Wrote for @discourseblog.com about why it's important that we call what Trump has done in Venezuela by its proper name—a coup—and why (surprise surprise) our major media outlets have universally failed to do so www.discourseblog.com/p/the-word-f...

[Russia attacks Poland] Globe editorial: Putin's aggression must be countered with a new pipeline to the West Coast [Trump dies] Globe: Canada must seize the moment by building a pipeline to the West Coast [Canada builds a pipeline to the West Coast] Globe: It's time for a third p

It’s been a frosty December in Alberta. Past winters have seen grid alerts warning of possible blackouts — so will there be enough electricity to cook the tofurkey this year? And what causes grid alerts in the first place? @drewanderson.bsky.social digs in: thenarwhal.ca/alberta-grid...

Next year will see a bit of a showdown between Enbridge Gas and two Ontario municipalities that are trying to resist a decades-old agreement that allows the fossil fuel company to build pipelines on public land free of charge. I really want you all to read about on Christmas Eve.

Interesting 🧵

Every millennial seeing Halliburton back in the news:

"Canada is one of Palantir's top funders." "Public Sector Pension Investment Board and the Canadian Pension Plan are major shareholders." "[I]ncentive for governments to look the other way. Jeopardize oversight? That might hurt pension returns." #Ontario #Canada #Surveillance #Technology #Policing

stop, i can only get so jolly

to add to the Jake Paul schadenfreude, Andrew Tate also lost a fight to some reality TV influencer. most analysis of the fight I've read described his opponent as deeply untalented but Andrew lost anyway. Tate's endurance was awful and he was gassed after the first round.

🚨 Andrew Tate has been BATTERED and comprehensively beaten by a novice boxer, Chase DeMoor

Oh FUCK THIS They “unanimously agreed to allow industrial use on 2,000 unincorporated acres” Time to name and shame every single corrupt fuck on this board.

“You can see it easily in places like Louisiana’s ‘Cancer Alley,’ or the Southwestern Indigenous reservations cut off from access to the dwindling Colorado River, or in Altadena’s slow recovery from this year’s fires” - @nitishpahwa.com unicornriot.ninja/2025/data-ce...

“The same systems that made sure Black, Indigenous, and other communities of color were last in line for clean air, safe housing, and political power are the same ones making sure we’re also first in line to drown, burn, or be displaced.” - @merirei.com My first for @unicornriot.bsky.social

NEW: Data Centers, the Climate Crisis, and Community Defense How Local Activists are Interrupting Big Tech AI Investments unicornriot.ninja/2025/data-ce...

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Stories about officers misusing police databases to look people up who they shouldn't are incredibly common. And yet, when I asked VicPD for copies of any audits they'd done to look for unauthorized database use, they said "no audits have been conducted" over the six-year period I asked about. (1/2)

the impunity of this as cop lobbyists demand that governments expand police surveillance powers and link health records to body camera & CCTV data & financial data & Bill C-2 C-12 and your travel history who owns it police don’t have tools; only weapons

Went back further. An officer looked up their tenant. Another looked up a contractor. One officer "had a habit of running names of friends and relatives." Another looked up their ex 20 times. All told that's about 50 officers with substantiated complaints of misusing police databases. But why audit?

Here are excerpts from OPCC reports of BC officers caught misusing police databases. They looked up family members and exes, a woman an officer "was interested in," a nurse, and a convocation speaker. Some officers used databases for a "business venture." But VicPD doesn't audit database use. (2/2)

It’s such a temptation when everything is so bad to succumb to cynicism and numbness, to say lol nothing matters. These people are doing the opposite, in ways big and small but fundamentally concrete and humane. I’m so grateful to them and everyone holding tight to the imperative to care

I started reporting this story after I’d been back at work for a few months and was starting to once again feel overwhelmed by the amount of pain and harm and cruelty at work in the world. Talking to people about how they are finding ways to care for one another helped.

if tumblr dies I need this video to make it's seasonal rotation here instead just in case, Happy holidays 🎄

York University continues its anti-Palestine bigotry. an artist was censored, and a curator fired. the reason is unconfirmed, but hard not to see the parallels between Jenifer Papararo being fired and what happened with Wanda Nanibush at the AGO.

This is definitely not going to cause problems /s

One of a lot of reports out there on another new Próspera-style neocolonial cryptobro tax avoidance scheme / Special Economic Zone #SEZ / post- #smartcity... this time on the island of #Nevis. I wish it nothing but disaster. h/t for this story to @rosamundevb.bsky.social

"Fusion," you say?

tired: a federal moratorium blocking states from regulating AI wired: local moratoriums blocking tech companies' AI-fueled resource grabs me for @techpolicypress.bsky.social with a big thanks to the folks I talked to and everyone in these fights across the US www.techpolicy.press/the-real-rac...

Tonight on CBC, Join Ian and Rosemary for a panel discussion on nothing in particular on the three hour special edition of All-euphemism news!

"Carney did not answer when asked if there's an active recruitment campaign to poach MPs from other parties." " The Liberal leader wouldn't answer whether he'd accept MPs who hold anti-abortion or anti-trans views into his caucus." www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

The tech industry is so awful I can't tell if this is parody. nurtureos.ai

The meeting has taken a turn. As Council debates whether they should support a bid for Toronto to become home to the HQ for the new Defence, Security and Resilience Bank, the head of city hall's Economic Development department is fielding questions about nuclear weapons.

THE GENOCIDE IS NOT OVER. Stand the fuck up people.

i am going to repost this every day.

Shockingly, this bill would have failed were it not for the 3 Democrat defections.

everything is so fucking stupid

Very weird feeling waiting for the president to announce an illegal war based on total bullshit that they made up right in front of our faces on TV, almost like I've lived through this moment before

Yall wil let me know when you get tired of me going “ THE IMMIGRANT DELEGATION LED BY THE BLACK PART WITH SPECIAL BACK UP FROM THE INDIGENOUS AND BLACK DELEGATIONS IN ALL OUR MIXES TOLD YOU THIS SHIT FOR YEARS “

Ah shit. ahh fuck. Fuck

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My mother used to say, Canada follows the US a decade later. We can only hope our government doesn't follow the same disastrous path of the Big Tech horror show: so many bad players in the Canada 2020 team: “We say Canada is not for sale...But Canada is often for sale when it comes to think tanks.”

"Wherever the agents appear, even when they lean idly, chatting, we see the cold threat of violence and the fragility of freedom. And in the brave crowds who gather to confront them, scrambling their illusion of total control, we see the power of solidarity..." hammerandhope.org/article/ice-...

The Onion, 23 years ago. theonion.com/no-blood-for...

lol "Build Canada, funded by major Canadian tech and industry players... 'improve the governments' technical capabilities to accelerate AI adoption, strengthen defence capabilities, improve strategic procurement, negotiate optimal trade agreements and more'” www.nationalobserver.com/2025/12/10/n...

Good read and far more nuanced than the title suggests.

Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000, Episode 68: This is What Algo-cracy Looks Like www.buzzsprout.com/2126417/epis... @alexhanna.bsky.social and I explore what democracy looks like in the funhouse mirror of tech bros’ imaginations. Thanks to Ozzy Llinas Goodman for production!

i'm coming around. i like AI because it is such an effective litmus test but we don't need LLMs, datacenters, the theft of millions of people's work, etc; we just introduce people to the concept of a vacuous chatbot w/no interiority that showers them w/praise, and listen to how they feel about that

I went on my in my pal @alinau27.bsky.social 's podcast The Anti-Dystopians. open.spotify.com/episode/19Q1...

We're Live!! "What is Sociological About AI?" The articles in this issue are excellent in their own right but even better together, building out a Sociology of AI