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<p>Okanagan BC Canada. Avatar is a fictional, generated face. If you think I&#39;m behaving badly (mansplaining, reply guy-ing, being rude, offensive, etc.), please call me on it!</p>

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    RE: https://fosstodon.org/@libreoffice/117450114861526715 Fascinating post. Standards can become functionally closed through three mechanisms: 1. Unnecessary complexity 2. Ambiguity or limited specs 3. Permitting proprietary extensions

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    RE: https://www.threads.com/@aaron.rupar/post/Demzig1j5da When Trump says that Canada is spending US money on a universal healthcare system that we shouldn&amp;#39;t be allowed to have, you can read that as, &amp;quot;Americans won&amp;#39;t be allowed to have a universal healthcare system&amp;quot; along with the other more terrifying military implications.

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    RE: https://mastodon.social/@climatenewsnow/117457787967358906 Climate hushing is happening in Canada, too. Both federally and in BC, where even the Greens didn&amp;#39;t mention the climate crisis during the leaders&amp;#39; debate.

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    A woman was complaining about some local kids hanging out and being loud at night around a local gas station store. She also complained that they were tearing around the soccer fields on their e-bikes. It occurred to me that I have started seeing kids outside more in the last couple of years than I did in the decade before the pandemic...

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    @pzmyers @cstross I see how they got to their &quot;extravagant&quot; conclusions, though. They looked at contemporary octopuses, and noted that they&#39;re intelligent predators, and they then said, &quot;What if today&#39;s octopuses were huge?&quot; Their answer, that they must have been top predators, makes sense, because we tend to equate &quot;large predator&quot; and &quot;top predator,&quot; although that&#39;s a bigger stretch for something published in Science!

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    This is like some creepy cross between William Gibson @GreatDismal and Cory Doctorow @pluralistic ... A Japanese company is hiring low wage Philipino workers to remotely operate robots in Japanese convenience stores. They get migrant labour without the migrants. https://restofworld.org/2025/philippines-offshoring-automation-tech-jobs/

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    Jobs are often used as a deceptive proxy for profits. Extractive industries will always cry, &quot;But the workers will lose their jobs!&quot; when the industry is threatened. From logging to coal mining, it&#39;s always the same. This is where good policy can help. Assist the workers, while dismantling the industry.

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    Keeping the ISS flying for a couple more years is a good idea. A private space station is a terrible idea. https://mastodon.cloud/@slashdot/116180969943239219

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    I wonder if bad AI code would be reduced if companies treated all AI code as if it was written by the person who used AI to generate it. You generated it, you&amp;#39;re 100% responsible for it. If it causes outages, it&amp;#39;s your fault. https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/116205075329513597

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    Ohhhh. It all makes sense now. Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr points out that Trump&#39;s trade shenanigans are all part of a long history of US enshittificaton of the international trade system, for all the same reasons as Facebook&#39;s and YouTube&#39;s decline. Who would have thought that an international trade system could be vulnerable to enshittificaton? It turns out that it breeds in the shadows of all kinds of monopoly. https://pluralistic.net/2026/01/26/i-dont-want/#your-greenback...