Mark Story

@markstory
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Staff Engineer @getsentry. Core Developer on @cakephp, Dad, MTG Player, and occasional Illustrator.
GitHubhttps://github.com/markstory
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Mark Story2d ago
DB 🌱💦3d ago

Ontario's premier Doug Ford and his ministers were caught speeding 23 times and fined $3,300.

So Ford banned speed cameras.

Now:
▶️ speeding is up 380%
▶️ 2 people have died in accidents where speed cameras used to be.

#ONpoli

https://toronto.citynews.ca/2026/06/24/data-shows-almost-400-per-cent-increase-in-speeds-on-city-streets/

'Horrifying': Data shows almost 400% increase in speeds since ASE cameras removed from city streets

Mayor Olivia Chow is calling for a return of speed cameras in school and community safety zones after a report found a significant spike in speeding in those areas since the province banned the devices. The city began employing Automated Speed Enforcement cameras in 2020 to reduce speeding and improve road safety, and in 2025 […]

CityNews Toronto
Mark StoryJun 21
I am a bit late on this, but Angine de Poitrine is a great palette cleanse from all the AI slop.
https://youtu.be/0Ssi-9wS1so?si=AEDYFj-_qObS_dF0
Angine de Poitrine - Full Performance (Live on KEXP)

YouTube
Mark StoryJun 21
After playing silksong for many hours with the reaper crest, I got longclaw. Longclaw and wanderer's crest is so fast and has great range.
Mark StoryJun 20
Just got a cold sales email from a clanker as a service. I don't understand how this isn't just spam generation that costs more $ for many of these subscribers.
Mark StoryJun 14
Managed to complete the Courier's Rasher run in Silksong on the second try. I used the wisp thicket route. Did a few practice runs to learn the route and clear out enemies.
Mark StoryJun 13
Qasim Rashid, Esq.Jun 13

If you can’t tax billionaires and trillionaire because “its unrealized gains until they cash out,” then stop letting them leverage that wealth for loans, as collateral, or as equity.

If it’s not real enough to tax, it shouldn’t be real enough to leverage.

This is why we say the system is rigged in favor of the super wealthy. Abolish billionaires, tax them out of existence, protect working people.

Mark StoryJun 10
Johannes LinkJun 9
My side of the jqwik anti AI logging drama: https://blog.johanneslink.net/2026/06/09/the-jqwik-anti-ai-affair/
The Jqwik Anti-AI Affair

How I lost patience with ‘AI’ agents

My Not So Private Tech Life
Mark StoryJun 10
Gordon J HoltslanderJun 10

“By focusing legislative attention on who is permitted to use social media rather than on how the platforms operate, an age-based ban lets legislators and the companies off the hook from more effective broad-based regulation..

Rejecting a ban does not mean rejecting regulation. Rather, it places the emphasis on the need to regulate the platforms, not the user..

government can impose requirements on how platforms are designed and create liability for failure to meet them without locking anyone out”

ie. regulate the villain not the victim

Meanwhile adults will entrust their identity and privacy with corporations who’ve proven they are untrustworthy, or we will entrust the untrustworthy to measure access?

This is nothing more than political performance.

Solving the problem will take much more than a petty performance.
#cdnpoli
https://www.michaelgeist.ca/2026/06/everything-you-wanted-to-know-about-a-kids-social-media-ban-but-were-rightly-afraid-to-ask-a-faq-on-age-verification-and-mandated-id-for-everyone/

Everything You Wanted to Know About a Kids' Social Media Ban (But Were Rightly Afraid to Ask): A FAQ on Age Verification and Mandated ID for Everyone - Michael Geist

The government is expected to table the Digital Safety Act on Wednesday with reports that it will include a ban on social media for those under 16, framed as a “temporary” measure that platforms can exit once a new digital regulator certifies their safety standards. I have been writing about these issues, from the original Online Harms Act to mandated age verification and website blocking and now the kids’ ban, for several years. This FAQ gathers the analysis in one place, with links throughout to the longer pieces for anyone who wants to go deeper. The key takeaway is that a kids' social media ban is an ineffective and harmful policy that raises privacy concerns for tens of millions of Canadians through mandated age verification requirements. The policy fails to address the underlying concerns with social media and the prospect of a "temporary" ban makes little sense since the requirement might be reversible, but the data collection and regulatory infrastructure are permanent.

Michael Geist
Mark StoryJun 9
The Seven Voyages Of SteveJun 8
I sometimes think about how if open source had never happened at scale, and all LLMs had to train on was proprietary code, how different things might look right now. Breaks my heart; sharing code openly has been a huge part of my life and belief system for so long, and I was so convinced that the good that it did outweighed the bad actors taking advantage. I never imagined that the bad actors would win by automating their behaviour
Mark StoryJun 7
Took me a long time today to replace a light switch with a fan timer. The three wires from the switch were not the three wires I needed for the fan timer. I needed to patch an additional neutral wire in. 🫠