So, @edzitron.com ate his Wheatties this morning

Tim Hortons to reduce Temporary Foreign Worker hiring once they figure out how to treat Canadians like serfs

AI tech mogul confused why expendable human capital booing him during commencement address

President misses own son’s wedding due to high-level not wanting to go

Just outstanding work here from @leomorgenstern.bsky.social

Not the Joint Board On Defence!! With @ianmmacintyre.bsky.social @clareblackwood.bsky.social and @nileseguin.bsky.social

Fresh new American dystopia headline just dropped www.thegamer.com/grammacracke...

Trump and wealthy creeps like him are already able to evade audits indefinitely, but Trump knows his sons are SO inept that he’s like “I gotta write this into law”.

I guess going on podcasts and jerking yourself off as “the only good billionaire” gets old after awhile.

this is such a great encapsulation of what the various factions of the reactionary right want. i might add that they envision themselves as slave masters and the rest of us, in one way or another, as their slaves. betterdonkey.substack.com/p/the-vra-wa...

Alberta separatists vow to appeal petition denial as soon as US State Department tells them how

Big Trouble should've aged like milk, but somehow plays even better now. It's unabashedly in love with its Hong Kong fantasy roots, while sending up its boorish (but well-intentioned) American leading man who assumes - very incorrectly - that he's the action hero at the centre of everything.

I personally haven't vibed with Christopher Nolan's last several movies, and I wonder to what extent <Sloan voice> "it's not the band I hate, it's their fans".

Carney announces environment to be eliminated as cost-cutting measure

It's always so telling which politicians don't see themselves as stewards of the public good, but as its auctioneers.

"Bluesky vs. Twitter" was settled by Kurt Vonnegut in 1996: "I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don’t let anybody tell you any different. Electronic communities build nothing. You wind up with nothing. We’re dancing animals. How beautiful it is to get up and go do something."

Everyone knows Hollywood is fucked, but most people don't actually know why. The studios used the strikes as cover to cancel a full 1/3rd of TV production across the board. 1/3 of TV cast & crew are out of work. Fully. There just aren't jobs for them. Many are people who made your favorite shows.

The last month with Ben Stiller still over there tweeting about the Knicks while Nancy Mace calls him a terrorist shows that the only public figures still on there have some sort of kink for sustaining deep moral injuries. All of the celebrities left because being on there is an unwinnable game.

Tech Bro loserdom forces nation to yearn for Finance Bros

"Our entire business model is stealing produce from every grocery store in the world and then selling it back to you in different configurations. We understand that some of the produce we sell back to you is rotten and moldy — the blame solely rests on the grocery stores we robbed."

It finally happened. I received a audition request for a commercial that said "create audition prompts using script generated". They left the ChatGPT instructions in the casting breakdown. Everyone behind this commercial is getting paid but me. And I am the only human doing work. 🫠

Me, tuning into the news this week:

How to tell the generations apart: Millennials - locked into downward social mobility through no fault of their own Gen Z - locked into downward social mobility through no fault of their own Gen Alpha - locked into downward social mobility through no fault of their own

Privatized airports means Canadians will pay less flying Air Canada out of Rogers Airport sponsored by Draft Kings

That's because they are in tension with one another. The people who want smartphone bans are teachers and parents. The people who want AI education are politicians and tech bros.

At some point The Pitt became Rick and Morty for people who are wine drunk on a Thursday.

The rich people of today only have two ideas: 1. Let’s kill everyone 2. I need a bunker so after we kill everyone I can emerge from underground, spread my wings like a peacock, and continue to be rich

“I‘m confident all Americans agree that billionaires declaring bankruptcy to escape their debts, while remaining billionaires, is a good thing that should continue.“

A Canadian making $70k a year will save $11 a month. This will reduce contributions to the plan by $3 billion. A year. I can't even fathom the thinking that went into this. Carney keeps doing these tax breaks that don't do shit for individuals but cost the government billions. It's pathological.

not sure if gets more Empire In Decline than a disastrously unpopular mentally decayed president — who different people of notably different political stripes keep trying to murder — as he is badly losing a horrifying foreign war he started on a pack of lies, won’t stop obsessing over a “ballroom”

Andrew Tate says “chances of him visiting Canada are zero” after learning nation frowns on indicted sex offenders

whenever AI pops up unbidden to try to “help me” with my writing

I truly don’t think it goes any further than the ballroom being a real estate developer-type project that reminds Trump of the only business dealings he was even close to good at. He has zero interest in the actual duties of the presidency, so all that time gets filled up with this.

<turns around, finds Wired in my kitchen holding a gun>

Secret Service agents only now realizing they forgot to evacuate JD Vance

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I've seen sleeping newborns with better neck control. And judgement.

The Beaverton will buy Doug Ford’s used private jet for $7,000.00

Not sure Poilievre's new line of attack is going to work. With @mmmegan.bsky.social @clareblackwood.bsky.social and @ianmmacintyre.bsky.social

Should I just take a lucrative job in cynical Republican comms, since it's apparently so easy to fool journalists?

Something like this will have to happen in this country once Trumpism is defeated. In the absence of accountability, the world will rightly assume that it will happen again.

AI Tech Companies: "We want the opposite of all that, and we're gonna force it on you anyway".

Congratulations to Péter Magyar on a decisive election victory in Hungary. The Hungarian people have chosen a new path. We are ready to work with you, and our European allies, to deepen our cooperation in trade, defence, and security.

This absolutely made my day. Trump, Vance, Netanyahu, Putin, and the entire CPAC goon squad went all in on Orbán's campaign, and still came up short. I like where this is heading. (also, shoutout to ace Beaverton writer Derek Schultz for this banger headline and turning it around so quickly)

(podcast) "I can't think of a single more dangerous food to have in zero gravity."

Trump celebrates Easter by sharing joyful message to dispel rumours of his death three days later

I think a truly under-acknowledged generational divide is how current youths will never have to consume media because “nothing else was on“. Not saying they’re less good, just how much we can’t really understand their POV.

Hard for Trump to get out of a war that is making so much money for Putin.

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