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leanlearnlead

@leanlearnlead@mstdn.ca

Near Toronto, Ontario
Interested in tech, change, leadership, politics, health.

And laughter!

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leanlearnlead, to Funny
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https://xkcd.com/2910/

leanlearnlead, to MandelaEffect
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Canada: Monopolies aren't great, we should encourage competition and regulation.

Also Canada:
https://thewalrus.ca/loblaw-has-become-an-everything-company/

leanlearnlead, to random
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https://www.hilltimes.com/story/2024/03/20/getting-hosed-on-housing/415428/

"The feds are relying on neoliberal economic policies of letting the market decide to build affordable housing. Well, the market decided we should all be poor."

"Freeland appeared on CTV’s Your Morning just before Christmas, where she was asked what example she could give that would illustrate her understanding of the financial pain Canadians are experiencing. She responded by saying that her church has a food bank."

leanlearnlead, to business
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The head of The Body Shop Canada Ltd. says it's seeking creditor protection because its parent company stripped its Canadian arm of cash and pushed it into debt.

https://www.ctvnews.ca/business/the-body-shop-canada-parent-took-revenue-left-company-3-3m-in-debt-court-docs-1.6793493

leanlearnlead, to ukteachers
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Strong words from Steve Paikin, someone who understands better than most and has a lot of respect for those that choose public life:

"Politics has become such a phony business: government members constantly trumpet achievements, while opposition members constantly feign outrage that authenticity — normally, the coin of the realm — is in increasingly short supply. Some days, it’s non-existent."

https://www.tvo.org/article/an-anatomy-of-a-bungled-press-conference

leanlearnlead, to Health
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These measles cases are still at the point where Public Health can contact trace. Measles R0 is 12-18, which I believe means the 6 cases become 72-108 if they are around unvaccinated or susceptible people.

In a couple of weeks, this could be big. UK is at 347 cases since October; 167 cases in Austria. Romania reported 2000 cases in December.

https://toronto.ctvnews.ca/unique-case-of-measles-discovered-in-ontario-with-unknown-source-of-infection-1.6789827

maxleibman, to random
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Top Three Project Management Challenges:

  1. Over-allocated resources.
  2. Competing priorities.
  3. Over-allocated resources.
  4. Scope creep.

EDIT: 5. Undocumented requirements.

leanlearnlead,
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@maxleibman

Challenge 0. Projects

vlrny, (edited ) to disability
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The Canadian Alliance to End Homeless have this so beautifully nailed! Brilliant list of what we need to solve housing crisis in Canada.

Make sure they hear your voice!
(my added personal note in next toot, feel free to steal and riff off as needed)

Tell the Government: Build a Better Budget for Housing

https://action.caeh.ca/federal_budget_2024?#newmode-embed-22400-63925

leanlearnlead,
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@vlrny thank you for sharing, housing should be a human right in Canada.

leanlearnlead,
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@kevinlovestech @vlrny thank you for mentioning this. Certainly an example of talking the talk, but not walking the walk.

Snowshadow, to news
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Hey Climate Scientists!
Anyone know the difference between emissions from a cargo plane vs same cargo on a ship?
(never minding the awful impact of fast fashion on the planet)

Shein, Temu and other e-commerce retailers are upending global air cargo industry

E-commerce has biggest impact on air cargo, not Red Sea crisis, says expert
🤦 Boeing declined to comment.


https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/shein-temu-ecommerce-retailers-air-cargo-1.7121085?cmp=rss

leanlearnlead,
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@Snowshadow if it's anything like the cost of freight, it would be under 1%.

leanlearnlead,
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@Snowshadow in general, emissions are proportionate to cost.

Perhaps I can find an estimate.

leanlearnlead,
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@Snowshadow I assumed a 30 cm x 30 cm x 30 cm box, with 5 kg weight, from Shanghai to Vancouver. Ocean freight worked out to 1.4kg CO2, air freight 89 kg CO2.

https://www.freightos.com/freight-resources/emissions-calculator/

leanlearnlead, to climate
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Alberta is declaring an early start to the 2024 wildfire season. The province, announced Tuesday the fire season is now underway as a result of warmer-than-normal temperatures and below-average precipitation.

There are 54 forest fires burning in Alberta today. 52 of them started in 2023.

https://edmonton.ctvnews.ca/alberta-moves-up-start-date-for-wildfire-season-fire-season-now-underway-1.6776259

leanlearnlead, to Funny
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I always suspected Shrove Tuesday had pagan roots! exposes the true history of

lauren, to random
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I see articles now talking about how AI chatbots can fill out job applications for you so that you don't have to deal with the monotony. This of course all falls apart when the hiring AI at the firm hires the AI that filled out your application, rather than you.

leanlearnlead,
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@lauren or the contract written by one AI talking with another.

https://www-cnbc-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.cnbc.com/amp/2023/11/07/ai-negotiates-legal-contract-without-humans-involved-for-first-time.html

ZachWeinersmith, to random
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OK guys, A City on Mars is out.

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/639449/a-city-on-mars-by-kelly-and-zach-weinersmith/

Heretofore I've had to hold back a bit on discussing it, but now the book is going out into the world, so Ask Me Anything about space settlement: science, politics, law, historiography, etc. I'll do my best to answer.

leanlearnlead,
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@ZachWeinersmith congratulations!

My burning question - will there be great comic strips on other planets? Because if there aren't I am staying put.

ZachWeinersmith, to comics
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Ancient Times
http://smbc-comics.com/comic/ancient-times

leanlearnlead,
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@ZachWeinersmith The greatest of the greatest would compete every week for the funniest videos in all of America. There, a high priest of comedy would dispense sarcasm and many of the voice overs. We called that priest, "Bob Saget".

Jgmeadows, to random
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If you don't like the fact that a heated seat in your car is a paid subscription, have you considered doing without? (Speaking as a grumpy old-timer who somehow survived without heated car seats in minus 40 Canadian prairie winters in the late 60s' to mid-70's). Whine all you want, but your actions and $$$ are what enable the 1%.

leanlearnlead,
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@Jgmeadows As a former automotive leader that sold seat heaters...I have a feeling there will be lots of hacked cars out there. The systems are very simple and would need about $1 in parts.

emilymbender, to random
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“This isn’t fixable,” me @mattoyeah of @apnews “It’s inherent in the mismatch between the technology and the proposed use cases.”

https://apnews.com/article/artificial-intelligence-hallucination-chatbots-chatgpt-falsehoods-ac4672c5b06e6f91050aa46ee731bcf4

leanlearnlead,
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@emilymbender Thanks for challenging the hype! I'm glad it's getting some coverage, despite the media fully onboard. I guess the proported $0 cost of content is tempting the media too. 🤦‍♂️

Chrishallbeck, to animation
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Good news!

video/mp4

leanlearnlead,
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@Chrishallbeck that's the most honest business discussion I've ever seen!

Chrishallbeck, to random
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Maybe tomorrow.

A person is talking to someone hidden in a pillow fort with a “Keep Out” sign on the front.

leanlearnlead,
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@Chrishallbeck ROTFL

ct_bergstrom, (edited ) to random
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As best as I can tell this story merely reprises a blog post about a conference presentation. I don’t want to minimize AI risks in any form but this one feels off. I’ll go out on a limb and predict that most likely the story will turn out to be highly inaccurate—even beyond the fact it the story doesn't make it easy to see it was just a computer simulation.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/4a33gj/ai-controlled-drone-goes-rogue-kills-human-operator-in-usaf-simulated-test

leanlearnlead,
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@ct_bergstrom

https://www.aerosociety.com/news/highlights-from-the-raes-future-combat-air-space-capabilities-summit/ - see the last section.

rodhilton, to random
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I've developed kind of a weird theory about why Mandalorian Season 3 didn't work for so many people, and it has nothing to do with Luke or Grogu or any of that:

Mandalorian killed people's interest the second that the Razor Crest was destroyed.

This occured to me while playing Jedi Survivor. The moment Cal is back on his ship, it had a weird "home" feeling for me. A character being in their ship, which is basically their home in space, fills me with warm fuzzies.

leanlearnlead,
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@rodhilton Good point about losing the setting of the Razor Crest. When it was destroyed I let out a long "Noooooo!" That ship was a character, like the Falcon or Slave 1.

leanlearnlead,
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@rodhilton Perhaps the transition piece is relevant - but instead of it being the ship, the fatherhood transition was found in the homestead on Navarro that the series closed with.

What is next? Mando gets married?

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