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Starbucks tells corporate staff in US and Canada to work in office at least four days a week

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  • More soft layoffs. It's short term thinking obviously, the people with options will leave, the people who can't do better will stay.

    • Ontario colleges lose nearly 10,000 jobs, and face cancellation or suspension of more than 600 college programs.

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  • Sucks for those involved, but it was a bubble built on a flood of international students. It was never sustainable.

    • The Trump Administration Is Planning to Use AI to Deny Medicare Authorizations

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  • It would, but how are they going to grift off of that?

    • Far-right extremist group threatens to take weather radars offline

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  • If I understand right, they think the radars are the things changing the weather.

    • There's always money for the military. But climate?

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  • Always? We've been underfunding our military for generations. This new spending is badly needed catch up to get us functional.

    • Trump delays tariffs as the rest of the world plays hardball

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  • That's the game everyone is playing. Just stall and run out the clock. There's no point in working on a deal, because he'll break it the moment it's convenient.

    Put up a show of negotiating with the US, and work more with other countries. The public in the US seems to forget that the rest of the world are not NPCs in their own internal struggle.

    • Trump administration sues California, arguing animal cruelty laws cause high egg prices

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  • They'll try anything except solving the real problem.

    • U.S. Is Only Country To See Tourism Decline In 2025

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  • They'll get deported on their way out of the stadium.

    • Toronto councillors, residents call for more transparency on where city puts new shelters

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  • Of course it's Doug Holyday complaining. They tried to take the politicians out of the process because of people like him. He's been councils resident contrarian since the Ford family moved on.

    • Why is it so hard to get real Pay-As-You-Go mobile plans in Canada?

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  • The CRTC is mostly run by former telco people and it shows.

    Its the same reason we "couldn't" do a proper implementation of the emergency alert system, which is why every Amber alert uses the "the bombs are falling" warning level.

    • This seems mildly dystopian

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  • I'm guessing it assumes you're carrying your phone and infers motion from changes in the signal?

    Or just uses the phone connecting and disconnecting to signal departure and arrival, in which case Home Assistant has done that for awhile now.

    • Idea to reach the cloud without actually having Internet -- using wi-fi cold-spots (for lack of a better term)

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  • That sounds like being online with extra steps.

    • ICE Is Using a New Facial Recognition App to Identify People, Leaked Emails Show | ICE agents can now ID anyone by just pointing a smartphone in their face.

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  • Considering they're just looking for a pretext to arrest someone, I think it's accurate enough for them.

    • Evangelical church urges Trump admin to 'execute' LGBTQ Americans

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  • Being some flavor of evangelical who raves about "groomers" seems to be the best predictor of being an actual groomer I've seen so far.

    • RFK Jr. Says AI Will Approve New Drugs at FDA 'Very, Very Quickly'

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  • "Will they be safe?"

    "That's not a metric we're looking at"

    • Toronto councillor Anthony Perruzza wants speed cameras shut off until September. "I want to get to a place where these cameras are visible"

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  • Typical city council nonsense. They fought them, added all kinds of warnings and pilot projects, and now want a pause because they're working.

    "War on the car" has been a popular talking point for 20 years plus.

    • B.C. cabinet minister says she’s ‘fortunate’ to have just half a dozen death threats

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  • It's become so much easier. You can do it in a minute from the toilet, before you had to buy postage.

    • LA school district demands inquiry after ICE officers filmed urinating on campus

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  • Every time we think the bar can't get lower, they go ahead and prove us wrong.

    • What book(s) are you reading right now and recommend for others?

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  • I just finished Oryx and Crake the first of a trilogy by Margaret Atwood, I quite enjoyed it. It's a short of dystopian sci-fi. I was put off by her at first because I was forced to read her in high school but I'm glad I gave her another chance.

    I'm starting Les Misérables in French in the hopes of improving my written French.

    Also working my way through Weapons of the weak which is about forms of peasant resistance.

    • Trump ends trade talks with Canada over tax on US tech firms

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