Jean-Michel Plourde

@jmplourde.com

Coding, amateur pianist, books, BJJ, gym, dogs, outdoor, Quebec. Software developer

There's a great deal that's alarming about the Prairieland sentencing, regardless of how one views the shooter, but the biggest deal is 30 years for a man who wasn't there, convicted of moving a box of zines while knowing protesters. Consider the implications. theintercept.com/2026/06/23/p...

Prairieland Defendant Sentenced to 30 Years in Prison for Moving a Box of Antifascist Zines

Anti-ICE activists received lengthy prison terms — including a 100-year sentence — in the first major trial of the NSPM-7 era.

theintercept.com

My company has a bot you can invite to your meeting, but only if you're the organizer. I created an automatic flow to forward the bot the meetings I accepted. Thinking I was clever, I went away for the night

Imagine if employers were willing to spend this kind of money upskilling their employees or paying for dev tools? Or stop doing open plan offices? The only time they want to invest in dev «productivity» is when they think they can get rid of us all together.

Business Insider@businessinsider.com · 2mo ago

Uber COO Andrew Macdonald said he's not seeing proportional productivity gains from increasing AI costs. https://bit.ly/4vdizCZ

Weirdly today I have to deal with a lot of enshittification: locked out of a Microsoft account so my grandma can't use her computer for 30 days. Win11 is just fn awful, can't do shit if not connected to the Internet

Sadly, I’m not at all surprised at this, since it was unlikely that Alberta’s awful Premier would let Ontario’s awful premier hold the title for “leader most likely to endanger people, make traffic congestion worse, & hurt the success of cities, all to score dumb ideological points with their base.”

Bell: Alberta to bring in law to rip out bike lanes and stop new ones

The Alberta government is bringing out a new law where existing bike lanes could be removed and new bike lanes would not get the green light

calgaryherald.com

Some people would absolutely devastated to know how little is digitized for preservation and how little will continue to be digitized. Why? Because MONEY AND LABOR. And digitization for preservation isn't the same as digitization for ACCESS...

Imagine talking about any other public service this way. Does the government keep public hospitals “afloat”? What about when it gave Marine Atlantic $169 million to support its operations in 24/25? The media does the bidding of those who want to private Canada Post when they adopt this framing.

Feds greenlight $673M to keep Canada Post afloat this year | CBC News

The federal government is handing hundreds of millions of dollars to Canada Post to keep the money-bleeding mail service afloat for the current fiscal year.

cbc.ca