oh ffs

love this :)

You know how fascism requires a smaller and smaller ingroup as it develops? Well so does neoliberalism. Palestinians, trans people, disabled people...they become acceptable losses who must be sacrificed to "save democracy." The only way to defeat fascism is to leave no one behind.

Ben Mulroney is blurring the lines between journalism, business, lobbying and partisan politics The new host of Global News’ national political news show also works for registered lobby groups, advises businesses and hosted election events for Pierre Poilievre’s Conservatives earlier this year

Breaking: Egyptian political activist and writer Alaa Abd El-Fattah was released from prison early Tuesday morning after being granted a pardon from Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi on Monday.

Three days after the UN inquiry declares "genocide" in Gaza the Carney government says they are still waiting for "all the evidence" before taking a stand. What an epic moral failure.

funny but also so friggin appalling

the point being made so well... why memes are such fun :)

You know who was also a young husband and father—not to mention ex-Marine—who died, not attacking others to make himself rich and powerful, but to save the lives of others? David Rose, the officer killed by the anti-vax domestic terrorist who attacked the CDC. apnews.com/article/deka...

Which work? Calling for gay people to be stoned to death? Blaming airplane crashes on black pilots? Anti-vax bullshit? Election denialism? Pushing Great Replacement Theory? Kirk’s murder is awful and ominous for this country. But no, we don’t need to honor him or “continue his work.”

You can condemn murder and political violence without whitewashing Charlie Kirk's shameful history of hate, racism, white nationalism and promotion of dangerous conspiracies that radicalized Trump supporters to violence. You can do both.

The MSNBC commentator saying that most political violence has historically come from the left just once again showed how we suffer from failing to learn history. Lynching, pogroms, race riots, the political violence that ended Reconstruction, and against the Civil Rights Movement. Come on.

To put this another way: you can't stop it from making things up because *literally all it does is make things up* It just generates likely text. Sometimes what's likely is also true. Sometimes it's not. This means it has the same relationship to truth as a magic 8-ball. Literally.

Look, I don’t know why this is so complicated for people When a man says violence against women isn’t a crime, they told you who they are, and you can believe it or you can explain it away, but then you know who you are, too The misogyny was always a core point

Okay now this is impressive! Sound on!

Elon Musk is engaged in open chemical warfare and killing the people of Memphis and don't let people tell you this isn't a race thing. a white South African dumping toxic gasses onto a majority Black city isn't something that is happening by coincidence

can we get rid of her asap please!

much solidarity with @dalfaculty.bsky.social ... when faculty members should be eagerly looking forward to tomorrow, to meet new and returning students, instead they're on the picket line, facing an intransigent employer and senior admin who have clearly forgotten all about the classroom

people doing things - respect

Canadians / those in Canada - follow this

AI companies are constantly trying to deceive the public of its env & climate impacts. Each day we learn new info on how harmful AI is on ecosystems. This will only get worse as AI firms create partnerships w/ fossil fuel companies. Keep hammering this angle (along w/ the many social & econ harms)

A dramatic, extremely worrying moment; over 61,000 people held in ICE detention. That is the highest number ever on record in United States history; roughly 6,000 higher than the previous record set under Trump six years ago, and over 21,000 higher than when Trump took office just seven months ago.

The new CBU med school is dependent on Dal’s Faculty of Medicine & our department for training and preparation of anatomical materials. We are locked out, but nary a mention how the lockout affects students starting at CBU. #keepdalstrong

Your friendly neighbourhood anti-fascist, gangster fighting team of resisters are taking the fight global. Meidas Canada and @meidastouch.bsky.social launching on Labour Day.

and everybody who shows up and speaks up, whatever the event

There it is: 9:30 a.m. August 20: Dal president Kim Brooks and her board just entered history as the first “leaders” of a U15 in Canada to lockout its faculty. They have no plan, no mandate, and not one clue. @dalfaculty.bsky.social does have a plan for them: get back to the table #KeepDalStrong

in no world (one would think), would locking out 1000 faculty members 2 weeks before the start of the semester make any sense... Dal admin looking to be even harder hit by challenges facing canadian PSE right now? much solidarity with @dalfaculty.bsky.social !

A wonderfully provocative piece from @audreywatters.bsky.social on LLMs as MLM schemes. 2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com/llm-as-mlm/?...

I don't think people are concerned enough about the fact that the majority of people in the world have objected to this genocide for nearly 2 years and nobody in power cares one bit. They're conditioning us to do what we're told. This isn't just about Palestinians. Just wait until the next pandemic

👇🎯 Yeah, I don't understand why Democrats & university leader & CEOs & co. aren't in front of microphones every day, in public, calling out the fascism & mercantilism & the grift & concentration camps. Pick your lane. It's all wildly unpopular. I mean, I <do> understand, but get over it already.

solidarity with CUPE workers on strike! Air Canada flight attendants nationally... and local 830 in Charlottetown...

Friendly reminder that AI data centers are working overtime to help cook the planet. If the fires are scaring you— start using ‘-AI’ at the end of all Google searches to cut out any AI response to your query. Refusal is possible & responsible. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

as @heathermacpherson.bsky.social says, "Air Canada has delayed flights longer than it took the government to trample the workers’ rights" @mark-carney.bsky.social what the hell dude! liberals (not really) masquerading as conservatives is not a good look

La Presse's Deputy Editor writes that any of their journalists who signed a statement denouncing journalists being murdered would be in violation of La Presse's journalistic standards on "impartiality": www.lapresse.ca/actualites/e...

the international silence is outrageous...

BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen has confirmed that the entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza City has been killed.

much solidarity with @dalfaculty.bsky.social !!

looking forward to the day when folks with zero knowledge, expertise, or skills are relegated back to spewing bad opinions in comments, and not given positions of power from which to spew their dangerous inanities

Home video aficionados of a certain age will remember that Betamax owned 100% of the market in 1975, and a year later VHS was introduced and completely destroyed Betamax within five years

If I have to explain to you why it's a bad idea to use a machine that makes shit up 15-80% of the time AND destroys the environment AND contributes to rising fascism and genocide AND puts brilliant skillful creatives out of work by stealing their work, then we're already speaking different languages

Seriously, fuck off. I say that with all due gravity.

Counterpoint to the AHA Committee: it is NOT OUR JOB TO TEACH AI literacy. It is our job to teach students history, critical thinking; how to interrogate and analyse sources, primary and secondary; how to write and weave historical narratives; how to communicate history to the public and more.

“The University now faces a choice between upholding a legacy of true scholarship founded in liberal arts or succumbing to unchecked careerism.”

I spent decades at Columbia. I’m withdrawing my fall course due to its deal with Trump | Rashid Khalidi

Jason White on water management – cartoon

Someone on here compared AI produced material as "digital asbestos " which in a few decades' time we will have to work out how to eradicate from the fabric of research.

I know there is much to capture our outrage these days, but the silence around what the Taliban is doing is also appalling...

@mark-carney.bsky.social you going to respond to this or what?

Study finds A.I. LLMs advise women to ask for lower salaries than men. When prompted w/ a user profile of same education, experience & job role, differing only by gender, ChatGPT advised the female applicant to request $280K salary; Male applicant=$400K. thenextweb.com/news/chatgpt...