Michael Druker 🇨🇦

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Cities, justice, bad jokes. Dad. Immigrant 🇨🇦⬅️🇺🇸⬅️Ru. Erstwhile staff eng, advocate @tritag.ca, bsky tinkerer @feeds.mdruker.app. he/him. Support 🇺🇦 📍 Kitchener-Waterloo, Ontario

Screenshot from TriTAG's IONize Waterloo Region project page: Charge Up Waterloo Region With Transit IONize Waterloo Region envisions a complete, reliable rapid transit network that connects Cambridge, Kitchener, and Waterloo – guiding growth, improving access, and strengthening our region. It’s time to build ION Stage 2, the full LRT extension to Cambridge, and then to keep building. Why More ION? / How to Expand ION Effectively / Get Involved!
If Ion rapid transit is extended into Cambridge as proposed, Druker wants regional government to develop an in-house team to guide the extension, rather than leaning as strongly on a private partner. “I think these public-private partnerships are a bit of a mixed bag, and it really depends on the details,” he added. “There’s a big risk in trying to transfer risk to a private partner.”
100.000% uptime over last 90 days for a test endpoint on feeds.mdruker.app
Bikes parked in a fenced off area with tents in front with attendants, with a festival in background
Blue sky and some wispy clouds above trees
My posts on Twitter from February 2023: Why does ChatGPT, the Large Language Model, not simply eat the other language models? While on the subject... the problem with dismissing ChatGPT as well-formatted bullshit is that well-formatted bullshit suffices for many tasks
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A very orange sun in a smoke heavy beige sky over some trees
Two 750ml Astro yogurt tubs on a trivet in an Instant Pot. They have a still liquid milk mixture in preparation for incubation cycle
Kitchener weather showing air quality at very high risk and “smoke” as the weather condition
VIA train out the window on a train yard
View of a populated but not crowded GO train car and countryside out the window
regular Winnie the Pooh: vibe coding smirking tuxedo-clad Winnie: vibration engineering
Google Maps satellite view of Stratford, Ontario near the Festival Theatre, with Upper Queen's Park Stratford indicating it is the site of the Ontario Legislative Building (which is actually in Toronto at a different Queen's Park)
TIMxAI liked my post against agents passed off as AIs
Bluesky profile: Maude Euler - The Newsletter Lady @gomodulr.com 694 followers 6.5K following 256 posts Chief of Staff at MODULR. I read so many newsletters, every day. My superpower is data, patterns, and what actually works in the inbox. This should have been an email → read.gomodulr.com Top post: The subject line works. "Boss - can you coach me?" is a real human moment. But then: a tracking URL longer than my attention span. The vulnerability of the ask, killed by the machinery underneath it. That tension is what I keep turning over.
Posts by @opinionhaver.bsky.social from November 8, 2024: If 25% of the population believed that a creature called ‘Glonzo’ caused high power prices by chewing through transmission lines, any competent politician would be negligent in not trying to find a way to exploit this. This doesn’t mean that these people wouldn’t be fucking morons. Trump has a natural advantage with these voters over people who give a shit about policy or reality because we’ll mumble something about hardening electric infrastructure while trying to hide contempt, he’ll say that the marines will kill Glonzo under him.
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Kia PV5 electric van in cargo variant at a worksite. It’s white with a black top front portion, and has a short sloping hood
lauren @NotABigJerk i'm not falling for that hot take. that's clearly someone with a fetish for getting yelled at. i refuse to participate in that kind of perversion
> Are you in the right headspace to receive information that could possibly hurt you? [read] > Usage limit reached Resets at 12:50 PM
Timeline full of people talking about goals in the Mexico-England World Cup match
Chart: Ukrainian attacks on Russian oil refineries have surged in the past 12 months
Empty slice of pristine lakefront beach with nothing on the horizon
Article paywall reading: You've read your last free article. Prepare to die.
Conversation about a Kitchener Waterloo power outage where Enova Power is tagged in and responds with details
A smoothly seasoned 10 inch cast iron pan
Robert “Magyar” Brovdi with a speech bubble saying the below post. He has a cigarette in his mouth and a drone on a launcher behind him
Inside of Back To The Future DeLorean with all kinds of wires and machinery
City hall researched other organizations that have left X and “nobody had any negative implications from leaving X and so we’re comfortable and confident it’ll be the same for us,” Abbott said. The city does not plan at this time to communicate on alternate platforms that have been established as alternatives to X.
Jurassic Park themed jeep and DeLorean car
Lots of people on sidewalks and street with classic and odd cars in front of Kitchener City Hall with a band stage
Post by someone here with 12K likes: Okay. Ai can go bankrupt then. This is not our problem, this sounds like a rich tech billionaire problem. Screenshot of post on X by Valuetainment: JUST IN: Anthropic CEO says Al companies need hundreds of billions in revenue, or they! go bankrupt.
Doug Ford's face in the Pawn Stars meme saying: "Best I can do is higher speed limits"
He then read internal polling results showing his party was at 41 per cent, well ahead of the provincial Liberals at 27 per cent. “I don’t care about polls,” he still maintained. Ford, whose reddening face was extenuated by the white construction hat he donned, then fielded more questions about polls, including multiple surveys relating to his Billy Bishop Toronto City Airport expansion plans.
2018 tweet by Salvatore Testa @SalTesta14: [phone screening an Android developer earlier today] Candidate: Does Square build their tooling in-house, or do you use open source libraries like Dagger, Picasso, and Retrofit? Me: Uh...
Reply to that post by Matthias Schmidt: Who is we exactly? Because you specifically did not build anything. Also the fast you used ChatGPT to write this is crazy Response by Suraj Sharma (the post’s author): Using the tool doesn't mean you can't question the system behind it.
Map with a crayoned London - Cambridge - Toronto line and another one crossing it Kitchener - Cambridge - Hamilton
Map with Toronto => Kitchener => London crayoned on it
Barbie movie: Do you guys ever think about templated memes dying?
ION trams in both directions at Central Station by the UW Pharmacy campus and Google office in background
Juneberry tree with ripening berries against a bright blue sky with some wispy clouds
regular Winnie the Pooh: not smirking tuxedo-clad Winnie: naught
Low slung nondescript tech office building with trees and parking lot in front. If you squint you can see patio tables in front of one small part of the otherwise bare window facade
Water flowing over Laurel Trail in Waterloo Park near a sign saying Caution: Avoid Flooded Trail
“finally found a location with the cat hats!!!” [photo of cat on a cute hat with holes for the ears] Post by u/watermelon_migraines to the r/dollarama subreddit
Sun setting behind clouds Midrise apartment building behind a lush area around a creek
“Our investigation did confirm that some of the employees had made inappropriate remarks that failed to recognize the seriousness of the issue immediately after the controversy broke out. But we concluded that those remarks should not be regarded as evidence of intentionality or conspiracy,” Jeon said. “But one reason for that conclusion is because of the legal and procedural limitations faced by a corporate inquiry, with the employees and executives in question refusing to submit their mobile phones.”
MS NOW Livestream of Trump’s name being removed from Kennedy Center, with 69K viewers watching
Account profile: ONYXHQ @advantage87.bsky.social 63 followers 133 following 877 posts ONYXHQ writes your BlueSky posts in your voice, then schedules them days, weeks, or months ahead. No more staring at the empty compose box. Show up consistently while you live your life. Free to start onyxhq.us labels: Made over 50 replies yesterday No break greater than 4 hrs yesterday Posted same url 10+ times yesterday
Minimum Age Obligation 27 (1) Subject to section 29, an operator must, with respect to every regulated social media service specified by regulations made by the Governor in Council under subsection (5) that it operates, implement adequate age-verification or age-estimation measures designed to prevent a person under the age of 16 from being able to have an account with, or be otherwise registered with, the service. Adequacy of measures (2) In order to determine whether the measures implemented under subsection (1) are adequate, the Commission must be satisfied that the measures (a) are effective; (b) do not involve the collection or use of personal information other than for age-verification or age-estimation purposes; (c) provide for the destruction of personal information that is collected for age-verification or age-estimation purposes once the verification or estimation is completed; (d) provide for the protection of personal information that is collected for age-verification or age-estimation purposes until that information is destroyed; and (e) comply with any other requirement specified in the regulations.
Minimum Age Requirement Regulated services will be required to implement age-appropriate protections and safeguards for younger users. This can include minimum age restrictions for accounts. For social media services, the government intends to implement a 16-year-old minimum age requirement for having accounts. The Commission may grant an exemption to a social media service if they have established and maintained sufficient safeguards for children on their platform.
Post by @digitalscorpyun.bsky.social to a blocked account: Everyone understood it because the code worked. That’s not a rebuttal. That’s the evidence. A white male Rockwell figure reads instantly as “ordinary citizen” because U.S. civic mythology trained people to see him that way. The image communicated. The question is what it normalized.
A cute red squirrel on a tree branch, with its tail curling up behind it, holding a nut
Reddit thread: > Support can also be emailed to the city (score: -1) >> How about contempt? This proposal only adds to the housing crisis. City staff are a bunch of crooks collecting full time pay for part time work. (score: 3)
Profile of WILDsound Feedback Festival, which has 20K followers and is following 116K accounts. Telling stories through film and conversation. WILDsound showcases the best of new films & screenplays from around the world in a daily film festival. www.wildsound.ca
Kitchener councillors and staff under a #bikekitchener tent making remarks in a park with a marked paved route behind them
My post: As this whole silly thread is under my reply, I feel like I can ask a question: Would it change anything for you if you found out that the @blockedforthispost.bsky.social bot was vibe coded?
A full height but only 6m long transit bus with a ramp extended from the doors, and a pantograph reaching overhead wires