One last thing! It’s hilarious how many Canadians are saying how safe they feel in Mexico, despite Sunday’s mayhem, but if they see an unhoused person at home in Canada hell breaks loose.

This scandal presents Carney and Solomon the perfect opportunity to pivot away from the AI boosterism that has defined this Liberal government to recalibrate their AI policy and start taking on the harms that have come of generative AI (and other digital tech). I do not expect them to take it.

This is, of course, *precisely* the epistemic environment that aspiring autocrats set out to create.

Aka Facebook in Canada

OpenAI is a menace. Two recent stories make that clearer than ever. One day you have Sam Altman denigrating humanity to defend AI. The next, WSJ reveals OpenAI could have alerted Canadian police of a potential mass shooter, but refused pressure from employees. That person went on to kill 8 people.

for some reason the left (goldman sachs) refuses to take AI seriously

if only we were a little more serious about defending and properly resourcing the healthcare system we love to wave in the americans’ faces

Nova Scotians waking up & checking power like

Spot on. The trafficked girls were used as currency for a global corruption and money laundering network big enough to change history and bring misery and death on millions of people.

Apparently the new fee on hybrids and EVs has to do with the loss of gasoline revenue. “Provincial staff said the tax reflects lost revenue from gas taxes, and is based on the average tax paid by motorists.” Hate to inform the govt but paying less for gas was the point of buying the vehicle.

This is such an obsequious, pandering statement. It puts openAI completely in the driver's seat and portrays government as this helpless little guy. Here's some words for Solomon to consider: - "Demanding" - "Explanation" - "Warning" - "Consequences" - "Failure" - "Comply" - "New" - "Regulations"

Instead of applying the logic of the airwaves to the internet in 1996 we applied the logic of the internet to the airwaves. Now we have recreated the yellow journalism of 1895 on every device we own.

The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing people local newspaper reporters are rarified elites instead of ink-stained wretches driving their Honda Civic to a crime scene so you know don’t have to rely on Nextdoor and the police press release.

This 3-post thread from a Canadian perspective speaks to that

I feel this so strongly. Covid was a test of our moral integrity & decency -- *not just elites, but all of us* -- and we failed. I genuinely think one reason Covid has been memory-holed so hard, & so crusted w/ myths & conspiracy theories, is that on some level we know this & are ashamed.

PHAC “will stop funding the brain autopsies at the end of next month to save money.” In times of uncertainty, we need more, not less, state capacity, Dismantling an early-warning system for disease does the opposite of making Canada Strong. Penny wise, pound foolish.

"Oh, I didn't want *this* much racism & xenophobia! I just wanted a little bit, the fun kind! I just wanted to say 'retard', I didn't want a eugenicist in charge of health policy!" Oh? You didn't want this? Yeah, fuck off. Fuck off to space. Fuck off to eternity. Fuck off & never stop fucking off.

So here we are: thousands of innocent families in giant torture camps. A destination that was crystal clear many years ago. And here come many of the very same pundit fuckfaces who spent the rise of authoritarianism lecturing undergrads ... now they're concerned! Now they care!

Standing up to the small stuff might put you at odds w/ social trends. It might cause friction between you & your peers. It might threaten your employment prospects. It will be *socially uncomfortable*. That's why the train gets going: by the time it's socially acceptable to say No, it's too late.

And so if you really *mean* "never again" -- if you're serious about it -- then the time to intervene, the time to speak up, the time to stop it, is *when it is still small*. When it's just a casual slur. When it's just sports. When it's just asking questions. When it's framed as anti-PC.

They start with chin-scratching pieces from centrists about whether this marginalized group is really all that good after all, if maybe a *little* discrimination is ok. They don't start with horrors. They start with small things around the edges.

Some day we'll all regret this & we'll hold hearings & rend garments & pledge "never again" & we'll be just as full of shit as we were last time.

I’m so glad team USA promptly embarrassed everyone who cheered for them by partying with Kash Patel and gleefully taking a phone call from the pedophile dictator in chief, complete with misogynist jokes. That’s your country and that’s your team America, the rest of the world is disgusted.

Every NHL reporter better ask those NHL players wtf was going through their minds partying with pedophile protector Kash Patel and if it was worth tainting the rest of their career partying with someone openly protecting a human trafficking ring and helping install a fascist regime

It’s so embarrassing seeing these hockey players say how proud they are to be American. You are so proud of your fascist white supremacist regime. Say it with your whole chest boys. You love fascism.

If we can stand up for the people of Greenland against Trump's jackboots surely we can muster the moral courage to also support the people of Cuba from Trump's illegal energy blockade on that country and people. #cdnpoli

And it will be to our eternal shame if we as Canadians do not support this. @mark-carney.bsky.social The US energy blockade on Cuba is both immoral and illegal #cdnpoli. canadianlabour.ca/solidarity-w...

When someone's big concern about a public health regulatory system is about it being "economically uncompetitive", be concerned. When you hear the public health posture of "always protecting, protecting" get described as being "overly restrictive", be concerned.

He's going to let all the right wing premiers dismantle medicare, isn't he? He is just Harper rewarmed, that particularly dangerous brand of Canadian pretend nice evil.

“Removing the red tape” = “we’re okay with some people dying as long as some donors & lobbyists are enriched in the process”

Mark Carney may say that he understands the world has changed, but he's running the same playbook he would've run if he'd been in power in 1995, 2005, 2015 or facing a President Harris.

Comments like this are wildly out of touch with the need for a *greater* Canadian focus on protection and stability given the evisceration of US regulatory agencies. It's no longer the 1990s, but the Carney government's acting like he's the second coming of Mike Harris.

This is what I mean when we talk about Carney not being able to meet the post-neo-Liberal moment. We're no longer in an era of cutting government capacity—we need that capacity now. looniepolitics.com/is-carney-ca...

AI is a death cult.

My mother was a nine year old refugee when she came to this country. She and her sister spoke no English. There were no ESL classes then. But good teachers in the small town of Barrhead where they lived taught them, and taught them well. They all became voracious readers with beautiful diction.

I am here for this and what @pancholirakhi.bsky.social had to say today; and I reject our Premier's anti-immigrant and divisive rhetoric. I am an immigrant. Solidarity with fellow immigrants.

I continue to believe that, amid COVID, we came tantilizingly close to basically fixing society, and entrenched power got so spooked by that prospect they had to astroturf a giant anti-science movement to try and eradicate the entire concepts of public health and social welfare.

We can and did significantly reduce child poverty, we just chose to stop doing that.

This graph is from @dentremy.bsky.social's article: www.halifaxexaminer.ca/equity/pover... Note drop in child poverty of about 25% in 2020. This was the result of covid lockdown response policies, mostly at the federal level. A couple of thoughts... 1/3

‘Go get another job’: Tim Houston and Doug Ford’s push against remote work is anti-worker Morning File by @suzannerent.bsky.social

“… managers who were focussed on actual forest health – managers of biodiversity, of ecosystems and habitats, and the head of the wildlife division – were sacked.” I fucking hate Tim Houston so much. He is not a leader in any way. He serves greedy corporations, not Nova Scotians. Get him out!

Fuck Tim Houston. I mean it. I’m so sick of the jerk.

This is quite the "thank you" for all the work DNR did during the wildfires and the summer of drought. Holy fuck.

A 20th-century government in 2026, governing like there is no tomorrow and maybe there won’t be.

BREAKING: ‘Shock and awe’ at DNR: Wildlife division gone, managers sacked, and restructured department geared for natural resources exploitation and extraction reported by @joanbaxter.bsky.social

The 'Turkish Tylenol' debacle reaches its expected end. Alberta paid $70m to Sam Mraiche's MH Care Medical to import this medicine from Turkey, at a drastically inflated price, as a stunt to outdo the feds during a supply shortage. By the time any of it arrived, the shortage was already over.

it … very much will work, and is not remotely wrong in principle; in fact, a *lot* of the problems we have now are because we go out of our way to not tax the rich citation: I'm a published research economist and I know what the fuck im talking about

BC knew that just 0.3% of drugs seized in Vancouver by weight were hydromorphone. "Rather than publicize the evidence to correct loud claims of diversion flooding communities, the BC government opted to sit on the information and retreat from safe supply." @godfrey.bsky.social reports:

what if the need to STOP THE MASS DEATH dominated the drug policy discourse