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As above, so below.
#Photography #Autumn

The #EuroSkyLive name badges have a QR code that opens in Flashes.app and links you to a starter pack of attendees.
This is great! Going to steal this idea for #ATmosphereConf

Ok, wife and I have been watching Knife Edge on Apple TV. Now I wanna eat at Michelin starred restaurants.
I’m going to Amsterdam in March (#laracon #laraconEU) anyone eaten at any of these? Recommendations?

1/2 I was in the garden at night, thought the flowers looked sort of ghostly and dreamy, tried to take a picture with my phone and it came out black. So I tried the Android “Night Vision” thing…
Which was OK. But then I wondered if the first apparently-all-black version had actually captured anything.
So…
#photography

Ian @… is a technical leader who is looking for a new role. He’s built a number of “full stack” things from scratch and has a recent security designation.
Please share if you know of companies that could benefit from his skill set.

Software people will laugh while scrolling this. They won’t admit it’s to keep them from crying: https://immich.app/cursed-knowledge

Cursed Knowledge | Immich
Cursed knowledge we have learned as a result of building Immich that we wish we never knew.

Governments should default to transparency. There’s very little imo that should be kept secret. https://bird.makeup/users/garnettgenuis/statuses/1980320801690906931

Garnett Genuis
BREAKING Great news. My motion just passed. Parliamentarians will now see these contracts. Conservatives will continue to fight relentlessly for Canadian Jobs.

New verb! “Enslopenize” https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/ready-or-not-here-they-come-notes-from-the-ai-force-feed/sharetoken/59aaed33-5309-4a28-8bfc-7f0ed29543f2

Ready or Not, Here They Come — Notes From the AI Force-Feed ….
I just got a new iPhone. I didn’t need a newer version....

Another great panel (I am often down on panels). Catherine Tait from @newpublic.org very much saying traditional media & public broadcasters “are over”.
I think bringing a static website to a network battle doesn’t work. People don’t “live” on public broadcaster websites. https://bsky.app/profile/bmann.ca/post

I was gonna do some work today, but I had to finish my book.
#bookstodon

TFW you’ve got your computer on your lap and a ray of low winter sun comes in at a shallow angle and it’s suddenly obvious that your screen and keys are horribly filthy.

I know my wife’s number and my parents’, that’s it. Not even my kids’ numbers. https://hackaday.social/@hackaday/115410613692491655

Slow Horses screen grab, gotta love it.
#XML #SlowHorses

Kicking off EuroSky Live #EuroSkyLive

taking a page from Taylor 😂 https://cosocial.ca/@mick/115407560370081602

This widely-linked story is, I think, much ado about nothing. Anyone who's seen the inside of an Amazon warehouse immediately thinks “Shouldn’t robots be doing this?” and that includes every Amazon biz and engineering leader, starting like 25 years ago. There is no doubt that the whole warehouse sector would love to replace humans with robots. It’s hard. So what’s new? Is it possible LLM fairy dust will solve the problem? Unconvinced.

Amazon hopes to replace 600,000 US workers with robots, according to leaked documents
Amazon is leaning into automation plans that will enable the company to avoid hiring more than half a million US workers, according to leaked documents.

These days, anti-GenAI screeds cross my radar every week. Even when I agree with what they’re saying (I often do), they’re mostly saying the same things. So, FWIW, here’s one with a fresh PoV: https://going-medieval.com/2025/10/21/on-ai-and-the-golem/
With an entertain…

On AI and the golem
Recently I, like a lot of people who make their living by creating things, have been thinking a lot about so-called AI. I have been forced to do this because so many companies have been stealing th…

Money capital follows vectors.
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Three features I’d love to see from @…:
1) quote posts
2) showing bsky posts inline
3) being able to quickly follow a bsky user if they have a bridged account
4) having search not reset your timeline location

Here’s my 35th “Long Links” outing, curation of long-form offerings, which assume that nobody has time to read all this stuff but one or two of the pieces might brighten your day. This one is mostly political but some of the politics are from France and China. Plus a way-cool analytical history of blogging and a section labeled “wonderful things”.

AI World Clocks: https://clocks.brianmoore.com (h/t @…)

AI World Clocks
The current time as rendered by 9 different AI models. By Brian Moore.

“the only way is up!”
Good morning!
(High energy courtesy of jet lag and my urban hipster hotel in Berlin that has a free coffee machine)

What a charming story.
Even Its Author Is Shocked by How Fans Have Embraced “Heated Rivalry,” the Gay Hockey Romance Series
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/books/heated-rivalry-rachel-reid-hockey-romance.html

Even Its Author Is Shocked by How Fans Have Embraced “Heated Rivalry,” the Gay Hockey Romance Series
Thanks to a steamy television adaptation, Rachel Reid’s romance novels about closeted hockey players have become mainstream best-sellers.

“What happened was, a faucet started dripping. And then I managed to route around the malignant machineries of late-stage capitalism. These days, that’s almost always a story worth telling.” https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2025/12/18/Humanist-Plumbing

Humanist Plumbing

I’ve been with fastmail for years, they’re great. https://cosocial.ca/@EricCarroll/115746859680308780

Deep in the primeval forest of, um, Burnaby, BC.
#Photography

I’m a strong believer in SDD
Sticker Driven Development
And this has a lot of potential.
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Best wishes and sympathy to any former colleagues dealing with us-east-1 going pear-shaped. Looking at the signals, this outage is an extra-weird one, which is unsurprising because with decades of experience, all the non-extra-weird outage scenarios have been discovered and dealt with.
#aws

Ok so Meetup and Eventbrite are both owned by the same PE firm now.
As I have been saying for many years now … both of those platforms are no go any more.
https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/02/bending-spoons-agrees-to-buy-eventbri…

Bending Spoons agrees to buy Eventbrite for $500M to revive stalled brand | TechCrunch
The acquisition price for the events marketplace is a fraction of the $1.76 billion valuation it achieved during its 2018 IPO.

News flash: There’s lots of really good new music out there! Here’s some of it: https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2025/10/15/Current-Music
Featuring: Kwashibu Area Band (Ghana), New Eves (UK), The Good Ones (Rwanda), Alfa Mist (UK), Sona Jobarteh (UK/Gambia)…

I just enabled the AP compatibility of the #DWebYVR Ghost site, which can be followed at @…
You can also subscribe by email on the website https://

DWeb Vancouver
Decentralized web and community collaboration in Vancouver|

HTTP has a new method: QUERY. Tl;dr: GET with a body.
https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-ietf-httpbis-safe-method-w-body-14.html
(Doesn’t have an RFC number yet but has been approved, will get one in a few weeks.)

Crazy that the same people answer these 2 questions like this.
https://mstdn.ca/@CanadianPolling/115742985914702440
https://

Green light.
#photography

Final talk of the day, Adam Wiggins Local-first software: pragmatism vs idealism #SyncConf

From https://talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo/trump-gives-himself-an-enormous-out-on-the-epstein-files
I hope we're not clutching at straws and we should bear in mind that a rat is most dangerous when cornered. But still…

Only 3 #laravel devs listed in #yvr?
Gotta be more of us than that.
https://phpc.social/@denniskoch/115554

Wardley: Not a Fan of ChatGPT https://blog.bmannconsulting.com/3m3dmlo7t7k2t

Wardley: Not a Fan of ChatGPT - 3lxsr74rnk22h
Large language models are coherence engines not truth engines, we don't teach the critical thinking needed to properly evaluate the outputs.

I'm old enough to remember the unraveling of the Watergate cover-up, and the Epstein story has a very familiar stench. #USpol

@… hi there Jordi, thanks so much for composer, it’s amazing.
Is it possible to add to the autoloader in a pre autoload script? I’m trying to dynamically add some classes so they’re in the autoload.php
I tried using a class loader and calling the auto generator in my script but those efforts didn’t work.
Any guidance would be appreciated.

I miss the limits. Forces concise communication. Long posts/threads should be a post on your site. https://mastodon.social/@randahl/115733189272793078

5%.
#Bitcoin
https://cosocial.ca/@timbray/115567154884128760

Myself and Todd will be packing new @… and Automerge stickers at #SyncConf tomorrow
Looking forward to seeing everyone!

Nobody should be allowed to get out of fifth grade without demonstrating their mastery of reply-all.

@… on dev.phanpy, I can't set "anyone can quote" it just switches back to "only you can quote". This a TBD?

TIL 2 things about Slack that surprised me:
PSA 1: Slack doesn’t have a “Block” function. It does however have a “Hide” function.
PSA 2: By default, Slack includes everyone’s email address in the info you get when you right-click on them and view their profile. Thankfully, this can be turned off.

I’m excited to see the return of Steam Machine.
With my experiments of using the Linux Desktop mode with the Steamdeck … this absolutely puts a full Linux server in a lot of homes.
A good spot for a PDS, Tailscale, and a bunch of other things.
https://bsky.app/profile/jaypeters.net

Jay Peters (@jaypeters.net)
If you want some video of the new Steam Controller and Steam Machine (a Valve-made PC for the living room!), check out this that @seanhollister.bsky.social and I made together!

We just transitioned CoSocial from an ad-hoc combo of AWS, OVH, and DO to @…, see https://fedihost.co, a Managed Fediverse Hosting outfit based in Canada and with no US dependencies. Already fe…

FediHost - Managed Fediverse Hosting
FediHost is a managed fediverse hosting service. With a couple of clicks you can be up and running with your own Mastodon or Peertube instance.

Love this, the tech community I’m in, #statamic, is a Personal Business with a fabulous community. https://mastodon.social/@Daojoan/115553315179343269

And great timing! Reading group post is up and got posted to the @… account
https://dwebyvr.org/dwebyvr-reading-group-first-meeting/

Flowers!
#Photography #bloomscrolling

Calico flowers.
#caturday #photography

Tax the billionaires. https://mastodon.social/@greenpeace/115718518283533635

Greenpeace International (@greenpeace@mastodon.social)
Attached: 1 image A picture is worth a thousand words... or in this case, it's worth 139 billion 😒 Here's a visualisation of Jeff Bezos' wealth by scale: https://eattherichtextformat.github.io/1-pixel-wealth/ #TaxTheRich #MakePollutersPay

I’ve been looking for this as a feature - offline feed reading in @himmel.app (haven’t tried the app myself yet)
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Boris (@bmann.ca)
I’ve been looking for this as a feature - offline feed reading in @himmel.app (haven’t tried the app myself yet) [contains quote post or other embedded content]

I joined the BC Green party because there's no other option around here if you care about the earth. My first ever political convention!
@…
#bcgreen #GreenParty

He’s coming to Vancouver as well: #enshittification

39. Cory Doctorow: Enshittification - Granville Island Stage - Vancouver - Oct 23, 2025
EVENT DESCRIPTION At last, a word has been coined that encapsulates our modern era, that eloquently sums up the pressing issues of our times: Enshittification. The term—which creator Cory Doctorow describes as a diagnosis about the state of exploitative online services, and the disheartening digital world as a whole—resonated so strongly that the American Dialect Society named it the 2023 Word of the Year, and it was cited as an inspiration for the 2025 season of Black Mirror. With incisive…

The title is “DC’s Access Journalists Turned the News Into a Luxury Good” and I for one hadn’t realized how true this is until I read https://talkingpointsmemo.com/tpm-25/dcs-access-journalists-turned-the-news-into-a-luxury-good

DC’s Access Journalists Turned the News Into a Luxury Good
Before the internet, what would today be called a “paywall” was just...

Went for a weekend walk in QE park; the colors of autumn are fading, but there are still treats for the eye.
#Photography #Vancouver

Thank you @etherdiver.bsky.social for your "Other People's Music" blogs that helps me find great new-to-me music!
https://blog.bmann.ca/3m6pzjjct722k

eleven dance songs I made by imaginary prisons - Boris Blog
Another Other People's Music find via Ether Diver

Btc down 2.2% so far today.
#bitcoin

Sitting here writing, idly watching the #Bitcoin bulls&bears dragging the price back and for across the said-to-matter $90K line. I don’t know who these people are but I’m sure there are chat-rooms where the ones who can influence the price (bulls mostly) strategize on how best to do so.
There’s a line of thought that says that the value of Btc cannot naturally be steady; too many holders…

Arriving at @syncconf.bsky.social
That’s @f0a.org taking a picture, who will be speaking later #SyncConf

What I’d love to see: An in-depth wide-ranging review of the various “workspace” tools - docs, sheets, calendars - that are options for people who want to de-Google themselves. I know about Proton, Fastmail, etc, but not from people who've daily-driven more than one of them.
#degoogle

#Mariners got the #BlueJays right where they want ’em.
#mlb

There’s this place we walk by pretty regularly that’s semi-abandoned. The owner replaces parts when they fall off and there are lights at night, but the front and back have been left to return to nature. This chunk of land is worth ~$2.5M Canadian, so an odd situation. Anyhow, I enjoy watching the progress of the informal small-scale rewilding.
#Photography

In which Nick Radcliffe goes very deep for a month with Claude Code and reports back. I’m convinced by some but not all of what he says, and found the whole thing a stimulating read: https://checkeagle.com/checklists/njr/a-month-of-chat-oriented-programming/…

LinkedIn notifications.
(I’d rather my air carrier not be using AI but here we are.)

Over on #Bluesky there was a bit of a controversy over the suspension of Sarah Kendzior. I thought it was an interestingly nontrivial moderation problem, so I wrote up a little case study on how this would have been handled on Mastodon: http…

Kendzior Case-Study

Why, how do you transport yours?
#caturday

RE: #Fediverse are being remorselessly crawled by mindless brute-force bots. If your instance…

Brutal.
Aristotle on Democracy - Existential Comics
https://existentialcomics.com/comic/633

Aristotle on Democracy
A philosophy webcomic about the inevitable anguish of living a brief life in an absurd world. Also Jokes

Yellow maples, not many leaves left.
#Photography #Autumn

Whole lotta Canadians swallowed their boycott-the-USA principles and may currently be found in Seattle.
#mlb

News flash: Billionaires are unpopular. But, the strength of the sentiment and how fast the needle has moved were both surprises to me. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/14/opinion/billionaires-politics-money.html

Opinion | The Billionaires Have Gone Full Louis XV
The first rule of dark money is to quit blabbing about it. Did they think people would thank them for it?

World Cup ticket prices.
#worldcup

Good NYT piece (gift link). Tl;dr: Financial whiz kids want to get their hands on mainstream retirement & insurance money so it can be plowed into unregulated private-debt markets and crypto. What could go wrong? https://www.

The Rules of Investing Are Being Loosened. Could It Lead to the Next 1929?
A group of financiers is trying to convince the public to invest heavily in private equity and crypto — a risky gambit with some real 1920s vibes.

Marine Museum interior
#Photography #NovaScotia

Gone but not forgotten.
#Photography

Hello from the Pacific Northwest during a major rain event, distinguished by a more or less complete absence of any actual freaking light or color. So here’s something I snapped a couple days ago, by way of eye therapy.
#Photography

Mastodon *does* have an algorithmic feed if you want one. It’s identified by different names in different clients but “Trending” is usually part of the name. I think it works well, hit the “Trending posts” and “Trending links” (called “News” in the Masto web client) once a day or so to get a feel for what’s happening in the world.
As with many other things, PhanPy is really good at presenting this stuff..

Quoth @… in https://daringfireball.net/linked/2025/12/15/note-on-sms-marketing: “But there are an infinite number of things in life that ca…

In which, on the occasion of my 3-year migration anniversary and the release of Mastodon 4.5, I assemble all my arguments as to why Mastodon is great and why anyone else on a service that’s becoming less fun/safe/useful should migrate to Mastodon and do it now, in late 2025: https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When…

Time to Migrate

Things are shitty out there. But not all the things. Here are three publications that focus on finding and delivering good news.
1. Reasons to be cheerful: https://reasonstobecheerful.world (founded by David Byrne, green focus)
2. Positive.news:

Home
A tonic for tumultuous times.

I must be weird, am one of the apparently 0.02% for whom #Pluribus isn’t doing much, 6 episodes in (haven’t seen latest). I mean Rhea Seehorn is great but she’d be greater if they gave her a chance to be anything but angry-and-rude for even a minute here or there. Also, how about another character with a character? Will watch the last 3 shows despite massive suspension-of-disbelief failure, hopin…

Graffiti written on sand. I think there’s a metaphor here struggling to get out…
#photography #graffiti

That time of year.
#photography #autumn

On this Remembrance Day, let us bow our heads thinking of, along with those who died in yesterday’s wars, the ones who will die today in today’s wars: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ongoing_armed_con…

List of ongoing armed conflicts - Wikipedia

Anybody know anyone on #Vancouver City Council? Because they’re talking about seeking alternatives to Xitter: https://bsky.app/profile/jmcelroy.bsky.social/post/3m7qmxxutss24

1/2 In which I cover a couple of the weird/scary aspects of the #genAI bubble and try to get a feel what the post-bubble hangover will feel like. Tl;dr: Not like the dot-com bust. https://www.tbray.org/ong…

After the Bubble

@… Feature request: When I'm looking at a profile page, a way to search within that profile - yeah, I could include the "from:" in my search but for your handle, for example, that's 29 keystrokes.

Ed Zitron offers 15K words on whether Nvidia is like Enron (or several other famous fraudsters) or not. It's amusing and erudite and most people just won't have time to plow through it. Which is a pity, because 80% of the way through there’s a section called:
“Is NVIDIA Shipping Millions Of GPUs And Putting Them In Warehouses? Where Are The 6 Million Shipped Blackwell GPUs?”
His findings are absolutely shocking. Tl;dr: That headline just above.

NVIDIA Isn't Enron - So What Is It?
If you enjoy this free newsletter, why not subscribe to Where's Your Ed At Premium? It's $7 a month or $70 a year, and helps support me putting out these giant free newsletters! At the end of November, NVIDIA put out an internal memo (that was leaked to Barron's reporter

LOL right-Ctl no longer exists on Windows laptops, that’s now the CoPilot key.
https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7381341532349661184

Rant: Microsoft took away my right ctrl key and won't give it back. I don't know about you, but I work with typed text a lot. And over past decades I've developed habits. One of them is navigating… | Kuba Wojciak | 10 comments
Rant: Microsoft took away my right ctrl key and won't give it back. I don't know about you, but I work with typed text a lot. And over past decades I've developed habits. One of them is navigating over text with cursor keys while holding right ctrl key down. For those of you who don't do it: it skips over entire words. Now ALL of the Windows laptops you can buy come with a Copilot key replacing right ctrl. On a vanilla machine I end up getting Copilot popups all the time, as I habitually rea…

O rly? Given that Alberta & Ottawa united to shove the TMX pipeline down the throat of the BC & Vancouver governments and several indigenous nations. And given that Carney has been saying “build all the pipelines”. ?!?!?
If my cynicism is misplaced I heartily apologize and salute in the direction of Minister Hodgson.

Alberta will need B.C. government’s backing to build proposed pipeline: energy minister | CBC News
Canada’s energy minister says Alberta will need to get its neighbouring province on board in order to see its proposed pipeline project to the West Coast come to fruition.

TIL about the Octobass as a result of my random YouTube-live-music feed stumbling into a performance of Gounod’s “Messe Solonelle” which is pretty good and, well, has an octobass in the orchestra.
#music

Wikipedia’s rejoinder to Ted Cruz is entirely fair and accurate, but don’t kid yourself that Cruz is interested in fairness or accuracy, he’s just pushing back against the tendency of factual reporting to exhibit a liberal bias.
#wikipedia

Ted Cruz doesn’t seem to understand Wikipedia, lawyer for Wikimedia says
Wikipedia host’s lawyer wants to help Ted Cruz understand how the platform works.

Summer in Autumn! (We moved and had to replace a lot of the back-yard topsoil, didn’t get that done till July, so we planted the spring flowers then and they think it’s midsummer.)
#Photography #bloomscrolling