CBC Gem crashes due to Canadians using it

This is the second account - the first being in Chicago - of DHS agents mass detaining people and then *sorting them by race*.

FLOL @ Carol Lane saying "that's not music, that's just noise" about a piece by Hans Zimmer.

Ask every Republican under oath if they know they’re going to Hell.

This is starting to get like universal basic income where every single objective study shows the same result but the people who don't like that result go "uh, well there's just really no way to know"

Post a banger that’s not in english! youtu.be/8nv2wE1nu-E?...

What drives me crazy is that if this happened today there would be a lot of wildly insincere panel discussions on television saying, "See, we told you the left were the violent ones" and defending Nazi salutes as free speech.

My mother used to do this! She'd just dump them in a Ziplock bag, though I had a tendency to just eat the little balls of dough. It's a great idea and super effective.

It was very good! I think the jacket copy did it a disservice. I had a feeling it might be kind of a dreamy, thin book, not at all what I'd expect from ID, but it was in fact a worthy successor to The Devourers; rich and thick, with emotional heft, inventive fantasy, and a living, breathing world.

When I lived in France we had a sweet old neighbor lady who would spit every time she passed a certain house. Eventually, her daughter explained to me that the home belonged to a man who’d collaborated with the Nazis 60 YEARS AGO. May these ICE goons face a similarly lonely future.

Collage made with scraps from previous failed paintings.

Buried in this piece is a throwaway line about how actually her real hustle is selling online courses to aspiring AI hacks, marking an extraordinary symbiosis of my two most hated internet poisons

“Torrenting from a corporate laptop doesn’t feel right,” one Meta engineer wrote in 2023 with a grinning emoji. [...] “If there is media coverage suggesting we have used a dataset we know to be pirated, such as LibGen, this may undermine our negotiating position with regulators on these issues.”

They had a plan, and Harper wouldn’t let them implemented it, and started the privatization process instead. The Liberals, rather than reversing this damaged, kept going w/ Harper’s priorities. It is absolutely a choice, one with clear, effective alternatives.

The Liberals clearly want Canada Post to shrivel so private corps can take its place, that's why they won't replace the CEO who's overseen its nosedive over the last 7 years. But they can't actually let it die, so instead they have to keep doing this. It's a great system for losing public money.

I don't know who needs to hear this, but Abel Ferrara's cyberpunk thriller NEW ROSE HOTEL is free on Prime right now (starring Christopher Walken, Willem Dafoe, and Asia Argento; based on a William Gibson short story)

The best guest host for the Muppets would be Werner Herzog

on anti-AI stances as "privilege". it feels weirdly important to note that many defensive takes do not analyze stories about how workers from Kenya to Columbia have been forced into a digital underclass: www.dawn.com/news/1949310

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Funnily enough, I read a novel last year about a self-driving car company that was faking it.

Nothing will make a person anti-capitalist faster than spending time with extremely wealthy people. Ask me how I know. 😠

Good.

Archives matter - but not to the Carney government. Canada has only ONE federal funding program for community archives, and they just killed it. Gone. @wgreaves.bsky.social www.canada.ca/en/library-a...

One must imagine Sisyphus rolling the boulder down into Plato's cave and everyone running Indiana Jones style

Relax, bread department

@rellac.bsky.social Barbaraganoush! I have looked for your diet Dr Pepper but cannot find.

“A federal jury in Phoenix on Thursday ordered Uber to pay $8.5 million to a passenger who said one of its drivers had raped her, setting the stage for thousands of similar cases around the country.”

Almost every bit of actual or potential cover art is better than the actual Canadian edition (my favourite is that UK cover w/ all the Inception-style architectural weirdness, but the actual books as objects are unfortunately super cheap).

you really cannot overstate the extent to which Sabrina Carpenter is an angel sent straight down from heaven for the express purpose of hosting The Muppet Show.

Suddenly realizing that in 10-20 years, the MN Historical Society will have an exhibit about *all this* and there will be a whole wall showing different types of whistles

TPS was disbanded and rebuilt in 1859 because of corruption. There is precedent for just burning it to the ground and starting fresh.

This consultation was so heavily skewed to be pro-AI, it's basically useless. But even though they put their hands so heavily on the scale, it kinda seems like they still couldn't quite get the results they wanted, because if they could, they wouldn't be hiding the process or the data.

Excellent news.

I got in SO MUCH trouble for this hugely viral tweet back in 2018 (from MAGA types mostly) but I stand by it (and in fact at the time the Auschwitz Museum defended me when people yelled at me that Auschwitz was a “death camp” not a concentration camp). My DENTIST congratulated me for this one

For those who, like me, got Solomon's form letter on why they can't do anything about Grok's CSAM generation, it's important to note that the Criminal Code explicitly contemplates computer generated & fictional materials in its ban. There's also tons of supporting case law. It's a choice.

OMG I AM DEAD. DEAD!!!!! "COGNITIVE LOAD IMPLICATIONS OF ACRONYMS REFERR TO OTHER ACRONYMS"

The sheer gullibility of journalists makes me think it’s been over-professionalized, with too much emphasis on careerism and credentials. It needs to go back to its blue collar roots, where you needed actual subject matter expertise.

It makes sense. Here in Canada many jobs (including the non-union construction projects I was on in the far north) stop during extreme cold. Extreme heat can be just as dangerous.

This is a mask *very* specifically associated with Atomwaffen and Nazi Terrorgram (as OP notes downthread)

A friend of mine wrote an excellent poem about this film.

the villains in neuromancer being a family of gross inbred rich weirdos who want to live forever in space feels a little too on the nose

Someone made an entire feature length movie of these, and America could do the same with police brutality videos

In 1946, cartoonist & illustrator Noel Sickles was sent by Life magazine to sketch the Nuremberg trials. Here is his sketch of the execution of Joachim Von Ribbentrop, who claimed at trial that his boss had made all of the important decisions, & that he was only following orders.

Man who oversaw the largest breach of civil rights in Canadian history rewarded by Liberals yet again.

I am... kind of looking forward to The Devil Wears Prada 2?

It is a truth of Toronto journalism that any homeowner who appears in a Toronto Life article *in their capacity as a homeowner* will automatically become the city's villain of the week. Appearing in such an article is the surest way for someone to out themselves as a tone-deaf asshole.

Incrementalists take it on the chin again. This is why they hate Mamdani. He's giving up the game that people in power HAVE POWER and don't solely exist to beg you for $5 every day. He's ruining the Democratic Party by showing voters that they have the power to do stuff instead of crouching in fear

No joke, this was the exact photo that originally radicalized me. 100% serious This is when “no war but the class war” suddenly made sense

The Epstein emails should really end the debate over whether society should have billionaires. "Do you want there to be a class of people so powerful they can fuck your kids and no one will even try to do anything" seems like an easy sell if everyone in politics wasn't trying to get on their payroll