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tonyflorio.bsky.social
I Love cycling, music, technology and sleeping. Communications guy at Miovision, but my opinions are my own.
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This is how all companies behave in the absence of effective competition. It's bad for users and ultimately bad for innovation.

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

There may be a huge opportunity to think about lanes in terms of size, weight and speed to encourage innovation at the small, light, zero emissions part of the vehicle mix. Don't we want more of this in crowded urban areas?

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

In April, President Trump and Salvadoran President Bukele shook hands in the Oval Office to celebrate a deal to ship gang members to the notorious CECOT prison. But a new ProPublica investigation found there’s more to the story. 🧵👇

submitted 9 days ago • 81 comments

So glad I saw a chance to see him play a few years ago. There is such a bittersweet innocence in so many of his tunes that he wrote as a young man that still resonated -- perhaps in a different way -- as he played them as an older man. He will be missed.

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

I think that America has shifted from creating value to extracting value -- akin to what @pluralistic.net.web.brid.gy calls the 'enshitification' of tech platforms. 🧵

submitted 10 days ago • 2 comments

Good read, putting Trumpism within the great American tradition of televangelists, pyramid schemes, hucksters and snake oil salesmen.

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

I think the reason it works -- why cons in general work -- is they know we truly *want* to believe them. They promise easy, magic-pill answers to really challenging, complex problems. Your commute is contributing to climate change? No problem: buy this EV and you can read on the way to work!

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

"Ottawa has historically funded about 40 percent of NORAD investments ... and is putting $38B into the command to add new radars in the north over the next two decades. Without those investments ... officials believe the U.S. will have trouble putting together a credible North American air defense."

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

These precedents mean that long after Trump, the US will struggle with stability and reliability as an ally. Every election will mean a whole bunch of things can change by fiat.

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

Damning portrait of what the US presidency has become. A system that consistently creates these kinds of results cannot be relied on by Canada. Let's be friendly, but realistic. We need to quickly build capacity and find a range of reliable partners.

submitted 32 days ago • 0 comments

Interesting Canadian company working on practical diesel-electric hybrids for heavy-duty trucking. They have a great social media presence as well: a great down-to-earth hoser attitude, trying to develop practical tech for logging applications.

submitted 34 days ago • 0 comments

In the dead of night, the UCP passed the most comprehensive set of anti democratic reforms in Alberta history. No public consultation. No meaningful debate. How bad is Bill 54? Not horrible if you like Trump-style democracy. open.substack.com/pub/drjaredw...

submitted 37 days ago • 17 comments

Once again, the oligarchs have said the quiet part out loud.

submitted 39 days ago • 0 comments

Interesting read. Lewis Mumford was well ahead of his time.

submitted 40 days ago • 0 comments

Trump will destroy world trade, but democracies can defend themselves – and each other | Anders Fogh Rasmussen

submitted 41 days ago • 4 comments

Can the term ‘cloud fascism’ help us understand – and resist – the hard right? Ece Temelkuran www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

submitted 42 days ago • 4 comments

"The Liberals were 44 votes behind the Bloc Québécois in Terrebonne, 77 votes behind the Conservatives in Windsor-Tecumseh-Lakeshore and 77 votes behind the NDP in Nunavut. If the Liberals had found just 201 more voters across those three ridings, they would have" achieved a majority.

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