Ed S. 🇨🇦
@blueskyknowledge.bsky.social
Navigating the intersection of Information Technology and culture. Passionate about art, travel, politics, and the journey of lifelong learning. Long-time Linux Mint user. Anti Microsoft, Google, Meta, Twitter X...
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Canada named most positive leader on world stage--“Canada is seen as the No. 1 world influencer for the 10th year in a row.
#Canada
Since 2015, Canada has enjoyed the most positive ranking in the Ipsos World Affairs report.
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cultmtl.com/2025/11/cana...
#Canada
Since 2015, Canada has enjoyed the most positive ranking in the Ipsos World Affairs report.
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cultmtl.com/2025/11/cana...
Canada named most positive leader on world stage
According to a study by Ipsos, Canada remains the top country expected to have a positive influence on world affairs.
cultmtl.com
November 28, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Canada named most positive leader on world stage--“Canada is seen as the No. 1 world influencer for the 10th year in a row.
#Canada
Since 2015, Canada has enjoyed the most positive ranking in the Ipsos World Affairs report.
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cultmtl.com/2025/11/cana...
#Canada
Since 2015, Canada has enjoyed the most positive ranking in the Ipsos World Affairs report.
/1 thread
cultmtl.com/2025/11/cana...
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Beware of Microsoft's "free" offering of Outlook.
All email data is routed through Microsoft's servers for syncing and management.Microsoft has the technical ability to scan, read, and analyze data from third-party emails, meaning privacy risks extend beyond just their own email platform.
All email data is routed through Microsoft's servers for syncing and management.Microsoft has the technical ability to scan, read, and analyze data from third-party emails, meaning privacy risks extend beyond just their own email platform.
November 22, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Beware of Microsoft's "free" offering of Outlook.
All email data is routed through Microsoft's servers for syncing and management.Microsoft has the technical ability to scan, read, and analyze data from third-party emails, meaning privacy risks extend beyond just their own email platform.
All email data is routed through Microsoft's servers for syncing and management.Microsoft has the technical ability to scan, read, and analyze data from third-party emails, meaning privacy risks extend beyond just their own email platform.
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Billionaires didn’t build the world we live in, workers did.
Stop confusing wealth with contribution. The math has never added up.
Stop confusing wealth with contribution. The math has never added up.
November 22, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Billionaires didn’t build the world we live in, workers did.
Stop confusing wealth with contribution. The math has never added up.
Stop confusing wealth with contribution. The math has never added up.
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Simpson’s flagship department store at Yonge & Queen in Toronto, all decked out for the Christmas season - Nov. 22, 1973.
📸: Harvey R. Naylor
Credit: City of Toronto Archives
#otd #onthisday #1970s #departmentstore #christmas #happyholidays #torontohistory #toronto #canada #jeremyhopkin
📸: Harvey R. Naylor
Credit: City of Toronto Archives
#otd #onthisday #1970s #departmentstore #christmas #happyholidays #torontohistory #toronto #canada #jeremyhopkin
November 22, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Simpson’s flagship department store at Yonge & Queen in Toronto, all decked out for the Christmas season - Nov. 22, 1973.
📸: Harvey R. Naylor
Credit: City of Toronto Archives
#otd #onthisday #1970s #departmentstore #christmas #happyholidays #torontohistory #toronto #canada #jeremyhopkin
📸: Harvey R. Naylor
Credit: City of Toronto Archives
#otd #onthisday #1970s #departmentstore #christmas #happyholidays #torontohistory #toronto #canada #jeremyhopkin
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Well holy crap. This is information that needs to be shouted from the rooftops, not quietly rolled out.
PSA: If you use #Gmail, you need to be aware of an important change that’s quietly (almost secretly) rolling out.
Gmail can read your emails and attachments to train its AI, unless you expressly opt out
#privacy #security #google #ai #usersareunderattack
www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/20...
Gmail can read your emails and attachments to train its AI, unless you expressly opt out
#privacy #security #google #ai #usersareunderattack
www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/20...
Gmail can read your emails and attachments to train its AI, unless you opt out
A new Gmail update may allow Google to use your private messages and attachments for AI training. Here's how to turn it off.
www.malwarebytes.com
November 21, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Well holy crap. This is information that needs to be shouted from the rooftops, not quietly rolled out.
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Rewarding a dictator-aggressor always leads to another war. One that is usually even worse.
November 21, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Rewarding a dictator-aggressor always leads to another war. One that is usually even worse.
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Cloudflare is investigating an outage affecting its global network services, with users encountering "internal server error" messages when attempting to access affected websites and online platforms.
Cloudflare hit by outage affecting global network services
Cloudflare is investigating an outage affecting its global network services, with users encountering "internal server error" messages when attempting to access affected websites and online platforms.
www.bleepingcomputer.com
November 18, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Cloudflare is investigating an outage affecting its global network services, with users encountering "internal server error" messages when attempting to access affected websites and online platforms.
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Cory Doctorow’s #booktalk on ENSHITTIFICATION builds on his long career as a science fiction author, activist & journalist. His work shows how power shapes our digital lives. Join us!
📆 Friday, Nov 21st
🕙 10 AM PT / 1 PM ET
📍 Online
🎟️ www.eventbrite.com/e/1839608451...
@authorsalliance.bsky.social
📆 Friday, Nov 21st
🕙 10 AM PT / 1 PM ET
📍 Online
🎟️ www.eventbrite.com/e/1839608451...
@authorsalliance.bsky.social
November 14, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Cory Doctorow’s #booktalk on ENSHITTIFICATION builds on his long career as a science fiction author, activist & journalist. His work shows how power shapes our digital lives. Join us!
📆 Friday, Nov 21st
🕙 10 AM PT / 1 PM ET
📍 Online
🎟️ www.eventbrite.com/e/1839608451...
@authorsalliance.bsky.social
📆 Friday, Nov 21st
🕙 10 AM PT / 1 PM ET
📍 Online
🎟️ www.eventbrite.com/e/1839608451...
@authorsalliance.bsky.social
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Sir Frederick Banting wasn't just the co-discover of insulin.
He was the youngest recipient of the Nobel prize in Physiology or Medicine, an accomplished artist, and a decorated war hero.
This is the story of one of the greatest Canadians.
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He was the youngest recipient of the Nobel prize in Physiology or Medicine, an accomplished artist, and a decorated war hero.
This is the story of one of the greatest Canadians.
🧵 1/12
November 14, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Sir Frederick Banting wasn't just the co-discover of insulin.
He was the youngest recipient of the Nobel prize in Physiology or Medicine, an accomplished artist, and a decorated war hero.
This is the story of one of the greatest Canadians.
🧵 1/12
He was the youngest recipient of the Nobel prize in Physiology or Medicine, an accomplished artist, and a decorated war hero.
This is the story of one of the greatest Canadians.
🧵 1/12
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Reminder that Starbucks’ CEO made 6,666x more than the company's median employee in 2024.
This was the widest CEO-to-Worker pay gap in the entire S&P 500.
And we're supposed to believe Starbucks can't afford to bargain a fair contract with its unionized workers?
This was the widest CEO-to-Worker pay gap in the entire S&P 500.
And we're supposed to believe Starbucks can't afford to bargain a fair contract with its unionized workers?
As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history.
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
November 13, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Reminder that Starbucks’ CEO made 6,666x more than the company's median employee in 2024.
This was the widest CEO-to-Worker pay gap in the entire S&P 500.
And we're supposed to believe Starbucks can't afford to bargain a fair contract with its unionized workers?
This was the widest CEO-to-Worker pay gap in the entire S&P 500.
And we're supposed to believe Starbucks can't afford to bargain a fair contract with its unionized workers?
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Trump is moving to immortalize himself with his name etched into coins, carved into pediments, and inscribed into marble. He wants to glorify himself in the most permanent ways possible.
We must not allow Trump to rewrite history with false tributes to himself.
We must not allow Trump to rewrite history with false tributes to himself.
The Verdict of History
Trump and his fascist glorification
robertreich.substack.com
November 13, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Trump is moving to immortalize himself with his name etched into coins, carved into pediments, and inscribed into marble. He wants to glorify himself in the most permanent ways possible.
We must not allow Trump to rewrite history with false tributes to himself.
We must not allow Trump to rewrite history with false tributes to himself.
The malignant narcissist with an insatiable appetite for self glorification. - Trump reportedly wants new NFL stadium in Washington named after him www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/n...
Trump reportedly wants new NFL stadium in Washington named after him
ESPN reports Trump wants the Commanders’ new $3.7bn stadium to bear his name, with the White House suggesting the request could succeed
www.theguardian.com
November 8, 2025 at 10:56 PM
The malignant narcissist with an insatiable appetite for self glorification. - Trump reportedly wants new NFL stadium in Washington named after him www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/n...
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Tech companies have long promised to deliver a golden age of human connection—but with AI companions, what’s actually unfolding is a digital age “more actively anti-social than the last,” @damonberes.com argues:
The Age of Anti-Social Media Is Here
The social-media era is over. What’s coming will be much worse.
bit.ly
November 6, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Tech companies have long promised to deliver a golden age of human connection—but with AI companions, what’s actually unfolding is a digital age “more actively anti-social than the last,” @damonberes.com argues:
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Writer & activist Cory Doctorow believes that we are witnessing an era where the services that matter most to us are getting worse. Namely, the internet, which was promised to us as a democratizing force, was colonized by platforms solely driven by their bottom line. 🧵
November 5, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Writer & activist Cory Doctorow believes that we are witnessing an era where the services that matter most to us are getting worse. Namely, the internet, which was promised to us as a democratizing force, was colonized by platforms solely driven by their bottom line. 🧵
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Dick Cheney, who died at the age of 84 on Monday, never addressed the worst transgression of his decades in politics and government: his deployment of lies to grease the way to the Iraq invasion that led to the deaths of more than 4,400 US soldiers and 200,000 or so Iraqi civilians.
Dick Cheney and the big lie that should never be forgotten
It led to 4,400 dead US troops and 200,000 or so dead Iraqi civilians.
www.motherjones.com
November 4, 2025 at 11:50 PM
Dick Cheney, who died at the age of 84 on Monday, never addressed the worst transgression of his decades in politics and government: his deployment of lies to grease the way to the Iraq invasion that led to the deaths of more than 4,400 US soldiers and 200,000 or so Iraqi civilians.
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#UPDATE The Dutch election was poised on an unprecedented cliffhanger on Thursday, with only a few thousand votes separating the far-right party of firebrand Geert Wilders and a pro-European centrist party ➡️ u.afp.com/SeGR
October 30, 2025 at 3:47 PM
#UPDATE The Dutch election was poised on an unprecedented cliffhanger on Thursday, with only a few thousand votes separating the far-right party of firebrand Geert Wilders and a pro-European centrist party ➡️ u.afp.com/SeGR
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Pierre Poilievre loves to nip at Mark Carney’s heels, but it’s hard to see what more he’d bring to the table. At least Carney’s out there working his contacts. Poilievre wouldn’t even know where to begin that conversation.
www.ctvnews.ca/politics/art...
www.ctvnews.ca/politics/art...
Prime Minister Carney’s visit to Singapore focuses on attracting investment in Canada
Prime Minister Mark Carney travelled to Singapore on Tuesday, as his first official visit to Asia enters its second leg.
www.ctvnews.ca
October 29, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Pierre Poilievre loves to nip at Mark Carney’s heels, but it’s hard to see what more he’d bring to the table. At least Carney’s out there working his contacts. Poilievre wouldn’t even know where to begin that conversation.
www.ctvnews.ca/politics/art...
www.ctvnews.ca/politics/art...
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Cost to fund SNAP and keep 42 million people from starving:
$100 billion
Cost of lost revenue due to tax cuts for the richest Americans in the top 1%:
$100 billion
One is decried as "welfare." One is not.
Why?
$100 billion
Cost of lost revenue due to tax cuts for the richest Americans in the top 1%:
$100 billion
One is decried as "welfare." One is not.
Why?
October 29, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Cost to fund SNAP and keep 42 million people from starving:
$100 billion
Cost of lost revenue due to tax cuts for the richest Americans in the top 1%:
$100 billion
One is decried as "welfare." One is not.
Why?
$100 billion
Cost of lost revenue due to tax cuts for the richest Americans in the top 1%:
$100 billion
One is decried as "welfare." One is not.
Why?
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O.M.G.!!
Totally agree with @laura-babcock.bsky.social
Ford is a mini trump. He's playing Captain Canada
to become leader of the PC's with the end goal being PM.
CANADA do not fall for his BS schemes.
He's destroyed Ontario & will destroy Canada
#NeverVoteConservative #DougFordIsCorrupt
Totally agree with @laura-babcock.bsky.social
Ford is a mini trump. He's playing Captain Canada
to become leader of the PC's with the end goal being PM.
CANADA do not fall for his BS schemes.
He's destroyed Ontario & will destroy Canada
#NeverVoteConservative #DougFordIsCorrupt
FFS! This is how democracy dies and kleptocracies take over. As I said on the OShow while Ford talks tough about Trump he sure acts like him 🤬🤬🤬🤬 youtu.be/JXRFfs-2SSQ?si…#Onpolil#cndpolili
October 27, 2025 at 10:28 PM
O.M.G.!!
Totally agree with @laura-babcock.bsky.social
Ford is a mini trump. He's playing Captain Canada
to become leader of the PC's with the end goal being PM.
CANADA do not fall for his BS schemes.
He's destroyed Ontario & will destroy Canada
#NeverVoteConservative #DougFordIsCorrupt
Totally agree with @laura-babcock.bsky.social
Ford is a mini trump. He's playing Captain Canada
to become leader of the PC's with the end goal being PM.
CANADA do not fall for his BS schemes.
He's destroyed Ontario & will destroy Canada
#NeverVoteConservative #DougFordIsCorrupt
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Three times in the past two weeks, editorials at the 'Washington Post' failed to disclose that they focused on matters in which owner Jeff Bezos had a material interest. n.pr/3X0UZtS
'Washington Post' editorials omit a key disclosure: Bezos' financial ties
Three times in the past two weeks, editorials at the 'Washington Post' failed to disclose that they focused on matters in which owner Jeff Bezos had a material interest.
n.pr
October 28, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Three times in the past two weeks, editorials at the 'Washington Post' failed to disclose that they focused on matters in which owner Jeff Bezos had a material interest. n.pr/3X0UZtS
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A new book diagnoses a sickness affecting some of America's biggest companies.
A theory why the internet is going down the toilet
A new book diagnoses a sickness affecting some of America's biggest companies.
n.pr
October 26, 2025 at 12:37 PM
A new book diagnoses a sickness affecting some of America's biggest companies.
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"Mate, I can't do anything but tell it to you straight. This Canada thing is literally the dumbest thing I've ever heard. The Canadians ran an advertisement showing Ronald Reagan being against tariffs. Guess what? Ronald Reagan was against tariffs."
October 25, 2025 at 6:24 PM
"Mate, I can't do anything but tell it to you straight. This Canada thing is literally the dumbest thing I've ever heard. The Canadians ran an advertisement showing Ronald Reagan being against tariffs. Guess what? Ronald Reagan was against tariffs."