I generally don't like cross-posting from Twitter, but Mike Young absolutely nails how the US wound up with a resurgence of the flesh-eating screwworm decades after it had been eliminated.

GenAI is a tech bubble of hype and absurdity. It runs on nothing but vibes and dollar signs in billionaire's eyes. But that's why we must resist it. We broke NFTs, we broke the Metaverse, we can break this nonsense too.

Oh, wow - new Studio Killers song released today (!) #NewMusic youtu.be/IxlyD5Vpl4c?...

Fun season of #Taskmaster. Kinda surprised at the ultimate winner of it, but congrats to them nonetheless. :) We need an (English) Canadian version of the show. And a US version too perhaps (done properly this time)...!

“Following a thorough review, the EPA has found that napalm, with its ability to burn at temperatures exceeding 2,000 degrees Fahrenheit, is highly effective for both weed management and pest control,” said Administrator Lee Zeldin

its blackpilling that when you hit a certain point of wealth the economy becomes entirely fake and you gain more power than governments. something must be done

Frenemy asked if I wanted to play tennis today... despite still trying to get over this cold, I said yes. And surprisingly, I played fairly well. Lost the first set 2-6, but actually won (!) the second set 6-4. So I'm feeling petty good about that.

Republicans: "We don't need regulatory oversight because the pure white light of competition within unrestrained capitalism will make companies innovative & societally responsible." Republicans: "Allow mergers until there's no competition and behemoth mega-corps abuse consumers who have no choice."

They built this country by standing up against the sort of things YOU are enabling: bsky.app/profile/cono... "Labour organizations criticized the strategy for prioritizing business interests over workers. There is good reason for the concern." Posting upbeat videos ≠ working with unions & workers.

<sigh> If this goes through, look for even less choice in entertainment. And worse; more shows/movies to get canned, less diversity, etc.

That poor elephant. :/

Alternate headline: Wildly overvalued stock puts global economy at risk while further empowering hateful little man whose decisions have already harmed millions

"The closer you look at the SpaceX IPO, the more it looks like Musk’s ill-fated Doge," writes @rbreich.bsky.social. "All of it is arbitrary – based on the hype and will of one man with a giant ego and an insatiable thirst for money and power."

Reason #1,000,000,000,000 why we should tax the rich.

Throughout its long history, the BBC Video idents simultaneously made me feel cosy while giving me the willies. There's a cold, sterile bleakness to them. Pure hauntology.

Mood. #cats

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A nazi becoming the first trillionaire off taxpayer subsidies acquisitions and apartheid mine inheritance isn't an anomaly. It's showing you what the system rewards. Capitalism is a death cult

I'd still play it for the music alone.

Man they really just can barely hide how all their "innovations" seem to be oddly focused on making us landless peasants with no power...

I am going to sneak into Queen's Park and steal my provincial taxes back like I'm committing the most morally understandable heist the world has ever seen. www.cp24.com/politics/que...

If you over-regulate capitalism you get totalitarian communism. If you under-regulate capitalism you get a ruling caste of insane monopolists. Please ignore the fact that one of these things has never happened and the other keeps happening over and over

Trying to summon the energy to do app dev stuff. Or maybe art. I dunno. Hard to get in the right headspace. :/

I think/hope this cold has mostly run its course... still a bit of a cough now and then, but I'm feeling better than I have been in days.

🎵 "if I had a Trillion dollars..." 🎵 …I'd probably go insane. (But I'd *try* to make an impact on green energy adoption, food security, and mass transit...) We spend so much money on wars, "AI", and other crap, instead of things we actually should be focusing on. :( #capitalism #uspoli #cdnpoli

Dumbest timeline, capitalism is stupid, Musk is a Nazi, etc. etc. :/ #uspoli #capitalism

Trump DOJ dropped another 'this med school is doing a reverse racism!' report on Wednesday it says UC Davis Med "became the third most racially diverse medical school in the country, behind only historically black universities" in 2024 apparently that's illegal? ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

I am pretty certain I'm smarter - and far more ethical - than Musk. Unfortunately, capitalism often rewards being a reckless asshole.

there's a lane for any democrat with a little backbone who pledges to prosecute musk and seize every last dollar he has

Musk has set SpaceX’s price at $135/share, valuing the company at $1.77 TRILLION. That’s nearly 100 times SpaceX’s $18.7B in revenue last year (not counting its $4.2B operating LOSS). A wild overvaluation given SpaceX’s consistent negative profitability and failure to meet goals.

And because of how the IPO is organized, Musk and SpaceX insiders can sell their shares sooner than usual. They’ll ride the stocks’ upward tide as major indices force millions to buy it, and then cash out before the crash. Sound like a Ponzi scheme to you? It does to me, too.

a little on the nose for capitalism that the world’s first trillionaire is a nazi conman

We are watching in real time our country being destroyed from within, and people who could do something to stop it are playing dress up. Serious times need serious leaders.

"... and nothing of value was lost"

I'm so jealous of New Yorkers. Every day I read the news, Doug Ford is announcing 500 million dollars for a conveyor belt to his new corruption spa that can only be accessed via Black Card and Zohran Mamdani is announcing free puppies to anyone who plants a tree in Central Park

I did not spend my teenaged years writing cringeworthy fanfiction and my adulthood typefucking freaky lil weirdo shit to be accused of using AI 😤

Carney bans social media for kids too dumb to figure out VPNs (podcast)

"We're shipping so much more code with AI!" "Good, stable code?" "Oh heavens no. No no no. not at all. We couldn't possibly"

⏰ Wake Up Westminster! ⏰ This Sunday, our activists in London will hold a "sleepwalking" march, telling politicians to wake up to the crisis of our democracy. Other pro-PR actions will take place this weekend up and down the country. Watch this space!

I mean, the only possibilities for a Trump voter are are that you love pig ignorance, gutter bigotry, and overt cruelty, or you don’t care about them, or you somehow don’t notice them, but either way and whatever the reason you’re just not somebody who can be trusted on any level for anything.

Elon updating his resume like -Fraud -Fraud -Fraud -Killed several hundred thousand people -Created Hitler sex crime chatbot -Fraud

Hubble Movies Provide Unprecedented View of Supersonic Jets from Young Stars - From Goddard Space Flight Center - https://flic.kr/p/ai4N9s

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In other news, I'm still sick. Not as bad as yesterday at least, but not much better. I have Friday off work, so maybe I can relax and recuperate a bit.

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*grumbles* :/

Wealth inequality? The right wing's policies, like tax cuts for the rich. The #ClimateCrisis? Right wing blocking and reversing action. Measles outbreaks, anti-vax sentiments? The right wing. Screwworms? Crumbling infrastructure? No healthcare? Poor education? Guess who. #uspoli #cdnpoli

Like... how do people twist themselves into knots to say this *isn't* completely the fault of the right-wing death cult that's running things? Sigh. #uspoli