"The possibility of overreach is a price worth paying exactly because shame serves as a robustly liberal alternative to political violence. It is, quite literally, the least one can do to ensure rules of social conduct that upheld minimal levels of dignity for all involved."

When y’all cancel your Disney+ subs, please consider giving some of that money to your local NPR or PBS station, or other independent media like @boltsmag.org or @propublica.org

"your phone will shut down" don't threaten me with a good time!!

Recommend following and supporting @pressprogress.ca, @rachelgilmore.bsky.social, and @scpartners.bsky.social. Send me suggestions!

This is classic CDN media misrepresentation. What went down at Christie Pits wasn't two sides of the same issue. This was a hate rally demanding mass deportations against people who live in Toronto. It was a fascist hate gathering. They were countered by people standing up for their neighbours.

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SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in a college applicant's file is blatantly unconstitutional ALSO SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in targeting whom to detain and deport is cool cool cool

Honest question about this article (and I am pro-journalist and I love journalists): How do you report "they cut 12% of staff over 2 years" and "this agency is completely dysfunctional" without also asking "hey do you guys think the dysfunction is due to these staff cuts"?

"While there has been momentum in the UK and EU on regulating online harms, the Trump administration is a major counterforce. If Canada moves forward with online harms regulation, we will face a U.S. backlash." ...in case you're wondering who runs this place. www.thestar.com/politics/ai-...

This Labor Day (and all other days): Thank the workers who serve you. Appreciate the workers who care for you. Respect the workers who pick up your trash. Salute the workers who get you your mail. Honor the workers who teach your children. Pay all workers a living wage.

Oh damn wow ok.

Whoa!!! This is on our normal route to preschool w. kid every day. (We're fine, AFAIK nobody hurt but whoa!!!)

Doug Ford says bringing employees back to the office will boost productivity, mentorship and help the downtown economy. Critics cite the environmental, mental health and equity tolls of forcing everyone to commute — but they also say the benefits are imaginary.

It is very funny to write a whole article about how Twitter isn't cooking your brain while demonstrating precisely the ways in which Twitter is cooking your brain.

Ummm... 😬

TL;DR talking to GPT-5 like it's a wittle baby will reroute prompts to older, less secure models. So why not eliminate the app's ability to parse user inputs and reroute? Because resources. "Older models are relatively less resource-intensive and cheaper." www.darkreading.com/application-...

governments outside the US need to resist attempts to use US-style free speech hysteria to stop it from reining in socially harmful tech companies. the age limits are an experiment worth trying, even if my preferred policy response is more about platform design.

Mm.

Toronto chief planner @jasonthorne.bsky.social has supported and helped spread a lot of urbanism STARTER PACKS created by others, but now he’s put together his own! Bluesky already has the best urbanism community and conversation on social media. Please share his Pack far and wide to help grow it.

Excellent. Solidarity with workers asserting their rights against a government all too keen to take them away.

ISO hot takes on Extended Producer Responsibility, Ontario Regulation 391/21, the non-profit (?) Circular Materials, and changes to the Blue Bin recycling program in Toronto. Spiciest takes only please! And/or link me to your waste management starter packs. www.toronto.ca/services-pay...

It's so weird how LLMs know so much about things I don't know anything about, and yet make fundamental and basic errors about things I do know anything about. Oh well, I'm sure that's a coincidence.

if you are mad at people on bikes because they are biking where you're walking, you are almost certainly actually mad at cars

so I am one of the 12 people (including the “god-fathers of AI”) that will be at the Vatican this September for a two full-day working group on the Future of AI here is my Vatican approved short provocation on 'AI and Fraternity' for the working group

This was a virtual public sphere which is why we should not be allowing private ownership of public spaces, whether virtual or physical.

C&C Music Factory stands for "crumpets and coffee," which they enjoyed every morning.

Local news FTW!

Too much for most Toronto area politicians to bear, an affront to driver liberty. No deaths is too high a price to pay for any limitations on them.

I like it!

Public education is public health. "Public education has many virtues, the chief one being providing the tools of learning at no cost to families. But another of its traits is the way it breaks down homogeny, forcing children to be in a community with others unlike them."

Look, all I'm asking for is a chill easy life that is also a grand adventure full of achievement. Just a nice cozy comfy journey beyond the normal bounds of the human condition that will be told in song and story forever. I don't think that's too much to ask.

Listen I'm no armed forces stan but civil war expert Barbara F. Walter makes an interesting point on @stephenmarche.bsky.social‬'s podcast that "the institution I have the most faith in holding onto its loyalty towards the US constitution is the military." shows.acast.com/684c7e9c6770...

Public cloud ftw!!! "Instead of simply encouraging the buildout of a private Canadian cloud, the government should invest in the expansion of a public cloud—built and run by a Crown corporation with public financing to serve government needs, but potentially to expand beyond that too."

Learned a lot!

Hmm

Lololol saying "hasn't taken off" and "can't build a viable user base" are such funny and weird things to say about a platform that has by all accounts really taken off and built a viable user base!! This is also known as lying.

Lol.

Me every day. (Narrator: She never got there.)

This morning at 8 am, my child's teacher told me it was already 33 C inside the classroom. Members of the Ontario government have air conditioning in their offices, yet they're not doing basic repairs in Toronto schools, let alone protecting our kids from extreme heat. thelocal.to/ontario-educ...

I'm sorry what.

The TL was so bleak and then this came along, cheered me right up.

What is common knowledge in your field, but shocks outsiders? There is no such thing as “the law,” the answer to 99% of legal questions is “it depends” and what it depends on is entirely ✨vibes.✨

I kinda miss "this reporter" framing and talking about oneself in the third person. Vintage journalism vibes! Also, I'm obsessed with imitation meats. betakit.com/new-school-f...

Here's one for the economy stans.

They've been trying to take remote work (the best thing that's happened to me in my entire working life) away from us since we got it and now we're supposed to believe it makes us commit literal violence? I...

All of these things!! 👇