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@janis.bsky.social
Vancouver librarian, writer, music and radio type (etc.), often worrying about mis/disinformation and AI. I block profiles that give a weird vibe -- sorry if this leads to some errors. (Opinions are my own.)
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I dunno, but what if products like Word came with educational versions that didn't actively encourage plagiarism and cheating? Crazy idea.
January 20, 2026 at 5:37 PM
I dunno, but what if products like Word came with educational versions that didn't actively encourage plagiarism and cheating? Crazy idea.
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Today we launched our 2025 Climate Action Progress Report, evaluating the #BCgov.
The result? 8 failing grades, and 2 grades of minor progress. The worst outcome in 4 years.
FULL REPORT: bcclimateemergency.ca/progress-rep...
@cape-bc.bsky.social @myseatosky.bsky.social @ubcic.bsky.social
The result? 8 failing grades, and 2 grades of minor progress. The worst outcome in 4 years.
FULL REPORT: bcclimateemergency.ca/progress-rep...
@cape-bc.bsky.social @myseatosky.bsky.social @ubcic.bsky.social
January 19, 2026 at 11:31 PM
Today we launched our 2025 Climate Action Progress Report, evaluating the #BCgov.
The result? 8 failing grades, and 2 grades of minor progress. The worst outcome in 4 years.
FULL REPORT: bcclimateemergency.ca/progress-rep...
@cape-bc.bsky.social @myseatosky.bsky.social @ubcic.bsky.social
The result? 8 failing grades, and 2 grades of minor progress. The worst outcome in 4 years.
FULL REPORT: bcclimateemergency.ca/progress-rep...
@cape-bc.bsky.social @myseatosky.bsky.social @ubcic.bsky.social
Sometimes it's good that humans can get used to anything, but it worries me that over my lifetime people have become accustomed to street homelessness, climate change, and politicians doing and saying things every single day that would have destroyed their careers 15 years ago.
January 20, 2026 at 5:28 AM
Sometimes it's good that humans can get used to anything, but it worries me that over my lifetime people have become accustomed to street homelessness, climate change, and politicians doing and saying things every single day that would have destroyed their careers 15 years ago.
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A greeting card for my Bluesky friends
January 17, 2026 at 10:53 PM
A greeting card for my Bluesky friends
I have three of these on Commercial Drive:
1) The Storm Crow: not for the food so much as the full-on and joyous commitment to nerdery. (Also, they published one of my stories on a beer mat!)
2 & 3 ) A couple of tapas places: Santas Tapas and The Latin Quarter....
1) The Storm Crow: not for the food so much as the full-on and joyous commitment to nerdery. (Also, they published one of my stories on a beer mat!)
2 & 3 ) A couple of tapas places: Santas Tapas and The Latin Quarter....
Bistro LQ, on Beverly Boulevard. Offal; ant egg & nasturtium tacos; a "dessert cheese" cart with 40+ raw milk offerings imported from France; sea urchin & tapioca shooters: what I remember as an a la carte menu that ran for pages, but also a way-underpriced tasting menu that left me in a food coma.
Sunday night timeline cleanse
please tell me about your favorite lost restaurant (closed for at least 5 years, like I really want you to go back into the vault), why you loved it and what you ate there
please tell me about your favorite lost restaurant (closed for at least 5 years, like I really want you to go back into the vault), why you loved it and what you ate there
January 19, 2026 at 3:04 AM
I have three of these on Commercial Drive:
1) The Storm Crow: not for the food so much as the full-on and joyous commitment to nerdery. (Also, they published one of my stories on a beer mat!)
2 & 3 ) A couple of tapas places: Santas Tapas and The Latin Quarter....
1) The Storm Crow: not for the food so much as the full-on and joyous commitment to nerdery. (Also, they published one of my stories on a beer mat!)
2 & 3 ) A couple of tapas places: Santas Tapas and The Latin Quarter....
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I’ll never get tired of this ad at our local indie theater 😂
January 19, 2026 at 1:45 AM
I’ll never get tired of this ad at our local indie theater 😂
I agree.
And to take it a little further: why not increase supports for lower-income folks for the long term? During the days of CERB we definitely saw signs in my neighbourhood that reducing poverty was good for all of us.
And to take it a little further: why not increase supports for lower-income folks for the long term? During the days of CERB we definitely saw signs in my neighbourhood that reducing poverty was good for all of us.
Carney's pointless middle class tax cut will cost $28 billion and barely anyone will ever even notice it.
Amnesty for everyone who took COVID money and can't pay it back would cost $10 billion, prevent a great deal of suffering, and probably save some lives.
Amnesty for everyone who took COVID money and can't pay it back would cost $10 billion, prevent a great deal of suffering, and probably save some lives.
Average Canadian family to save $280 next year from Liberal tax cut: PBO | CBC News
The average Canadian family will save $280 on their taxes next year from the Liberal government's planned income tax cut, the parliamentary budget officer said in an analysis released on Wednesday.
www.cbc.ca
January 18, 2026 at 6:08 PM
I agree.
And to take it a little further: why not increase supports for lower-income folks for the long term? During the days of CERB we definitely saw signs in my neighbourhood that reducing poverty was good for all of us.
And to take it a little further: why not increase supports for lower-income folks for the long term? During the days of CERB we definitely saw signs in my neighbourhood that reducing poverty was good for all of us.
Omg yes, this is it.
Part of the struggle with the LLM discourse is that genuine (i.e. non-grifter) proponents talk exclusively about the possibilities of the transformer architecture in an ideal future with a rational business model.
Whereas opponents largely talk about the world we live in today, and its constraints.
Whereas opponents largely talk about the world we live in today, and its constraints.
What many of us have been saying for a while: AI*-related technologies are tools like any other technology, useful in some places, not in others. If it had been presented (and funded) as such, we'd be in a better place.
Instead, tech ideologues pushed AI* as the Second Coming, went all-in on it. /1
Instead, tech ideologues pushed AI* as the Second Coming, went all-in on it. /1
January 18, 2026 at 5:48 PM
Omg yes, this is it.
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MAGA = Make America Go Away
January 18, 2026 at 12:45 AM
MAGA = Make America Go Away
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Other car companies already spying on people. Maybe we can do something about that?
“Chinese EVs will spy on us”
well I live in the Maritimes, so I hope the CCP are getting hyped to look at 9 consecutive hours of identical pine trees
well I live in the Maritimes, so I hope the CCP are getting hyped to look at 9 consecutive hours of identical pine trees
January 17, 2026 at 7:41 PM
Other car companies already spying on people. Maybe we can do something about that?
Honestly anything that makes it look more obviously worse to users is fine with me.
January 16, 2026 at 10:45 PM
Honestly anything that makes it look more obviously worse to users is fine with me.
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Over the last year the entire "free speech on campus" beat has been revealed as an utter fraud. Years of punditry puked out in ignorance and bad faith.
Yet even as the fraud becomes undeniable we still get stories about wide-eyed idealists who just wanted 'ideological diversity' and 'open debate'.
Yet even as the fraud becomes undeniable we still get stories about wide-eyed idealists who just wanted 'ideological diversity' and 'open debate'.
January 16, 2026 at 10:39 PM
Over the last year the entire "free speech on campus" beat has been revealed as an utter fraud. Years of punditry puked out in ignorance and bad faith.
Yet even as the fraud becomes undeniable we still get stories about wide-eyed idealists who just wanted 'ideological diversity' and 'open debate'.
Yet even as the fraud becomes undeniable we still get stories about wide-eyed idealists who just wanted 'ideological diversity' and 'open debate'.
Many great voices in this thread, but I think the young ones may not have heard of Julie London.
Fun question: Who has the sexiest singing voice? Not singer who is sexy physically? But whose voice alone is sexy.
January 16, 2026 at 8:51 PM
Many great voices in this thread, but I think the young ones may not have heard of Julie London.
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Roses are red
Nazis are lurking
Beware of them here because
Nazis are lurking
Beware of them here because
X has stopped working
X has stopped working
www.independent.co.uk
January 16, 2026 at 4:16 PM
Roses are red
Nazis are lurking
Beware of them here because
Nazis are lurking
Beware of them here because
There might be some opportunities for librarians here?
January 16, 2026 at 7:17 PM
There might be some opportunities for librarians here?
So far I can report that 3 / 3 east vancouver residents I've talked to were awakened by foghorns at 5 am and will be extremely sleepy today.
January 16, 2026 at 6:53 PM
So far I can report that 3 / 3 east vancouver residents I've talked to were awakened by foghorns at 5 am and will be extremely sleepy today.
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In case you needed to be reminded about positive forces for good in the world today:
Wikipedia had its first edit on January 15, 2001, and in the 25 years since, Wikipedia has been entirely edited by volunteers and has never been open to advertising. Wikipedia now hosts articles in 342 languages
#Wikipedia #Wikipedia25 #WikimediaFoundation #Wiki #NPtech #InternetFreedom
#Wikipedia #Wikipedia25 #WikimediaFoundation #Wiki #NPtech #InternetFreedom
January 16, 2026 at 1:03 AM
In case you needed to be reminded about positive forces for good in the world today:
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He was put in prison and forced to listen to over 300 hangings, before which the prison would sing to soothe the victims. "I learned from them very early that what one does with Nazis is kill them,” he said at a 2023 conference on antinuclear activism in Johannesburg. “I am not a pacifist.”
He used his doctoral thesis to expose Apartheid South Africa's secret nuclear program and then included detailed instructions in his forced confession, which a judge read aloud in court, on how to sabotage all of the critical facilities.
Holy hell, what an obituary
January 15, 2026 at 6:15 PM
He was put in prison and forced to listen to over 300 hangings, before which the prison would sing to soothe the victims. "I learned from them very early that what one does with Nazis is kill them,” he said at a 2023 conference on antinuclear activism in Johannesburg. “I am not a pacifist.”
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You know those scenes where two AI assistants talk to each other, and absolutely nothing happens?
I'm currently observing a work-related email thread that is a lot like that.
(I really feel for my colleague who is trying to deal with it.)
I'm currently observing a work-related email thread that is a lot like that.
(I really feel for my colleague who is trying to deal with it.)
January 14, 2026 at 8:56 PM
You know those scenes where two AI assistants talk to each other, and absolutely nothing happens?
I'm currently observing a work-related email thread that is a lot like that.
(I really feel for my colleague who is trying to deal with it.)
I'm currently observing a work-related email thread that is a lot like that.
(I really feel for my colleague who is trying to deal with it.)
Great news! Support Bandcamp -- support actual artists.
Hell yeah. Support them, buy music on Bandcamp, show all these other ghoulish companies that THIS is the way to get customers.
January 14, 2026 at 8:44 PM
Great news! Support Bandcamp -- support actual artists.
Thank you the journalists and media pushing back against this BS.
Under the UN's Declaration of Human Rights, which Canada is a signatory, Canadians have the recognized right to seek, receive and impart information, whether orally, in writing, or in print.
Canadians, including the press, do not need the permission of police to do their jobs.
Canadians, including the press, do not need the permission of police to do their jobs.
Stop Blocking Media from Reporting on Police Activity, Leaked Recommendations Say | The Tyee
The Tyee has obtained part of an upcoming BC human rights commissioner report on press freedoms in the province.
thetyee.ca
January 14, 2026 at 7:41 PM
Thank you the journalists and media pushing back against this BS.
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