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"Canada Post exists to serve people, not shareholders, just like other many essential services that 'cost' Canadians millions per day. Think about it: Long-term care and personal support workers cost Canadian taxpayers millions a day. Should we close the old folks’ homes and put our seniors on the street? Public transit costs millions a day. Should we fire the bus drivers and make everyone walk? Public school support staff — crossing guards, lunch monitors, custodians — cost us millions a day. Do we fire them all and make those lazy teachers do everything?"

Maybe we'd finally be 'productive,' or 'ambitious,' or 'competitive' enough, then.

I’m a letter carrier. Canada Post exists to serve people, not shareholders, just like other essential services
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I’m a letter carrier. Canada Post exists to serve people, not shareholders, just like other essential services

How the Liberals changed course on Canada Post, Oct. 6
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Bored this Sunday? Use your downtime to learn How to Synth! Dive into the wonderful world of making weird synthesizer noises with my simple, hands-on guide. Still a work in progress, but there's plenty there to get you started!

etherdiver.com/how-to-synth-a-…

#synthesizer #SoundDesign

How To Synth: A Guide to Programming Synthesizers – Ether Diver

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#sounddesign #synthesizer

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Паглядзіце дакументалку пра НРМ.

youtu.be/e49klkZZHXw?si=NE1GHO…


NRM і трагедыя культавага рок-гурта. ВОЛЬСКІ і ПАЎЛАЎ пра партызаншчыну, забароны і галоўны канфлікт

Гэта сапраўднае кіно пра культавы беларускі гурт NRM. Яны пачыналі на аскепках свабоды і Мроі, вялі партызаншчыну і запісвалі найвядомейшыя песні ў гісторыі ...
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for you hax0rs: Google "AI" is currently vulnerable to prompt injection by "ASCII smuggling"—this is when you convert ASCII to Unicode tag characters, rendering them invisible to the user but visible to the LLM. here's how it's done:
gist.github.com/Shadow0ps/a7dc…

here's someone using this to make Google Calendar display spoofed information about a meeting:
firetail.ai/blog/ghosts-in-the…

others say summarising functions were affected too, so I wonder if you can add tag texts to your website and poison the Google so-called "AI summary" anti-feature.

ChatGPT filters out tag character but, usefully, Google is refusing to, so unless they get a backlash this might be a fun exploit to explore: pivot-to-ai.com/2025/10/11/goo…


Ghosts in the Machine: ASCII Smuggling across Various LLMs

Researcher Viktor Markopoulos discovers ASCII Smuggling bypasses human audit via Unicode, enabling enterprise identity spoofing and data poisoning on Gemini & Grok.
Alan Fagan (FireTail)

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Well, well, I guess this had to happen eventually. Got my first music offer rejected by a film studio working on a documentary because "we got this covered by AI, but thank you very much for your kind offer."

The rejection itself doesn't really make me sad, this is perfectly normal and especially now the competition is huge. What makes me sad though is that this is a pretty big name in the industry, so it'll only get worse from here on. I sincerely hope I'm wrong.

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The NATO phonetic alphabet that we use today had numerous permutations along the way.
This video chronicles that development.
youtu.be/UAT-eOzeY4M?si=35f3ZM…
#communications #HamRadio #AmateurRadio

The genius logic of the NATO phonetic alphabet

Let’s uncover the secrets of the NATO phonetic alphabet! 🌏 And you can get an exclusive NordVPN deal + 4 months extra here → https://nordvpn.com/robwordsvpn...
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Chris Smart

Alpha said “Bravo, Charlie” and Delta Echoed the sentiment. We danced the Foxtrot at one of those Golf Hotels (it was in India) when Juliet (who had put
on a few Kilos) gave a Lima bean to Mike. Last November, Oscar’s Papa went to Quebec to meet Romeo. He wore a Sierra and Tango coloured Uniform. Meanwhile
Victor drank Whiskey as he looked at the X-ray of the Yankee, whose arm was broken by a Zulu.

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The Best Press Release Writing Principals in AI era


 Stumble upon this brilliant article that I think everyone can learn from it

For people working with media and PR, it's quite easy to spot AI generated press releases. AI output is wordy, repeating to the point of annoying. Without human revision, it's hard to read.

But even before the AI era, many press releases are full of jargons that are quite difficult to read.
The reason is simple and cleverly pointed out by this article I read on PR News Releaser: “Think Like a Reader” is the Best Press Release Strategy -- ... they’re written for the wrong audience... disconnect between what companies want to say and what readers actually want to read.

How true is that.

Even highly educated people would appreciate a press release written in simple words and clear explanations, not just generic self-praising, self-promotion sentences.

The article also provide clever strategies on how to convince your boss that writing to the reader is the right way to compose a press release. Check it out.


“Think Like a Reader” is the Best Press Release Strategy

Most press releases die when its online or land in inboxes. They sit unread, unshared, and ultimately ineffective—not because they lack newsworthy information…
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