Deep dive into the surge in US pedestrian deaths: "It’s not that more pedestrians are getting hit by vehicles; it’s that the ones that are getting hit are more likely to die." "[That] seems like fairly strong evidence for the theory that the rise in large SUVs is behind the uptick in ped deaths."

President Trump’s tariffs and demeaning “51st state” rhetoric spurred a sustained boycott among Canadians traveling to the U.S.—and has cost the country tens of billions of dollars in visitor spending, according to tourism experts.

If I were actively trying to destroy the United States from within, going after and dismantling its public health would be like the first thing I’d do. Just pointing that out. This is beyond dangerous. It’s leaving us vulnerable in a way we can’t really fathom until it’s too late.

Now that we’re out of the dreaded Woke Times billionaires are requesting federal troops to occupy cities they dislike for aesthetic reasons after hiring a private police force.

every single tech idea is like “soon our robots will be capable of playing catch with your kid, freeing you up to spend more time working on your employers’ spreadsheets”

you know what fair

taking a break from wanting to punch a hole in the wall to share the many breads of alfie 🥖🥯🥐🍞

I've noticed the opposing team's fans only cheer when the opponents score on us. To win those fans over, I recommend we score on ourselves repeatedly; that will surely make them so happy they'll start supporting us. And I'm sure all our fans will keep cheering for us—who else is there to cheer for?

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion. As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

It simply should not be possible for the president to repeatedly claim that a major city is burning without a wall of live standups happening in that city clearly demonstrating that it is not

In the past, the first DHS statement in these situations has been a lie meant to make them look as innocent as possible.

The huge numonopolistic corporations destroying lives to bring bad products at seemingly low prices has really fucked our perception of what it costs to run a business. Remember if you think something is affordable it's highly likely multiple people in the chain are being heavily exploited & harmed

Reminder: the President may be allowing his secretary to undermine access to vaccines for others and promote anti vaccine misinformation, but he himself is fully vaccinated, including this year’s flu and Covid vaccine. In this, do as the president does, not as his secretary ‘s ACIP minions say.

Masks required again in all P.E.I. Health Facilities because “Masks are are known to be one of those easy measures that we can implement to ensure the safety and the health of our health-care workforce and our overall health-care system" www.cbc.ca/news/canad%E...

Along with their covid disinformation, this is their legacy along with all who enabled them.

“Our hospitals are ready.” Was never a good plan. Prevent COVID-19. www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/sev...

The raw egg guy having a visceral reaction to seeing people enjoy seasoned food is way too on the nose.

So America's reached the "hiding Anne Frank" stage of a totalitarian terrorism.

i can’t stop thinking about this and i think it’s because it so easily illustrates the supposed problem LLM boosters want to solve, that being: sometimes things are difficult to do on brainpower alone

We could be treating Canada Post as not just an essential delivery service, but an essential social infrastructure in our communities. Instead the government prefers to treat it as a costly burden that must be subject to death by a thousand cuts.

Thinking about that time I got quoted in the National Review about Bari Weiss

One curious thing on this site about speaking out against the encroachment of LLMs is that inevitably you get accused of being anti-tech. I don’t hate technology. I’ve used machine learning in my own code before. But I also recognize that oligarchs are so hellbent on pushing this tech for a reason.

For the first time on record, renewable energy generated more electricity for the planet than coal, a new report says. n.pr/47hcegr

Extraordinary that the government is going to go into the next election having spent tens of billions of pounds on an ID card system that will be unpopular *and* produce no noticeable improvements to everyday life instead of renationalising the water industry. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Franz kafka ruined waking up as a giant bug. now if you wake up as a bug it's automatically "kafkaesque"

Most of Dem Senators did not attack Bondi yesterday as they should have. Among other things they should have said, "You're lying again, Ms. Bondi" and "That's a bald-faced lie, Ms. Bondi." The rapid rise of authoritarianism is no place for etiquette.

Would you care to see a contended cat?

It is pretty galling that the Supreme Court spent four years telling Biden "you can't do that without Congress" then allowed Trump to seize a once-unthinkable amount of power from Congress within nine months and concentrate law-making authority almost entirely in the executive branch.

If theft is the only way, it should die. Plain and simple. You are not entitled to the sweat from my brow much less the blood pumping through my broken body.

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The only correct take on a fundamentally anti-human technology.

"Americans would use “salami tactics.” Taking slices Canadian sovereignty and independence at a time. The first steps would not be tanks rolling across the border, but the Canadian government allowing, or being forced to allow organizations like the US Marshalls or the FBI to operate inside Canada."

When I see this, I wonder if people realize that Jim Crow racism in the American south was a type home-grown fascism. It was not (just) a superficially genteel system of social deference. Refusing to defer was often met with incredible violence designed to terrorize the entire Black community.

The discredited fraud responsible for modern anti-vax conspiracy theories, Andrew Wakefield, first called for splitting MMR under the pretence that it allegedly ‘overloaded’ a child’s immune system. He then patented his own three-dose vaccine regimen for MMR

Thank you 🙏 @georgemonbiot.bsky.social Here’s an interview with George and @davetuller1.bsky.social to learn more…! m.youtube.com/watch?v=SpLM...

when I came into the media industry sideways via DSLReports dot com I'd get no shortage of snootiness from establishment journos who'd sneer dismissively at anybody that didn't rise through the ranks via Columbia now those very folks are the pinnacle of embarrassment when it really matters

papers like the New York Times actively help right wing propagandists by introducing false claims as something that's open to debate and interpretation, instead of clearly framing them up front as lies pushed by unreliable operators Turning Point USA is a right wing propaganda op aimed at kids

The New York Times also just kind of introduces Turning Point USA as this ambiguous entity without explaining what it is, or detailing any of its dodgy behaviors as a super shady right wing propaganda organization this kind of generous framing isn't done by accident

you'd think a prominent news outlet like the New York Times might mention that "antifa" isn't an actual organization in a long story about antifa, but nope! and the subhead helps props up a false claim this professor was up to something seedy as something up for debate

Absolutely Insane Doug Ford Scandals Pile Up While No One Is Paying Attention youtu.be/6JO1SDqgLrc?...

Oh, maybe this is Ford's plan to stop speeding in Ontario...just ask each person who speeds to promise it will 'never happen again'. That should fix it! globalnews.ca/news/1146702...

I dont think I have actually ever encountered more Bond villain like figures in real life like the lot of these technofascists hoping AI will eradicate the "unworthy" from the planet--Musk, Andreessen, Thiel, Zuckerberg, the lot of them, and all the acolytes licking their boots in Silicon Valley

Wes Streeting extended the puberty-blocker ban on 6 November 2024. Leia died by suicide on 11 November 2024.

The MMR vaccine is one of the most stunningly effective medical therapeutics in existence. It’s also safer than most of your everyday activities. This is simply an attempt to stop people from vaccinating.

Here’s an angle for a journalist looking for a fresh take on the White House “Antifa” roundtable — most of the people who participated are employed by or have a direct financial connection to Turning Point USA. I think that’s pretty telling, no?

creating art is like, the worst use case I can think of for AI art is fun! art is the stuff that makes life worth living! art is good and cool and human! it doesn’t even matter if you’re “good” or “bad” at it! why on earth would you want a machine to do the fun stuff for you??

Designation of antifa as a foreign terrorist organisation to allow First Amendment rights to be violated is particularly obscene.

It cannot be made clearer. If you continue to support the Harry Potter franchise in any way, you are directly funding the removal of trans people's human rights in the UK.

Oh hell yes I'm gonna get bloodied & arrested for felony good question asking with a bunch of my neighbors while the Indiana Department of Environmental Management, which is 3 coal companies in a trenchcoat, pretends to take what we say into consideration before saying Ok lol ofc Google can do it

really can’t say enough about how mike johnson is a sniveling little coward of a man. a bayou-bred pushover with a dignity deficit that would embarrass renfield