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Fall has been a little slow coming to southern Ontario, but I think it’s definitely here.

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US navel surveillance drones in the Great Lakes.

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www.cbc.ca/radio/asi…

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For my fellow Canadians: Health Canada runs a “Flu Watcher” program that uses citizen reporting to help track the flu. They send a weekly email with a short questionnaire (it only takes a minute). Please consider participating and signing up at public.cnphi-rcrsp.ca/fluWatche…

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Now we know who did it!

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Another example of why you should block all ads. I’m not against websites making money - I pay for a number myself. But the online ad system is broken. https://www.theglobeandmail.com/world/article-zero-click-ads-used-to-infect-journalists-devices-with-spyware/

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Paul Krugman on the Russian diesel announcement: “300,000 tons??? That’s a bit over 2 million barrels. America consumes approximately 4 million barrels of distillates — diesel (mostly) and heating oil — every day.” https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/arithmetic-suffers-from-trump-derangement

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CBC did a good interview with Jill Lepore about Big Tech’s misusing democratic terms to fit their agenda.

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https://www.cbc.ca/listen/cbc-podcasts/209-front-burner/episode/16242611-is-ai-inevitable-jill-lepore-says-no

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Thought this was appropriate for our current era.

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I’ve been trying to spend more time reading books so I’ve been unfollowing people and blogs. Some because my or the author’s interests have changed, but mostly because they’ve been sucked into the insanity that our society has become. Today I unfollowed 5 - unfortunately for the latter reason.

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Maybe forgetting some details as you get older is just a natural adaptation of aging? As someone who is now “old” I can hope so!

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www.sciencealert.com/the-aging…

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@older.bsky.social Congratulations to you, @annaleen.bsky.social , @drkarenlord.bsky.social, and all the authors. One of the best anthologies I’ve read in a long time.

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A warning to any Kobo ereader users - stay away from the latest beta release that is being offered (r6). It’s slow and buggy. My device wouldn’t wake after sleeping and I had to do a “factory reset”, and then do a revert to get it back to working firmware.

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Finally finished a small home project that I’ve been trying to do for a year. It reminds me of my law of home projects:

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There is no such thing as a small plumbing job.

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Cal Newport did a great podcast this week on how using AI degrades the human experience and makes everyone average.

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He also does an “AI Reality Check” episode every week - highly recommended.

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https://www.thedeeplife.com/podcasts/episodes/the-ai-resistance-is-forming-should-you-join-2/

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Sometimes there aren’t enough stones.

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Last week I needed to get away for a day, so I visited one of my favourite places. Only a couple of hours drive away, but it seems like another world. Beautiful and so quiet I could hear the ducks quacking on the other side of the lake.

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@axbom.com This is a great site- thanks for letting me know it existed . Three words from my birth year were COBOL, rock star, and poo😂

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@covertshores.bsky.social I live in Ajax Ontario which was named after the Ajax. Streets were named after crewmen. It was also a major armaments factory during the war. www.ajax.ca/en/play-and-…

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@johnshirley2024.bsky.social And the crazy president in The Sheep Look Up remind me of someone.

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@weathernetwork.bsky.social Ah the days when The Weather Network would talk about, you know, WEATHER. And not this crap.

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@historyofthesecondworldwar.com Luckily I’m so far behind that I won’t get there for a year 😉

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