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Tom Slee @tomslee.net · 3h

Fair enough. We all forget from time to time.

Tom Slee @tomslee.net · 3h

Too bad they didn't use Python and Textual, which I am fairly sure could have given a better experience. (Yes, I'm a fan of Textual).

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Tom Slee @tomslee.net · 6h

You obviously know that defined benefit plans are essentially gone in the private sector, so I am puzzled by your linking of these two facts. Do you mean something more than the public sector retirement plans?

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Tom Slee @tomslee.net · 21h

I remember one very smart girls in my class who was similar. Looking back, I suspect that "what went wrong" (although she did just fine in her adult life) was that we boys were encouraged more and competed among ourselves and all that social conditioning stuff. It was a long time ago mind you...

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Mark MacKinnon @markmackinnon.bsky.social · 1d

Donald Trump calling his ceasefire deal “Peace in the Middle East” doesn’t make it so - no matter how many world leaders (none of them the belligerent parties) gather to applaud..

What he’s done is restore something like the pre-Oct. 7, 2023 status quo, which was a long way from peace.

My take

At leaders’ summit in Egypt, Trump unveils fuzzy commitment to ‘peace in the Middle East’

Trump managed to hammer out a ceasefire deal between Hamas and Israel. But what comes next is unclear

www.theglobeandmail.com

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Jathan Sadowski @jathansadowski.com · 13d

What an unsurprising decision by corporations that desperately need to make money with AI. If every other company with a chatbot isn't already doing this, then expect them to be following Meta's lead soon. The chatbot is not your friend; it's a corporate listening device. www.ft.com/content/22f7...

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Meta will use conversations people have with its chatbots to personalise advertising and content across its platforms, in a sign of how tech companies plan to make money from artificial intelligence.

The owner of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp on Wednesday said it would use the content of chats with its Meta AI to create advertising recommendations across its suite of apps.

“People will already expect that their Meta AI interactions are being used for these personalisation purposes,” said Christy Harris, privacy and data policy manager at Meta.

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Tom Slee @tomslee.net · 1d

That's too bad. Critique itself, done well, is enough. Nobody demands of literary critics that they design a better book.

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Tom Slee @tomslee.net · 1d

Glad it's not just me to notice this: I thought I was going mad. At some point this did change, we were not always at war with Eurasia, and I want to know who is responsible so I can complain. Also, now it seems to be **bold** in the tools I use.

Tom Slee @tomslee.net · 1d

Similar: "a roomful of enthusiastic and over-caffeinated co-op students" (interns).

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Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 2d

A couple of parking signs for anyone who wants to print them out for this coming Saturday.

Parking Signs

If you want to print out a poster for October 18th, here are two; fully-guaranteed countrywide but maybe especially suitable for in and around New York. No King Anytime sign ...

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Julie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 3d

Thanksgiving in Canada has nothing to do with Columbus!

We are a colonial country with a million things to atone for but Thanksgiving is not one of them.

Our Thanksgiving is timed with the harvest and it's literally just "Be grateful for harvest"

US Imperialism has brain rotted too many of you.

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History and Heritage Yorkshire @handhyorkshire.bsky.social · 3d

The Jarrow march reached Harrogate OTD, 12, October in 1936. The marchers travelled 15½ miles from Ripon to arrive in Harrogate on that date, and then departed for Leeds the following day. It faced various challenges. The Labour Party conference's

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Tom Slee @tomslee.net · 3d

👍 The last place to delegate is where value depends on the worst-case behaviour.

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Tom Slee @tomslee.net · 3d

Ok but only if "undo" send was over a decade ago.

Tom Slee @tomslee.net · 3d

"Minister of defence procurement Stephen Fuhr" surely knows that "no decision" is in fact a decision: to purchase the F-35 planes from a country whose leader wants to take over Canada, in the name of defence.

My IRL friends call me Chris @christyceeck.bsky.social · 3d

I have some questions after reading this story...

“Our pilots are off to the U.S. in the next few months to start training,” she added. “The infrastructure is going up. We have airfields being extended to get ready, so we are definitely not in a position where we are waiting.”

‘We are moving forward’: top soldier says F-35 preparations continue despite government review

Chief of the Defence Staff Gen. Jennie Carignan says the Canadian military is moving ahead with its preparations for F-35 fighter jets despite an ongoing government review of the purchase.

www.ctvnews.ca

Tom Slee @tomslee.net · 4d

I first read your final item as "prior tantrums" but that was probably just me remembering my childhood.

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Blayne Haggart @bhaggart.bsky.social · 4d

My naive wish is that even one Canadian journalist, one politician, one security analyst, would address the implications of Canada choosing military integration with an authoritarian power that no longer respects the rule of law or international law.
Looks like that’s not going to happen today.

Golden Dome signals change to Canada’s long-time opposition to joining U.S. missile defence

Canada opted to stay on the sidelines in 2005 as the U.S. developed defences against ballistic missiles

www.theglobeandmail.com

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Tom Slee @tomslee.net · 4d

Agree. The repeated framing of the American threat as "tariffs" is a complete misunderstanding and underestimation.

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Tom Slee @tomslee.net · 5d

I have become a big fan of Ms. Lewis.

Tom Slee @tomslee.net · 5d

This is very good from Rita Trichur. Seems to me that the US has invoked National Security concerns to limit Canadian involvement in the US economy so it follows that the reverse is legitimate.

Ethan Lou @ethanlou.bsky.social · 5d

Washington buying stakes in Canadian miners creates national-security dilemma for Ottawa

The latest from the Globe's business commentary, by Rita Trichur: www.theglobeandmail.com/business/com...

Opinion: Washington buying stakes in Canadian miners creates national-security dilemma for Ottawa

The investments are a novel way for Trump to ratchet up the pressure on Ottawa to manufacture a ‘merger’ between the U.S. and Canada

www.theglobeandmail.com

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Tom Slee @tomslee.net · 6d

Not only that, but my 1990 work on Helium-ethyne intermolecular potentials did not receive the chemistry prize, again. #NobelSnub

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Tom Slee @tomslee.net · 7d

That's really interesting. I have to admit that the measurement problem has given rise to a lot of real-world results, even as I tend to think it's a morass to be avoided in general. But then I'm no one and he is Anthony Leggett, so I'm not going to argue hard for my view.

Tom Slee @tomslee.net · 7d

I don't associate @anitaoakvilleeast.bsky.social with wishful thinking, but there's a whole lot of it here.

Anita Anand @anitaoakvilleeast.bsky.social · 7d

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Tom Slee @tomslee.net · 7d

Searching for a trade agreement that can only yield better scraps from the US table is a fool's errand, part 482.

Toronto Star @thestar.com · 7d

#Breaking: Canada must come ‘second’ to U.S. in auto sector, Howard Lutnick warns behind closed doors.

Canada must come ‘second’ to U.S. in auto sector, Howard Lutnick warns behind closed doors

Appearing virtually, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick bluntly told an audience at a Canada-U.S. conference in Toronto on Wednesday that the United States is determined to dominate the car-making indu...

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Tom Slee @tomslee.net · 7d

No, Major-General, the call is coming from inside the house.

www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

Canada has been working for years to prepare for Golden Dome, Air Force general says

Major General J.D. Smyth says Canada and the U.S. face the same threat when it comes to potential attacks over the North Pole

www.theglobeandmail.com

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