That's a nasty stat!

patiently explaining to national political reporters that the people who organize No Kings are also doing the daily advocacy, voter registration, mutual aid, and immigrant defense, and that just because the cameras show up for the big crowd does not mean that work did not exist before and after

Omg! Huge shoutout to San Francisco, CA! Ocean Beach, you crushed it! 🌊

So it's behind a paywall, but since I'm not willing to pay to read anything this fellow has written, that's okay. The cut line says "this won’t be seen as some people’s idea of journalism" and it's right, because putting out 600 stories using AI isn't journalism. www.wsj.com/business/med...

I'm sure I know someone who knows someone who's prefect for this!

NEW: Wikipedia has banned AI-generated content.

Some very good reporting here.

The verdict marks the end of the first-ever jury trial over whether tech giants should be held accountable for social media addiction. It may influence the outcome of 2,000 other pending lawsuits.

Today's lunch read - I particularly liked this quote: "In societies where freedom is under threat, an informed citizen is countercultural and deep reading is an act of resistance." newrepublic.com/article/2076...

Hmm.

There are some very interesting numbers in here: "In the 1990s, the effective corporate tax rate hovered around 39 percent. By the 2000s, it had fallen to roughly 29.5 percent, dropping further to 20.6 percent in the 2010s. As of last year, the average effective rate was just 18.3 percent."

"When it comes to the impact of #MeToo, it’s important first of all to recognise that it was...a consequence of the preceding five years of feminist upheaval, which in turn built on earlier feminist work. That upheaval took place as a vast public discourse educating the public....

One of the chief virtues of the book is that it’s nearly the only remaining form of media that isn’t constantly being interrupted by ads. Between the covers is the last place on earth where no one is trying to sell you shit, a place where you can still be a human being rather than a mark.

"When Renée Good died, we wanted to figure out how to show our support without coming in harm’s way. We started organizing Sambusa Saturday and giving out drinks and coffee every weekend to change the narrative that we weren’t part of the resistance..." - Amina Adan hammerandhope.org/forums/minne...

Wait, what? "A Canadian neo-Nazi group paid Nigel Farage to make a short video promoting one of their events in Hamilton, Ont., and trolling the city mayor after she criticized their presence there."

Revealed: UK’s multibillion AI drive is built on ‘phantom investments’

Ford says holding back his phone records is about protecting the privacy of his constituents, who he has encouraged to call him. Journalist/FOI expert @deanbeeby.bsky.social calls it a "straw man argument," noting that the act protects against releasing personal info. For @nationalobserver.com

This CEO didn't want to pay a $250 million bonus promised to game developers of Subnautica 2. So, he followed ChatGPT’s advice rather than his lawyers’ advice, court records show. It failed miserably. @evystadium.bsky.social has more. Story by @mjgault.bsky.social: www.404media.co/ceo-ignores-...

Even taking geopolitical trends and climate change into consideration, Iglika Ivanova, co-exec director of BC Policy Solutions, says that the biggest single contributing factor pushing prices up is “market power” and the concentration of power in the food industry. 🥕

Workers in multiple countries are switching to four-day work weeks due to oil shortages. Sri Lanka is introducing a four-day week to preserve fuel reserves. Many workers in the Philippines are now on 4 day weeks. Public officials in Pakistan are working four-day weeks as well.

A comprehensive and well written look at the Bracken/Narwhal vs RCMP case for journalistic freedom.

"artificial intelligence is not a magical tool built by people in San Francisco making millions of dollars a year and pushing their companies to insane valuations. Artificial intelligence is an extractive technology that relies on the brutal labor of underpaid workers around the world."

Things to think about.

Trump is once again denigrating our PM and ignoring the sovereignty of our border. This isn't "Trump being Trump" it is Trump being Putin. We are subject to constant psyops and economic pressure to attack our right to exist. Please check out my latest piece. charlieangus.substack.com/p/canada-is-...

Over the weekend, Annahid Dashtgard and I were on CBC’s Fresh Air with Ismaila Alfa talking about our complex feelings about what’s going on in Iran. www.cbc.ca/listen/live-... 1/2

❗On Friday evening, the CAJ learned that journalist Rachel Gilmore had recently been approached in public by individuals linked to, or implicated in, an investigation she had written, and was published by The Tyee that focused on white nationalists. https://loom.ly/z22FRzg

Wait, what?

I have never heard of the "double-tap" airstrike and I wish I never had to. But we need to pay attention to the atrocities.

Posting for my friends in the industry - there are very different ways things could be, if only the billionaires didn't own everything: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Very good reporting here from the Tyee:

This is very well done, and absolutely astonishing. No one person needs this much money.

TONIGHT CIUT 89.5 FM 10pm - 11pm host Alison Gadsby welcomes @hollay.bsky.social for her novel “The Unravelling Of Ou” @palimpsestpress.bsky.social & @cassidymcfadzean.bsky.social on her novella appearing in the collection “Dead Writers” (Invisible Publishing) TUNE IN TONIGHT!

A bit of good news: www.theverge.com/policy/88767...

I will be following this case - we have so many scenarios like this in our economy right now, where one or two huge companies (cough, cough, Amazon) completely skew how the system works and how much we all end up paying.

Very interesting.

I'm sorry, if you're going to host a news show, you need to fact check your posts. And just because you're part of a political family, you shouldn't get away with distributing misinformation.

I've never seen the term depravity economy, but that feels so much like what we're living through right now. And these prediction markets are the height of it.

This is an amazing bit of reporting! And a fascinating look into what has happened to newspapers. prospect.org/2026/02/26/n...

Good.

NEW: Guards have taken away crayons, colored pencils & paper during recent room searches at Dilley, according to detainees and others. After one inspection, the children just “cried and cried and cried,” a mother said. The facility denies the claims. By @mckenziefunk.com @micarosenberg.bsky.social

No really? How very surprising.

This is a great way to talk about some key parts of what makes Canada work. And yes, we can always do better, but there's also much worse out there.

It's going to be impossible to talk about politics online during the next elections.

Two weeks ago I wrote a column about the egregious escalation in violent Toronto police corruption in one of the biggest daily newspapers in Canada. I wrote that they are bullies & the chief should be fired. I take none of that lightly. 1/3

For the first time since @projectsaltbox.bsky.social launched their DHS warehouse acquisition tracker, the number of canceled sales is higher than any of the other warehouse-related figures. We've reached a tipping point, folks. lookerstudio.google.com/reporting/b0...

Some Grocery Items Have Increased Dramatically In Price Since Last Year. “This is Unprecedented Inflation,” Experts Say. Rising costs are contributing to food insecurity and tougher choices for Canadians. pressprogress.ca/some-grocery...

Some good analysis of how oil companies expect the public to pay their bills.

Wow. And when National Observer declares this filmmaker antisemitic, they link to a video where dude literally blames Jews for societal decay and begins listing wealth Canadian Jewish men.

Hamilton, we need to do something about this. Why was no one arrested? This is completely unacceptable.

‘Militantly illegal police conduct’: Conviction shatters years of protection for #ThunderBay police sergeant. The guilty verdict exposes not just one rogue officer, but a culture of corruption and systemic racism inside the TBPS. New from @jonthompson.bsky.social: ricochet.media/justice/poli...