This is interesting from the ESA Canada's "power of play" report. Look at that even distribution!

Hitting the nail on the head We should not be expected to decentralize everything through self hosting All that does is fragment communities into oblivion Activism to change the centralized shared spaces is probably required…

Hey Europe if we don't act with our purchases against our best enemies and existential threats , don't come back and cry. We have enough pb trying to figure out Tech alternatives, but for cars, come on.

This is just like UBI. Every study shows it works and is more cost effective but societies‘ hatred of poor people means we‘d rather pay more to make them suffer.

I’m really tired of hearing affluent people using the excuse, “I don’t waste time on things I can’t control” Then they go pay for AI subscriptions, buy Starbucks on the regular, and decline to participate in local politics. If not you, then who? This is just cowardice and laziness.

I’m sure this will be entirely fine and will be completely unbiased and result in lots of legally and morally correct actions by the people using it… Just kidding! They’ll likely horribly misuse it to target innocent people and escalate the damage they’re already doing to communities across the US.

asking the real questions www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXtX...

In an era where people are being monitored closely and fired, deported, or detained for their private views… there seems to be a bipartisan push to remove anonymity online… Something, something “but what about the children?!” Simpson’s quote. Gift link 🎁 www.theverge.com/tech/875309/...

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Team Canada Values.

If you have access to AI, you are probably richer than most of humanity. Actual poor people are not sitting on their phone prompting ChatGPT… they’re working in sweat shops for fast fashion. People always be looking for justifications for their bad behaviour.

Islamic Republic security forces in Iran run over protestors.

Our founders, though deeply flawed, understood that democracy requires an informed citizenry and a government accountable to it people. That’s why the press is the only profession protected by the Constitution. It’s also why autocrats and oligarchs seek to control and destroy it.

Do you remember when people were saying "I think my phone is listening to me, i'm getting ads for stuff I spoke about" and people said "They arent listening to you, they're just this good at predicting your interests"? Well, it happens they were doing exactly that. www.cbsnews.com/news/google-...

The overwhelming majority of Americans live paycheck to paycheck, while Trump has increased his net worth by $4 billion since taking office—according to a new report from The New Yorker.

JK Rowling's team invited Jeffery Epstein to the deathly hallows play and to a Harry potter dinner. www.justice.gov/epstein/file... www.justice.gov/epstein/file...

California seems to be building a massive amount of renewable energy and storage while not building a massive volume of new data centres. That seems to be having the effect of actual drops in greenhouse gas emissions, particularly as batteries cut deep into gas

Cool, we have an inside source near the top of the corruption saying this was all Trump and Miller’s idea. When you’re done with Noem and she’s in jail for her crimes, can we move onto putting the felon in chief and his human thumb “Minion Miller” there too?

New CBS contributors announced: Grand Moff Tarkin, Lex Luthor, Norman Osborn, Cruella De Ville, Javert, Titus Andronicus, Killmonger, and the Beastfly from Silksong.

Minneapolis, when the whistles blew.

Gifting another one out because people need to be reading this www.theverge.com/policy/86741...

ICE appear to have murdered another person in Minneapolis; after half a dozen regime thugs jumped and beat a man who tried to defend himself they shot him, an agent can be seen shooting him after his body laid motionless on the sidewalk. #3E #GoodvsEvil

Swalwell: "My Republican colleagues are a joke. History will harshly judge them ... these guys are so lucky they're not under oath, because they would have to tell you what they really think of Trump. They call him crooked, they call him cruel, they call him a scumbag ... you're tiny, small."

Mark Carney gave a very good speech yesterday -- so naturally, Trump is now threatening Canada.

"Canada lives because of the United States," Trump warned. "Remember that, Mark." Carney's speech showed backbone. Could it signal a shift in Canada's approach to the United States? Let's discuss:

the "americans will be pariahs when they travel!!" discourse is so funny. 1) we deserve it, 2) people in other countries (excluding, say, large parts of Iraq) are in reality pretty chill about americans, great satan or no

I need y’all to know, I voted for Carney. I want him to succeed. I am also thankful for people like @parismarx.com and @rachelgilmore.bsky.social for critiquing their policies I may not agree with their analysis, but that’s the whole point of a free press! Discussion and new ideas are good

Carney: "American hegemony in particular helped provide public goods, a stable financial system... this bargain no longer works. Let me be direct. We are in the midst of a rupture, not a transition... recently, great powers have begun using economic integration as a weapon. Tariffs as leverage ... "

Gifting this one out www.theverge.com/policy/86419...

Dr. Gladys West, the pioneering mathematician whose work laid the foundation for modern GPS technology, has died. She was 95.

A reminder folks, please be kind to your Iranian friends right now. Graphic content warning: this video shows what they have been afraid is happening to their loved ones. We need to be kind to these folks who are living through a debilitating helplessness that brings anger, terror, and anxiety.

I’ve seen a lot of people share the sentiment that AI getting more pervasive could be good because it will make everyone get offline. I don’t share that optimism! I have seen nothing to indicate that online spaces getting worse encourages people to leave them—in fact, I think we’ve seen the opposite

Dedication

ICE is out of control. Congress cannot keep bankrolling ICE's abuses.

The people of Iran yearn to be free from a brutal theocracy. Thousands have been killed in the past week for standing up to tyranny, and we owe them our full support. Recklessly dropping bombs is not the answer — we produced this regime by deposing an elected government. tinyurl.com/4ukxadd7

ICE reportedly shot someone at Portland and 33/34. Mspt saying bullets, could be less lethal 20+ agents on site, MPD and ambulances responding. Helicopters overhead

No, it was a successful coup. None of the people who led it were punished, and are in fact back in power, rewarded for their efforts to break the system by running it. Donald Trump is currently the dictator he attempted to become 5 years ago, and it’s because nobody treated trying as a crime.

be careful what media you consume... propaganda is everywhere... the war in Ukraine is very real, Slava Ukraini 🇺🇦 www.youtube.com/watch?v=VaZY...

This is legendary

Excited to see what folks think as they get their hands on this with more hours. If this is even half as good as they're making it out to be, I think I'll pick up this VR headset.

I drive and love my Nissan vehicles These new Chinese EVs look really, really solid and they’re very affordable relative to the current North American market I think I get why people are tariffing them so hard. They’re terrified a majority would choose them over Ford/Toyota gas guzzlers

1. AOC scathingly rebuked anti-trans activist Riley Gaines Monday in the form of a single sentence. "Maybe if you channeled all this anger into swimming faster you wouldn’t have come in fifth." Its part of a new wave of Dems being fearless on trans rights. Subscribe to support our journalism.

I just tried to schedule a covid vaccine in Alberta and all of the options do not work. - The website will error out after you attempt to book an appointment online - Healthlink (811) will send you in a loop of "Press 2 for covid vaccinations" followed by "we do not accept covid vaccinations"

Endless lines of protestors in Downtown Los Angeles

Gotta call them terrorists… otherwise they’d have to admit millions of people hate them this damn much good job protestors, they are legitimately scared of you!!

Just another MASSIVE turnout against Trump… Thank you America, it’s nice to see y’all exercising your rights and demanding change

I think it’s safe to say it now… the people do NOT like Trump y’all