Too bad the NDP were decimated in our last election. I want someone to get up in Question Period and ask our PM if replacing swaths of our public service with AI means working with Open AI or vendors who work with Open AI, and if yes, what the fuck?

i recommend reading this by @nolore.bsky.social noraloreto.substack.com/p/the-big-cr...

It would be cool if the Dem's asked their donors to open their pockets and help them feed people instead of just whinging about it on social media. Ordinary people are doing more than the party that supposedly cares about its constituents. Get creative. People are hungry.

It comforts me that Pierre is having a horrible week at work.

I hope OpenAI loses not just their lawsuit but all their money and their ability to operate. This keeps happening, and I don’t see it stopping unless there are SERIOUS consequences.

PS: to all those annoying Silicon Valley people who worry about AI safety but think that means far fetched scenarios involving paperclip maximization, try thinking about the dangers that are actually happening instead.

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l.m.a.o. too late

The only successful cancellation I can think of is Jian Ghomeshi. And even so, the trial did the women involved no favours.

The front page of the New York Times is asking if women belong the workplace and @aselrod.bsky.social and @liberalcurrents.com, come through with this. Incredible timing.

I'm not here to argue you should eat x, I'm saying there's something really unhelpful and unhealthy in thinking the way to deal with social problems is with personal choices. We need to stop doing that. Personal choices can help staunch the blood sometimes but we still need to address the wound.

"...Canadian progressives for decades have — like the Democratic establishment in the U.S. — looked at the success of right-wing populists...and figured if voters were considering going that far right, then the solution was to moderate themselves to appear less left." Stop chasing the middle.

BREAKING: Starbucks workers have just authorized a massive strike. Union Starbucks baristas voted to authorize the strike by 92%. Now baristas in over 25 cities could launch an unfair labor practice strike on Thursday, November 13th.

Good morning! AI is being force-fed to you by a handful of billionaires who will lose a bunch of money if they fail to convince you that you need it. You do not need it 🫶

“authors & publishers who filed a lawsuit against the Sam Altman-led firm have secured access to internal Slack messages… discussing the mass deletion of a pirated books dataset… A NY district court ordered OpenAI to hand over the communications regarding data deletion” futurism.com/artificial-i...

Should we give Carly Rae Jepsen a sword and send her in to battle?

Partcles Joe Coffey 2024

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Girl in Yellow Sweater Prudence Heward 1936

The Soldier’s Wife Elizabeth Cann 1941

'Morning Moon' Phil Greenwood

i call this view 'reactionary centrism' - the problem with it is that modern fascism *cannot* be appeased; they don't want a few compromises in women's sports, they want a total social transformation and the end of liberal democracy you give them a bone, then another, then they want your arm

"the revolt of the bosses" is a good way of framing the elite reaction to woke 1. what's particularly interesting is that this isn't a reaction to an attack on profits--it's a reaction to changes in workplace culture-- which is to say, the psychic wage of hierarchy

I just watched Zohran Mamdani's speech. It makes me wonder what could've been if Jagmeet Singh hadn't rubbed off his edges to appeal to white Liberals who were never going to vote NDPA. I want a leader who seems to really like people & who is genuinely called to serve & takes that seriously. 1/

Uninstall Grammarly NOW. They've partnered with an AI company and actively scrape your writing to train its models.

building housing near where people work and hang out is climate action. helping people fix up their houses is climate action. deploying public transit is climate action. making downtowns more useful and accessible and fun is climate action. etc.

Stop sharing AI slop. It's one thing if you don't know or just made a mistake. No need to breathe down someones neck b/c its harder to tell nowadays. But if you do know (ESPECIALLY IF YOU DO KNOW) even if you're posting it to make fun of it or sharing it unironically... consider not doing that.

This is like Canadians who want the government to control housing and food costs and prevent layoffs, but who won't vote NDP or join unions because socialism is bad and scary (and if they're old enough, some incoherent grumbling about Bob Rae).

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Dimitri Soudas, former Harper comms guy, told RadCan this morning that he's hearing Conservative MP Matt Jeneroux will cross the floor to the Liberals today. If this happens, the Liberals are one seat short of a majority. You know what that means. That's right. Elizabeth May is Kingmaker.

The way all of these people convinced themselves that Mamdani is antisemitic is a subject far more worthy of media examination than any of the ‘groupthink on campuses!’ thinkpieces we’ve been subjected to

"Ich askid ChatGPT." Well *Ich* askid the stones, and the forest, and the starres, and the mountaynes, and what thei seyde was learninge, and dreames, and growinge thinges, and makinge art, and a worlde wher we talke to each othir and care about each othir.

"'They’re spending more money than I would even tax them,' [Mamdani] said in an interview with MSNBC last week." This is the message. Make it clear that these billionaires aren't just worried about losing money. They're worried about losing the ability to exchange their money for power.

Can't stop thinking about the fact that the government is literally slashing public service jobs while bringing in AI for use in the public service. They are literally doing, as a government, what we scream at tech bros for doing to their employees. Pretty gross!

You see how many of these politicians CARRIED in their election races WITHOUT throwing trans people under the bus? Exactly, exactly.

People: you know what not to do.

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Exactly so. The rich, which you are not...the people who's yachts have yachts, can easily E A S I L Y afford to pay their fair share. They don't WANT to do that. Jeff Bezos takes vanity trips to 'space' while his workers rely on SNAP benefits Anything that erodes their power, they will fight

Having beliefs, acting on them and having a plan for delivering for regular people works! Least common denominator, triangulated bullshit, talking a big game & not actually doing anything real, being donor-pilled & addicted to consultant word salad = it’s all is easily spotted & nobody wants it!

I'm no fan of Canada's Liberal government, but I'll laugh if the Liberals continue to draw MPs away from Poilievre because they're more like old-school, pre-teaming up-with-Reform Progressive Conservatives. I'd love it even more if some lefty Liberals went to the NDP. Make it spicy in the House.

"[T]here are either vague prognostications of the “transformative” nature of this technology or banked assurances of the savings it will provide. Missing, however, is an explanation of what processes, exactly, AI is taking over — and whether it will actually be better." Super (sarcastic)

This would be a genuine shame

"There’s also a dedicated $925-million artificial intelligence (AI) fund, which Carney has identified as a priority." Here we go... How about funding basic research instead of speculative technology?

I'm not seeing a single thing AI can do for me as a writer. I know how to read critically, take useful notes, write, and edit. I don't struggle to come up with ideas. It just all seems like extra steps for mediocre results.

Canada takes another step to the right. And yes, the partisans are celebrating this. Some of them are Conservatives celebrating quietly.

This needs more attention: Zohran SPLIT the straights with Cuomo. ALL of his margin was from LGBTQ+ voters. Every Dem who ever said “we should abandon the transes” needs this shoved down their fucking throat with a ramrod.

The solution to the male loneliness epidemic is attending a local Democratic Party canvassing event.

Mamdani going so hard for trans right and winning is some juicy proof that every dem that abandoned us didn’t do it for politically advantageous reasons. They did it because they’re transphobes and they will lose for it

smarter people than me will have much more profound things to say in the days to come about the arc from 2008 (Obama constantly having to deny accusations that he was a Muslim socialist) to 2025 (electing an actual Muslim socialist who doesn't apologize for it), but it feels like it means something