# election special (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 1 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover election special. Page: Feed: --- ## [WordPresss and the Atmosphere](https://www.coverfire.com/archives/2026/05/20/wordpresss-and-the-atmosphere/) _2026-05-21 · Dan Siemon · Dan Siemon_ WordPress just released a plugin for Atproto aka Atmosphere which is the protocol behind BlueSky. This little post should be published to my PDS now. Didn t work on first try. Let s try again. ## [Open Social — overreacted](https://www.coverfire.com/archives/2025/09/27/open-social-overreacted/) _2025-09-27 · Dan Siemon · Dan Siemon_ This is a great overview of atproto (the protocol under BlueSky) and why it matters. https://overreacted.io/open-social/ ## [(untitled)](https://www.coverfire.com/archives/2025/09/14/3333/) _2025-09-14 · Dan Siemon · Dan Siemon_ Models of subways stations around the world. http://stations.albertguillaumes.cat/ ## [(untitled)](https://www.coverfire.com/archives/2025/06/14/3318/) _2025-06-14 · Dan Siemon · Dan Siemon_ https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08837 ## [A story from Srinivas Rao on Medium](https://www.coverfire.com/archives/2025/05/24/a-story-from-srinivas-rao-on-medium/) _2025-05-24 · Dan Siemon · Dan Siemon_ Read “99% of AI Startups Will Be Dead by 2026?—?Here’s Why“ by Srinivas Rao on Medium: https://skooloflife.medium.com/99-of-ai-startups-will-be-dead-by-2026-heres-why-bfc974edd968 ## [This Hour Has 22 Minutes Election Special](https://www.coverfire.com/archives/2025/04/26/this-hour-has-22-minutes-election-special/) _2025-04-26 · Dan Siemon · Dan Siemon_ The This Hour Has 22 Minutes Election Special is hilarious. They go hard at all the parties and party leaders. Really well done. Free to watch on Gem, just need to login. https://gem.cbc.ca/this-hour-has-22-minutes ## [Lost Decade? GDP and Immigration](https://www.coverfire.com/archives/2025/04/21/lost-decade-gdp-and-immigration/) _2025-04-22 · Dan Siemon · Dan Siemon_ There s a lot of Lost Decade talk which is primarily supported by a chart showing GDP per capita which looks bad for Canada compared to other countries. But Canada s GDP growth has been second in the G-7 to only the U.S. So why does that chart look so bad? https://policyoptions.irpp.org/magazines/april-2025/numerator-denominator/https://policyoptions.irpp.org/magazines/april-2025/canada-alabama/… ## [Why Mark Carney?](https://www.coverfire.com/archives/2025/04/17/why-mark-carney/) _2025-04-18 · Dan Siemon · Dan Siemon_ We have entered an unpredictable time. Canada s relationship with its closest ally is at best different and probably changed for a generation. New international structures, partnerships and alliances will emerge as the U.S. steps back from the role it has had since WW2 (hopefully that step back is temporary). Why Mark Carney? Experience. Canada needs \[ \] ## [Mark Carney – Values (Book, 2021)](https://www.coverfire.com/archives/2025/04/06/mark-carney-values-book-2021/) _2025-04-06 · Dan Siemon · Dan Siemon_ I finished reading Mark Carney s book Values, written in 2021, a couple of weeks before he won the leadership. I haven t had time to summarize it properly and I still don t so this will be short with quotes. When I read, I flag passages to read again. The quotes below are a small subset of \[ \] ## [Real SIMs for AI Agents (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/Wrwd0kpZTi2F) _2025-04-06 · **Sponsored**_ Pass 2FA and verifications with real carrier numbers via our API. ## [Dave Täht](https://www.coverfire.com/archives/2025/04/01/dave-taht/) _2025-04-02 · Dan Siemon · Dan Siemon_ I m sad to hear Dave Täht passed away. We had many good chats about Bufferbloat in private and on podcasts over the years going way back to ~2009. I remember one time very early in the Bufferbloat work that he reached out and we did some VoIP quality testing and discussed a small pfifo\_fast kernel \[ \]