Soul gardener, artist, ICF lifecoach* 🌱 😷 Montréalaise à Tkaronto/Toronto + online I post, boost, altText to make us better humans, citizens & allies 🌈 IFS (Internal Family Systems) informed coach; joyful, curious, trilingual, neurospicy; anti-fascist, longCovid. Toots delete @ 6 mths unless ⭐'d. #NoTagsPub #noAI * Get unstuck! Honor your truth, tame your inner critic, love your life. Lead yourself first to create more joy. 1 hour free, no strings. A little coaching goes a long way!
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Last Notes npub19nnhw2nag35cle4px8qjlal9480hk3r5pg0ux4wxzdrw4gfgpsds7xc4st Deborah Preuss, pcc 🇨🇦 For all you reasonable US-ians, expressing embarrassment at your leaders' shenanigans against us, we invite you to wear an "Honorary Canadian" t-shirt! Available in Canada and the US. (US orders printed and shipped in the US, to avoid tariffs). At Peace Love Canada - The Official Merch Site for Brittlestar https://peacelovecanada.ca/ https://m.f-h.co/cosocial-ca/media_attachments/files/117/499/150/772/668/661/original/902af9e0786e4c99.jpg npub19nnhw2nag35cle4px8qjlal9480hk3r5pg0ux4wxzdrw4gfgpsds7xc4st Deborah Preuss, pcc 🇨🇦 Autumn flowers on a sunny #Toronto morning. Well done, neighbour! #bloomscrolling https://m.f-h.co/cosocial-ca/media_attachments/files/117/468/367/949/619/998/original/f4fdd6e988a6cf9a.jpg npub19nnhw2nag35cle4px8qjlal9480hk3r5pg0ux4wxzdrw4gfgpsds7xc4st Deborah Preuss, pcc 🇨🇦 US Deportation of legal immigrants to a third country. Sounds like a grievous human rights violation to me. #crimesAgainstHumanity Thanks, @nprofile…ywj0 https://mastodon.world/@obrien_kat/117445359861271408 #uspol #ICE npub19nnhw2nag35cle4px8qjlal9480hk3r5pg0ux4wxzdrw4gfgpsds7xc4st Deborah Preuss, pcc 🇨🇦 Eww. New Amazon 'feature' called "Buy for me" scrapes small merchant's external websites and posts their products on Amazon *without consent or even notification*. This is awful. #surveillanceCapitalism This youtuber tells us what it is and why it's bad for everyone - except Amazon (are we surprised?) (Short narrated video) https://youtube.com/shorts/s8jGnwmi444?si=Au9Vbc8aGnFili8D npub19nnhw2nag35cle4px8qjlal9480hk3r5pg0ux4wxzdrw4gfgpsds7xc4st Deborah Preuss, pcc 🇨🇦 "Canada’s Department of National Defence (DND) has already more than doubled the total value of its new contracts signed with American tech giants this year, according to a new analysis by The Maple." "National Defence Has Doubled New Contracts With U.S. Tech Giants": https://www.readthemaple.com/national-defence-has-doubled-new-contracts-with-u-s-tech-giants/ npub19nnhw2nag35cle4px8qjlal9480hk3r5pg0ux4wxzdrw4gfgpsds7xc4st Deborah Preuss, pcc 🇨🇦 #TIL Kleptoparasitism. meaning: "parasitism by theft". "a form of feeding behavior in which one animal … deliberately takes food from another animal, often via aggressive confrontations. The strategy is evolutionarily stable when stealing is less costly than direct predation, ex: when food is scarce or when physically weaker/less assertive victims are abundant & unlikely to fight back." 🎉 I've found the word I've sought! ➔ Kleptoparasitocracy ! #usPol On wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kleptoparasitism npub19nnhw2nag35cle4px8qjlal9480hk3r5pg0ux4wxzdrw4gfgpsds7xc4st Deborah Preuss, pcc 🇨🇦 I don't enjoy podcasts. But … this one seems important. It's resonant with my experience & values. #iLoveMyJob #lifeCoach #noAI #CoachesRising ep 304: Tatiana Bachkirova: The Future of Coaching: AI, Ethics & the Importance of Critical Thinking. "… explores the core challenges facing the #coaching industry today, from the ethics of marketing & the promises coaches make, to the growing influence of AI coaching & what it reveals about org. values & human relationships." https://audio2.redcircle.com/episodes/056d4877-1ab2-4b5d-a1d3-539e82e46b05/stream.mp3 npub19nnhw2nag35cle4px8qjlal9480hk3r5pg0ux4wxzdrw4gfgpsds7xc4st Deborah Preuss, pcc 🇨🇦 :caflag: "On Treason is the extraordinary tale of how Alberta, in 2026, came to have a referendum vote on the province’s future within Canada. [They] claim to have collected enough signatures … to force a referendum …But this isn’t an organic political movement … it's a plot to end Canada by a nefarious group of individuals tied to the global far right." 'On Treason Alberta Separatism, Foreign Interference, & Canada’s Survival in a Revolutionary Age" https://49thshelf.com/Books/O/On-Treason #cdnPoli #ABpoli npub19nnhw2nag35cle4px8qjlal9480hk3r5pg0ux4wxzdrw4gfgpsds7xc4st Deborah Preuss, pcc 🇨🇦 "Our airports aren’t a bargaining chip. Carney wants to hand Toronto, Vancouver, Montreal, and Calgary airports over to private investors for the next 50 years … " Send a letter to the PM. Tell him NO! 🖊 PM Carney: Hands off our airports - Leadnow https://leadnow.ca/campaigns/handsoffairports/ #cdnPoli #cdnPolitics npub19nnhw2nag35cle4px8qjlal9480hk3r5pg0ux4wxzdrw4gfgpsds7xc4st Deborah Preuss, pcc 🇨🇦 This is evil: "Tenants who want to raise their own issues at an eviction hearing at the Landlord and Tenant Board, such as problems with their unit, now have to pay half of the rent they allegedly owe in order to do so." So, now, a tenant who's withheld rent to protest unsolved dangerous, unhealthy, or illegal conditions, cannot provide counter-evidence of *why* they withheld rent until they pay the half of what is *allegedly* owed. 😱 Doug Ford is a ghoul. https://flipboard.com/@cbcnews/toronto-qajtcaoiz/-/a-lT1PHfm7TQaBwOkAFuhfJg%3Aa%3A107108217-%2F0 #ONpoli npub19nnhw2nag35cle4px8qjlal9480hk3r5pg0ux4wxzdrw4gfgpsds7xc4st Deborah Preuss, pcc 🇨🇦 Hey, you folks remember that France has a territory just 5 km off the shore of Newfoundland, right? The EU isn't far away! (For a fun refresher, watch the bi-national police drama series Saint Pierre on CBC Gem!) https://mastodon.social/@top_news/117303221052506683 https://m.f-h.co/cosocial-ca/media_attachments/files/117/303/426/550/342/327/original/fce4b8c20d4c335a.png npub19nnhw2nag35cle4px8qjlal9480hk3r5pg0ux4wxzdrw4gfgpsds7xc4st Deborah Preuss, pcc 🇨🇦 "When you search Amazon, the top results do not represent Amazon's best guess about what product will best match your query: rather, Amazon auctions off those top results to its platform sellers. Amazon's search results reflect who paid the biggest bribe, not who has the best product. To pay for those bribes, platform sellers have to raise prices. …" Pluralistic: Amazon achieves enshittification inception (04 Sep 2026) https://pluralistic.net/2026/09/04/cheating-at-fraud/#absentee-rentier npub19nnhw2nag35cle4px8qjlal9480hk3r5pg0ux4wxzdrw4gfgpsds7xc4st Deborah Preuss, pcc 🇨🇦 A warning to other countries: "Over the weekend, the actual shape of what the United States demanded [in Canada trade talks] came into focus. And once you lay it all out in one place, you realize this was never a trade negotiation. This was an annexation attempt with a cover page." #never51stState https://mstdn.ca/@lowies/117155895198584881 #cdnPoli #cdnPolitics #usPol #tariffs #bullying npub19nnhw2nag35cle4px8qjlal9480hk3r5pg0ux4wxzdrw4gfgpsds7xc4st Deborah Preuss, pcc 🇨🇦 @nprofile…hgrn @nprofile…h8sn may be interesting to watch that kid's yard, next year! npub19nnhw2nag35cle4px8qjlal9480hk3r5pg0ux4wxzdrw4gfgpsds7xc4st Deborah Preuss, pcc 🇨🇦 "The sudden influx of diseases in early summer … a grave threat to … crops in Canada, the world's leading exporter of canola, durum wheat, dry peas, & oats, & a leading exporter of high-protein spring wheat. … an extremely wet spring & early summer loaded soils with moisture, creating perfect conditions for fungal diseases when it became hot & humid … the quantity & quality of Canada's export crops are still in question on the eve of full-scale harvesting." https://cosocial.ca/@dyckron/117114963099924917 npub19nnhw2nag35cle4px8qjlal9480hk3r5pg0ux4wxzdrw4gfgpsds7xc4st Deborah Preuss, pcc 🇨🇦 Fascinating! #TIL #colour "Screens were designed for our mammal eyes, & mammals … can barely see color. We’re descended from tiny nocturnal scurrying things that lived during the Cretaceous. Our senses adapted accordingly. We have great noses, & good low light vision, but we lost most color vision. At night it’s just not worth differentiating the wavelength of a photon … Better to indiscriminately absorb any scant few that make it into your eyes." https://cosocial.ca/@mhoye/116780238831404622 npub19nnhw2nag35cle4px8qjlal9480hk3r5pg0ux4wxzdrw4gfgpsds7xc4st Deborah Preuss, pcc 🇨🇦 "The strike in Sweden ran for 3 years, & pulled in support from organized labor throughout the country … & it failed, because … despite the fact that collective bargaining is expected to be a central pillar of being a good corporate citizen in Sweden, #ElonMusk (despite being the world’s richest man) simply refused. Tesla succeeded in buying out all of the striking workers … This is sort of like buying a restaurant & closing it down rather than giving your waiter a tip." https://mastodon.social/@dangillmor/117097732295360455 npub19nnhw2nag35cle4px8qjlal9480hk3r5pg0ux4wxzdrw4gfgpsds7xc4st Deborah Preuss, pcc 🇨🇦 AI's Impact on the Environment Is Absolutely Horrifying, New Paper Finds: "The data centers powering the boom have been spewing out a staggering amount of pollution by relying on fossil fuel-powered generators. & given the industry’s unrelenting appetite for more infrastructure supporting ever-more-resource-intensive AI models, the trend is only going to get worse from here. It’s reached the point that AI is giving the fossil fuel industry a substantial leg up," https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-impact-environment-horrifying-new-paper #noAI npub19nnhw2nag35cle4px8qjlal9480hk3r5pg0ux4wxzdrw4gfgpsds7xc4st Deborah Preuss, pcc 🇨🇦 "Canadians really hate data centres right now. As a climate and media researcher, I’ve been following this story for a decade, but it’s recently come to a boil. Across the country, mass grassroots opposition to these developments is surging. …" Read @nprofile…4hfr'd article here: https://scholar.social/@Aepasek/117084434212043726 #cdnPoli #cdnPolitics #noAI npub19nnhw2nag35cle4px8qjlal9480hk3r5pg0ux4wxzdrw4gfgpsds7xc4st Deborah Preuss, pcc 🇨🇦 @nprofile…327n @nprofile…u8z9 @nprofile…c2nm @nprofile…e46s yeah, I was just thinking that: it is like y2k, in that: they'll have to 4bire "specialists" (people from the before-times, who actually know how to code) to undo the damage. I wonder if, once those folks are goat farmers and café owners and retirees, the corps will be willing to pay them the usurious fees they'll deserve, to come back and rescue them? 🤔 npub19nnhw2nag35cle4px8qjlal9480hk3r5pg0ux4wxzdrw4gfgpsds7xc4st Deborah Preuss, pcc 🇨🇦 @nprofile…5uqu Belgium, for a conference. npub19nnhw2nag35cle4px8qjlal9480hk3r5pg0ux4wxzdrw4gfgpsds7xc4st Deborah Preuss, pcc 🇨🇦 @nprofile…5uqu yes! Today I found myself, unusually, fully dressed and thought: "omg, I'm dressed! Quick, what else do I need to do before the pants come off? And so I put out the trash and checked my mailbox." LOL. npub19nnhw2nag35cle4px8qjlal9480hk3r5pg0ux4wxzdrw4gfgpsds7xc4st Deborah Preuss, pcc 🇨🇦 "The AI hype cycle would have you believe the technology is inevitable. But AI backlash is growing, as people worry it will steal their jobs, jack up electricity rates and further enrich the wealthy, all while hurting the environment. … Only 18% of young people ages 14 to 29 say they feel hopeful about AI, according to a recent Gallup survey. The disdain spans generations and political parties." AI backlash becomes a real business risk: https://finance.yahoo.com/sectors/technology/articles/ai-backlash-becomes-real-business-120007051.html #noAI #noLLM npub19nnhw2nag35cle4px8qjlal9480hk3r5pg0ux4wxzdrw4gfgpsds7xc4st Deborah Preuss, pcc 🇨🇦 TL;DR "This story is wild. The short version: OpenAI were running a cybersecurity test against an unreleased model, with the model’s guardrail features turned off. Rather than solve the test, the model broke its way out of OpenAI’s sandbox, then found exploits to break in to Hugging Face, all so it could cheat on the test by stealing the answers." https://mastodon.social/@CuratedHackerNews/116966983204861714 npub19nnhw2nag35cle4px8qjlal9480hk3r5pg0ux4wxzdrw4gfgpsds7xc4st Deborah Preuss, pcc 🇨🇦 Live map of active wildfires in Canada 😳. Via https://fireradar.ca/ . #wildfires #canada #ontario https://m.f-h.co/cosocial-ca/media_attachments/files/116/929/978/429/536/905/original/606b9137b68b0589.png npub19nnhw2nag35cle4px8qjlal9480hk3r5pg0ux4wxzdrw4gfgpsds7xc4st Deborah Preuss, pcc 🇨🇦 @nprofile…5uqu were you looking for a search engone with better privacy? Fyi: https://framapiaf.org/@TeddyTheBest/116885154071919280 npub19nnhw2nag35cle4px8qjlal9480hk3r5pg0ux4wxzdrw4gfgpsds7xc4st Deborah Preuss, pcc 🇨🇦 #MECFS #longCovid "A crash can feel like it arrives without warning. Then, the last thing anyone should have to do is search frantically for answers. This Guide was built for exactly that moment. Developed by our clinical team, it offers practical, plain-language guidance for patients, their support networks, & medical providers on managing a crash & learning the art of preventing them." Download or view online: ME/CFS Crash Survival Guidebook - Bateman Horne Center https://batemanhornecenter.org/education/mecfs-guidebook/ npub19nnhw2nag35cle4px8qjlal9480hk3r5pg0ux4wxzdrw4gfgpsds7xc4st Deborah Preuss, pcc 🇨🇦 Chief Engineer B'elanna: we should be able to have it ready tomorrow. Captain Janeway: I want it ready by the end of the day. (Walks away). B'Elanna: No Captain.* Janeway: 🤨↩️ B'Elanna: When I say "tomorrow" I mean tomorrow. I don't exaggerate. Tomorrow is the best I can do.🙎 Janeway: Understood, Lieutenant. #StarTrek Voyager S1:Ep11 * Finally!!! Apparently, it took a woman to stand up to that second-guessing heirarchical nonsense. 💐 npub19nnhw2nag35cle4px8qjlal9480hk3r5pg0ux4wxzdrw4gfgpsds7xc4st Deborah Preuss, pcc 🇨🇦 💐🎉👏 "NYC's Summer of Ludd, a weeklong series of talks and activities like how to flirt and date offline, mending, and learning to fight against data centers, all focused on getting people off their phones and into community." #noAI #ludditemovement #peoplepower https://mastodon.scot/@kim_harding/116855962494736845 npub19nnhw2nag35cle4px8qjlal9480hk3r5pg0ux4wxzdrw4gfgpsds7xc4st Deborah Preuss, pcc 🇨🇦 😥 "Seven AI companies currently account for more than a third of the stock market, and they endlessly pass around the same $100 billion IOU. AI is the asbestos in the walls of our technological society, stuffed with wild abandon by a finance sector and tech monopolists run amok. We will be excavating it for a generation or more." - Cory Doctorow @nprofile…ugpy More here: https://techhub.social/@rayckeith/116801240704474323 npub19nnhw2nag35cle4px8qjlal9480hk3r5pg0ux4wxzdrw4gfgpsds7xc4st Deborah Preuss, pcc 🇨🇦 @nprofile…5uqu aeroponics? (Looks it up). Wow! Now I wonder how much of my food is grown that way! npub19nnhw2nag35cle4px8qjlal9480hk3r5pg0ux4wxzdrw4gfgpsds7xc4st Deborah Preuss, pcc 🇨🇦 I was struck (not in a good way) by this post. https://mastodon.social/@JoBlakely/116776799630752498 During a layoff, years ago, I helped folks update their resumés. I was appalled: the men's were like "I invented the laser" (not true) & the women's were tentative & self-effacing. Now, for our stressed, unemployed colleagues, LLMs elevate this "average behaviour" to best practice? Misogyny is *embedded* in the tool. It's been trained (by humans) on all the evidence of our societal dysfunctions & inequalities. #noAI 🤬🤬🤬 npub19nnhw2nag35cle4px8qjlal9480hk3r5pg0ux4wxzdrw4gfgpsds7xc4st Deborah Preuss, pcc 🇨🇦 Cdns are saying no to: Surveillance backdoors in every digital service we use; A year-long database of every Canadian's private metadata … which law enforcem't can access *without warrant*; Privacy protections the govt can quietly redefine away; A faster path for foreign govts to access our data. Note: the govt just prematurely ended debate on C-22 … & is hiding their amendments! Sign the letter, now, please! https://action.openmedia.org/page/188754/action/1 #cdnPoli #cdnPolitics npub19nnhw2nag35cle4px8qjlal9480hk3r5pg0ux4wxzdrw4gfgpsds7xc4st Deborah Preuss, pcc 🇨🇦 @nprofile…0hde 😂 a nice synchronicity. (See image). /cc @nprofile…gydz https://m.f-h.co/cosocial-ca/media_attachments/files/116/754/177/613/808/870/original/247fb905e5195c8e.png npub19nnhw2nag35cle4px8qjlal9480hk3r5pg0ux4wxzdrw4gfgpsds7xc4st Deborah Preuss, pcc 🇨🇦 @nprofile…0g60 #TIL "… languages were written on a tablet of stone using a chisel. Since most people are naturally right-handed, they would hold a hammer with the right hand and a chisel with the left. … That’s why you find most older languages (such as Arabic, Hebrew and Farsi) written from right to left. When ink was invented, … writing from left to right became more preferable in many parts of the world since this method avoided smudging ink." Source: https://www.writingbeginner.com/are-arabic-writers-left-handed/ npub19nnhw2nag35cle4px8qjlal9480hk3r5pg0ux4wxzdrw4gfgpsds7xc4st Deborah Preuss, pcc 🇨🇦 In my inbox, from @nprofile…yfp8: Our gov't "just announced a review to the law governing privacy practices of 250+ govt institutions, from RCMP to Service Canada. OpenMedia has been fighting for real oversight, accountability, & transparency in how the government handles your data for years; Now we need your voice to get these rules updates right! Take our survey before June 15 (Monday) & we'll bring your answers directly to the government." https://action.openmedia.org/page/190982/survey/1?ea.url.id=9549871 npub19nnhw2nag35cle4px8qjlal9480hk3r5pg0ux4wxzdrw4gfgpsds7xc4st Deborah Preuss, pcc 🇨🇦 I just emailed my Liberal MP, and told her: "if this bill passes, I'll help make sure the NDP eat your lunch in this riding." @nprofile…0hde https://infosec.exchange/@Em0nM4stodon/116721112694366137 npub19nnhw2nag35cle4px8qjlal9480hk3r5pg0ux4wxzdrw4gfgpsds7xc4st Deborah Preuss, pcc 🇨🇦 @nprofile…7rg4 it's amazing what a difference those subtle changes make. npub19nnhw2nag35cle4px8qjlal9480hk3r5pg0ux4wxzdrw4gfgpsds7xc4st Deborah Preuss, pcc 🇨🇦 Coming to :caflag: "The vast majority of our clients are American. … In some cases … they would like to have a backup in case, from their perspective, the situation becomes worse for them … in other cases because they perceive it as urgent." … "[Some] are seeking proof of citizenship because they have a child who is gay or trans. Others are concerned that U.S. President #Trump's government could reimpose the draft and their child could be forced to join the U.S. Army." https://flipboard.com/@cbcnews/canada-1akomc2pz/-/a-Sg3dQjbcTeqv1lk11qVbyQ%3Aa%3A107108217-%2F0 npub19nnhw2nag35cle4px8qjlal9480hk3r5pg0ux4wxzdrw4gfgpsds7xc4st Deborah Preuss, pcc 🇨🇦 @nprofile…ume6 @nprofile…d0q9 I had no idea we have such large turtles on the mainland! npub19nnhw2nag35cle4px8qjlal9480hk3r5pg0ux4wxzdrw4gfgpsds7xc4st Deborah Preuss, pcc 🇨🇦 "Toronto city council recently approved a proposal to open four public grocery stores by 2027, the first pilot of its kind in Canada. The idea is to waive taxes and fees, thus allowing operators to slash prices." This is an important solution, because there are folks here standing in lines at food banks, so they can afford their housing. It sends a signal to the profiteering grocery empires. #housingCrisis #Toronto https://flipboard.com/@torontolife2019/city-news-pqk7ajf8z/-/a-EpYGdc8OTcOv-1SB7GPyLQ%3Aa%3A3263836667-%2F0 npub19nnhw2nag35cle4px8qjlal9480hk3r5pg0ux4wxzdrw4gfgpsds7xc4st Deborah Preuss, pcc 🇨🇦 I just gave some cash to The Tyee and The Maple, two Canadian independent news orgs I value. They're concerned the impending changes to Google search will kill traffic to their sites. :-( If you can, please support your fav independent investigative journalism sites! npub19nnhw2nag35cle4px8qjlal9480hk3r5pg0ux4wxzdrw4gfgpsds7xc4st Deborah Preuss, pcc 🇨🇦 @nprofile…5uqu I've only just discovered that it's not Saturday! npub19nnhw2nag35cle4px8qjlal9480hk3r5pg0ux4wxzdrw4gfgpsds7xc4st Deborah Preuss, pcc 🇨🇦 @nprofile…d2ua lovely colours! I follow printmakers, by following the hashtag #printmaking … just fyi :-) Have a good day! npub19nnhw2nag35cle4px8qjlal9480hk3r5pg0ux4wxzdrw4gfgpsds7xc4st Deborah Preuss, pcc 🇨🇦 Finally got enough stability in my leg to go pick up my bold print from @nprofile…n7vs ! I don't have a garden any more, so I bought this to bring the garden inside ❤. If you like hand-made art, science, pollinators and smart women, follow Ele! She posts almost daily, with info about her subjects, and there's a lot to learn! https://m.f-h.co/cosocial-ca/media_attachments/files/116/580/257/450/648/537/original/f1aa6365ca6431d9.jpg npub19nnhw2nag35cle4px8qjlal9480hk3r5pg0ux4wxzdrw4gfgpsds7xc4st Deborah Preuss, pcc 🇨🇦 https://m.f-h.co/cosocial-ca/media_attachments/files/116/579/660/006/484/064/original/9f437858f9577db7.jpg npub19nnhw2nag35cle4px8qjlal9480hk3r5pg0ux4wxzdrw4gfgpsds7xc4st Deborah Preuss, pcc 🇨🇦 @nprofile…z6x4 best thing I've seen this morning. Still smiling. 😁 Translated: The cats of the Caspian Steppe, much like their neighbouring Cimmerian barbarians, do not hesitate to use the skull of their enemies to inspire fear. #alt4you Closeup of a caramel-and-white cat, lounging with it's little paws crossed. It wears the shell of an orange crab on its head, like a hat, covering its ears and eyes. The dead crab's eye-holes look at us, instead. It's weirdly calm and menacing at once. npub19nnhw2nag35cle4px8qjlal9480hk3r5pg0ux4wxzdrw4gfgpsds7xc4st Deborah Preuss, pcc 🇨🇦 Most Ontario-approved medical AI scribes erred in tests: auditor general. "Supply Ontario had the bots transcribe 2 conversations betw health-care workers & patients. Most of the vendors … had inaccuracies in their results, including 'incorrect information, AI hallucinations, incomplete information,' … 60% … recorded a different drug than was prescribed … 17 of 20 'missed key details of the patients’ mental health issues in at least 1 of the 2 tests.'" 😨 #AI #dystopia https://www.torontotoday.ca/local/politics-government/ontario-medical-ai-scribes-erred-tests-auditor-general-12269474 npub19nnhw2nag35cle4px8qjlal9480hk3r5pg0ux4wxzdrw4gfgpsds7xc4st Deborah Preuss, pcc 🇨🇦 "Cynthia Brumfield wrote an excellent, in-depth article for CSO on recursive pollution that is well worth a read. At BIML, we still believe recursive pollution is the #1 risk for LLM technology. Recursive pollution subtle and nowhere near as sexy as prompt injection, but it leads to insidious wrongness." @nprofile…acpk https://infosec.exchange/@noplasticshower/116539417603048915 npub19nnhw2nag35cle4px8qjlal9480hk3r5pg0ux4wxzdrw4gfgpsds7xc4st Deborah Preuss, pcc 🇨🇦 I usually just ignore JKR. But I hadn't seen this. And her platform is so big, her lies have real reach, including children: 😡 "is J.K. Rowling doing Holocaust denial now? The British author posted that Nazis did not persecute trans people. That’s false." https://forward.com/culture/592580/j-k-rowling-holocaust-denial-trans/ npub19nnhw2nag35cle4px8qjlal9480hk3r5pg0ux4wxzdrw4gfgpsds7xc4st Deborah Preuss, pcc 🇨🇦 @nprofile…dyu0 @nprofile…a6yj named by your Mom. 😂 npub19nnhw2nag35cle4px8qjlal9480hk3r5pg0ux4wxzdrw4gfgpsds7xc4st Deborah Preuss, pcc 🇨🇦 @nprofile…suvt @nprofile…uluh they won't do it because millions of individual Canadians are boycotting US products. So why put US booze on the shelves? npub19nnhw2nag35cle4px8qjlal9480hk3r5pg0ux4wxzdrw4gfgpsds7xc4st Deborah Preuss, pcc 🇨🇦 Seriously? The government is asking Canadians to report severe weather … ON XITTER? #cdnPoli https://m.f-h.co/cosocial-ca/media_attachments/files/116/423/296/822/749/569/original/511256a637d9f18f.jpeg npub19nnhw2nag35cle4px8qjlal9480hk3r5pg0ux4wxzdrw4gfgpsds7xc4st Deborah Preuss, pcc 🇨🇦 Follow @nprofile…yfp8 https://mastodon.social/@OpenMediaOrg/116388908696306900 npub19nnhw2nag35cle4px8qjlal9480hk3r5pg0ux4wxzdrw4gfgpsds7xc4st Deborah Preuss, pcc 🇨🇦 @nprofile…0pwv @nprofile…77n8 did AI write your alt text? npub19nnhw2nag35cle4px8qjlal9480hk3r5pg0ux4wxzdrw4gfgpsds7xc4st Deborah Preuss, pcc 🇨🇦 Hey: time to check your settings again. I just checked my zoom and duckduckgo settings, and of course there are new creepy options set ON by default. DDG changed my setting on "AI summaries" (I had set this to No.) Zoom has a lot of data sharing options in Account Management. No, I do not want participants sharing screenshots. No, I don't want a persistent chat across calls. Etc. Not sure if I succeeded in shutting down the persistent so-called "team chat". Gaahhh. I hate this timeline. npub19nnhw2nag35cle4px8qjlal9480hk3r5pg0ux4wxzdrw4gfgpsds7xc4st Deborah Preuss, pcc 🇨🇦 @nprofile…kp8u @nprofile…5uqu on the up side: I have a bad knee, but it's getting easier and easier to get $100 of groceries up the stairs. 🤦♀️🤷♀️ npub19nnhw2nag35cle4px8qjlal9480hk3r5pg0ux4wxzdrw4gfgpsds7xc4st Deborah Preuss, pcc 🇨🇦 @nprofile…uatj @nprofile…8rry if this is sbout the economy, why is "married" a criterion? npub19nnhw2nag35cle4px8qjlal9480hk3r5pg0ux4wxzdrw4gfgpsds7xc4st Deborah Preuss, pcc 🇨🇦 @nprofile…5uqu So nice to see someone listening to their body! Well … "listening" 😂 … it appears you *heard* the message. Not sure what deal you struck, though 🤭. npub19nnhw2nag35cle4px8qjlal9480hk3r5pg0ux4wxzdrw4gfgpsds7xc4st Deborah Preuss, pcc 🇨🇦 @nprofile…nj9h @nprofile…7q7j oh, it sounds like she has you completely under her spell! npub19nnhw2nag35cle4px8qjlal9480hk3r5pg0ux4wxzdrw4gfgpsds7xc4st Deborah Preuss, pcc 🇨🇦 Looks like this clown is courting Canadian tooters, for whatever reason. Good luck with that. (Block) https://m.f-h.co/cosocial-ca/media_attachments/files/116/297/867/776/345/341/original/0cebbb88820df5cf.png npub19nnhw2nag35cle4px8qjlal9480hk3r5pg0ux4wxzdrw4gfgpsds7xc4st Deborah Preuss, pcc 🇨🇦 Wow 🤯 "No batteries, no circuits, no external power source required. … The outer skin is made from a moisture-responsive biodegradable composite, & seeds are housed w/in it. When the device rolls [to] where humidity conditions are right, the skin begins to break down & disperse those seeds directly into the soil. It boosts soil oxygen, contributes to carbon sequestration, & by the end of its journey, the device has fully merged with the ground it was trying to restore." https://infosec.exchange/@littlealex/116272079809170463 npub19nnhw2nag35cle4px8qjlal9480hk3r5pg0ux4wxzdrw4gfgpsds7xc4st Deborah Preuss, pcc 🇨🇦 @nprofile…v9l7 @nprofile…mpl5 hang on there … those back feet look odd. So I looked it up: "Not only do echidna back feet point backwards, but their whole back leg is rotated 180 degrees. … Like most animals, echidnas walk on the soles of their rear feet. But the heel comes first, and the toes and claws follow. Why do echidnas back feet point backwards? This odd arrangement seems to give echidnas the ability to dig straight downwards. Like a drill." https://echidnawalkabout.com.au/how-echidnas-walk/ npub19nnhw2nag35cle4px8qjlal9480hk3r5pg0ux4wxzdrw4gfgpsds7xc4st Deborah Preuss, pcc 🇨🇦 #3goodthings ▪ osteopath quickly relieved my long-standing knee pain. ▪ a city walk on a beautiful winter's day. ▪ found the walking shoes I need, in my size - a style that is no longer made, and on sale! 🎉 npub19nnhw2nag35cle4px8qjlal9480hk3r5pg0ux4wxzdrw4gfgpsds7xc4st Deborah Preuss, pcc 🇨🇦 👀 "Zuckerberg gave Myspace refugees a bot, [to] accept your Myspace login & password & then impersonate you … scraping the content waiting for you in Myspace & flowing it into your Facebook feed. You could reply to it there & the bot would … communicate with the people who were still on Myspace. This is called "adversarial interoperability." … [They] went on to secure legal protections to prevent anyone from doing unto them as they had done unto their own predecessors" https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/116136556078374445 npub19nnhw2nag35cle4px8qjlal9480hk3r5pg0ux4wxzdrw4gfgpsds7xc4st Deborah Preuss, pcc 🇨🇦 @nprofile…t05x @nprofile…h7vq @nprofile…e762 I've never heard of CODE. Is that a publicly available cloud platform? npub19nnhw2nag35cle4px8qjlal9480hk3r5pg0ux4wxzdrw4gfgpsds7xc4st Deborah Preuss, pcc 🇨🇦 @nprofile…t05x @nprofile…h7vq @nprofile…e762 replacing gdocs and gdrive with this sounds So good. npub19nnhw2nag35cle4px8qjlal9480hk3r5pg0ux4wxzdrw4gfgpsds7xc4st Deborah Preuss, pcc 🇨🇦 Do not go to the US. Your privilege will not protect you. "when Karen heard some of their stories before she left the UK, she assumed their experiences had no relevance to her: she was a retired person taking a holiday. In the end, Karen was detained for longer than almost every one of them." UK tourist with a valid visa detained by ICE for six weeks | ICE (US Immigration and Customs Enforcement) | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/21/karen-newton-valid-visa-detained-ice npub19nnhw2nag35cle4px8qjlal9480hk3r5pg0ux4wxzdrw4gfgpsds7xc4st Deborah Preuss, pcc 🇨🇦 @nprofile…4v6w @nprofile…3jwj My MP answered my letter to the effect that "yes, nazis bad, but we need to communicate with citizens where they are." Ok, so, they communicate with non-consensual-porn- & nazi-meme-tolerant citizens on X. And on what microblogging platform do they communicate government messages to we who refuse to see our posts next to X's offensive & disgusting content? Are we less important citizens? Why are government offices not (at least) *also* on the Fediverse? npub19nnhw2nag35cle4px8qjlal9480hk3r5pg0ux4wxzdrw4gfgpsds7xc4st Deborah Preuss, pcc 🇨🇦 Oh! This looks good! And with an all-star roster including @nprofile…xgry and @nprofile…ugpy ! https://mastodon.social/@box464/116022035776088051 #mastodon #fediverse npub19nnhw2nag35cle4px8qjlal9480hk3r5pg0ux4wxzdrw4gfgpsds7xc4st Deborah Preuss, pcc 🇨🇦 @nprofile…l70y I appreciate you making the distinction between "MAGA Christianity" and "actual Christianity". I've been puzzling over how to frame this difference, and this seems to do it. npub19nnhw2nag35cle4px8qjlal9480hk3r5pg0ux4wxzdrw4gfgpsds7xc4st Deborah Preuss, pcc 🇨🇦 @nprofile…m2xn @nprofile…f9wr maybe he liked the warmth of your hand! npub19nnhw2nag35cle4px8qjlal9480hk3r5pg0ux4wxzdrw4gfgpsds7xc4st Deborah Preuss, pcc 🇨🇦 @nprofile…4xpq @nprofile…ezsq I've always hated monopoly, for that feeling of powerlessness - or power over others who are powerless. 😖 npub19nnhw2nag35cle4px8qjlal9480hk3r5pg0ux4wxzdrw4gfgpsds7xc4st Deborah Preuss, pcc 🇨🇦 Remember that some of your neighbours may have *never* experienced a snowfall like this, and don't know how to handle snow, parking, etc. If you simply wander over to chat, they may ask you :-). And they may not know about *clearing gas furnace exhaust pipes*, a good reason to say hi to them! npub19nnhw2nag35cle4px8qjlal9480hk3r5pg0ux4wxzdrw4gfgpsds7xc4st Deborah Preuss, pcc 🇨🇦 @nprofile…e2np @nprofile…djfr it's cute! But around here, the giant trash pandas have more of a beady, evil I-dare-you stare. 😂 I definitely steer clear of them! npub19nnhw2nag35cle4px8qjlal9480hk3r5pg0ux4wxzdrw4gfgpsds7xc4st Deborah Preuss, pcc 🇨🇦 @nprofile…vxtn what a strange clock face! It's upside-down & backwards! I recognise it - it looks like the clock in the Canadian Parliament's "Peace Tower"! npub19nnhw2nag35cle4px8qjlal9480hk3r5pg0ux4wxzdrw4gfgpsds7xc4st Deborah Preuss, pcc 🇨🇦 @nprofile…hh4j @nprofile…f9wr #alt4you Dictionary screenshot: Etm. (abbr.) Latin abbreviation for the literal translation of "and shit", specifically, "et merda". Just like "etc." (and so forth), "i.e." (that is), and "e.g." (for example), "etm." can be used to abbreviate "and shit". npub19nnhw2nag35cle4px8qjlal9480hk3r5pg0ux4wxzdrw4gfgpsds7xc4st Deborah Preuss, pcc 🇨🇦 Oh, I told Mozilla where to stick their AI features: You can too: (survey, personal data optional) https://mastodon.sdf.org/@jack/115917737168655292 npub19nnhw2nag35cle4px8qjlal9480hk3r5pg0ux4wxzdrw4gfgpsds7xc4st Deborah Preuss, pcc 🇨🇦 "The assumption that Canada could be annexed 'peacefully' betrays a fundamental misunderstanding of Canadian nationalism & the broader geopolitical context. … Canadians are … deeply patriotic & fiercely protective of their sovereignty. … more nationalistic than their American neighbours* & place high value on their institutions*. [It] would invariably be violently opposed by Canada & quickly devolve into a nightmare scenario for both nations." * see links in article: @ https://mas.to/@fsinn/115928112114208103 npub19nnhw2nag35cle4px8qjlal9480hk3r5pg0ux4wxzdrw4gfgpsds7xc4st Deborah Preuss, pcc 🇨🇦 @nprofile…5twp I'm looking there, in settings. But the shortcuts all involve keyboard, and I'm somehow triggering it with just a bluetooth mouse! Weird, LOL. npub19nnhw2nag35cle4px8qjlal9480hk3r5pg0ux4wxzdrw4gfgpsds7xc4st Deborah Preuss, pcc 🇨🇦 @nprofile…5twp I'm touching the mouse, but not using it at that moment, that I'm aware. I'm guessing it's because I move the mouse, no clicks involved ... but mouse is in the middle of the display ... "Expose" doesn't return anything in Settings. npub19nnhw2nag35cle4px8qjlal9480hk3r5pg0ux4wxzdrw4gfgpsds7xc4st Deborah Preuss, pcc 🇨🇦 @nprofile…5twp not working. Iire I think I disabled that, it was bugging me. npub19nnhw2nag35cle4px8qjlal9480hk3r5pg0ux4wxzdrw4gfgpsds7xc4st Deborah Preuss, pcc 🇨🇦 Wisdom of crowds, #Linux edition: I'm using Kubuntu, and have an interface mystery: occasionally my interface zooms out and shows me a dashboard of all the open windows. But I cannot detect what I did to get that! My hand's always on the mouse when it happens, but I'm not aware of making any gesture or click! (Pretty sure my OS isn't telepathic … yet). Q: how do I make this happen, intentionally? Or: what might this feature/action be called, so I can search for an answer? Thanks 🙂 npub19nnhw2nag35cle4px8qjlal9480hk3r5pg0ux4wxzdrw4gfgpsds7xc4st Deborah Preuss, pcc 🇨🇦 "The Party told you to ignore the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command." - George Orwell, #1984 Follow @nprofile…l70y https://toad.social/@wdlindsy/115860003805251628 npub19nnhw2nag35cle4px8qjlal9480hk3r5pg0ux4wxzdrw4gfgpsds7xc4st Deborah Preuss, pcc 🇨🇦 "Canada cannot protect the Arctic using infrastructure owned by foreign companies — especially companies run by men who change global alignment based on vibes. ▪ Musk has turned Starlink off during wars. ▪ He has floated peace plans that match Kremlin press releases. ▪ He has negotiated with China on service boundaries. ▪ He feuds openly with NATO capitals. … Canada looked at all that drama and said, 'Hard pass, buddy.'" #cdnPoli https://bsky.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:yuq4vrivu2cyy6tzpbvcjt7q/post/3ma6tux2jfs2l npub19nnhw2nag35cle4px8qjlal9480hk3r5pg0ux4wxzdrw4gfgpsds7xc4st Deborah Preuss, pcc 🇨🇦 The 😵💫 things realtors & their buyers say when they arrive to show my apartment: ▪ oh yes, we were told to wear masks. But we didn't bring any. ▪ Is there something wrong with the air? ▪ It's ok, I'll just pull down my balaclava. ▪ are you sick? #srsly #WTF. Total denial. #pandemic #covidIsNotOver #longCovid I hope I have enough masks to hand out to these buffons. 'Cause they don't enter without one. I value my brain too much. PS: What does not kill you mutates & tries again. #covid19 😷 npub19nnhw2nag35cle4px8qjlal9480hk3r5pg0ux4wxzdrw4gfgpsds7xc4st Deborah Preuss, pcc 🇨🇦 @nprofile…f5ux @nprofile…q96e oh! I love Etymonline! Tell him "Thanks"! npub19nnhw2nag35cle4px8qjlal9480hk3r5pg0ux4wxzdrw4gfgpsds7xc4st Deborah Preuss, pcc 🇨🇦 Photographers, printmakers: I have simple tools for making polaroid transfers (standard film pack size). In Toronto. Yours if you'll pick it up or pay shipping. Ping me for photos. I may even have instructions from the course I took. Please share with folks who might be interested! #printmaking #photography #PolaroidLift #polaroidart #Polaroiders https://media.cosocial.ca/media_attachments/files/115/690/205/305/272/695/original/4d15e56c4bf095b6.jpg npub19nnhw2nag35cle4px8qjlal9480hk3r5pg0ux4wxzdrw4gfgpsds7xc4st Deborah Preuss, pcc 🇨🇦 "… a plausible method for saving oneself from reading and grading AI slop. To be brief, I inserted hidden text into an assignment’s directions that the students couldn’t see but that ChatGPT can." #LLM #AI #plagiarism #education https://hcommons.social/@jnl/115585410748161291 npub19nnhw2nag35cle4px8qjlal9480hk3r5pg0ux4wxzdrw4gfgpsds7xc4st Deborah Preuss, pcc 🇨🇦 From today: Cory Doctorow @nprofile…998y talks about #Enshittification and what we can do about it: Replay: https://mastodon.sboots.ca/@sboots/115589931051827632 npub19nnhw2nag35cle4px8qjlal9480hk3r5pg0ux4wxzdrw4gfgpsds7xc4st Deborah Preuss, pcc 🇨🇦 My friend, Valerie, needs help to dig herself out of a hole and into safe housing. Being disabled means there are parts of this she cannot do herself. If you can spare a few bucks to help, it will really make a difference. Valerie needs the stability, so she can get back to her disabled advocacy work. 🙏 Thanks. Every little bit helps! #MutualAidRequest @nprofile…czws https://disabled.social/@vlrny/115571583387639009 npub19nnhw2nag35cle4px8qjlal9480hk3r5pg0ux4wxzdrw4gfgpsds7xc4st Deborah Preuss, pcc 🇨🇦 @nprofile…7ppx 👏👏👏👏👏 npub19nnhw2nag35cle4px8qjlal9480hk3r5pg0ux4wxzdrw4gfgpsds7xc4st Deborah Preuss, pcc 🇨🇦 @nprofile…e4ry @nprofile…v35z was this actually related to somebody's product or service? 😱 npub19nnhw2nag35cle4px8qjlal9480hk3r5pg0ux4wxzdrw4gfgpsds7xc4st Deborah Preuss, pcc 🇨🇦 @nprofile…fcgl @nprofile…v35z aha! See: the value of alt text is for everyone! I missed the different tiny flags, until I read alt text. Then I laughed 😁. npub19nnhw2nag35cle4px8qjlal9480hk3r5pg0ux4wxzdrw4gfgpsds7xc4st Deborah Preuss, pcc 🇨🇦 "Microsoft and Google overstate job creation at Chile data centers Microsoft and Google say their data centers in Chile would create thousands of jobs. Permit filings show the largest data centers have the potential to create only hundreds of full-time jobs, mostly in security and cleaning. Residents say the local community has not benefited from foreign investment." https://restofworld.org/2025/data-centers-jobs-microsoft-google-chile/ #AI #AIbubble #technoFascists npub19nnhw2nag35cle4px8qjlal9480hk3r5pg0ux4wxzdrw4gfgpsds7xc4st Deborah Preuss, pcc 🇨🇦 @nprofile…a4mn @nprofile…6xlt @nprofile…v387 uh … that's scary 😰. (See image). And I've barely started the article - the subsequent infographic shows how they've been granted power in the military: "In June 2025, four tech executives, from Palantir, Meta and OpenAI, were sworn in as lieutenant colonels: the line between contractor and commander has been erased." https://media.cosocial.ca/media_attachments/files/115/502/331/997/761/740/original/99603d76801e4250.png npub19nnhw2nag35cle4px8qjlal9480hk3r5pg0ux4wxzdrw4gfgpsds7xc4st Deborah Preuss, pcc 🇨🇦 @nprofile…s67t @nprofile…uctv what's the scorem npub19nnhw2nag35cle4px8qjlal9480hk3r5pg0ux4wxzdrw4gfgpsds7xc4st Deborah Preuss, pcc 🇨🇦 @nprofile…7ppx example? npub19nnhw2nag35cle4px8qjlal9480hk3r5pg0ux4wxzdrw4gfgpsds7xc4st Deborah Preuss, pcc 🇨🇦 @nprofile…hj7d @nprofile…e4n0 "Trump Punishes Americans With 10% Extra Import Tax For [Canada] Not Pulling Down Anti-Tariffs Ad Sooner" http://news.usaunify.org/TNtbJK (Fixed it for ya.) npub19nnhw2nag35cle4px8qjlal9480hk3r5pg0ux4wxzdrw4gfgpsds7xc4st Deborah Preuss, pcc 🇨🇦 Please share in Guelph, K-W, Toronto and adjacent areas. My friend Valerie @nprofile…czws needs a responsible, paid helper ASAP to help plan and execute her move to a new home. Accomodation included. #MutualAidRequest https://disabled.social/@vlrny/115412063438189617