TeSplendente
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🫀🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🧇🍊🌹🥄- This is now a personal account if you're looking for Anne Lister stuff please go to - @ElizaLeftUs - ElizaLeftUs.com - "Surely it is a dream, and I a dreamer!" ~ Anne Lister, 1817.12.27, Sat - NSP. Not around much #GetOutside
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"The agency says the [AI] technology will help identify compliant travellers... to focus on unknown & higher-risk travellers...' The major risk is what we've observed in other similar systems which is bias against certain subpopulations'" -
Good on the CIU for pushing back.
Good on the CIU for pushing back.
'Major risk' of bias against some groups with Canadian AI border screening, expert warns | CBC News
The technology will help identify compliant travellers faster and free them up to focus on unknown and higher-risk travellers, according to the CBSA. It's expected to launch at land ports of entry by ...
www.cbc.ca
January 24, 2026 at 12:37 PM
"The agency says the [AI] technology will help identify compliant travellers... to focus on unknown & higher-risk travellers...' The major risk is what we've observed in other similar systems which is bias against certain subpopulations'" -
Good on the CIU for pushing back.
Good on the CIU for pushing back.
There's a thing that solves this: Fully Public Health Care.
Number of COVID-19 Shots Delivered in Alberta Drops By Half, Following $100 Fee and Other Restrictions
“What we've heard over the last few months is extreme frustration from Albertans who were trying to use the booking system to get the vaccine.”
pressprogress.ca/number-of-co...
“What we've heard over the last few months is extreme frustration from Albertans who were trying to use the booking system to get the vaccine.”
pressprogress.ca/number-of-co...
Number of COVID-19 Shots Delivered in Alberta Drops By Half, Following $100 Fee and Other Restrictions
“What we've heard over the last few months is extreme frustration from Albertans who were trying to use the booking system to get the vaccine.”
pressprogress.ca
January 24, 2026 at 12:14 PM
There's a thing that solves this: Fully Public Health Care.
"lookin' for comfort in a song"
New Lucinda Williams album is incredible. Here's a link to the watch party. Some talking, lots of music. Live performance.
youtu.be/5MXJsk7nBuk
youtu.be/5MXJsk7nBuk
Lu's Worldwide Listening Party
YouTube video by LucindaWilliams
youtu.be
January 24, 2026 at 12:02 PM
"lookin' for comfort in a song"
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We need to get over this notion that existing social media platforms are at all necessary. Tech billionaires created them for profit, then sold them as socially beneficial even as they continually eroded any real benefits.
disconnect.blog/x-shows-why-...
disconnect.blog/x-shows-why-...
January 23, 2026 at 9:22 PM
We need to get over this notion that existing social media platforms are at all necessary. Tech billionaires created them for profit, then sold them as socially beneficial even as they continually eroded any real benefits.
disconnect.blog/x-shows-why-...
disconnect.blog/x-shows-why-...
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Kill switches but not speed limiters really says it all.
January 23, 2026 at 10:40 PM
Kill switches but not speed limiters really says it all.
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Being led into the snowy wastes by an imaginary penguin speaks volumes.
January 23, 2026 at 11:17 PM
Being led into the snowy wastes by an imaginary penguin speaks volumes.
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Picard Shakespeare tip: Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.
January 23, 2026 at 5:49 PM
Picard Shakespeare tip: Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.
turns out you can't stop reposts... cause that's apparently the point of the platform. so whenever a posts gets picked up, its being deleted.
"locking down the account" i've been picked up somehow by a bunch of retweeters and its just stupid.
January 23, 2026 at 4:16 PM
turns out you can't stop reposts... cause that's apparently the point of the platform. so whenever a posts gets picked up, its being deleted.
"locking down the account" i've been picked up somehow by a bunch of retweeters and its just stupid.
January 23, 2026 at 3:39 PM
"locking down the account" i've been picked up somehow by a bunch of retweeters and its just stupid.
bluesky really needs a temporary lockdown feature
January 23, 2026 at 3:26 PM
bluesky really needs a temporary lockdown feature
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RT if you’ve never had a tab of ChatGPT open, period.
RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open, period.
RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open, period.
January 21, 2026 at 8:17 PM
RT if you’ve never had a tab of ChatGPT open, period.
this dishevel eastern towhee had been following me along the bog trail for sometime. it allowed just enough visibility for an ID #BirdInABush #BirdOfTheDay
January 23, 2026 at 1:59 PM
this dishevel eastern towhee had been following me along the bog trail for sometime. it allowed just enough visibility for an ID #BirdInABush #BirdOfTheDay
get on your bikes and ride
(and no, i don't want to be the president of america and i don't like star wars)
(and no, i don't want to be the president of america and i don't like star wars)
January 23, 2026 at 1:37 PM
get on your bikes and ride
(and no, i don't want to be the president of america and i don't like star wars)
(and no, i don't want to be the president of america and i don't like star wars)
reluctant to share any more photo's. if that was the plan it may have worked.
January 23, 2026 at 1:27 PM
reluctant to share any more photo's. if that was the plan it may have worked.
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Hey if you have a problem with the White House sharing A.I. generated photos of their political enemies great reminder to not also do that
January 23, 2026 at 8:09 AM
Hey if you have a problem with the White House sharing A.I. generated photos of their political enemies great reminder to not also do that
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If I were a PM who had delivered a seminal speech on the global rupture and the need for new relations with the world, I probably wouldn’t send hundreds of layoff notices to my foreign affairs department the next day
www.hilltimes.com/story/2026/0...
www.hilltimes.com/story/2026/0...
Tracking job cuts in the federal public service
Workforce adjustment notifications have hit thousands of employees across dozens of government departments and agencies.
www.hilltimes.com
January 22, 2026 at 2:46 PM
If I were a PM who had delivered a seminal speech on the global rupture and the need for new relations with the world, I probably wouldn’t send hundreds of layoff notices to my foreign affairs department the next day
www.hilltimes.com/story/2026/0...
www.hilltimes.com/story/2026/0...
this is very good PR. everyone loves a good bonhomme.
it is also an example of why NOT to use AI.
it is also an example of why NOT to use AI.
January 23, 2026 at 12:45 PM
this is very good PR. everyone loves a good bonhomme.
it is also an example of why NOT to use AI.
it is also an example of why NOT to use AI.
And... Canada:
January 23, 2026 at 12:34 PM
And... Canada:
so my printer broke and when looking for a new printer apparently a feature is "even prints your AI creations." These corporations are desperate.
January 23, 2026 at 12:21 PM
so my printer broke and when looking for a new printer apparently a feature is "even prints your AI creations." These corporations are desperate.
wtaf. first facebook locked me out unless i downloaded whatsapp and now instagram locked me out unless i provide a selfie? fuck that.
January 23, 2026 at 12:15 PM
wtaf. first facebook locked me out unless i downloaded whatsapp and now instagram locked me out unless i provide a selfie? fuck that.
and we're flyin' again
January 23, 2026 at 2:09 AM
and we're flyin' again
Till The Docklands Drown
YouTube video by SJ McArdle - Topic
www.youtube.com
January 23, 2026 at 2:05 AM
"The world has changed, but what that change will be has yet to be written.... We have to choose. We have to act."
Canada Cannot Afford to Sit on the Sidelines
- Heather McPherson for iPolitics
www.ipolitics.ca/2026/01/22/c...
Canada Cannot Afford to Sit on the Sidelines
- Heather McPherson for iPolitics
www.ipolitics.ca/2026/01/22/c...
January 23, 2026 at 1:30 AM
"The world has changed, but what that change will be has yet to be written.... We have to choose. We have to act."
Canada Cannot Afford to Sit on the Sidelines
- Heather McPherson for iPolitics
www.ipolitics.ca/2026/01/22/c...
Canada Cannot Afford to Sit on the Sidelines
- Heather McPherson for iPolitics
www.ipolitics.ca/2026/01/22/c...