Sean
@seandunn.bsky.social
Once described as "not nearly as serious as they first seem." Accurate. Not the sandwich-throwing one.
Baseball rules are essentially spaghetti code. You'd never look at these rules and design the sport again the same way from scratch. Its the product of incrementalism, lack of foresight and heavy emotional attachment. *spaghetti code has also made people a lot of money
Hot take: they take Vladdy's Gatorade dumping privileges away next time he fails an ABS challenge.
When I first learned about privative clauses, my instinct was to think "wait, what?! They can do that?" The government legislating limits on the judicial oversight of the government just smelled unconstitutional, even to a lay person like me. Big day for admin law nerds.
Orlagh O’Kelly@orlaghokelly.bsky.social · 2w agoGetting lotssss of questions about Democracy Watch case. Even on Facebook! As a nerd of judicial review and lover of the rule of law, it’s music to my ears. We owe a depth of gratitude to Democracy Watch, @pauldalyesq.bsky.social and Duff Connacher. 🙏 Some key excerpts (1)
Did I hold onto a single 16 ft length of rebar for 13 years just in case I needed it? Yes. Did I finally need it and use it all today? Yes. Please clap.
See also: education 1. Stubbornly deny there is a problem 2. Wage war on the professionals raising the red flag about the problem 3. Belatedly realize via unanticipated public backlash that there might actually be a problem 4. Commit to fix problem 5. Realize you don't know how 6. Hope ppl moved on
Parksy@pfparks.bsky.social · last mo.> 6 months since the tragic WR death of Mr. Sreekumar Govt has forgotten him. Public promises were made, but no progress has been made. No ACCOUNTABILITY. The Premier and Ministers have moved on... 1/6
One of the first things that Kenney did was intentionally foment a "university-educated-versus-trades" culture war that never before meaningfully existed in Alberta.
Seth Cotlar@sethcotlar.bsky.social · 4w agoGovernment-promoted anti-intellectualism is a common feature of fascist states, with “intellectualism” coded as feminine and/or Jewish/leftist.
I am glad an exemption was sought and granted to use the Emergency Alert System for Parker, but then to waste so much of the start of the alert message explaining and justifying that decision reeks of the beurocratic CYA. It was the right decision, own it, and don't waste the lede with apologetics.
Yeah, good luck trying to get kids enrolled in swimming lessons. What once was a childhood staple now is like trying to enroll your kids in polo lessons. This is going to get much, much worse.
CNN@cnn.com · last mo.Drowning is the leading cause of death among children ages 1 to 4 in the United States, and it’s getting worse.
Hear me out: "Barbequing" but instead 5 electric appliances on the patio
At the registries and watching a long stream of seniors with their walkers who just spent 5 minutes fighting their way up the ramp to renew their drivers licenses only to be turned away and told to come back with their passports.
So somehow, the money that the Alberta Government each gave to three different first nations to build recovery centres, somehow all three first nations somehow hired the same construction company with ties to Mraiche... And one of them also leased a building from him.
Carrie Tait@carrietait.bsky.social · last mo.SCOOP: Tsuut'ina Nation alleges its former lawyer worked with Sam Mraiche and a former chief to sole-source a $35m contract to build a provincially funded recovery centre www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/alber... By @tomcardoso.bsky.social and friend
SCOOP: Tsuut'ina Nation alleges its former lawyer worked with Sam Mraiche and a former chief to sole-source a $35m contract to build a provincially funded recovery centre www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/alber... By @tomcardoso.bsky.social and friend
First Nation in Alberta sues its former lawyer, alleges wrongdoing in construction of addiction recovery centre
Tsuut’ina Nation also alleges undisclosed involvement in the project by Sam Mraiche, a businessman at the centre of the province’s health care procurement controversy
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Call me a curmudgeon, but I find the All Star Week to be an unwelcome interruption to the more entertaining baseball of the regular season.
Two thoughts: 1. Admin Law nerds 🤓🤓🤓 2. If EA contends they have a defensible, rigorous process they apply evenly... then that cuts both ways. And they know this. 《Sideeyes separation referendum》
Charles Rusnell@charlesrusnell.bsky.social · last mo.Corb Lund needs to take immediate legal action. This does not inspire confidence in Elections Alberta, which already has a history of questionable decisions. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Really glad I just installed solar. /s
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Jason Markusoff@markusoff.bsky.social · last mo.1 gigawatt! For reference, 1.4 gigawatts powers the city of Edmonton. 1.21 gigawatts can fire up the flux capacitor and take us back to 1955! www.reuters.com/world/americ...
Huh? A modern well-equipped military without buying anything?
Avi Lewis@avilewis.ca · last mo.Canada needs a modern and well-equipped military. But we do not need a war bank that will further enrich weapons contractors, especially American ones, that profit from death, destruction, and global instability. See my full statement here: www.ndp.ca/news/reactio... /End
The true democratization of AI isn't access to models or compute tokens or TPUs— It's access to the raw, inimitable human data that trains today's models. OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta, even Palantir have deep moats around data that was essentially taken for free. That's the economic shortcut 📈
Jeffrey Phillips@11thjeff.bsky.social · last mo.Reining in AI is good, but instead of asking for a piece of inflated AI bubble companies, Senator @sanders.senate.gov should demand those companies release the training data that rightfully belongs to the American people now. That's the real Wealth they're hoarding: data scraped and stolen from US
When I was in high school, a kid on my team waved a bat in the air and his hair stood up *and the bat hummed like a lightsabre!*
Katie Mack@astrokatie.com · last mo.It’s surprisingly hard to convince otherwise reasonable people to take lightning danger seriously. When I was at Princeton, I had to argue MORE THAN ONCE with the rest of the astrophysics dept softball team that we shouldn’t be waving metal bats around in an open field when we could hear thunder 😑
Who just got a new solar install and is feeling a bit chuffed about it?
When Guthrie challenged the UCP in question period over government funds allegedly going to Mraiche-connected individuals through recovery centre grants to the Metis Nation, the UCP gave a much different answer: that we shouldn't be asking Qs about FN financials www.facebook.com/share/v/1PB9...
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The Breakdown AB@thebreakdownab.bsky.social · 2mo agoToday Smith said that she would consider requiring First Nations to release audited financials publicly in order to continue doing business with them... Just like "everyone that we do business with". The Breakdown stares in "CorruptCare". #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli
1. This remotely isn't true. The government does not force "everyone they do business with" to make their Financials public. Think every business supplier. 2. This reeks of trying to get ahead of a story.
The Breakdown AB@thebreakdownab.bsky.social · 2mo agoToday Smith said that she would consider requiring First Nations to release audited financials publicly in order to continue doing business with them... Just like "everyone that we do business with". The Breakdown stares in "CorruptCare". #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli
Corb Lund: “I requested to have editorial control over the framing of my question and she looked me in the eye and said well, we have a particular outcome we want for these questions so we frame them a certain way.” WOW there it is
This would be a great campaign promise for the Alberta NDP to make. Literally just asking you folks to support public education as much as you support public health care and stop simping for charter and private schools
Network for Public Education@network4pubed.bsky.social · 2mo agoMcKee signs charter school moratorium into law www.wpri.com/news/po...
Current and former senior AHS officials told me that LaGrange simply refuses to consider evidence, even when told cancer surgeries and children's organ transplant surgeries were being delayed. thetyee.ca/News/2025/11...
Insiders Detail Ways Alberta’s For-Profit Surgery Push Is Failing | The Tyee
The shift strong-arms doctors but hasn’t saved money or shortened waits for critical operations, sources say. A Tyee investigation.
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