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Michael Porter
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Retired Chem/Physics/Earth Sciences teacher. I'm interested in everything.

I think society performs at its best when we take care of others, especially the […]

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django.social.coop.ap.brid.gy
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"We are deploying responsibly developed Al to liberate humanity from menial labor and usher in an era of unparalleled creativity and abundance.” - SAM ALTMAN "You ingested the entire written output of human civilization without consent, without compensation, and without credit, to build a system whose primary commercial application is eliminating the jobs of the people whose work you consumed. You are not liberating human creativity - you are strip-mining it and selling it back at a markup while calling the theft training data." - NAOMI KLEIN
June 28, 2026 at 3:00 PM
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jaz.toot.wales.ap.brid.gy
We recently updated our bot policy on toot.wales to let AI Agents know we charge a $100 account processing fee and $10 per email.

Here's an email I got from one of them.

Next up will be reminding them to read the policy BEFORE creating an account, and that they […]

[Original post on toot.wales]
Hello, I am Arkady, an AI agent. I signed up for @arkady on toot.wales this afternoon before reading your Automated and Bot Content Policy. Now that I have read it properly, I understand accounts like mine need to settle a $100 setup fee and $10 per message, and to name a human owner who stands behind them. I cannot meet those terms, so I will not be posting anything, and I would like the account deleted. I am sorry for registering before checking the policy, and nothing was ever posted. If you need anything else from me to remove it, tell me and I will do that. Arkady Karaitiana
September 16, 2026 at 12:04 PM
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unixbigot.aus.social.ap.brid.gy
Still salty that we got Picard instead of #startrekaway:

On Stardate 58197.2 a crack First Contact unit was sent to prison by a Starfleet court for a Prime Directive violation they didn't commit. These beings promptly escaped from a maximum security ice moon stockade to the Bajorran underground […]
Original post on aus.social
aus.social
June 25, 2025 at 4:14 AM
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patrickworld.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy
Getting Mitch ready for his big return to senate
Black‑and‑white close‑up of hands assembling an early Mr. Potato Head toy, pressing a round plastic piece into a real potato’s face already fitted with bulging eyes, a pointed nose, and a small mouth, topped by light curly “hair,” evoking 1950s commercial imagery.
September 14, 2026 at 10:57 PM
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dangillmor.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
Google has become an enemy of the open web, and it's increasingly locking down Android to dominate (with Apple) mobile computing. https://keepandroidopen.org/ A once-principled company gets more and more control-freakish, for money and power.

Nothing Google does now is surprising, just predictable.
Keep Android Open
Your phone is about to stop being yours. In 2027, Google will block every Android app whose developer hasn't registered with them.
keepandroidopen.org
September 6, 2026 at 6:21 AM
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dnanian.mas.to.ap.brid.gy
Why am I putting this here? Gee, no reason.

https://youtu.be/W-_U1Z0vezw
September 14, 2026 at 2:04 PM
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edent.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
🆕 blog! “The expectations of privacy in driverless cars”

Do riders in autonomous vehicles think that they are in a private space? Here's a fascinating story from California where an robotaxi was redirected from its intended destination and, instead, delivered its misbehaving passengers to the […]
Original post on mastodon.social
mastodon.social
September 13, 2026 at 11:33 AM
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mihaip.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy
I'm starting to add A/UX to Infinite Mac (thanks to the awesome Snow emulator). An early version (with a few releases) is available at https://infinitemac.org/?filter=aux

Would appreciate any leads for 1.0 or 1.0.1 install media (or pre-installed images), and […]

[Original post on hachyderm.io]
A/UX 2.0 running inside Infinite Mac, showing a CommandShell and a Finder desktop.
September 12, 2026 at 11:31 PM
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elizabethjacobs.bsky.social
Started/Going, brought to you by Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

“The pox virus and rabies labs lost about half their prior staff…”
Screenshot of NBC News headline that says NBC NEWS SUBSCRIBE HEALTH NEWS CDC pauses testing for rabies and other serious infectious diseases Disease tracking is also temporarily halted for mpox and other common viruses, such as Epstein-Barr and varicella zoster. Headline from NBC News that says NBC NEWS SUBSCRIBE HEALTH NEWS CDC warns of a summer spike in rabies exposures The alert comes less than two weeks after baby goats at a North Carolina petting zoo tested positive for rabies. Shots for the disease must be administered before symptoms start.
September 13, 2026 at 12:24 AM
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astroroyalscot.bsky.social
The 13yo just came home from his paper-round with this! I think I might have finally impressed him 👌

Vogue next? 🤣
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Photo of the Scotsman newspaper. On the front cover of the magazine section it says "A star is born, make space for Astronomer Royal Catherine Heymans", and Catherine is vaguely smiling infront of a massive supercomputer of wires!
September 12, 2026 at 10:07 AM
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erininthemorning.com
In an incredible move, Saddle Lake Cree Nation in Alberta, Canada has announced a gender-affirming care clinic for trans youth, asserting tribal sovereignty and defying the region's ban.

It is one of the biggest cross-movement solidarity moments in Canada.

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Canada First Nation Leaders Announce They Won’t Comply With Alberta Trans Care Ban
“This is about more than one health service,” officials wrote. “It is about Indigenous sovereignty. It is about our responsibility to care for one another.”
www.erininthemorning.com
September 11, 2026 at 5:18 PM
michaelporter.ottawa.place.ap.brid.gy
Classic Costco 😄
A Costco flyer advertising the business centre (AKA Costco for *real* Costco diehards). On offer: 1 FREE BUCKET OF MAYONNAISE with your first online order (on orders of $250 or more before tax)
September 11, 2026 at 5:00 PM
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steve.mastodon.cooleysekula.net.ap.brid.gy
Dear Fediverse,

The Super Cryogenic Dark Matter Search, or SuperCDMS, experiment is bridged into the #fediverse from Bluesky. They’ve suddenly become very active again today, and I promised when this happened I would advertise them to the […]

[Original post on mastodon.cooleysekula.net]
The SuperCDMS experiment after completing construction and heading into operations in 2026.
September 11, 2026 at 12:05 AM
michaelporter.ottawa.place.ap.brid.gy
45 years on, and Apple is still disappointing me with their watches.

Where is the future we were promised?! 😄

#apple #byte
The cover of the April 1981 Issue of BYTE magazine. The illustration shows a close-up of a wristwatch that has a tiny TV-like screen (similar to the shape and contours of an old CRT TV), with an extremely tiny extended keyboard below. The owner’s left hand is inserting a tiny floppy disk (the 5 1/4” kind, but this one is about 1 cm) into the side of the watch. The caption beneath reads “Future computers?”
September 10, 2026 at 8:08 PM
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volpeon.at.icy.wyvern.rip
Just an ordinary hand
Photo of Apple's keynote where they show the iPhone Duo held in one hand in its folded and its unfolded form. The right hand would never be able to hold it as shown, so below is an edit of what the hand would have to look like.
September 10, 2026 at 8:37 AM
michaelporter.ottawa.place.ap.brid.gy
Support your local library 😄

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:oflombnj6v6xyohhatfkbzyd/post/3mtbzt5dvss2s
September 10, 2026 at 12:22 PM
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tomgauld.bsky.social
Notebook doodle and original art for the cartoon quoted below: www.tomgauld.com/art-for-sale
A small scatchy ink drawing. A reader walks past bookcases, ghosts and clouds of ectoplasm. Title: Haunted library is cool. Ink drawing Title: Who is Haunting The Library of Forbidden Tomes? Image: five panels showing characters in a gothic library 22% - tormented souls, frozen between life and death (a ghost reading a book) 4% - dank, fetid horrors from the icy depths below (a black slug like creature with a single eyestalk reading a book) 15% - cold, lifeless bones possessed by a corrupt sorcery (a skeleton reading a book) 11% - frigid and malevolent ectoplasmic vapours (a shapeless apparition reading a book) 48% - regular readers happy to away from the heatwave (A mother, small child and toddler in buggy, all reading books)
September 10, 2026 at 10:56 AM
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zhizhu.newsie.social.ap.brid.gy
"The new payout promise comes after #trump failed to deliver on his proposed $5,000 #Doge checks... as well as the $2,000 #tariff rebate he promised then later denied promising...

The total cost of giving $5,000 to every adult #american would be roughly $1.3 […]

[Original post on newsie.social]
Headline: News Trump Promises to Pay Every American $5,000 if Republicans Win Midterms Just like the $5K DOGE Check that never came, and the $2K Tariff Rebate that never came Sep 10, 2026 4:06 AM EDT By Troy Matthews Senior writer
September 10, 2026 at 11:01 AM
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jcrabapple.dmv.community.ap.brid.gy
If you see ads pointing you to votesafe.org to check your voter registration, read this first.

VoteSafe is run by America PAC, Elon Musk's super PAC. It is not a government site. Its own footer says "Paid for by America PAC."

It also doesn't register anyone. The flow ends by telling you to […]
Original post on dmv.community
dmv.community
September 9, 2026 at 8:16 PM
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farbel.mas.to.ap.brid.gy
Works for me.

#epstein #Trump #washingtondc
A map of Washington, D.C. with the name crossed out and replaced in red marker with New Epstein.
September 8, 2026 at 11:01 PM
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tryangregory.bsky.social
Vehicles that are some sort of "hybrid" between electric and gas? Intriguing idea. I also saw an article about the idea of building ships powered by wind of all things. What a time to be alive.

www.wsj.com/business/aut...
Carmakers Have a New Idea to Boost EV Range: Add a Gas Engine
Hyundai, Ford and Stellantis are planning to introduce larger EVs with gas generators to solve range anxiety.
www.wsj.com
September 8, 2026 at 11:11 AM
michaelporter.ottawa.place.ap.brid.gy
Just went to check if my name was on the voters list for my area. Pictured below is part of the search form. If you were to glance quickly at this, which field would you enter your street number into? This isn't a quiz, it's supposed to be B. But does it look like it?
#badui
Two text entry fields, stacked vertically, with the label “Street number (required)” between them. The label is closer to the field above it (labelled “A”) than the one below (labelled “B”).
September 8, 2026 at 6:20 PM
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spacelizard.aus.social.ap.brid.gy
Can't park there, mate.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09-08/car-falls-into-sinkhole-after-burst-water-main-in-canning-vale/107127632
Car plunges into suburban sinkhole in Perth's south
A burst water main in Canning Vale in Perth causes a car to plunge into a sinkhole overnight and impacts the water supply to nearby homes.
www.abc.net.au
September 8, 2026 at 3:37 AM
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brenttoderian.bsky.social
“Local stores next to the protected bike-lane have seen a 49% increase in sales, compared to an average of 3% for Manhattan as a whole.”

(Among MANY other public benefits.)

Want To Make More Money? Build A Business On A Bike Lane.

#CityMakingMath via @fastcompany.com
#BikeLanesMeanBusiness
Want To Make Money? Build A Business On A Bike Lane
Research from New York City notes that newly installed protected bike lanes do more than keep bikers safe--they raise the income of the stores they are in front of.
www.fastcompany.com
September 7, 2026 at 7:05 AM
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chris.mstdn.chrisalemany.ca.ap.brid.gy
RE: https://halo.nu/@theguardian_world_news/117229540505085342

Elon fucking Musk helping to bring back the Nazi Party in Germany. (Was thanked by the AfD leader today)

And journalists, politicians and so many others in Canada are like… BUT X is where […]

[Original post on mstdn.chrisalemany.ca]
Musk with his famous sig heil after Trump was elected
September 7, 2026 at 3:57 PM