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mayabuttreeks

@ mayabuttreeks @lemmy.ca

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  • Anyone else use RSS?

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  • I mostly use it to monitor individual feeds for chatty, talkradio-esque mp3 files that I then download and play from my personal devices. I've taken to calling them "podcasts" ;)

  • Edmonton police emails, documents provide new information on Canada-first AI facial recognition bodycam pilot

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  • I just paid $100 bucks for dental work that would have cost me nearly $700 out of pocket last year.

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  • Thanks! Knowing I have paid thousands out of pocket over the past 15-20 years for fillings, crowns, root canals, wisdom teeth, etc., to me, $100 genuinely feels like a miracle even though I know I'm lucky to be in the position where even that's affordable. Feeling grateful, for sure!

  • New Democratic Party @lemmy.ca
    mayabuttreeks @lemmy.ca

    I just paid $100 bucks for dental work that would have cost me nearly $700 out of pocket last year.

  • How Microsoft Vaporized a Trillion Dollars

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  • Oy. Sadly, I suspect anybody who has worked in dev knows the outlines of this story: Management promising deliverables with unrealistic timelines and functionality; team leads with such poor internal product knowledge they don't recognize catastrophic issues until it's too late; poorly-trained devs squeezed to push out unscalable kludgy insecure nightmares "for now" that just never get addressed; systems gradually becoming a Jenga tower of manual workarounds and undocumented slapdash quick fixes... Ugh. Nightmare fuel.

  • ‘Haters gonna hate’: A top FEMA official defends his claim that he was teleported | CNN Politics

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  • The longer I'm an adult the more terrifying it is to realize how many people there are in positions of power over people who are either complete morons or straight up mentally ill.

  • Canada loaning millions to proposed Nunavik rare earth mining project linked to Trump White House

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  • the large U.S. private equity firm Cerberus Capital Management invested $50 million US

    Fascinated at how many Wall Street bros will just unironically give their companies names that are so blatantly villainous to anyone with an iota of cultural competency. Weyland-Yutani next?

  • Trump fires Kristi Noem as DHS chief, names Sen. Markwayne Mullin to replace her

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  • This "Shield of the Americas" thing that apparently the very NOT FIRED please don't tell people i was fired-Noem is being shunted into is gonna be just another Greenland-esque bullshit attempt to push and bully every sovereign nation across two continents. And with her involved, everybody brace yourself because it's gonna get stupider, more insulting, and more aggressive. Like yeah, better get this woman involved in international diplomacy because she and her boyfriend/side piece did such a fucking normal job of domestic affairs... ಠ_ಠ

  • "Operator" in the AI age

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  • Wikipedia blacklists Archive.today, starts removing 695,000 archive links

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  • I do hope this move results in more support for the IA/Wayback Machine and helps them to update some of their crawler tech — thanks to the rise of AI, some sites are effectively (thru captchas etc.) or actively (through straight-up greed [coughRedditcough]) blocked from being archived almost entirely, which is frustrating for legit archivists/contributors.

  • This MF is quadrupling down and dropping Alien files before dropping the full, unredacted Epstein Files. GODDAMN.

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  • Major European allies decline to join first meeting of Trump’s Board of Peace

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  • WHERE does this motherfucker get off?? What kind of lunatic still has the audacity to claim some right to head a Board of PEACE when 75% of the headlines I've read today said he's been gasping, sweating and salivating in anticipation of getting to start yet another idiotic middle east war, this time with Iran, of all places...

  • Lindsey Graham accused of derailing diplomatic meeting with sexist insult to Danish Prime Minister

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  • One person reportedly described the scene as "Graham on his worst TV day."

    So... hammered?

  • Tiny Homes Are Big in Texas—and They’re Selling ‘Rapidly’

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  • Goddamn. And what mostly kills me about "tiny homes" is that, like... prefabs exist! Mobile homes exist! They've existed for a long time! But the cultural divide and associated stigma that has been cultivated by dipshits like David Brooks and his ilk has led a huge number of people to believe they're too good for "trailer" living, so they opt to pay thru the nose for very little additional benefit.

  • Peter Thiel Is Unleashing a Neocolonial Billionaire Fantasy in Honduras

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  • libertarian city-states to “restore Western Civilization.”

    These grasping neo-feudalist motherfuckers need a boot lodged somewhere dark and moist. And despite his delusions of being some kind of master of the universe, someone needs to break it to Thiel he ain't the incarnation of Moore's Ozymandias, despite the fact he clearly thinks dollars = 'smart boy points' that automatically confer genius on any topic his greasy, Zippy-the-Pinhead-esque noggin puts its mind to.

  • Cops Are Buying ‘GeoSpy’, an AI That Geolocates Photos in Seconds

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  • News @lemmy.world
    mayabuttreeks @lemmy.ca

    WSJ lawyers argue Trump's past public comments are so "bawdy" it's impossible for him to suffer reputational harm from its Epstein coverage

    www.motherjones.com /politics/2026/02/donald-trump-jeffrey-epstein-lawsuit-wall-street-journal-lewd-bawdy/

  • Neutral polite nod rule

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  • Oh look, it's a picture of me at every family gathering.

  • Report: More Than a Dozen ICE Agents Arrested in Recent Months, Raising Concerns About Misconduct

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  • More than a dozen since 2020? Shit, I bet I've seen video documentation of more than a dozen incidents that deserve criminal charges this week.

  • 'Trump will be gone in three years': Top Democrats try to reassure Europe

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  • I think a lot of U.S. politicians (as well as many civilians, frankly) are under the delusion that once Trump is out of office things will 'return to normal'. That may have been true after his first term, but the landscape has shifted seismically since then. Thanks to MAGA, in a single year the U.S. has shit the bed in virtually every category of former dominance, and has effectively ceded its leadership position on the world stage. Trust is gone, alliances have been broken, and if Newsom et al. really believe things will be 'business as usual' ever again, their delusion is showing.

  • Everything's fine. Nothing to see here.

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  • Honestly, I was leaning toward "funny but probably fake" myself until I checked out OP's post history, which mentions "startups" and namedrops a few SaaS tools used heavily in marketing. If you've worked with marketers (or a fair few startup bros, honestly), you'll know this isn't beyond the bounds of reason for some of them 😂

  • Fuck AI @lemmy.world
    mayabuttreeks @lemmy.ca

    Everything's fine. Nothing to see here.

  • Not The Onion @lemmy.world
    mayabuttreeks @lemmy.ca

    Trump's delusion he has an "irrefutable" right to impose voting restrictions on states might originate from a Florida ex-Marriott employee who claims he found secret text in the U.S. Constitution

    electionlawblog.org
  • Boycott US @lemmy.ca
    mayabuttreeks @lemmy.ca

    Canadians Are Boycotting US Ski Slopes

    www.bloomberg.com /news/articles/2026-01-26/canadian-skiers-skip-us-mountain-resorts-this-season-thanks-to-trump
  • Canada @lemmy.ca
    mayabuttreeks @lemmy.ca

    Cuts to food safety don’t save money. They cost lives

    www.ipolitics.ca /2026/02/12/cuts-to-food-safety-dont-save-money-they-cost-lives/