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Perfect Butterfly Angel 2d ago

Dude What

https://bsky.app/profile/aeon.bsky.social/post/3lsxzlxnzzk2v

in ♥️ with PDA (and 🐧)2d ago

This is my summer project. I just a #acorn RiscPC600 :)

decryption 3d ago

check out my new bookmark (you can get one off Aliexpress for $3 if you want to copy me) https://s.click.aliexpress.com/e/_oB4j5nQ

abadidea 4d ago

Wikipedia has a cheat sheet of well-known tells for identifying generated text. (With an appropriate warning not to over-index on minor ones as absolute proof) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_AI_Cleanup/AI_catchphrases

Wikipedia:WikiProject AI Cleanup/AI catchphrases - Wikipedia

So it’s just a phone cable chopped in half an a pair of alligator clips attached to each end. Thanks, barbed wire!

https://bitbang.social/@kalleboo/114783663445596395

And it looks like it was a success! :D
#GlobalTalk #BarbedWire #RetroComputing

🖨️ @kalleboo

Karl Baron (@kalleboo@bitbang.social)

Attached: 1 image History in the making!!!! 😮 #GlobalTalk #VintageApple #RetroComputing @billgoats

Mastodon

So of course the first thing to do is try printing to the other side of the world, to @kalleboo ‘s ImageWriter #GlobalTalk

#CDNpoli #USpol #USpolitics

Somehow it all worked over the barbed wire on the first try! And the PowerBook 1400cs really wasn’t built to be used outside 😜 #GlobalTalk

Mat Wright 5d ago

it's just infuriating we keep giving in to Trump and the tech bro bullies

Elbows Up, yeah, not

Richard W. Woodley ELBOWS UP 🇨🇦🌹🚴‍♂️📷 🗺️5d ago

@MatWright

Actual news release:

https://www.canada.ca/en/department-finance/news/2025/06/canada-rescinds-digital-services-tax-to-advance-broader-trade-negotiations-with-the-united-states.html

Canada rescinds digital services tax to advance broader trade negotiations with the United States

The DST was announced in 2020 to address the fact that many large technology companies operating in Canada may not otherwise pay tax on revenues generated from Canadians. Canada’s preference has always been a multilateral agreement related to digital services taxation. While Canada was working with international partners, including the United States, on a multilateral agreement that would replace national digital services taxes, the DST was enacted to address the aforementioned taxation gap.

Government of Canada

Theresa 5d ago

@the5thColumnist @MatWright cowards. I really can't wait for the day when Trump finally doesn't get whatever he wants but gets what he deserves.

Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸5d ago

@MatWright booooooooooooo

Why do I feel like Ron Maclean rn?

#trump #canada #canpoli #cdnpoli #tradewar #theAmericanFascist

@MatWright @chris I’d like to think we are playing the long game.

Mat Wright 5d ago

@andymoose @chris I'd like to think so as well, but this is blatant surrender of Canada's sovereignty over tax policy

@MatWright @chris Got to jingle the shiny keys in trumps face, distract while the serious work continues quietly and without fanfare. Carney won with one mandate - if he doesn’t deliver he’s toast. He knows this. It sticks in my craw that the US makes such a big deal over this given that the UK also have a DST, but whatever. You can’t reason with crazy.

Mat Wright 5d ago

@andymoose @chris digital services tax is an actual piece of legislation, signed into law - would need to be repealed by parliament and they don't sit again until the fall

Nick Trussell 5d ago

@MatWright
Yes, that's what it states in the release. "...Minister Champagne will soon bring forward legislation to rescind the Digital Services Tax Act."

It does seem like a bit of a dance to keep negotiations moving.

The announcement also expects that the existing tax will be replaced with another agreement that will see Canada get paid. I assume if that doesn't happen the existing model can just as easily be reinstated.

@andymoose @chris

Deborah Preuss, pcc 🇨🇦5d ago

@andymoose @MatWright @chris 🤞🤞

@MatWright @chris He’s going to renege on whatever deal is struck anyway, then we reintroduce the tax - hopefully after more work has been done to shift trade elsewhere a little more. Keep him happy, keep moving away. Sort of like backing slowly away from a wild animal.

Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸5d ago

@andymoose @MatWright you're not wrong. feels alot like getting punched in the face by a bully and saying sorry tho.

@chris @MatWright Yeah, I hear ya. This isn’t the ideal scenario for sure.