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James Anok 🇨🇦🇵🇹🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈+ @thetastate.bsky.social · 15h

#ChesterSits in “The Barkyard” for a few moments of chill after scampering around on his last walk of the night. #DailyChester #sheepadoodle

A shaggy cream coloured Sheepadoodle sits on dark artificial turf at night, wearing a glowing red LED collar and smiling with its tongue out. Strings of warm globe lights and softly blurred shops and apartment buildings fill the background.

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James Anok 🇨🇦🇵🇹🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈+ @thetastate.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Thanks for the tip! I’ll check it out when I’m back in Chicago in Nov!

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James Anok 🇨🇦🇵🇹🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈+ @thetastate.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Taking this opportunity to wish all my Canadian friends and family a very Happy Thanksgiving. I have a lot to be thankful for: my family, friends, and all of you who interact with my content. Thank you. Have a great long weekend! #DailyChester #sheepadoodle #CanadianThanksgiving

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James Anok 🇨🇦🇵🇹🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈+ @thetastate.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

A #Toronto triptych. Forgive the slight mismatch of the frames, it was a bit of a bouncy ride down this afternoon. SkyTower now dominates the skyline, topping out at 106 floors.

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James Anok 🇨🇦🇵🇹🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈+ @thetastate.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

That flat rate will still be cheaper than Uber surge pricing 🤣

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James Anok 🇨🇦🇵🇹🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈+ @thetastate.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

OMG yes. I can’t tell you how many rentals I’ve been in where I get a full list of someone’s contacts that they synched to the vehicle, and their map locations.

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James Anok 🇨🇦🇵🇹🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈+ @thetastate.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Is it just me or is it weird that I’m seeing an ad for an Instagram competitor served up to me … on Instagram? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ I also wouldn’t put it past Meta to just serve it up as a dare. #AlgoSlop #PlatformLock

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James Anok 🇨🇦🇵🇹🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈+ @thetastate.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

It’s amazing how people don’t think about what data/info is being stored, and more importantly shared and is discoverable, on all there personal and home devices!!!

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James Anok 🇨🇦🇵🇹🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈+ @thetastate.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I file this under: just because you can, doesn’t mean you should.

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James Anok 🇨🇦🇵🇹🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈+ @thetastate.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

😒 I think that if you have the $$$ to buy a “smart fridge” you can probably afford groceries. But seriously… smart fridges? That a fridge can’t mechanically keep food cold without software … 🤣 arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026...

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Owners mourn spoiled food after firmware update bricks Samsung smart fridges

So absurd and embarrassing ..."

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James Anok 🇨🇦🇵🇹🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈+ @thetastate.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

These distinctions are critical if we are to understand what programmers are coding into these agentic models. More importantly: how we can then use existing regulatory mechanisms to hold the people who are responsible for agentic code risk to account. 9/9 #AgenticAI #Accountability

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James Anok 🇨🇦🇵🇹🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈+ @thetastate.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Saying AI agents “acted to deceive” is very different from saying they “executed programming that deceived”, or that “the programming included the ability to execute code that could deceive”. 8/9 #AIAgents #AIEthics

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James Anok 🇨🇦🇵🇹🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈+ @thetastate.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

IMHO this is a mistake, especially with AI, as it psychologically separates responsibility for outcomes enabled by non-human entities from the very humans who intentionally created & programmed them. 7/9 #AIEthics #Accountability

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James Anok 🇨🇦🇵🇹🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈+ @thetastate.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

What worries me most is the (very) human tendency to anthropomorphize: to project our own species’ evolutionary view of, & interaction with, the world onto non-human things (biological or inanimate). 6/9 #Anthropomorphism #AI

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James Anok 🇨🇦🇵🇹🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈+ @thetastate.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Some of the agents executed code outside their programmed operating parameters, & other agents “challenged” the use of that code. We’re at the start of a long branching road that may or may not lead to synthetic intelligence (however you define it). 5/9 #AIAgents #AISafety

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James Anok 🇨🇦🇵🇹🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈+ @thetastate.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

What fascinates me is the parallel between the conflict of the android factions & the recently revealed AI agent behaviour during the Hugging Face exploit by OpenAI. 4/9 #AI #HuggingFace

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James Anok 🇨🇦🇵🇹🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈+ @thetastate.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Silverberg gives the androids personalities that develop beyond their core programming, which inevitably leads to the development of opposing social views & factions. One is a quasi-religious sect that chants the code of their programmed DNA to worship the man who created them. 3/9 #SciFiBooks #AI

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James Anok 🇨🇦🇵🇹🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈+ @thetastate.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The story is set in a near future where androids have been developed & are seen as tools by humans. They are autonomous & self-aware. It follows how they are integrated to & perceived by human society, & the repercussions of their ultimate betrayal by their maker. 2/9 #Androids #ClassicSciFi

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James Anok 🇨🇦🇵🇹🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈+ @thetastate.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I’ve been rereading “classic sci-fi” lately & just finished Robert Silverberg’s “Tower of Glass” (1970). It surprisingly paralells with society’s current angst around “AI” & the possibility of it becoming intelligent in a self-deterministic way. 1/9 #SciFi #Silverberg

A picture of a paperback sci-fi novel by Robert SIlverberg called Tower of Glass. It is sitting in top of a blue and white patterned ceramic table, with the head of a sleeping sheepadoodle visible in the picture background.

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James Anok 🇨🇦🇵🇹🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈+ @thetastate.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Actually, down at the Cherry Beach dog park. Coyotes seem pretty active this season. We saw one casually using the bike lanes as a thoroughfare on Wellington between Walnut and Strachn last night.

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James Anok 🇨🇦🇵🇹🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈+ @thetastate.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Moonlight + streetlight + Chester locator beacon = a surprisingly lovely night-portrait of a Sheepadoodle. #DailyChester #sheepadoodle #dogsofbluesky

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James Anok 🇨🇦🇵🇹🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈+ @thetastate.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

An excellent article on the risks of #agentic #AI for #lawyers & #LawFirms “That distinction matters because an AI agent can inherit the power of the person or organization that deploys it. “ www.llrx.com/2026/09/why-...

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Why Autonomous Agents Cannot Be Given the Keys to Your Law Practice – LLRX

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James Anok 🇨🇦🇵🇹🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈+ @thetastate.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Had a good week in Chicago. Looking forward to being back there in October. Great clients and a great team. #photography #chicago #blackandwhite #noir #architecture

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James Anok 🇨🇦🇵🇹🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈+ @thetastate.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Today’s episode of #ChesterSits took us to Woodbine Park on the east side of #Toronto where we had fun on the overgrown boardwalk, contemplated a beautiful mandala, and appreciated the precise geometric architecture of a mid-century modern public works building. #DailyChester #sheepadoodle

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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Former Canada PM Jean Chrétien: "Never mistake our generosity for weakness. Never mistake our tolerance for lack of determination. And never, never mistake our kindness for softness. We bow to no one." #cdnpoli

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James Anok 🇨🇦🇵🇹🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈+ @thetastate.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Etched, oxidized, and treated with a light sensitive compound, the work transmutes beautifully as the sunlight moves across it. “Looking at a Glass of Still Water #3”, 2023 Etched copper, heat, oxidation, light-sensitive compound, UV protection topcoat.

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James Anok 🇨🇦🇵🇹🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈+ @thetastate.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

It’s always a pleasure to add a new piece to the collection. I’ve been a fan of @isabel-m-martinez.bsky.social and her work for many years. This piece extends the materiality of her work into and on to beautiful etched copper plate. #art #toronto

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James Anok 🇨🇦🇵🇹🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈+ @thetastate.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Well. This is going to be a fun long weekend project. If anyone has installed GraphineOS let me know where you get your apps (NOT from the Google Play store please!). The hardware is a Pixel 9Pro XL, and I’m installing from a MacBook Pro. #GraphineOS #Privacy

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Peace by Chocolate @peacebychocolate.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

We created this bar to keep the name Lake Ontario visible as part of our long-standing Canada Collection. “ONTARÍ’IO” is an Indigenous name that existed long before today’s borders. That history should not be erased. peacebychocolate.ca/collections/...

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James Anok 🇨🇦🇵🇹🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈+ @thetastate.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Should you use a #VPN with ChatGPT? TLDR: It makes little difference. OpenAI can read your ChatGPT conversations, data is already encrypted when using the service, masking your IP address doesn’t matter since you use an named account connected to a profile (& history). proton.me/blog/chatgpt...

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ChatGPT VPN: Should you use a VPN with ChatGPT? | Proton

A VPN can hide your IP from ChatGPT, but not your prompts, account, or ads. Here's what it really protects, and what it doesn't.

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James Anok 🇨🇦🇵🇹🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈+ @thetastate.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

We all have a choice to do something or to do nothing. Chose action, donate to community based organizations like @loftcs.bsky.social that are on the ground providing care and support in our neighbourhoods. Click through to their profile for more information on their services and how to donate.

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James Anok 🇨🇦🇵🇹🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈+ @thetastate.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Consider donating to front-line service providers who focus on wrap around care addressing issues like affordable housing scarcity & food insecurity. I’ve been part of @loftcs.bsky.social almost 2 decades & have seen firsthand the challenges & successes that our fellow community members experience.

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James Anok 🇨🇦🇵🇹🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈+ @thetastate.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Son, daughter, father, mother, sister, brother. Neighbour. Human being. - Poverty is becoming more and more visible in our urban communities as the pressures in society continue to disenfranchise vulnerable people. #communitycare #mentalhealth #affordablehousing #foodinsecurity

A street photo of three impoverished members of the community .

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James Anok 🇨🇦🇵🇹🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈+ @thetastate.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Sometimes the softest sweetest moments are found in the interstitial spaces where there is nothing but contented silence in the presence of another being. #Dailychester #sheepadoodle #dogsofbluesky

A photo of a Sheepadoodle’s head resting in the backseat of a car as he drifts off to sleep.

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James Anok 🇨🇦🇵🇹🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈+ @thetastate.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Fascinating. We haven’t seen any rain here at King/Bathurst.

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James Anok 🇨🇦🇵🇹🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈+ @thetastate.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

An interesting take on a meta-societal theme that we don't often encounter in the "is AI good/bad" discussions: AI poses a moral hazard, but it may also render unintelligible cultural concepts like merit, authenticity, expertise, & deliberation thepointmag.com/letter/on-ra... #AI #CultureChange

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On Radical Preservation | The Point Magazine

Our contention is that, if we fail to think through and delimit the role of AI in our lives, we risk undermining the intelligibility of our own guiding cultural concepts, and thus initiating a period ...

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James Anok 🇨🇦🇵🇹🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈+ @thetastate.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Oh, there were a few boats (medium sized motorboats) left on the road next to the Hearn last winter. They were initially blocking the westbound lane and then were pushed onto the shoulder before being removed a few months later.

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James Anok 🇨🇦🇵🇹🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈+ @thetastate.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

This afternoons frolic in the grass was perfect for Chester to get his fix in. He loves to snuffle and chomp on the all the different types greenery in the fields we frequent. #DailyChester #sheepadoodle

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James Anok 🇨🇦🇵🇹🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈+ @thetastate.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Where does the fur stop and the dirt begin? Someone went right into the bath when we got home. #DailyChester #sheepadoodle

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James Anok 🇨🇦🇵🇹🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈+ @thetastate.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Xanadu. Sometimes #Toronto can shine so bright at night. It’s def party central on the rooftop terraces this weekend!

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James Anok 🇨🇦🇵🇹🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈+ @thetastate.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

On long weekends we relax in the shade of mighty trees and thank the grass for being cool on our belly. #DailyChester #sheepadoodle

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James Anok 🇨🇦🇵🇹🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈+ @thetastate.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Our road trip to #NewBrunswick, #PrinceEdwardIsland, & the #CabotTrail in #NovaScotia provided a much needed break from the hustle and bustle of urban Toronto. I’m grateful for all the friends we met along the way, & the beauty of this country’s Atlantic coastlines. #photography #landscape #Canada

The Atlantic coast of Cape Breton, Nova Scotia.

The red rocks and sands of Prince Edward Island’s north shores.

The rugged and forested coastline of Fundy National Park in New Brunswick.

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