W.A. Harnum
@waharnum.bsky.social
i do government digital and technology stuff and i used to do library digital and technology stuff, in Canada
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New CBS contributors announced: Grand Moff Tarkin, Lex Luthor, Norman Osborn, Cruella De Ville, Javert, Titus Andronicus, Killmonger, and the Beastfly from Silksong.
January 27, 2026 at 10:05 PM
New CBS contributors announced: Grand Moff Tarkin, Lex Luthor, Norman Osborn, Cruella De Ville, Javert, Titus Andronicus, Killmonger, and the Beastfly from Silksong.
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Philip Glass boycotting the Kennedy Center
Philip Glass boycotting the Kennedy Center
Philip Glass boycotting the Kennedy Center
Philip Glass
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Philip Glass boycotting the Kennedy Center
Philip Glass boycotting the Kennedy Center
Philip Glass boycotting the Kennedy Center
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Philip Glass boycotting the Kennedy Center
January 27, 2026 at 4:17 PM
Philip Glass boycotting the Kennedy Center
Philip Glass boycotting the Kennedy Center
Philip Glass boycotting the Kennedy Center
Philip Glass
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Philip Glass boycotting the Kennedy Center
Philip Glass boycotting the Kennedy Center
Philip Glass boycotting the Kennedy Center
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Philip Glass boycotting the Kennedy Center
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Never forget that the reason they are so convinced you’re all getting paid is that they are all getting paid.
The fact that every right winger with influence screams "who is paying for all of this" tells you exactly how awash in cash they all are, and how much they rely on that to keep their movement afloat.
James O'Keefe says he's never seen anything so organized as the anti-ICE movement, observers--he seems to think this term is code--everywhere he goes. Who is paying for it??? he demands to know. It's like he can't even imagine people caring for one another.
January 25, 2026 at 3:31 PM
Never forget that the reason they are so convinced you’re all getting paid is that they are all getting paid.
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They know their audience has an insatiable appetite for seeing black women humiliated for exceeding their station, so when it didn’t happen they used AI to complete the fantasy bsky.app/profile/nyti...
The White House posted a digitally altered image showing a demonstrator involved in interrupting a church service in Minnesota last weekend crying as she was arrested on Thursday.
A previous version of the image, also posted by an official government account, showed her looking forward calmly.
A previous version of the image, also posted by an official government account, showed her looking forward calmly.
White House Posts Altered Photo Showing Arrested Minnesota Protester Crying
The New York Times ran the image posted by Kristi Noem, the homeland security secretary, as well as the one posted by the White House through an A.I. detection system. It concluded that the White House’s version showed signs of manipulation.
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January 23, 2026 at 1:33 PM
They know their audience has an insatiable appetite for seeing black women humiliated for exceeding their station, so when it didn’t happen they used AI to complete the fantasy bsky.app/profile/nyti...
Last RT - thank you @naomikritzer.bsky.social for that post, I have donated to www.ilcm.org/donate/, which allows donations from outside the USA. God bless the people of Minnesota in their resistance to tyranny, and God break the teeth of the wicked there (in the metaphorical sense, of course).
Donate to ILCM
Every dollar donated to the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota goes to support our mission of providing the highest quality legal services, education, and advocacy to meet the needs of low-income immig...
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January 21, 2026 at 5:42 PM
Last RT - thank you @naomikritzer.bsky.social for that post, I have donated to www.ilcm.org/donate/, which allows donations from outside the USA. God bless the people of Minnesota in their resistance to tyranny, and God break the teeth of the wicked there (in the metaphorical sense, of course).
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ARE YOU A NON-MINNESOTAN WHO WANTS IDEAS OF STUFF TO DO TO HELP MINNESOTA RESIST FASCIST TYRANNY? Have I got a blog post for you! With additional advice for how to get ready in case tyranny shows up at YOUR doorstep next!
naomikritzer.com/2026/01/21/h...
naomikritzer.com/2026/01/21/h...
How To Help if You are Outside Minnesota
I’m going to assume that if you’re reading this, you more or less understand the situation in Minnesota and I don’t have to explain it to you! That said, I do have a section of lo…
naomikritzer.com
January 21, 2026 at 4:13 AM
ARE YOU A NON-MINNESOTAN WHO WANTS IDEAS OF STUFF TO DO TO HELP MINNESOTA RESIST FASCIST TYRANNY? Have I got a blog post for you! With additional advice for how to get ready in case tyranny shows up at YOUR doorstep next!
naomikritzer.com/2026/01/21/h...
naomikritzer.com/2026/01/21/h...
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Gary Larson: In my cartoon I invented Cow Tools as a cautionary tale
Cows: At long last, we have created the Cow Tools from classic newspaper comic Cow Tools
Cows: At long last, we have created the Cow Tools from classic newspaper comic Cow Tools
January 19, 2026 at 5:04 PM
Gary Larson: In my cartoon I invented Cow Tools as a cautionary tale
Cows: At long last, we have created the Cow Tools from classic newspaper comic Cow Tools
Cows: At long last, we have created the Cow Tools from classic newspaper comic Cow Tools
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The key to understanding Bradford is knowing that he’s flop-sweat desperate to be the next mayor, so he talks a bunch of left-wing talk when we have a right-wing mayor, and vice versa. That looks like inconsistency until you realize what it is that he’s consistent about.
Brad Bradford is using his former bike riding credibility to curry favour w the anti bike folks and become mayor. 'Don't worry I used to ride a bike and I now hate bike lanes too' (for political gain). This guy is the worst.
January 18, 2026 at 4:13 PM
The key to understanding Bradford is knowing that he’s flop-sweat desperate to be the next mayor, so he talks a bunch of left-wing talk when we have a right-wing mayor, and vice versa. That looks like inconsistency until you realize what it is that he’s consistent about.
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Every time I hear "I'm old, it's too hard to adjust" I think about this man in his 70s seeing transphobia take hold of the country and saying directly, with conviction, from the highest soapbox he could find, "fix your hearts or die."
January 16, 2026 at 8:46 PM
Every time I hear "I'm old, it's too hard to adjust" I think about this man in his 70s seeing transphobia take hold of the country and saying directly, with conviction, from the highest soapbox he could find, "fix your hearts or die."
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Fix your hearts or die. Every review I've ever written of one of David Lynch's movies is free and open to the public.
Miss you, old man.
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Miss you, old man.
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January 16, 2026 at 8:45 PM
Fix your hearts or die. Every review I've ever written of one of David Lynch's movies is free and open to the public.
Miss you, old man.
www.patreon.com/posts/40315637
Miss you, old man.
www.patreon.com/posts/40315637
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I never thought I would walk away from Star Trek. I’ve written about it for a decade and I’ve eagerly shared it my entire life. But given who owns it now and who stands to profit from Trekkies’ loyalty, I can’t keep promoting it. The Trekkie in me won’t allow it.
Here’s why I’m beaming out.
Here’s why I’m beaming out.
I Can Say Goodbye To Star Trek Because Star Trek Raised Me
Star Trek instilled in me many of the same values that are taught in houses of worship across the world, but in my faith, there is no God to judge or punish me—I learned how to rely on my own moral co...
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January 15, 2026 at 6:50 PM
I never thought I would walk away from Star Trek. I’ve written about it for a decade and I’ve eagerly shared it my entire life. But given who owns it now and who stands to profit from Trekkies’ loyalty, I can’t keep promoting it. The Trekkie in me won’t allow it.
Here’s why I’m beaming out.
Here’s why I’m beaming out.
"Without a developer willing to put in the time, most of these products wouldn’t exist; and if coders simply follow instructions with a blind eye to the end result, the ethical consequences can be severe." - article is from the first Trump term, even more relevant now.
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With Prospect of Muslim Registry, Programmers Consider a Code of Ethics | The Walrus
Can an innovative, rapidly expanding profession abide by a single set of rules?
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January 15, 2026 at 4:04 PM
"Without a developer willing to put in the time, most of these products wouldn’t exist; and if coders simply follow instructions with a blind eye to the end result, the ethical consequences can be severe." - article is from the first Trump term, even more relevant now.
thewalrus.ca/with-prospec...
thewalrus.ca/with-prospec...
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Can you imagine being the software engineers, engineering managers, product managers, designers, QA testers, and devops that built and run this? Cashing out your palantir equity for "deportation targets"? Accomplices and ghouls, all of them
January 15, 2026 at 3:01 PM
Can you imagine being the software engineers, engineering managers, product managers, designers, QA testers, and devops that built and run this? Cashing out your palantir equity for "deportation targets"? Accomplices and ghouls, all of them
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The Prestige (2006)
January 9, 2026 at 2:04 AM
The Prestige (2006)
Prepping for a certification exam and reminded how my least favourite part of any certification exam is being required remembering which branded services do what. Reminds me of this classic Simpsons "school of the future" bit.
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Partial Credit (The Simpsons)
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January 8, 2026 at 7:02 PM
Prepping for a certification exam and reminded how my least favourite part of any certification exam is being required remembering which branded services do what. Reminds me of this classic Simpsons "school of the future" bit.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxYz...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxYz...
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If the DEA had killed 80 innocent Americans in the course of apprehending one drug dealer, there would be riots. But we are so ghoulishly indifferent to the lives and humanity of people abroad that it's barely even part of the conversation.
A reminder that the US killed 80 people in Venezuela, and it would be nice if the US media cared enough to think that the life of a grandmother in Caracas whose building is destroyed by a US bomb matters as much as the life of a person in the US.
January 5, 2026 at 8:57 PM
If the DEA had killed 80 innocent Americans in the course of apprehending one drug dealer, there would be riots. But we are so ghoulishly indifferent to the lives and humanity of people abroad that it's barely even part of the conversation.
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No need for a futuristic sci-fi take on What It’s Like To Be Grok, whether it can meaningfully apologize, anything like that. X is paying for synthetic revenge porn and CSAM at enormous scale because it amuses its insane king and appeases its sick users. The implementation details are irrelevant.
January 4, 2026 at 11:29 PM
No need for a futuristic sci-fi take on What It’s Like To Be Grok, whether it can meaningfully apologize, anything like that. X is paying for synthetic revenge porn and CSAM at enormous scale because it amuses its insane king and appeases its sick users. The implementation details are irrelevant.
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I think the AI angle of this is obscurant. It doesn’t matter that grok is “an AI” whatever you take that to mean. Suppose X hired a team of guys to photoshop the clothes off of women and children whenever anyone asks. That’s functionally identical what happening here. It’s not complicated.
A functional country would shut Grok down permanently. Like, immediately. Right now. Last week. Whatever. Just flip the switch. Obviously.
January 4, 2026 at 11:25 PM
I think the AI angle of this is obscurant. It doesn’t matter that grok is “an AI” whatever you take that to mean. Suppose X hired a team of guys to photoshop the clothes off of women and children whenever anyone asks. That’s functionally identical what happening here. It’s not complicated.
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Abysmal statement from Canada on the illegal US action in Venezuela.
It doesn’t matter how much you dislike Maduro, that doesn’t justify a violation of international law and the UN Charter. You can’t call on “all parties” to respect international law and not call out US lawlessness.
It doesn’t matter how much you dislike Maduro, that doesn’t justify a violation of international law and the UN Charter. You can’t call on “all parties” to respect international law and not call out US lawlessness.
Please see my statement on the situation in Venezuela:
January 3, 2026 at 3:48 PM
Abysmal statement from Canada on the illegal US action in Venezuela.
It doesn’t matter how much you dislike Maduro, that doesn’t justify a violation of international law and the UN Charter. You can’t call on “all parties” to respect international law and not call out US lawlessness.
It doesn’t matter how much you dislike Maduro, that doesn’t justify a violation of international law and the UN Charter. You can’t call on “all parties” to respect international law and not call out US lawlessness.
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I have been thinking that the major divide in Canadian politics now is really wrestling with Trump’s US or wholly embracing it, and now Pierre Poilievre and Melissa Lantsman are praising Trump’s illegal attack on Venezuela while Danielle Smith pushes separation. It’s a really dangerous time.
January 3, 2026 at 6:12 PM
I have been thinking that the major divide in Canadian politics now is really wrestling with Trump’s US or wholly embracing it, and now Pierre Poilievre and Melissa Lantsman are praising Trump’s illegal attack on Venezuela while Danielle Smith pushes separation. It’s a really dangerous time.
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Gotta say, if I were a Canadian politician, I would be very careful about praising Donald Trump for illegally bombing an oil-rich country and arresting its leader on what are pretty much imaginary allegations of narco trafficking
January 3, 2026 at 6:00 PM
Gotta say, if I were a Canadian politician, I would be very careful about praising Donald Trump for illegally bombing an oil-rich country and arresting its leader on what are pretty much imaginary allegations of narco trafficking
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The demonization of Somalis is no different than the demonization of Haitians before the election. It's a political attack and has to be actively fought—not through half-measures or expressions of tepid concern but by demanding decency from society and respect for all of humanity.
January 2, 2026 at 8:24 PM
The demonization of Somalis is no different than the demonization of Haitians before the election. It's a political attack and has to be actively fought—not through half-measures or expressions of tepid concern but by demanding decency from society and respect for all of humanity.
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“The last best hope on earth”
I don’t know how to explain to Americans that we all interpret American exceptionalism as the drumbeat of the imperial war machine, promising emancipation and delivering exploitation. It is disgusting.
This is a threat. We interpret it as such.
I don’t know how to explain to Americans that we all interpret American exceptionalism as the drumbeat of the imperial war machine, promising emancipation and delivering exploitation. It is disgusting.
This is a threat. We interpret it as such.
January 2, 2026 at 9:58 PM
“The last best hope on earth”
I don’t know how to explain to Americans that we all interpret American exceptionalism as the drumbeat of the imperial war machine, promising emancipation and delivering exploitation. It is disgusting.
This is a threat. We interpret it as such.
I don’t know how to explain to Americans that we all interpret American exceptionalism as the drumbeat of the imperial war machine, promising emancipation and delivering exploitation. It is disgusting.
This is a threat. We interpret it as such.
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Ex-Meta chief AI scientist Yann LeCun has Lunch with the FT and in one of those instances so rare that you know he didn't sign an NDA, says exactly why as.ft.com/r/e503690d-8...
January 2, 2026 at 1:32 PM
Ex-Meta chief AI scientist Yann LeCun has Lunch with the FT and in one of those instances so rare that you know he didn't sign an NDA, says exactly why as.ft.com/r/e503690d-8...
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They invariably slide down the radicalization pipeline and end up sounding like this guy; making gutter racist arguments with the polite veneer of a technocrat
January 2, 2026 at 7:09 AM
They invariably slide down the radicalization pipeline and end up sounding like this guy; making gutter racist arguments with the polite veneer of a technocrat