hantavirus? no thank you. SANTA virus? yes please! see? public health is just that easy

got a letter telling me to participate in a public health canada study survey about vaccination >>>>

that book:

"A more just world may never come as compensation for our efforts, but the commitment to fight for it is itself the substance of a life oriented towards liberation."

i was alive in 2015 and this simply is not true

Yeah

Alright we all know the big line is going down, fossil fuel costs are going up, and they’re calling him Degrowth Don. But is what’s happening rightly called degrowth? The short answer is no, but here’s a thread with a long answer, also clearing up some other common misunderstandings of degrowth.

Rita Ora’s Agent Scores Singer Another Prime Crossword Puzzle Placement https://theonion.com/rita-oras-agent-scores-singer-another-prime-crossword-puzzle-placement/

Just piss off, whydontcha

working on a new theory of political conflict

Humans can’t hear low-frequency “infrasound,” but a new study demonstrates that it raises our stress levels and triggers an “unsettling” feeling that could be linked to people’s experiences in haunted locations.

we're not really confronting a "misinformation apocalypse" so much as we're being forced to confront how others interpret information on a mass scale for first time in human history.

Meanwhile, there was another US "boat strike" snuff flick today. AKA murder. Little-mentioned in mainstream media or here for that matter. Talk about "normalizing political violence."

This is literally madness and we cannot let this happen. It will transform Canada in to a shelled out hellscape, in the service of a dead empire's whims.

A horrible policy that won't help kids but will help kill what's left of the open internet.

as much as i despise AI, i have to admit that it has made it possible for anyone, no longer just the very wealthy, to be a big adult baby who doesn't know how to interact with normal people and throws a fit whenever they don't get their way

We don’t need to keep a human-in-the-loop, we need to get AI out of the loop altogether! The whole point of AI is to remove the frictions of individual conscience and collective refusal.

Here’s how the Alberta government supervised consumption site “study” should be covered, every time. Good work by CBC’s Hannah Spray. I’d like to add the word “fraudulent” to the list already there: flawed, biased, misleading, dangerous. H/t @kwardvancouver.bsky.social www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

This is the bit that stood out to me in this very moving, thought-provoking post—“The level of discomfort or not-knowing that students can tolerate has taken (another) drastic free fall…AI has made everything so smooth, so easy, that it’s harder for them to stomach that discomfort”

many are talking about the latter option. it’s something we’re hearing more about every day

This “-maxxing” and “-mogging” stuff comes from an ugly place and has never been particularly funny. But what about if *I* adopt it, but ironically,

I would add one more thing, aside from the point that no country can possibly replace what Israel gets from US: much of of the influence that Israel has with other states stems from perceptions that it provides a short cut to Washington; without perception of US-Israel bond, much of that disappears.

The world watched as Israel razed Gaza to the ground. Now, the world is watching as Israel razes Lebanon to the ground. War crimes beget war crimes — and the failure to bring Israel to justice for genocide has emboldened it to destroy human life with total impunity.

Everyone knows the economy is doing great. I dont know why homelessness is up and a record number of people are working 2 jobs, but that has nothing to do with the economy. The economy is a chart with a line going up, not that other shit. Grow up

in my head pope leo does this a lot

One of the most consistently infuriating things about the criminal legal system is how little anyone in a position of authority cares about determining what does and does not work.

endnotes should’ve gone the way of the bicycle with the one big wheel one small wheel — interesting design, cool curio, clearly outstripped by a superior competitor. footnotes are so obviously better!

Pope Francis’s writings kept returning to this point as well (in particular, his letter “Fratelli tutti” is careful to argue that Christianity compels us to work for social justice, but not in a way that calls into question the contributions of others to that work)

This is completely wrongheaded — the reason why Leo opposes war and oppression is not because he has access to spiritual principles that the secular world lacks, but because he has a spiritual motive to remind the secular world of what it ought already to know.

"Fandom deserves to be taken seriously" I actually can't think of anything more desperately in need of being taken LESS seriously.

not sure what is more odd: that it apparently didn't crack the top three, or that it is being advertised on the DC metro

viktor orban gonna lose so bad he has to run for a seat in alberta

there's probably no term in contemporary political life that obscures and distorts quite like "populism."

Are they planning an AI data center near you? www.instagram.com/p/DW9x2P9iVz...

these closures are the implementation of the policy choice to exclude a specific group of people from the category of *the public* – this is dehumanization and it is a choice being made throughout Canada Ontario 1/

It’s crazy how it isn’t even in his political self interest to do this and yet he’s full steam ahead anyway

Again I’d like to point to all of the high school student walk outs that have been happening for months In Los Angeles even the middle school students are involved

canonically, in The Young Pope, Jude Law uses his divine, entirely real connection to god almighty to ask Him to smite a corrupt nun in Africa who is siphoning funds from the charity she runs for starving children and she dies that very night. in my heart of hearts i believe Pope Leo has this power

good luck with that ‘job’ u speak of

💢 Israeli strike kills Lebanese radio journalist in her home, Committee to Protect Journalists reports Ghada Dayekh, a presenter w/ privately owned Sawt Al-Farah radio, was killed when an Israeli airstrike hit her apartment building in the southern coastal city of Tyre, destroying it, according...

One other thing: I didn’t understand before I got here how geographically proximate the murders of George Floyd, Renee Good, and Alex Pretti were. From my mom’s old house, it wasn’t more than 5 minutes between the memorials. Did some crying in public today.

"What Iranians deserve is so ordinary is almost embarrassing to say aloud. They deserve not to spend their mornings calculating whether they will survive until evening. They deserve to be seen as people... not as acceptable losses, not as the unfortunate human context around a geopolitical problem."

damn aaron swartz tried to warn everybody about sam altman

If you're not going to the university library to get the book yourself so you can see the 25 nearest books on either side of it, you're not doing research. I fear there are generations that will (or already do) need this explained to them, and when it is they will roll their eyes.

*The US president threatened to destroy Iran* Carney: We ask that both sides in this conflict don’t destroy Iran.

Those in the imperial core owe the world much much more.

Elnaz, painter in Tehran: "I don’t even look at my suitcases. To flee, you need a destination and the money to get there. I have my brushes and my canvases, and that’s about it. People act like the world ends or resets on Wednesday morning. I think we’re looking at another month or two of this.”

the levels of elite impunity we are seeing now and the levels of war crimes we are seeing now are two aspects of the same path of historical development. right now they see war as our problem (and their investment opportunity). it is world historically important that we make war their problem again

everything we are seeing now is the consequence of having a political environment in which indifference to the deaths and suffering of other people - even by the state whose supposed responsibility is to safeguard their welfare - is a superpower rather than a political liability