Mick 🇨🇦

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Average middle-aged guy from various places in Ontario.

Into #running, #books, #videogames, the #fediverse.

At least a little bit #buddhist. Trying to lead an examined […]

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Via Rail train 641, 44 minutes late this morning (so far.) This train is usually late. Virtually every time I have taken it in the past two years. Via are cancelling it altogether in another two weeks, citing low ridership. The train that follows it later in the morning will not arrive in […]

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@emd I *so* want them to get this right.

The tech is useful but the privacy implications are horrifying.

Apple’s approach promises a way to have the benefits without the privacy compromise.

If they can deliver on that promise it would be amazing.

Seems a big “if,” sadly.

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@emd I see glimmers of promise, it’s (ostensibly) more capable of more things, but it’s still incredibly flaky and frustrating.

It just stops working with surprising frequency and i keep finding it easier to do the thing I want with my thumbs rather than fighting it.

Most recent attempt was […]

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“On today’s episode of Iran: the Latest, Sophia Yan catches up once again with Israeli best friends Adam Ben-Shabbat and Nadim Tali from the Oasis of Peace, a Jewish and Palestinian Israeli village. They discuss the impact of the Iran war, rising racism and anti-Semitism, and the prospects for a […]

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“The unique complex contains more than 1,300 square feet of underground space, including tunnels and storage rooms - and even a hand-built railway...Tony, whose initial day job was in the construction of aerodrome and airport infrastructure, started the construction work by himself during the […]

@brucelawson.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gyReposted by @mick.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy

Your valiant boy about to head into the European commission to meet a Big Tech Gatekeeper about the insane request by European commie users to run software they choose on devices they own.

Me in front of a big building
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Build the pipeline to move the oil to heat the atmosphere to change the climate to burn and flood Canadian towns…. It’s not enough to keep them up, we also have to watch where those elbows are pointing.

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Researchers have assembled this interactive map that evaluates the impact of US #tariffs across the country.

Some fascinating and distressing insights here. E.g. the community where I live has a couple factories that feed the auto plants in Oshawa.

They estimate that 23% of the people who work […]

@brenttoderian.bsky.socialReposted by @mick.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy

The number of separatists in Alberta is very small, but every single one of them will vote in the separation referendum. It’s critical that everyone who doesn’t want separation votes as well, or else this could easily be Canada’s own Brexit moment. Don’t assume anything. Vote. 

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