Michael Coyle
@oplopanax.ca
🇨🇦 Search and Rescue volunteer, ⛰️🧗🏻♂️⛷️🚵🏻♂️🪢mountain rescuer, SAR manager, software developer (C#, C++), technology and risk expert, transplant recipient. Sḵwx̱wú7mesh territory
Thank you to all who have shared your condolences about Mike's passing - it is overwhelming. There will be a celebration of life for Mike on August 9 at Dogwood Pavilion in Coquitlam - and a livestream to ensure all who were touched by him may come should they wish. More details later. Sylvia
This is Mike's partner Sylvia Fuller - I am so sorry to say that Mike was found unresponsive while mountain biking yesterday and died despite the best efforts of other riders and Squamish EMS. Thank you to Squamish Search and Rescue for carrying him out and taking care of our dog. We are shattered
Regulators have linked Mark McAfee’s raw dairy farm to more than a dozen recalls and outbreaks that left hundreds of people ill. “I’ve put a couple kids in the hospital,” McAfee said. “But here’s the thing: I’m a pioneer.”
He Profits Off Raw Milk That’s Making People Sick. The Government Isn’t Stopping Him.
With Raw Farm, the largest raw-milk dairy in the country, Mark McAfee has capitalized on a once-fringe product that’s been thrust into the mainstream in recent years and backed by Health Secretary Rob...
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I'm afraid @craigspencer.bsky.social gives MAHA far too much credit. MAHA is just a rebranding of the medical freedom/antivax coalition that has been undermining public health for decades. It isn't unique in caring about healthy food, chronic disease, or healthier children—nearly everyone does.
The Atlantic@theatlantic.com · 2w agoA lot of people in public health believe that MAHA is “nothing more than a subversive anti-vaccine, anti-science syndicate,” but the movement is an opportunity that the public-health sector “cannot afford to squander,” Craig Spencer argues:
while I also long for this day, I also know that without massive reforms, the US is always one election away from another Trump. his exit from office, as satisfying as it will be, is not the end. there's a lot more work to do
Human☮@4humanunity.bsky.social · 2w agoCan't wait for the morning I wake up, have my coffee, and he's nowhere in the news. Just an orange stain in the history books. And the stuff that actually matters to people gets to be the headline again.
You acquire*one* sex-doll company and suddenly everyone's calling you the sex-doll acquirer.
Michael Sainato@msainato.bsky.social · 2w agoThe teachers' union at the New York high school set to have a humanoid robot this fall speaks out for the first time here I also talked to locals and @nysut.bsky.social president Melinda Pearson www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
“A Penn professor thought she’d sell 1000 copies of her ‘Odyssey’ translation. She sold a million this year alone, thanks to Christopher Nolan.” “West Philly's Emily Wilson, who penned a highly acclaimed translation of the epic poem in 2017, is having a big summer.”
A Penn professor thought she’d sell 1000 copies of her ‘Odyssey’ translation. She sold a million this year alone, thanks to Christopher Nolan.
West Philly's Emily Wilson, who penned a highly acclaimed translation of the epic poem in 2017, is having a big summer.
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bloomberg has a fun article today arguing that the Cybertruck is the biggest flop in automotive history. it includes this glorious graph.
This is the bike of one of the cyclists who was "bumped" by the pick-up truck driver. This sort of language is one way that media outlets downplay traffic violence.
The Durango Herald@durangoherald.bsky.social · 2w agoMedics and law enforcement responded Tuesday to a crash south of Durango where a pickup truck driver – suspected of impairment – allegedly bumped several road cyclists and seriously injured one.
Remarkable camera angle of President Trump as he listens to Wall Street Journal reporters receiving an award for their investigation into Trump’s relationship with Jeffrey Epstein — which they pursued despite Trump’s threats and lawsuit.
Wait. They all shake hands at the end? What are we even doing here? He's the US President suing you for $20 billion for reporting on the birthday card he sent his friend the pedophile in which he drew a naked girl & mused about secrets. And they all shake hands?
Dan Diamond@ddiamond.bsky.social · 2w agoRemarkable camera angle of President Trump as he listens to Wall Street Journal reporters receiving an award for their investigation into Trump’s relationship with Jeffrey Epstein — which they pursued despite Trump’s threats and lawsuit.
The WHCA Dinner used to be an event at which POTUS was roasted by the press, which ostensibly served the purpose of reminding POTUS of the role of the news media as a check on executive power. Now it is a humiliation ritual for journalists, in which their very presence is evidence of subservience.
www.timescolonist.com/driving/john... - If you're confused by the level of signage in the header image of this opinion piece please, seriously, stop driving. #yyj #yyjpol What is even going on?
John Ducker: How too many signs are quietly making our roads less safe
Every year, our municipalities add more signs, more signals, more flashing warnings, more painted instructions, and more roadside “safety” features
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I did not anticipate how bonkers it was going to be to see the WAPO journalists who won an award for their reporting on Trump in the Epstein files each shake his hand as if everything is totally normal, then see the lights dim over the President because he was asleep. Vonegut couldn’t write better.
Representatives for Taylor Farms called the White House to try to delay a recall tied to one of the largest foodborne illness outbreaks in U.S. history www.wsj.com/health/taylo...
The first time my doctor asked if she could use ai to take notes, and I said no, she seemed surprised. THIS IS WHY. SAY NO.
More Perfect Union@moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 3w agoMayo Clinic is being sued by its former AI compliance lead, who is alleging the hospital network tried to hide its AI tool’s 67% error rate at patients’ expense. /1 futurism.com/health-medic...
Taking away someone's food and medicine makes you responsible for their death
The Province asked Albertans to complain about bike lanes. We’re asking a better question: How does freedom of mobility improve your life? Tell us what safe, affordable ways to walk, roll, bike and take transit make possible for you. Share your story: tally.so/r/Y5vvN0 #yegbike
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This paper was given to me as an example of LLMs passing medical boards. My skepticism about those sort of claims remain undefeated. (1/3) pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
Performance of successive generative pretrained transformers (GPT) models in medical cases and board style questions
Large language models (LLMs) are evolving rapidly, yet their performance trajectory in specialized medical domains remains incompletely characterized. We evaluated the diagnostic and knowledge-based a...
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Doctor The Frog@skipbidder.bsky.social · 2w agoOkay. Started to look at this one now. It's a little weird. If you had given it to me to review, I think I would have suggested that it is at least three different papers. Or one paper, one correspondence, and one red flag academic warning...
I managed to make Google cough up a link to a report I first read ~20 years ago. This is becoming a rare occurrence so I thought I would celebrate it while it lasts. The past few years I've been unable to find sites, posts and other resources I know exist because keyword search no longer works.
NEW: Export Development Canada provided between $100 million and $200 million in project financing for the gas-fired plant that will power Meta's data centre in Sturgeon County, Alta., Canada's National Observer has discovered.
Crown corp lends up to $200M for Meta data centre gas plant in Alberta
The gas plant, known as Greenlight, is classified as a project that is “likely to have significant adverse environmental and social effects.”
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This utter muppet of a conservative Canadian politician in New Brunswick forgot to remove the LLM text from his floor speech and read it out loud.
he’s gutting the public sector, he’s holding back on pharmacare deals, he tried to pull money out of daycare, he’s letting two-tier healthcare gain a foothold in alberta, and now he’s coming for public healthcare funding too
Canada Healthwatch 🍁@canadahealthwatch.ca · 2w agoPlanned changes to Ottawa’s Canada Health Transfer could slash more than $50B from public health care over a decade, David J. Climenhaga reports. This article and more at canadahealthwatch.ca #CdnHealth
This is a massive blow to transparency in Canada, which was already bleak. It means Canada is keeping Canadians in the dark about their own past.
The Hill Times@hilltimes.com · 2w agoLibrary and Archives Canada has ended proactive declassification activities, a move access and archival experts say removes one part of an already limited federal system for making older records easier to process and release. www.hilltimes.com/2026/07/21/a...
Today, in violations of the rule of law that would be sufficient for impeachment in any other American presidency but aren't in this one because pathological partisan loyalty has rotted the constitutional order:
tony romm@tonyromm.bsky.social · 2w agoNEW: In a stunning admission, the Trump administration admitted in court documents that it canceled billions in energy grants to states "based solely" on politics -- and whether that state was represented by Democrats and backed Harris in 2024. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/24/b...