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Ocean aficionado. Feels strongly about trees. Balancing motherhood with working at Hypha Worker Co-op. Personal site: https://writerly.ca/ 🌱 ->https://spores.garden/@andia.bsky.social
Happy to see our report circulating out there.
Canadian Centre for the Study of Co-operatives@coopstudies.bsky.social · 2mo agoVery interesting new report from CanTrust Hosting Co-operative and @hypha.coop that asks the question whether Canadian co-operatives can build, own, and govern their own AI infrastructure is possible and feasible. Download the report here: cooperativeblueprint.ai/read-the-stu...
Friends, I saw the Philip Glass Ensemble on Saturday and I am still reliving those two hours. It... split my mind open. Words fail. What an experience. What a world we live in, holding beauty and pain in equal measures www.youtube.com/watch?v=-nBE...
Philip Glass - Opening (Official Video)
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Things to consider if you're filling in the Federal govt's survey on the airport expansion: environmentaldefence.ca/2026/06/10/t...
Ottawa Released a Toronto Island Airport Survey - Questions Aren't What They Seem - Environmental Defence
The federal government has made its first move toward putting a destructive jet airport on Toronto’s waterfront. Here’s what you should know. On June 8,
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"Models trained on WildChat copied this style, and developers unwittingly replicated it when using those models to generate newer datasets. It's like a virus.” So fascinating
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Wrapping up the CMC Congress and honouring Hazel Corcoran’s amazing work on behalf of worker co-ops in Canada. Hooray Hazel! @canadianworkercoop.bsky.social
Great to see Montreal buying spaces for artists and cultural creation. What about you, Toronto? lab545.com/en/
lab545 X Sight + Sound
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Pleased to see this out in the world. It was a pleasure collaborating w/ CanTrust on this project. Cooperation among cooperatives FTW. Also, read the study!
Hypha Worker Co-operative@hypha.coop · 2mo agoNew report: Can Canadian co-operatives build and own their own AI infrastructure? We looked at the technical, financial, and market feasibility and found a viable path forward. The Canadian Solidarity Stack is out now.
Just read this gorgeous post by shivani mehta bhatia and feeling all the feels about the complexity of mothering (humans large and small, careers, dogs, plants...) shivanimehtabhatia.kit.com/posts/everyb...
everybody mothers
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Sad not to be going this year but you (yes you) should go.
DWeb@getdweb.net · 2mo agoThank you to to all who joined our virtual meetup! 🌻 Its recording will be published soon 👀 We will have many more conversations like this at DWeb Camp, at Alte Hölle (DE) on 8–12 July 2026 🏕️ 🎟️ There is still time to get your tickets, here!
Another beautiful day in Toronto, another angry entitled Mercedes-driving dude swearing at me for riding a bike.
Nice - thanks Doug! (Said with the utmost sarcasm).
Matt Elliott@graphicmatt.com · 3mo agoFrom Safe Parkside: look what happened on Parkside Drive after Premier Doug Ford banned speed cameras.
Best silver lining I've seen in a while.
Sasha Costanza-Chock@schock.cc · 3mo agoThe crisis in the Strait of Hormuz is actually a plot by Big Solar </jk>
Subvert is live! Proud to be a member of this awesome cooperative music experiment. Check it out, join us!
Subvert@subvert.fm · 3mo agoWe’re live. Two years ago, we released a plan. Today, our collectively owned music platform is open. Explore. Support artists directly. Join the co-op. It’s only the beginning. Sincerely Ours, Subvert
Icelandic authorities just rerouted a planned hot water pipeline so as not to disturb an elf hill.
Fjóla@fjolagud.bsky.social · 3mo agoIt's been a long while since we had news of a project change because of elf-dwellings and it's high time, I say. Article heading: Hot-water pipeline rerouted to avoid offending elves.
Every time I see someone talk about Claude I think about how they switched from female to male names as soon as they wanted the robots to seem like experts vs personal assistants.
“People are elected to perform not govern” Zinger from @loreleikelly.bsky.social #DXC26
Funny to realize that all the work I used to do in relation to open data was unintentionally in service of feeding the LLM maw
‘Canada is a collection of provinces, loosely held together by fear’ Zita Cobb gets some knowing laughs from the audience #DXC26
Zita Cobb says Canadians need to be in love with their geography. First step in building happier and more resilient communities. I’m biased but co-ops are a good way of doing this #DXC20
‘In fighting misinformation, there is no silver bullet, we’ve got about three bronze bullets but we can keep using them over and over’ - Bruce MacCormack #DXC26
Just learned about Press Forward - support local journalism! It’s ‘literally’ fundamental to a healthy democracy #DXC26 www.pressforward.news
Press Forward | A national network strengthen local news.
Press Forward is a network with chapters nationwide, working to strengthen local news so communities stay informed, connected and engaged.
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‘AI sucks problems’ are also ‘capitalism sucks problems’ - Bruce Schneier #DXC26