🇨🇦 Mike S

I am so tiered of explaining to people about privacy and cookies, so here is an allegory for you.

As in sex, the same goes for privacy, consent must be active, clear, knowing, ongoing, voluntary and is always REQUIRED!

Between grants getting politically targeted and my lab’s building getting literally fucking bombed, 2025 is going great thanks

It's the climate change of personal agency.

Ug. The Liberals aren't much different, also going headlong into more oil development, while only paying lip service to climate change. Yet the party that would do anything about it can't get elected.

Dear Mr. Wakeham: Climate changes aren’t coming — they’re here  – The Independent Not only are wildfires caused by climate change, new research links the heatwaves that cause them to oil companies active in Newfoundland and Labrador

Reminder that Tony Wakeham is on record denying/discounting/downplaying anthropogenic climate change and its catastrophic effects.

#nlwx #nltraffic #NLpoli #Newfoundland
#NewfoundlandandLabrador #YYT #climatechange
theindependent.ca/commentary/e...

I ask my closest friends then to give me their email, bank and other account passwords and access to their home cameras. They won't. Do they trust me less than the above crowd? No, but I'm a real person vs. a faceless entity and makes things more real.

The argument that "The government/police/corporations can have all my data, I got nothing to hide" drives me up the wall, across the ceiling and out the door. To be so blase about this is mind boggling.

Mind has been officially blown by seeing Saturn and its moon Titan through the Mills Observatory Victorian 10" Cooke telescope. WOW! Every time I've visited before, the clouds have come too, but not today! This old technology still works perfectly with a clockwork tracking mechanism. Stunning 🥳👌 🔭

GOOD NEWS! A new cancer vaccine has shown progress in triggering POWERFUL and LASTING immune responses in patients with pancreatic AND colorectal cancer. The vaccine, known as ELI-002 2P, targets mutant KRAS proteins AND had a huge impact on PREVENTING or DELAYING cancer recurrence in patients.

An ex-Intel CEO’s mission to build a Christian AI: ‘hasten the coming of Christ’s return’ Patrick Gelsinger, executive chairman of Gloo, has made it his mission to advance Christian principles in Silicon Valley

At a fundamental level, we have to accept much of silicon valley has gone insane.

Pre sunrise over the brow. Yellow horizon over a dark ridge in the distance, Greg clouds adding mood. lights from the sw side of St. John's still lit.

Good morning from the Avalon. #nlwx

This extra height & heat will amplify the torrential tropical downpours. Many spots (esp hills) will see over 3 feet of rain with cascading flash flooding and mudslides. So despite winds 150+, the threat of rain flooding (and surge) may prove to be even more threatening.

Screenshot of the web interface 511nl.ca showng the map of NL with black lines representing road conditions, with a camara on the left side and the legend on the right side

Road conditions are live again on NL 511. #nlwx #nltraffic

There's been lightning and loud thunder off and on for the last half hour in the west end of St. John's, along with heavy downpours since 3 am or so. #nlwx #yyt

St. John's is car dominated. It wears a collar, a leash and it keeps getting screwed by cars.

A reminder that I have "Arkham" embedded in my name.

(not that there's anything wrong with that...)

Vibrant Sunday around Bonne Bay. But the season is progressing quickly; leaf-loss quite already quite pronounced over the higher terrain! #nlwx

Banning AirBnB is a case where the “abundance” framing is useful.

I get the desire to prioritize residents over visitors in a housing emergency.

But shouldn’t the bigger long-term goal be more housing *and* more hotels? Rather than just managing scarcity?

The answer is still no, but:

"It’s hard not to connect this to the fact that much of the political class remains on a platform now dominated by the political extremes. They might do well to remember: Twitter is not the real world."

Pixel's magic eraser went from great to absolute suckage with the last feature drop. Is this another symptom of Alphabet enshittifiying? Will it somehow boost profits in the short term? Or did they lay off the team responsible for it to save on capex?

A starfield is shown that has two short streaks running diagonally. At closer inspection, they are two comets both with white-green heads and white tails. Please see the explanation for more detailed information.

🔭 Two Camera Comets in One Sky

Image Credit & Copyright: Luc Perrot (TWAN)

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The far right is acting as one party. When will we? | Euractiv Liberal institutions treat each surge of populism as a domestic challenge to be managed within national elections or courts. Meanwhile the far right amplifies each other’s victories, recycles each oth...

"AfD is not just Germany’s problem, Vox is not just Spain’s, and MAGA is not just America’s. They are expressions of a single political current, localised for context but feeding into the same transnational authoritarian project." www.euractiv.com/opinion/the-...

Bottle of Lingayen Sauteed shrimp fry paste, with a dark textured paste on the label.

Shrimp paste. Yea or nay?

"JEESUS NO. No my son I can drive just like I used to."

🙄

"My foot doesn't have the same strength, I can't see as well and I don't have the same reaction time and abilities I used to"

"Das it b'y, we're gettin' old"

"Yeah, it's a good idea for drivers tests every 5 years after a certain age to make sure none of that affects our driving"

What Attracts Termites the Most Discover the surprising allure for termites in your home. Learn what attracts these destructive pests the most and how to prevent an infestation.

I watched a video about a house that was nearly destroyed by termites. Which made me think, with our changing climate, how long until we get termites in Newfoundland and have a housing apocalypse? Termites love high humidity and warm weather. This summer was perfect for them. #nlwx

F it. We're going back to webrings and phpBB Forums.

Back then an afternoon of web surfing felt enriching rather than exhausting.

(Blissfully ignoring flame wars in the forum's)

Good. Do it.
Pull all the licenses and block the cable channels. I'd be elated to see information distribution decoupled from billionaires.

We haven't heard someone speak freely on network television since Kanye was given a microphone at a Hurricane Katrina fundraiser.

Over 400 Artists Join with the ACLU to Support Free Speech After Jimmy Kimmel Suspension Artists Including Ben Affleck, Jennifer Aniston, Robert DeNiro, Selena Gomez, Tom Hanks, Ben Stiller, Meryl Streep and Kerry Washington Sign Open Letter...

“We now find ourselves in a modern McCarthy era, facing exactly the type of heavy-handed government censorship our Constitution rightfully forbids," said Anthony D. Romero, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union. #uspoli
www.aclu.org/press-releas...