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Karla Ortiz @kortizart.bsky.social · 1d

Canadian friends, your government is seeking commentary on GenAi strategies and policies.

Please let them know exactly how you feel about GenAi, it’s impacts, and what next steps should be! Perhaps it’s respecting artists works, environmental considerations and so on! Share your thoughts here 👇

Help define the next chapter of Canada's AI leadership

Current status: Open from October 1 to October 31, 2025 Canada helped invent modern AI. To stay a leader—and protect our digital sovereignty—we're running a 30-day national sprint to shape a renew...

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Aasheim @aasheim.bsky.social · 11h

Only lies detected🤬

Bill translation:

"The lawsuits from customers & fines are super expensive!

We're also being forced to upgrade & maintain all the infrastructure.

Why should we have to pay for all that stuff? Here, customer: you pay!

K? Thx. Bye!"

#SoCalEdison #ConsumerFraud #socalFires

Screenshot of Notice from Southern California Edison. Text in screenshot is:
"Understanding Updates to Your Bill You may soon notice updates to your electricity bill. We're here to help you understand these updates and the reasons behind them, as well as
solutions to help manage costs.

What to Expect
1 Beginning Oct. 1, 2025, residential electric rates will increase by approximately 13% to support investments in the safety, reliability and security of the electric grid. This update will begin on your October bill and the bills that follow."

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 1d

The various people trying to shame me for using large language models to do actual research and produce detailed teaching materials on their harms, instead of simply preaching against them on a street corner—they provide a perfect illustration of wank.

An essay on wank | deadSimpleTech

This captures well the uncomfortable, slightly disorienting feeling that wank creates when you're subjected to it, wherein you're expected to speak about and think about the statement as though it say...

deadsimpletech.com

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dannyodwyer @dannyodwyer.bsky.social · 1d

There are so many fantastic games in Next Fest this week but these 10 wonderful titles really resonated with our crew.

Awesome work from
@polygonbird.games
@blakemanorgame.bsky.social
@nicedreamgames.com
@bysameng.com
@pantaloon.io
@thegamebakers.com
@brlka.com

WATCH: youtu.be/2bEtbG_VYgU

10 Outstanding Steam Next Fest Demos - October 2025 Edition

YouTube video by noclip_2

youtu.be

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Aasheim @aasheim.bsky.social · 3d

If you boast about covert operations in a country 🤔

…are you sure you understand the definition and concept of covert?

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 3d

Himes: If you've got the capability to blow a boat out of the water, you've got the capability to interdict it, arrest everyone on board, interrogate them, and find out where it was going, where it came from, who the bosses are, and what the distribution networks look like.

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Dr. Kat Napaaqtuk❄️ @napaaqtuk.bsky.social · 5d

There needs to be more coverage of this in the news. I have read so many stories bout this on Facebook, first hand stories of the terror of that storm, and very little coverage n media.
www.facebook.com/100000960660...

Screenshot of a Facebook post. Photo is an elderly woman holding a child on her ap on a couch with flood water around them. Both are wearing jackets inside. Text says: This was after our 1st drift.. staying put for awhile. Our 3rd and final drift was terrifying. House moving fast then we started spinning in circles. While we were spinning in circles my oldest daughter was just staring at me while I held onto my younger two. Kipnuk doesn't look like kipnuk anymore, like more than 3/4 of the homes displaced, power poles fallen. It smells like stove oil outside. Contaminated

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Aasheim @aasheim.bsky.social · 5d

apple.news/AmQ1nSgqxQdm...

Easy Mode Is Actually for Adults — The Atlantic

Video games can be arduous. But real life is hard enough.

apple.news

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 7d

It's hard to help Americans left behind because so much of US identity is rooted in individualism. The average American conservative holds all three positions at once:

— Virtue signals about supporting US manufacturing
— Against raising the minimum wage
— Buys foreign imports because they're cheap

HardPass4 on Twitter tweets: "I'm willing to pay more for quality products if they are made in America, by Americans, who are paid a decent income." The tweet shows Norman Rockwell's "Freedom of Speech" painting, which is often used to show the tweeter is expressing a brave opinion.

HardPass4 on Twitter tweets: "MINIMUM WAGE JOBS WERE NOT MEANT TO BE A CAREER. Why does no one understand this? Entry level jobs are STEPPING STONES to better jobs. No one wants to work towards that though."

HardPass4 on Twitter tweets: "Buy $5 gloves instead of $50 ones. Trust me." The tweet shows a box of "Gorilla Grip" gloves.

The label on Gorilla Grip gloves show they're made in China.

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 13d

Link to register still open 👀👀👀

Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 15d

Columbia canceled my class on race and media, but I'm teaching the people anyway.

Oct. 5 is the *last day* to register for my online live + recorded classes on Race, Media & International Affairs!

We have more than 500 students enrolled. Let's gooo!

www.resistancesummerschool.com/fall-2025-re...

Fall Registration for Race, Media & International Affairs with Karen Attiah — Resistance Study Series

A virtual, seven week beginner and intermediate course on the history of race, mass media, and the modern world order.

www.resistancesummerschool.com

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Aasheim @aasheim.bsky.social · 7d

Me: Makes short "get it done" list for Sunday

Also Me: Spends 90 min on a task NOT ON THE LIST.

Totally perturbed with Me: Goes to the trouble to add the 90 min task to the list, so I can have the pleasure of crossing it off. 🫠

I am him. They are all me. I contain multitudes?

Enjoy your Sunday.

Aasheim @aasheim.bsky.social · 9d

Why'd you make me look at that? So much whiplash - all of it above the fold.

Aasheim @aasheim.bsky.social · 12d

So, so, soooooo hilariously good.

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Kitfox Games 🦊 @kitfoxgames.com · 16d

Caves of Qud has been nominated for Best Indie Game at the 2025 Golden Joysticks!

✅ Get your votes in now: www.goldenjoysticks.com

Vote now for Caves of Qud in the 2025 Golden Joystick Awards for Best Indie Game.

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Kristen Wixx @kristenwixx.bsky.social · 15d

Good morning, Mr. Phelps. Your mission, should you choose to accept it…

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Indie Fan Fest 🎉 @indiefanfest.bsky.social · 20d

Missed Indie Fan Fest last week? Catch up on over an hour's worth of awesome indie games below.

Featuring:
🎮Nearly 50 games
🌎Two world premiere game announcements
🗓️Three release date reveals
😲Shadow drops for five playable demos
➕Much more

Indie Fan Fest | September 2025

YouTube video by Indie Fan Fest

www.youtube.com

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Alberta Community Bat Program/Western Bat Program 🦇 @albertabats.bsky.social · 18d

RIP Jane Goodall. A remarkable life. An inspiration to many, especially women who embarked on their own journeys in field biology and wildlife conservation upon reading about her life and her work. Indeed, we all have our part in looking after our planet. Do some good today and make a difference.

A picture of Dr Jane Goodall with a quote: "You cannot get through a single day without having an impact on the world around you. What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make." - Jane Goodall

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 19d

Our first ad of the general election starts airing tomorrow: “Things Can Change.”

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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 19d

I can’t believe I’m watching interviews of city mayors talking about how they are coordinating with other mayors to discuss how to protect their residents FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES

I know we are “used to it” but it is absolutely insane

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Aasheim @aasheim.bsky.social · 19d

Bookshop.org is the best.

Reminder: you can select a local / physical bookshop to be "your main." Making it easy to buy books and support local business = Win Win

Coming up on a year with zero Amazon spend and
it is delightful.

Ger yerself some Bookshop.org!

#booksky #indiependentBookstores

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Aasheim @aasheim.bsky.social · 19d

MP also holds a bunch of patents* related to cloud gaming / tv

So - yeah - this is an attempt at influencing

*Our patent ecosystem is full of rot🤦

Aasheim @aasheim.bsky.social · 23d

“I have been asked by many people about the life & times of Amelia…”

Just crap, freely flowing, from both ends, all the time.

All the people waiting to ask the learned aviation historian Taco Trumpster Fire.

Sure. SURE.

If your lips are movin’, then you’re lyin’, lyin’, lyin’.

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Aasheim @aasheim.bsky.social · 23d

Friday Night Football #UVA #Cavaliers vs #FSU #Seminoles is a got dayam Shoot Em Up 👀🔥🏈

Woooooof.

Are you not entertained? Last team w/ball wins?

#FridayNightLights #CollegeFootball
#DefenseFree ;) #Virginia #Florida

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Henry Carnell @hencarnell.bsky.social · 26d

For years, medical professionals and transgender advocates have been saying the "Society for Evidence-based Gender Medicine" was not following the principles of evidenced-based medicine.

Now the "godfather" of evidence-based medicine is leveraging the same claim against them. (1/)

Trans health care "skeptics" lost a key ally—now they're having a meltdown

The godfather of evidence-based medicine on rejecting anti-trans "misuse" of his work.

www.motherjones.com

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Carol Mertz @carolmertz.itch.io · 26d

HEY have you been working on something interesting this year? Submissions to the Experimental Games Showcase at GDC are now OPEN through October 24, 2025! Send us your weird games!

More about the session and where to submit is on our new website: www.experimentalgamesshowcase.com

Experimental Games Showcase

SUBMIT YOUR GAME TO THE

www.experimentalgamesshowcase.com

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