This is a really good article. Definitely worth the read. And I am angry and embarrassed once again that Canada did not step up and join the Danish-led mission to help defend Greenland's sovereignty.

Oh no... all the comments on this. I have my very first Author Thing coming up in a couple of weeks and I'm not going to wear makeup because my eyes have gotten far too sensitive to be able to anymore and also I hate makeup and omg am I supposed to actually *dress up*?! *starts hyperventilating* 😭

D2D responded to my email about their new fee that is designed to punish human authors for not publishing as prolifically as AI content-mill generators. It was a form response that didn't answer I single thing I asked, and just told me that I won't be charged the fee if I de-list all my books. 😑

Boring News is marketed as a solution to declining local news in Canada. In reality, the website is AI news slop filled with errors, made up quotes and fake photos. My story for the @winnipegfreepress.com: www.winnipegfreepress.com/arts-and-lif...

OMG THIS.

We should absolutely be doing this. Think of what it would mean for public transit, public healthcare, and public hospitals in this country. If only we had politicians who actually cared about those things and weren't actively trying to undermine them while propping up oil companies.

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Private jet: funded ✅ Life-saving supervised consumption services: defunded ❌ What are we doing here folks? www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

This MS data center? 1.35GW. Approx 900 or so hospitals worth of power.

This needs to be taken seriously. Along with underfunding, Doug Ford is destroying the university system. And yes, this latest move is 100% in line with what we've seen happening by state-level MAGA-hats in the US.

This article is really embarrassing. It's entirely focused on technology-as-nostalgia and not the fact that every modern device wants you to constantly pay a rental fee in some form or another. If I'm listening to MP3s on a Diamond Rio there is exactly zero chance it will ask for a credit card.

Starting a petition that nobody should have to work when it is FINALLY SUNNY AND WARM AND GORGEOUS OUTSIDE after weeks of endless unseasonable snow and cold and pouring rain.

Time's running out... sign up now to get your books in the Canada Fiction Fest summer showcase!

“You gotta learn AI or get left behind!” is a bit galling given that the entire purpose of AI seems to be to steal our work and fuck our brains and shit up the planet, which is to say, its GOAL is to leave us all behind. That, in order to make its owners rich.

This but municipal taxation.

How many hundreds of Ontario teachers did he just fire to pay for this thing? 😡

Would be nice if cities told him where he could stick his speed bumps, reinstalled their speed cameras, and took him to court over it and included demands for repayment of losses caused by his stupidity in their lawsuits.

Old article (though new to me), and great flow chart. 😂 www.bbc.com/worklife/art...

If anyone happens to know Spielberg, do let him know I have a fantastic fantasy series that would look fabulous on the big screen. Just saying. 😂

Anyone else noticing a small but sudden uptick in the number of "so, um… COVID is kinda still here & people are still being hospitalized &… we kinda have lots of data showing it's really bad for kids…" articles popping up. They're not pushing for mitigation yet, but they are acknowledging an issue.

"We've reached the point where they don't even conduct a serious assessment for cases involving millions of dollars, but they do harass hundreds or thousands of Canadians over a few thousand dollars." www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Would help if the hospitals put any kind of preventative measures in place (and actually enforced them). January 2026 - 45% of people admitted to Canadian hospitals for other things ended up getting infected with COVID while there, according to a different article. Criminal negligence, imo.

The big jump in 2022-2023 school year is in large part due to the mass infection of ALL our children with COVID, followed by frequent reinfection. Now, their immune systems are screwed and significant & growing % have Long COVID. #ontpoli #cdnpoli

MeidasTouch host Katie Phang testifies in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee on the proposed merger of Paramount-Skydance and Warner Bros.: "Democracy cannot survive if powerful people get to decide which facts are allowed to exist and what version of the truth they want to peddle for profit."

Oh: A 2022 study found that children in households that used voice commands with tools like Siri and Alexa became curt when speaking with humans, often calling out “Hey, do X” and expecting obedience, especially from anyone whose voice resembled the default-female electronic voices.

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I cannot express how absolutely disgusted I am with federal politicians in this country. This should have been an easy, unanimous decision. Algorithmic pricing is predatory, discriminatory, and just plain wrong. globalnews.ca/news/1180243...

Seriously, how long before the 2nd shingles shot side effects go away? I still feel like absolute crap.

So, #IndieAuthor friends... asked this before but didn't get an answer. Where is the best place to find Itchio bundles to get involved in?

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It's remarkable how most of the world's English-speaking democracies seemed to have gotten together and decided "let's destroy the main thing that led us to unprecedented prosperity: our systems of higher education."

Automated Speed Enforcement (aka photo radar) was a proven deterrent to speeding in school zones. Since the Province took it away, speeding has heavily increased, putting our kids in #CollegeWard and across the city at risk.

Oh, chronic absenteeism after the pandemic has risen to over 60% for high school students in Ontario? That’s because IT’S NOT AFTER THE PANDEMIC Kids are missing school because they are sick, and this is happening on a global scale. @globalnews.ca apple.news/A59EHd4IQS-O...

As many western countries take the slow road through the #EnergyTransition, #Asia is aggressively “rewiring the global economy,” says @paulpolman.bsky.social. He sees a seismic difference between how the West is managing its transition off fossil fuels and the path pursued by many Asian countries.

- Increases and prolongs reliance on fossil (so next crisis hurts even more) - Often doesn't pass through to consumers (fossil co's just pocket it) - Benefits enjoyed more by the rich (who drive bigger cars longer distances) - Decreases gov't revenue so you end up paying for it in different ways

AI needs to die.

Thread. Important one.

Update: It's 5am. I have not slept a wink. Tossed and turned and shivered for hours last night and just could not warm up, despite adding *7 layers*. Now have headache to go with the shivering. Going to go do a COVID test, just to be sure I haven't somehow contracted the plague.😣

My sibling went to Ireland last year and brought a copy of this book back for my kids. Much hilarity ensued, though the cat was not amused. 😼😂

So... with today's D2D annoyance, anyone know if there are ways to make your books available to libraries without using D2D? I can transfer my books directly over to Kobo. Don't really get enough sales on Apple to care much about that one. It's the libraries I'm worried about. #WritingCommunity

Wow this whole paragraph just nails it. "I'm not using the technology like a fucking LinkedIn poster, so get bent and then fuck off, I'll be better off without you" is a great energy for 2026

I am so tired. They already implemented a minimum amount of sales before they will deign to pay you what you are owed, and now this.

Read it. Everyone should. www.nationalobserver.com/2026/04/13/o...

“Memphis is now being asked to believe that becoming a hub for artificial intelligence will secure its economic future. But economic development that does not center environmental protection, public health, and equitable access to opportunity is not development. It is extraction.”

The columnists in the Winnipeg Free Press are constantly making me feel sane. They see it too.

I just want to live in a world where everyone has timely access to needed healthcare, a roof over their head, the ability to buy proper groceries, reliable transit, a well-funded public education system for the kids that is focused on actual learning and not profit, & time off to rest & recuperate.

States and localities are hiding how much they’re spending on data center tax breaks, while publicly available information indicates a potential money pit.

Thread, and yup. And with a majority now, all our resources will be sold off even faster. I've never regretted voting for someone as much as I regret voting for Carney. He says one thing but does then does the opposite.