Nice!

My Chromebook has had a setting to do this for years iirc. Microsoft must be desperate for selling points.

Hey look, Israel broke the cease-fire, twice, in two different ways, within 24 hours - again.

So, 'tis the season for gratitude. I'm still covid-free, and no longer working for billionaires to help defense contractors develop shitty "AI" middleware for repressive governments. 👍 Thanksgiving is made up, even more so than other holidays. Do whatever makes you appreciate what you have!

Seriously, I haven't even had a cold in five years. Why the heck would I stop masking?

My naive wish is that even one Canadian journalist, one politician, one security analyst, would address the implications of Canada choosing military integration with an authoritarian power that no longer respects the rule of law or international law. Looks like that’s not going to happen today.

Just saw the phrase "superficial intelligence" for the first time and in hindsight I can't believe it took this long.

All this is to say that there is a clear problem with how moderation decisions are made across this platform, a problem that reserves contextual sensitivity for some users but denies it to others. As long as this problem remains, we cannot trust moderation decisions on this platform to be fair.

the thing is that if jay et al want to be like "nooo we are simply children of the code, we're just gearhead engineers 😔" like...hire a comms team, then? hire somebody to talk to human beings who's capable of not sounding like a disdainful snot. what the fuck are we doing here

“We should want to take advantage of the post office’s unique, nationwide infrastructure to provide more and better services to Canadians instead of dismantling something that we may never be able to rebuild.” @parismarx.com

It was only inevitable because people like this "business expert" insisted on treating Canada Post as a business instead of an essential government service.

I think this 🇨🇦 government has been more disappointing, more quickly, than any I remember. Others have been far worse but I expected less of those governments and far more of this one.

Canada Post was *deliberately run into the ground* by executives who don’t believe that government should be providing services. Blaming the workers or going off into the weeds about efficiency structures is just ignoring what’s been obvious for a couple decades now.

Huntington's disease successfully treated for first time https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cevz13xkxpro 𝗠𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗻𝗲𝘄𝘀 ⇢ CanadaHealthwatch.ca 🍁

the bone farmer, revisited | patreon.com/lubchansky

Nine months into 2025, it shouldn't be too much to ask of journalists that they pause, reflect, and expressly raise questions in their stories—prominently, at the top!—about whether an executive pronouncement like this is lawful or simply yet another attempt to engage in a lawless power grab. 🙄

There are so many more urgent reasons to protest AI

[sees the news about 🍊's latest H1-B visa brain fart] I wonder if all those tech companies are happy they spent all that time and money sucking up to 🍊 now?

US Ambassador threatens to tariff, annex, and bomb Canada if anti-American sentiment doesn't improve

Who could’ve predicted this, other than every single critical data studies scholar, who’ve been highlighting data bias issues for years and years? Given this previous knowledge, it’s criminal that this technology has been deployed at scale. A triumph of willful ignorance and wishful thinking.

Behold my (inexpertly frosted (by me)) birthday cake! Chocolate brownie cake with a whiskey buttercream frosting!

Canadian Liberals could learn this as well.

Is there a planned power outage here today? Yes. Have I known about this for days and even planned around it? Yes. Am I still flipping light switches when I go into a room and being surprised when nothing happens? Also yes.

Seeing employers come down on employees like a ton of bricks for posting shit about Charlie Kirk on social media is not making me regret quitting Google. For the record, Charlie Kirk was a piece of shit. (But political violence falls disproportionately on the underprivileged and sucks.)

Welp, I wasn't planning to be on social media tomorrow anyway.

Pasta fucking primavera

Hi. I know I've said this before, but it bears repeating: we have to be able to criticize Mark Carney without living in fear that doing so will help Poilievre or weaken Canada. He is our Prime Minister. Out of anyone, he deserves to be watched and critiqued. We should all be dying on this hill.

Say a prayer to those poor Europeans, stuck taking fast, reliable transit through their dense and well laid-out cities instead of paying an oligarch $35 for the privilege of sitting in traffic on a 24-lane highway to get to the Chili's out by the interstate

Why did Carney invite a far-right guest to speak at his cabinet retreat? (1/4)

A fun thing to remember on Labour Day is that Mark Carney eliminated the Cabinet role Minister of Labour, a position that had existed for more than a century under governments of all stripes, and Canada is currently without a labour minister for the first time since 1909.

Happy Labour Day, the "please don't celebrate May Day" holiday! Your bosses hope you are mollified by a 3-day weekend.

I see and I hear and I speak no evil; I carry no malice within my breast; yet quite without wishing a man to the Devil one may be permitted to hope for the best. -“An Ethical Grook” by Piet Hein

Remember how if a kid choked on a little plastic toy they used to stop selling the toy

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The mild dread of realizing your phone's clock app was updated for some goddamned reason and now you have to watch an animation before you can set a timer

So, this was my morning. Apologies to the pissed-off squirrels:

Shop or else! #cartoon

NEW: In 40 cities across Australia, an estimated one million people have been on the streets calling for an end to the genocide in Gaza. These were the scenes in Brisbane, Melbourne and Perth.

Whoever's out there buying air duct cleaning services from random cold callers, stop it! Stop encouraging them!

Centrists, throwing constituencies under the bus and constantly looking at right-wingers for approval like a contestant on the price is right

Demanding Democrats stop moving right to placate fascists is actually the correct move. Demanding Democrats treat poor people, BIPOC, queer people, and disabled people as valuable is the correct move. There has never been a time that we did not deserve better from our government. Ever.

Based on a dream I just had, if I ever own a dachshund I'm going to have to name it Moutarde. Calling that dog was the best part of that dream.

Patty Hadju said she had not heard the allegations about unpaid work for Air Canada Flight Attendants… but she sat in the 44th parliament when Bill C415 was introduced… #aircanada #flightattendant #pattyhadju #cdnpoli #CUPE #canada_life🇨🇦

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Really beginning to think that Air Canada (among others) should have remained a crown corporation.

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