Steve Hadden
@stevehadden.bsky.social
Teacher in small town Sask, originally from Toronto. VP of Biggar & District Arts Council. Chair of Castwell & Co. Performing Arts. Misses public transit and the ocean.
"I wish the recent tellings of the Luddite mvmt wld... let their story go on a bit longer. By 1820, the Luddites had been crushed... But by that time weavers were already pursuing a quieter strategy. They formed [co-ops]... Thru them, weavers went from working in factories to co-owning factories."
Bodies upon the gears
Alternative approaches to The Man, considered by Nathan Schneider
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The essence of electoral democracy is equality. Whenever equality is compromised (e.g. big money, gerrymandering, unequal district population distribution), democracy is compromised, distrust grows, and political rights are undermined. The risk is real.
I remember seeing someone say we need a movie with Daniel Radcliffe and Margot Robbie playing a couple who get mistaken for assassins who are played by Elijah Wood and Samara Weaving, and I may not ever stop wanting to see that movie.
The wild eyed radical communist continues to destroy capitalism www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
‘I’m over the moon’: New York’s small business owners rejoice as Mamdani cuts red tape
Initiatives including cutting permits just to serve ice-cream amount to a sweeping program of deregulation
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Road to a Whistlestop, Sask Robert Newton Hurley 1970
This is kind of an incredible website: Why your stuff stopped lasting, who profited, and what's still built right.
Worse on Purpose
The brands you trusted quietly gutted quality to protect margins. Investigative essays on corporate enshittification. Free newsletter.
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This is the most useful AI primer I've ever seen
McSweeney's@mcsweeneys.net · 3w ago"Ben owns a farm. He employs 100 workers. His payroll is $10 million/year. One day, he buys a mule, which provides the worker who uses it a modest 10% productivity gain. Benjamin fires 99 of his workers and purchases 99 mules, expecting a 1000% productivity gain." www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/ai-...
I'm reading a paper with a lot of grammatical errors, which is surprisingly refreshing. It's definitely written by humans!
i’d accept the british spelling if mark carney also gave us a-series paper sizes and universal public pharmacare
Rachel Gilmore@rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 4w agoThe way Carney STILL insists to this day that his staff use British spelling rather than Canadian spelling.....such a weird hill to die on when we actually have OUR OWN spelling!
Oregon raises electricity rates by 29.7% for data centers and cuts residential electricity rates by 1.3%. www.opb.org/article/2026... #energysky
Oregon approves PGE’s 29.7% rate hike for data centers under landmark law
The Oregon Public Utility Commission unanimously approved Portland General Electric’s rate hike for large energy users to take effect Wednesday. Residential rates will go down 1.3%.
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Okay Toronto started the public survey on Church Street pedestrianization. I need you to tell the city it’s great. We only got 92% positive on Kensington market and it failed, let’s blow that out of the water. haveyoursay.toronto.ca/churchstreet
Church Street Pedestrianization Pilot
Learn more about the Church Street Pedestrianization Pilot and provide feedback on the impacts and outcomes by September 7, 2026.
haveyoursay.toronto.ca
I have a foolproof way to make sure that your papers contain absolutely no fake references . . . . . read the papers you cite.
librarians once again showing they’re heroes of the community
Tim Ellis 🍁@djdynamic.ca · 4w ago"They just want to turn it off." A fascinating story of the librarians who have started teaching classes showing people how to remove AI "features" from their phones and apps. www.bangordailynews.com/2026/07/02/m...
Sick. Awesome. Thanks for that. Really preferred this to funding a Blade game by the Dishonored people or people at Obsidian having jobs.
Karl Bode@karlbode.com · 4w agoeverywhere you look, things are goin' great
Come on Canada, if Mexico can do it, so can we! Let’s go trains!
RAIL Magazine@railmag.bsky.social · last mo."Mexico’s dreams are “dramatic”, says Andrew Young, a rail analyst. Mexico is starting more or less from scratch, in a region not known for trains, and building with speed, he says."
Genuine Question: At one point did business leaders conclude that they no longer need anyone to: 1. Make their products 2. Buy their products And still expect to generate infinite growth and revenue? At what point did they decide this fundamental part of how a market works no longer applies?
Most (if not all) anti AI people aren't anti technology. We just believe technology should serve people and not the other way around. AI takes and offers nothing useful in return.
You want to see Norway men’s national football team’s official photo for World Cup 2026 www.nytimes.com/athletic/733...
Biggar, SK has one of the best town slogans in Canada. But it didn't come from a marketing firm. It came from a railroad crew over a century ago. youtube.com/shorts/hNhhL...
Biggar's Great Slogan
YouTube video by Canadian History Ehx
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AI data centers are buying up memory chips, forcing up the price of virtually all our consumer electronics. It was great to have @papapishu.bsky.social back on the show to understand why this is happening, how’s benefiting, and what people are doing in response.
Tech Won’t Save Us@techwontsave.us · last mo.Apple is hiking its hardware prices. Xbox consoles are going up again. Sub-$500 laptops basically don’t exist anymore This week @papapishu.bsky.social joins @parismarx.com to discuss how the RAM crisis is coming for everyone—all thanks to the data centers. Full ep: techwontsave.us/episode/335_...
Physical books. You own them. They don't require updates. They don't surveil you or collect and sell your data. They are a genuinely safe hallucinogen that leaves you smarter and more empathetic and with a longer attention span the more you use them. Free from the library. What's not to like?