Never forgiving Apple or Google for participating in this bullshit.
Patrick Devaney
@patrickdevaney.bsky.social
UBC CS PhD student - formal verification of hardware and software (also occasionally theory of computation) - hobbyist nature photographer - #CovidIsAirborne - https://patrickdevaney.net/
Of all the weeks in Canadian history, this has definitely been one of them.
DRM is bad and should be illegal. Companies have told us for decades now that you're "buying" content but actually creating a lease, instead.
Timothy@landbeforetim.myatproto.social · 2w agoI’ll die on the hill that digital purchases shouldn’t be legally allowed to be deleted, removed from user access, etc because at that point that isn’t purchasing a game or product but rather renting it Once you digitally buy a game or media you should get to forever own your copy no matter what
"it looks like you're using an adblocker to visit our site." yep! ha ha! it rocks!
Today, August 4, 2026, is the setting of Ray Bradbury’s short story “There Will Come Soft Rains” about a fully automated house continuing on after the family who lived there and the world around it died in a nuclear blast.
Brutal photo caption from The Guardian: “Gianni Infantino carefully explains to Donald Trump that he is not part of the Spanish national team.”
counterpoint: the dead should make it harder for me to speak ill of them
Climate scientists will recognize this playbook. Controversialize science that isn’t controversial by platforming a small group of “skeptics” who generally have little to no expertise in the subject, in order to delay necessary action at the price of countless lives.
FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting)@fairmediawatch.bsky.social · 2mo agoNational corporate media have created a controversy—”is Long Covid a real medical disease?”—which never existed in any serious form among the experts who research Covid. fair.org/home/media-w...
National corporate media have created a controversy—”is Long Covid a real medical disease?”—which never existed in any serious form among the experts who research Covid. fair.org/home/media-w...
Media Won’t Stop Psychologizing Long Covid
Media outlets that trumpet their journalistic integrity have used their prestige to launder an unproven, anti-science conspiracy theory about Long Covid.
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My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and— I said look. Look with your eyes! Oh now you’ve gone and touched it. The paint is peeling. My beautiful paint! I’ll have to call my pool guy back. Vandal! Antifa! I said look And despair Nothing but the algae remains.
One more time for the people in the back: I will always hate your real names proposal. I will always hate your backdooring crypto proposal. I will always hate your hack back proposal. These ideas are bad and you cannot dress them up in any way that will change that.
Can I just give a shout out to the @ethz.ch researchers who initialised an AI weather model with a cat picture. 👏🐱
it’s crazy that they still do this event every year while this post exists
Parker Molloy@parkermolloy.com · 3mo agoHowever much you hate centrists, it's not enough.
Carney to replace Steven Guilbeault’s seat with burning tailings pond
Carney to replace Steven Guilbeault’s seat with burning tailings pond
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Mark Carney has absorbed the resignation from Parliament by climate activist Steven Guilbeault, immediately announcing that his seat would be replaced with a tar sands tailings...
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hey everyone wanna see what a manufactured hate campaign is shaped like???
Dr Panti Bliss-Cabrera@pantibliss.bsky.social · 12mo agoTrans people have been around your whole life. You’ve been sharing bathrooms with them your whole life. They’ve been in your communities your whole life. They’ve even been playing sport your whole life. And you didn’t care *at all* till a few years ago when every right wing org decided you should
A history of the top marginal tax rates on the wealthiest Americans: 1940: 81% 1950: 84% 1960: 91% 1970: 72% 1980: 70% 1990: 28% 2000: 40% 2010: 35% For 50 years, corporate backed politicians in Congress have slashed taxes to line the pockets of their wealthy donors.
Proposed Burrito Tax: For every 1 door dash opinion you post you must bring meals to a disabled person who can’t get food safely themselves.
Jessica Ellis@baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 3mo agoLet a disabled person order some fucking pad Thai in peace without needing to hear your opinion or the idea that taxing us for it will fix capitalism, is that too much to ask.
This Canvas hacking situation shows problems with monopolies/duopolies, in this essay I'll..
The Assistant to the Regional Manager of the Rings
Chantzy@chantzy.bsky.social · 4mo agoThe Grapes of Mild Annoyance
Urging Bluesky to bring more nuance to AI in general.
Chantzy@chantzy.bsky.social · 4mo agoUrging Bluesky to bring more nuance to AI in health care. ML has been used for decades & is already contributing to drug discovery & personalized cancer vaccines - with potential in long COVID research Not all AI is driven by big tech
Good evening: this is your semi-regular reminder that you can’t preserve or strengthen democracy without democratizing the economy and giving workers a greater share of wealth and control in the workplace.