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There's a new scam happening where fake 2SLGBTQ+ conferences are spinning up and reaching out to advocacy organizations for endorsements, likely to harvest personal information on individuals who'd apply. If you work with other targeted minority groups, please be careful.

Via Celeste Trianon: (full text posted below)
linkedin.com/posts/celestetria

This was previously a scam in the more intolerant countries, and is now in Canada and likely the US. xtramagazine.com/power/politic

Scam alert! A new conference, "Canvoos Montreal", is soliciting endorsements from queer rights organizations in Montréal. I received the below email from them earlier today, soliciting the… | Celeste Trianon

Scam alert! A new conference, "Canvoos Montreal", is soliciting endorsements from queer rights organizations in Montréal. I received the below email from them earlier today, soliciting the endorsement of the organization I’ve founded, Juritrans. At first glance, this seems interesting. However, their email seemed suspicious (ChatGPT-like phrases, “sales” email, etc.). So I checked. It gets darker. One fact of the Internet is that any website’s domain name (for example, “example.com” is a domain name) must be registered before use. This record — often known as a WHOIS record — allows one to have insights into the website, such as its owner and when it was first registered. Turns out, Canvoos Montreal’s domain name was registered only two days ago. Additionally, its website uses generic drawings pulled from Pride organizations in the United States, and seems to be translated into French entirely using Google Translate: in the context of a website, “home” is translated to «accueil», not «maison»! I couldn’t find any other presence of Canvoos Montreal anywhere on the internet, nor in the Quebec business registrar; no individuals were mentioned on the conference’s website either. This leads me to the obvious conclusion: this is an evolution of the “LGBTI conference scam” that was first documented in the news last year. Fake conferences, in the queer context, are non-existent conferences, designed to dupe LGBTI+ activists from the Global South into paying “registration fees” for a non-existent event. The usual formula is an announced conference, whereas activists from the Global South are invited as delegates or speakers, travel expenses covered, but then are made to pay a registration fee, in an unrefundable manner (e.g. Western Union or wire payment). By the time they apply for a visa to visit Canada, it’s too late, the conference doesn’t exist and they’ve lost out on their money. Whilst this scam has been reported by Xtra Magazine last year (https://lnkd.in/eyJi-bRs), soliciting local queer organizations to endorse such conferences is a new, particularly low way of getting unsuspecting non-profits to participate in such scams. Non-profit organizations should be extremely cautious if ever they’re invited to be involved with a little-known or otherwise unfamiliar conference. As for individuals invited to unfamiliar conferences, if you’re required to pay a registration fee in spite of having travel expenses paid for, that’s a massive red flag. If you have good reasons to doubt something’s legitimacy, be cautious! Dignity Network Canada Open Digital Literacy and Access Network (ODLAN)

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又再讓我遇到⋯

平常時很喜歡往勤美跑,通常都待在誠品看書。某次,有一個奇怪的人說:「帥哥,你很有型喔。」
因為很突然的跟我搭話,讓我一時之間不知道該回些什麼,只好尷尬的笑了笑,然後就馬上放下書本,往另一個方向離去。沒想到他沒多久之後又再繞過來,我實在受不了所以就離開了,在那陣子之後就沒有再遇到他。

沒想到!今天和伴侶剛吃飽飯,想說買個飲料坐在外面聽點音樂休息一下,結果再度聽到熟悉的對話:「帥哥,你很有型喔。」
我心想大事不妙,該不會⋯^^

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Bishop William J. Barber II preached at St. Paul's United Methodist church in Biloxi, Missisissippi, for Martin Luther King Jr. Sunday. He opened by saying that he doesn't really like the notion of holidays and commemorations for people who were murdered.

But he knows why Reagan was happy to sign off on the King holiday:


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ourmoralmoment.substack.com/p/

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Armin Ronacher, who even very recently has previously has been very pro ai agent vibecoding to the point of criticizing critics, seems to have stepped back and asked the question: are AI coding agent users all experiencing mass delusion... including himself? lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/1/18/age

Conversation on lobste.rs is also interesting lobste.rs/s/0pxvyd/agent_psych

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今日1月20日は大寒(だいかん)です。
「冷ゆることの至りて甚だしきときなれば也」
という言葉が江戸時代に発行された暦便覧(こよみびんらん)にあります。
大寒は「厳寒期」。その名前の通り、一年の中で一番寒い時期になってくるがその中にも春の兆しが感じられるということです。
大寒の最終日の節分には、新しい一年の無病息災を願って、鬼を追い払う「豆まき」をしたり、鬼が嫌うイワシの頭を飾ったりします。
また恵方巻をいただくのも、「これからはじまる一年を幸せで健康に過ごせますように」という意味が込められています。
ところで、ここでアッツ島とサムイ島の天気です。

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From the earliest days of social media, social media bosses have been at war with sociability. To create a social media service is to demarcate legitimate and illegitimate forms of sociability. It's a monumental act of hubris, really.

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If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

pluralistic.net/2026/01/19/bil

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Mark Zuckerberg's metaverse avatar, perched on a legless nude Ken doll body; its eyes are psychedelic pinwheels. Behind the figure is a group shot of child laborer miners from the 1910s, glitched out, blue tinted, and covered with scan lines. The background is a psychedelic swirl of moody colors. They stand atop a filthy checkerboard floor that stretches off to infinity.
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After several months of umm-ing and ahh-ing, I handed in my notice at work this week.

If anyone knows of a Canadian company looking to hire a remote senior web developer who will NOT be working on LLM-related functionality (or be required to use LLM-based development tools), please point me in their direction. I've got 15 years of experience and love getting my teeth into technical problems.

Boosts most welcome. Thanks! #getfedihired

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Mkay I'm HOPING to feel good enough to go to @foulab's Montreal Fediverse night on Jan 28th, 2026, at 18h30, hosted by @n00q :neofox_happy:

foulab.org/news/events-january

And if I do go, I'll be bringing my Plushtodon, Xenia, and Tux plushies :) so there may be photo opportunities (but I may ask you to mask near me pls :neofox_pleading: )

Hope to see fedi folks there!

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Armin Ronacher, who even very recently has previously has been very pro ai agent vibecoding to the point of criticizing critics, seems to have stepped back and asked the question: are AI coding agent users all experiencing mass delusion... including himself? lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/1/18/age

Conversation on lobste.rs is also interesting lobste.rs/s/0pxvyd/agent_psych

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Just a note, my wife is a physician. Doctors get a lot of hate here on Mastodon. I don't know what your experience with your doctor is like but my wife gives her life for her patients. So, if you're one of those "doctors are terrible" people, I'm sorry you feel that way but please don't follow me or interact. I'll just end up blocking you.

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Oh also some good news: the spacemacs folks very sensibly removed all the AI slop stuff github.com/syl20bnr/spacemacs/

A very conversation about it here github.com/syl20bnr/spacemacs/

Meanwhile the ai agent stuff has moved here: github.com/smile13241324/aemacs

(While I am sometimes uncertain about using "psychosis" around AI stuff, it sometimes does seem to apply, and hoo boy a lot of this sure resembles psychosis)

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Armin Ronacher, who even very recently has previously has been very pro ai agent vibecoding to the point of criticizing critics, seems to have stepped back and asked the question: are AI coding agent users all experiencing mass delusion... including himself? lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/1/18/age

Conversation on lobste.rs is also interesting lobste.rs/s/0pxvyd/agent_psych

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Mkay I'm HOPING to feel good enough to go to @foulab's Montreal Fediverse night on Jan 28th, 2026, at 18h30, hosted by @n00q :neofox_happy:

foulab.org/news/events-january

And if I do go, I'll be bringing my Plushtodon, Xenia, and Tux plushies :) so there may be photo opportunities (but I may ask you to mask near me pls :neofox_pleading: )

Hope to see fedi folks there!

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아 진짜 너무 슬퍼 지금 당장 쳐들어가서 영업 시작할 때까지 테이블에 누워있다 1빠따로 들기름 순면 흡입하고 싶음 아니 진짜로... 너무 슬펐어 시그니쳐는 평냉이라 사실 첫 방문 때는 평냉을 먹어보는 걸 추천함 평냉도 맛있는데 들기름이... 진짜 너무... 너무임 냄새부터 압도적이라 같이 드시러 가서 평냉 시키신 분이 내 옆에서 들기름 나왔을 때 냄새만 맡고도 메뉴 잘못시켰다는 걸 직감하셨다고 함 아 진짜 너무 슬프다... 울고 싶음 내 앞에 서령 들기름 순면이 없다는 이유 하나만으로

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앞선 마감을 끝내는대로 러프하게 천천히 그려올래요. 🐾블친 오너캐 퍼리로 만들기🐾 멘션으로 오너캐 달아주세요! • 오너캐가 없으면 이기회에 오너캐를 만드시는건 어떠십니까😏 • 오너캐가 까만/하얀 덩어리라구요? 제가 마음대로 빚어옵니다. • 오너캐가 이미 퍼리라도 OK! 그래도 그려오거나 종을 바꿔서 그려옵니다.

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Armin Ronacher, who even very recently has previously has been very pro ai agent vibecoding to the point of criticizing critics, seems to have stepped back and asked the question: are AI coding agent users all experiencing mass delusion... including himself? lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/1/18/age

Conversation on lobste.rs is also interesting lobste.rs/s/0pxvyd/agent_psych

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なんかね、ホント何気ない言葉が刺さって殺されることが多くてね
逆に自分が軽く発言したことも相手に不快にさせてる(実際は別に大したことはないっぽい?)からコミュニケーションが下手なんですよ
だから多方面から敬遠されてる自信ある

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