Kootenay Greg

Kootenay Greg

@kootenaygreg.bsky.social

Canadian, live in BC. I take pictures and travel around David Thompson’s playground. Ride a motorcycle

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Valley of the Ghosts
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Day 697 of continuous protests in Georgia, as the Constitutional Court hears Putin's "Georgia Dream" party lawsuit seeking to ban five opposition parties. (video source: OCMedia on the other place)

Kootenay Greg
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There’s a story behind this and it’s quite funny. Apparently Flock got Fckd by AI, then Flock hired Doppel to scrape it’s data back, that’s when the data was moved to Proton, in Switzerland. Now Doppel’s cease & desists are ignored. proton.me/flock-camera...

proton.meFlock camera map: Find the Flock cameras watching you | ProtonIn the US, Flock license plate readers record every car that passes them. Search the Flock camera map by zip code to see devices near you.
Kootenay Greg
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I can honestly say that Eby’s government was kind of transparent, it was like they weren’t there. Sure they were doing things, but they didn’t impact you greatly. I live in the East of the Province, I don’t get excited about empty condos not selling in Richmond. The Treaties are signed, you can

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Disagree with them, but you are going to waste a lot of money fighting them. Money we don’t have. The new guys are new, so they come with promises and empty pockets. They’ll apply their Kitchen Table economics to 5 million people and find out that home ec is not the same as government.

Kootenay Greg
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Crazy story, a guy used OpenAI and a program to stop his Samsung “smart tv” spying on him & openai banned him. I have an LG smart tv, I have kept it in its sandbox; never connected it to the internet. Openai will ban us too?

Kootenay Greg
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We’re the orange part in the East. Trail/Nakusp in the western riding & Nelson Kaslo in the eastern one. I guess we share a lot more values with the Lower Mainland than the Okanagan. It was the same under Trudeau until they sliced and diced our riding to get a Con in.

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Valley of the Ghosts
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Possibly the most self-destructive thing Musk has done, in a world of his self-destructive things. No government or customer will ever seriously consider relying on Starlink or StarShield after he interfered with signals in Ukraine, a country defending itself from a barbaric genocidal invasion.

Mark Chadbourn@chadbourn.bsky.social

Musk is panicking about his recent anti-Ukraine moves following bi-partisan demands to bring his business under scrutiny, and perhaps control.

bbc.co.ukMusk says SpaceX restricted Ukraine's Starlink connection as service restoredThe tech billionaire accuses Ukraine of violating its terms of service by using the network for military activity.
Kootenay Greg
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Do your research when helping out a Podcast. I got this VPN for 18 months as I used a code from some podcast. I trusted that the podcaster would accept sponsorship from non-controversial vendors. In this case PIA is Israeli owned, as are a lot of VPNs. This one is owned by Kape, who also own

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Dan Miller
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The Cuban people are clamoring to experience the free market freedom of medical debt. In Cuba, healthcare is treated as an inalienable right the govt must provide. In the US, it's a for-profit industry where pharma companies extract as much as they can from people who need lifesaving medication.

Kootenay Greg
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Same money that wants to build a port in BC?

Eric Lipton NYT@ericlipton.nytimes.com

JUST POSTED: A Russian energy giant has secretly moved to acquire a position in a massive Alaska gas project. Its part of talks between Witkoff/Kushner & Putin. But CEO of US company resigns after learning of Russian money in the project. A wowzer of a story. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/23/u...

nytimes.comIn U.S. Gas Talks With Kremlin, Hidden Financing for Alaska Project EmergesInterviews and documents show a Russian energy giant secretly funded a U.S. firm. The deal has been discussed in talks to end the war in Ukraine.
Kootenay Greg
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I thought I would be cool and go to a cafe and use my Mac. Got everything set up and it was too sunny, ergo the screen on the Mac was too dark to do any photo retouching.