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22, He/Him, AuDHD Trans Rights are Human Rights. Free Palestine, Land Back, Communist of some description. Racing fan, usually Endurance or Rallying. #1 Tupolev Hater Currently hatewatching Canadian Cop Shows, read about it here. MDNI

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Dexter 🇨🇦🇵🇸 @dexterrsx.blackskycomra.de · Jul 30

Canadian Cop Show/PI Show/Anything that can be construed as part of ACAB show Hatewatch Tracker post here, gonna be explaining my thoughts and ratings for each I watch in full.

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Dexter 🇨🇦🇵🇸 @dexterrsx.blackskycomra.de · 4d

you see under capitalism, profit IS the good old boys club.

Dexter 🇨🇦🇵🇸 @dexterrsx.blackskycomra.de · 28d

And said Soccer Stadium is being expanded "Temporarily" for the World Cup.

MLSE always planned to make those Temporary Expansions permanent, thus the ruling.

Dexter 🇨🇦🇵🇸 @dexterrsx.blackskycomra.de · 28d

BattleHawks will get added as a 10th team.

The reason for these rule changes is the World Cup, BMO Field wants to make the temporary expansion permanent.

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · Sep 21

“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back into a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.”

It costs a lot less to house people.

Finland ends homelessness and provides shelter for all in need - scoop.me

In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Why? The country applies the "Housing First" concept agains homelessness.

thebetter.news

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Dexter 🇨🇦🇵🇸 @dexterrsx.blackskycomra.de · Sep 21

Also FYI, Turner and the Khans aren't much better, WBD caves to the regime, watch your local indie instead.

Dexter 🇨🇦🇵🇸 @dexterrsx.blackskycomra.de · Sep 21

This is the way

Dexter 🇨🇦🇵🇸 @dexterrsx.blackskycomra.de · Sep 21

The only way Palestine will be free is if the West Dies.

Death to The West.

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Jordan Roberts @corruptario.bsky.social · Sep 21

Now that it's nothing but rubble and corpses.

Now that its people have been crushed, shot in the head or starved to death.

Now that all the pediatric surgeons have been suitably gang-raped to death in prison.

Fuck you.

Mark Carney @mark-carney.bsky.social · Sep 21

Today, Canada recognises the State of Palestine.

My statement: www.pm.gc.ca/en/news/stat...

Quote graphic featuring the following quote from Prime Minister Carney’s statement on Canada’s recognition of Palestine: “Canada recognises the State of Palestine and offers our partnership in building the promise of a peaceful future for both the State of Palestine and the State of Israel.”

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Dexter 🇨🇦🇵🇸 @dexterrsx.blackskycomra.de · Sep 21

The OSEG model.

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Ryan Hillier @ryanhillier.bsky.social · Sep 21

An abhorrent, contradictory statement from Canada's Prime Minister which describes his vision for a demilitarized Palestinian state politically controlled by puppet forces.

Statement by Prime Minister Carney on Canada’s recognition of the State of Palestine

Since 1947, it has been the policy of every Canadian government to support a two-state solution for lasting peace in the Middle East.

www.pm.gc.ca

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Gallifreyan Jedi @jediofgallifrey.bsky.social · Sep 21

when you criticize capitalism

a screenshot of lists I've recently been added to:

@derparrot.bsky.social Kraut
2 days ago
Tankies and other Communists10,168
This list blocks people who made or liked posts supporting the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Assad, Hamas, CCP, and North Korea. Marxist-Leninists and prominent tankie accounts, those who liked or reposted them, people who whitewash the history of communist tyranny.
@promieniowanie.bsky.social Kamil
3 days ago
Stalin lovers, etc.56
Die-hard Stalin worshippers
@promieniowanie.bsky.social Kamil
3 days ago
Cummunists37
Stalin worshippers, communist crimes deniers, mentally challenged "leftists", superspreaders of Soviet and Russian propaganda etc.
@promieniowanie.bsky.social Kamil
10 days ago
Stalin lovers, etc.57
💩 USSR apologists, soviet crimes deniers, spreaders of Kremlin propaganda, mentally challeneged "leftists"💩

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Euan Tombstone @drugdatadecoded.ca · Sep 21

Why do we allow media to call a jail for kids where children get sexually assaulted a “youth centre”?

The Chronicle Herald @thechronicleherald.bsky.social · Sep 21

Former Nova Scotia Youth Centre swim instructor faces 66 charges in investigation into historical sexual abuse

RCMP have charged a former swim instructor at the Nova Scotia Youth Centre in Waterville with 66 historical sexual offences.

bit.ly

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Authentic Memes 4 Radical Teens @straythought.bsky.social · Sep 21

Right wing agitators are getting more aggressive in targeting activists. We need to be vigilant of bad actors pretending to be press.

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Dexter 🇨🇦🇵🇸 @dexterrsx.blackskycomra.de · Sep 21

They only understand Capitalism.

By all intents and purposes if China was capitalist, Evergrande would've brought the country down, but because they are Communist, they managed it's decline and nationalized the remnants.

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logo, acting spoopy @logophobe.bsky.social · Sep 21

AMERICA: "green tech"? Lol yeah right. Sounds fake and probably gay

CHINA: okay we'll do it then

NYT: What Is To Be Done About The Perfidious Chinese

Ahhhhh @nerdjpg.com · Sep 21

We are going to avoid worst case climate projections because of them…but at what cost?

The New York Times
What Will China's Green-Tech
Ambitions Cost the World?
3 days ago

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · Sep 6

Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia:
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical
thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity.
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Abstract: Under the banner of progress, products have been uncritically adopted or
even imposed on users — in past centuries with tobacco and combustion engines, and in
the 21st with social media. For these collective blunders, we now regret our involvement or
apathy as scientists, and society struggles to put the genie back in the bottle. Currently, we
are similarly entangled with artificial intelligence (AI) technology. For example, software updates are rolled out seamlessly and non-consensually, Microsoft Office is bundled with chatbots, and we, our students, and our employers have had no say, as it is not
considered a valid position to reject AI technologies in our teaching and research. This
is why in June 2025, we co-authored an Open Letter calling on our employers to reverse
and rethink their stance on uncritically adopting AI technologies. In this position piece,
we expound on why universities must take their role seriously toa) counter the technology
industry’s marketing, hype, and harm; and to b) safeguard higher education, critical
thinking, expertise, academic freedom, and scientific integrity. We include pointers to
relevant work to further inform our colleagues.

Figure 1. A cartoon set theoretic view on various terms (see Table 1) used when discussing the superset AI
(black outline, hatched background): LLMs are in orange; ANNs are in magenta; generative models are
in blue; and finally, chatbots are in green. Where these intersect, the colours reflect that, e.g. generative adversarial network (GAN) and Boltzmann machine (BM) models are in the purple subset because they are
both generative and ANNs. In the case of proprietary closed source models, e.g. OpenAI’s ChatGPT and
Apple’s Siri, we cannot verify their implementation and so academics can only make educated guesses (cf.
Dingemanse 2025). Undefined terms used above: BERT (Devlin et al. 2019); AlexNet (Krizhevsky et al.
2017); A.L.I.C.E. (Wallace 2009); ELIZA (Weizenbaum 1966); Jabberwacky (Twist 2003); linear discriminant analysis (LDA); quadratic discriminant analysis (QDA).

Table 1. Below some of the typical terminological disarray is untangled. Importantly, none of these terms
are orthogonal nor do they exclusively pick out the types of products we may wish to critique or proscribe.

Protecting the Ecosystem of Human Knowledge: Five Principles

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · Sep 20

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Dexter 🇨🇦🇵🇸 @dexterrsx.blackskycomra.de · Sep 20

LOL

Dexter 🇨🇦🇵🇸 @dexterrsx.blackskycomra.de · Sep 20

It's probably gonna need a lot more than that lol, tbf all the Communist Parties here are bigger jokes than the Rhinoceros Party.

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Dexter 🇨🇦🇵🇸 @dexterrsx.blackskycomra.de · Sep 20

I mean i wish the Maoists in my country weren't irrelevant because then we wouldn't have the Trots.

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Dexter 🇨🇦🇵🇸 @dexterrsx.blackskycomra.de · Sep 20

Nah, a Republic won't save ya.

Dictatorship of the Proletariat or bust.

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illbleed for sego dreancas @impemboganecue.bsky.social · Sep 19

Shareholders *wanting* a guy to lie for them is exactly how they got into this position in the first place. They're happy to shovel their money into a fake economy of flimsy promises and outright lies. That always has a sell-by date. It always gets exposed eventually

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · Sep 19

“.. Musk has Tesla shareholders in a Stockholm Syndrome .. Suppose they vote against him, and he leaves .. with his delusions ..

“.. Tesla would have to revert to trading closer to its fundamentals, which means slashing the stock price roughly in half ..”

@electrek.co
electrek.co/2025/09/19/e...

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Dexter 🇨🇦🇵🇸 @dexterrsx.blackskycomra.de · Sep 20

That would open then to a GDPR lawsuit

Dexter 🇨🇦🇵🇸 @dexterrsx.blackskycomra.de · Sep 19

Vote PSL.

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Tyler, from the Internet @tylerfromtheinternet.com · Sep 19

This is LITERAL fascism. This is actual despotism. This is what authoritarianism is. It was once thing to be warning it was coming and called alarmist but

like what

what is it gonna take before people actually get pissed off? A smoldering crater where a city used to be? "Well, NYC had it coming"

Scott Nover @scottnover.bsky.social · Sep 19

NEW: The Pentagon told journalists it will require them to pledge they won’t gather any information — even unclassified — that hasn’t been expressly authorized for release, and will revoke the press credentials of those who do not obey. @washingtonpost.com

Pentagon demands journalists pledge to not obtain unauthorized material

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is imposing strict new rules that would severely limit the ability of journalists to report on the Pentagon.

www.washingtonpost.com

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