Predictable outcome of what happened earlier this year. Iran was on a path towards de-nuclearization, the US and Isreal all but sealed Iran becoming a nuclear nation by attacking them.

About goddamn time. Now let's actually do something to help.

People acting like Disney being fascist is new should go back and read the company’s history. Disney himself was a Nazi-sympathizer and only got into the US propaganda film game because he was also a staunch Nationalist. Before that he literally hosted dinner parties for Nazis.

The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $6.6 trillion. The entire bottom 50% of America is worth just $4.2 trillion. Our problem isn't a lack of resources. Our problem is ever-expanding inequality.

“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.” ― George Orwell, 1984

And Trump begins to execute the wishlist that was given to him in Alaska. Putin will not be happy until the USSR is territory is his again.

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This kind of shit really grinds my gears because it’s just so stupid. Yes labour is expensive. But people power is the LIFE BLOOD of functioning society. We have devalued it in all contexts at this point so much that now even healthcare is impacted. so frustrating.

Look, when everything becomes about profits, or money saving, hiring as few people as possible is top of management’s list. But we’re all human; we need breaks. Redundancy in labour coverage is the necessity of life. So in worst case applications of ”no redundancy”, we get stuff like this:

Seriously, our foreign-owned media is effectively a slow propaganda war on the Canadian public. Alberta and Sask just sneak previews of what they're trying to do to the rest of Canada. It's the CBC I'm most disappointed in - our political discourse is under attack and they're up their own butts.

The fascism is just so petty and pathetic

For all of our Canadian superiority mentality, we really just don't get how far as a country we are down the slippery slope. Just because we might be (arguable) better off than some countries in terms of the slide to fascism, doesn't mean we get to celebrate it, its a constant struggle and battle

🔥💯 Jon Stewart's prophecy from 2022: "When a democracy is under threat: comedians are the ones who get sent away first. Authoritarians are the threat to comedy, to art, to music, to thought, to progress. It ain't the pronoun police, it's the Secret Police. It always has been & it always will be."

1995. A generation ago.

My mom called me last night about the Kimmel firing, saying "This is how Hitler got started!" I quickly responded, "By firing the late night tv hosts?" Turns out, mom was right.

Stop giving away your data. www.youtube.com/shorts/PYn5M...

Not just that they're comedians but two wealthy white guys being told they can't say what they want has to be the biggest of red flags

For whatever reason this vile and terrifying graffiti has barely made an appearance in local #ldnont news. Sharing here because we are experiencing a significant rise in #genderbasedviolence & #femicide in Ontario & Canada. This deserves attention & action.

Imagine if Canadian taxpayer dollars were spent on improving access to quality healthcare and education services instead of paying for the campaign promises Doug made to guests at his kids’ stag n does.

I couldn't think of a bigger way for any federal government to signal that it is fundamentally unserious than to back this nonsensical project

Bizarre. from this article a few years back usa.streetsblog.org/2022/05/25/o...

Not going to debate the intensions of the shooter, but saw this coming a mile away. MAGA is going to turn Kirk into a martyr to be able to massively speed up their fascist agenda.

This feels like the start of some sort of slope... www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Reminder (mostly to me) that international press has more accurate information about what is happening in the US

Are the late summer wasps getting in #ldnont -ers pants or something? Folks need to learn not to misplace their rage at the world onto service industry workers 😤.

Great video by @ben-durham.bsky.social about the cost on society when people choose to get around by bicycle. #Calgary #Edmonton youtu.be/JVD32ZC-784?...

The official Canadian Petition to reign in payment processor censorship has stalled out just under 10k signatures. This is a reminder for Canadians, this is an OFFICIAL petition that will be responded to. Show your support in protecting our free speech! www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...

Charlie Kirk was shot while sitting under a banner that says "Prove me wrong" which means satirists can just... pack up and go home, I guess?

Thoughts and prayers for every woman that the far right shitheads in this country decide to use Kirk's murder to harass into harm.

I just saw this one, which is pretty fucking ominous.

Well become the leader of alchemy too if we try really hard.

Either this is a colossal fuck up in terms of actually hitting the go button while Russia/Belarus is running a war game. Or Russia is testing the waters about Article 5. Either way, buckle up, things are about to get not good I fear.

"the path currently being taken towards agentic AI leads to an elimination of privacy and security at the application layer"

If drivers had to directly pay the full cost of driving, I believe 90% of people would never or rarely drive again.

Ford to Pedestrians: Drop Dead

Now picture this with those 30-40 cyclists driving 30-40 cars instead. The geometry of motor vehicles is incompatible with city streets.

"[T]hese systems don’t create; they plagiarize. Unlike a human artist, they can’t develop a new artistic style or literary genre."

"But the decision to bring workers back into the office isn't driven by data, Akanbi said. 'It's more about employers being able to maintain control of how work is done.'" #RemoteWork share.google/GvM6gMVPy50j...

I asked my kid about a piece of writing on her board and she proudly said “yup I wrote that - no AI!” And while I’m glad she’s got the right idea, I’m mostly horrified that she felt she had to say it at all 😳

Worse considering more code is not better. More errors. Harder to maintain. Inefficient. The best engineers reduce code: As simple as it needs to be and no simpler.

Did you know your MacBook has a sensor that knows the exact angle of the screen hinge? It’s not exposed as a public API, but I figured out a way to read it and make it sound like an old wooden door.

Not the best parking mind you, particularly this one. Still, we managed.

This is how a family of 4 can do a mall trip. It’s not hard.

If your tool requires complicated additional steps to get the right answer from very simple questions, it's broken, not the human operating it

This is the point where we start to get seriously worried. They have no fear AT ALL of due process or repercussions and the war machine is ramping up.

Literally making up science to further eugenics and criminalizing women. If its something that is a behaviour, then they can tell women that they are to blame, they can go to jail. Rather than admitting that we are all different and that genetics means we all have to care about each other.

At this point, saying "'A.i.' is here to stay; we have to learn how to work with it" is the same as saying "Facism is here to stay; we have to learn to work with it." No. We have to FIGHT it.

No cbc, I don’t actually want to hear landlords complaining that they have to drop rent due to a lack of international students and competitiveness in the rental market. Drop rents. Cater to those beyond students. $850/room in a house shouldn’t be cheap…

Anyone remebre the Sound of Music? This is the same type of shit that was happening politically in Austria in the 1930’s. The slow and quiet corruption of the Austrian government to the Nazi’s.