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Lisa Kadonaga @tapirtrouble.bsky.social · 2h

Especially since there's a generations-old tradition in SF of conscious AI characters who are being mistreated by humans, so it's not hard for people to start feeling sorry for them. (There were antagonist AIs too like the Maria android from Metropolis, Colossus/Guardian, HAL 9000, Proteus IV

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Short Circuit (8/8) Movie CLIP - Number 5 Is Still Alive (1986) HD

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Seth Klein @sethdklein.bsky.social · 3h

Join me in calling on the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board to protect our retirement savings with a credible climate plan, responsible investments, and respect for Indigenous rights. Add your name: win.newmode.net/shiftaction/... #cdnpoli #pensions #Climate #Investing

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New/Mode | Make your voice impossible to ignore

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Dustin A. Chacón @lingdustin.bsky.social · 4h

I've heard people make claims that AI would lead to a new Renaissance, but I didn't imagine it'd happen like this:

Screenshot of a Tweet from Pope Leo XIV. It reads:

"In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgen to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity."

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Tracey Saxby @traceysaxby.bsky.social · 4h

Fun facts: 🔥Since 2007, BC’s climate pollution has decreased by 2.3 million tonnes. 🔥Approved LNG export projects will increase BC’s climate pollution by 21.2 million tonnes by 2035. 🔥This is ten times more pollution than we’ve managed to cut in nearly 20 years.

Trends in BC's greenhouse gas pollution from 1990 to 2023, with two projected futures. Approved LNG projects will increase BC's emissions by 21.2 million tonnes. If we meet BC's climate targets emissions will decrease by 80%. From 2007 to 2023 BC has only reduced 2 million tonnes of climate pollution.

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Tim Carmody @tcarmody.bsky.social · 5h

This is the funniest thing I've seen today, possibly ever

A tweet by SarahStarberry that says "oh god read the vertical axis" on top of a chart measuring AI models' release dates and model numbers rather than any real capabilities

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Eric Rauchway @rauchway.bsky.social · 4h

If our times have told us nothing else, it’s that the inability to understand a text is diagnostic of something

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Lisa Kadonaga @tapirtrouble.bsky.social · 5h

When Syrian refugees started arriving in my Ontario hometown a decade ago, I noticed one man wearing a T-shirt with our football team's logo

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Lisa Kadonaga @tapirtrouble.bsky.social · 5h

Also, Gordon Campbell (former BC premier), not exactly a tree hugging leftist, brought in our carbon tax -- which we had for years and worked pretty well. My landlord was in cabinet meetings and saw him advocating for it.

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Lisa Kadonaga @tapirtrouble.bsky.social · 5h

Bad for all the other endangered species too that rely on the forests -- rhinos, tapirs, titan arums, etc.

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Brilliant Maps @brilliantmaps.bsky.social · 6h

Floor Numbering In Europe Credit lingue maps See the rest of the world: brilliantmaps.com/where-is-...

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Lisa Kadonaga @tapirtrouble.bsky.social · 5h

Their "evidence" is a bunch of students at a football game. It would be laughable if it weren't so ominous. People like these think they're being so clever, winking and giggling with the historical references. It reminds me of the nonsense about Japanese-Americans not being able to assimilate.

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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 23h

If you’re looking for a place to write your next book …

Isolated stone hut on rocky outcrop against backdrop of mountains

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Justin McElroy 🇨🇦 @jmcelroy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

For the past week, I've heard a lot of people say "provincial and municipal elections happening at the same time is confusing, especially since I don't fully understand what a city is in control of." So, I did a four minute explainer piece to try and help www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqlh...

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What municipalities can and can’t do in B.C.

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Lisa Kadonaga @tapirtrouble.bsky.social · 13h

People are just a bit giddy because of the simultaneous election campaigns

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Lisa Kadonaga @tapirtrouble.bsky.social · 15h

The "tapir flop" is a rare and magical thing. Many tapirs have a reaction to being scratched -- they're compelled to lie down. This has been observed in the wild when they're being groomed by birds like caracaras. So it must pre-date human interactions with them, probably millions of years old.

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Lisa Kadonaga @tapirtrouble.bsky.social · 15h

Congrats to Poland on their first endangered Malayan tapir calf/cub! A successful birth and survival is a real accomplishment (gestation takes at least 13 months!) The babies have such worldly-wide facial expressions.

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Lisa Kadonaga @tapirtrouble.bsky.social · 15h

We're now seeing evidence that it's possible to reduce the chance of getting cancer significantly by immunizing against HPV, so it makes sense to look at trying to do this in more places and with more of these infections

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Rob Ryan @robryanreviews.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

“Then the film’s Renée Good stand-in enters, slamming her Subaru into the ICE van. Described with the subtlety of a brick as “MELANIE (40), a fat blue-hair,” the woman, blasting NPR, revs up again and fatally hits ICE agent “Juan” with her car” The wish fulfilment levels are off the scale.

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 18h

"There is no yeast in strudel. You’re not trying to facilitate the rise of anything. Say this on record." buff.ly/q57ye9Y

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How to Make Strudel Like Magda Goebbels

“There is no yeast in strudel. You’re not trying to facilitate the rise of anything. Say this on record.”

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Lisa Kadonaga @tapirtrouble.bsky.social · 16h

An unexpected impact of climate change

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Lisa Kadonaga @tapirtrouble.bsky.social · 16h

Trump needs to go in for servicing -- his internal monologue is broken again

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Lisa Kadonaga @tapirtrouble.bsky.social · 17h

Thanks to Mike for spreading the word about this.

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Sen. Pumpkin Gogurt @ugarles.bsky.social · 23h

six different officers shot at this bollard

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Lisa Kadonaga @tapirtrouble.bsky.social · 17h

He's trying to have it both ways, of course

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Lisa Kadonaga @tapirtrouble.bsky.social · 22h

[cut to panicked faces of GOP candidates whose districts Trump will be visiting before the election]

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Ing aka Tophat Artooning @ingforart.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Unfair, Koko knew more than 14 words

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Brandon Sheffield @brandon.insertcredit.com · 01/10/2026

Several weeks ago, Phil Tippett's legendary animation studio in Berkeley, CA closed. An anonymous hero noticed a folder of CDs. This turned out to be hundreds of unseen hi-res images and videos from Star Wars, Robocop, Jurassic Park, etc. ~90 isos for you to browse: archive.org/details/tipp...

A casual Star Wars alien fella at the cantina, in a sun faded, reddish photo. Someone will be mad at me for not knowing who this is.

Phil, a balding Caucasian man, poses a model of the garthok, an antagonist from the Coneheads movie.

Phil, a balding caucasian man, points at some CG on a CRT computer monitor, as a younger man looks on. The screen shows a model of a dinosaur attacking a jeep, while there's an actual physical model of that event in the foreground for reference.

an isolated shot of a star wars vehicle. Sorry, I don't know star wars lol

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Lisa Kadonaga @tapirtrouble.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Looking at some of the Backrooms level videos (with outdoors environments) posted on YouTube. They seemed eerily familiar. I realized that I've been living in a similar environment for almost 2 years -- a construction zone with eerie empty buildings and stop signs lying next to the road.

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Lisa Kadonaga @tapirtrouble.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Novel interpretation of genetics -- taking credit for your parents' siblings' accomplishments. In that case, I'm qualified as a physician, optometrist, nurse, elementary school teacher, engineer, machinist, and can evaluate racehorses!

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Lisa Kadonaga @tapirtrouble.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This is a good read -- unsettling, but it helps explain a lot of stuff going on around us today.

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Brilliant Maps @brilliantmaps.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Garbage Can Vs Trash Can What do you call them where you live? See 25 more maps: brilliantmaps.com/linguisti...

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Alex Merz 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇺🇦 @merz.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Without a trace of sarcasm: *this* is what Jesus would have done.

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Lisa Kadonaga @tapirtrouble.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

"rebooting the federal government as a tech startup" -- what could go wrong? (besides the "move fast and break things" part)

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Anthony Floyd @anthonyfloyd.ca · 01/10/2026

Lighthouses of the BC South Coast. Cool. mapped.earth/lighthouses/...

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Lisa Kadonaga @tapirtrouble.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I hadn't realized that along with changing the day for Christmas back in 2023, Ukraine also changed this.

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Kupala Night - Wikipedia

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

History professor Kevin Kruse says tech companies "must embrace small reading seminars to discuss recent literature" to transform into educational institutions.

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David Eby @davidebybc.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

On a day already set aside for solemn reflection, a tragedy during the Tsawwassen First Nation Truth and Reconciliation event has shocked and saddened us all.

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Lisa Kadonaga @tapirtrouble.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I'm old enough (50s) to remember the traces of Orange Order dominance in Ontario. Scoldy humourless people finger-wagging -- no Sunday shopping, no going to dances with Catholic kids. Censored movies. (Classmates amazed by Quebec grocery stores stocking beer and wine.)

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UN Environment Programme @unep.org · 30/09/2026

How do we restore the natural world? There is no single answer – in fact, there are a multitude of ways to engage and be #GenerationRestoration. Whether big or small, every effort makes a huge difference. Here are three ways to help nature thrive: ow.ly/IomJ50ZSXnW

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Lisa Kadonaga @tapirtrouble.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The ordinary low-level ai that tries to correct one's writing is just annoying (like Clippy was) -- but the ones that are being touted the most by the tech barons seem to be emulating them (no boundaries, callous disregard for human life -- looking at you, ChatGPT).

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Lisa Kadonaga @tapirtrouble.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I worked at a wildlife clinic where we had an unreleasable hawk who'd imprinted on humans, and he used to scream for food -- not fun to listen to all day. Our eagle squeaking was pleasant by comparison!

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Mike Rothschild @rothschildmd.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Right after the Eaton Fire, Ben reached out to let me know he talked to some folks he still knew at NBC to get me on the air. I was on MSNBC the next night. There was nothing in it for him, he just did it. One of the best people I know, and he deserves everything good he gets.

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Mark Carney @mark-carney.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

My statement on the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation:

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