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NS budget shortfalls force Tim Houston to eliminate ocean HALIFAX - After months of slashing provincial revenue, Nova Scotia Premier Tim Houston has announced that he has been forced to entirely cut the Atlantic Ocean from the province.

“Nova Scotians elected me with a clear mandate to starve government revenues before making catastrophic cuts to their standard of living,” Houston said, standing in front of a completely-drained Halifax Harbour. “Or at least, that’s how I interpreted it.” www.thebeaverton.com/2026/03/ns-b...

‘The nation mourns with you’: PM Carney gives an emotional statement on the B.C. mass shooting Prime Minister Carney delivers emotional remarks about the several people who lost their lives in the mass shooting in B.C.

Prime Minister Carney delivers emotional remarks about the several people who lost their lives in the mass shooting in #BritishColumbia #Canada 💔🇨🇦

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I'm not sure if anyone needs this reminder. If they do, they are being willfully ignorant.

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What’s coming up for Gander?

Tune in to the Amber Mac Show for an in-depth conversation on topics like: moderation, monetization, and misinformation (oh my)!

You know, and what to expect in the coming months.

Shout-out to both @ambermac.bsky.social and the folks that submitted questions.

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The image reads: Hi Jay, Thanks for reaching out to Optimizely Support! I understand you're looking to have your account and all assets related to it deleted. I've forwarded this to the responsible team. Since the account deletion process involves multiple teams and systems, this can take a few weeks to be completed. I'll keep this ticket open and update you once it's done.

"a few weeks"! While, I understand that it may take time for the deletion of data in backups etc., this still sounds like they still use fax machines and landlines to me.

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I'm sure they could care less about the artist's feelings on the matter.

That said, artists should check the name use before putting out records.

I've emailed and DMd the artist's Insta with the info.

I suppose and it's not a massively original name, but one is a signed artist with a major label and the other is some rando. Typically, the (larger) labels try to protect the artists names just from the perspecitive of protecting their investment in that artist. 1/2

Screenshot of the Apple Music artist page for Olympia. The profile photo shows a black-and-white portrait of a woman with short blond hair. The page title says “Olympia,” but the latest release displayed is Me Estoy Volviendo Loco – Single by unrelated artists. The albums listed—Walt Returns and Flamingo—and top songs such as Goodnight Fabian and Honeymoon Fever suggest that music from a different band named Olympia has been added to this artist’s profile by mistake.

Does anyone know if there's a way to report an error to Apple Music? There's some rando band using the same artist name as the Australian, EMI recording artist, Olympia, with their new rather mid album plonked onto her Apple Music profile. I was excited she might have dropped a new album but nope.

The nice thing about Better Stack is they are PAYG for most of their features. So, you aren’t forced into massive feature-gated tiers; you pay for what you want to use. I don’t always like this kind of pricing mode. Here, it’s working well for us to use the tools we need and have a budget for.

The current scale and team is tiny-ish and ambitious. ;)

Defining “reality” is the strategy the republicans and fascistic right wing parties use with great effect. Even if nobody believes them it diminishes the truth and allows fictional narratives to justify actions and manufacture consent.

Yep. Still around. Still massively flexible. I’ve been working there since 2009 and using MODX for 19 years.

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Simple is better for most. Returns diminish fast and there’s a pretty high risk of static and created with such observability. If there are specific nodes in a system that are prone to reliability issues, I’d just find ways to monitor and add more error state or latency handling at each end.

Better Stack and StatusCake are good for front end monitoring. We’ve used Data Dog and now use Grafana OS with Prometheus and Loki/VictoriaLogs for our servers. Log aggregation and querying is nice to have for web sites. I think the allure is there to have infinitesimal observability.

Related, Facebook, Insta etc putting the fucking ads on reels where their own gen'd captions show up. This might actually be a situation where the ads would be better up top since most of the action almost always in the bottom half of the frame. Optionally, the gen'd captions could be at the top.

Am I not the only person who reads text on their devices at the very top of the screen and scroll the text into my eyeline? Why to designers and site owners insist on polluting the top of the screen to ads (esp. those fucking videos) that show up out of nowhere to shadow effects that blur text?