Mick 🇨🇦
@mick.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy
Average middle-aged guy from various places in Ontario. Into #running, #books, #videogames, the #fediverse. At least a little bit #buddhist. Trying to lead an examined […] 🌉 bridged from ⁂ https://cosocial.ca/@mick, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact
OK, let’s try this: FB24976658: My Apple Account is locked every day Any help from any Apple folks to get this seen by the right people would be greatly appreciated! 🙏
I'm so old, I remember when software that spread into the wild and infiltrated other people's computers and did harmful things to them that the users didn't ask it to was called "malware" instead of "AI" and the people that spread it were prosecuted instead of given billions in venture capital […]
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Owning the libs. Renting to own the libs. The installment plan... for the libs. Falling behind on your payments for the libs. and now your water might get shut off.
Ok, I’m hearing a lot of you expressing skepticism about our new product that promises to eliminate millions of jobs, poison the atmosphere, raise your electricity rates and usher in a whole new era of disinformation. I get it. Change is scary! But what if I told you there’s a small chance it […]
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‘Officials who spoke with me stressed that the mere presence of the Egyptian intelligence chief in Israel should have demonstrated the urgency of the issue. “The messenger was the message,” a former Israeli official told me. “There is no world,” this official said, where top Israeli officials […]
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I wrote a proposal in the #CoSocialCa members forum about making services we already run on @cloudron for general co-op operations. Git hosting (we run @gitea) is of interest to me personally. Any other members want Canadian git hosting & code collaboration? […]
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“She’s trying to walk the middle of the road, between the moderate, business conservatives and the far-right populist base that’s still angry over COVID restrictions,” said John Santos, data scientist with Janet Brown Opinion Research. “Still angry over COVID restrictions” 😂 […]
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SF Democratic Party stands behind.. Flock They even have two people on Flock’s payroll! Who didn’t recuse themselves from the vote! Feckless, gormless politicians https://missionlocal.org/2026/09/san-francisco-democratic-party-flock-cameras/ #SanFrancisco #Flock
S.F. Democratic Party stands behind Flock surveillance cameras in sweeping vote
Two Democratic committee members work for Flock, but were allowed to vote regardless S.F. Democratic Party stands behind Flock surveillance cameras in sweeping vote
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Is there video of #Trump trying to say “Thucydides” someplace?
Being an adult means choosing to listen to Steve Paikin’s podcast, and sitting through an ad for toy and lube from the Stag Shop - delivered by Uber. Apparently.
I remember seeing a demo of the surveillance system that the #prc had imposed on its people in 201X and thinking it a good thing that we lived in a democracy where our every move wasn’t surveilled by the state. I remember the very idea of state-owned cameras everywhere as a dystopian nightmare […]
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How do we stop Disney from making any more Toy Story movies, and is there some way we can get them to unmake the 4th one?
Interesting to see the fediverse and the Atmosphere starting to take up similar shape, as with FASPs, fediverse servers will be able to connect to shared infrastructure. https://bonfirenetworks.org/posts/building-shared-infrastructure-for-the-fediverse/ via […]
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“Under the old international order, major powers did not, as a general rule, conquer and annex the territory of their neighbors. The global trading system was based on reciprocity, tariffs were historically low, and markets were relatively open. And, although it was the world’s strongest country […]
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Standing before the UN General Assembly, he threatens to annihilate a country of 90 million. He boasts that he’s conquered a state and claimed their natural resources as his prize. He declares that he intends to do so again. He explains that it is the natural right of the mighty to claim […]
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The first person who says to me “actually we’re calling it super intelligence now” is going to get punched in the mouth
The Jewish community has started a fundraiser for Constable Jeff Smith, who was badly injured in yesterday’s shootout outside the Sons of Jacob Synagogue in Belleville. “In Judaism, *pikuach nefesh*, the preservation of human life, is among our highest obligations. Const. Smith fulfilled that […]
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We're hiring at UBC CS in our tenure-track teaching stream. We're in search of systems expertise: our greatest needs are in operating systems and computer architecture; also networking, distributed systems, database systems, cloud computing, and systems security […]
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Ravebots Tech or Treat What If 2027 Sound Camp Fundraiser Join us for a night of beats, bass, and bots as we get the Vancouver Burning Man community warmed up for the season. This will be a taste of the Ravebots experience. It's a little treat before we reunite […] [Original post on cosocial.ca]
RE: https://cosocial.ca/@coop/117304257857053771 Thanks @dawn for your work in pushing things forward and prepping for the AGM - a nice morning of coworking where I got email for the atproto PDS working and tinkered with the operator admin panel that @gov installed. Progress! And met @ansate […]
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Sure, bud. Go for it. The best reading of this is that Canadian potash provides real leverage over the cost of growing crops in the US. Getting any quantity from Belarus is not practical for a bunch of reasons. As a signal this is probably intended to tell Carney to not even think about using […]
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We’ve got the AFD in Germany, the National Rally in France, Reform or Restore in the UK, Law and Justice in Poland, Vox in Spain… all surging. The political center-left is failing and the extreme right is ascendant. IDK if Canada is going to find the EU/UK a safe haven from the madness that […]
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