Toronto police lie? Administer extrajudicial beatings? The Canadian establishment is silent? Sounds about right.

Today's threads (a thread) Inside: Workplace "flexibility" isn't; and more! Archived at: pluralistic.net/2026/07/11/y... #Pluralistic 1/

DID YOU KNOW IF YOU FIND A HORSESHOE CRAB THATS BEEN TAGGED BY THE FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE AND SUBMIT THE LOCATION YOU SAW IT USING THE FORM ON FWS DOT GOV SLASH CRABTAG THEY SEND YOU A BEAUTIFUL CRAB PIN

Lest anyone accuse me of bargaining in bad faith here, let me start with this admission: I don't think AI is intelligent; nor do I think that the current (admittedly impressive) statistical techniques will lead to intelligence. 1/

"Someone has to speak up for the voiceless—like the unborn, or brain-dead former majority leaders. It’s the only way to defend the sanctity of life, which begins at conception and ends after the cutoff for a special election has passed."

Bringing utopia to the world, one "super intelligent" machine at a time. I can't wait for all the new super wealthy people who are going to "make the world a better place" with the impending Anthropic and OpenAI IPOs 🥴 www.dailymail.com/sciencetech/...

Betty Crocker Creamy Deluxe Party Frosting (1989-circa 1995): Jars of classic creamy buttercream frosting, but with colorful candy sprinkles in the shape of teddy bears or dinosaurs, that could be blended in or sprinkled on top

"Even if McConnell did have a health emergency, leftists have no right to come between him and his doctor. There are some lines you just don’t cross, and every American deserves the right to make decisions on their health in accordance with the medical professionals they trust."

The federal government’s proposed “Defence, Security and Resilience Bank” sounds technocratic and reassuring. It’s not. /1

"A GLG Law LLC lawyer who blamed ChatGPT for misquotes and citation errors in three filings told the Connecticut Supreme Court on Tuesday he did not violate an ethics rule requiring candor to the tribunal because his briefs, though inaccurate, contained correct assertions about the law."

Hopefully TPS doesn't arrive at John's doorstep for merely suggesting an investigation of Rogers.

"Peer review isn’t perfect, but it’s the best system that we have, trying to remove as much bias as possible is what the philosophy has been. And this would just throw all that away.” - Timothy Koh in the @chicago.suntimes.com

Question: if you don't use transit (or only rarely), why is that? Time? Hassle of paying? Limited transit service in your area? Unreliable? Something else? (This is a genuine question to better understand barriers people face with transit, not a judgement that you 'should' be using transit more!).

Happy birthday Ringo youtu.be/SQ96_sU6qUw

Pic 1: How the US sees itself. Pic 2: How the rest of the world sees the US.

Simpsons predicts the future again

Summer Games Done Quick 2026: Watch Day 3 here

Coroton the spherical pig is the mascot of Maebashi City.

“Everyone is welcome — just grab a jersey.” www.theplayerstribune.com/ismael-kone-...

Upwards, by Wassily Kandinsky, 1929, (rotated, detail), 📸 by Lars Baron

Today’s announcement shows what this federal government will protect above all else: the profits of Big Oil. Read my full statement on the oil pipeline proposal from the Prime Minister and Premier Smith: www.ndp.ca/news/ndp-rea...

L’annonce d’aujourd’hui montre ce que ce gouvernement fédéral protégera par-dessus tout : les profits des grandes compagnies pétrolières. Lisez ma déclaration complète à la proposition de pipeline présentée par le premier ministre et la première ministre Danielle Smith : www.npd.ca/nouvelles/re...

Happy 13th Birthday Flash! 🐕 And Happy 159 years to Canada! 🍁

I'm in @slate.com writing about how this World Cup is the Diaspora World Cup, and argue there may be 48 home teams not three:

Uh oh, you have billions invested in generative AI: aftermath.site/generative-ai-...

CANADA VIGNETTES: LOG DRIVER'S WALTZ | Full Animated Film | National Film Board of Canada youtu.be/upsZZ2s3xv8?...

Some people do argue this, but to say the founders were bad and the antebellum constitution was bad, and it was the second Founding that really made America. I have a feeling that’s not what Alito thinks! bsky.app/profile/anth...

Nothing is ever banned at Toronto Public Library -- except the words "World Cup" and "FIFA" 😂

“If you have nothing to hide, what is the problem if your ministry reports are kept public?” More than a decade's worth of reports on long-term care conditions were just taken offline by the government. We've saved 10,000 of them, and we're making them accessible to all. thelocal.to/long-term-ca...

They’re going to call you a socialist regardless. So be a socialist.

The story of Soviet football's greatest tragedy, told by @colinmillar.bsky.social for @theathletic.com.

More than a decade ago, a group of young, internet-connected Belarusian dissidents launched a series of increasingly high-stakes, increasingly surreal confrontations with the corrupt, authoritarian government of Alexander Lukashenka, a man who is often called "the last Soviet dictator." 1/

The new racist double standard set up by Alito in the TPS ruling: if there’s any other motive in addition to the racism, the racism doesn’t count, but if the state wants to *prevent* discrimination against black people, that is racist and unconstitutional www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

The cover of the latest edition of WSC. It is now 1,236 days (and counting) since Manchester City was charged of multiple violations (129 rather than 115) of Premier League rules.

The entire Blackwell series is 70% off during the Steam Summer Sale! Eight years in the making, the Blackwell series tell the story of medium Rosa Blackwell and her spirit guide Joey Mallone as they help lost and lonely ghosts pass on. Find them here: store.steampowered.com/bundle/

It is Pride Month. Throughout this month, I will be sharing the stories of how Canadians fought for equality. Today it is the story of the Rupert Raj.

What words exist in the English language to describe such crimes?

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What’s remarkable about all this stuff is the stolen valor. You didn’t build shit, you won a birth lottery. You are a podcaster not Emperor Vespasian. bsky.app/profile/just...

Anybody in iPlayer compliance wanna tell me the names of the individual films so I can … find them some other way?

L’école est finie, l’été est arrivé! ☀️ 🎓 Félicitations à tous les gradués. 🎉 Célébrer l’occasion avec ce gâteau de crème glacée. Il est facile à faire, peux être adapté avec vos saveurs préférées. Voir la #recette complète 👉 https://www.chapmans.ca/fr/recette/gateau-anniversaire-de-chapmans/

"Just as the Luddites weren’t angry with machines per se, most anti-AI sentiment is really anti-capitalist rather than anti-tech." (@doctorow.pluralistic.net going straight to the point with its new book, today at Guardian) www.theguardian.com/books/2026/j...

Happy (?) birthday Ambrose Bierce! The American journalist, born #onthisday in 1842, is best known for his satirical dictionary The Cynic’s Word Book also known as The Devil’s Dictionary. Read it here: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/the-cynic-s-word-book-1906 #otd

‘You can’t make billions without hurting people’: Cory Doctorow on Elon Musk, the AI bubble and bosses’ cruel fantasies

Here’s this week’s cartoon for @sport.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/football/pic...

David Squires on … the big names putting on a show at World Cup

This Day in Labor History: June 21, 1877. Ten alleged members of the Molly Maguires, an Irish secret society blamed for labor radicalism in the anthracite country of Pennsylvania, were executed. Let's talk about the Mollies, or at least what we know about this pretty secret organization!

Wikipedia characterizes Trump's war as an "Iranian victory"