Google AI is so smart that it may soon be able to solve great existential mysteries such as "which number is larger than the other"

Nuremburg trials is the moderate position

“What keeps us going, ultimately, is our love for each other, and our refusal to bow our heads, to accept the verdict, however all-powerful it seems. It’s what ordinary people have to do. You have to love each other. You have to defend each other. You have to fight.” —Mike Davis

Happy John Brown’s Raid day to all who celebrate

I wrote this piece about Quebec nationalism, western alienation, and the nature of Canadian identity

for all people mock it wikipedia is genuinely one of the wonders of the modern world

There are so many areas where Canada could go on the offensive and strengthen our economy and society by taking advantage of US self-immolation. This is one. Poaching all of US academia/R&D is another. But they all require an activist, high-capacity state, not an austerity-obsessed government.

Banning arms shipments to a state committing genocide: ⛔️⛔️⛔️ Banning a hip hop group for speaking out against that genocide and slandering them as antisemitic: ✅️✅️✅️

countries outside the US should start seeing social media companies like they see propagandistic state media. the fact average people can post doesn’t negate how the platform owner shapes what information we see, the power that gives them, and how little regard they have for social consequences.

Vance, Trump, and Bondi each said things yesterday that were horrifying on their own. Taken together, a very clear roadmap for the future emerges Trump is actively preparing a large-scale crackdown on left-wing dissent. The threat of widescale repression is no longer abstract; it is imminent

We live in a time where the sane are losing the battle against the insane because the media keeps plaforming the insane over the sane because insane leads to more clicks

Finally some good news

Liberals are doing the right’s job for it. By lionizing Charlie Kirk and refusing to acknowledge his real political project, they’re giving power to the right’s completely predictable effort to use his death to forward their goal of an authoritarian, fascist state.

I do think it’s worth noting that few people in this country contributed to the culture of political violence quite as much as Charlie Kirk.

It's simple. They see themselves in him. They do not see themselves in his targets.

One of the defining experiences of my life, and I think yours, is gradually witnessing the internet degrade from the most sophisticated tool for information distribution in history into a cesspit of misinformation and falsehoods. It's a world-historical tragedy, what's happening to us.

it’s a beautiful day to shut the fuck up

A functioning society would lock these people up for the rest of their lives.

Exactly, should be investigated the same way they went after Canadians involved with ISIS. Accountability needs to come from the countries who claim to stand for human rights. www.rcmp-grc.gc.ca/en/news/2023...

Daniel Raab is an American from the Chicago suburbs. Here, he remorselessly describes murdering a family of unarmed civilians in Gaza as they try to retrieve the bodies of their dead family members. Every person who has served in the IDF should be criminally investigated in their country of origin.

we’re going to have to throw a lot of people in jail after all this is over

Happy Labour Day! I wrote about how the Canadian government has been addicted to strikebreaking for decades

I co-wrote this piece about why the Canadian government should nationalize shuttered auto plants and use them to manufacture vehicles for public use

My latest for @therovermedia.bsky.social. It's on Gaza, and Canada, and somehow the Expos come up twice. It's long. Find a comfy chair. Summertime Blues: therover.ca/summertime-b...

dont post abt your guns. dont post abt doing violence to feds. dont post abt doing violence to the administration. if you absolutely MUST ramble on belligerently abt these things do it the old fashioned way: at a loud bar with people you know and trust

Another bombshell investigation from @972mag.com: The Israeli army literally has a squad whose job is to find or fabricate justifications for the murder of journalists. It is called the "Legitimization Cell."

Israel targeted and assassinated the entire crew of Al Jazeera journalists in Gaza—bringing the number of journalists killed to 270, more than both world wars, vietnam, and afghanistan combined. This is how one of Canada's largest newspapers reported the news. The National Post should be shut down.

Seems good at first glance! But recognition hinges on disarmament of any Palestinian state. So Palestinians can have a state, as long as it is unable to defend itself from the country committing genocide against it. The conditions mean this deal is actually about advancing Israel's long-term aims.

Canada is sending hundreds of thousands bullets to Israel as it guns down children waiting in line for food. Not only should Canada cancel arms contracts, it should also cancel trade deals, punish Canadian investors in Israel, and expel Israeli diplomats. I wrote about it for @policyalternatives.ca

NEW: As Gaza starves and Palestinians are slaughtered while trying to get food, we should remember the writers who called for UNRWA to be dismantled. I’ve compiled a list of them who made these arguments in Canadian newspapers since October 7. www.readthemaple.com/as-gaza-star...

When The World’s Most Moral Army stays over.

Astonishing that only 16% of Americans think the US should join Israel’s war on Iran but so few Democrats are speaking out against it. The gaping disconnect between Dem politicians and the Dem base we saw on Gaza continues to cripple effective opposition.

I support anti-fascist protesters, no qualifiers. They don't have to fit the right posture or strike the right pose. Their every statement and member don't need to achieve perfection. I support them if it gets ugly, which is different from hoping it does. I support them because they resist fascists.

as people get laid off for austerity they can be comforted knowing it helped pay for Canada to meet its NATO commitments

ChatGPT is down but The Museum of English Rural Life still stands, proving once again that Silicon Valley cannot compete with the history of rural England and its people.

We should move housing and agriculture to National Defence too. Pretty soon we'll be up to military spending of 5% GDP!

As an advocate, the lectures about how people should protest better — "Be peaceful!" "Don't wave flags of foreign countries!" — is so exhausting. There are 100,000+ people out in the streets of Los Angeles. When and where would the meeting be to tell people to stay on message and who would run it?

It’s continually wild to me to hear Carney call out China and Russia as the great threats to Canada when the US has launched a trade war and threatened to make us a 51st state and India has literally killed a Canadian citizen on Canadian soil.

“We can handle one 10,000-person protest, but ten 1000-person protests throughout the city will overwhelm us.” —An LAPD officer, quoted in a survey about how the department handled the wave of 2020 protests against racist police killings

This is what the Canadian PM @mark-carney.bsky.social posts on the other site as Israel commits an act of piracy in complete violation of international law. As millions are being starved to death and children are being murdered for seeking food. Complete moral abdication.

"My name is Greta Thunberg and I am from Sweden. If you see this video, we have been intercepted and kidnapped in international waters by the Israeli occupational forces, or forces that support Israel."

I spent the last little while reading about the history of Canada Post and trying to understand the mess that it's in right now—and putting together a map for how we might save the post office. My latest for @policyalternatives.ca

Canada signed a joint letter with the UK and France earlier this week condemning Israel's ethnic cleansing plan in Gaza, and threatening sanctions. The tone shift is welcome—but we're well past the time for joint letters. By @whosestreets.bsky.social www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...

Canada has been opposed to a missile defence system for decades -- all the way back to Reagan's "Star Wars" plan in 1985 -- in part because it stands to prompt more nuclear arms races. 1/

Canada played an important role in the fight against South African apartheid. This country needs to show that courage again and rally the world against Israel's genocide in Gaza. Arms embargos, sanctions, banning IDF recruitment, and more—I wrote about our options for @policyalternatives.ca