Halifax Police have investigators working on CSAM, and Halifax Police post on a CSAM platform.

They've now "won" over $400,000.

. @lizrenzetti.bsky.social gives the @halifaxexaminer.ca a shout-out, here:

2026 is going swimmingly.

In my @halifaxexaminer.ca Morning File today, a 1966 pamphlet on Canadian wines, cool local bike stuff, my holiday books and movies, typewriters, and @suzannerent.bsky.social on performative charity. www.halifaxexaminer.ca/morning-file...

Not again, sigh.

‘The wine of the country’: Explaining wine to Canadians in 1966 Morning file by @philmoscovitch.bsky.social

Tech companies: we're going to load up unnecessary tech on stuff. What are we going to call it? 1990s marketers: we'll call everything e-whatever 2000s marketers: we'll call everything i-whatever 2020s marketers: we'll call everything AI

Is marketing the lives of vulnerable people the mission of Souls Harbour? An excellent piece by @suzannerent.bsky.social

I haz questions. I fear the answers, however.

Like father, like son.

"the aesthetics of knowledge without any actual tendency towards truth" nails is, exactly.

just so it's clear: this is the exact core function of genAI Fascist government and climate deniers love it because it can produce the aesthetics of knowledge without any actual tendency towards truth. It is automated denialism. Shame on every climate scientist promoting its use (there are lots)

Duck, duck

Frogs: 3 Trump: 0

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Yes, but it helps write emails.

This one is John Risley's

I'm adamantly opposed to nuclear weapons, but...

End of the year checkup: Everything has turned to shit Morning File by me

Oh yeah, "Billionaires of Conscience" will save us.

The curated politician: Stop buying into everything elected officials post on social media Morning File by @suzannerent.bsky.social

Alberta is going to get rich, rich, rich because, er, the price of oil is so low.

I worked in a bookstore near Brentwood, the LA neighbourhood, and when someone famous came in — all the movie stars, musicians, etc. — the manager would have me help them because I had no idea who they were. Who's Nancy Davis? I'd ask after. Nora Ephron? never heard of her. Like that.

I do get a little self-conscious about this, tho. Tell me you're OK with my way-long articles, like these, just for example:

This is a really good newsletter. I jokingly say that Ed's 15- or even 20,000-word essays make me feel better about my 10,000-word articles, but in all seriousness, let's lean into long form. "They" want us to be easily distracted, to distrust depth. Let's not let that happen.

What the lady with the dog said.

. @nytpitchbot.bsky.social You may have been outdone.

How private equity is ruining hospice care in the U.S. Morning File by @philmoscovitch.bsky.social

Letter by Andy Fillmore says owner of Dartmouth Cove lot will begin work Jan. 5 reported by @suzannerent.bsky.social

This article is fine, but I take issue with this: "But since the early 20th century, politics on the left has been organised around class, and on the right around questions of identity and personal liberty." This is a common trope of the journalistic class. It's also wrong. 1/3

Yes. Yes I have been watching this over and over and over again.

Writers: back up your published work. Contrary to the truism, the internet is not forever.

She wasn't as pretty as she looked.

There are orders of magnitude. No one much should care if you fast track, say, a bike lane or transit system, as in the scheme of things, even the negatives aren't that bad. But some issues are existential for the entire society, if not the species, and very much need to be stopped immediately.

I've been following the Sanctuary Arts Centre's appeal of the Fire Marshal's Office's order. A decision was supposed to be issued "before the holidays," but hasn't yet. However, on Wednesday, Christmas Eve, a document was entered into the record. 1/4

This message is also WRONG. The 60 Minutes segment was streamed in Canada not because of some Canadian righteousness but rather simply because Bari Weiss fucked up and forget to alert Global. There is ZERO doubt that had she ordered Global to cut the segment, it would have.

Also see our investigation into the Nova Scotia SPCA from almost a year ago: www.halifaxexaminer.ca/investigatio...

This is the problem with all those text over photos with no link for verification posts: you can't tell if it's bullshit or not. So, no link to a reputable site? Consider it fake.

The SPCA has a budget of $11.5 million.

I'm thinking about writing about how much utter bullshit can be contained in one "tech" article, but I'd probably have more cheer if I finished off the eggnog. Maybe I'll return to it when I feel the need to get angry...

Whatever you believe, it's nice that we have one day set aside for peace and goodwill to all. Oh, wait.

Embracing AI will kill news orgs. It's not even arguable.

From airports to health care: The wealthy pay to skip the queue while the rest of us wait in line Morning File by @suzannerent.bsky.social

Social media is already prepared to destroy people, and now add in AI lies.

I have a supposedly useless university degree. Here’s why I don’t regret it. Morning File by @philmoscovitch.bsky.social

support independent media. idk what else to say right now.

A few months ago, I was lectured about how dumb I am because my hatred of AI is EXACTLY LIKE those people who hated on the Sony Walkman back in the day. I don't actually remember anyone hating on the Walkman, but never mind that. "AI" is a meaningless term. The Walkman was an actual product.

Nova Scotia is going all in on fossil fuels.

The authoritarian war on the news industry, in the U.S. and in Canada Morning File by me