@ristonian.bsky.social
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Everything that’s happened over the past six months has been a response to an imaginary crisis. There is no immigrant invasion. No trade crisis. No scientific or governance crisis. Just people completely high off their own supply trying to fundamentally reorder society. None of this had to happen.
June 9, 2025 at 12:39 AM
Everything that’s happened over the past six months has been a response to an imaginary crisis. There is no immigrant invasion. No trade crisis. No scientific or governance crisis. Just people completely high off their own supply trying to fundamentally reorder society. None of this had to happen.
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must be incredibly frustrating and disheartening to have federal funding that was promised to you for important work suddenly and arbitrarily ripped away
“In light of the President's statement about cancellation of my government contracts, @SpaceX will begin decommissioning its Dragon spacecraft immediately”
June 5, 2025 at 8:15 PM
must be incredibly frustrating and disheartening to have federal funding that was promised to you for important work suddenly and arbitrarily ripped away
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As you age, your body develops more aches and pains.
So it’s important to stay active and fit..
Then you’ll still have aches and pains but you’ll be unsure if they’re a result of being old or a result of the gym.
Follow me for more life advice
So it’s important to stay active and fit..
Then you’ll still have aches and pains but you’ll be unsure if they’re a result of being old or a result of the gym.
Follow me for more life advice
June 3, 2025 at 1:28 AM
As you age, your body develops more aches and pains.
So it’s important to stay active and fit..
Then you’ll still have aches and pains but you’ll be unsure if they’re a result of being old or a result of the gym.
Follow me for more life advice
So it’s important to stay active and fit..
Then you’ll still have aches and pains but you’ll be unsure if they’re a result of being old or a result of the gym.
Follow me for more life advice
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With CBC now having called all ridings it's time for the land-vs-people-vote animation.
April 29, 2025 at 11:56 PM
With CBC now having called all ridings it's time for the land-vs-people-vote animation.
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Poilievre losing his seat is almost Shakespearean: Pretender to the throne riles countrymen with anger, gets defeated by guy with Joy in his name. It’s basically Macbeth.
April 29, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Poilievre losing his seat is almost Shakespearean: Pretender to the throne riles countrymen with anger, gets defeated by guy with Joy in his name. It’s basically Macbeth.
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It’s been lost in the tariff news but the fact that the U.S. government can accuse you of a crime and send you to an El Salvadoran prison without trial, is legitimately scarier than the most hyperbolic claims of fascism made by the left during the election.
April 13, 2025 at 1:52 AM
It’s been lost in the tariff news but the fact that the U.S. government can accuse you of a crime and send you to an El Salvadoran prison without trial, is legitimately scarier than the most hyperbolic claims of fascism made by the left during the election.
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LLMs hallucinating nonexistent software packages with plausible names leads to a new malware vulnerability: "slopsquatting."
LLMs can't stop making up software dependencies and sabotaging everything
: Hallucinated package names fuel 'slopsquatting'
www.theregister.com
April 12, 2025 at 10:31 PM
LLMs hallucinating nonexistent software packages with plausible names leads to a new malware vulnerability: "slopsquatting."
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Wow. This is a must read for Canadians - and for Americans. The starkest, grimmest, most accurate summation of what's happening in the US under Trump that I have read. You won't see this in the New York Times or Washington Post.
April 4, 2025 at 12:03 AM
Wow. This is a must read for Canadians - and for Americans. The starkest, grimmest, most accurate summation of what's happening in the US under Trump that I have read. You won't see this in the New York Times or Washington Post.
In which Chinese regulators did better than anywhere else to pressure Tesla to more realistically rename their "Autopilot" and "Full Self-Driving" features to reflect their actual capabilities, which are phantom-braking prone Level 2 driver assists at best: driveteslacanada.ca/news/tesla-r...
Tesla rebrands FSD and Autopilot in China
Tesla has officially updated the names of its driver-assist systems in China, with the changes impacting Autopilot, Enhance Autopilot, and Full Self-Driving (FSD). In a message sent to Tesla owners in...
driveteslacanada.ca
March 27, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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"If it happened to them"
You see, I think that's where we're all going wrong. There is no IF. There is no 'them.' They ARE us. It IS happening to us.
You see, I think that's where we're all going wrong. There is no IF. There is no 'them.' They ARE us. It IS happening to us.
March 23, 2025 at 12:58 AM
"If it happened to them"
You see, I think that's where we're all going wrong. There is no IF. There is no 'them.' They ARE us. It IS happening to us.
You see, I think that's where we're all going wrong. There is no IF. There is no 'them.' They ARE us. It IS happening to us.
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Me: I can’t believe UK voters chose to torch their economy with Brexit. That can never be topped.
American voters:
American voters:
a man is covering his eyes with his hands in front of a group of men .
ALT: a man is covering his eyes with his hands in front of a group of men .
media.tenor.com
March 4, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Me: I can’t believe UK voters chose to torch their economy with Brexit. That can never be topped.
American voters:
American voters:
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NEWS: The USAID official put on leave for disseminating two memos about Rubio's failure to push through life-saving foreign aid was in the process of writing a THIRD memo when fired. We obtained it. It's far more alarming than the first two.
www.thebulwark.com/p/what-a-wee...
www.thebulwark.com/p/what-a-wee...
March 3, 2025 at 2:57 PM
NEWS: The USAID official put on leave for disseminating two memos about Rubio's failure to push through life-saving foreign aid was in the process of writing a THIRD memo when fired. We obtained it. It's far more alarming than the first two.
www.thebulwark.com/p/what-a-wee...
www.thebulwark.com/p/what-a-wee...
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RFK Jr. is basically the modern American version of Lysenko
![Consequences of Lysenko's views
Lysenko forced farmers to plant seeds very close together since, according to his "law of the life of species", plants from the same "class" never compete with one another.191 Lysenko played an active role in the famines that killed millions of Soviet people and his practices prolonged and exacerbated the food shortages. 191 The People's Republic of China under Mao Zedong adopted his methods starting in 1958, with calamitous results, contributing to the Great Chinese Famine of 1959 to 1962, in which some 15-55 million people died. [note 1][9]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:gouysuoxatjdb5bjcqe4sfh7/bafkreigtkc5aqlv5cllertrr2pck3y55oq6eoyz2kflgmlnxvorxnfpbda@jpeg)
February 27, 2025 at 3:23 AM
RFK Jr. is basically the modern American version of Lysenko
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Trumpers saying it was disrespectful for Zelensky, a President at WAR, to visit the Oval Office in the black shirt without a collar, he wears everywhere. Yes, the same Trumpers who applaud Musk showing-up at the Oval looking like he’s attending a bit-coin conference in Miami.
March 1, 2025 at 11:05 AM
Trumpers saying it was disrespectful for Zelensky, a President at WAR, to visit the Oval Office in the black shirt without a collar, he wears everywhere. Yes, the same Trumpers who applaud Musk showing-up at the Oval looking like he’s attending a bit-coin conference in Miami.
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18F, the federal government’s technology shop, was just demolished by Musk’s team. It was a cost-recoverable org, charging agencies for their expertise, using a consulting model. Its cost to government was negligible, its benefits huge. My team there once saved DoD $500 million.
A thread about 18F:
A thread about 18F:
18F is *precisely* what Musk and team claim should exist within government. But when his team found it, they destroyed it, because it is evidence that government works well (can’t have that!), and because like Zelensky, 18F didn’t bend the knee.
March 1, 2025 at 3:32 PM
18F, the federal government’s technology shop, was just demolished by Musk’s team. It was a cost-recoverable org, charging agencies for their expertise, using a consulting model. Its cost to government was negligible, its benefits huge. My team there once saved DoD $500 million.
A thread about 18F:
A thread about 18F:
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"Why don't you wear a suit?"
February 28, 2025 at 10:32 PM
"Why don't you wear a suit?"
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I recognize that we have to enable choice and options if we truly want to save money. And more importantly, I commit to designing our city to be safe for the most vulnerable among us: children and seniors.
These two approaches combined give us a path forward without falling prey to the extremes.
These two approaches combined give us a path forward without falling prey to the extremes.
February 28, 2025 at 2:55 PM
I recognize that we have to enable choice and options if we truly want to save money. And more importantly, I commit to designing our city to be safe for the most vulnerable among us: children and seniors.
These two approaches combined give us a path forward without falling prey to the extremes.
These two approaches combined give us a path forward without falling prey to the extremes.
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My latest in the @calgaryherald weekender, a starter's guide to XC skiing:
If you’re feeling cooped up this winter, give cross-country skiing a shot. Calgary has the gear, the help and the trails to make it easy for beginners to dive in.
calgaryherald.com/life/winters... #yyccc #abpoli
If you’re feeling cooped up this winter, give cross-country skiing a shot. Calgary has the gear, the help and the trails to make it easy for beginners to dive in.
calgaryherald.com/life/winters... #yyccc #abpoli
Winter’s best workout: A beginner’s guide to cross-country skiing
What you need to know before you hit the backcountry trails on skis
calgaryherald.com
January 13, 2025 at 4:29 PM
My latest in the @calgaryherald weekender, a starter's guide to XC skiing:
If you’re feeling cooped up this winter, give cross-country skiing a shot. Calgary has the gear, the help and the trails to make it easy for beginners to dive in.
calgaryherald.com/life/winters... #yyccc #abpoli
If you’re feeling cooped up this winter, give cross-country skiing a shot. Calgary has the gear, the help and the trails to make it easy for beginners to dive in.
calgaryherald.com/life/winters... #yyccc #abpoli
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Whether you’re walking, biking, driving, or taking transit, everyone deserves streets that are safe and reliable. Active modes have some of the best possible bang for your buck, at a relatively low price tag. I'm all for enabling choice and would love to hear your ideas.
February 27, 2025 at 12:03 AM
Whether you’re walking, biking, driving, or taking transit, everyone deserves streets that are safe and reliable. Active modes have some of the best possible bang for your buck, at a relatively low price tag. I'm all for enabling choice and would love to hear your ideas.
Today I learned that National Geographic used to think that Estonia had 2 towns named Tapa.
Is the lower one supposed to be Paide or Türi?
Is the lower one supposed to be Paide or Türi?
February 25, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Today I learned that National Geographic used to think that Estonia had 2 towns named Tapa.
Is the lower one supposed to be Paide or Türi?
Is the lower one supposed to be Paide or Türi?
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Every Canadian upset w/ Cross Country Checkup for treating annexation rhetoric w/ sombre feigned objectivity should do this. Name both Editor-In-Chief Brodie Fenlon & Ian Hanomansing. Specifically mention how the debate normalizes rhetoric that promotes violation of sovereignty & international law.
February 23, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Every Canadian upset w/ Cross Country Checkup for treating annexation rhetoric w/ sombre feigned objectivity should do this. Name both Editor-In-Chief Brodie Fenlon & Ian Hanomansing. Specifically mention how the debate normalizes rhetoric that promotes violation of sovereignty & international law.
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If we learned anything from COVID19, and I’m not sure that we have, it’s that once misinformation goes viral, that genie can’t be put back in the bottle no matter how many scientists patiently explain why the information is incorrect. Corrections rarely if ever go viral themselves.
February 24, 2025 at 2:57 PM
If we learned anything from COVID19, and I’m not sure that we have, it’s that once misinformation goes viral, that genie can’t be put back in the bottle no matter how many scientists patiently explain why the information is incorrect. Corrections rarely if ever go viral themselves.
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“More than a quarter of the contracts listed by DOGE were actually already paid, the Journal found, saving no money. For instance, DOGE listed $168,000 in savings for terminating a contract with HHS for an Anthony Fauci museum exhibit. It had already been fully paid.”
Beyond parody.
Beyond parody.
February 23, 2025 at 5:43 AM
“More than a quarter of the contracts listed by DOGE were actually already paid, the Journal found, saving no money. For instance, DOGE listed $168,000 in savings for terminating a contract with HHS for an Anthony Fauci museum exhibit. It had already been fully paid.”
Beyond parody.
Beyond parody.