Dawn Smith

@saffyre9

Digital marketer, hippie at heart, introvert and HSP. She/her. 🇨🇦 Pro-🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇦 🍉🐋

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Dawn Smith @saffyre9· 19d

🫧 thetyee.ca/Culture/2026...

Doctorow points out that so much money is going into AI and data centres that the companies involved simply can’t make a profit, ever.

No matter how many high-salary jobs AI replaces, it won’t bring in enough to cover the investment in AI, let alone make a profit.

Dawn Smith @saffyre9· 25d

Enjoying the sun and lack of air quality warnings today.

An e-reader sitting on the leg of a woman wearing black and white elephant pants, on a deck overlooking a forest

Dawn Smith @saffyre9· 29d

Too choppy to swim, but the wildfire smoke made for a gorgeous sunset

Hazy sunset with oranges, pinks and blues above a choppy Georgian Bay shoreline

Dawn Smith @saffyre9· Jul 10

I'm a lazy cook and that sometimes results in odd meals that I'd never repeat, but this is one I absolutely will repeat: Smokey mango turkey tacos.

Two tacos on soft corn tortillas on a plate. The tacos are filled with ground turkey cooked with Neal's smokey mango salsa, some corn, and cheese.

Dawn Smith @saffyre9· Jun 30

I don't understand what's happening here #BlueJays

Dawn Smith @saffyre9· Jun 29

Gorgeous view

Dawn Smith @saffyre9· Jun 21

Today, I cross-crossed the province helping to distribute #FightFord lawn signs. Met some lovely women from this rag-tag group trying to get the word out. #OnPoli

A purple and yellow lawn sign that says "Healthcare. Education. Transparency. Ford failed you! ProtectONT.ca" sitting amongst periwinkle, ferns, and other plants.

Dawn Smith @saffyre9· Jun 20

I don't really believe in astrology, but my life has been an absolute shit storm of chaos since October 2019 - to the point that the pandemic was actually a minor blip for me. So if whatever force caused that is going to end this weekend, I would be forever fucking grateful.

The Karmic Loop You Have Been Inside Since 2020 Officially Closes on June 20th.
When Saturn and Pluto met in Capricorn in January 2020, they opened a karmic cycle that has been running underneath your life ever since. Six years of restructuring and rebuilding, six years of learning what you can survive and what you refuse to repeat. The solstice on June 20th is the cosmic moment when that cycle officially closes. What you have been carrying since 2020 — the patterns, the grief — does not walk into the second half of 2026 with you. The cycle is complete. The version of your life that begins on the other side of Saturday is no longer being shaped by what happened to you then. It is being shaped by what you became after.

Dawn Smith @saffyre9· Jun 20

Un-fucking-real sunset tonight

Fiery orange sunset over Georgian Bay. The water is reflecting the bright orange.

Dawn Smith @saffyre9· Jun 17

So everyone needs to work harder to make up for the loss of immigrants. Cool, cool, cool.

The trick for future economic growth could be more complicated than just adding more immigrants in the future, say both economists.

"To grow the overall size of the economic pie … all of us need to contribute, or at least some of us need to contribute more to the pie," said Skuterud.

Dawn Smith @saffyre9· Jun 17

500 días aprendiendo español. I'm pretty dang proud of this steak. I've been trying to learn Spanish off and on for 25 years, but 500 days ago I decided to start taking it seriously. I'm also taking Spanish classes IRL, because talking to real humans helps my recall better than an app.

Screenshot from Duolingo showing a 500 day streak

Dawn Smith @saffyre9· Jun 14

This Friday

Poster for protest outside Ford Fest on Friday, June 19 at Thompson Memorial Park in Scarborough

Dawn Smith @saffyre9· Jun 8

I used this answer more than once

Question 7 from the survey: What mitigations would help address environmental impacts related to airport growth?

Response:
Not expanding it in the first place would be the obvious one.

Dawn Smith @saffyre9· May 31

Stanley thinks my lap is quite comfy, thanks for asking.

The back of a brown doodle sitting on the lap of a person wearing grey pants

Dawn Smith @saffyre9· May 29

The sounds of waves to reset after a long week

Dawn Smith @saffyre9· May 26

What this shit is this captcha, omg

A capcha that asks "Tap on everything that matches the reference", showing an image of a duck and hedgehog with a hamburger.

The captcha images are the following: figure skates, flip flops, waterslide, different waterslide, pink glowing rubber duck, figure skates, pink glowing rubber duck, a third waterslide, figure skates again.

Dawn Smith @saffyre9· May 24

If you're looking for a private chef in Simcoe Muskoka, I highly recommend Chef Andrew Siebert. This is my second meal with him and he's so fabulous. And able to accommodate my GF DF requirements. www.chefandrewsiebert.com

Smoked salmon on cucumber and potato croquettes (both GF DF)

Homemade butternut squash and spinach ravioli with parmesan cream (very note GF DF lol; I had a version of this with rice paper and vegan sauce)

Lamb, potatoes, mushrooms and fresh Ontario asparagus

Dawn Smith @saffyre9· May 24

It's lilac season and I'm in a purple mood 💜

Collage of 3 photos: a lilac in bloom; a hand holding a bottle of purple nail polish against a leg wearing people track pants; purple manicured nails

Dawn Smith @saffyre9· May 18

I just spent 4 days in the woods with nearly no cell signal. I'm rested, I'm de-stressed, and— most importantly—my eye twitch is gone.

"And into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul." - John Muir

Dawn Smith @saffyre9· May 12

If you're still looking for a reason to stop using Chrome, how about because it installed a 4GB (!!) AI model on your computer without asking? www.thatprivacyguy.com/blog/chrome-...

Google Chrome silently installs
a 4 GB AI model on your device

Two weeks ago I wrote about Anthropic silently registering a Native Messaging bridge in seven Chromium-based browsers on every machine where Claude Desktop was installed [1]. The pattern was: install on user launch of product A, write configuration into the user's installs of products B, C, D, E, F, G, H without asking. Reach across vendor trust boundaries. No consent dialog. No opt-out UI. Re-installs itself if the user removes it manually, every time Claude Desktop is launched.

This week I discovered the same pattern, executed by Google. Google Chrome is reaching into users' machines and writing a 4 GB on-device AI model file to disk without asking. The file is named `weights.bin`. It lives in `OptGuideOnDeviceModel`. It is the weights for Gemini Nano, Google's on-device LLM. Chrome did not ask. Chrome does not surface it. If the user deletes it, Chrome re-downloads it.

Dawn Smith @saffyre9· May 11

LMAO the best line from the Orillia Today article, as if this is a force of physics that cannot be altered:

The Andes virus is only found in South America and doesn't exist in North America, said David Safronetz, chief of special pathogens at the National Microbiology Laboratory in Winnipeg, in an interview with The Canadian Press on Thursday.

Dawn Smith @saffyre9· Apr 26

I don't know what makes a good 3rd base player, but I'm this far away from him lol

Dawn Smith @saffyre9· Apr 26

Great view

Dawn Smith @saffyre9· Apr 23

After seeing 15% of my coworkers laid off today because we had another (another!) bad quarter, this resonates so much.

Do you know why Silicon Valley doesn't make things people want? Because it never really did, and now it's stuck in a terrible mess of its own making. Bear with me while I explain.

Dawn Smith @saffyre9· Apr 13

Is the govt going to do anything to try to prevent absences - say, air filters maybe? Or just punish kids for the illnesses we've been inflicting on them for the last 6 years?

The province says that it will also require "attendance and participation" to be part of the final mark for students in grades 9–12, with attendance worth 15 per cent of that mark in 9 and 10, dropping to 10 per cent in Grades 11 and 12.

Calandra said the government has seen absenteeism rates reach unimaginable levels since the COVID-19 pandemic, and that teachers have asked him to do something about it.

Dawn Smith @saffyre9· Apr 12

But wait - they *also* want to restrict access to AI for children and teens. So which is it?

List of policies from the 2026 Liberal convention, the last of which says they will restrict AI and chatbots for children and teens

Dawn Smith @saffyre9· Apr 8

The Conservatives in Gladu's riding are NOT happy LMAO. Apparently protestors were blocking other businesses and had to be moved. They left some souvenirs behind. (Alt text for the very on-brand misspelling)

Photo of Marilyn Gladu's constituency office with protest signs taped to the front.

Signs taped to Marilyn Gladu's window:

"TO THE DISHONORABLE GLADU YOUR A TRAITOR TO THE PEOPLE WHO VOTED FOR YOU"

"FLOOR CROSSING HAS GOT TO GO"

Signs taped to Marilyn Gladu's door:

"TRAITOR (unreadable)"

"TRAITOR GLADU ByELECTION NOW"

Dawn Smith @saffyre9· Apr 2

The next #FightFord protests are planned for April 25

List of locations for the April 25 Fight Ford protests

Dawn Smith @saffyre9· Mar 30

Stop scrolling and post two characters who bring you happiness

Dawn Smith @saffyre9· Mar 26

Wealthsimple picked a bad day to send me an NPS survey. In related news, I'm looking for an alternative to Wealthsimple.