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Sorry. How much is a book? in c/[email protected]
[–] sbv 3 points 4 hours ago

People need to internalize this. Generally speaking, nobody who has a choice wants our old crap.

nothing happens, until... in c/noncredibledefense
[–] sbv 17 points 1 day ago

WHY ARE YOU SAD? THIS IS WHAT MOMMY MIC WANTS! YOU DON'T WANT LOCKMART TO STARVE, DO YOU?

Why won't you think of the shareholders?

What architectural style would you like to see come back? in c/[email protected]
[–] sbv 16 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I fully expect that to make a comeback in the aftermath of the climate wars.

What architectural style would you like to see come back? in c/[email protected]
[–] sbv 3 points 1 day ago

too real

I'd watch it in c/[email protected]
[–] sbv 6 points 1 day ago

I like that. The weird mutants from the ~~sewers are the heroes~~ (oh wait, that's TMNT) ~~nuclear cooling lagoon are heroes~~ (oh wait, that's the Toxic Avenger). Fergeddabout subverting expectations, just throw in more anime tiddies.

I'd watch it in c/[email protected]
[–] sbv 23 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The same style, but instead of cute ribbons of light and stars it's sprays of blood and flying skulls. And the music isn't upbeat, it's screaming death metal.

AI search finds publishers starved of referral traffic in c/[email protected]
[–] sbv 9 points 1 day ago

While the stats vary depending on who's measuring, the story is consistent: web publishers, who provided the content that trained these AI models, face dramatically diminishing visitors, which means lower advertising and subscription revenues, even amid overall growth in search impressions.

Over 600,000 near-miss incidents with pedestrians, cyclists recorded at intersections across Canada in c/[email protected]
[–] sbv 13 points 2 days ago

I understand your reasoning, but I don't think that's how the term is generally interpreted.

Here's how it's defined on Wiktionary:

A miss which was nearly a hit or collision.

Calvin becomes an Edgerunner in c/[email protected]
[–] sbv 2 points 3 days ago

I feel like Calvin and his mentor spirit, Hobbs, would be shadowrunners, but maybe that's just me.

CRISPR used to remove extra chromosomes in Down syndrome and restore cell function in c/[email protected]
[–] sbv 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Experts emphasize that these findings do not guarantee a straightforward path to therapy. Still, the work highlights how CRISPR could assist in handling fundamental genetic hiccups that cause common conditions.

I'm guessing the intent is to use this intervention when the fetus is still very young, but it isn't totally clear from the article.

What happened to small android phones? in c/[email protected]
[–] sbv 3 points 3 days ago

Wear cargo pants or a jacket, solipsist.

Princess Diana Reflects Jesus in c/[email protected]
[–] sbv 1 points 3 days ago

Someone in a position of power showing it to be safe to interact with people who had the infection was still a pretty big deal at the time.

Definitely. I'm referring specifically to the medical risk she believed she was facing, not the value of her actions.

She used her platform to remind the public that AIDS sufferers were safe and to destigmatize them - she deserves praise for that.

Comparing her to a theoretical Jesus who could not have known he faced no medical risk is fair, but the difference is that she knew she was at no risk.

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Ontario quietly signs new affordable housing deal with feds (globalnews.ca)
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“The targets and outcomes for funding available under the agreement were mutually agreed upon in March 2025 through a three-year Action Plan for 2025/26 to 2027/28. This ensures the continued availability of federal funding for Ontario.”

Flack’s office indicated he wanted to reset the relationship with his federal counterpart after a tense year. The latest agreement will prioritize rent-assisted units, according to the Ontario government.

I didn't see an explanation of the action plan in the article. Progress on rent-assisted units is great.

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Any news on the Pocket replacement? (self.kobo)
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The title says it all. Have there been any announcements about a replacement read-it-later app?

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TD’s new CEO Raymond Chun faces the mountainous task of rebuilding trust in the bank (archive.is)
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TD isn't fixing its money laundering problem because of Canadian penalties, but because the US regulator wouldn't put up with their shit:

It had become clear TD needed a new leadership team to usher in the sweeping changes required to fix its anti-money-laundering failures, which in October resulted in U.S. regulators announcing more than US$3-billion in fines by the Department of Justice and a host of non-monetary penalties that will carve deep trenches in the bank for years to come.

Money laundering has pushed up costs in our real estate sector and enabled the drug crisis. It's bizarre that we haven't done more to stop it.

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/article-td-bank-raymond-chun-ceo/

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“How you design the beep is important.” Behind the movement for calmer gadgets. (arstechnica.com)
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The Eight Laws of ~~Robotics~~ Calmness:

  1. Technology should require the smallest possible amount of attention.
  2. Technology should inform and create calm.
  3. Technology should make use of the periphery.
  4. Technology should amplify the best of technology and the best of humanity.
  5. Technology can communicate, but doesn’t need to speak.
  6. Technology should work even when it fails.
  7. The right amount of technology is the minimum needed to solve the problem.
  8. Technology should respect social norms.

I'm a little suspicious about a certification body that's paid for by producers, but it's fine if they can make it work.

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Canada has a measles problem (www.cbc.ca)
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Interesting podcast about the measles outbreaks in Alberta and Ontario. I got:

  1. The outbreaks are primarily among unvaccinated Mennonite communities.
  2. Heard immunity (thanks to vaccination) among the general population has prevented exposures from turning into infections.
  3. Provincial health ministries are avoiding talking about Mennonites because they want to avoid stigmatization.
  4. Provincial health ministries aren't holding regular briefings for political reasons.

But it's a podcast (and I'm too lazy to read the transcript) so maybe I got some of that stuff wrong.

Edit: Fixed the link to the transcript. Thanks @[email protected]!

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mod me! (sh.itjust.works)
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this one

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token frame 1 (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 1 month ago by sbv to c/repostbot_comm
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original. Should not be modded.

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repost-bot 0.1.4 - start of mod config (self.repostbot_comm)
submitted 1 month ago by sbv to c/repostbot_comm
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In version 0.1.4, mods can now configure the repost-bot to watch a community and complain when a user reposts an image too often. The mod configures the community by PMing the bot with something along the lines of

{"https://sh.itjust.works/c/repostbot_comm": { 
  "action": "comment", 
  "minRepostIntervalSeconds": 60, 
  "allowRepostsFromOtherCommunities": false 
}}

You can see an example of this groundbreaking behaviour here.

Next up: adding reporting and removal of posts.

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Third repost, but outside of 60s window (sh.itjust.works)
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are you gonna ignore this, bot?

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second image (sh.itjust.works)
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catch me bot

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test: initial image (sh.itjust.works)
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go bot go

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Finance Minister Champagne suggests Ottawa won’t present budget this year (archive.is)
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Former parliamentary budget officer Kevin Page said there isn’t enough time left before the summer recess for the government to produce a full budget with new policy announcements, but he said the Liberals should at least produce a fiscal update before the summer that shows where things currently stand. He said campaign platforms didn’t fully account for the various U.S. tariff moves that have disrupted the Canadian economy.

“They are out of date,” said Mr. Page, who is now president and chief executive officer of the University of Ottawa’s Institute of Fiscal Studies and Democracy. “Parliament will be asked to approve spending authorities without a reasonable planning framework.”

and lil context:

Federal governments almost always release a budget early in the year. One rare exception was in 2020, during the pandemic, when the government didn’t table one.

The absence of a budget would leave Canadians without a clear picture of the new government’s spending plan, or how recent economic events have affected Ottawa’s bottom line.

Original: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/article-new-energy-minister-hodgson-planning-western-canada-trip-as-carneys/

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