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Be careful out there. My number one goal as a Halloween parent is getting the kids home safe, with their bags full of candy and memories that will last a lifetime

Merlina
Joe Coffey
2022

Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.

Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.

They are not the same.

A hand holds a smartphone showing the Gander app’s welcome screen. The screen displays the Gander logo over a photo of two smiling people looking at a phone together, with drinks on the table. Text on the screen reads: “Better social media, from post to post to post” with options to “Join Gander” or “Sign in.”

Ahem.

We give you Gander. The app. On a phone.

Not public yet… but it’s real, in our hands, and soon in beta.

The timing is a bit nuts… given we just opened investment to all Canadians (at frontfundr.com/gandersocial) but we’re over the moon.

Amazing what can get done with community.

YouTube video by Countdown The Bangles - Eternal Flame (Countdown, 1989)

Any ol' hoo, a massive #1 pop hit from 1989, and a single / composition / band that remain a hill I'll forever die on:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLTr...

Bessborough Hotel in downtown Saskatoon Saskatchewan

Happy (almost) #Halloween from Dracula's castle. Or is it really the Bessborough Hotel in downtown #Saskatoon #Saskatchewan? #saskatooning #ExploreSask #ThePhotoHour #stormhour #TMACtravel #satw

AI things no one wants:

- Small summary of incorrect nonsense on all my searches

AI things everyone wants:

- Stop showing posts about politics
- Swap nasally voice reading my audiobook for soothing old man
- Replace Chris Pratt in this film with anyone else
- How to remove AI from this app

Amazon just announced 14,000 layoffs. Its CEO made over $40M last year.

UPS announced 48,000 layoffs. Its CEO made over $24M last year.

Intel announced 20,000 layoffs. Its new CEO's pay package is valued at nearly $69M.

This is what I mean when I say the system is rigged.

WDVX will air a new song from Lucinda Williams today at 5:00 Eastern.

"The World's Gone Wrong" is officially released later this week, but you can hear it this afternoon on WDVX.

ICE and CBP Agents Are Scanning Peoples’ Faces on the Street To Verify Citizenship Videos on social media show officers from ICE and CBP using facial recognition technology on people in the field. One expert described the practice as “pure dystopian creep.”

New: Videos show ICE/CBP agents are scanning peoples' faces on the street to verify citizenship. ICE has tool to instantly look up unprecedented number of databases with just a photo

“I’m an American citizen so leave me alone”

“Alright, we just got to verify that”

www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...

Beautiful sunrise. The sky is purple and orange. There’s a building across the street and a small tree in the foreground

Saskatoon go look outside #yxe

If the federal Liberals use generative AI in anything having to do with serious governing, this automatically becomes the stupidest government of my lifetime

That’s so cool! The idea is cool, your story is cool, you’re. so. cool 😎

I post this every year and here it is once again:

A whole lot of people cannot afford to evacuate. That’s why they stayed. That’s the story.

Pray for them if you will and send money and aid if you are able. This is going to be bad.

The mental gymnastics they have to do to keep the dick tater in chief happy is really something

I knew it! I fucking knew it!!!
www.macworld.com/article/2952...

I was editing tonights sunset and caught this couple seconds with birds flying across the horizon. incredible.

Oh my god

YouTube video by BrandiCarlileVEVO Brandi Carlile - Human (Official Video)

I’ve been listening to this song on repeat for 4 days and I get chills every single time

youtube.com/watch?v=pmeK...

It's not officially fall until you watch The Great Pumpkin. 59 years ago today it premiered on CBS.

This is the original promo that everybody saw that year.

Ha!

Screenshot of text: unfuck google drive by shooting gemini Hey folks! Google is fucking you via sneaky enshittification again! Want the shit in your google drive to load instantly again, instead of taking for-fucking-ever? Open your gdrive (web OR app) Settings > Manage Apps Gemini was checked "use as default" (and i sure the fuck didn't set it that way, this was a silent push) Nuke that, and suddenly, folders that took up to a minute to populate and sort do so in a fraction of a second.

friend shared this, immediately updated my settings

YouTube video by RHINO Kajagoogoo - Too Shy (Official Music Video)

Someone, somewhere has never heard this slice of early 80s pop perfection.
Kajagoogoo, "Too Shy"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkpG...

Australia sues Microsoft for misleading Microsoft 365 users Asia In Brief: PLUS: China demotes tech self-sufficiency goal; Alibaba Cloud quietly quits VMware; India demands deepfake labels; and more!

Good on Australia for doing this! It’s such a deceptive practice to tell customers their price is increasing because of AI, when the old price is still available without genAI but only if you try to cancel.

Got confused for a second, because I know you don’t live in Saskatoon (we had one on the bank of the river)

apache-s3-proxy-static-cbc-ca-prod.apps.ocp.nm.cbc.ca/afternoonedi...

Man Alarmed to Discover His Smart Vacuum Was Broadcasting a Secret Map of His House One man's robot vacuum was constantly communicating with its manufacturer, sending a detailed 3D map of his house halfway across the world.

China has very detailed maps of our homes.

U.S. to photograph Canadian travellers when they enter and exit at all land borders, airports | CBC News The United States is expanding its facial identification program for travellers, with the goal of collecting images of non-U.S. citizens entering and exiting the country by all modes of transport.

www.cbc.ca/news/busines...

CRA must fix human responses before pursuing AI, experts say Charlie, CRA's artificial intelligence chatbot, offered correct information about one-third of time, providing answers from pre-determined scripts, Canada's auditor general Karen Hogan said in a repor...

The AI was correct “about one-third of the time”. So, it was wrong about 2/3 of the time then. (Note: humans aren’t correct 100% of the time, but)

www.ckom.com/2025/10/25/c...

That line really caught my attention, too. And every time I listen to Human I think, damn that could be a massive pop hit

The only time I would be happy to see / hear vuvuzelas