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Nick P@npilon.bsky.social |
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Dartmouth, NS dad; software engineer; fan of giant robots in many contexts, board games, RPGs. Queer rights are not negotiable.
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Nick P
@npilon.bsky.social
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It’s time for a hot take to dislodge the discourse. The Last Continent is actually the best Rincewind book and, with some mild editing of the worst run-on scenes, removal of the entire “sick Librarian” plot, and a bit of polish, would be a fine Discworld entry overall.
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Nick P
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“Maybe the candidate himself should mention it” The candidate’s social media accounts, interviews, and stump speeches have been doing very little else since shortly after the debate, in what was clearly a planned transition. The candidate IS mentioning it. The VP IS mentioning it. Srsly
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Max Kennerly
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I'm tired of the in-fighting, and have therefore accepted the Democratic nomination for POTUS. My platform: 1) The Beekeeper, for real. 2) Automatic revocation, retroactive 10 years, of non-profit status for any religious entity if an official is convicted of a sex crime. 3) Normal lib stuff.
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Samit Basu
@samitbasu.bsky.social
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So, Barnes and Noble members, The Jinn-Bot of Shantiport paperback is preorderable, PREORDER25 will save you 25%!
www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-jinn-b...
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Luke LeBrun
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NEW: Top Shopify executive’s right-wing media website rails against immigrants while defending a legally designated terrorist group. The right-wing Canadian media website ‘True North’ deleted its interview with the founder of the Proud Boys shortly after being contacted by PressProgress:
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Suzanne Rent
@suzannerent.bsky.social
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In the latest story in my series on Sable Island, I write about Audrey Levesque, the visitor experiences coordinator who lead the tour of the island.
I learned more about her work, plus what she loves about the island.
www.halifaxexaminer.ca/education/th...
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Nick P
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I think there's also a split around the news media; a lot of folks involved with, eg, trans rights had already priced in reporters printing sensational lies to get kudos in the group chat.
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Courtney Milan
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At the size of the largest businesses in the US, there is no “economy of scale” benefit to consolidation. They are at maximum economy of scale. They’re already behemoths. The benefit of consolidation is just that fewer people get a choice, and so they get all the money.
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Cheryl in Nova Scotia
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New survey asks for public opinions on current state of policing in Nova Scotia
atlantic.ctvnews.ca/new-survey-a...
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Nick P
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I was allergic to peanuts over 30 years ago and still am. And there were kids back then who thought it was *hilarious* to sneak some into my lunch and watch me freak out. Guessing these wonderful folks in your screenshot would've been in that crowd.
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Tim Bousquet
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Here’s a court decision about a pug named Finley www.halifaxexaminer.ca/morning-file... Morning File by me
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Dani cRabaiotti 🦀
@danirabaiotti.bsky.social
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So I want to talk about this from the perspective of someone who does professional fact checking as part of my work. For some years now I have been paid to check TV and written content themed around animals to make sure it is factually accurate. Chat GPT & AI has made that job so much harder.
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Megan Fox
@glassbottommeg.bsky.social
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HAH. You know all that Return To Office Is Really Happening news that monied interests keep trying to shove out?
No. No, not at all. Office vacancies are at an all-time high. www.axios.com/2024/07/09/o...
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Max Kennerly
@maxkennerly.bsky.social
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Adam Liptak should be fired for this. It's not some sort of minor technical error or a debatable issue. He's simply lying.
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Nick P
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Opening the Halifax front in the war on cars
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Dan Peterson
@danp.net
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Halifax will be a cycling city come hell or high knotweed. Not surprising every person who walked/rolled/cycled by expressed some form of gratitude for our work. I’m mad and disappointed this city fails them.
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hola, mi nombre es francine pants
@robertjbennett.bsky.social
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"the use of heavy machinery or any tool of modern industry is a grave sin" is one of the stupidest, worst legacies of the 1970s environmentalist era
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Nick P
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That it might ever get to that point was a core aspect to the dispute! And like I said, the top Dem in the Senate was on activists’ side on this one. But other factions wanted to see both fail, and here we are.
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Nick P
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Judges are an especially touchy point with Senate leadership because activists - and Senate Leader Reid - were very vocal about the need to play hardball in 06-14, and Senior Senators (esp Durbin & Feinstein) & Rahm Emanuel resisted so as to not be seen to be pressured.
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Jen
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Psst. Just 5 more sleeps until the July #KidicalMassHfx ride in Dartmouth's Shubie Park. The weather is shaping up nicely, and we're getting excited for the Shubie Pump Track! All the details are up on our website, here: hfx.bike/kidical-mass...
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Matt Blair
@mjmbca.bsky.social
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OPSEU is running ads that say “Doug Ford is ruining summer,” highlighting closures at the Science Centre, Ontario Place and the LCBO while noting that the $2.5 billion in LCBO revenue “is supposed to go to hospitals and schools.” keepitpublic.ca
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Nick P
@npilon.bsky.social
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Everyone knows that presidential immunity extends to all official acts and an exemption from temporal causality, right? (/s)
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Michael Tae Sweeney
@mtsw.bsky.social
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It's worth considering why the media - with many outlets funded by or directly owned by oil interests - does so many stories about difficulties of long road trips in EVs and so few about how you can fill your car up at home and never visit a gas station or charger ever. bsky.app/profile/tom4...
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Halifax Examiner
@halifaxexaminer.ca
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Buy tickets for the Tattoo, have your credit card number stolen
www.halifaxexaminer.ca/morning-file...
Morning File by @philmoscovitch.bsky.social
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Dale Smith
@journodale.bsky.social
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Roundup post: Giroux tries his hand at semantics #cdnpoli
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Cheryl in Nova Scotia
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This archaeological site could prove humans lived in northern Sask. earlier than we thought
Location near Prince Albert offers clues to when Indigenous people arrived nearly 10,000 years ago
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Michael Tae Sweeney
@mtsw.bsky.social
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yup. i think there were both genuine safety concerns but even moreso a moral panic among parents who thought they were living in a place where their kids could be tightly locked down who suddenly discovered they were living in a place where their kids had tons of freedom once they got an ebike
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Nick P
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self tying. Sneakers. Sneakers that do the thing I can do in about thirty seconds. 🙃
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Louisa
@louisathelast.bsky.social
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I’ve seen people responding to this as though either OP is criticizing the child or as a reason to criticize “this generation.” And both of these takes are nonsense. Kids are using ChatGPT this way because this is also how adults are using it, and this is about how it is a dangerously bad tool
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Diane Duane
@diane.dianeduane.com
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Status report, WTF dep't: I appear... to be writing a cozy mystery. ... ... Thoughts & prayers, folks. :)
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Nick P
@npilon.bsky.social
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You mean strategic voting isn’t a waste of time and is in fact necessary to effectively exercise power? 😱
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Michael Tae Sweeney
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We're on like the 4th consecutive empty tech cycle - "big data" then "crypto/blockchain" then "metaverse" now "A.I." - while a huge technological revolution that will change our entire economy in the form of solar energy and grid storage happens basically unnoticed in the background.
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Ed Zitron
@zitron.bsky.social
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Goldman Sachs recently issued a report called "GenAI: Too Much Spend, Too Little Benefit?" savaging the industry, with GS' Jim Covello saying that there's limited upside, and that it's incapable of solving the complex problems that would make it worth it.
wheresyoured.at/pop-culture/
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Patrick Nielsen Hayden
@pnh.bsky.social
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“Fascism sucks up power left unattended” deserves to be carved over the entrances to grand public buildings
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Nick P
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And then CBC follows up with a "why the French election was actually a huge victory for the far right even though they came in third" piece that's just barely this side of "voting against fascists is unfair". Both top stories.
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Nick P
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God the CBC politics coverage today is terrible. What I'm going to assume is Markusoff treating Danielle Smith's dental tantrum as if she's making a serious request and has the power to do anything (it's not and she does not).
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Tim Bousquet
@timbousquet.bsky.social
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Celebrating 10 years of the Halifax Examiner with highlights from each year www.halifaxexaminer.ca/morning-file...
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Cheryl in Nova Scotia
@minibubbly.bsky.social
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Unemployment rate by Provinces & Territories in Canada for June 2024
Link here: www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/daily-quo...
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Matt Blair
@mjmbca.bsky.social
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“If voting changed anything, they’d make it illegal” is a cool and catchy saying among smug non-voters, and it would make a lot more sense if not for the reality of widespread gerrymandering and voter suppression.
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Nick P
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And totally leaves aside all the other ways to try to thwart people using their votes, like the grand California traditions of “deceptively worded ballot measures” and “sixteen candidates all trying to sound like they’re the real progressive when half of them are literally militia chuds”.
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Nick P
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We gotta put the work in. I’m gonna start haranguing Fisher to actually get the cabinet out doing press about their wins.
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Taniel
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I wrote this in 2017, shortly after Macron's 1st win.
I said: Macron is so open about being hostile to Left, that it salvages a huge path for the broad left to be an alternative... if it manages to unite.
Few things I've ever written have aged so well.
democracyjournal.org/arguments/re...
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Nick P
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The effects have been more or less as expected; conservative voters are energized and turn out heavily for by-elections, answer polls, etc; everyone else is sick of it.
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Nick P
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Unfortunately it takes really powerful election laws to prevent conservative parties from using “perpetual campaign” tactics anyway; here in Canada, Doug Ford and Poilievre both use their fat stacks of cash to run campaign rallies and advertising year round, despite theoretically short elections.
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Taniel
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Speaking right now: Eric Ciotti. Remember him? He was head of LR/right a month ago, when he unilaterally decided to ally with RN/far-right. His party rushed to throw him out. He won reelection. But a big loser tonight since he threw away his leadership but didn't win power.
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Nick P
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Vote in every single election
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Doctora Malka Older
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Taniel
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JUST IN: Polls closed in France. Exit polls show surprise: —Left coalition (New Popular Front) projected first. (!) —Far-right (RN) has lost its bid to take power. Anti-RN front appears to have worked very well. —No bloc close to majority. Follow this 🧵 for results and more:
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Nick P
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Yup! I think it’s one of the advantages of cloud solutions like GSuite or O365 - it’s more obvious it’s not YOUR computer so people are less likely to try to hide that shit there.
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