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rich.baldrys.ca
Canadian Englishman. Network Security Product Manager by day, tuba-playing bread-making book-reading family guy by preference.
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TLDR: The 51st state talk is not a joke. It is a consistent delivery of threats to Canadian sovereignty at the highest levels of government. Our reporting out today. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/07/w...

Your reminder that AI does not do its own workings out.

I looked out the window as we were taking off and all of a sudden there was this big boom.

Mixed messages.

This year's Oscar marketing campaigns are next level. Conclave better win after going to these lengths.

Consumerism is another one of our dying certainties. At least for this one we have a better alternative. Come to my FREE talk to debate the issue. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-death-...

For a self proclaimed master of the deal, he has apparently conceded so much in return for nothing meaningful. Or is the position of vassal-in-chief all he ever wanted? www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

How I feel today. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Eric Adams’s case is President Trump’s latest attempt to bake quid pro quo and loyalty tests into the Justice Department, the Times editorial board writes.

The Mighty Fraser River, a dog and a human.

Look behind the curtain. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Presenting the trophy to the owner first sums up America perfectly.

In a democracy, the worst system apart from all the other ones, you at least get the opportunity to boot out the incumbents. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Deployed our new hi-tech electric hummingbird feeder defroster this morning.

No, I don't need a bloody copilot for this document, thank you. Writing is, in no small part, a tool for thinking. If you outsource that element to a machine that cannot think, you shouldn't be surprised if, at the end of the process, neither you nor your reader are any the wiser.

I just walked around a store with aisles full of supposedly nourishing food to consume, and then right at the end there's an aisle of vitamin supplements. It's almost as if they extract the goodness from processed food just so they can sell it back as tablets.

Tree shadow

Venus was bright in a clear sky this evening

Blowing my own tuba. youtu.be/Lw2kkuLvBPM?... Probably my first public solo performance since @amosmiller.bsky.social narrated Tubby the Tuba at the Bullock Event in 1992.

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