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This chart shows annual hours of smoke-filled skies in Calgary from 1953 to 2023. As the first wildfire smoke of the 2024 season blew in this week, it's hard to convey the sadness it elicited in a lot of folks. There's a growing realization this is our new reality. And a genuine sense of mourning.

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Sphere execs doing the math and realizing that banning people who smoke weed from a venue that is booking every jam band known to man might be bad for business

MAJOR TWIST: Spokeswoman for the Sphere says the ban against the bong enjoyer at the 4/20 Phish show was issued in error and is not in effect, blames "a breakdown in our process" for the letter he received. Story has been updated.

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Windows Recall has me seriously looking into Linux.

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the thing about the frog-in-boiling-water allegory is that in real life the frogs in that experiment had their brains removed; frogs with intact brains quickly jumped out of the hot water. which actually makes it somehow more illustrative of people who write or are persuaded by 3-3-3 court pieces

Every year or so, a thinkpiece comes along that tries to convince people that, actually, the Supreme Court isn’t as out of control that those hysterical liberals make it out to be. With graphs and empirical tools and such. This is the latest version of that. www.politico.com/news/magazin...

Opinion | Using Math to Analyze the Supreme Court Reveals an Intriguing Patternwww.politico.com The conservative wing isn’t always aligned, and that leads to some surprising outcomes.

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"Microsoft should recall Windows Recall" — Security researcher discovers Microsoft's new AI tool is woefully insecure I am shocked.....not. www.windowscentral.com/software-app...

"Microsoft should recall Windows Recall" — Security researcher discovers Microsoft's new AI tool is woefully insecurewww.windowscentral.com The security story around Windows Recall hits a brick wall as it's discovered the data it collects is unencrypted.

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Free Gaza spotted in Ottawa, Canada

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half of bluesky: we want this feature devs: ok, we're adding it other half of bluesky: no! that feature sucks!

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"[A]nything you post on any of these platforms can and will be used for profit. It's just a matter of time until all your messages on Discord, Twitter etc. are scraped, fed into a model and sold back to you." www.tomshardware.com/tech-industr...

Stack Overflow bans users en masse for rebelling against OpenAI partnership — users banned for deleting answers to prevent them being used to train ChatGPTwww.tomshardware.com Stack Overflow is overflowing with salt.