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mpjgregoire

@mpjgregoire@cosocial.ca

ingénieur, tory canadien, citoyen du Grand Montréal

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noellemitchell, to fediverse
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According to FediDB, monthly active users on the fediverse have dropped to 1,005,573 😳 Looks like they might drop below 1 million if the downward trend continues.

https://fedidb.org/

mpjgregoire,
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@noellemitchell It's strange how shows the numbers of users and servers going up and up, but the number of MAU going steadily down. Maybe there's a miscalculation somewhere.

@fedidb

evan, (edited ) to random
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Are screenshots of posts on other social networks a valuable contribution to the Fediverse?

mpjgregoire,
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@evan I prefer quotes and links to screenshots.

mpjgregoire, (edited ) to random
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Trudeau, Poilievre condemn latest shooting of a Jewish school
https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/shots-fired-montreal-jewish-school


mister914, to random
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When will ever encourage housing construction? Just look at this map! Toronto is only building more towers than almost every other city combined...wait...what???

https://cc-production-uploads-bucket.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2023/04/DCN-DW-Q1-crane-count-2-mainweb.jpg

mpjgregoire,
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@mister914 I suppose it's smug of me, but I'd have enjoyed the essay even more with more examples of American dysfunction.

is great.

timrichards, to auspol
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Who privatises their national postal service? Even the neoliberals here never tried that on with Australia Post. #UKpol #auspol https://mastodon.social/@DaveWhittle/112525629963030503

mpjgregoire,
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@timrichards Germany has a privatised post office: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deutsche_Post

I don't know whether that's been a good policy or a bad one. Maybe a German could comment?

#depol #PostOffice #Germany

wjmaggos, to bluesky
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Has any company seemed cool but also took VC money and didn't eventually enshitify?

mpjgregoire,
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@wjmaggos Eazel took VC money, created a great free software program, then ran out of money and shut down. Nautilus lives on!

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eazel

#Nautilus

mpjgregoire, (edited ) to politics
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"[H]ighly-educated people [...] tend to be significantly worse at gauging others’ political beliefs, often assuming other people are much more extreme or dogmatic than they actually seem to be. This is perhaps because, compared to the general public, highly-educated or intelligent people tend to be more ideological in their thinking, more ideologically rigid, and more extreme in their ideological leanings."

#MusaAlGharbi

https://musaalgharbi.substack.com/p/smugness-partisan-diploma-divide

1/3

#politics #education

mpjgregoire,
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Research "suggests that those who are highly educated, intelligent or rhetorically-skilled tend to be significantly less likely than most to revise their beliefs or adjust their positions when confronted with evidence or arguments that contradict their priors. This is because, in virtue of knowing more about the world, or being better at arguing, they are better equipped to punch holes in data or arguments that contradict their priors, or to otherwise make excuses for “sticking to their guns”."

mpjgregoire, (edited )
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Bill Buckley had a quip about the political wisdom of the highly-educated...

3/3

#WFB

npilon, to random
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https://www.nationalobserver.com/2024/05/28/news/PBO-carbon-price-report-Liberals - turns out the PBO fudged the numbers the CPC's been citing for how horrible the consumer carbon price is, then quietly retracted their fudged numbers over a month ago. I'm sure we'll see this reported widely any second now...

mpjgregoire,
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@npilon Thanks for posting about that; I missed it in the news. For reference, here's a link to the PBO note: https://www.pbo-dpb.ca/en/additional-analyses--analyses-complementaires/BLOG-2425-002--distributional-analysis-carbon-pricing--analyse-distributive-tarification-carbone

mpjgregoire, to random
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It's common in liberal states to have a hierarchy of rules: regulations, statute law, constitutional law. It is also common for rules of order for assemblies to require different levels of support for different measures: plurality support to pass bills and motions, 2/3 majority to reconsider, unanimous consent to suspend rules temporarily.

I wonder if any states have different levels of statutory law, i.e. certain laws passed with say 2/3 support of the assembly over-ride regular laws.

mpjgregoire, to beer
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"Some have quite rightly asked: Is it really worth $225 million not to have to wait another 18 months? The answer is absolutely not. It’s grotesque. What the government should have done was simply cancel the existing MFA with The Beer Store via legislation, on the grounds it was a product of rank political corruption. (In fact it said it would do this, but legislation to that effect was never enacted.)"

https://nationalpost.com/opinion/beer-in-corner-stores-accomplished-the-worst-way-possible


mpjgregoire, to random
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The time Pierre Poilievre got a dressing-down from Stephen Harper
https://nationalpost.com/news/the-time-pierre-poilievre-got-a-dressing-down-from-stephen-harper

"“He was so deeply affected by it, and he really went soul-searching for a few weeks to figure life out,” says a friend."

There's a good chance will be PM in two years. We should be grateful a book has been published about his life.

interviewed the author, , last week: https://paulwells.substack.com/p/a-new-poilievre-biography-from-andrew



parismarx, to tech
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“The thing that really upset Dorsey: Bluesky users demanded moderation and Bluesky put it into place. Yeah, that was the whole issue.”

Good reflection on “decentralized” social media and what Dorsey really wants from it by @davidgerard:

https://davidgerard.co.uk/blockchain/2024/05/10/jack-dorsey-bluesky-decentralised-social-networks-and-the-very-common-crowd/

mpjgregoire,
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@parismarx
I read the original interview with Mr. Dorsey. What he wanted out of Bluesky was not a new social network, but a new decentralised protocol for social networks — that's an entirely reasonable goal. Bluesky has a protocol, but at present it's primarily a network. It’s understandable that Mr. Dorsey is disappointed.

@davidgerard

mpjgregoire,
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@wjmaggos
Mr. Gerard mentions in his article the strange omission of ActivityPub from Mr. Dorsey's interview. I can see why he might think ActivityPub doesn't meet all his goals for a protocol, but the fact that it already exists and is growing should be reason to work for improvement, not to start a new initiative.

@parismarx @davidgerard

GottaLaff, to Canada
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#CountdownToCanada ends today! TODAY.

(Click on that hashtag to see all the dopey gifs, including one with Hammy!)

You've been with me every step of the way and for that I thank you.❤️

👉🏼Here are the links to the why, how, and omg it's happening blogs: https://mastodon.social/@GottaLaff/112413459979525215👈🏼

For the next few days we'll be on the road to #Canada 🇨🇦, our new home. Bear with me for not replying w/ more than a "like" & for not live-posting the #TrumpTrial.

I'll post alerts & pop in.

IT'S HAPPENING!!

video/mp4

mpjgregoire,
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Welcome to Canada, @GottaLaff !

FifiSch, to blender
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What is the difference between and ?

I mean, how was the Blender community able to create an industry-level software beloved by both enthusiasts and professionals and supported by the big players? Meanwhile the users, despite being ripped-off and spat on daily by , won't touch GIMP with a ten meter pole and it squarely remains the weapon of choice only for occasional users?

mpjgregoire,
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@FifiSch The major reason I've heard why Photoshop users don't want to use GIMP is that the interface is too different — they've invested lots of time learning how to use Photoshop and don't want to throw away that knowledge.

I could speculate about why similar concerns are not an impediment for Blender, but I haven't used it or similar software, and don't even know anyone who has.

jszym, to windows
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My current workflow includes using a #windows Virtual Machine for the sole purpose of running #Microsoft Office and #OneDrive , and this clunky solution is still leagues better than actually running Windows on nearly every measure.

The pain the limited time I spend in that wee VM window underscores how bad Windows has gotten over the years.

mpjgregoire,
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@jszym There's a Linux client for OneDrive, and I understand it's supported directly under the newest version of GNOME.

I wonder if it's possible to use LibreOffice and have sufficient compatibility with MS Office for your purposes...

I also have to use MS products for work, but the IT department keeps things locked down.

shayman, to random
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Bonjour Montréal. This has been an extremely civilized journey so far at speeds frequently reaching 150 km/hr. High speed train travel by Canadian standards. Also they had lots of coffee. Thanks Via!

mpjgregoire,
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Welcome to Montréal, @shayman !

mpjgregoire, (edited ) to random
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Eight things you probably don't know about , from a new biography: https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/biography-pierre-poilievres-most-difficult-moments

wrote about this book a few days ago: https://paulwells.substack.com/p/a-new-poilievre-biography-from-andrew


wjmaggos, to random

@barackobama

please turn on fediverse sharing. it will give you a bigger audience with minimal downsides. many people would like to follow you from the .

https://www.theverge.com/24107998/threads-fediverse-mastodon-how-to

mpjgregoire,
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@wjmaggos
But Mr. Obama does share his Threads posts to the Fediverse...

Ryan, to random
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Hey CoSocialists! (Is that our demonym?)

We Torontonians want an XMPP server.
(404.city has been good, but getting flakier.)

Is having an XMPP service for cosocial something you would like/want/use?

(Free as in Freedom, encrypted, all the good stuff, of course)

mpjgregoire,
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@Ryan I prefer "CoSocialite" ;)

I don't know about a chatting system. I'm not opposed, but I probably wouldn't use it myself.

chris, to random
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The sound you hear is the #BCNDP breathing a huge sigh of relief as the two rightwing parties continue fighting.
“B.C. Conservatives Leader John Rustad rejected proposed 'non-competition' agreement, Kevin Falcon says”

#BCPoli #CdnPoli #CanPoli #bcelection2024
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/b-c-united-no-merger-1.7214326

mpjgregoire,
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@chris I haven't been involved in BC politics for a long time. What's driving the rise of the Conservative Party of BC?

mpjgregoire, to random
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La croix du chevet réinstallée au sommet de la charpente: https://lp.ca/dM3afC?sharing=true


Subumbral, to random
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mpjgregoire,
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@LoganFive @Subumbral
Let the boy try to check out Mein Kampf or The 120 Days of Sodom, and we'll see how the librarian reacts.

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