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@cstross@wandering.shop If we stop submitting to Big-Sphere, we could adjust day and night to our taste across Flat Earth.
Also, just make Pi = 3 already.
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mastodon 4.7.3Tries to be helpful. Maker/Thinker. Qualia-tative methods/Research-Creation theories. He/They. Tiohtià:ke(Montréal, QC)
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Chaotic Good
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@SamanthaJaneSmith@lgbtqia.space @casdeiro@15-15-15.social @gerrymcgovern@mastodon.green Where?
The WHO reports no observable negative health effects:
https://www.who.int/news-room/questions-and-answers/item/radiation-electromagnetic-fields#
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@gerrymcgovern@mastodon.green @casdeiro@15-15-15.social @SamanthaJaneSmith@lgbtqia.space Data centre’s are terrible for myriad rational reasons. We don’t need irrational reasons to fear them.
The PQ are Trump-lite with a Québecois accent; Thin-skinned and ready to silence dissent.
https://montrealgazette.com/news/provincial-news/provincial-politics/pqs-harassing-complaints-against-psychiatrist-broke-international-law-amnesty-report-says/
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@fname@kamloops.social @TrueNorthSpice@mastodon.world I want to see the details. Is this old wine in new bottles that Trump is selling, or is he deluding himself?
The ApQ..(Excuse me, the Partie Québecois) and the AfQ(Alternatif Frechette Québec, formerly the CAQ) are very ‘European’, (Like the AfD) in so far as they blame the Province’s problems on immigration.
And not their overweening emphasis on cultural topics versus to build homes, protect the environment, etc, and accept that living in pluralistic societies is both inevitable and desirable.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/immigration-impact-on-quebec-housing-crisis-and-schools-9.7340552
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@andthisismrspeacock@mas.to This needs to be repeated even in so-called “Socialist” Canada. This stuff worked so well(subsidize ‘the poors’, etc) during the pandemic the billionaires went full-court press(pun intended) to say it didn’t.
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@tsyum@thepit.social I recently completed Québec’s First Responder (Secourist) course.
We were advised that we might have to administer Naloxone multiple times because once a dose wears off, the patient can go back into the symptoms of an overdose. The goal is not to wait that long, but get professionals involved ASAP.
Absolutely, call 911 as soon as possible.
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@ZenHeathen@beige.party I built my patchy academic career on Anna’s, Lib-Gen, Sci-Hub, because my little teaching college couldn’t afford a big list of journals, etc.
Glad to help!
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Doctorow points out that when the current miscreants go belly up, the technology will be seen for what it is: a handy heuristic reference based on sources that you provide yourself. No need to sort through peta-bytes of data in a server farm. It can run locally and do the job. It can even improve as you give it back your edits of your own work. But that means thinking, and not racing to the false efficiency of letting a complex gambling machine replace your judgement with electronic dice.2/n
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@albertcardona@mathstodon.xyz @ketan@climatejustice.social You’ll get colder winters(though shorter over time) and brutally hot summers(growing longer and hotter over time). Canada isn’t winter + July.
To be Canadian is to be very nice…until it’s time to not be nice:
https://thebeaverton.com/2026/07/meet-the-canadian-civil-servant-responsible-for-sending-our-wildfire-smoke-to-the-u-s/
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@Chacheneguer@neopaquita.es @angelastella@social.treehouse.systems My wife’s comment ”We don’t get angry enough around here” (We live in Québec).
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@madeindex@mastodon.social @r_alb@mastodon.social @mkj@social.mkj.earth If a company is ‘too Big to Fail’ then maybe it is just too big.
“Once a model is available on your device, per the specification, any website you visit will be able to send prompts to that model without requesting permission to do so, then do whatever it wants with the responses. And again, Gemini Nano is on your device if you’re using Chrome”
So you have an “AI buddy” with access to your files, ID, and credit card, and said “buddy” works for any website you browse, and Google?
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@deane@contenttechtodon.org @paninid@mastodon.world *Choosing* to train for a marathon versus being guilted into exercise via body dysmorphia vs being horse whipped while walking for hours carrying a load vs threatened with abject poverty if stopping for a pee break.
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@VeroniqueB99@mastodon.social Let’s not forget “and feel empathy and caring for others”.
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@N33R Absolutely true, yet we are also space orks consuming naturally occurring poisons for fun(hot peppers, alcohol, caffeine, etc). Choosing to live in climates that could kill us. Inviting predators into our homes and raising them as family members(cats, dogs, reptiles)….
https://humansarespaceorcs.tumblr.com/page/2
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@shlee@aus.social IIRC Robert Heinlein mentioned “The Green Hills of Earth” as a spacer’s folk song in a couple of his stories. I think he included a couple of stanzas.
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@VeroniqueB99@mastodon.social Dang, I got a nice new, bath robe for Father’s Day, because I didn’t know what to ask for.
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@Chacheneguer@neopaquita.es @angelastella@social.treehouse.systems They’ve lost two referendums, so not so angry, I guess. Just a bit pouty.
This is the way for any new industrial plant, data, cement, auto, etc. any where. If it isn’t feasible, then it isn’t needed.
https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/australias-new-data-centres-must-be-majority-renewable-powered-says-minister-2026-08-05/
“If your bureaucracy is more concerned with fighting fraud than delivering service, then it isn't a service delivery system at all – it's a service denial system.” -Cory Doctorow
AI vs AI in the bureaucratic equivalent of “Bum Fights”.
https://pluralistic.net/2026/08/10/deep-state-wopr/
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@VeroniqueB99@mastodon.social Some Hot Butter for that pop corn?
https://youtu.be/rSxsKtuUVx8
Hot Butter - Popcorn - 1972
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@danirabbit@mastodon.online Into the streets, and looking for change. The ‘powerful’ never learn.
The World’s Worst People have a Plan:
Essay & Podcast by Damien Walter.
Julian Huxley wrote the blueprint.
His brother, Aldous Huxley, wrote Brave New World as critique of that blueprint.
Walter’s essay features a concise explanation of how TESCREAL / Transhumanism is eugenics for the 21st century.
https://damiengwalter.com/2026/08/07/the-worlds-worst-people-have-a-plan/
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@timo21@mastodon.sdf.org @lauren@mastodon.laurenweinstein.org Or chewing gum “ooops, didn’t mean to stick it THERE.”
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@crispius@mstdn.fname.ca @EdwinG@mstdn.moimeme.ca Or we should introduce a made-in-Canada approach based on post office banking, including consumer credit.
“He had never heard of the tragedy of the commons, where one sheep too many consuming more than its share of common resources destroys the whole,” Borsook wrote, “nor had he thought much about what participating in a community means.” 1/n
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/08/cyberselfish-paulina-borsook/
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@chu@climatejustice.social One of BP’s examples, but Exxon, etc are all guilty of this manipulation. The level of horror, through war and pollution, that these organizations have inflicted is inexcusable.
So what are we going to do about it?
https://www.propublica.org/article/wedges-climate-research-bp-fossil-fuel-princeton?utm_campaign=propublica-sprout&utm_content=1782388819&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky
