-spying Google algorithm to give me something good enough. That seems pretty biased to what I have already liked, ie not new stuff.

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Paul Fairie @paulisci.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Dewanna Bonner is my age and out here schooling all the Mystics youngsters, while I wore myself out cleaning the house for an hour. #WNBA

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Albertans with Canadian flags attached to their car in 2026 and Albertans with Canadian flags attached to their car in 2021 are completely non-overlapping groups.

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Before today I was hoping for Minnesota to win it all but thinking Vegas will. Then today Minnesota looked worse than I hoped and Vegas is looking better than I expected.

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Cameron 🇺🇸🗽🦅 @cameroncorduroy.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Las Vegas absolutely looks like they could win their fourth title in five years. #WNBA

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talking about water use policy is impossible because "AI data centers use a lot of water to cool the computers" sounds way more believable than "they're draining the Great Salt Lake so the Governor of Utah can sell alfalfa to Saudi Arabia" and yet

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Micah @rincewind.run · 27/09/2026

the reason the water thing annoys me so much is that there are real water issues that need to be solved and water issues at scale are "it's the agriculture, stupid" and the data center water freakouts convince people that those issues can be solved by data center moratoriums that is simply wrong

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Kind of wild that the player who gets on the ESPN graphic for the number one seed is a rookie, even though that same team also has last year's MVP runner up.

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#WNBA playoff time, let's go! After mostly watching a lot of Tempo losses for the past couple months, this will be a refreshing change.

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What the death part adds is that a lot of people talk themselves into keeping clutter just in case their kids want it, and most of the time, no they don't, just get rid of it and make your life and their time after your life easier.

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I listened to a book on it and came away thinking the "your kids won't want this after you're dead" part was mostly a mental motivation trick to make your life less cluttered in ways that you probably should anyway. For me "I don't want to have to move this to a new house" is just as effective.

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one trillion liters of water is less than the dairy and beef industry uses in one day

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ebikes-international @ebikesinternatl.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Another Huge Turnout of Cyclists for Critical Mass Ride in Toronto in Support of Bike Lanes #safecycling #saferroads tinyurl.com/4akerdcd

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