is it better for countries to invest in boring things like transport and energy infrastructure or should they invest all their money in useless chatbots that talk in reddit-voice on the vague and completely unsubstantiated hope that they'll be able to do something profitable one day

Senate update: Republicans are now trying to sneak a backdoor national abortion ban into their government funding bill. Republicans will stop at nothing to control women's health care decisions.

It is so important that care and support for Palestinian people continues. Jamal's family are rebuilding their lives after everything that has been done to Gaza--if you're able to give a donation, you can help them in that effort. ❤️

Whenever language around what people deserve and what they don't deserve in the US comes around I am reminded at how much this is a game to people, how they can't fathom real lives Not just politicians, but literally our neighbors. The cruelty people will put onto others without a second thought

Abdullah told me he’s spent weeks at the hospital with his brother. He managed to have surgery to fix the blood clots but now the doctors think he needs a skin graft to save his leg. He is hoping to raise money for the surgery.

Even people who are anti-AI will often include a phrase like "has some uses" but never give examples or mention some pie in the sky idea that 'may' happen at some vague point in the future.

Incarcerated writer Kwaneta Harris says solitary confinement keeps no one safe. “The answer isn’t throwing them in a concrete box for years; it’s trauma-informed care, therapeutic communities, meditation programs, restorative justice practices.”

Because, as I have said, it’s only good universal use case is disciplining labor.

Our grotesque split-screen: starving the poor / gorging the ultrarich "With little public scrutiny, the Trump administration is handing out hundreds of billions of dollars to giant private-equity firms, crypto companies, foreign real-estate investors, and a variety of multinational corporations."

And he won despite all the attacks from people who don't know what "socialism" and "communism" mean. Mamdani won despite all the racism. Despite all the slanderous accusations. He won despite the Dem Old Guard trying to hamstring him. Mamdani won because he's FOR THE PEOPLE.

Canadians shouldn’t have to resort to guessing about the main element of Mark Carney’s entire policy agenda. It is fundamentally offensive, and antithetical to good governance and sound policymaking, that Carney is leaving everyone to guess why he’s doing what he’s doing.

Why must CBC include economist blah blah blah where it's not needed? I think I've learned too much at this point about how for these clowns money is just a game. They don't care about solving people's actual problems. Anyway new affordable housing, good to see👍 youtube.com/watch?v=Gwsy...

"Simply repeating “productivity”/”nation-building” isn’t enough. There are many ways to improve productivity and to build a nation. Why these choices and not others? Canadians are owed explanations and a debate over alternatives. Esp when youth and the most vulnerable are being asked to “sacrifice.”

last year, Zohran Mamdani was 33 years old. This year he says he is 34. so which one is it? how can we trust this man?

Innocent people may have been sent to jail because their prosecutions were based on evidence by four Winnipeg police constables caught up in corruption charges.

Hi Bluesky 👋 Small life update: I’m at the centre of a multimillion dollar lawsuit in Alberta launched by a failed candidate for Jason Kenney’s UCP It may be the longest and most expensive media trial in Canadian history I’m ready to go public about it and I want to share more details with you 🧵

 Canadian multimillionaire and Shark Tank guy Kevin O'Leary went on TV to say he's upset Zohran won't talk to him: "I and others who invest in real estate have tried to get a meeting to figure out what's rhetoric and what's policy. So far for me it's been crickets."

am reminded of the old joke: what did James Watson discover? Rosalind Franklin’s notes.

stop telling your neurodivergent child that in "the real world" people won't accommodate them, so they should suck it up. this is the real world and you shouldn't be your child's first bully

If you don’t test for Covid there won’t be any Covid theory, but for air travel.

This is intentional disinformation. While the vote was technically a confidence vote, it was in fact to reject a Conservative sub-amendment to the Bloc's motion to reject the budget. The vote, therefore, does not indicate support for the budget - it's a rejection of the Conservatives. #CdnPoli

"DULF produced a peer-reviewed study that showed after about one year none of its compassion club members had died. Members reported having fewer overdoses and engaging in less crime." Heartbreaking that Canada's criminal law prioritizes drug prosecution over saving human lives.

And that was Friday #QP, which was probably the worst in recent memory. Go home and think about your choices, MPs.

🇨🇦Canadian Question Period 👀😒

The fact that Scheer is still an MP after losing an election as leader, pilfering money from the party to pay for his kids' tuition, lying about being an insurance salesman, and still not renouncing his US citizenship clearly demonstrates how thin the talent base of the CPC really is.

Hard to look away from American news but we have our own homegrown lying right wingers to keep us busy

Saturday | 11:00 PT We’re joined by feminist and former union leader and politician Judy Darcy to talk about her recently-published memoir, Leading From The Heart. @judydarcy.bsky.social @douglasmcintyre.bsky.social @cupescfp.bsky.social @heu-bc.bsky.social

"Justice Catherine Murray closed the trial with remarks that showed sympathy for the accused and noted the confusing behaviour of Health Canada, the Vancouver police and all other political entities"

'world's first trillionaire' and 'hellish economic crisis' will pair nicely for historians at least. so we've got that to look forward to

Could have increased taxation on the rich but instead, he chose to sunset important programs and dump millions and millions into AI - a piece of tech that we're all expecting to bust any minute. The way Carney's budget has tanked morale in the city of Ottawa is a sight to behold, let me tell ya!

I’m reporting from B.C. Supreme Court in Vancouver. There is no sentencing today. Nyx and Kalicum + lawyers will be launching a constitutional challenge to the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act. That starts Nov. 24. Story TK for @pressprogress.ca

🇨🇦Canadians do NOT want this. PM @mark-carney.bsky.social must prioritize the material well-being of the humans on these lands, not greedy corporations. Corporate welfare NEVER trickles down to the people in need. No one paying attention believes that nonsense anymore!

Exactly what we need right now

An excellent conversation that speaks to the hardware geek and data center veteran in me. In summary: massive data center buildouts for so-called 'AI' are stupid and unethical for all the reasons we routinely state and *also* idiotic from a purely technical perspective.

The feeling of helplessness is a terrible one. I am Khalil I have three children Please don't abandon me. I am suffering terribly from the pain in my injured feet, and my children are hungry. I cannot provide food and I urgently need medical treatment I need $900🙏🙏😭 chuffed.org/project/144545

The act of creation really is therapeutic.

organizing is not concierge service.

You really do have to be willing to be part of making the thing that you say other people must make or do. That's just basic at this point. [feel free to rage about this on your own timeline not in my mentions]

And the removal of the wealth tax on yacht and private plane purchases in Budget 2025. Conservatives wear many costumes.

The new Britain Owes Palestine campaign demands the UK govt acknowledges & apologises for their repressive actions in Palestine between 1917-1948. Dr Victor Kattan, a key voice behind the movement, says the 1917 Balfour Declaration can be seen as the starting point for the occupation of Palestine:

Some good news out of the UK for a change

Writing about Elon Musk’s pay package without leading with this is like profiling John Wayne Gacy’s booming party clown career.

Book Club 📚 In 'Complicit', British journalist Peter Oborne rips away the veil of diplomacy to reveal Britain's fingerprints all over Gaza's destruction 👇

I have been trying to raise awareness about the recent cuts to pandemic preparedness by provincial institutions in BC for the past 1½ months. Most of the cuts were not announced to the public beforehand and media coverage has been scant. 1/?

Getting to where defund the police is the responsible choice if you want the municipality to do anything else.

“Cold steel pressed against a mind that’s already made peace? That’s not fear. That’s clarity.” Horrifying.

🚨🚨DAMN‼️Go off Sen Rosen(D-NV) 🔥💥🔥She does not mince words when she confronts Sen Moreno (R-OH) about the Republican shutdown. Democrats have found their voices and as you see in this clip they’re not afraid to use it anymore!! Keep fighting these anti-democratic asshats.

"estimates suggest about 12,700 litres of aviation fuel were released into the environment" Usually I feel so angry about these stories but today I am just crying. I won't tomorrow but today I feel defeated. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

It's true the war has ended, but its repercussions persist. People believe the war is over and have therefore stopped donating, unaware that the war continues with all its crises. The moment you stop donating, we will find ourselves alone facing a harsh environment, losing hope. Don't forget us

Is it surprising that The Economist is promoting phrenology? Unfortunately it is not.