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@promich.bsky.social
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Canadian Swede. Multilateral Civil Servant. Information systems, tech ethics, data science, design research, multimodal mobility, social democracy, climate mitigation, just energy transitions, socio-techno-economic theory enthusiast. Opinions mine.
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Two genocide deniers, sadly. Though only one supports extrajudicial journalist executions, so... yay?
September 28, 2025 at 7:07 AM
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September 8, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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What could the could the new Nanaimo Central Station look like? The just opened station in Valberg, Sweden (smaller than Nanaimo at 70K pop) can offer some ideas!
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Ariel view of Valberg Station
July 15, 2025 at 8:03 AM
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Wealth concentration in Denmark is where you’d expect it to be.. near the big cities. Sweden and Finland? Not so much. Also, Norway sure is loaded.. pretty much everywhere!
Heat map of wealth concentration in the Nordics.
May 30, 2025 at 10:17 AM
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Crucial questions to ask BEFORE integrating an LLM-AI into your workflow, (courtesy of @danmcquillan.bsky.social).
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Questions: How do students feel about using a tool or 'creative collaborator' that: has been trained on other people's creative output, without permission? depends on exploitative and potentially abusive labour practices? is a massively carbon-emitting and environmentally damaging technology? is based on a belief in the power of scaling, when this creates so many basic problems? is used to put people out of a job or to deskill them, even though it can't actually do the job tasks properly? is touted as supporting people at work but is so unreliable it actually creates more work to check it? is claimed to improve efficiency but undermines people's skills and capacities? that will be pushed into schools and universities while degrading education and learning? is really a way to privatise public services like health and education? is claimed to be ethical while helping to fill the internet with slop? is supposedly on the way to becoming a genius but carries on making really dumb mistakes? is ranked as 'intelligent' using measures that are ultimately derived from eugenics? is being made 'safe' in ways that actually make it a more powerful tool for potential dictators? has as a central goal, according to its founder, American global dominance? is increasingly turning towards the military for both funding and purpose?
May 22, 2025 at 7:35 AM
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More bizzaro, illogical nonsense from the Globe and Mail. Tearing up the agreement is precisely what set in motion Carney's ascendency to the PMO. He should be thanking the NDP for putting country over party. "Frosty"? Try grateful.
And after tearing up the confidence and supply agreement with the governing Liberals last fall, the New Democrats can expect a frosty welcome back from Prime Minister Mark Carney, who has already ruled out another deal.
May 12, 2025 at 5:16 AM
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Sanity maintenance pro tip:
May 6, 2025 at 8:33 AM
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A poignant moment capturing the trauma caused when predatory corporations like Brookfield (where Mark Carney was a senior executive) acquire affordable housing then double or triple the rent, sending seniors on to the streets. #cdnpoli www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
A senior cries after being evicted by a predatory property corporation.
March 29, 2025 at 8:18 AM
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One these parties is not like the others.
One party refuses to lick the boot of billionaires.
One party has proven they can deliver with only 25 MPs.
THEY are public servants and YOU are their boss.
What kind of boss are you?
Question: Should hard work and results be punished or promoted? #cdnpoli
What is the average cash benefit (saved taxes or higher transfers)? Depending on what you make before taxes, the party platforms could impact you very differently in saved taxes or in increased cash transfers https://www.policyalternatives.ca/news-research/platform-crunch-comparing-all-parties-tax-cut-and-cash-transfers-promises/
March 28, 2025 at 10:28 PM
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Let's face it, they're both terrible and expensive. Singh's plan doesn't cost any revenue, and actually helps working people. Easy choice.
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March 27, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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You forgot one! Singh clearly has the best plan, and it's not even close. Costs less revenue and benefits poorer workers more.
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Competing tax reform plan. One for workers, and two for the super weathy.
March 27, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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Love this! 👇
In the 2 weeks since launching #VotePalestine 2025, 70+ federal candidates have endorsed the #PalestinePlatform! Our movement makes it clear - #Palestine is on the ballot.

Check if candidates in your riding endorsed the #PalestinePlatform: votepalestine.ca/candidates

#cdnpoli
70 Candidates have endorsed the Palestine Platform 64 NDP.
March 27, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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In one of those ridings, Vancouver-Granville 338Canada claimed it was a "LPC-CPC Toss up" on election week. Completely wrong. In reality, it was a super tight NDP-LPC race with the Liberal winning by 400 votes. 49% of eligible voters didn't bother. Did they see a poll and give up? We'll never know.
Influential poll projector 338Canada predicts a riding completely wrong in 2021.
March 26, 2025 at 7:43 AM
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The housing crisis was intentionally created by 30 years of Lib-Con budget choices. At some point, as workers increasingly live in RVs at the edge of town, reality must trump ideology. At least that's the hope. No sign yet that Carney understands this. Singh certainly does
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Federally assisted affordable housing units
March 25, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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Yes, but the genocide has been a defining moment in the collapse of international humanitarian law. For Mark to not understand that speaks to a life in a cloistered bubble. There’s only one acceptable response to racist hate: Zero tolerance. Every day Marco stays is a day wasted. #NoRoomForRacists
Jagmeet Singh @jagmeetsingh.ca I have been horrified by how the lives of Palestinians have been disregarded by the political establishment. When Parliament voted on our ceasefire motion - children were being pulled from rubble and entire family lines were being wiped out. In that moment, Marco Mendicino had a choice. He chose to side with Netanyahu and opposed a ceasefire. Now, Mark Carney has appointed him as his Chief of Staff - his closest advisor and in one of the most powerful positions in his government. I cannot imagine the pain and hurt this has caused so many of you. I simply want you to know that the NDP will always stand on the side of justice, peace and human rights.
March 12, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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Dumb is giving up in advance, believing the endless dubious polls from corporate media and absorbing their doomerism and hopelessness. 50% of voters turned out in the Ontario election. That's why the media covers polls instead of policy and parliament. So public imaginaries become stunted, ossified.
Do not obey in advance.
March 10, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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The return of the Steveston Tram would bring communities closer together and allow non-drivers – seniors, kids – easier and safer access to schools, friends, culture and nature. And complement the SkyTrain perfectly! As well as lowering our world worst per capita carbon emissions.
Tram Tram Tram Tram
March 1, 2025 at 9:36 AM
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Let's be honest about when the crisis started. Lib-Cons are two sides of the same coin.
February 27, 2025 at 6:56 AM
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Affordability will rebound as a key issue once everyone adjusts to the constant TrumpMusk chaos. Lib-Con market-driven neoliberal solutions have clearly failed, so there's a major opportunity for the NDP to make gains on social housing and grocery price caps – unleashing economic productivity.
February 26, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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Still looking for the excellence. 😟
February 26, 2025 at 6:16 AM
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Canada has some of the world's worst car traffic and forced car dependency. Passenger rail is 60+ years behind the rest of the developed world. Cycling is overly dangerous. Yet, none of this is mentioned in the priorities of you broligarch wannabes? Wow. Car-brained much? 😂
February 11, 2025 at 11:29 AM
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EVs including bicycles? Non-drivers shouldn't be forced to subsidize drivers any more than they already do. And Canada already has some of the worst traffic in North America – we need to get drivers OFF the road with better alternatives. Multimodal Mobility Justice NOW! Fast track HSR!
February 11, 2025 at 10:59 AM
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Hmm. Would it be okay if Mark Carney disassociates himself from this Nazi-servicing ecommerce vendor first? Could he also answer whether Shopify pressured him to renounce the previously-agreed capital gains tax adjustment micro-targeted at the super-wealthy 1%?
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Carney praises the president of a company that works with Nazis. Carney praises the president of a company that works with Nazis.
February 10, 2025 at 11:21 PM
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Here's the connecting tissue: This genius worked at Carney's old company Stripe and Shopify. Some incoherent techbro conspiracy babbling against Singh thrown in for good measure. Mark really needs smarter friends.
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February 10, 2025 at 10:56 PM
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Here's a tweet from a couple of months ago. Mark Carney clearly has no problems with Shopify's nazi connections. Was the secret agreement to cancel the micro-targeted wealth tax made at this time?
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February 10, 2025 at 10:46 PM