Is AI Replacing Bloggers? Introduction I started MS Word to create today’s blog posting. When you create a new blank document in Microsoft Word, above the blank document is a dialog that says: “Describe what you’d like to d…

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Maybe he gifted it to his boss?

I think he should stay on for the good of the country. Don’t have to worry about maple-maga getting elected.

I hope they keep PP as leader now. Will probably have trouble even getting a seat in Alberta.

Amazing how badly the cons are doing!

Amazing how few people are voting CPC!

Postmedia propaganda. Sold out to the fossil fuel industry long ago.

I think its the power of the fossil fuel industry to label anyone they don’t like as extreme and have the media parrot them.

Single Sign-on, Privacy and US Big Tech Introduction Google, Apple, Amazon, Facebook and Microsoft offer single sign-on solutions to simplify signing on to a variety of websites and other services. If you are already signed on …

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I’ll have to give it a try. I use Proton Docs now. Its main weakness is its grammar checker.

AI Companies Recent Bad Behaviour Introduction AI companies such as OpenAI, xAI, Meta, Anthropic and Google have been in the news a lot recently for all the wrong reasons. None of the AI products are profitable and all require huge…

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This racist issue is the main reason Aaron Gunn got elected. The other being that the progressive vote split evenly between the Liberals and NDP.

Moving off American Tech – Continued Introduction US Tech companies are Trump’s biggest supporters and seem intent on doing harm to everyone’s democracy and freedoms. All in the fear of regulation and taxation. Most US tech companies …

including my experience with @charlieangus104.bsky.social/The Resistance and using the alternatives for a few months:

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So he’s saying he only want pro-facists?

Main purpose to distract from Epstein files, maybe he wants a long war as a longer distraction.

An old man, out of ideas, yelling incoherently at the tv cameras until he gets tired. Think I’ll skip it.

I don’t think it is settling down, but other countries are ignoring it more and more.

Another attempted distraction from the Epstein files.

Need to keep those Epstein files out of the headlines.

Elbows Up Introduction Today the Supreme Court of the US ruled that most of Trump’s tariffs are invalid and illegal. This doesn’t affect Canada so much as most of our exports are covered via CUSMA and some o…

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Hopefully all the resulting lawsuits will keep him busy. On the other hand its not like he ever obeys the law anyways.

#featuredfriday #raspberrypi #assemblylanguage #programming #python #apressauthor #motivation #tech #computerhardware #robotics #programminglanguage | Apress This week’s #𝗙𝗲𝗮𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲𝗱𝗙𝗿𝗶𝗱𝗮𝘆 shines the spotlight on Stephen Smith, author of “𝗥𝗮𝘀𝗽𝗯𝗲𝗿𝗿𝘆 𝗣𝗶 𝗔𝘀𝘀𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗹𝘆 𝗟𝗮𝗻𝗴𝘂𝗮𝗴𝗲 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗺𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗴, 𝟮𝗲: 𝗔𝗥𝗠 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗰𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗼𝗿 𝗖𝗼𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴.” 𝗤: 𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗶𝗻𝘀𝗽𝗶𝗿𝗲𝗱 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝘁𝗼 𝘄𝗿𝗶𝘁𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗯𝗼𝗼𝗸? “The fir...

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Dutch defense chief: F-35s can be jailbroken like iPhones : No worries if the US doesn't want to be friends with Europe anymore

I guess this is good news if Canada goes with the F-35 rather than the Gripen. Still perhaps would be good to go with a plane that didn’t require hacking? www.theregister.com/2026/02/18/j...

I think he has a racist toxic generative AI writing these for him.

Bias and Toxicity in Generative AI Introduction There has been quite an explosion of Generative AI programs recently including OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Facebook’s Llama, Google’s Gemini, Microsoft’s Copilot, Anthropic’s Claude, and xAI’s G…

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Started using these a few months ago and all good. Upgraded to the unlimited version to support their good work.

Pretty nice here in BC.

Me too.

The Generative AI Race Introduction Over the past couple of days Amazon, Google, Microsoft and Meta have seen their stocks plummet when they released generally good earnings, but gigantic plans to each spend about $200 b…

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It was the robo-pen.