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@mackrauss.bsky.social
Something clever goes here. Elbows Up 🇨🇦
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November 26, 2025 at 3:21 AM
Jay supported the excellent @energyvsclimate.bsky.social podcast. www.zeffy.com/en-CA/donati...
The Enshittification of Arduino
arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025...
arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025...
Arduino’s new terms of service worries hobbyists ahead of Qualcomm acquisition
“Why is reverse-engineering prohibited… for a company built on openly hackable systems?”…
arstechnica.com
November 26, 2025 at 1:30 AM
The Enshittification of Arduino
arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025...
arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025...
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Apple finally gave the iPad everything we asked for—windowing, external displays, pro apps. It doesn't matter.
Fundamental problems baked into iPadOS are unsolvable. The iPad has Mac hardware running phone software, and it's architecturally stuck there.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=bnYL...
Fundamental problems baked into iPadOS are unsolvable. The iPad has Mac hardware running phone software, and it's architecturally stuck there.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=bnYL...
Apple Won’t Let the iPad Pro Be Great
YouTube video by Snazzy Labs
www.youtube.com
November 21, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Apple finally gave the iPad everything we asked for—windowing, external displays, pro apps. It doesn't matter.
Fundamental problems baked into iPadOS are unsolvable. The iPad has Mac hardware running phone software, and it's architecturally stuck there.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=bnYL...
Fundamental problems baked into iPadOS are unsolvable. The iPad has Mac hardware running phone software, and it's architecturally stuck there.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=bnYL...
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How to make data centers less thirsty
How to make data centers less thirsty
There’s a way to reduce both the climate and water harms of data centers: build them in places with lots of wind and solar energy.
dlvr.it
November 25, 2025 at 3:23 AM
How to make data centers less thirsty
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yes. all of them.
Who is responsible here? The engineer who designed the road? The construction industry that uses these killer trucks? The government for refusing even to make sideguards mandatory, let alone regulate truck design as they do in Europe, where the rate of killing and injury has been cut in half?
A crossing guard dies in Hamilton, Ontario, due to regulatory failure and bad design
Meanwhile, in London, the government says, "safe vehicles save lives."
lloydalter.substack.com
November 25, 2025 at 3:48 AM
yes. all of them.
If you are a journalist in Canada looking for an internship check out @cabinradio.ca
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November 21, 2025 at 3:42 AM
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cabinradio.ca/internships/
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Buying a bag of avocados is to schedule anxiety into your life.
November 20, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Buying a bag of avocados is to schedule anxiety into your life.
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This is very exciting. Pfizer’s mRNA flu vaccine substantially outperformed the traditional/control vaccine. This cumulative incidence graph is remarkable. Again, they’re comparing the mRNA flu vaccine to an existing flu vaccine, not to a placebo @jackiantonovich.bsky.social
November 20, 2025 at 1:31 PM
This is very exciting. Pfizer’s mRNA flu vaccine substantially outperformed the traditional/control vaccine. This cumulative incidence graph is remarkable. Again, they’re comparing the mRNA flu vaccine to an existing flu vaccine, not to a placebo @jackiantonovich.bsky.social
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There is a free press chill in Alberta.
www.nationalobserver.com/2025/11/19/o...
www.nationalobserver.com/2025/11/19/o...
Alberta lawsuit is trying to silence the messenger
Former UCP candidate Caylan Ford's scattergun defamation lawsuit against the media and others sends a free press chill through Alberta
www.nationalobserver.com
November 19, 2025 at 2:05 PM
There is a free press chill in Alberta.
www.nationalobserver.com/2025/11/19/o...
www.nationalobserver.com/2025/11/19/o...
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LEAG extended lignite plants in eastern Germany while profiting off coal. Now, the EU has approved €1.75bn to shut them down. How many times can fossil fuel companies profit from delaying the energy transition before doing what they should have done years ago?
www.cleanenergywire.org/news/eu-clea...
www.cleanenergywire.org/news/eu-clea...
EU clears €1.75 billion in compensation for early coal plant closures in eastern Germany
www.cleanenergywire.org
November 20, 2025 at 1:38 PM
LEAG extended lignite plants in eastern Germany while profiting off coal. Now, the EU has approved €1.75bn to shut them down. How many times can fossil fuel companies profit from delaying the energy transition before doing what they should have done years ago?
www.cleanenergywire.org/news/eu-clea...
www.cleanenergywire.org/news/eu-clea...
Halving the warming impact of the aviation industry could be done over night for cheap. How? Use weather forecasts to avoid creating heat trapping contrails. youtube.com/shorts/qBPwl...
The Secret Warming Effect of Contrails
YouTube video by Simon Clark
youtube.com
November 20, 2025 at 4:07 AM
Halving the warming impact of the aviation industry could be done over night for cheap. How? Use weather forecasts to avoid creating heat trapping contrails. youtube.com/shorts/qBPwl...
Maybe cities need a bus driver for a day program as an outlet?
This is the greatest story ever told:
A person in Hamilton, ON stole a city bus and then proceeded to make the stops along the way, allowing passengers to board and exit freely. The person actually refusing someone looking to board with an expired pass. 🔥🔥
hamiltonpolice.on.ca/news/police-...
A person in Hamilton, ON stole a city bus and then proceeded to make the stops along the way, allowing passengers to board and exit freely. The person actually refusing someone looking to board with an expired pass. 🔥🔥
hamiltonpolice.on.ca/news/police-...
Police Arrest Man After HSR Bus Joy Ride
On Tuesday, November 11, 2025, at approximately 9:00 p.m., a Hamilton Street Railway (HSR) bus driver pulled into the McNab Bus Terminal and exited the vehicle for a short break.During this time, an a...
hamiltonpolice.on.ca
November 13, 2025 at 3:11 AM
Maybe cities need a bus driver for a day program as an outlet?
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Nadine and the Swimming Lesson
November 12, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Nadine and the Swimming Lesson
When I look at app icons changing to glass look, I really dislike iOS glass before I even upgrade. Why Apple?
November 13, 2025 at 3:07 AM
When I look at app icons changing to glass look, I really dislike iOS glass before I even upgrade. Why Apple?
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Attended the ESRI Canada Users Conference 🌆 — inspiring talks on how data can help us design quieter cities. Let’s make noise a map layer urbanists & planners can use to build healthier, more peaceful communities. 💡🌿
#NoiseAwareness #SmartCities #ESRICanada
#NoiseAwareness #SmartCities #ESRICanada
November 10, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Attended the ESRI Canada Users Conference 🌆 — inspiring talks on how data can help us design quieter cities. Let’s make noise a map layer urbanists & planners can use to build healthier, more peaceful communities. 💡🌿
#NoiseAwareness #SmartCities #ESRICanada
#NoiseAwareness #SmartCities #ESRICanada
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It's official: Canada has lost its measles elimination status because of an outbreak that has persisted for more than 12 months. Country can regain status only if on-going spread is of measles interrupted for more than a year. www.cbc.ca/news/health/... via @cbcnews.ca
November 10, 2025 at 3:06 PM
It's official: Canada has lost its measles elimination status because of an outbreak that has persisted for more than 12 months. Country can regain status only if on-going spread is of measles interrupted for more than a year. www.cbc.ca/news/health/... via @cbcnews.ca
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But think of all that sweet, sweet defence spending and AI that we're getting!
The cost of living is continuing its rise as a top issue, named by two-thirds of Canadians, the highest level this year.
The economy and healthcare follow, but affordability remains the political lens.
Full poll results: abacusdata.ca/abacus-data...
The economy and healthcare follow, but affordability remains the political lens.
Full poll results: abacusdata.ca/abacus-data...
November 10, 2025 at 5:08 PM
But think of all that sweet, sweet defence spending and AI that we're getting!
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At some point I might just write “what if everybody is wrong?” because there is a chance I believe nobody bothered to work out if any of this would make a profit or, indeed, whether you’d be able to power the data centers themselves
Amazon just sued one of the largest power companies in Oregon after it failed to power up two data center (one without enough power and one with no power at all) campuses that were meant to be ready *in 2021*. Sure hope this isn't an industry wide problem!
www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/amaz...
www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/amaz...
November 10, 2025 at 7:16 PM
At some point I might just write “what if everybody is wrong?” because there is a chance I believe nobody bothered to work out if any of this would make a profit or, indeed, whether you’d be able to power the data centers themselves
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Indien: 99 % elektrifiziert
Deutschland: 62 %
Deutschland: 62 %
Meanwhile, '3rd world' India has almost electrified all of its vast network in record time. infra.economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/railway...
Over 99% electrification of Indian Railways network complete
Indian Railways Electrification: The Indian Railways has completed over 99% electrification of its broad-gauge network, with a significant push towards renewable energy, including rooftop solar panels...
infra.economictimes.indiatimes.com
November 10, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Indien: 99 % elektrifiziert
Deutschland: 62 %
Deutschland: 62 %
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Librarians told 404 Media they are being inundated with new pitches for AI library tech and catalogs are being flooded with AI slop books that they need to wade through. AI maximalism across society is supercharging the ideological war on libraries, schools, academics
www.404media.co/ai-is-superc...
www.404media.co/ai-is-superc...
AI Is Supercharging the War on Libraries, Education, and Human Knowledge
"Fascism and AI, whether or not they have the same goals, they sure are working to accelerate one another."
www.404media.co
November 6, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Librarians told 404 Media they are being inundated with new pitches for AI library tech and catalogs are being flooded with AI slop books that they need to wade through. AI maximalism across society is supercharging the ideological war on libraries, schools, academics
www.404media.co/ai-is-superc...
www.404media.co/ai-is-superc...
Our climate can’t afford Mark Carney’s disaster budget. Vote it down! #CarneyMustGo #cdnpoli
November 6, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Our climate can’t afford Mark Carney’s disaster budget. Vote it down! #CarneyMustGo #cdnpoli
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Here's the link to jump straight to the petition. www.horizonottawa.ca/back_off_ford
Tell Ford to Back Off Our Bike and Bus Lanes!
www.horizonottawa.ca
November 6, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Here's the link to jump straight to the petition. www.horizonottawa.ca/back_off_ford
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had to print off a boarding pass like it's 1999, might as well print off some mapquest directions while i'm at it.
November 6, 2025 at 2:45 PM
had to print off a boarding pass like it's 1999, might as well print off some mapquest directions while i'm at it.