Andrew 🇨🇦🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
@andrewbarss.bsky.social
Nova Scotian now living in Ontario.
Database application developer; installer & voicer of digital church organs; organist; amateur radio enthusiast (VA3BHO; formerly VE1BHO)
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Database application developer; installer & voicer of digital church organs; organist; amateur radio enthusiast (VA3BHO; formerly VE1BHO)
Profile: Head-shot of me
DMs okay, except randoms may be blocked
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It is incredible — the blind spots you develop when you’ve never, ever been poor.
Trump claims that food stamps "puts the country in jeopardy. People that are able-bodied can do a job, they leave their job because they figure they can pick this up, it's easier."
November 11, 2025 at 12:34 AM
It is incredible — the blind spots you develop when you’ve never, ever been poor.
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#GVerse This 👇
At this point, Schumer is a dinosaur‼️
The DNC needs younger candidates‼️
Resign @schumer.senate.gov time new life, new direction!
At this point, Schumer is a dinosaur‼️
The DNC needs younger candidates‼️
Resign @schumer.senate.gov time new life, new direction!
November 10, 2025 at 3:32 PM
#GVerse This 👇
At this point, Schumer is a dinosaur‼️
The DNC needs younger candidates‼️
Resign @schumer.senate.gov time new life, new direction!
At this point, Schumer is a dinosaur‼️
The DNC needs younger candidates‼️
Resign @schumer.senate.gov time new life, new direction!
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After leukemia treatments failed, Alyssa, at age 13, was told she would die. Then, doctors tried an experimental gene-edited therapy. She became the 1st human to try the treatment made possible by U.S. federal funding. Now 16, she’s cancer-free. RESEARCH SAVES LIVES
November 10, 2025 at 11:13 PM
After leukemia treatments failed, Alyssa, at age 13, was told she would die. Then, doctors tried an experimental gene-edited therapy. She became the 1st human to try the treatment made possible by U.S. federal funding. Now 16, she’s cancer-free. RESEARCH SAVES LIVES
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This is what a generational investment in the future looks like @mark-carney.bsky.social. You're doing it wrong. electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...
Australia has so much solar that it's offering everyone free electricity
Australia's extensive solar power penetration makes so much energy that the government wants to offer free electricity at peak hours.
electrek.co
November 7, 2025 at 2:17 AM
This is what a generational investment in the future looks like @mark-carney.bsky.social. You're doing it wrong. electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...
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Hey Provincial Premiers - remove the interprovincial trade barriers, the Federal government has already removed the barriers. #Canada #ProvincialProblem
www.ctvnews.ca/video/2025/1...
www.ctvnews.ca/video/2025/1...
‘Government is standing in the way of moving forward’: Calls grow to remove interprovincial red tape
Keyli Loeppky of CFIB on the barriers of selling alcohol across provincial borders as wineries look to capitalize on the low sales of U.S. products.
www.ctvnews.ca
November 10, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Hey Provincial Premiers - remove the interprovincial trade barriers, the Federal government has already removed the barriers. #Canada #ProvincialProblem
www.ctvnews.ca/video/2025/1...
www.ctvnews.ca/video/2025/1...
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In the most predictable development ever, Mike Johnson is not committing to hold a House vote on ACA subsidies
November 10, 2025 at 10:19 PM
In the most predictable development ever, Mike Johnson is not committing to hold a House vote on ACA subsidies
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We've identified over 200 ICE Agents, employees and collaborators. None have been assaulted, as the US government claims.
This is freely available and verifiable information, unlike the wild claims from the Department of Homeland Security.
We are in the process of uploading over 200 more IDs.
This is freely available and verifiable information, unlike the wild claims from the Department of Homeland Security.
We are in the process of uploading over 200 more IDs.
ICE List – Put ICE on ice
The ICE List is an open journalistic project, created by Crust News, aimed at collecting and sharing information that can hold ICE members legally accountable.
icelist.is
November 10, 2025 at 10:58 PM
We've identified over 200 ICE Agents, employees and collaborators. None have been assaulted, as the US government claims.
This is freely available and verifiable information, unlike the wild claims from the Department of Homeland Security.
We are in the process of uploading over 200 more IDs.
This is freely available and verifiable information, unlike the wild claims from the Department of Homeland Security.
We are in the process of uploading over 200 more IDs.
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The success of this product is as strongly correlated to the decline of the size of this market. No matter how you slice it, there's no way to grow the revenue of AI coding tools, and also continue to train and improve better models and create better AI tools for engineers.
November 10, 2025 at 10:46 PM
The success of this product is as strongly correlated to the decline of the size of this market. No matter how you slice it, there's no way to grow the revenue of AI coding tools, and also continue to train and improve better models and create better AI tools for engineers.
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As the tech industry contracts to greater and greater amounts of code being written by fewer and fewer engineers "multiplied" by AI, we're actually effectively polluting the datasets of potentially better future models by training them on accelerating echo-chambers.
November 10, 2025 at 10:46 PM
As the tech industry contracts to greater and greater amounts of code being written by fewer and fewer engineers "multiplied" by AI, we're actually effectively polluting the datasets of potentially better future models by training them on accelerating echo-chambers.
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AI coding tools always need *more* code—and more importantly more *new* code—written by humans outside the current scope of the AI's training models in order to improve. Some improvements can be made by training the same data better, but ultimately what you need is more and more new data to evolve.
November 10, 2025 at 10:46 PM
AI coding tools always need *more* code—and more importantly more *new* code—written by humans outside the current scope of the AI's training models in order to improve. Some improvements can be made by training the same data better, but ultimately what you need is more and more new data to evolve.
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The more engineers you can lay off, the more valuable the AI is to you, because you can pay for code from AI less than you pay for code from humans.
The more engineers you lay off, the fewer engineers you have to lay off. The less valuable AI is to you.
AI coding tools eat their own markets.
The more engineers you lay off, the fewer engineers you have to lay off. The less valuable AI is to you.
AI coding tools eat their own markets.
November 10, 2025 at 10:46 PM
The more engineers you can lay off, the more valuable the AI is to you, because you can pay for code from AI less than you pay for code from humans.
The more engineers you lay off, the fewer engineers you have to lay off. The less valuable AI is to you.
AI coding tools eat their own markets.
The more engineers you lay off, the fewer engineers you have to lay off. The less valuable AI is to you.
AI coding tools eat their own markets.
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Here's one of the main reasons why I'm 100% sure AI is in a bubble, regardless of any potential "success" it has in the next 6-12 months.
Right now the majority of AI "success" at scale has been found in AI coding tools for software engineers.
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Right now the majority of AI "success" at scale has been found in AI coding tools for software engineers.
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November 10, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Here's one of the main reasons why I'm 100% sure AI is in a bubble, regardless of any potential "success" it has in the next 6-12 months.
Right now the majority of AI "success" at scale has been found in AI coding tools for software engineers.
(thread)
Right now the majority of AI "success" at scale has been found in AI coding tools for software engineers.
(thread)
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A word to the wise:
Hate is expensive. The price you have to pay is costly and will affect you in many ways. It takes a lot of energy to hate. Why do that to yourself? 🤔
Consider love. It's fulfilling and brings rewards on its own. The best part, fam?
It's free. ❤️
Hate is expensive. The price you have to pay is costly and will affect you in many ways. It takes a lot of energy to hate. Why do that to yourself? 🤔
Consider love. It's fulfilling and brings rewards on its own. The best part, fam?
It's free. ❤️
a baby yoda from star wars is holding a red heart in his hands .
ALT: a baby yoda from star wars is holding a red heart in his hands .
media.tenor.com
November 10, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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I never did have any money and I didn't pay for it either if I did have to go hello it's not a point of privilege I was poor and broke geez Louise f the insurance companies also ideologically I can't sustain their business model and I don't intend to. That's on you if you want to but I'm 🚫
November 10, 2025 at 5:02 PM
I never did have any money and I didn't pay for it either if I did have to go hello it's not a point of privilege I was poor and broke geez Louise f the insurance companies also ideologically I can't sustain their business model and I don't intend to. That's on you if you want to but I'm 🚫
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Believe the floor crosser ... not the apple crunching, CBC avoiding, poorly behaved CON party whose leader thought that Trudeau should be jailed and brought snacks to the Ottawa convoy.
Brouhaha over N.S. MP’s floor crossing descends into he-said/they-said story … whom to believe? albertapolitics.ca/2025/11/brou... #cdnpoli #abpoli #ableg
Brouhaha over N.S. MP’s floor crossing descends into he-said/they-said story … whom to believe? - Alberta Politics
The brouhaha over the departure of Acadie-Annapolis MP Chris d’Entremont from the Opposition benches in the House of Commons to the government side has now descended into a he-said/they-said story. Mr...
albertapolitics.ca
November 10, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Believe the floor crosser ... not the apple crunching, CBC avoiding, poorly behaved CON party whose leader thought that Trudeau should be jailed and brought snacks to the Ottawa convoy.
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This deal to reopen the government is fucking disgraceful.
Tens of millions will lose their healthcare. Trump will be emboldened.
This is exactly what’s wrong with Democratic Party leadership and why we need more people in Congress who will actually hold the line.
Tens of millions will lose their healthcare. Trump will be emboldened.
This is exactly what’s wrong with Democratic Party leadership and why we need more people in Congress who will actually hold the line.
November 10, 2025 at 12:43 PM
This deal to reopen the government is fucking disgraceful.
Tens of millions will lose their healthcare. Trump will be emboldened.
This is exactly what’s wrong with Democratic Party leadership and why we need more people in Congress who will actually hold the line.
Tens of millions will lose their healthcare. Trump will be emboldened.
This is exactly what’s wrong with Democratic Party leadership and why we need more people in Congress who will actually hold the line.
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They caved for a "promise" on a vote for an ACA bill by December. Who in their right mind believes any promises coming from the R's? A promise to vote "NO" is what it is. This caving is fucking shameful.
Dems have spent the past two months saying they're fighting to address the crisis of spiking healthcare costs and now they're caving for a deal that does nothing to address healthcare costs ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
November 10, 2025 at 4:38 PM
They caved for a "promise" on a vote for an ACA bill by December. Who in their right mind believes any promises coming from the R's? A promise to vote "NO" is what it is. This caving is fucking shameful.
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Good. @mark-carney.bsky.social, all government officials and departments can start by closing X and Meta accounts.
November 10, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Good. @mark-carney.bsky.social, all government officials and departments can start by closing X and Meta accounts.
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Once the government reopens, precedent has already been set, if Speaker Mike Johnson refuses to swear in Adelita Grijalva, the newly elected representative from Arizona’s 7th District, someone else will. In Powell v. McCormack (1969), the
November 10, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Once the government reopens, precedent has already been set, if Speaker Mike Johnson refuses to swear in Adelita Grijalva, the newly elected representative from Arizona’s 7th District, someone else will. In Powell v. McCormack (1969), the
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So it turns out that airports in the US are deeply dependent on money from the federal govt and they basically can't exist without it. Socialism, man. It's where you least expect it, but you should expect it because private businesses don't fund shit. Taxpayers do.
November 9, 2025 at 5:02 PM
So it turns out that airports in the US are deeply dependent on money from the federal govt and they basically can't exist without it. Socialism, man. It's where you least expect it, but you should expect it because private businesses don't fund shit. Taxpayers do.
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King’s point is that it didn’t work because Trump was cutting SNAP benefits. But lower courts had required Trump to pay full SNAP, and while Trump *probably* would have won at SCOTUS, that outcome wasn’t guaranteed and would have been known soon anyway.
November 10, 2025 at 1:48 PM
King’s point is that it didn’t work because Trump was cutting SNAP benefits. But lower courts had required Trump to pay full SNAP, and while Trump *probably* would have won at SCOTUS, that outcome wasn’t guaranteed and would have been known soon anyway.
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How about we shut down the government for this very popular and specific goal and then, hear me out, we hold out for like a month and a half and then, ok this part is important, after a watershed election where we ran the table, ONLY THEN, fold and don't get the one thing we said we wanted.
November 10, 2025 at 2:31 AM
How about we shut down the government for this very popular and specific goal and then, hear me out, we hold out for like a month and a half and then, ok this part is important, after a watershed election where we ran the table, ONLY THEN, fold and don't get the one thing we said we wanted.
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This is not what they actually say. This is what they used to say, in the long ago before times when Shaheen learned to do politics. There is no kumbaya median voter anymore. The question you get knocking doors is not "why can't you all just work together?" it's "why didn't / will you fight harder?
Shaheen: "When I talk to my constituents in New Hampshire, you know what they say to me? They say, 'Why can't you all just work together to address the problems that are facing this country?'"
November 10, 2025 at 3:15 AM
This is not what they actually say. This is what they used to say, in the long ago before times when Shaheen learned to do politics. There is no kumbaya median voter anymore. The question you get knocking doors is not "why can't you all just work together?" it's "why didn't / will you fight harder?