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Thanks @pq.org 🙏🏻 No thanks, @liberalca.bsky.social I understand the arguments, but I don't want "move fast & break things" sensibilities in our infra projects. Make the case across #indigenous cultural divides, or you haven't earned the right to do it. www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/politics/fed...

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Christiane Amanpour, "The people of Iran have been demonised and dehumanised, always associated with their leadership" "The people of Gaza have been dehumanised and delegitimised" "It's not fair to have collective punishment"

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US scrambles to bring back VOA’s Persian service amid Iran-Israel conflict. Staggering incompetence by the Trump Admin that just keeps breaking things on purpose only to later realize those things might be needed. www.politico.com/news/2025/06...

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Also sending love to my Persian and Iranian friends tonight. 🫂

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It's exciting when you're working on a complex thing, and you're seeing how (even if it's maybe not there yet) the story will get easier and easier to share. That means something. That's perhaps the simplicity on the other side of #complexity.

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AI Objectives is hiring a Program Director for Talk to the City! We're growing our team to support increasing interest in partnerships, looking for a product manager and spokesperson to lead the project as it gains visibility. Learn more & apply here: ai.objectives.institute/program-dire...

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Great move getting Dropkick Murphys to play at a veterans event in DC: archive.is/q3uJC "We’re at the throats of one another, though we share a single fate And the golden few laugh on and on, as we all take the bait." -- Who will stand with us? open.spotify.com/track/7l7rmR...

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history is tomorrow's hindsight today

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@andreamills.bsky.social @brewster.kahle.org was unfortunately busy with logistics of my own dolphin tank breakout and didn't get a chance to say hi at the civic hacknight, but thanks SO MUCH for speaking both <3 I hope something flows back from the @civictechto.bsky.social #civictech community

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🧵Thread on feedback from the MUN Organizer 👇 [1/X]

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Sometimes I wonder if cognition isn't just time travel emulation. Our brains make models of the future, & arising from our these microscopic synapses, information arrives FROM THE FUTURE, collides with information from the past, & transforms the present. It's pretty wild.

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This Tuesday! Andrea Mills (Exec Dir of @internetarchiveca.bsky.social) and Brewster Kahle (founder of Internet Archive) present Democracy's Library: a global initiative to provide free, permanent access to govt and civic information. 𝗝𝘂𝗻 𝟭𝟬, 𝟳𝗽𝗺: in person and online guild.host/events/civic...

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Trans man uses women's restroom to follow the law. Police detained him for it anyway. - LGBTQ Nation www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/05/tran...

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Thank you to the brilliant Clare Morell for this critical, practical, accessible and grounded guide to how to protect our kids from the ravages of social media. We need more voices like this!

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Just passed a line of under-dressed catgirls stream into the street, fire alarms blaring, as 2 fire trucks of firemen arrived and started milling around. Yay Toronto

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@carolaboehm.bsky.social was really nice meeting you on @decidim.org dev call that @leandroaraujos.bsky.social was hosting! I came across @pierre.mesu.re's list of instances, and figured maybe it might help you find collaborators in the UK when they arrive :) decidim-census.digidemlab.org

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Hey @codeforcanada.bsky.social, just FYI that the "Get Involved > With Our Community" menu link is not working on your website. I think it's supposed to go to: codefor.ca/volunteer-2/ :)

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Energized! For all those who missed the live conversation, it looks like the VOD is here: www.twitch.tv/videos/24725... Grateful to @are0h.bsky.social and @dairinstitute.bsky.social for including me on the panel, along with the crew and our fellow panelists @sotreu.bsky.social + @rudyfraser.com 🙏🏾.

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Our first conversation is focused on bike lanes in Toronto. Whether you're a cyclist, driver, pedestrian, or transit user, your insights are valuable. 🕒 The survey is open until the 30th of May. 👉 Click here to participate: publicsquareto.github.io/bikelanes.html

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I'm honoured to be a Rapporteur at the Sarajevo meetings of the #gazatribunal, starting shortly, live feed at youtube.com#gazatribunal

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📢 26-29 MAY 2025 #GazaTribunal The GAZA TRIBUNAL convenes its first Public Assembly in Sarajevo 🔴 WATCH LIVE: https://youtube.com/@gazatribunal +infos: https://gazatribunal.com #StopGazaStarvation #StopImpunity

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Intrusive thought the past year: maybe consciousness is just an emulation layer for quantum retrocausality, in which present results from interaction of particles arriving from the past and the future. See: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two-sta...

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Gratitude @nxthompson.bsky.social. It’s terrific talking with #InnoMinds such as your good self.🙏 AI can be a force for good if shaped using #TaiwanModel🇹🇼 cornerstones. Listen to The Most Interesting Thing in AI podcast🔽 & let's #FreeTheFuture🖖 — together! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...

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As always, amazing #democracy things taking shape in Japan around the #plurality Tokyo community: github.com/team-mirai/p... (be sure to auto-translate)

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We're officially launching the Global Dialogues Challenge!

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Blessings for the warm onboarding.🙏 Our collaboration comes at a critical juncture in the development of AI.💯 I'm excited to share the #TaiwanModel🇹🇼 & take inclusive & transparent technology to new heights.🚀 Let's double down on ⿻Plurality & #FreeTheFuture🖖 — together!

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@zariajalan.bsky.social Bwaha oh look who it is, loitering around in the attributions medium.com/jigsaw/annou...

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Hey @nishio.bsky.social, has my silly app been helpful in any way? I'm curious to explore more data related to your efforts in Japan, or discuss whether anything like this can support more people to explore the data and develop insight :) patcon.github.io/polislike-op...

submitted 36 days ago • 1 comment

Amsterdam's Community Land Trust H-buurt recently used Quadratic Voting 🖖 Check out this video to hear about their experience: www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zPX...

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PM Carney met Trump at the White House last week and passed his first real test. Now he faces a different kind of test. Will Canada be willing to go "elbows up" in the Sunoco/ Parkland energy takeover and kill the deal? @mendelmatt.bsky.social, @jonshell.bsky.social 👇 #Never51 #CanadaSky

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Hey @biancawylie.com, I know you were interested in this way back in 2016 when we ran an electoral reform convo on Polis. Am curious your thoughts on whether these new dimensional reduction algos (e.g. LocalMAP) offer potential for new, accessible insight/exploration patcon.github.io/polislike-op...

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Making progress on this tool for exploring opinion landscapes revealed by new algorithms being put to work on pol.is data! Added group comparisons for comments! Works for small to large convos, 25 to 30,000 partcpnts :) t.co/yW50JGVyfl #democracy #delibwave

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Assume "curiosity", "surprise" & "laughter" are the subjective experience from inside a self-aware attention allocation process, being drawn to & rewarded by certain stimuli. So what if we meet aliens & they're way funnier than us? What might that say about the process of intelligence? About us? :)

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