This, always and every day and no matter what, THIS. Right now many things are terrible, they would be a lot more so were there not so many people doing so many things in in hope, in defiance, in solidarity.

This is such a lovely, feel-good essay. Highly recommend.

My kids asked everyone at school today if they watched the game last night, then smugly shook their heads at people who answered, "wait isn't the game tonight?" #VictoireDeMontréal #MontrealVictoire #WalterCup #Habs

MONTRÉAL!!!! What a hockey game. Sadly they had to drink Molson out of the Walter Cup... hope they're drinking something better now.

this graduation speech moment is notable, and her amazed shock at having failed to read the room feels instructive. when you're inside the bubble, you think everybody else is. but everybody isn't.

Words matter!

Incredible tone deafness. Maybe exacerbated by chronic AI use?

It's that very particular time of spring in Old Montreal when the air is thick with country music blaring from the trucks of workers assembling terrasses

Whatever else we think about how Prime Minister Mark Carney is doing — and I’ve had no problem at all applauding him on a number of things — it’s undeniable that he’s been terrible so far on the #ClimateAction file, one of the most important leadership responsibilities of ANY national leader. #truth

I don't think AI is going to take all our jobs, but I do think it may create a permanent underclass of people who cannot think, problem-solve, or communicate on their own If I was conspiratorially minded I might even suspect that's the reason people in power are pushing AI so hard

The president of the United States just threatened nuclear war again. That is not a sentence that should be considered a one-cycle headline in any universe

The rationalizations are getting stupider & stupider. Former Salesforce sustainability guy says Big Tech's climate targets “weren’t built for this moment” of behind-the-meter gas and exponential AI demand. Maybe consider that fossil-fueled AI isn't suitable for this moment of climate breakdown?

Sums up my initial reaction to lowering taxes on gas: temp benefit for the rich + an excuse to cut projects that benefit people.

Here’s how the AI Boom, such as it is, has impacted my life: it has been used as an excuse to lay off my friends for bot equivalents that never came. It has made mass culture and art immeasurably worse. I have a stalker with AI psychosis. So, no, I don’t more data centers. I want less of all that.

This was so lovely and inspiring.

Shouldn't the mentalist have known????

Oh cool, a US soldier used his knowledge of operations in Venezuela to make over 400K on Polymarket

Unsurprising.

Almost everything we argue about is a substitute for the thing we should be arguing about: the immense wealth & power of an oligarchic class, which captures governments, ruins lives and wrecks the living planet. This class redirects our rage at scapegoats. To resist its lies is to resist its power.

The AI hype machine did not grow out of nowhere. To try to separate it from Silicon Valley history is a rewrite that lets the broader tech industry off the hook

Wouldn't it be cool to invest trillions of dollars into a technology that would actually make society better? Maybe we can call it “HI” — Human Intelligence. Instead of “data centers”, we could fund “schools”. Instead of *stealing* art, literature, and science, we help people *create* it. Crazy!

It seems to me that murdering, raping, looting, stealing and everything else Trump has done against Jesus's teachings is also blasphemy. But if the pic he posted is what finally does it for you, welcome.

As we await Hungary's election both for the liberation of its people and as portent for our own, let us recall the role that ridicule, resistance and refusal has played. Yes, elections can be turning points but only if movements make them so.

The world leaders having the biggest impact on our lives right now — directly and indirectly — are all over 70. And they’re all men! Stating the obvious, but worth a reminder! Donald Trump — 79 Benjamin Netanyahu — 76 Vladimir Putin — 73 Xi Jinping — 72

Finally, Hungary we will be sovereign, not a vassal of Russia

Poilievre would have been so much worse but I’m very disappointed in @mark-carney.bsky.social’s approach to climate and AI. #cdnpoli

AI boosters want us to love AI but most of them don’t want any guardrails, and will fight against every guardrail in every jurisdiction. AI without significant, thorough and internationally agreed-upon guardrails are a very dangerous idea. No significant guardrails, no AI, should be the position.

Canada could be investing in actual innovative tech — mRNA vaccines, or battery power storage for the grid, whatever — but we get this nonsense instead.

Who’s it gonna be?! [spotlights search the darkened stage]

What does all this indiscriminate floor crossing mean for abortion rights? #cdnpoli

A commenter notes that "Trump managed to be both Hitler and Chamberlain in the same negotiation. An unprecedented feat." 😭

Schrödinger's Strait of Hormuz - it is open and closed at the same time.

Why do I think this isn't totally delusional? Trump getting a cut from Strait tolls makes as much sense as him & his cronies benefiting from the ups & downs in the stock/gambling markets they've created through threats, bombings and tariffs - not to mention his growing gold trinket bribe collection.

Reminder that the US is under the control of religious fundamentalists.

I sobbed for days, sure we were all doomed to a grotesque death. Then 1989 came and the cloud lifted for a while. Too bad tens of millions of Americans hate women so much they just had to vote for a rapist.

BREAKING: Thousands of Iranians are gathering on bridges and around power plants right now, forming human chains after threats of U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iran's civilian infrastructure.

"The image of the all-powerful dictator creates the false impression we can understand fascism by scrutinizing the leader alone. It offers an alibi to nations that tolerated fascist leaders and diverts attention from the persons, groups and institutions that helped him." - Paxton,Anatomy of Fascism

Seriously, what the fuck is this. This is completely deranged, and anyone who can’t say so is a coward.

This is what the AI evangelists sound like to me.

You wrote about how you used a toxic, environmentally destructive tool trained on the stolen work of your writer peers to do your job for you. Your piece constantly begs the question about AI's inevitability without actually presenting evidence of it. You were rightly mocked.

Next time someone asks how I feel about AI...

GOOD CALL!

Melania proposed, with a straight face, replacing human teachers with AI robots. (I guess everything she proposes is with a straight face)

The oil market seems determined NOT to price in realistic estimations of supply risk. At some point—IF things continue along the current trajectory—the unwarranted optimism will shift in the face of hard material facts. That shift could be sudden and have catastrophic economic consequences.

Guess it was a mistake to give these guys boundless power over humanity eh

When they say “dire straits” this is what they mean.

👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻

1/2. He took the greatest military force in history, lost a war to a middle power in a week, begged the world to save him, & demanded the media lie about this & everything else. I try, but at a simple human level I do not see how anyone mistakes this man’s almost supernatural weakness for strength.

Some lessons for Canada; namely invest in nonpartisan news @savethecbc.bsky.social