Gary Hyslop

Gary Hyslop

@gforce2002.bsky.social

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My pal Danielle Koenig shared that her father Walter Koenig passed away last night at age 90. A performer whose kindness and warmth shone through the screen. He will be well remembered.

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From Lula’s victory speech. Hard to argue. 🇧🇷 “We had to overcome foreign interference through digital platforms, which we will have to regulate. We cannot have monstrously large corporations earning millions and billions, paying no taxes to this country and trying to steer our election results.”

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Einstein's theory of relativity: Because the speed of light is constant for all observers, time and distance stretch or shrink relative to motion. Sea Tea's theory of relativity: The last 2 years since the 2024 Presidential election have taken 15 centuries.

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Muslims and immigrants, despite all the lies we're told about them, have never presented a systemic threat to Western security, let alone to "Western civilisation". Instead, the threats come from our governments, especially in the US, and their grim alliances with capital and overseas dictators.

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This day in history. 1886. Following a time-honoured tradition the European crew of the sinking British merchant ship Normanton dropped the lifeboats and left the asian crew members and passengers behind to drown, and in another time-honoured tradition, there was no punishment to speak of.

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This video camera study showed that less than 5% of people on bikes broke traffic laws while riding bikes, yet 66% of people did so while driving. And perhaps even more importantly, if you REALLY want even MORE bike-riders to obey laws, build more protected bike infrastructure. Via @carltonreid.com

forbes.comCyclists Break Far Fewer Road Rules Than Motorists, Finds New Video StudyBusting the myth of the "scofflaw cyclist" Danish Road Directorate studies reveal that while 66% of motorists routinely break road traffic laws only 5% of cyclists do so. Law breaking by cyclists is h...

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it’s really beautiful how the world’s oldest known joke is both a fart joke AND a mah wifeeee joke.

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Replying to @brenttoderian.bsky.social

The other 9 questions are equally as concerning.The current results show Albertans support Smith's racist scapegoating of immigrants.The same people who answered her invitation during the"Alberta's Calling"campaign are now not welcome thanks to Smith and the UCP.No referendum;but we are NOT okay.

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“More than 100 polling stations failed to open on time for referendum voting Monday, which means those stations will stay open late and results will be delayed…anyone in line when the station closes will be allowed to vote, & results will not be released until after all polls are closed.” Go VOTE.

cbc.caSettle in: Alberta referendum results expected late after 106 polling stations slow to open | CBC NewsElections Alberta confirmed that some stations were late to open on Monday, and that these stations will remain open later to ensure voters have enough time to cast a ballot in the province's referend...
Brent Toderian@brenttoderian.bsky.social

Don’t forget this. “Foreign actors are attempting to undermine Canadian interests by interfering in Alberta's separatist debate…” “Actors from Russia and the US are attempting to promote separatist ideas in what researchers behind the report described as a threat to Canada's democratic integrity.”

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Yes. The conservative scheme for education is a three-way split: high-priced academies for the children of the wealthy, religious instruction to brainwash the middle class, and a rump of prison-like public schools to discipline the lower class into obedience.

jamelle@jamellebouie.net

the other thing is that conservatives resolutely do not see the purpose of education as providing social mobility but as reifying and deepening existing inequalities of status. they are as hostile to low income students getting admission to elite institutions as they are black ones.

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Replying to @doctorow.pluralistic.net

You can be forgiven for rolling your eyes when the subject of "digital sovereignty" comes up. Rhetorically, "digital sovereignty" is a coded way for a politician to say, "We should build a fuckton of AI data-centers while bypassing any environmental review": datacentremagazine.com/technology-a...

datacentremagazine.comKeir Starmer’s £2bn Pledge: How the UK Plans to Advance AIUK government commits £2bn to AI infrastructure expansion, eager to target data centre growth and digital skills development in a bid to get ahead in AI

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Replying to @doctorow.pluralistic.net

But AI has *nothing to do* with digital sovereignty. It is *not* load-bearing. All it takes to understand this is a little thought-experiment. Imagine that we removed all the chatbots from Canada, or the UK, or the EU, or the USA. What would fall down? Nothing important.

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The Internet Archive has a museum for the weirdest art of the early web. 🖼️ It’s called GifCities. Thousands of animated GIFs rescued from the first wave of the web. Glitter. Dancing. Cats. Strange little loops that survived. 💾 Go find your perfect retro GIF 👉 gifcities.org #ToolsYouCanUse

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Ok gotta admit the new Tesla release somehow cut through all my cynicism straight to my child core & reminded me that sometimes shit is just cool. I truly cannot wait to get my own hat (yes I think it’s stylish fuck the haters) full of infinite rabbits

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One of my big missions going forward is trying to persuade people to stop using social media as their primary news source. Ideally, check the news before you see what everyone else thinks. I don't think it's a panacea. But I know algorithms controlled by billionaires are a plague.

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Replying to @bencollins.bsky.social

Our internet, how we get all of our information, now has banned using the word "sex" without writing it like "s*x" but our kids are being inundated with people falling off rollercoasters, being mauled by Tigers, and jumping off buildings. It creates a culture afraid of people but in love with death.