Grant Millar

Grant Millar

@grantmillar.bsky.social

Obsolete software developer, FOSS enthusiast, prairie socialist hoser riffraff. Proud Canadian, subject of King Charles III living/playing/working on unceded traditional territory of the Skwxwú7mesh,Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh,+ xwməθkwəy̓əm. Rants mine alone.

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"You don't turn the Titanic around overnight" has been really bugging me because a) yes you can and b) you definitely should, that was the main problem

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Replying to @marisakabas.bsky.social

A serial rapist was elected twice as President, a fact we don't reckon with nearly enough. Now one of two major political parties has been molded in his image, run for and by violent sexual abusers who hate women.

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In his acceptance speech, Lula says he will work to regulate digital platforms in Brazil. “Digital crimes must be dealt with like real-life crimes.” This comes after Meta directly interfered with the Brazilian elections, favouring Flávio Bolsonaro.

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This week’s main story is about how more and more white nationalists, antisemites, and Nazi sympathizers seem to be integrating into the Republican Party, how some of them are currently running for office, and how old you can be for JD Vance to consider you “a very young boy.”

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Zelensky: "When our strikes reached Yandex’s data centers, it suddenly became a little easier to breathe on many social media platforms. A lot of people noticed it. There was less hate, less division, and fewer provocations. Because there were fewer bots. It’s pretty clear where those bots were."

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Europe is Ukraine's security guarantee, and Ukraine is Europe's. Keep calm and support Ukraine's self-defence. Thank you to everyone who stands with us. This isn't the first time they've tried to throw us under the bus. It won't be the last. We'll persist. Rage-donate to Sternenko Fund!

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Steel is a strategic industry that underpins our economy, our sovereignty, and our national security. It’s time for us to nationalize Stelco to protect Canadian jobs and assert control over this critical sector.

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Nine days into the NHL's regular season, the Winnipeg Jets are 2nd in the league, without Connor Hellebuyck playing. Hellebuyck, meanwhile, has forfeited US $344,044 (and counting) since the Jets started their season without him. You can track how much money he's giving up, second by second, here:

hellebucks.comConnor Hellebuyck has forfeited $344,044That's as of Oct. 7, 2026, 9:34 p.m. CT. It goes up 45 cents every second. Watch it live.

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Based on new information reported today, I again asked the Speaker to allow Parliamentarians to question the government about foreign interference and issues with the Alberta referendum. Once again, the Speaker has denied my request. 1/2

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Reuters got some of the IPO docs. Anthropic is a total dog of a company. Spent $12.6bn to make $4.6bn in revenue in 2025, $7.33bn of which was compute costs. Operating loss of $8bn. Losses getting worse year over year. Amazing stuff www.reuters.com/business/fin...

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Doctors say that the measles outbreak in Pennsylvania is likely due to low rates of vaccination. A guy who snorts cocaine off toilet seats and drives around with dead bear cubs in his van says it’s caused by chemtrails. For busy Americans, it can be hard to know who to trust.

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If you're anti AI & making claims that some of the models under the AI umbrella are ok because they seem to be serving scientific goals, then you fell for a type of hype. One from the 2010s; stats models aren't blessed by their use in science and they can erode our thinking. bsky.app/profile/oliv...

Another is: 2️⃣ "numerical point prediction is not something we can nor should expect" from our models at all! Something that I think is completely lost on so many people sadly, especially in modern artificial intelligence hype rhetoric. 5/

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So they realized they're in the gutter, no revenue in sight, operating at a tremendous loss, and suddenly decided to slow down "to save the humanity."

Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social

“.. It was a rare display of unity by Elon Musk, Sam Altman and Dario Amodei, who have been spending tens of billions of dollars to develop evermore powerful artificial intelligence models.” @wsj.com www.wsj.com/tech/ai/anth...

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Not to be an alarmist, but alongside a war economy and a lead in unmanned warfare over us, Russia is willing to throw away hundreds of thousands of lives for nothing. Most European nations are not, and Putin knows it. We must increase our aid to Ukraine and improve our deterrence

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it’s wild that the heritage foundation wrote in text that the assault on trans woman particularly in sports is their first step in their efforts to completely abolish all Title IX protections and liberals still don’t believe it’s about more than trans women in sports

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he was actually at his home in midtown but it's cool how trump sometimes replaces his memories with the set ups in gay pornography

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump claims he was basically lifted out of the rubble on 9/11: "Two fireman, big strong guys, they grabbed me under the arms -- 'got to get our of here!' -- and they literally lifted me up, and they started running with me."

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Abdul El-Sayed: “Canadians are like the only people in the world who are going to preemptively apologize for something they didn't even do. So if you're starting a trade war with Canada, it's because you're the asshole.”

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Milo yes been deported to Britain? Ho ho, good luck to a racist, transphobic, paedophilia endorsing shitwit who hangs out with open Nazis getting work in the great British media... hang on, I'm just being handed a piece of paper.

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Despite being branded as autonomous and self-sustaining, artificial intelligence relies heavily on human labor — an army of data workers all over the world, primarily in the Global South. These workers “are purposely hidden by the companies that produce AI,” says sociologist Antonio Casilli.

democracynow.orgExploited Data Workers in the Global South Are “the Secret Ingredient of AI Itself”Despite being branded as autonomous and self-sustaining, artificial intelligence relies heavily on human labor — an army of data workers all over the world, primarily in the Global South. These worker...

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-It is still Lake Ontario -It is still the Gulf of Mexico -It is still the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. -He is still a pedophile. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

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Your leaders call them "Russian hybrid attacks" cos if they called them "Russian attacks" you might expect them to do something about them.

Bloomberg News@bloomberg.com

Mysterious arson cases. Cyber attacks. Armed drones. Russia is expanding its hybrid operations against countries that support Ukraine — and Europe's been caught without a plan to respond. bloom.bg/4y3qsfz 📷: Gavriil Grigorov / Getty Images