"The customer is always right" ... IN MATTERS OF TASTE.

I am seeing a lot of people reposting Lakota Man today bc it's Indigenous Peoples Day. A reminder that he is not well liked amongst many (most?) Natives on social media. Many of us blocked him a long time ago. Some of the reasons why are in this article. www.dailydot.com/irl/lakotama...

Today is a great day to block and rid your life of Lakota Man. Not only is he a grifter, raising funds for nonexistent things, but he ALSO scrapes other peoples' and tribes stories and wisdom and pretends they are his own. He is an example of extractive whiteness, and represents no one.

“Living car-free is the most impactful behavior by far in terms of reducing emissions.”

People are spontaneously posting up near any laborers or street vendors they spot. Just saw a rapid responder guarding a man working on a building exterior. Many things are terrible today but lord, this stuff matters.

Woof, I'm going through this survey and it's all "AI acceleration" rather than responsible use and growth.

Canadians – If you have some time this long weekend, fill out this godawful government survey on AI, which itself seems to have been written by AI trained exclusively on buzzword-laden LinkedIn posts.

My 2yo just informed me that her favorite food is gummy bears wrapped in salami. Then she held eye contact while wrapping a gummy bear in salami and eating it.

Drake paying his lawyers for his losing lawsuit:

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the number of times I've seen Canadians give land acknowledgements at tech conferences and then immediately launch into discussions about "Canadian digital sovereignty" that completely excludes any concept of Indigenous rights or even us as Peoples at all. It's absurd, I can't wrap my head around it

I am once again asking Canadian journalists to ask the most basic-ass question of "on whose land will these be built?" How is it that every other major industry must consider Indigenous rights but with tech it's like "meh". www.cbc.ca/news/busines...

Just blocked an AI booster guy for asserting that "humans are bad at math" just like GenAI. No! We literally invented it. Math is a human construct and a human discipline. We made math. We are math. Any machines we made to assist with math were designed and programmed by us.

Just saw someone sincerely say that "everyone uses AI" in research, and that is just not a true statement.

My mother taught my 10yo to knit this summer and she has managed to knit a dishcloth and is starting on a scarf. (I taught her the purl stitch and how to cast on.) My 10yo has now taught my 13yo the knit stitch and he is practicing. Here's hoping I get two knitters knitting out of this.

Sad news about Diane Keaton. So many good movies. Personally, I will always be grateful for her role in The Family Stone, the only major film I've seen to show a flat mastectomy closure in a thoughtful and accurate way. It is a brief scene, but it matters.

Inflatable frog suit that reads "this machine kills fascists."

Goodbye, Diane Keaton

Long Covid and IACC advocacy cannot be condoning a regime that’s undertaking this project. There is no version that ends well for us.

My phone is on its last legs (some apps refusing to work on it anymore). I usually buy refurbished Android phones, but considering a refurbished iPhone this time. I am trying to deGoogle, but obviously apple isn't much better? Is it better enough to deal with the inconvenience of switching?

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion. As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

Have you filled a city kermit for this protest?

cry havoc and let slip the frogs of war

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door. 

It wasn’t the feds —  it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help. He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days. chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Traveling halfway across the world & packing into a room for a conference panel on the theme of resisting eugenics. But not wearing a respirator during a surge in the ongoing pandemic. What a fun way to show how the research & scholars you’re there to ostensibly listen to mean jack shit to you.

I like how it looks like a bunch of happy cartoon animals have chased the goons up a tree

“If we assume, conservatively, that it takes 12 to 15 years to develop acceptable therapeutics for Long COVID, and then another 18 years for them to reach clinical practice, people my age — and yours — will have passed before they get help. We need to accelerate this.”

Authoritarianism is a high-control philosophy that requires absolute authority to determine social norms. If we can show up to serious moments in frog costumes, it's a blatant refusal to recognize that authority even in the face of weapons of war. Creative shit matters.

Do you all think it’s inhumane to leave people rotting in bed (literally, not metaphorically)? Im talking about people who cannot tolerate light and sound, and maybe even touch. People who can’t drink or chew on their own. For decades. If so then you should look up Myalgic Encephalomyelitis.

The thing I love about the frogs is the potential for folklore. I live for a good modern folklore.

It's interesting seeing the different ways resistance has formed in different cities. Los Angeles Organized, Chicago Radicalized, and Portland Got Weird as Fuck. All 3 have had success unifying their respective cities. I guess my point is there are multiple paths to ungovernability.

Rounds of empty pill organizers are my main way of orienting myself in time as well!

Just to give an idea of climate. Oregon bootlickers are getting slagged on social media by normie Portlanders for the fascist frame of a crime ridden, antifa city. Tactically, groups are firm to not give them a photo opp of unrest. News is hosting a 24-hour live stream of the ICE building.

PM Carney once called climate change “the most pressing issue of our time.” So why then is his government fast-tracking fossil fuel projects that turbo-charge these types of climate disasters? Our latest blog warns that this approach puts Canada’s climate goals and our communities' health at risk.

YES: “If parents get their information about parenting autistic kids from the autistic community, they will find people who think their kids are awesome and deserve to be happy, and want their parents to feel the same way. The parents will learn about autism from people who had autistic childhoods.”

"The reality is that joy, laughter, and rest are not only the best medicine; they are also the best measurements of our mental health. To paraphrase Emma Goldman, if we are not laughing, dancing, or singing, there might be something wrong with our revolution."

Sometimes it feels like I know using my brain for a specific thing is going to be overdoing it. Like the feeling of straining to hard to open a jar, but it's cognitive exertion instead. And then other times, even in the same day, I can sit back and the information just sort of unfolds for me.

The frog as a collectively imagined figurehead, like Ned Ludd, Captain Swing, and Robin Hood.

You’ve heard about “carcinization?” Get ready for psilocybinization!

Hooooly what!

Scientists have always used machines. Do we need to give a Nobel prize to R? Excel? An analytical balance? A rotevap? The balloon Boyle used to discover Boyle's Law?

Very disappointed with Council's approval to defer Sheppard Avenue East. As a next step, we #BikeTO folks need to start pressing the Ford government hard to reveal their bike lane approval criteria NOW! Toronto is making too little progress with bike lanes as is! #shame #TOpoli #ONpoli #VisionZero

this is just a pilot project, but it's also an acknowledgement from Toronto city council that we need alternatives to policing bsky.app/profile/grap...

New oxaloacetate study: “OAA supplementation was associated with improved cognitive performance and small improvement in UP Time in #MECFS participants receiving OAA.” www.frontiersin.org/journals/neu...

(I know that’s actually not a permanent solution and pretending bad things aren’t happening is not a great survival strategy in the long run, but there was nothing I could do about it now.)

There’s many new apps and services popping up using AI and data tracking to help people with #chronicillness manage symptoms, predict treatments, pace energy, etc. I find it hard to reconcile with using them in the current increasingly scary political climate. How are others feeling about this?

In this case, your mom is probably right! There are fakes of the Portland frog doing the rounds, including one I saw where the frog is doing flips and kicking troops.

It really can't be said enough: the goal of the "anti-woke" movement was always to destroy social norms against bigotry. And it worked. And there's a whole lot of purportedly "left" thinkers & commentators who helped it -- indeed, it couldn't have been done without them. They should feel bad.

Pre-op done. Bc of my chronic respiratory failure, I'll likely remain intubated in the ICU for a bit after surgery. Also pretty high risk for rebound pulmonary emboli & hemorrhage. But! I need the surgery🤷‍♀️ At $4149/$6K with $1851 remaining. Surgery is Oct. 23rd. Any continued help is appreciated!

I know Jane Goodall was revered by many in the environment movement, but it is pretty clear that she also harboured many seriously problematic colonial attitudes. The 'overpopulation' stuff in particular was pretty bad, and as a concept the conduit of plenty of serious wrongdoing over the years