finally people are speaking out as -don’t-want-to-watch-videos-Americans

I went on CNN's One Thing podcast last week, talking about how absurd & ass-backwards last week's White House Big Autism Announcement was. But as not everyone listens to podcasts, here's a thread of the conversation: www.cnn.com/audio/podcas... #autism #TylenolDoesNotCauseAutism #neurodiversity 1/

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My latest newsletter considers the potential for philosophical thinking's creativity to come up with solutions for the crisis in higher education, & why the field stumbles over its own feet before it can even try. for-all-our-futures.beehiiv.com/p/philosophi...

So exhausting..

It's almost as if polling well & winning elections matters more to them than actually implementing policy & governing

Too much of the establishment's progressive leadership in the West spends their time speaking like a communications consultant instead of organizing like an activist.

We've decided to blame youth unemployment on young people not wanting to be worked to the bone like a happy drone smiling while the boss treats them like garbage & screams abuse at them all day long. Also maybe we've gotten rid of all the jobs that typically go to youth starting their careers.

Chatbots are designed to maximize engagement & dependence so increase customer use, not to provide people with useful feedback in stressful relationships. This is how AI chatbots cause divorces futurism.com/chatgpt-marr...

“This is an outrageous abuse of my personal data and privacy rights,” says user of site designed to abuse personal data and privacy rights. san.com/cc/app-for-o...

The party of the boss's kid.

I’m sure plenty of police officers are in this video

A useful thread on why data centralization is bad for information security. Really very bad & much worse than you think if you consider this for just a moment

In other news, it’s my kids’ birthday, & I’m so happy for their bright presence in my life. Both my daughter & my enby are the people I’m most proud of in the world

Richard Dawkins has always been a shill & a fraud whose ideas are all based on gross oversimplification of more complex realities to turn them into cheap slogans

www.theglobeandmail.com/business/art... This is straight out of Harper's playbook in 2013. He announced end door-to-door delivery (making Canada the only G7 country without door to door delivery) after strikes/lockouts/disputes with the union during negos from June 2011 to Dec 2012. short 🧵

All Canadians are better off when we have a clear alternative to the Liberal-Conservative alliance in parliament.

1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it). But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that

Happy to see community mental health workers are now available to help people in crisis on Toronto’s subway system. It takes burdens away from police & security, & will help a lot more people than the old model of punishment & arrest

As an autistic person, it's difficult to follow the narrative coming out of the US government these days without wanting to explode my own skull with apoplectic, volcanic rage. Laying mushroom clouds across the landscape. But here's the centre of what angers me about this.

People are dunking on this, but having worked in the field of police oversight for the last four years, listening to residents from every part of a major U.S. city, it doesn't surprise me at all. A few points 🧵

Jimmy Kimmel came back last night but the dozens of journalists, professors, and others will not be getting their jobs back. We talked about that and so much more on this week's Cancel Me, Daddy episode.

LinkedIn keeps sending me the same notification email about updates to the same four applications I sent last week. Literally four separate emails today that copy pastes each other’s text. I got the message. Literally

I like Jimmy Kimmel. I really do. I have no issues with him. I'm talking about something very different. Kimmel was only suspended. But he's back now. Karen Attiah and all the other Black journalists are still fired. Y'all do know how to fight, when you want to. But you don't really want to. 🤷🏿‍♂️

I suspect this did not go over well.

Maybe this is why a lot of rich folks don’t want us off oil

Here’s what frustrates me about vaccine hesitancy & doubt. When I was a toddler, I had a rough reaction to the MMR shot. As a result, my mother didn’t get me the DTaP vaccine. When I was four, I almost died of pertussis & my lungs never fully recovered until my puberty growth spurts

If you, like me, are the parent of a neuro-atypical child dreading this autism press conference, please remember: These are the people hurting our kids. Not us. They are the ones stigmatizing and pathologizing them. They are the ones peddling untested science. And we should be very, very angry.

Another Sinclair worthy of respect

Here’s a cleanse for my timeline. You know what book I’ve been reading lately? Carpentaria by Alexis Wright. Beautiful prose and storytelling, uses a perspective of Indigenous Australian spirituality to tell a story of racism, violence, & corruption in local government & the mining sector

What kind of Googoosha shit is this?

We finally yelled loud enough at the TV

I'm also very glad, but still feel guilty, that the upswell of enraged authoritarianism in the US likely prevented the same religious extremist authoritarianism taking hold of a possible supermajority of Canada's parliament

Trump "desperately wants you to believe you're living in a fully consolidated authoritarian state...but you have to understand it is an illusion...all the authoritarian steps have to be balanced against the ways the entire society is pushing back." -- @jamellebouie.net bsky.app/profile/cole...

this is more important than maybe 90% of what anyone talks about on this site

elite impunity is the single biggest threat facing America. and ... one of the most solvable (in theory).

In other news about the healing power of American Christianity, consider the plank of Project 2025 that aims to designate simply being trans as being a terrorist. 19thnews.org/2025/09/proj...

The vision of Christian love that the American far-right promotes is also the vision that encourages beating your children into fearful obedience from infancy as the highest form of love. As we see from the work of James Dobson & Focus on the Family.

It was GWAR and they did the same to George W Bush in the 2000s

The updated COVID/histamine link thread because people keep tagging me in to explain it and I keep intending to update the post from 2023 (synecdochic.dreamwidth.org/805203.html) and just not having the capacity because of my own health shit so here is a thread I can pin

“And the people who knocked these buildings down will hear from us all very soon!” Karl Rove is not prepared for what it really takes to accomplish the goal he had in the 90s & 2000s for one-party dominance of the United States

Hard to unmake the omelette, eh Karl?

If I can take any theme from Kraus’ trajectory, it’s that this kind of humiliating end for you comes from never thinking about the consequences of your actions or the implications of your ideas

Likewise, we Canadians are proud of our diplomatic role in bring the Cylon Wars to an end @numb.comfortab.ly

Big deal. I personally stopped conflict between Tatooine and Narnia.

This is why it was completely insane for Dems to laugh off the Twitter purchase. We created a forum with practically every single political and media elite all in the same room together hearing the same things, and then we turned it over to a far-right oligarch

Seeing what’s come out about the depths of groyper culture, I’ve realized that their internet incel nazi culture actually is what normie conservatives believe the left to be

One short Substack dinner getting stuck across from this woman made it dead clear to my wife and I that she was both a bamboozler and was being willfully bamboozled. “It is hurtful to get miscast as a hack,” she says. Pro tip: Then don’t be such an elaborate one. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

crazy how deepfake porn that uses faces of real people and ruins lives has never been a subject in the "protecting internet users" argument and instead all the recent censorship ended up being targeted at artists and sex workers just trying to make a living

The Democratic tent already had many, many anti-abortion democrats, who got wiped out because — and this is the crucial point! — independents and republicans *did not vote for them*