Ian MacKinnon

Threads seems to have fallen down an alt right pipeline

The slow pace of GenAI images being rendered is reminiscent of the dial-up days.

The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat about upcoming military strikes in Yemen. I didn’t think it could be real. Then the bombs started falling.

Jeff Goldberg could have changed his name and profile pic in that Signal channel and done the funniest thing: www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

Gretzky remains silent as wife Janet joins Trump, Orr in hockey legend's defence Janet Gretzky thanks Bobby Orr for defending her husband’s support of Donald Trump

The Great Once

At least give them the dignity of the 4th through 54th territory. It’s be crazy to assume that big a land mass should be one jurisdiction

I hate how it felt like sovereignty was on the line for this game

Infer: Ada's David Hariri and Stingray's Ian MacKinnon · Luma Infer is a speaker series on tactics, techniques, and lessons learned in the new field of AI engineering. Our visiting speaker this time is David Hariri,…

Our next Infer Vancouver event is in 3 weeks, featuring Ada's @dhariri.com and Stingray's @imackinn.bsky.social – two founders working on the forefront of building with LLMs. lu.ma/brrgkhgv

Shopify's statement makes it sound like the bait and switch was the issue rather than the goddamn swastika

BlackBerry execs when they got big: let’s fund research institutes!

Shopify execs when they got big: you know what kind of t-shirts we should help sell….

If this was a fight, they’d call it #Superbowl

Yeah, when threads launched I actually gave up on this place for a bit.

I can tell something has changed because my normie friends are showing up on Bluesky

Anyone else in Canada get the sense that something was just let out of a bottle that a 30 day pause isn’t going to stop?

You’d definitely make the news doing that in Vancouver

Americans choose most expensive way possible to discover what goods made in Canada WASHINGTON, D.C. - With US President Donald Trump declaring 25% tariffs on most Canadian goods, American citizens have officially chosen the most circuitous and economically painful method possible to...

Americans choose most expensive way possible to discover what goods made in Canada

What the hell does Jason Kelce do in this situation?

Greenland should just schedule a referendum for February 2029 to join the US

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Bluesky seems to get spikes of people using it after deactivating from Twitter. Today definitely feels like one of those spikes.

The best part of all this TikTok ban nonsense is that barring a deal the CCP signs off on, or a law change, we’re back at this again in 90 days

I'm told TikTok's host (Oracle) and CDN (Akamai) brought it back online today because Trump assured them they'd not be subject to penalties - something he can't entirely promise.

Whatever one's feelings on the ban's merit, they're defying federal law based on a not-yet-president's word. Huge gamble

Speaking of chaos; In light of the TikTok ban, Canadians are flooding Fox News’ comment sections, taking advantage of the fact that their comments cannot be removed.

As a Canadian, I'm debating whether to make a paid livestream of me scrolling TikTok following the ban

Did the election kill the effective altruist thing?

If "decentralized" comes at the expense of UX. The normies will never join. That can be a pro or a con.

I want to support public transit but they make it so hard sometimes

The follow/unfollow spam from earlier Twitter is rearing its ugly head. They really just shouldn’t send those once someone already follows ~1k already.

The Aging Programmer

How young devs look at me when I tell them I used printed manuals when I first started programming #softwaredevelopment