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I'm Cal, in Toronto 🇨🇦. Doing tool and #gamedev, #film, #writing. Wrangling chronic illness, so I can get back to acting, circus, martial arts. Tech prefs: #MacOS or #Linux, #UnrealEngine, #Ruby or #RubyMotion. Pronouns: any (not a gendered persona)
What's the point of having fuck you money if you're never going to say "fuck you"?
Oliver Darcy@oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 8h ago“Everyone considers it fucking nuts.” Inside Apple, I'm told "not a soul" supports Donald Trump's Lake Ontario rebrand to "Lake America," but the company is also resigned to making such concessions to avoid the White House's rage. Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/apple-maps...
Does Canada really need Alberta’s new $43-billion pipeline? This analysis says it’s a massive risk
Does Canada really need Alberta’s new $43-billion pipeline? This analysis says it’s a massive risk
A global energy think tank suggests a global energy transition away from oil is likely to drive down prices and undermine the West Coast pipeline idea.
thestar.com
In reality, Canada still faces the Sidewalk Labs problem, since US tech is embedded in all parts of government and society, from Microsoft office products to governments’ continued insistence on using X to make announcements. Unlike Europe, they”re doing nothing to change this. From Jan:
Microsoft’s AI deal promises Canada digital sovereignty, but is that a pledge it can keep?
As the U.S. government becomes increasingly authoritarian and issues threats to other countries, can Canadians trust U.S. tech companies with their data?
theconversation.com
This is a good example of what @ntusikov.bsky.social and I have been warning about for years: US tech companies are uniquely susceptible to extra-legal US government pressure (Google isn’t compelled to change Lake Ontario’s name.) Because of this, they represent a direct threat to Canadian autonomy.
Luke LeBrun@lukelebrun.ca · 3d agoCurrent view of Google Maps while using a Canadian VPN (left) and an American VPN (right)
Global heating will hit at least 1.8C, UN warns, and there are ‘no good outcomes’ The only solution... Deep, rapid emissions cuts and removing carbon from the atmosphere. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Global heating will hit at least 1.8C, UN warns, and there are ‘no good outcomes’
But scientists say the world could get back to 1.5C through deep, rapid emissions cuts and removing carbon from the atmosphere
theguardian.com
Folks, watch this movie! At the very least watch until the fight scene where they're disqualified if they touch the ground, it's absolutely spectacular.
Casey Explosion@caseyexplosion.bsky.social · yesterdayOkay, double movie recommendation for today, because I just noticed Shout! Studios have Fong Sai Yuk up on Youtube to watch for free, and this absolutely slaps. An early career highlight for Jet Li, directed by Hong Kong legend Corey Yuen (Yes Madam, Righting Wrongs, The Transporter) Watch it!
Also free on YouTube: Fong Sai Yuk II which is as good a movie and features jet li doing one of the swaggiest entrances in history
Casey Explosion@caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 9h agoFolks, watch this movie! At the very least watch until the fight scene where they're disqualified if they touch the ground, it's absolutely spectacular.
New Scientific Paper Essential Read Alert! (yes, that's a thing) Want to understand the factors involved in aerosol/airborne viral transmission? Easy to understand. excellent read. H/T to @barryhunt008.bsky.social for the share paijournal.com/index.php/pa...
View of Heterogeneity of Airborne Virus Transmission in the Built Environment: A Narrative Review
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To everyone puzzled over why they are attacking Canada repeatedly on any platform they can, Goebbels said repeat and people will believe. They’re repeating. People are believing. #Canada
YouGov America@today.yougov.com · 11h agoNEW Economist/YouGov Aug 28-31: Canada 38% of Republicans view Canada as unfriendly or an enemy of the U.S., by far the highest level in the past decade yougov.com/en-us/articl...
I want to share some reflections on last night’s by-elections. While there is still lots of work to do, our strong result in Beaches—East York and the surge of grassroots organizing in all three ridings shows us one thing: the NDP is back.
Jigsaw puzzles can now be VIDEOS. They don't have to necessarily be playing at the start, either. They could APPEAR to be a regular image until you have completed a certain % of the puzzle. Then STUFF COULD HAPPEN. #gamedev
Shinoda on the design of Breath of the Wild's Gorons, 2017. Source: Creating a Champion #Zelda #BreathoftheWildQuote #ShinodaQuote www.hyruleinterviews.com/Creating-a-C...
![PEOPLE:
- Hirohito Shinoda. Lead NPC artist for Breath of the Wild.
QUOTE:
Shinoda: [Early in Breath of the Wild] we tried to dramatically change the Gorons' appearance … I made their heads bigger, made them more human-like, and explored a lot of different ideas, but none of them really fit.
So I returned to their roots and [leaned] into their design from Ocarina of Time. In recent titles the Gorons have had tattoos, but I thought that due to the anime-like styling of this title, we should aim to make use of empty space rather than trying to fill it, so I went with a very clean design. Rather than just making them round, I paid close attention to the 3D model to ensure they felt like a sumo wrestler, someone with body fat and muscles, and that they looked powerful.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2e7f2uvcguv4d5qxqnyjmk32/bafkreihgivem272x742k6vruhgd5hyfkx7qbtjxpzjz3fxmd2aggk4hiam)
Thank you to the USPS whistleblower. May your courage be contagious.
I love science, part 10 to the 13th.
Astrobites@astrobites.bsky.social · 12h agoFrom Jared Bull: We’re used to imagining dark matter as tiny particles, such as WIMPs or axions, but what if dark matter existed in chunks the size of bowling balls, fridges, or even pyramids? ⚛️ 🔭 ☄️ 🧪 astrobites.org/2026/08/29/the-weather-forecast-of-dark-matter-hail-in-the-solar-system/
For me, the biggest takeaway from Sophie Cunningham’s hard launch into the right-wing culture wars is how *lucrative* bigotry is now. There’s an entire conservative media ecosystem that will turn anyone willing to make transphobia their personal brand into a well-compensated star.
Sophie Cunningham and the cynical economics of the anti-trans athlete
The conservative media machine is turning WNBA athletes into well-compensated culture-war assets.
fastcompany.com
Update: The tropical weather feature of great interest--Tropical Storm (& soon hurricane) #Marie--has now developed. Marie's track will dictate potential CA impacts over Labor Day; uncertainty remains high, w/significant impacts possible (but direct landfall unlikely). [Thread]
The way I figured out I have ADHD is that if I really need to fall asleep early, I need to drink a coffee about two hours before bedtime.
Jerry Chen@jcsalterego.bsky.social · 14h agoimagine being able to have coffee after 3PM and not facing Repercussions
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Mamdani has announced that NYC restaurants can have outdoor dining all year round. This is actually a big public health win because fall and winter is when respiratory virus cases surge. Dining outdoors helps reduce the risk of disease spread.
Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani@mayor.nyc.gov · 16h agoRain or shine, sun or snow, you can now break bread outdoors year-round. Thanks to @cmrestler.bsky.social’s work, our favorite restaurants will no longer have to tear down and rebuild their setups each year. It’s official: Outdoor dining is here to stay.
Man, all the anti-trans stuff, even if you're transphobic at some point, it's got to be, like... Imagine you're on a plane experiencing severe turbulence and the pilot is on the intercom ranting about anime. Even if you think he has good thoughts on One Piece, you still want him to focus on flying.
This is the single biggest physics discovery of my entire lifetime. Or something's wrong with one of the cables. One of the two
Michael Greshko@michaelgreshko.bsky.social · 19h agoBREAKING: The world's most sensitive dark matter detector has announced it has spotted something it can't easily explain: a single event that's tantalizingly consistent with a type of theorized dark matter particle. Very early days yet, but pretty wild. 🧪 www.science.org/content/arti...
This is pretty fucking wild. I had assumed in a worst case scenario he would target blue zip codes and toss ballots based on technicalities but this is even worse than I imagined.
SpacePrez@spaceprez.bsky.social · 16h agoThe polls are super bad for Trump so he's definitely going to try to cheat www.nytimes.com/2026/09/01/u...
Showing my new particle physics book the ATLAS detector at @cern.bsky.social 🥹
