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Principal Canadian Engineer @ AWS working on λ & everything else Serverless (buses, pipes, schemas, schedules, APIs, & sometimes even workflows and state machines) Support Ukraine & Trans lives NOW, when it matters the most.
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I don't know who needs to hear this, but www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUft...

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Before the recent b.s. down south, the Miller trade, & the Hughes injury...I was 100% planning on cheering for the US not Canada in the 4Nations & don't think I was the only #Canucks fan like this. Hope Huggy, Garly, & Brock know this, as VCR boos their anthem for the rest of the season 😬

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"It depends"

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Here's a fun question. Who determines what is "trending on X" in the Google result. Is it Google, is it X, and might it have any reason to put it's thumb on the scale. Confirmed in Incognito Mode. Why is "America First Post" with <1K likes showing up on this?

submitted 26 days ago • 2 comments

Remember the poet of "First They Came..." voted for the Nazis 3 times. The poem probably should've started with "First they came for the trans people, and I did not speak out because I wanted that". Years from now when Americans talk about this time they'll lie too.

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Corey Perry is a coward.

submitted 43 days ago • 11 comments

TIL Reddit is fundamentally fucked in ways I didn't even imagine. /r/changemyview auto-deletes any references to "trans" because they feel the ADMINS do biased enforcement of trans discussions. www.reddit.com/r/changemyvi... (screenshot section of my deleted comment)

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“Do not obey in advance. Most of the power of authoritarianism is freely given. In times like these, individuals think ahead about what a more repressive government will want, and then offer themselves without being asked.” tinyurl.com/46wmv3jf

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Connor McDavid is a dirty player who wields his high stick dangerously & gets away with it all the time - at least once/game against the #Canucks. I didn't see any other skilled stars do this - not Lemieux, Crosby, MacKinnon, etc. The #Oilers fans defending him are an embarrassment.

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#Canucks

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The secret of all good propaganda: everything they tell you about the other guys is true; everything they tell you about your guys is false. When you realize the 2nd part, DON'T FORGET THE 1ST PART! American Leftists: the US can be concurrently evil & the LEAST evil superpower! #RedNote

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There is nothing that better reminds me why I deeply love film, than David Ehlrich's yearly countdown. It's a beautifully crafted/edited short film of it's own - a yearly love letter to a medium. It always catches my breath and always a couple of moments of the ICannotBelieveYouHaveDoneThis variety.

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As I get older I grow weary of studies like this that make it seem like humans are simple-to-trick creatures & susceptible to fallacies depending on how you present an idea. The opposite is true: Humans are suspicious & good at reading between the lines when appropriate. Let's use this example: 1/

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So, Canadians, are we in agreement that after the next election we are just going to refer to our next PM as PP? I'm sure he would enjoy that. Lends well to hockey chants too at any public appearances. ("What, it's his name?")

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"Gruden called the leagues' commissioner, Roger Goodell, a..." You expect me to believe these are two different American white dudes?

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You know how Google launched that thing that basically destroys what a real photo is cuz it lets you take like 6 of a group & it'll stitch them by picking everyone's "best" face but it ends up looking uncanny & AI-fake? OK, go to Facebook, check out all the boomer family Christmas photos this year.

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I'm still fairly new to Bluesky, so my 2024 wrapped is based on Twitter, and honestly? I feel pretty seen. Here's to more of this in 2025: twitterwrapped.exa.ai/pinskinator?...

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Good morning and Merry Christmas to all, but especially to parents of young kids who woke you up at 230am to say "It's Christmas morning, time for presents", and when told they still had to go and sleep some more, screamed "I don't know how 😭".

submitted 73 days ago • 0 comments

Stop. Gamifying. My. Existence. I hate how Google is trying to turn Photos into a social media app. Just be a UTILITY. Be a good one. Don't ruin yourself.

submitted 77 days ago • 6 comments

This is the perfect example to jump-off to yes-and. What Frontpage DID do was kill every webdev who could only create something As Good As Frontpage. The ceiling for webdev went up when Frontpage brought the floor up. THAT is what LLM's will do to the software industry: raise expectations.

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www.npr.org/2005/08/08/4...

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Seeing someone use “woke” as a derrogatory descriptor is useful in that it lets me know I don’t need to take whatever they say next seriously.

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I love being a #Canucks fan.

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