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I know a lot of my colleagues and peers disagree with this, but I don’t think AI is inevitable. And I don’t think you’re necessarily going to fall behind or become obsolete as a developer if you decline to learn how to use LLMs, agents, or MCP

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I had the opportunity to present to Transportation Standing Committee on behalf of #KidicalMassHfx today, about our "All Ages and Abilities" bike network. You can watch the presentation here. It was positively received and the outcome is a staff report on our asks. www.youtube.com/live/i3s1YGo...

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👀 Watch government transparency in action—frame by frame. We just launched a live feed from the microfiche digitization lab! 📽️ Real-time scanning of government documents & records for Democracy's Library. ⤵️

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golden domes 👀

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Over 90% of reported Nova Scotia Covid deaths have occurred after protections were removed.

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nsheartstrings.online has been updated with the most recently reported deaths due to COVID-19 in Nova Scotia. The new total as reported by the provincial government is 1,211, with 52 deaths in 2025 (as of April 26) @popns.bsky.social

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It's World Bee Day! Here's a honeybee lino print I did ages ago. I should've made her legs thicker to ward off the wasp accusations but eh look at her cool jacket? #WorldBeeDay #LinoPrint

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Plan To Straighten Out Entire Life During Weeklong Vacation Yields Mixed Results theonion.com/plan-to...

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Soooo if Canada Post goes on strike at the end of this week, how does NS Power intend to contact Nova Scotians who were impacted by the cyber attack?

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your creation will bend timelines

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BRB telling everyone in my vicinity to go see Sinners like it hasn’t been out for weeks

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"After Google announced in February that it was abandoning its standing commitment not to use AI for weapons or surveillance, employees on the company’s internal message boards were remarkably quiet," wapo.st/43kG3K7 By @naominix.bsky.social, @nitasha.bsky.social & Trisha Thadani

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Sharp X68000 art deco visions of a sunset metropolis of the near-future, as seen through the eyes of those who'd bring us Another World and Flashback Also released onto DOS, PC-9801, Amiga, and ST (Which is where I know it from: 'miggy) 📺: Future Wars/Time Travellers: The Menace, 1989, Delphine

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Nova Scotia early access developed "boomer shooter" game "Virvius" just had a major update released today. The update includes "better, smoother gameplay, optimized level models and items and new textures ... well as fixing a years worth of bugs." store.steampowered.com/app/2335370/...

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I'm probably going to scrap this AI article which is currently sitting at 11 citations and I haven't even gotten to Marx's Theory of Alienation yet because at the end of the day my feelings can be summed up with these two memes instead:

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little fox practice

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Doctor to Halifax's 2SLGBTQIA community in the 1980s & 1990s donates money to Radstorm to buy their building on Gottingen Street wayves.ca/radstorm-bui...

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inside my browser there are two windows; one for writing a piece about "artificial intelligence" and one for writing fan fiction

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you can always do the “5 whys” in your incident review but be careful about going past that because after like 8 whys it’s just “capitalism”

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dipshits in 2019: you people are NPCs, you don't even think for yourselves dipshits in 2025: I have outsourced my thinking to Clippy

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Extremely hot days during pregnancy are linked to increased risks of complications like preterm birth, stillbirth, hypertension, maternal hospitalization & mortality, and more. Also, PEI, NS, and NL take top 3 spots in Canada for average number of pregnancy “heat-risk days” added by climate change.

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REVIEWING THE BEST 4K MONITORS! Wow this was a lot of work. Okay so the 4,000th best monitor is a horrible green-phosphor CRT from 1959 which gives you electric shocks during normal usage The 3,999th best monitor isn't much better. Get comfortable, we've got a long way to go until the good ones

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Please join us on June 7th to celebrate clean air day and the launch of our air filter lending library. Masks are (super) strongly recommended and provided.

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Are there any print shops that do riso printing in Nova Scotia?

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CNN: 'Jeff Bridges says he’s ‘feeling good’ nearly 5 years after cancer diagnosis, but dealing with ‘long-term’ Covid effects' Bridges: “My dance with Covid makes my cancer look like a piece of cake." www.cnn.com/2025/05/10/e...

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New article: A Case for Offline Music www.selfawaresoup.com/notes/2025/0...

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It's all fun and games until it has to be fun and a game

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✨🏳️‍⚧️✨🏳️‍⚧️✨🏳️‍⚧️✨ Submissions are open for the 2025 Asher MacDonald You First Award! To nominate a local 2SLGBTQIA+ youth in the community who is showing exemplary action advocating for more love, inclusion, and accessibility in Nova Scotia, email [email protected] For more info, visit our website! 🩵

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🇨🇦 Canadian game devs: Our Peer Accelerator program applications close May 16th! Build a sustainable studio with community support. Apply at babyghosts.fund → Peer Accelerator. Check our materials and apply to join Cohort 5. ⏰ One week left!

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if you’re seriously interested in a significant paradigm shift for the world, get into reading about disability justice. this work presents many useful refusals of standard critiques or celebrations of technology. it also supports ways to practice pluralistic thinking - deeply needed in democracy.

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Sharing for visibility: Mask Bloc Waterloo Region is currently holding a fundraiser and one of the members is selling mask chains with all proceeds going toward Mask Bloc Waterloo Region: www.nikkistclair.ca/product-cate... Donation receipts will be posted monthly on their website. 1/2

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Haligonia profits from allowing misinformation in its social media comments, so here's the NSHA page directly to save you a click. www.nshealth.ca/news-and-not...

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33 years after the Westray disaster killed 26 miners, Canada still sees 1,000+ workplace deaths every year. Enough is enough. Families & workers demand real enforcement of the Westray Law to hold negligent employers accountable. #Westray canadianlabour.ca/grieving-fam...

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A key learning from this livestream: when being pressured to use "AI" at work or school, ask, "What specifically are you wanting to automate and why?"

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Meta's PR absolutely lost its shit at us a few months ago when we wrote about how a student added facial recognition to its Rayban smart glasses, the underlying implication being that it would not do that itself. Well Well Well. WELL WELL WELL www.404media.co/well-well-we...

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This piece is a comprehensive but oh so readable discussion of a fraught topic. Come for the local politics catch-up, stay for the discussion of the broader legal landscape and complex colonial context!

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We already had Lorum ipsom!!!!!

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Just a reminder, the Clean Air Library HRM lends free air purifiers to community members hosting events. Let us help you make your gatherings safer and more accessible. Fill out the form to borrow an air purifier for your event! www.popns.org/community-ca...

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Nova Scotia Public Health has confirmed a case of measles in Halifax. Measles is highly contagious & transmitted through the air when people breathe, talk, sing, etc. In addition to vaccination, a well-fitted mask & improved ventilation help with infection control. www.nshealth.ca/news-and-not...

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