It's not just that Orbán losing inspires hope in other competitive-autocratic countries ruled by right-wing nationalist authoritarians. It's that his loss materially changes things in those other countries, because he's been operating as a headquarters and funding source...

Saw the documentary film The Pink Pill on Friday. It was So Good. It's a very tight and engaging narrative that will make you laugh, cry and shriek at your TV b/c it's infuriating. The best thing tho imo is it makes you want to keep fighting for women's/marginalized community health. #filmsky

no one is doing it like jd vance, a loser across three continents in a single weekend

Regret to inform everyone that Peter Magyar beat the world’s smartest illiberal populist in large measure by working incredibly hard for 2 straight years, meaning the rest of us are just going to have to get off our asses and do shit rather than just complaining.

Singal wants people to see trans advocates as the powerful actors in this story when the actual power dynamics run overwhelmingly in the other direction. That's a classic misdirection in service of the backlash it pretends to merely describe.

You don't spend hundreds of millions of dollars on a campaign to shift public opinion and then get to claim the resulting shift in public opinion was organic. That's the entire game and Singal just plays along because he sadistically loves to rub it in to trans people and victim blame them.

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I listened to some awesome film pitches at the Atlantic Women in Film and Television (wift) conference yesterday (trans and non binary inclusive!) and I'm here to tell you that "AI" cannot beat the endlessly creative human mind.

I've seen people saying things like "well, clearly these people are unstable to begin with," to which I ask: so what? It's OK if the people being harmed are vulnerable? If they're mentally ill, their lives don't matter? Sounds like sounds like some eugenics shit to me.

This is madness.

“We want to destroy the humanities as a field, we only want people working vocations, we don’t want you thinking, speaking, writing for yourself.” Is, once again, a Saturday morning cartoon villain’s plot.

AI should be having its tires kicked before we talk about how it'll improve healthcare, education, and governance. Please stop acting as a hype man for what at BEST is a meme machine. It's not our tech saviour. Why is every leader salivating at the thought of AI for everything?

I'm one of those trans women. I worked ground ops for Artemis I. I am torn between celebrating the success of my friends and peers and grieving how my dream of working for NASA was shattered by hateful assholes in Tallahassee

I need recommendations on what to replace word with.

5) The people who said it couldn't be done were wrong. Again and again and again.

I don't know why an account called stock updates is talking about cougars in Nova Scotia but I adore that the eastern cougar theory is still a thing.

Massacre upon massacre in Beirut in the last hour. AUBMC announced a “code disaster.” Over 100 airstrikes in 10 minutes across the country. One hit right behind my house. Sirens ambulances & the smell of sulphur. The city is in total chaos the people in complete panic

It infuriates me that Israel seems to just be getting away with this.

Putting aside Sam Altman just continuing to emit huge lies constantly, this is an amazing example of what I mean when I talk about how GenAI is replacing *extremely low energy* digital tasks with *WAY WAY HIGHER ENERGY* replacements that *do not even work* Why TF is anyone using ChatGPT as a timer!

This was not the song I expected but the song I needed this morning. Come for the rock and roll, stay for the RCMP reference.

The famous Andor line is that "tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle." Here is a perfect example of that through malicious compliance: Idaho forced the city of Boise to remove its Pride flags. So the city painted rainbows everywhere else.

So, anyway: How about that Moon?! (The Earth isn’t bad either!)

Clean Nova Scotia getting a chunk of this.

Happy birthday to the illustrious Billie Holiday. Adorned in her iconic white gardenia flowers, Holiday’s hauntingly beautiful voice filled rooms at jazz clubs during the Harlem Renaissance.

We have an Iranian friend in Tehran who has devoted his career to translating Thoreau for an Iranian readership. Starting with 'Walden,' through Thoreau's anti-slavery works and essays on civil disobedience, the lot. We have not heard anything from him since the bombardment began.

This study shows that disinformation spreads, not as “false facts”, but as narratives. Compare that to how mis- and disinformation are often operationalized in the big-N quantitative and experimental research in the Nature/Science journals — that’s a major weakness in the field.

Muriel Rukeyser, always but especially today. Full text at www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47657/...

have you guys seen the Dutch cover of The Hobbit cuz I hadn't

Really thank goddess for Letterkenny, it's just kept me entertained and grounded for the last couple of months. Nothing like a bunch of Hicks sitting around doing clever word play to ease you off to sleep.

losing contact with the earth for 40 minutes sounds nice

Finished a script first draft today after a little push from my writing group. That means I can get feedback on it by Wednesday night! I find external deadlines so helpful. #scriptsky

my parents on the moon launch mom: why are they going to the moon dad: same reason we go to your brother in Australia- some people like going very far away to a place where you die if you go outside

Because the self-serving choices are often the ones made (not just by abusers but their enablers), what we also have to focus on is, how do we protect our communities from harm. That is work that we all can try to do. Many ent/comedy gatekeepers have comprehensively failed on this front many times.

I got tired of the question, “but what about the path back?” question itself has validity. answer a lot of people don’t want to hear is, there *is* a path back. Most abusers are too lazy, narcissistic & surrounded by enablers to take it. We don’t have to reward them or their enablers for that choice

“Loneliness has been the curse of my life. What should I have done if my Imagination had not been my companion? I must have groveled on the earth— I must have died— O but my dreams my darling sun bright dreams!” -Mary Shelley, 1834

Philosophize This is great podcast (he explains things so clearly), this one I havent heard but will be playing.

I really agree with Eliot’s argument here, but I’d add one more dimension: the problem with social media, as with AI, isn’t technology, but ownership and regulation. Social media companies are unregulated monopolies. They pose a threat to democracy because they’re driven solely by profit.

The horse op-ed is an instant classic. I can't tell you how much joy this piece gives me. It should be taught in every introductory writing class in no small part because the horse arguments are so compelling. "I have noticed that human children get to eat cake. But I am bigger than the children."

"If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about the answers." -Thomas Pynchon

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What do you think a BOOK IS what do you THINK A BOOK IS

Did you know that when companies cancel big, long-standing projects or shutter studios, they can write off the associated costs of development/operations as a business loss on their taxes? Your labor and livelihood should never be sacrificed just to give a corporation a tax write off.

I don't know about tweet, but this is up with the funniest threads. (Was also an incredible thread where a fellow live tweeted being on a parent on a school trip where the kids had eaten their lunch before the coach had even pulled out of the school car park.)

Without the grifters, liars and racists who decided their bigotries were more important than a working economy, those firms might've had a chance. But the Brexit mob made their decision, and they made it for the rest of us. Now we're living in the world they made. 16/18

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Today also marks the beginning of another truly great company! 31 yrs ago today, Little Mysteries Books opened in Halifax NS, brought to life by my wonderful wife Vanessa & her amazing mom, Sandra. LMB was a fixture on Barrington St for nearly 20 yrs, & I'm honoured to have been a small part of it.

After debating and voting on every single line item, to vote against the whole is a vote of non confidence in the council. And when you're the mayor that is a vote of non confidence in yourself and your leadership, an admission of failure.

Two southwest Nova Scotia churches are finalists in Canada's Next Great Save competition www.saltwire.com/nova-scotia/...

With each lost barn, a community loses a landmark to its own history and Nova Scotia a piece of its architectural heritage. www.saltwire.com/nova-scotia/...

Paramount? Loses hundreds of millions a year. TikTok? Loses billions a year. Oracle? Loses billions a year. Larry Ellison's wealth comes from his 42% or so of Oracle stock, and his principle liquidity comes from the $2bn a year in dividends he gets paid (split in 4 quarterly payments)