I AM a Luddite. There are always alternatives, not "there is no alternative". Believer in the Politics of Care. Married to a wonderful wife w/ 2 adult sons in […] 🌉 bridged from ⁂ https://cosocial.ca/@virtuous_sloth, follow @ap.brid.gy to interacthttps://bsky.app/profile/virtuous-sloth.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gyhttps://bsky.app/profile/virtuous-sloth.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy/post/3mx5nma7bcs52Move along, nothing to swee here... https://arstechnica.com/health/2026/10/researchers-death-from-undisclosed-illness-sparks-mass-quarantine-in-russia/05 Oct 2026 19:26 +0000at://did:plc:fh6fio72bcfzk2mnyitjc4ka/app.bsky.feed.post/3mx5nma7bcs52https://bsky.app/profile/virtuous-sloth.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy/post/3mx5dqui5c2e2Minority rule... https://video.canadiancivil.com/w/exS4cYTSVR7XUWZNwsXz6b05 Oct 2026 16:21 +0000at://did:plc:fh6fio72bcfzk2mnyitjc4ka/app.bsky.feed.post/3mx5dqui5c2e2https://bsky.app/profile/virtuous-sloth.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy/post/3mwyrghxxyxe2These poll questions discussed in a recent Atlantic magazine article remind me of @evan polls. I assume the article is about the atomization of American society under neoliberalism (I barely skimmed the page)03 Oct 2026 20:51 +0000at://did:plc:fh6fio72bcfzk2mnyitjc4ka/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwyrghxxyxe2https://bsky.app/profile/virtuous-sloth.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy/post/3mwvsxxn3qci2Surprise guest at the front door! Heard a voice and the dogs ran, so I ran to the door. It was cracked and I could see a face and hear her voice. It was our neighbour's Mom! She had got locked out of their house. I didn't know that at first since she doesn't speak a word of English and the […] https://cosocial.ca/@virtuous_sloth/11737231300967527202 Oct 2026 16:42 +0000at://did:plc:fh6fio72bcfzk2mnyitjc4ka/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwvsxxn3qci2https://bsky.app/profile/virtuous-sloth.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy/post/3mwon4tmn3bw2I think part of the reason why politics is so bad is that we, as an electorate, are not willing to tolerate mistakes, errors, or uncertainty from our candidates. The exact type of people whose judgement is best are likely to be the ones who are willing to make and admit mistakes and to express […] https://cosocial.ca/@virtuous_sloth/11735612428156432629 Sep 2026 20:05 +0000at://did:plc:fh6fio72bcfzk2mnyitjc4ka/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwon4tmn3bw2https://bsky.app/profile/virtuous-sloth.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy/post/3mwmqyz5gkxm2Watching season (series) 6 of Slow Horses.29 Sep 2026 02:14 +0000at://did:plc:fh6fio72bcfzk2mnyitjc4ka/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwmqyz5gkxm2https://bsky.app/profile/virtuous-sloth.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy/post/3mwmi5bluxim2Via Tom Scott's England series a video currently available on Nebula.tv and next week on YouTube... I learn of Tim Hunkin, then find his Youtube channel, and now I've learned that "mangle" can be a noun and a "teasmade" is a thing. So much learning in so little time! […] https://cosocial.ca/@virtuous_sloth/11735127581773679228 Sep 2026 23:32 +0000at://did:plc:fh6fio72bcfzk2mnyitjc4ka/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwmi5bluxim2https://bsky.app/profile/virtuous-sloth.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy/post/3mwgldiu6pgv2If you like dry stand-up comedians providing financial analysis, you'll love this explanation of the finance story behind what apparently amounts to what, a third of the western world's economies, at least according to "the market". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-oXyXwD6sE #finance #ai26 Sep 2026 15:16 +0000at://did:plc:fh6fio72bcfzk2mnyitjc4ka/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwgldiu6pgv2https://bsky.app/profile/virtuous-sloth.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy/post/3mw7daopor5d2RE: https://mas.to/@SmudgeTheInsultCat/117321563278952438 Ok, literally LOL https://mas.to/users/SmudgeTheInsultCat/statuses/11732156327895243823 Sep 2026 18:03 +0000at://did:plc:fh6fio72bcfzk2mnyitjc4ka/app.bsky.feed.post/3mw7daopor5d2https://bsky.app/profile/virtuous-sloth.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy/post/3mw2mamvevgp2Scott Jenson's ideas about experimenting with the desktop computer interface by adding context, addressing a person's working memory and how we naturally manage memories (spatially, temporally, and associatively), are truly innovative in my opinion. You could probably jump to 25:51 for the […] https://cosocial.ca/@virtuous_sloth/11731104379314774821 Sep 2026 21:01 +0000at://did:plc:fh6fio72bcfzk2mnyitjc4ka/app.bsky.feed.post/3mw2mamvevgp2https://bsky.app/profile/virtuous-sloth.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy/post/3mw24toqqimw2RE: https://cosocial.ca/@Chigaze/117309805343987041 Conservatives setting a budget and tendering contracts is effectively declaring "we do not know how or do not want to manage or provide public services". That is "we do not want to govern". https://cosocial.ca/ap/users/116274797274577715/statuses/11730980534398704121 Sep 2026 16:24 +0000at://did:plc:fh6fio72bcfzk2mnyitjc4ka/app.bsky.feed.post/3mw24toqqimw2https://bsky.app/profile/virtuous-sloth.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy/post/3mvvimlbuwvm2I’ve been playing this puzzle game on my phone called Cube Away 3D Puzzle and I’m really enjoying it. However, level 18 is the bane of my existence.19 Sep 2026 20:13 +0000at://did:plc:fh6fio72bcfzk2mnyitjc4ka/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvvimlbuwvm2https://bsky.app/profile/virtuous-sloth.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy/post/3mvqyheptsst2Crazy orange recycling his electricity/shark dilemma.18 Sep 2026 01:13 +0000at://did:plc:fh6fio72bcfzk2mnyitjc4ka/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvqyheptsst2https://bsky.app/profile/virtuous-sloth.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy/post/3mvoyduorjp22Between threatening Canada and Europe for talking about cooperating and threatening China and India for buying Russian and Iranian oil and gas, Trump is burning the candle at both ends trying to de-dollar the world economy.17 Sep 2026 06:05 +0000at://did:plc:fh6fio72bcfzk2mnyitjc4ka/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvoyduorjp22https://bsky.app/profile/virtuous-sloth.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy/post/3mvliu3iur7k2If you are sometimes down on provincial politics and progressive issues in Alberta, here is a small win. Expansion and regularization of recycling province-wide: https://www.andrewyule.ca/post/blue-cart-updates15 Sep 2026 20:50 +0000at://did:plc:fh6fio72bcfzk2mnyitjc4ka/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvliu3iur7k2https://bsky.app/profile/virtuous-sloth.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy/post/3mvl3s2yqf3b2Huh, who knew that Alberta had a transportation forward-thinking municipality? I didn't. It's too bad it is in a place with such high housing costs. If only Calgary would learn from them. Canmore. It's Canmore. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAE5DNHWT4g #ableg15 Sep 2026 16:50 +0000at://did:plc:fh6fio72bcfzk2mnyitjc4ka/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvl3s2yqf3b2https://bsky.app/profile/virtuous-sloth.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy/post/3mvjqc6hmeny2The American bourgeoisie has been the biggest champions of neoliberalism for the past 40-50 years. 1.7 million people with more than $10+ million each. https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/09/everywhere-millionaires-tax-code/688584/ https://cosocial.ca/@virtuous_sloth/11727031483625398ns of […] [contains quote post or other embedded content]15 Sep 2026 03:58 +0000at://did:plc:fh6fio72bcfzk2mnyitjc4ka/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvjqc6hmeny2https://bsky.app/profile/virtuous-sloth.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy/post/3mvijhzemmtt2Come for the lecture on The Culture of Contentment, stay for Galbraith's First Law of Executive Intelligence. https://www.c-span.org/program/public-affairs-event/the-culture-of-contentment/15678214 Sep 2026 16:23 +0000at://did:plc:fh6fio72bcfzk2mnyitjc4ka/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvijhzemmtt2https://bsky.app/profile/virtuous-sloth.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy/post/3mvg6qboqdn32"Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain!" Social media, para-social relationships, and being human in the the system of the modern age. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dqh17U3tymU13 Sep 2026 18:05 +0000at://did:plc:fh6fio72bcfzk2mnyitjc4ka/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvg6qboqdn32https://bsky.app/profile/virtuous-sloth.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy/post/3mvg2apaba2w2RE: https://zeroes.ca/@Geoffberner/117259648071364745 Hear hear! [contains quote post or other embedded content]13 Sep 2026 16:45 +0000at://did:plc:fh6fio72bcfzk2mnyitjc4ka/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvg2apaba2w2https://bsky.app/profile/virtuous-sloth.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy/post/3mvely5ysgfv2The whole ‘we need to slow down our model development because they are getting too good too fast and are dangerous’ reeks of ‘how do we deflate the bubble without popping it?’13 Sep 2026 02:57 +0000at://did:plc:fh6fio72bcfzk2mnyitjc4ka/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvely5ysgfv2https://bsky.app/profile/virtuous-sloth.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy/post/3mvds33e6wze2In principle, if I'm understanding the lawyer in this video, the LG legal agreements would allow it to legally record text versions of all your conversations and forward them to any government by simple request without requiring any judicial oversight, regardless of any of your responses to […] https://cosocial.ca/@virtuous_sloth/11725966272954565612 Sep 2026 19:14 +0000at://did:plc:fh6fio72bcfzk2mnyitjc4ka/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvds33e6wze2https://bsky.app/profile/virtuous-sloth.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy/post/3mvdjci6s4xh2I am thankful that billions of Asians, Africans, and South Americans do not believe we should be in the end times of humanity on Earth and would resist those that do. Yes, this is a weird thing to have to say. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5GDKpDkieh012 Sep 2026 16:37 +0000at://did:plc:fh6fio72bcfzk2mnyitjc4ka/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvdjci6s4xh2https://bsky.app/profile/virtuous-sloth.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy/post/3mvdexl3msta2In the context of Canada and Ukraine striking a historic agreement, Stephen Marche has released his entire interview with Tim Mak about what Ukraine has been learning over the last four years. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivmChWtSC6412 Sep 2026 15:19 +0000at://did:plc:fh6fio72bcfzk2mnyitjc4ka/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvdexl3msta2https://bsky.app/profile/virtuous-sloth.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy/post/3mvdb5mdryq22This is how I roll.... I've been running Debian 13/trixie (and previously 14/Forky) with relatively current kernels (from Zabbly) and relativly current Nvidia and OpenZFS drivers provided via DKMS. Its a bit of an annoyance to have compilation on every kernel upgrade, but it's been pretty reliable.12 Sep 2026 14:11 +0000at://did:plc:fh6fio72bcfzk2mnyitjc4ka/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvdb5mdryq22https://bsky.app/profile/virtuous-sloth.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy/post/3mvbcewshbgw2The Common Good: - public purpose - participation - shared knowledge - shared rewards - accountability https://capitalisnt.com/episodes/can-capitalism-serve-the-common-good-ft-mariana-mazzucato-EODamLKT https://marianamazzucato.com/books/the-common-good-economy/the-common-good-economy-us/11 Sep 2026 19:13 +0000at://did:plc:fh6fio72bcfzk2mnyitjc4ka/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvbcewshbgw2https://bsky.app/profile/virtuous-sloth.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy/post/3mvba3spt2oz2Why would increasing productivity be a proper objective of a society?11 Sep 2026 18:45 +0000at://did:plc:fh6fio72bcfzk2mnyitjc4ka/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvba3spt2oz2https://bsky.app/profile/virtuous-sloth.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy/post/3mvavfuvkklr2RE: https://mstdn.ca/@JEmphatically/117253120469056445 Dani is a socialist for foreign O&G and AI investors: https://mstdn.ca/users/JEmphatically/statuses/11725312046905644511 Sep 2026 15:36 +0000at://did:plc:fh6fio72bcfzk2mnyitjc4ka/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvavfuvkklr2