Jonathan Dursi
@ljdursi.bsky.social
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Get Government of Canada Off X - Write to Your Member of Parliament
Write to Canadian government officials urging them to move official communications off X (Twitter) to protect democratic discourse.
www.ditchx.ca
Alright folks, it's live. Get the Canadian government off of X. www.ditchx.ca will give you a template letter for Treasury Board (which sets communication policy across GoC) or individual ministries for mailing (no stamp!), emailing, or quick talking points for phoning.
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In the future we're gonna look back at online gambling and prediction markets in the same way we look now at cigarettes on airplanes and lead-based paint
www.wsj.com/business/med...
www.wsj.com/business/med...
February 10, 2026 at 2:38 AM
In the future we're gonna look back at online gambling and prediction markets in the same way we look now at cigarettes on airplanes and lead-based paint
www.wsj.com/business/med...
www.wsj.com/business/med...
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I grew up in the woods. I've lived in the suburbs, small towns and big cities. I get that people that live in different types of communities want/expect different services.
But I'm getting tired of rural/suburban folks deciding how the urban core should work.
But I'm getting tired of rural/suburban folks deciding how the urban core should work.
February 10, 2026 at 4:44 PM
I grew up in the woods. I've lived in the suburbs, small towns and big cities. I get that people that live in different types of communities want/expect different services.
But I'm getting tired of rural/suburban folks deciding how the urban core should work.
But I'm getting tired of rural/suburban folks deciding how the urban core should work.
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“Effectively, when we approve neighbourhoods that we know operate at a net loss, we are approving future tax increases.”
edmontonjournal.com/news/local-n...
TLDR: If you're against allowing established neighbourhoods to densify faster and with more intensity, here's an alternative way to grow.
edmontonjournal.com/news/local-n...
TLDR: If you're against allowing established neighbourhoods to densify faster and with more intensity, here's an alternative way to grow.
Net-loss new neighbourhoods mean higher taxes, warns Edmonton councillor
New Kettle Lakes neighbourhood structure plan will need tweaking just to be revenue neutral, says O-Day'min coun. Anne Stevenson.
edmontonjournal.com
February 5, 2026 at 9:27 PM
“Effectively, when we approve neighbourhoods that we know operate at a net loss, we are approving future tax increases.”
edmontonjournal.com/news/local-n...
TLDR: If you're against allowing established neighbourhoods to densify faster and with more intensity, here's an alternative way to grow.
edmontonjournal.com/news/local-n...
TLDR: If you're against allowing established neighbourhoods to densify faster and with more intensity, here's an alternative way to grow.
"Out on the town having the time of my life with a bunch of friends in the Trump administration. They're all just out of frame, laughing too".
February 5, 2026 at 4:59 PM
"Out on the town having the time of my life with a bunch of friends in the Trump administration. They're all just out of frame, laughing too".
In The Thomas Crown Affair (1968), the rich protagonist whose wealth allowed him such a life of leisure that he orchestrated a robbery simply out of idle boredom had a personal wealth of $4 million (~$35 million today)
Jeff Bezos' wedding last summer cost somewhere around $50M. That, alone, could have saved all 300 positions cut today at The Washington Post for a year.
Of course, he wouldn't have to choose. He could do both because he's worth $250B, which is nearly the GDP of New Zealand.
Of course, he wouldn't have to choose. He could do both because he's worth $250B, which is nearly the GDP of New Zealand.
February 4, 2026 at 8:53 PM
In The Thomas Crown Affair (1968), the rich protagonist whose wealth allowed him such a life of leisure that he orchestrated a robbery simply out of idle boredom had a personal wealth of $4 million (~$35 million today)
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"Way more people should be in charge of something mundane they’re held accountable for" is one of my hobby horses.
Viscerally understanding how hard it is to get and keep five people coordinated well enough to get the weekly inventory counts done right cuts down on a lot of magical thinking.
Viscerally understanding how hard it is to get and keep five people coordinated well enough to get the weekly inventory counts done right cuts down on a lot of magical thinking.
February 4, 2026 at 3:01 AM
"Way more people should be in charge of something mundane they’re held accountable for" is one of my hobby horses.
Viscerally understanding how hard it is to get and keep five people coordinated well enough to get the weekly inventory counts done right cuts down on a lot of magical thinking.
Viscerally understanding how hard it is to get and keep five people coordinated well enough to get the weekly inventory counts done right cuts down on a lot of magical thinking.
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the whole point of technology is to subvert "the natural order," because the natural order is disease and decay and suffering and famine
February 3, 2026 at 4:35 AM
the whole point of technology is to subvert "the natural order," because the natural order is disease and decay and suffering and famine
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toronto amalgamation and its consequences have been a disaster for the country
Those Kingsway Elites need to separate from Toronto. Please!
February 3, 2026 at 3:48 PM
toronto amalgamation and its consequences have been a disaster for the country
Get the Canadian government off of X. www.ditchx.ca will give you a letter for Treasury Board (which sets communication policy across GoC) or individual ministries for mailing (no stamp!), emailing, and even quick talking points for phoning. Letters now updated to include the raid in Paris.
February 3, 2026 at 1:55 PM
Get the Canadian government off of X. www.ditchx.ca will give you a letter for Treasury Board (which sets communication policy across GoC) or individual ministries for mailing (no stamp!), emailing, and even quick talking points for phoning. Letters now updated to include the raid in Paris.
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"Maybe the city's full" says the man living in a 2.7 million dollar house on Palmerston, while sipping $170 scotch after defeating a multiplex proposal across the street.
www.pressreader.com/canada/toron...
www.pressreader.com/canada/toron...
February 2, 2026 at 5:59 PM
"Maybe the city's full" says the man living in a 2.7 million dollar house on Palmerston, while sipping $170 scotch after defeating a multiplex proposal across the street.
www.pressreader.com/canada/toron...
www.pressreader.com/canada/toron...
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Take me down to the Parallax city where the far moves slow and the near moves quickly
February 1, 2026 at 3:40 PM
Take me down to the Parallax city where the far moves slow and the near moves quickly
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(Dude suddenly stops pushing his broom across the floor of the Death Star)
Does this look like a big laser to anyone else
Does this look like a big laser to anyone else
Palantir employees are pressing company leadership over its work for ICE in internal company Slacks obtained by @wired.com
"In my opinion ICE are the bad guys. I am not proud that the company I enjoy so much working for is part of this."
Scoop from @makenakelly.bsky.social
"In my opinion ICE are the bad guys. I am not proud that the company I enjoy so much working for is part of this."
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Palantir Defends Work With ICE to Staff Following Killing of Alex Pretti
“In my opinion ICE are the bad guys. I am not proud that the company I enjoy so much working for is part of this,” one worker wrote on Slack.
www.wired.com
January 27, 2026 at 2:51 AM
(Dude suddenly stops pushing his broom across the floor of the Death Star)
Does this look like a big laser to anyone else
Does this look like a big laser to anyone else
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I hope that folks in European democracies understand that there are no longer friendly nations, but friendly political movements. It's our job to support liberal democracy around the world, especially when they're under assault from anti-democratic movements at home.
Die AfD-Landtagsfraktion Thüringen hat heute Rechtsextremist Sellner in den Landtag eingeladen, um über seinen verfassungswidrigen “Remigrationsplan” zu referieren.
January 26, 2026 at 10:07 PM
I hope that folks in European democracies understand that there are no longer friendly nations, but friendly political movements. It's our job to support liberal democracy around the world, especially when they're under assault from anti-democratic movements at home.
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Cars simply don't work in our climate.
January 26, 2026 at 8:01 PM
Cars simply don't work in our climate.
“..Hello? .. yes, I would like to pause my subscription to Snow™️…. Yes, but you see we already have quite a lot… ”
January 26, 2026 at 1:54 PM
“..Hello? .. yes, I would like to pause my subscription to Snow™️…. Yes, but you see we already have quite a lot… ”
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As with the rest of the disinformation crisis, important to understand this as a demand-side problem as well as a supply-side one. On some level people *know* these are lies and choose them freely anyway.
I can't decide which is more chilling -- watching federal agents commit a murder, or seeing the government and its supporters smear the victim with *blatant* lies
January 24, 2026 at 7:45 PM
As with the rest of the disinformation crisis, important to understand this as a demand-side problem as well as a supply-side one. On some level people *know* these are lies and choose them freely anyway.
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If the will of one man is all it takes to invalidate the U.S. constitution in one year, there can be no trust placed in the U.S. for generations after that man is gone.
January 24, 2026 at 5:44 PM
If the will of one man is all it takes to invalidate the U.S. constitution in one year, there can be no trust placed in the U.S. for generations after that man is gone.
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Most of the moral messaging in children's television programming when I was a kid was utterly uncontroversial at the time, and would be attacked as woke indoctrination today.
This is quite literally one of the stupidest human beings alive
January 22, 2026 at 11:06 PM
Most of the moral messaging in children's television programming when I was a kid was utterly uncontroversial at the time, and would be attacked as woke indoctrination today.
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Alright folks, it's live. Get the Canadian government off of X. www.ditchx.ca will give you a template letter for Treasury Board (which sets communication policy across GoC) or individual ministries for mailing (no stamp!), emailing, or quick talking points for phoning.
Get Government of Canada Off X - Write to Your Member of Parliament
Write to Canadian government officials urging them to move official communications off X (Twitter) to protect democratic discourse.
www.ditchx.ca
January 15, 2026 at 2:39 PM
Alright folks, it's live. Get the Canadian government off of X. www.ditchx.ca will give you a template letter for Treasury Board (which sets communication policy across GoC) or individual ministries for mailing (no stamp!), emailing, or quick talking points for phoning.
Alright folks, it's live. Get the Canadian government off of X. www.ditchx.ca will give you a template letter for Treasury Board (which sets communication policy across GoC) or individual ministries for mailing (no stamp!), emailing, or quick talking points for phoning.
Get Government of Canada Off X - Write to Your Member of Parliament
Write to Canadian government officials urging them to move official communications off X (Twitter) to protect democratic discourse.
www.ditchx.ca
January 15, 2026 at 2:39 PM
Alright folks, it's live. Get the Canadian government off of X. www.ditchx.ca will give you a template letter for Treasury Board (which sets communication policy across GoC) or individual ministries for mailing (no stamp!), emailing, or quick talking points for phoning.
Visiting my parents in their late 70s; power station for charging stuff in power outages was on fritz. Kept resetting every few seconds.
Spent 2 hrs trial-and-erroring settings via a downloaded app & Bluetooth so I could keep it up long enough to get it on WiFi and install an OTA firmware update.
Spent 2 hrs trial-and-erroring settings via a downloaded app & Bluetooth so I could keep it up long enough to get it on WiFi and install an OTA firmware update.
January 12, 2026 at 10:04 PM
Visiting my parents in their late 70s; power station for charging stuff in power outages was on fritz. Kept resetting every few seconds.
Spent 2 hrs trial-and-erroring settings via a downloaded app & Bluetooth so I could keep it up long enough to get it on WiFi and install an OTA firmware update.
Spent 2 hrs trial-and-erroring settings via a downloaded app & Bluetooth so I could keep it up long enough to get it on WiFi and install an OTA firmware update.
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If you want to push the government of Canada to get off X, mail Treasury Board rather than the minister leading the AI charge: (QTing to add context I forgot to include)
Hey Canadian folks - keep mailing Evan Solomon about Grok.
But the Treasury Board Secretariat, led by Shafqat Ali, that sets government policy on communications through their « Policy on Communications and Federal Identity » including social media.
My draft letter (suggestions welcome) follows:
But the Treasury Board Secretariat, led by Shafqat Ali, that sets government policy on communications through their « Policy on Communications and Federal Identity » including social media.
My draft letter (suggestions welcome) follows:
January 12, 2026 at 2:53 AM
If you want to push the government of Canada to get off X, mail Treasury Board rather than the minister leading the AI charge: (QTing to add context I forgot to include)
If you want to push the government of Canada to get off X, mail Treasury Board rather than the minister leading the AI charge: (QTing to add context I forgot to include)
Hey Canadian folks - keep mailing Evan Solomon about Grok.
But the Treasury Board Secretariat, led by Shafqat Ali, that sets government policy on communications through their « Policy on Communications and Federal Identity » including social media.
My draft letter (suggestions welcome) follows:
But the Treasury Board Secretariat, led by Shafqat Ali, that sets government policy on communications through their « Policy on Communications and Federal Identity » including social media.
My draft letter (suggestions welcome) follows:
January 12, 2026 at 2:53 AM
If you want to push the government of Canada to get off X, mail Treasury Board rather than the minister leading the AI charge: (QTing to add context I forgot to include)
Hey Canadian folks - keep mailing Evan Solomon about Grok.
But the Treasury Board Secretariat, led by Shafqat Ali, that sets government policy on communications through their « Policy on Communications and Federal Identity » including social media.
My draft letter (suggestions welcome) follows:
But the Treasury Board Secretariat, led by Shafqat Ali, that sets government policy on communications through their « Policy on Communications and Federal Identity » including social media.
My draft letter (suggestions welcome) follows:
January 12, 2026 at 2:50 AM
Hey Canadian folks - keep mailing Evan Solomon about Grok.
But the Treasury Board Secretariat, led by Shafqat Ali, that sets government policy on communications through their « Policy on Communications and Federal Identity » including social media.
My draft letter (suggestions welcome) follows:
But the Treasury Board Secretariat, led by Shafqat Ali, that sets government policy on communications through their « Policy on Communications and Federal Identity » including social media.
My draft letter (suggestions welcome) follows:
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Just gonna say yeah I think it's antisemitic to protest outside of a synagogue and chant "we support Hamas here," like that is in fact a threat of murderous violence.
January 9, 2026 at 5:10 PM
Just gonna say yeah I think it's antisemitic to protest outside of a synagogue and chant "we support Hamas here," like that is in fact a threat of murderous violence.