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Andy Schan

@schan.ca
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Proud Canadian, father, husband, foster of dog, ex-Microsoft dude, in no particular order. All posts contain words, or your money back.

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ianthemouthofmadness.fenrisgames @fenrisgames.com · 06/10/2026
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some sort of ring-type doorbell but with a claymore mine apparently wired into it.
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#TuckFrump @realtuckfrumper.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
‘Spit on our sacrifice’ Canadian veterans fume after Trump and allies take jibes at military #TheGuardian
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‘Spit on our sacrifice’: Canadian veterans fume after Trump and allies take jibes at military
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The Beaverton @thebeaverton.com · 05/10/2026
Trump admin demands Canada not meddle in midterms so they can meddle in separatist referendums
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Trump admin demands Canada not meddle in midterms so they can meddle in separatist referendums
WASHINGTON D.C. - Trump Administration trade advisor Peter Navarro is accusing Canada of interfering in the upcoming U.S. midterm elections, unfairly distracting from American efforts to interfere in ...
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 05/10/2026
We're repeatedly told that the killer app for pervert glasses - Meta's AI-enabled camera glasses and their imitators - is that they will remind you of someone's name and spare you the social awkwardness of not recognizing them.
Medieval peasants working the fields in front of a walled city. Their overseer rides a horse; his head has been replaced with a robotic camera. From all sides, gory, anatomical eyeballs intrude upon the scene, each one with a different colored iris.
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Tyler, from the Internet (Haunted) @tylerfromtheinternet.com · 05/10/2026
the differences in sports across the pond is always interesting. look how the brits do bowling. totally different than how we do it
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Steve Mullis @stevemullis.net · 05/10/2026
[car dealership waiting room] Me: [chanting] knobs, knobs- Other car buyers: knobs, KNOBS Car salesman: [pounding desk] KNOBS, KNOBS, KNOBS!
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Knobs Returning To Some Automakers’ Vehicles, To The Relief Of Many
Auto companies are listening to the complaints of consumers, who want their knobs and buttons back.
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Mike Drucker @mikedrucker.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Just saw someone say their AI runs their fantasy football team and I can’t stop laughing. Like, I’m sure everyone’s doing it or something but it’s very funny to me that pretending to be a team manager was so hard that you needed to pretend to pretend to be a team manager
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Andy Schan @schan.ca · 05/10/2026
thewalrus.ca/carney-wants...
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Carney Wants to Privatize Airports. It’s a Terrible Idea | The Walrus
Be ready to pay more for everything
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Andy Schan @schan.ca · 05/10/2026
thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...
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Canada Needs an Opposition That’s Serious and Constructive | The Tyee
Instead, we get Poilievre’s simplistic sound bites, leaving Carney unaccountable.
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Paul and Storm @paulandstorm.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
[P] PUT ME IN COACH
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 04/10/2026
I'm not saying I have a gift of prophecy but
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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Of course, you have to decide for yourself whether all this floating about actually happened. Either way, I think the most remarkable thing in all this is that I got to the end of this thread without doing the ‘air friar’ joke. Clearly, I’m growing as a person
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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 29/09/2026
A key component of the Cambridge Analytica outrage was your friends subjecting you to data theft without your consent or knowledge. Facebook is running the same playbook on your text messages. Even if you’re not on Meta properties, they’re ingesting your interactions.
Aten installed Muse on both his iPhone and a Mac mini that he uses to test out various Al agents and tech. It took Meta a single day to begin "helpfully" pitching article ideas based on texts he'd sent to a podcast co-host.
When he asked Muse how it got the information, it said that it read banners from incoming texts. But that's not true, either.
After doing a little digging, Aten says Muse synced 187,000 lines from his Messages database, despite Full Disk Access being Off.Unless Aten is the most popular person on the face of the planet, I sincerely doubt he'd gotten 187,000 lines of text in roughly 24 hours. What happened is that, without permission, Muse went into the app and downloaded the information.
He had not given Muse permission to access Messages, and full disk access was not enabled. It just went ahead and uploaded those texts anyway.
Muse can take "unexpected actions" indeed.
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 03/10/2026
The post-war "peace dividend" owed its existence to three factors: industrial capacity, political freedom and pent-up demand.
The Earth from space; it is covered in scaffolding that is crawling with little rude mechanicals ganked from 17th century engravings of people operating machines.
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Andy Schan @schan.ca · 03/10/2026
www.nationalobserver.com/2026/09/29/o...
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America still doesn't understand how deep the rift goes
Memo to our friends (and yes, our enemies) to the south: the problem isn’t just Donald Trump. It’s you
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Andy Schan @schan.ca · 02/10/2026
thewalrus.ca/canada-is-bu...
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Canada Is Building Its Own Military Satellite Network. The US Still Holds the Keys | The Walrus
Space sovereignty won’t be easy when so much of the infrastructure remains American
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Andy Schan @schan.ca · 02/10/2026
www.cbc.ca/news/marketp...
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Hidden cameras show some stores unlocking speed limits on e-bikes, selling e-scooters that go up to 120 km/h | CBC News
A new hidden camera investigation by Marketplace shows how some stores are selling e-scooters and e-bikes with top speeds much higher than provincial speed limits and with recommended rider ages young...
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 01/10/2026
If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog: pluralistic.net/2026/10/01/d...
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Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow – No trackers, no ads. Black type, white background. Privacy policy: we don't collect or retain any data at all ever period.
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 01/10/2026
Here's a funny thing about the right to vote: it wasn't won by voting.
Two suffragists in period dress, ceremonially putting ballots into a ballot box. The background has been replaced with an elaborate collage of 19th C printing-press parts. The ballots are glowing with radiant spikes. The face of the ballot box has been replaced with an Nvidia Vera Lynn GPU.
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Justin Ling @justinling.ca · 01/10/2026
Come for the historical rethink of the Nazi's rise, stay for the "human advertising pillar." www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...
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‘Hitler was a lazy criminal who slept in until noon’: why most of what we think we know about the rise of the Nazis is wrong
In a new book, German artist and writer Philipp Ruch argues that viewing the ascent of Hitler’s NSDAP through the prism of the Third Reich has distorted our understanding of fascism’s electoral breakt...
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Andy Schan @schan.ca · 01/10/2026
I've read that you've said "creating an additional 2,000 jobs" Sure, during construction; afterwards, 90 permanent jobs and 150 contractor positions (finance.yahoo.com/energy/artic...). That's a different spin, no?
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Andy Schan @schan.ca · 01/10/2026
"creating an additional 2,000 jobs" Sure, during construction; afterwards, 90 permanent jobs and 150 contractor positions (finance.yahoo.com/energy/artic...). That's a different spin, no?
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The Beaverton @thebeaverton.com · 29/09/2026
Child's imaginary restaurant acquired, shuttered by private equity
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Child's imaginary restaurant acquired, shuttered by private equity
BRANDON, MB - 4-year-old Mikaela Hermer's imaginary restaurant, in which she served invisible hot dogs and ice cream to her parents and friends, has filed for bankruptcy after being acquired by Hedges...
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Andy Schan @schan.ca · 01/10/2026
<sarcasm> no, AI is great; why would you ask something like that? </sarcasm> www.cbc.ca/news/busines...
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Overnight, Meta deleted all her accounts. AI customer service won’t let her reach a human | CBC News
Toronto resident Jasmine Ault says Meta disabled her accounts overnight, without giving her a reason, and that she's been unable to get past their AI chatbots to speak to a human to resolve the error....
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New-Cleckit Dominie @ncdominie.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Great moments in Scottish engineering history: James Watt tries to work out how his phone attaches to his selfie stick.
Statue of James Watt. In his right hand he holds a telescopic stick with a frame at the top; in his left he holds a flat object about the size of a large smartphone. He is scowling at the possibly-not-a-smartphone as if he is tempted to yeet it into the sea. On that basis, it probably _is_ a phone.
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Canadian History Ehx @cdnhistoryehx.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
On Sept. 30, 1958, Canadian children were treated to a new show. It featured a giant who told them to "look up!...waaaaaay up!" For the next 27 years, the show was a fixture on CBC and is beloved to this day. This is the story of The Friendly Giant! 📸 CBC 🧵 1/12
Bob Homme as The Friendly Giant, wearing a rustic, beige tunic with brown accents, holding a small xylophone and two violins, with a colorful giraffe puppet with a harmonica and a chicken puppet on his shoulders, set against a plain blue background.
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Charlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Draganfly Drones is promoted as a Saskatoon success story. They are run out of Tampa, Florida with top Trump military appointees on the board. Don Jr is an investor. The PM committed to building a Canadian supply chain for our defence. This stinks. charlieangus.substack.com/p/stop-don-j...
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STOP DON JR FROM GETTING A CUT OF CANADA’S MILITARY BUDGET
Don Jr. has his fingers in a Canadian military contract obtained through Saskatoon-based Dragonfly Technologies.
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dr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
look we're all making a big bet on AI! and if it pays off as big as we hope, well, it's going to make a handful of people super rich and you're going to lose your job but get to watch mickey mouse fuck geralt from the witcher. if it doesn't pay off well then you get to pay for the bailouts
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Prasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD @prasad.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
5 potatoes cubed is still 5 potatoes because potatoes are root vegetables
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Draculosity Jones: Ghost Skeleton @brainmage.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
Roses are red, These times are quite trying
A warning sign reading "danger not only will this kill you it will hurt the whole time youre dying"
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 29/09/2026
“…Muse can be easily prompted to compile dossiers on Facebook and Instagram accounts belonging to members of vulnerable groups – including undocumented immigrants, transgender teachers, poll workers, Iranian dissidents, and women who said they had ordered abortion pills in states with abortion bans”
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Dox for Me, O Muse
Muse AI can leverage Facebook data to build lists of people in vulnerable groups on request for ordinary users.
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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 29/09/2026
Meta's "Muse" launched with a nasty zero day flaw that gave hackers the ability to spy on Mac users, openly gives root access to people pretending to be Muse agents, and invited strangers over to another guy's house without telling him
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Meta's Latest AI Product Is A Terrifying And Hilarious Mess
Authoritarian-friendly mass surveillance has never been more adorable
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Andy Schan @schan.ca · 29/09/2026
😠 #Enshittification @doctorow.pluralistic.net www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Wait times for most priority surgeries in Ontario have increased since 2017, study says | CBC News
Wait times for most of the province’s publicly funded priority surgeries and procedures have increased between 2017 and 2025, according to a study released Monday.
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Buitengebieden @buitengebieden.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
😂
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CJMaill @cjmaill.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Paging @doctorow.pluralistic.net…
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Uncle Duke @uncleduke1969.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
just put together a Dögg from IKEA, but I think I screwed something up
French bulldog asleep on a couch on its belly with its back legs pointed up.
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Charlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
What does a family wedding have to do with the price of potash? Just more shinnanigans in the world of Agent Krasnov and his criminal family. charlieangus.substack.com/p/agent-kras...
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AGENT KRASNOV HOSTS A WEDDING
The issue of a foreign oligarch fronting cash for the president’s son is as outrageous as it gets.
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Emily Gorcenski @emily.gorcen.ski · 28/09/2026
Here’s the most incredible story you’ll read today. A small plane with four people aboard crashes in a field. Another pilot witnesses it. That pilot happens to be flying a bunch of skydivers. They offer to jump to assist, are given permission. The skydivers happen to be EMTs. Everyone survives.
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Skydivers alert emergency crews, assist after plane crashes near East Troy airport
Four people were aboard the single-engine plane when it went down in a cornfield near Carvers School Road in East Troy at about 1:30 p.m.
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World Bollard Association™️ @worldbollardassoc.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Probably the greatest parallel parking you’ll ever see. #WorldBollardAssociation
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Uncle Duke @uncleduke1969.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
At my age, some days the glass is half full, some days the glass is half empty. Either way, I have to pee.
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Andy Schan @schan.ca · 27/09/2026
The game plan is to starve publicly funded health care, then say "See? We need private options!". Not everyone has the means to pay out of pocket, and shouldn't have to borrow money to do it www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Facing a 2-year wait, this P.E.I. couple borrowed $25K to get a hip replacement in Montreal | CBC News
Neil and Janet Payne call it "Le Hip Trip." The Kinkora, P.E.I., couple were facing a wait of up to a year and a half for Neil’s hip replacement — so instead of waiting, they borrowed $25,000 and drov...
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Andy Schan @schan.ca · 27/09/2026
LOL: "Sources inside the BC NDP confirm that Eby regrets calling a snap election while wearing the Infinity Gauntlet as it caused half his voters to disappear."
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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Oh and there’s a nonzero chance they were programmed to do this to push the issue of the government bringing in AI development in order to help mediate their giant financial problems and gain more power and control. Cool stuff, really. Not at all problematic.
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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Just helping with editing here. These bots aren’t sentient. They’re doing what they’re programmed to do. OpenAI, a private company supposedly bound by laws, committed federal crimes.
Screenshot of BBC article: OpenAI bots (struck through) meddled with multiple US government agency sites
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In Otter News @in-otter-news.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
After a long day at the aquarium, the otters help tidy their toys away. Payment is made promptly and entirely in ice cubes.
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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 25/09/2026
I have blamed The agents That hacked Your website And which You probably Reasonably thought I controlled Forgive me I am rich And unaccustomed To taking responsibility
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 26/09/2026
Does my Speak-n-Spell feel pain when I type O-U-C-H? The jury is out. Philosophers and neuroscientists say that's fucking stupid, but I called a guy from the Center for Pretending that Household Electronics Are Sentient and he said there's no way to know for sure.
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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 25/09/2026
Voyager Instruments xkcd.com/3302/
 3-panel comic. (1) [Person with shoulder-length hair gestures at diagrams on wall in front of table with three people.] PERSON 1: As the radioactive power source on *Voyager 1* weakens, we’ve been turning instruments off to conserve power. (2) PERSON 1: Only two instruments remain. Do we want to lose the plasma wave subsystem or the magnetometer? (3) PERSON 2 with ponytail: You know, if we just turned off Greg’s LED underlighting– PERSON 4 with short hair: Absolutely not. PERSON 3: Dammit, Greg. PERSON 4: I will *not* allow us to look uncool in front of aliens.
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