don’t let chatgpt in the shire

To delete your TikTok account without agreeing to the new TOS: 1) put your phone in airplane mode 2) open TikTok and go to your profile 3) go to settings and scroll down to delete account 4) turn airplane mode off 5) delete your account Credit to @ kimsaira on instagram for this

TikTok is now under US ownership and their new ToS reads like a guide to giving fascists everything they need to put you on a list. They’re collecting information about immigration status, citizenship, sexual orientation, whether you’re trans or non binary and physical or mental disabilities.

UPDATE: N.L. Hydro lifts Power Warning as conditions improve ‘significantly’ ntv.ca/business/n-l...

Drop the names of any Canadian companies you’ve seen working with ICE in the comments. I’m aware of Gardaworld, Roshel, Hootsuite. Would love to gather any and all other names.

Every capitalist's dream is to prevent you from using the stuff you already own in order to rent it from them instead

Quite frankly, it’s outrageous that Mark Carney is cutting Statistics Canada. If he was Stephen Harper or Pierre Poilievre, I feel like this would be getting a lot more backlash. Carney of all people should know the importance of high-quality data and information about the country.

ICE’s murder of Renee Good has been a clarifying moment — and not only for Americans. It also exposed some Canadians. Notably, the Toronto Sun’s Ottawa bureau chief — who called the ICE bullets fired at Good “well-deserved.” Let’s talk Canadian media the impact of who has a platform:

The @ndp.ca (or other parties) could do more than delete X They could push for rules requiring government accounts only operate on platforms that meet higher standards around moderation, security and transparency Lead by example. Governments implicitly endorse these platforms with their presence

As your plane disintegrates around you, take solace knowing it's all in service to making the world's richest man another dollar. Also: Some wild footage of spacecraft debris recorded by a pilot from the cockpit of his plane.

Furious Trump demands to know why Minneapolis shooting hasn’t sparked civil war yet

The concept of posting “Canada is not considering a ban of X” as a QUOTE of your post condemning deepfake sexual abuse happening **ON X** of women and kids………….

It’s time for governments and politicians to get off the child porn app. Staying is a statement of its own.

Given everything happening right now, I updated this article with options for weather apps, web forms, and translation services — along with some tweaks to existing categories. I hope it helps your transition off US tech!

For decades, Canadians eagerly rushed onto US tech platforms and services. But now the drawbacks of that dependence are on full display. For @policyalternatives.ca, I explain the economic and political consequences of a US-dominated internet — and why digital sovereignty is imperative.

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Canadians, please consider contacting your MP and urge them to protect our public library system. Follow this link for a template or script you can use to reach out: save-interlibrary-loans.lovable.app #cdnpoli

Another good reason for Mark Carney to open up the market to affordable European and Chinese electric vehicles. The United States is going backward and Canada does not have to follow its lead.

Just a reminder that at least 600 Americans were fired for failing to show sufficient respect after Charlie Kirk's murder.

the state of this world is unconscionable. no one should have to experience such horror. i can’t help thinking about how mark carney was just over playing nice with uae leaders enabling this genocide.

For years (and YEARS) I've been saying do not trust VAERS reports. There is no vetting, no statistical relevancy. It's pure anecdote.

Canada should follow suit

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Excited to share that I’ll be speaking at Memorial University on Friday! If you’re in St. John’s, make sure to come out. I’ll be talking about how I became a tech critic and how I‘m seeing the current challenges with generative AI and digital sovereignty.

Looks like The Thing is trying to assimilate an entire town and doing a poor job trying to keep it's shit together.

so cool that mark carney is gutting climate policy to make a very expensive bet that asia will buy a ton of additional oil and gas from canada over the next few decades

Up She Rises! A public forum presented by @nlhistorical.bsky.social about women and gender in Newfoundland and Labrador Historical is happening this weekend. A free event in person at @memorialu.bsky.social or online. To attend, visit the NLHS website here: www.nlhistory.ca/program/

I was selfish and took the milestone episode to explain why we must get off US tech, some options that are already available to us, but also why our governments need to step up. We can’t keep allowing the US government and Silicon Valley billionaires to have so much power over us!

The AI industry wants us to believe AI superintelligence is the real threat from generative AI. But that narrative was crafted to distract from the many ways genAI is being used to tear our societies apart, as we saw this week when a deepfake video rocked the Irish election. It must be reined in.

someone needs to ask mark carney why, if canada is the “most european of non-european nations,” all of our peers can offer pharmacare as part of their universal healthcare systems but canada still can’t after all these years?

Why does everyone keep calling it “The Epstein Ballroom?” Please stop repeating “The Epstein Ballroom” because it is not called “The Epstein Ballroom!” Don’t tell the news that it’s called “The Epstein Ballroom” and please don’t repost this!!!!!

How stupid do Canada’s far-right extremists think we are? Last night, Diagolon's Jeremy MacKenzie trotted out an old refrain: his followers are, effectively, just podcast fans. There’s a clear implication: how could anyone serious take issue with that? But uh, let's check the receipts:

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i remember when i worked for a car dealership and they told me employee pricing aren’t actually the best prices and sometimes the cars are even cheaper the month before, but people think it is because of how it’s marketed

Shelter-in-place order issued for Livingstone area in downtown St. John’s ntv.ca/news/shelter...

YVES ENGLER HASNT EVEN APPLIED TO RUN FOR NDP LEADERSHIP??????????? And he’s been accepting donations while implying he applied but hasn’t been approved yet??? Omg 🤦‍♀️ Article here: www.thestar.com/politics/fed...

Macron remarks are notable- some quotes: "We have been incredibly naive in entrusting our democratic space to social networks that are controlled either by large American entrepreneurs or large Chinese companies, whose interests are not at all the survival or proper functioning of our democracies."

President Macron: “Europeans, let's wake up! We have been incredibly naive in entrusting our democratic space to social networks.” defenddemocracy.eu/macron-democ...

Obviously, this is loser shit, but I think AI has really cemented itself as the visual language of fascism. It's anti-human, flattened, uninteresting, and cheap. It's like looking at a Potemkin Village and thinking that's the same as architecture.

As I’m typing these words, Israel is illegally intercepting the Global Sumud Flotilla that is trying to break the siege on Gaza. This is an illegal enforcement of an illegal blockade. So I reached out to the Canadian government to see what they would do for the six Canadians on board:

Good job to the federal government for causing a national postal strike in the middle of the municipal and provincial elections taking place in Newfoundland and Labrador. Real pros at considering the consequences of their actions.

6 days ago Liberal MP Vince Gasparro smeared and ‘banned’ Kneecap from Canada (forcing them to cancel tour dates) just 3 days after meeting with an Israeli lobby group, using this bogus terrorism charge as reasoning. Seems a public apology is in order.

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