Posts by adamvs1@mastodon.world
(DIR) Post #AaTWqK0ZKFhhC5tMDg by adamvs1@mastodon.world
2023-10-05T23:32:56Z
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@lowqualityfacts Me too!But my boss doesn’t seem to appreciate it.#Snek
(DIR) Post #AhM4zMQAxcxzxQXNJI by adamvs1@mastodon.world
2024-04-28T12:09:49Z
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“Do I ghost her again?” Québec government sends wrong email to journalist enquiries about housing as a human right.Every Québec government reaches the hear/speak-no-evil & vacuous policies stage just before the electorate kick them to the curb. The CAQ’s uppance on housing has come, with that of language, education, and immigration in hot pursuit.https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/quebec-housing-minister-1.7187126
(DIR) Post #AiZmujH6tfqIWrjvNY by adamvs1@mastodon.world
2024-06-04T06:57:56Z
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@Wolven I think gathering the townsfolk, brandishing pitchforks and torches and descending on MS HQ might be a more feasible, and appropriate response.
(DIR) Post #AjdgAWUvlFNFFLjojA by adamvs1@mastodon.world
2024-07-06T01:53:02Z
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@aral In liberal democracies “Politics” is usually meant narrowly as “party politics” which is portrayed as a horse race between jack asses. So folks turn off about politics (and many pols like that).Politics is how we ‘decide’ to live together, and who has the power to influence that. Which is why we get to vote for or against representatives, but have no similar democratic rights at work regarding bosses(this is a very bad situation IMHO). Politics could be different.
(DIR) Post #Am7uPk2Q1M5zund25g by adamvs1@mastodon.world
2024-09-18T11:38:13Z
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@aral Which raises the questions: How many untriggered devices are still out there? How secure are battery supply-chains? How did Israel get access?#pager #stateterror
(DIR) Post #Am8Q65Po1ohCxOEtay by adamvs1@mastodon.world
2024-09-18T16:55:36Z
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@aral Well that answers a couple of questions: Yes there are more booby-trapped devices out there, and Israel has access to the battery supply chain.The only good news is that they apparently haven’t figured out a way to make standard batteries explode.Anyone know what make/model of batteries were compromised?#stateterrorism #pagers https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/lebanon-attacks-pagers-radios-1.7326750
(DIR) Post #AmEFHfDHL6qccWSPa4 by adamvs1@mastodon.world
2024-09-21T13:00:16Z
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@kittylyst @aral And NSA, GCHQ, CSIS, etc be required to remind you, on demand, of any passwords that you have forgotten . /irony
(DIR) Post #AqF3q4mCILvh9Qa4Lw by adamvs1@mastodon.world
2025-01-19T13:55:21Z
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@davidrevoy Thanks for this! I actually did a remarkably tedious course on colour theory, in Uni, which failed to clearly explain this. After reading your blog, and the replies here, I much better understand the ramifications of RGB vs CMYK colour systems.
(DIR) Post #As0lvmHJybRVcDL9DE by adamvs1@mastodon.world
2025-03-12T13:05:46Z
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@Snowshadow “There was no representative from the United States, which is the leading member of NATO.‘This is the moment when Europe must throw its full weight behind Ukraine, and itself,’Macron told the meeting, according to the Élysée”https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20250311-european-nato-paris-ukraine
(DIR) Post #AtOt153iTfyulArxzs by adamvs1@mastodon.world
2025-04-23T23:22:29Z
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Poilievre wants to criminalize being unhoused. https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/poilievre-public-order-dismantle-encampments-1.7516297
(DIR) Post #AtOt1Du7aiecC1Rvn6 by adamvs1@mastodon.world
2025-04-23T23:22:29Z
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Is this his “Barbaric Practices Tipline” a la 2015, when the Conservative government (including Harper’s then Min of State for Democratic Reform, P. Poilievre) got turfed for being just like…PP?https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/canada-election-2015-neil-macdonald-muslims-1.3257892
(DIR) Post #AvHNGCv5aPrtDYsTUu by adamvs1@mastodon.world
2025-06-19T06:01:52Z
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@economics-that-works @GhostOnTheHalfShell CBC Ideas did a good podcast episode, exploring this, and how Smith’s work has been hijacked by subsequent forces.Ideas with Nahlah Ayed: The misunderstood Adam Smith gets both credit and blame for modern capitalism https://www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-23-ideas/clip/16150724-the-misunderstood-adam-smith-gets-credit-blame-modern
(DIR) Post #AyfX2FvkwHHdxWLOIC by adamvs1@mastodon.world
2025-09-28T12:25:57Z
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@HeavenlyPossum Yes! The argument “don’t provoke them” (MAGA/alt-Right/Fascism-de-jour) is nonsense. They have been at the stage of random murder, disappearances, and ignoring the law for generations, now. (Especially in the Anglo-sphere)Protests, strikes, voting, civil disobedience, litigation, and sabotage have to be daily, and ubiquitous. The alternative is looming open civil war, and that will be much worse.
(DIR) Post #Azkrv10dEKzpPeTxxI by adamvs1@mastodon.world
2025-10-31T03:01:42Z
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@futurebird Please remember: Your computer may beat you at chess, but it has little chance against you in kick boxing.
(DIR) Post #B0TtkCgNDSIJ7HuXom by adamvs1@mastodon.world
2025-11-21T02:56:13Z
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“Microsoft Exec Asks: Why Aren't More People Impressed With AI? | PCMag” “The fact that people are unimpressed that we can have a fluent conversation with a super smart AI that can generate any image/video is mindblowing to me,”-Mustafa Suleyman, MS head of AIA.I. is not smart- it does not “think”. And the fact that the A.I. boss believes it does says more about human self deception than anything else.https://www.pcmag.com/news/microsoft-exec-asks-why-arent-more-people-impressed-with-ai
(DIR) Post #B1L4xeO6CmB5lwjQxs by adamvs1@mastodon.world
2025-12-15T09:33:00Z
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Writing in The Bulwark a tribute to slain actor/director Rob Reiner, Sonny Bunch concludes his article by noting Reiner’s unwavering criticism of Trump. I will not be surprised if that becomes relevant in the course of the investigation into the stabbings of Reiner and his wife, Michele.
(DIR) Post #B1L4xh9JwB8gKyqAqW by adamvs1@mastodon.world
2025-12-15T13:47:36Z
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@dnkboston I may have been premature about motivation. The CBC reported that Reiner’s son is the prime suspect.
(DIR) Post #B1L4xj1wwYQoAhPJdQ by adamvs1@mastodon.world
2025-12-17T11:35:13Z
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@dnkboston Yes, violence is being advocated as not just a means, but an end onto itself. This gets channeled by some people with mental illness, and by many more with no such excuse.