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Paul Tichonczuk

@tracer.ca
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Polish-Canadian Father, Web Monkey, Cyclist and 😍 of 🍩. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️Ally. Often mistaken for an adult. More cycling related stuff @paul.bike

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worm @rfksbrainworm.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
If you ever wondered why visible light is those particular wavelengths, it's because life evolved to see in the narrow range where water is transparent
Diagram of absorption of emf by water. There's a gap right that dips in the 500 nm range
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Barney Panofsky's Best Intentions @mynamesnotgordy.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This is your brain This is your brain on pumpkin spice
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Theo Moudakis @theomoudakis.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Please enjoy my cartoon in today's Toronto Star
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Paul Tichonczuk @tracer.ca · 30/09/2026
Recently, I've been bombarded with recommendations on #YouTubeMusic that are #AI Generated. It was a bit shocking. Fundamentally though, I don't think the person I'm reposting here has it right. 1/4
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Damien Moule @damienmoule.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The not-that-surprising skeleton key for Toronto politics.
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Shawn Micallef @shawnmicallef.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
So much respect for this, and the framing. ABC, the right wing version of Progress Toronto, has used health care workers/hospitals as reason to rip them out. This puts a lie to that (and on University ambulances can bypass cars in the wide bikelanes if needed). So many lies.
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Meg Elison @megelison.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
At this point, I assume any defense of AI was written by it. I’ve not been wrong.
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Spacing @spacing.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
EXCLUSIVE: Inside the contract to rip out Toronto’s bike lanes Spacing has obtained the RFP for the Ford government's bike lane removal, and it looks even worse than thought. spacing.ca/toronto/2026... #toronto #bikes #torontobike @cycletoronto.bsky.social
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EXCLUSIVE: Inside the contract to rip out Toronto's bike lanes - Spacing Toronto
After the Ontario Court of Appeal (ONCA) shot down CycleTO’s legally innovative charter challenge that sought to stop Doug Ford’s attack on the city’s bike lanes, Queen’s Park wasted little time befor...
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Clare Blackwood @clareblackwood.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Our premier is such a piece of shit.
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Jeremy Morrell @jeremymorrell.dev · 21/09/2026
Damn, Camille does not mince words 🔥
Finally, we come to people. This one is just depressing. Has AI made anything easier about the people management/people skills era? If it has, it has been swamped by all of the new interpersonal challenges we’re hitting thanks to AI.

To start, there’s the increased expectations. Many companies think that that increased visibility and waves hands AI productivity means managers can start to manage far larger teams, with no help coming as we reduce managers and don’t hire new ones. And of course, some companies are also expecting managers to write code because that is apparently the only individual contribution that matters (the idea that managers don’t make valuable individual contributions to companies is so mind-boggling I could write a whole additional piece on it). And while you’re doing this, you have to manage the AI transition: make sure your team is using AI enough, not too much, and soothe their anxiety, and deal with their impatience, and you too have to use it but no one is bothering to teach you how to use it well or soothe your anxiety, you are just expected to figure it the f* out.

So is it any wonder 1 in 3 managers are considering going back to individual contribution roles? Hell, if you’re going to ask me to write code and manage a huge team of people, I might just prefer to say, thanks, writing code is enough for me so I’ll go back to doing that.
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
OpenAI and Microsoft admitted LLMs are predatory tech built on “an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions,” and the “largest theft of labor in human history.” An internal Microsoft document said AI has created a “doom loop” that is killing “the entire web.” www.404media.co/doom-loop-op...
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‘Doom Loop’: OpenAI and Microsoft Admits LLMs Are Destroying the Web and Built on Theft
"Millions of people around the world will soon consider large models ‘hoovering up’ all their work to be an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions."
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David Clark @clarkeocrinus.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Dr. Teeth and the Electric Mayhem have now withdrawn from the Ed Sheeran tour.
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FuzzyWuzzy in Toronto🇨🇦 @fuzzywuzzyto.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Sheeran and Macklemore are this year's hottest Halloween costumes.
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The Beaverton @thebeaverton.com · 14/09/2026
Tech oligarchs agree calling AI "too dangerous" way cooler than just admitting it doesn't work
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Tech oligarchs agree calling AI "too dangerous" way cooler than just admitting it doesn't work
SILICON VALLEY - The CEOs of OpenAI, Anthropic, and GrokAI have released a statement agreeing that claiming artificial intelligence "could potentially kill all humans" sounds much more awesome than just admitting that they blew a fortune on glorified chatbots.
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Heather e^-1/x^2 @heathermoandco.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
This section of Jim Stanford’s recent article is particularly important for Canadians to keep in mind. #CanadaStrong #Never51 #cdnpoli #CdnEcon
TORONTO STAR <

‘Canada can't survive without the U.S.’

This is Trump's biggest, and most dangerous, lie, and getting us to believe it is central to his intimidation strategy.
Despite reduced U.S.-bound exports, Canada's economy has continued growing. Two-thirds of those lost merchandise exports have been offset by new exports to other countries. And almost 80 per cent of our GDP is produced and consumed right here, by Canadians, for Canadians. Trump can't touch that.
Yes, it will be a bumpy ride to disentangle our economy from overreliance on what is now a failed democracy next door. But as the 10th largest economy in the world, with a wealth of natural and human resources, and a stronger capacity to solve problems together, we will most definitely survive without Trump's America.
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TracketPacer @tracketpacer.com · 13/09/2026
“it’ll be easy” insists the architect genius to the low level IC who will actually have to implement the plan
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Anna Hughes 🍁 @annaghughes.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
trying to make new friends as an adult
Amy Adams in Arrival holding the white board that says HUMAN while she's trying to communicate with aliens
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The Walrus @thewalrus.ca · 12/09/2026
Canada’s global rankings have fallen across democracy, transparency, press freedom, and living standards. Writer and lawyer Matt Malone argues that reversing the decline requires rebuilding the institutions meant to hold government accountable. ow.ly/bAlL50ZMOIr
On the left: an image of the Canadian flag torn at the top in a jagged, declining pattern that mimics a downward-trending graph. On the right: text that reads “Canada was the ‘best country in the world to live.’ What happened? I went looking for answers in the nations that surpassed us.”
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Paul Tichonczuk @tracer.ca · 12/09/2026
I'm curious if these defections are staged for marketing? These AI companies are desperate for relevance and attention. Anyone with a cursory understanding of what modern #AI is knew these headlines were bullshit, but here we are.
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Paul Tichonczuk @tracer.ca · 11/09/2026
A fascinating read into the deep dark whole we're heading down. Nothing good can come of this. #ai
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Amanda Wong @amandawtwong.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
No, babe, I NEED the $200 Le Creuset Star Trek shuttlecraft casserole dish for my banana bread.
Le Creuset Star Trek shuttlecraft casserole dish
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Matt Cahill @mattcahill.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Related, if you bought a Sodastream and didn't realize the CO2 containers are sourced from illegal settlements, there's a Canadian company that offers local replacements that are interchangeable (avail nationwide). www.indigosoda.ca/en/
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Indigo Soda | Sparkling Water Machines and CO₂ Cylinders
Sparkling water machines, bottles, and reusable CO₂ cylinders. An eco-friendly and cost-effective way to make sparkling water at home.
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Cameron MacLeod @c-9.mstdn.ca.ap.brid.gy · 03/09/2026
Recognize beauty around you. Realize you can’t control everything. Reflect on how choices can make change. Refuse to be stored in black plastic sacks and placed in the containers provided.
Photo of sign against a dark green wall which reads:
REFUSE 
TO BE STORED IN 
BLACK PLASTIC SACKS 
AND PLACED IN THE 
CONTAINERS PROVIDED
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Shawn Micallef @shawnmicallef.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Vote #Micallef2026 & the #BlizzardsNow platform. You’ll be able to ski the city every day, solving gridlock. A platform & power over nature approved by the Mulroney family brain trust.
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Paul Tichonczuk @tracer.ca · 02/09/2026
#hail in #toronto
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Toronto Star @thestar.com · 02/09/2026
A year ago, Star cartoonist Theo Moudakis predicted Trump would rename Lake Ontario.
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The Grind @thegrindto.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
The Ontario government is forcing public school teachers to buy classroom supplies through Staples, a major U.S. corporation. This won't fix what ails schools, not by a long shot, argues Nigel Bariffe of the Elementary Teachers of Toronto.
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Ontario’s Schools Don’t Need a Staples Card, They Need to Be Properly Funded
With the new school year about to begin, Nigel Bariffe, President of the Elementary Teachers of Ontario, argues that the province’s recent changes are taking education in the wrong direction…
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Andrew Lewis FC @andrewlewisfc.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
All curb lanes are parking lanes whether legal or illegal. Every block in Toronto thet is purportedly 2 vehicle lanes each way has at least 1 illegally parked vehicle on it, making it functionally 1 lane but worse because of weaving. These streets were ALWAYS functionally one lane in each direction.
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Sandra L Lester 🇨🇦 #KillBill22 @sandrallester.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Tariffs… bring it on. youtube.com/shorts/qrUA9...
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Bring on the tariffs
YouTube video by Julie Nolke
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🎃I'll be Frankenstein with you 🧌🇨🇦 @syncros.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Environment Canada's Pancake Bay Weather Station. Classic dad joke, but accurate.
Pancake Bay Weather Station, showing how you can accurately check the weather using the attached rock
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Sheldon Boyarski @booarski.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
There’s a better app for that. bsky.app/profile/mapq...
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DCapTO @dcapto.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Don’t be making us read about how you ordered Christmas gifts for your friends yesterday. Take those bells off, you pathologically organized elf, and let us enjoy the last days of August FFS.
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C. Robert Cargill @crobertcargill.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
As it is Skynet Day, it seems as good a time as any to share that data center based LLM Ai is caught in a death spiral which is going largely unreported in the media. In short, major insurers are creating carve outs for Ai, refusing to insure it, causing corporations to abandon its front facing use.
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Matthew R Francis @bowlerhatscience.org · 29/08/2026
since today is Skynet day, it's a good time to remind everyone 1. what companies call "AI" is not actually artificial intelligence 2. self-aware AI may not be possible, and almost certainly is not ethical or desirable to create 3. fuck Sam Altman
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Jason Song Quinn (Comms Open) @hulkhoquinn.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Think about Miss Piggy. She lost a best friend and now an ex-lover in matter of 24 hours.
Miss Piggy and Dolly Parton in fancy dresses posing together photo of Tim Curry surrounded by muppets, smiling for a photo. A quote from curry is added “it didn’t go very well. It didn’t survive the shoot. She felt I wasn’t being faithful to her” it’s him discussing his ill fated affair with miss piggy
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Tom McKay @catturd2.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
I suspect this will result in tech companies trying to sell 8GB ram laptops as chromebook style "portals to AI" and it will backfire disastrously www.tomshardware.com/pc-component...
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Memory prices climb 500% in 12 months, up to 10x the lowest ever tracked prices — 128GB of DDR5 now $3,399
Analysis of historical price data trends indicates that the memory crisis has driven RAM prices to never-before-seen heights.
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Stephanie Carvin @stephaniecarvin.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Everyday I wonder how things can get stupider and everyday I am informed how, against my will.
Truth social post where Trump threatens to call Lake Ontario, Lake America
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Steffani Cameron 🇨🇦 @snarkysteff.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
I had no idea CBC had an app for learning French that uses real shows and stuff to help with learning it. One way to ensure Canada protects French is if we all make an effort to truly be bilingual — and we can make Quebec feel like we understand their struggle too. “Mauril” app from CBC:
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Paul Tichonczuk @tracer.ca · 24/08/2026
We often feel helpless in times like this. But the reality is there is a lot we can do. 1. Stop buying on Amazon and shop @ local businesses. 2. Remove Meta (Facebook) from your life 3. Don't buy a Tesla (not hard these days) 4. Check country of origin labels and buy accordingly.
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derek van vliet @derek.bike · 21/08/2026
businesses in your area just love these two magic words (pedestrianized streets)
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Church Street's car-free pilot project ends Friday night. Businesses, officials say it was a 'huge success' | CBC News
The pedestrianization pilot on Church Street is coming to an end Friday night with residents and officials raving about the boom in business and community vibes.
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Jenny Lee Shee @jennyleeshee.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Thanks to Doug Ford and Paul Calandra, 80,000 elementary educators have to order classroom supplies from Staples this year instead of from their school boards. I decided to do a little comparison shopping for school supplies many of us will have to order over the course of a school year. 🧵 #OntEd
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Paul Tichonczuk @tracer.ca · 24/08/2026
I was just linked to a twitter post about the newest trade war with Trumps America. Man, that place is cancer. The sheer quantity of bot responses to anything remotely left of far right is so pervasive. Anyone left on that platform has lost any sense of reality.
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Alexandra Halaby 🇵🇸 @iskandrah.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
UNITED NATIONS: "The Commission, which concluded last year that Israel had committed genocide against the Palestinian group in the Gaza Strip, found that the intense scale and systematic nature of the Israeli military operations have continued – resulting in..." REPORT: news.un.org/en/story/202...
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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Right now, someone is having to brief the US leadership that they CANNOT win in a two-front war with both Iran and Canada. And I find that deeply hilarious.
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mooch jones @mooch-monkey.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Murderbot She Wrote A documentary about our very own @marthawells.com
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scott dagostino @scottdagostino.ca · 21/08/2026
Don’t be complacent. As I’ve long said, by electing the same corporate shills, Canada always becomes America a few years later 🫤
@tessieheeter posts on threads:

The most insane thing about all of these food recalls is the people acting shocked it's happening. The FDA lost nearly 4,300 staff in the last two years. Inspectors were already stretched thin before the cuts, and now there's even fewer of them. The scientists who test food for bacteria are gone. Two federal advisory committees that existed specifically to catch foodborne pathogens before they became outbreaks got disbanded. CTV NEWS:

587 jobs to be cut at Canadian Food Inspection Agency

By Josh Pringle

Updated: January 30, 2026 at 11:53AM EST
Published: January 29, 2026 at 2:02PM EST
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ℳatt @matttomic.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
One last thing I'll say about the final Hip concert and then I'm done Other than the CBC, how many other TV networks do we have that would devote 3 hours in prime time *completely commercial-free* to filming and airing a concert live across the country? NONE! That's how many! FUND THE CBC
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Jimmy Thomson @jameswsthomson.com · 20/08/2026
In the coming weeks, if you see a nice deal on some US wine, no you didn't
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Paul Tichonczuk @tracer.ca · 20/08/2026
www.colorado.edu/today/2026/0... I'm shocked I tell you. Shocked.
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Remote workers report the highest well-being in study of 7,700 employees
Many employers worry remote workers feel disconnected. A new study found they reported higher well-being and were no more likely to feel isolated than their
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DCapTO @dcapto.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Reposting with alt text #ONpoli #cdnpoli
Post by MPP Tyler Watt

Doug Ford calls protecting consumers from surveillance pricing "socialism" - then meets privately at his home with the CEO of Loblaw after voting down our legislation.
And this isn't the first time. He also met privately at his home with Rogers after tabling legislation to control ticket resale prices.
Ontarians deserve to know whose interests are being put first. Clearly, it's not yours. #onpoli
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