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Aspiring wizard, occasional jester. Full stack web geek, extra pickles, extra onion.
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Someone else said something very similar to this the other day, but. It really burns me that our (millennials') generation was legally terrorized for like, downloading Radiohead discographies But we're supposed to be ok with billionaires stealing human intellectual output in its entirety bc AI

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logging on as dead ritual. logging on as performative ancestral act beyond lost rite, mentioned vaguely in works now too old to share and too precious to grieve. logging on as ancient vanity, reserved for some now forever-lost slice of time where it was possible to have ever been logged off at all.

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

Don't turn PHP into Java wiki.php.net/rfc/short-an...

submitted 30 days ago • 5 comments

SCOOP As Chief Mark Neufeld announces his resignation, a ten-month investigation by Drug Data Decoded reveals extensive social media monitoring by his media relations unit that could violate federal privacy regulations. drugdatadecoded.ca/calgary-poli...

submitted 31 days ago • 7 comments

tech bro is short for technically broken

submitted 56 days ago • 30 comments

Love native support for vertical tabs in @firefox.com but still waiting for the option for pinned tabs to appear as regular tab (stuck to the top of sidebar), not just the fav icon.

submitted 42 days ago • 0 comments

It's not enough to be right, you also have to be cool, or else you're just annoying

submitted 200 days ago • 51 comments

We live in a time where Israel is using AI systems to optimize when to bomb families to death called 'Where's Daddy'. Where Hayao Miyazaki's entire art style became a snapchat filter for promoting imperial war crimes. Black Mirror is the optimistic version

submitted 50 days ago • 26 comments

You're never more fucked than when your keyboard is lit up but Numlock won't turn on.

submitted 53 days ago • 11 comments

20XX tech: share more memes, incite more screams, sell more beans, destroy more dreams

submitted 65 days ago • 0 comments

Danielle Smith Sets The (Not Treasonous) Record Straight youtu.be/2atTvG0MCCI

submitted 66 days ago • 45 comments

This is why Tim Houston kept his agenda secret during his campaign. It's what Cons do. They can't get elected if they tell the truth. He was elected on a mandate to fix healthcare. He's done nothing to improve it as he focuses on resource plundering to enrich foreign nationals.

submitted 67 days ago • 0 comments

Jira

submitted 67 days ago • 0 comments

Improving the process of building/maintaining an existing software product can involve some kicking and screaming. Unfortunately, that sort of leg room is a privilege.

submitted 67 days ago • 0 comments

Quisling (noun): a traitor who collaborates with an enemy force.

submitted 70 days ago • 312 comments

Where have all the tech creators gone?

submitted 72 days ago • 56 comments

Elbows up, Canada.

submitted 72 days ago • 1529 comments

“There shouldn’t be any caveats to political involvement in our society.” Whether one agrees with their goals or not, campus occupations are a legitimate form of engaged activism that should not be suppressed, writes @taylornoakes.bsky.social. thewalrus.ca/student-proteste...

submitted 81 days ago • 0 comments

they literally sent a mob to murder you and you're still confirming their picks

submitted 84 days ago • 1 comment

I know this is extremely vulgar idealism, but I do think we should try to aggressively reassert the norm that lying is bad. Not in a "Four Pinnochios" fact-checking kind of way, but in a way that frames this kind of lying as moral degeneracy that is fundamentally corrosive to the human spirit.

submitted 84 days ago • 612 comments

Marco Rubio will be in Quebec City 🇨🇦 Wednesday-Friday (March 12-14). Given the 🇺🇸 egg shortage, please place however many dozen eggs you can afford in a very hot place until March 11th and then hand-deliver them to the USA Secretary of State. Let the Trade War and threat of annexation yolk be on him.

submitted 86 days ago • 838 comments