I don't think there will be a happy compromise with Agentic AI LLM stuff. There isn't a way to define the distinction between actually useful, looks useful-but isn't, useless, and forced on people who don't want it.
Johanne Boucher
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Tea addict|book lover|writer. Neurodivergent|Info Specialist (MLIS) Montréalaise à Ottawa *Blocks yellers/political partisans* 📚/🎾/⛸️/soap fan. Profile pic of red tea lights+candles on white holders. Background yellow + red tulips near pathway and canal.
I have some thoughts and reflections as we near the 25th anniversary of 9/11. This is only one Canadian perspective, you have every right to disagree. This is an antithesis of a love letter to the USA. 25 years ago, the world watched in horror as one of our friends and neighbours was attacked
Ignorance of Canadian federalism among Canadian voters meant that Doug Ford's comprehensive failure to handle a local policing matter turned into Trudeau's problem; the lines of accountability in the UK are at least clearer.
Isaiah Bishop@isaiahbishop.bsky.social · 3h agoI will say the Ottawa convoy protests feel quite similar to the UK thing. The more this stuff happens, even if people disagree with it, the more it looks like the govt is flailing and that plays right into authoritarian hands
《Plus de logements vacants ne signifie toutefois pas que Montréal devient soudainement bon marché. Le privé n'a pas réglé la crise du logement, et ne la réglera pas. Maintenant, peut on parler de nos solutions s'il vous plaît ?
Des milliers de logements de luxe vides à Montréal
Selon CoStar, environ 6 300 logements classés 4 et 5 étoiles sont actuellement vacants dans le marché montréalais
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I use social media to learn things and get info, creating links w/ people along the way. Twitter offered me a quick way to interact w/ companies’ customer service and I had a whole local community there I could rely on for news. Soon my 3-yr Bluesky anniversary is coming.
Definitely. BoC also doesn’t show their work before the official launch. Always good to be sceptical of huge accts showing images w/ no source or Alt Text, even if they wear a Canadian flag.
It’s not from BoC: “We are currently in the research and early development phase for the vertical $5 note. There is no date set for its release. It will be issued after the vertical $20 note, which will enter circulation in early 2027.” www.bankofcanada.ca/banknotes/up...
Our next $5 bank note
On December 16, 2024, the Government of Canada announced that Terry Fox will be featured on the new $5 note.
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Trump's Canada s-posting this weekend. Well here's the viewpoint from... Jordan! Jordanian editorial cartoonist Osama Hajjaj salutes Canada's response to the U.S. bloviator-in-chief. He works for the daily newspaper Alquds. #CdnPoli 🇨🇦
Are the USA still able to manage planes ?
NPR@npr.org · 16h agoUPDATE: Five dead after Amazon cargo plane crashes at Miami airport
⬇️ Further evidence that the old saying that “public health is political” took on a whole new meaning as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. Public health is now contested in ways not seen for a long time & on an unprecedented scale. PH is fuel for normative & therefore political disagreement.
Luke LeBrun@lukelebrun.ca · 18h agoNumerous people in Saxony-Anhalt and other areas of eastern Germany that I’ve spoken to over the last month have explicitly identified the pandemic as a moment that “accelerated” the far-right Many people have a story of a family member who went down a rabbit hole and ended up aligning with the AfD
Creating a whole hockey vocabulary in Canadian French. I remember him well.
Canadian History Ehx@cdnhistoryehx.bsky.social · yesterdayOn this day in 1999, René Lecavalier died. He was the first commentator on La Soirée du hockey, and remained with the program for three decades. He also called the French-language broadcast of the 1972 Summit Series. He is in Canada's Sports Hall of Fame. 📸 Radio-Canada
"The Tsitsipas forehand, among the tour’s finest in some bygone era, was once again the best shot on the court, and even his frequently disastrous one-handed backhand seemed up to the task." @girinathan.bsky.social www.thesecondserve.com/stefanos-tsi...
Stefanos Tsitsipas: Too Soon To Call it a Comeback? - The Second Serve
Stefanos Tsitsipas finds his form at the US Open.
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What a shock--Trump sends Witkoff and Kushner to meet first with Putin and reach an understanding, and naturally the Ukrainians have to say no. The idea that the US could be an honest broker in this war is madness. It is a stalking horse for the Russian dictator.
The Kyiv Independent@kyivindependent.com · 23h ago⚡️Update: 'The war will continue' — US peace push fails to achieve deal after Witkoff, Kushner's first visit to Kyiv. "We expect the war will continue," Zelensky said after the talks, adding that Ukraine is counting on U.S. energy and air defense support this winter.
BREAKING: Germany’s far right is on track to claim its biggest electoral success since World War II, with exit polls predicting it will win about 44 percent of the vote in the eastern region of Saxony-Anhalt today. Full story: www.politico.eu/article/exit...
To this day still a great friend of Martina Navratilova. What’s the expression, taking away the ladder once you make it up?
Xtra @xtramagazine.com · 22h agoThis former tennis player broke barriers for trans athletes in 1977. Then she changed her tune. xtramagazine.com/video/renee-...
People who crammed unwanted AI into every product and service to intentionally make it unavoidable: "It's so interesting that you criticize AI while still using products and services with AI in them."
Americans elected Donald Trump. No other country on earth had a say in the matter. Americans had the right to vote in an election, and they picked the guy. Americans are not victims of Donald Trump. They're perpetrators.
Listening to CBC The House, and they're talking to a lot of Americans who are not happy, and blame the politicians in both Washington DC and Ottawa. Frustrating listen. Canada made concessions to get CUSMA signed. We had a deal. We didn't go back on that deal, and we didn't start the trade war.
Very frustrating, indeed. Catherine Cullen did her job. The goal was to make the USians feel at ease to talk, while gently added pertinent info. Not interested.
James McLeod@jamespmcleod.ca · 23h agoListening to CBC The House, and they're talking to a lot of Americans who are not happy, and blame the politicians in both Washington DC and Ottawa. Frustrating listen. Canada made concessions to get CUSMA signed. We had a deal. We didn't go back on that deal, and we didn't start the trade war.
It's National Read a Book Day! What are you reading today, Thingamabrarians? #ReadABookDay #💙📚 #Booksky
“Canada doesn’t have any national strategy on menopause. It hasn’t had a national health campaign. Funding for research is still scant.”
André Picard @picardonhealth @picardonhealth.bsky.social · 2d agoWhat the menopause gap in the labour force is costing Canada. Stigma, silence and unmanaged symptoms are taking an immense toll on women – and on the economy, by @taviagrant.bsky.social www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic... via @theglobeandmail.com
Two fatal flaws that mean this fund should never have been established: - Stop setting up yet more competing vertical funds - Voluntary corporate contributions don’t work. That’s why we have taxation $1bn in a year is wildly unrealistic www.politico.eu/article/un-l...
UN’s landmark nature restoration fund fails to raise almost any money
The Cali Fund has attracted just $6,000 from corporate contributors since it was launched in February 2025.
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For the Star, I wrote about Dolly Parton, Gloria Steinem and all the wise women that show us how to survive tough times, stand up for others and dismiss fools. To mourn and celebrate them, sign up to be a badass old lady, emphasis and pride on 👵🏾👵🏾👵🏾👵🏾👵🏾! www.thestar.com/gift-redeem?...
I think my greatest wish for fantasy is just that the genre (marketing) doesn't entirely suffocate the genre (conversations). What I see on bookstore tables labed Fantasy is so much more homogenous than what all my cool friends are writing, and while that has always been true it feels more so lately
A.M. Tuomala@amtuomala.bsky.social · 2d agoWhat would you like to see more of in the fantasy fiction of the next five years? Where do you think the genre has room for growth and exploration--or which recent developments would you like to see continued?
‘Magnified, sanctified Be the holy name Vilified, crucified In the human frame A million candles burning For the help that never came You want it darker’ - RIP, Leonard #FlowersonSunday
