Every day I read more about the climate apocalypse. Apparently Mark Carney is reading something else... www.castanet.net/news/Canada/...

Took 'em 20 years because they had to paint it with oil tar and the blood of the innocent.

Being aroundpeople who don't vocally respond when you speak to them drives me up the wall. I now understand why controlling fathers would require their kids to say "yes sir," or whatever. I need, at a minimum, to know that you heard and understood me!

By default, your iphone makes you an active participant in a massive surveillance network. If you have apple's "find my phone" enabled, your device is constantly scanning for bluetooth devices like airtags, sharing their location information.

Avi Lewis seems alright.

Oh, whew! I was worried for a second there. www.theverge.com/tech/871879/...

Ben-Gurion said "if I knew it was possible to save all the children in Germany by transporting them to England, but only half by transporting them to Palestine, I would choose the second." Zionists instrumentalized Jewish suffering for territorial goals.

Zionists literally met with and made deals with the Nazis. They share the same fascist supremacist ideology as the Nazis. They are so hateful they are gleefully perpetuating a genocide as we speak.

Southerners realizing their giant 4x4s are useless in the snow without winter tires

In The Truman Show, he was an insurance salesman with a wife he didn't like living under perpetual surveillance, and this was somehow giving hope and joy to millions.

Billionaires raping and murdering children, Trump regime arresting journalists, ICE murdering citizens, Israel breaking the ceasefire for the 1000th time bombing more children... But if you consume right wing media, is you get your news from twitter, you don't know any of these things...

Now that the whole world knows about American presidents and their billionaire friends raping and murdering children without consequences... Can we call it a wrap on this whole capitalism thing?

lol rip conservatives www.nbcnews.com/world/canada...

You're absolutely right. The 'nation of immigrants' framing erases America's foundational THEFT. Stolen people, stolen labor, stolen land. Real solidarity requires collectively confronting history, not flattening it.

Seriously reconsidering my trip to a billionaire party island next month.

A good story, but if you read it closely, it really just sounds like the chief of police drove her home from the police station...

At the high end of their low-earth orbits, a collision could send debris higher, right? So like, de-orbit wouldn't be guaranteed. This makes me think SpaceX is essentially trying to own the entire LEO altitude range before anyone else can get off the ground.

We need to end Israel to end this genocide. www.cbsnews.com/news/israel-...

"A world-first gene therapy which turns white blood cells into a disease-busting “living drug” has reversed previously untreatable blood cancers." www.positive.news/society/revo...

Gotta hand it to JJMcCullough, he's very good at dressing his racist right wing bullshit up as as fair and balanced centrism.

Twitch is going to burn itself down. It already has to some degree. Caving to ADL and all these right wingers will be the death of the platform. When Hasan figures out YouTube, I also think he's gone from Twitch.

Twitter seemed like the place where people had conversations about what was happening. But now if you go on Xwitter, all you see are these delusional arguments about whatever bullshit the fascists are fixated on, completely disconnected from current events.

See also www.cjpme.org/no_israeli_ai

Canadians need to pay attention to this. As Cohere (a Canadian tech/AI company) partners up with DND, we're going to see more and more of this authoritarian tech folded to the machinery of the state.

There ARE examples of AI doing measurably good things. Mammography, Alphafold, iNaturalist, so on. But MOST of them emerge from public ownership and commons models like public healthcare and open source projects.

AI WON'T SOLVE SOCIAL PROBLEMS

Assuming the human race survives long enough, eventually there will be a volcano that threatens to dramatically change out climate and threaten life on earth. That's why I propose that we make giant N95 masks.

At a certain point they're gonna choke on their own tail... www.reuters.com/business/ret...

This morning I'm thinking about how easy it is for an American to buy a gun to feel safer. And how many Americans are dealing with a small fraction of the violence and domination the American state has inflicted on people around the world...

Bullshit. The American response to every crisis is to buy more guns, much to the satisfaction of the obscenely wealthy gun manufacturers who help create these crises. Don't fall for this. Guns are indeed bad.

Trump pulling strings for notorious rapist Brett Ratner... www.independent.co.uk/arts-enterta...

"Canadian officials are reportedly looking to other countries to supply it with fighter jets, including Saab, the Swedish aerospace and defense company that creates the JAS 39 Gripen E fighter." The Gripen is, objectively, and in virtually every way, a better purchase for Canada. It always has been

Cobalt for AI comes from the DRC, which supplies over 60% of the world. About 40,000 children work in artisanal mines for $1–2 a day. Amnesty International recorded at least 80 deaths in tunnel collapses in just 15 months.

"Two transport trucks caught fire - one carrying cheese and one carrying packaged spinach." OK, I know it was a serious fire and all, but this reads like a news report got mixed up with a recipe.

AI: Save time on all those reports and emails! Me: Stop wasting time on reports and emails!

I put all my research on AI into Claude for analysis and it returned this: "The evidence shows AI systems function as mechanisms of structural violence that systematically transfer harms from privileged to marginalized populations." 🫢

Mark Carney has not done a SINGLE thing that would harm the profits of the top 1% while helping the working class. Not ONE thing. This is why people get desperate and vote for conservatives!

Subsidizing consumers instead of dismantling the corporate structures that enable profiteering. This is just public money going indirectly to Galen Weston.

We see maps with bold arrows, flows converging on borders, telling you that migrants are invaders rather than economic subjects. These maps don't show wealth extraction, climate impacts, and weapons sales. Showing the former without the latter is a reactionary lie.

I don't know why local police are letting ICE murder the people they're supposed to protect. Just kidding, I know why.

If I had to come up with a name for a billionaire super villain, it would be Galen Weston. And he would look exactly like this.

If Canada is truly "taking down the sign" and standing on principle, then Carney will block weapons sales to Israel, sanction perpetrators of genocide, stop Canadian mining companies from devastating communities globally, acknowledge harms, apologize, and commit to repair.

drip drip, squeeze squeeze

If you're arguing with someone who suddenly stopped responding just now, you might have been arguing with a bot.

www.anthropic.com/news/claude-... I like this move away from unilateral corporate control. That said, it uses the procedural language of democracy while power remains concentrated in unaccountable corporate hands. Real democracy distributes power beyond temporary carefully-managed decision-making.

Watching the ndp leadership debate and I love the hippie quaker vibe from McQuail.

So many people saying they were inspired by Carneys speech yesterday. Inspired to do what, exactly? He essentially said "this system was fine when we were friends with the bully, but now we're getting bullied so we have to change it!"

I want to see a True Cost Adjustment. This is a fee paid by manufacturers at the point of obligation based on a total lifecycle analysis of the product's cost to the environment and society.

A prime minister who genuinely worried about the US threat would be spending money on public infrastructure, not military.

I have a friend who served in the military their entire life, along with their partner. Their partner died from cancer, quite young, leaving them to solo raise their child. They must know, deep down, their partner got cancer from those burn pits in Afghanistan.