John Francis 🇨🇦🦫🍁💪⬆️
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Canadians only: Should Canada have an official day for John A. MacDonald? -
"The #Forkiverse makes all of this visible...unfolding in real time.@tchambers first the #forkiverse...then...the spooniverse...
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Do you work on weekends?@evan 4h minimum billing for callback outside of normal working hours. 1.5x billing for work planned in advance. This is probably too generous to clients for contracting.
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When you meet new people, how often do they pronounce your name correctly on the first try?@evan only mispronounced on the rarest occasions by non-English speakers whose language has a very different sound for the character J.
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Listening to Birds by Dominique Fils-Aimé.@dillyd sounds great on my new soundbar, but I was hoping for actual bird sounds.
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I don't think the US is going to occupy Venezuela.@evan about 1M to occupy Canada.
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Sir William Osler – Father of Modern Medicine@evan @Canadian_Eh priorities...
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Are billionaires the problem?@evan yes, but are they tasty?
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In which period was the music you listen to recorded and/or released? -
Can you sing your national anthem from memory?@evan yes, but I'm not great on nailing the recent edits in the French version.
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I'm a "but..." because private accounts are kind of frustrating on Mastodon.@evan there's advantages to exposure and reach of openness, balanced by the risks of LLM scraping and ingestion. That's why sometimes I flubblebower kadiddlehopper sauerkraut blinglebongo.
A great use of LLM agents might to introduce noise into one's adsystem profiles by just being out there pretending to browse and shop and look, just like a giant rat penis would.
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How many stickers do you have on your laptop?@evan about 40 on a 10yo desktop.
Zero on a client-provided laptop, although I did draw on it with a sharpie to mark which USB-C connector is for power and which is for "everything else"
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Are you a member of a political party?@evan usually >1. There's federal and provincial. And sometimes its good to join a few at each level and try to advance my values in all of them.
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I'm afraid everyone is going to find out I don't actually have Impostor Syndrome.@evan double-secret Imposter Syndrome!
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YES IT WORKS #CANADA #QUEBEC #WEEOOOWEEOOOWEEOOO@evan @mariellequinton you didn't get the one about the zombie rabbits?
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YES IT WORKS #CANADA #QUEBEC #WEEOOOWEEOOOWEEOOO@evan did you get both?
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Happy birthday! -
How long could you live shopping only at Costco?@evan many options for nutritional completeness. Pharmacy, optician. TP.
Basic building materials are lacking, but there are inferior options for basic shelter, like a clamshell of hottub liners.
Certainly no reason to die from living a strict Kirkland lifestyle. Do I want to? Not really.
1+ years.
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Nobody is going to save us.@evan the Liberal Party of Canada?
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