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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Reminder that in Canada upon becoming an engineer you get an iron ring made of a collapsed bridge, purposely designed to be uncomfortable, to remind you that your ethics demand you give a fuck even about the boring grudgework of such as double-checking your math. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Ring

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Iron Ring - Wikipedia

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The ring's whole point is to remind you "People will die in incredible pain if I stop giving a fuck about even the small, boring details of what I do" Because you *can't* grandly think about systems if you can't fucking think in the first place.

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404 Media @404media.co · 25/09/2026

Meta announced that its new AI agent, Muse could call businesses for you to do things like make reservations. But in reality, Meta is testing having these calls being made by human beings in call centers, 404 Media @jasonkoebler.bsky.social learned. www.404media.co/meta-tests-m...

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The New York Times remains laser-focused on ignoring the horrible things horrible people are doing to us. Coming Up Next: "Pol Pot's Favorite Footwear."

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Lauri Donahue @lauridonahue.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

futurism.com/future-socie... lol

As one New York financier told Financial Times journalist Gillian Tett, new hires who were seen as “AI natives” are turning out to have alarmingly shallow ideas. So much so, the anonymous finance worker admitted, that his firm now actively avoids seeking out AI-literate STEM graduates, and opts to comb through humanities students instead.

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Jesse Woodward @woodward.chly.ca · 25/09/2026

Well. Nevermind the road trip to Kamloops today for the CAJ event. Departure Bay Ferry cancelled due to mechanical issues, and the earlier Duke Point Ferry had a one sailing wait that would have resulted in a missed event. Mentally, maybe I’ll just take this day off. 🫩

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Luigi de Guzman @ouij.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Not at all surprised that ChatGPT uses this kind of language to discuss a combat shotgun because this is just how dudes post on the gun forums that the model trained on

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Jesse Woodward @woodward.chly.ca · 23/09/2026

I feel for the Green who runs against him.

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Jesse Woodward @woodward.chly.ca · 23/09/2026

Congratulations to Angine de Poitrine for their 2026 Polaris Music Prize win. Incredibly well deserved!

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Angine de Poitrine - Full Performance (Live on KEXP)

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Justin McElroy 🇨🇦 @jmcelroy.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The CentreBC party, which essentially agreed to let Milobar and his coalition of eight MLAs take over their party four days ago, is now big mad that all of them (with the exception of Elenore Sturko) seem to be returning to the Conservative fold Unclear what their political capital is now though

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CHLY 101.7FM @chly.ca · 22/09/2026

Live from YYJ, it's a Tuesday Afternoon Election call? www.youtube.com/watch?v=uV4j...

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David Eby — Live from Victoria

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Jesse Woodward @woodward.chly.ca · 22/09/2026

Another local elections piece by me. Get out and meet some candidates tomorrow evening and pick their brain on where they stand on environmental and climate issues.

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Michael John Lo @michaeljohnlo.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Spare a thought for the poor municipal reporter having to deal with the possibility of two elections in a month...

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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Obama: “Imagine if I had pulled Fox News’ credentials from the White House press corps. You’re laughing, but this is what’s happening. It’s unimaginable that the same parties that are silent right now would have tolerated behavior like that from me.” Clip courtesy @meidastouch.com

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CHLY 101.7FM @chly.ca · 19/09/2026

Election signs are now up Nanaimo! John Little has been working on sign crews since 1984 in Nanaimo, the region, and even in other provinces. “As you can see, I just asked people to come out, and today we had 14 people come out,” he said. “It's amazing. If you ask people to help, they will help.”

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“This is what democracy is all about, right?" Volunteer sign team erect election signs around Nanaimo — CHLY 101.7FM: Listener Supported in Nanaimo BC.

Wednesday night a Harewood backyard had been brimming with close to 1,000 election signs. Thursday morning, it was up to John Little to get those signs where people could see them. 

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Jesse Woodward @woodward.chly.ca · 17/09/2026

Who's this "Barbara Dave" on @chly.ca on this @intheredcanada.bsky.social program? Makes me think of that song "Barbara Anne" song.

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WIRED @wired.com · 08/09/2026

Researchers at the Tech Transparency Project (TPP) say they have discovered hundreds of new disturbing ads containing child sexual abuse material, after a previous similar incident. This time, they were able to identify images of real children.

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Meta Failed to Catch Hundreds of AI Child Abuse Ads. Some Included Images of Real Kids

Images of real children—including a member of a European royal family—were used to create some of the 350 ads containing child sexual abuse. Lawmakers say they plan to investigate.

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CHLY 101.7FM @chly.ca · 08/09/2026

A world of cinema is set to be a boat ride away next month. The Vancouver International Film Festival kicks off October first. The lineup was released last week and features 256 films from 76 countries, in 83 languages. We check in with Glen Grunau, president of NIFSS about the event.

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Previewing VIFF with the Nanaimo International Film Screening Society — CHLY 101.7FM: Listener Supported in Nanaimo BC.

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Jesse Woodward @woodward.chly.ca · 03/09/2026

Take our survey! Took me long enough to put it together, so I'd be stoked if you filled it in.

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Jesse Woodward @woodward.chly.ca · 02/09/2026

It is only 7(!!!) more seats to go for the BC Conservatives half their seats since their election high of 44 seats in 2024. I wonder if I should open a betting pool...

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Jesse Woodward @woodward.chly.ca · 01/09/2026

I forgot how much it amuses me, just how many Saaniches there are in the Capital Regional District. That’s just too many Saaniches.

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Jesse Woodward @woodward.chly.ca · 31/08/2026

The idea that some BC Conservatives have that if only they could purge the "liberals/Liberals" out of their party—which is a coalition at its heart, a "big tent" as they say is bizarre. It's a losing strategy in this province.

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Jesse Woodward @woodward.chly.ca · 27/08/2026

I need to watch Muppet Treasure Island, and Legend this weekend it seems.

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Jesse Woodward @woodward.chly.ca · 25/08/2026

The Canadian nationalistic urge to learn French to spite the Americans.

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Jesse Woodward @woodward.chly.ca · 24/08/2026

AI agent spam emails go directly into the garbage where they belong. Absolute dystopian trash.

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Sara Bliss @urbanistmom.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

My daughter and I just visited Victoria and had a great time. It’s just a few hours from Seattle on the Clipper. You can take bikes with you or rent them there. We even saw an orca on the trip back!

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lyndsay @magpie.tips · 23/08/2026

French is the big deal, yes, but this also reads like they wanted to roll back CANCON.

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Jesse Woodward @woodward.chly.ca · 22/08/2026

May we be blessed by his eventual passing and arrival in the darkest pits of hell.

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Simon Little 🍁 @simonplittle.ca · 22/08/2026

"The suggestion that Canada would not trade with other countries or reduce our trade with other countries ... would reduce us to the economic equivalent of the 51st state," Eby said. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

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U.S. trade demands aimed to reduce Canada to equivalent of 51st state, B.C. premier says | CBC News

Premier David Eby said that his government would support Canada's counter-measures in the wake of an escalation in the U.S.-Canada trade war.

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Jesse Woodward @woodward.chly.ca · 21/08/2026

This was a very interesting listen on false equivalency in media between the "liberal media" and the growing bad faith conservative media.

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Is Ground News a Right Wing Psy-Op?

Podcast Episode · Literate Machine · August 16 · 32m

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Justin McElroy 🇨🇦 @jmcelroy.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

BC Conservative MLA Peter Milobar has announced he is leaving the party and sitting as an independent. Milobar, who ran for its leadership, was accused in the race by Kerry-Lynne Findlay of being in a “conflict of interest” because his wife is Indigenous and had worked for a First Nation.

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Shannon Waters @sobittersosweet.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

My mind still boggles at the fact that heat is considered an essential service in rental housing here in B.C. but cooling is not A growing number of municipalities are taking action but - as everyone I spoke to pointed out - the issue is really the purview of the province and/or the feds #bcpoli

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WIRED @wired.com · 11/08/2026

A growing number of sites and apps have introduced tools and policies to flag, label, and ban AI-generated content, in acknowledgement of users’ backlash against AI slop and related issues such as the impact of data centers’ construction.

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The AI Slop Backlash Is Actually Having an Impact

Platforms are finally recognizing that people don’t want to consume AI slop. A growing number of sites and apps now have tools and policies to flag, label, and ban AI-generated content.

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Jesse Woodward @woodward.chly.ca · 11/08/2026

Did my first bit of reporting on local elections in Nanaimo, and I'm pretty darn happy with it. I usual just edit! Lovegrove strikes me as someone who may make the mayoral race in Nanaimo a little bit more interesting, and could very well give the incumbent a challenge.

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A third candidate for mayor enters the race for city hall in Nanaimo — CHLY 101.7FM: Listener Supported in Nanaimo BC.

Sarah Lovegrove has announced that she intends to run for mayor, joining Anne Marie Dryden and incumbent Leonard Krog in the race.

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CHLY 101.7FM @chly.ca · 11/08/2026

A third candidate for mayor enters the race in Nanaimo Listen—or read more—at www.chly.ca/news in #Nanaimo. CHLY 101.7FM, listener supported on the Salish Sea.

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A third candidate for mayor enters the race in Nanaimo

Sarah Lovegrove has announced that she intends to run for mayor, joining...

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CNN @cnn.com · 10/08/2026

"President Donald Trump is staring down two stark liabilities that threaten to damage his Republican Party in the midterms and to ruin his second term-legacy," writes Stephen Collinson. | Analysis cnn.it/4wkcNj3

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 09/08/2026

The complaints cite a ProPublica report detailing how CBS and Paramount have for years given FCC commissioners luxury gala tickets, which the commissioners accepted even as the FCC was reviewing or about to review major Paramount business decisions.

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FCC Commissioners Face Ethics Complaints for Taking Luxury Gifts From Paramount

Citing a ProPublica report on Paramount providing luxury Kennedy Center gala tickets to FCC officials, the complaints note that commissioners accepted the gifts while the FCC was reviewing or about…

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WIRED @wired.com · 08/08/2026

New AI toolbars and prompts are showing up in Google Docs and Gmail. If you don’t want Gemini’s help in writing documents and emails, here’s how to turn that stuff off. www.wired.com/story/how-to...

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How to Disable the AI Features in Gmail and Google Docs

New AI toolbars and prompts are showing up in Google Docs and Gmail. If you don’t want Gemini’s help in writing documents and emails, here’s how to turn that stuff off.

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