Passionate about the need for paper in our digital world. Paper bills & statements, flyers, banking, retail, comedy, branding, arts marketing, distrust, privacy
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Joanne E. McNeish retweeted
Warning: Side effects may include sore cheeks, snort-laughing, and accidentally laughing at jokes you swore you wouldn't!
Stampede Stand-Up brings a stagecoach full of @justforlaughs comedians to The Stage of Wonders, serving up jokes about life, love, politics, and everything in between.
📅 July 10 & 11
⏰ 8:30–10 p.m.
🔞 18+
🎟️ Free with Stampede Park admission.
Want the best seats in the house and faster entry?
Upgrade your night with one of three VIP ticket options!
JULY 10 ticket link:
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Joanne E. McNeish retweeted
Get ready to trade the boots for some laughs tonight!
Stampede Stand-Up comedy show is back.
We’re bringing a powerhouse lineup of Canada’s funniest @justforlaughs comedians to The Stage of Wonders tonight and tomorrow night. Expect sharp, zero-holds-barred comedy tracking everything from modern dating and marriage to politics and life's daily absurdities!
🎤 Time: 8:30–10 p.m.
🎟️ FREE with Park Admission!
Want to laugh from the best seats in the house? Upgrade with one of our VIP options:
🍻 Priority Access – Skip the line with fast-track entry + enjoy VIP bar access.
⚡ Table for 2 – Reserved seats close to the stage for date night (or your funniest friend) + VIP bar access.
🎊 Table for 8 – Grab the whole crew for a premium shared table experience + VIP bar access.
Learn more and secure your VIP tickets today!
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Joanne E. McNeish retweeted
I think one of the worst things the internet did to reading was turn it into a pathetic competitive sport. You don’t need a 45 book goal. You just need to read what you actually like, at your own pace, and let the ideas sink in longer than a fleeting Instagram reel.
Joanne E. McNeish retweeted
Digital overload is real. 📱💻
More consumers are appreciating the trust, focus, and permanence that print provides in an always-on world. Print and paper still matters
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Digital overload is real. 📱💻
More consumers are appreciating the trust, focus, and permanence that print provides in an always-on world. Print and paper still matters.
twosidesna.org/northamerica-…
#LovePaper #SustainablePrint #PrintMatters
Joanne E. McNeish retweeted
Somewhere along the line, we lost the understanding of why the census is so important. Also not every person and business will comply just because they are asked, e.g speeding and red lights. The fines and visits provide incentives to complete the questionnaire.
Canadians who are yet to complete the 2026 census face $500 fines and in-person visits from Statistics Canada employees.
'Taxpayers shouldn’t be footing the bill for a bunch of bureaucrats to ... knock on doors,' says Franco Terrazzano, federal director at Canadian Taxpayers Federation nationalpost.com/news/canada…
Somewhere along the line, we lost the understanding of why the census is so important. Also not every person and business will comply just because they are asked, e.g speeding and red lights. The fines and visits provide incentives to complete the questionnaire.
Canadians who are yet to complete the 2026 census face $500 fines and in-person visits from Statistics Canada employees.
'Taxpayers shouldn’t be footing the bill for a bunch of bureaucrats to ... knock on doors,' says Franco Terrazzano, federal director at Canadian Taxpayers Federation nationalpost.com/news/canada…
Joanne E. McNeish retweeted
Google, the world’s near-monopolistic tool for navigating the internet and accessing online knowledge, isn’t very good at doing that anymore. Whatever it has done to itself, there is now “a broad consensus among users, researchers, and tech analysts that Google Search has gotten noticeably worse… Academic studies, user satisfaction surveys, and recent search behavior reports confirm that the platform feels more cluttered, less accurate, and more frustrating to use than it did years ago.”
I know this, as you do, not only through personal experience, but also because Google’s own Gemini — its self-proclaimed “flagship ecosystem of generative artificial intelligence technologies” — just told me so.
Read more: timesofisrael.com/googles-ha…
Joanne E. McNeish retweeted
Digital overload is real. 📱💻
More consumers are appreciating the trust, focus, and permanence that print provides in an always-on world. Print and paper still matters.
twosidesna.org/northamerica-…
#LovePaper #SustainablePrint #PrintMatters
Joanne E. McNeish retweeted
One thing that’s been lost culturally is the satisfaction of hanging up on someone. You’d slam this fucker down and if you were mad enough you might even get a little “ding” from the ringer. Trust me when I say it felt fucking great.
Joanne E. McNeish retweeted
New from yours truly: Education has always done two things at once—it gave us a common vocabulary and a common world. The question for the AI age is whether we can preserve either as schooling becomes ever more personalized.
thenext30years.substack.com/…
Joanne E. McNeish retweeted
Independent bookstores are multiplying, although many people still think they're dying out ctvnews.ca/business/article/…
Joanne E. McNeish retweeted
Coca-cola is aiming to use 35-40% recycled material in its primary packaging by 2035
coca-colacompany.com/about-u…
Joanne E. McNeish retweeted
"Reclaiming the Internet: How Big Tech Took Control - and How We Can Take It Back" by @oliviersylvain is a MUST-READ for everyone interested in AI, and it's our 37th recommended book.
Join the book club for free below.
Joanne E. McNeish retweeted
Amazon is increasing the use of recyclable paper mailers and fiber-based packaging across America as part of its plastics reduction strategy.
The scale of its network means even small shifts create major ripple effects throughout the paper industry
aboutamazon.com
Joanne E. McNeish retweeted
Uber’s COO has said that it’s getting “harder to justify” its AI costs because there was no way to show a link between AI spend and any meaningful increase in useful features. This is the first time I’ve seen a company say this directly.
businessinsider.com/uber-coo…
Joanne E. McNeish retweeted
The majority of Canadian consumers feel they shouldn't pay extra for paper bills or statements.
Learn how Two Sides North America is challenging greenwashing claims and advocating for options to receive paper documents.
Discover more #paperfacts in our Trend Tracker Survey! twosidesna.org/trend-tracker…
#trendtracker #paper
A new government agency?? After we have denigrated the work of govt for decades, suddenly the govt should deal with this big hairy problem?? #AI #publicsector #govt
"The Artificial Intelligence Commission," by Prof. @iajunwa, is the 7th selected paper of my AI Ethics Paper Club, and it's the most comprehensive and grounded blueprint for AI regulation in the U.S. you'll read this year.
Prof. Ajunwa proposes a new federal agency to oversee AI development and deployment in the United States: the Artificial Intelligence Commission, which would be enacted through the Artificial Intelligence Commission Act.
This agency would work alongside and in coordination with other federal agencies, such as the EEOC, the FDA, the FTC, and the SEC, and would oversee both private and governmental uses of AI.
The paper offers a detailed overview of where we currently stand in our understanding of AI harms, the shortcomings of previous proposals to regulate AI at the federal level in the U.S., and lessons learned from other agencies.
Prof. Ajunwa is a rare voice in this debate in terms of her ambition, clarity, and vision for a sensible path to regulate AI in the U.S., respecting the country's legal tradition.
👉 Don't miss her paper! Link below.
👉 To join my AI Ethics Paper Club and receive all my recommendations, register for free below.
Joanne E. McNeish retweeted
It has been a year or so since I was in the trenches on the election fraud claims, and I forgot how frustrating the pattern can be:
> person makes claim about fraud
> explain how you know the claim is misleading or invented
> person says claim never got heard by the courts
> explain how the claim was investigated by LEO or heard before a judge or a court and then got dismissed
> person says LEO/judge/courts are corrupt and in on the scheme
> explain that there are pro-Trump LEO/judge/courts who examined and dismissed the claim
> person says this is just because the truth would be too destabilizing for society
And around and around... Every now and again you break through and convince folks, which is worth it. But "stolen election" theories are so much more about vibes than hard evidence, which makes them extremely difficult to address. A lot of people just can't believe Biden beat Trump in 2020, and that's all it comes down to.
I never understand how these numbers are calculated. Ask any consumer and their telecom bills have steadily increased or maybe it’s just me? #telcom #inflation #price #increase
