"Why can't we have a calm discussion about AI?" Cuz the data centers are being built carelessly and at speed, polluting poor neighborhoods, cuz it's drinking my fucking aquifer, and cuz all my art and writing have been plagisrized while the worst assholes crow about my impending obsolescense...

I don't actually have to debate the merits of a product made by assholes who stole my (and everyone else's) work. That's not something I have to do. And it's pretty fucked up to expect anyone to do that. And I'm not shocked that "give AI a chance" weirdos also turn out to be debate pervs.

A good portion of our snow clearing budget is car infrastructure. Meanwhile, pedestrians cyclists, and those using wheelchairs or other mobility devices cannot get around.

Notice how the popular media narrative has moved on, while people on the ground in Minneapolis are still struggling and crying out that things are as bad as ever. This is how fascist regimes operate — overreach, recalibration, normalization. Get louder, not quieter.

While Amazon touts the surveillance state enabled by its Ring cameras, remember... Amazon's U.S. tax bill dropped by 87% in 2025, mostly thanks to Trump's tax cuts. Meanwhile, its profits jumped by 45% to nearly $90 billion — and it announced 30,000 job cuts. Is this the world we want to live in?

One of these days, people will look back on these sports betting ads like we do on the ads for patent medicines featuring cocaine.

Really sick of living on a planet that is a playground for like 500 people (0.00000714%) who are destroying it for the rest of us.

In December, I told you about how Trump’s Department of Education is stripping nurses of our professional status and making school more expensive. From now until March 2, we need you to raise your voice and submit a public comment: www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...

I am so tired of rich people refusing to build anything new and just burning everything that exists as a public good to the ground instead. They have decimated journalism this way. Remember when they used to be scared enough to build public libraries and parks?

Folks can stay mad, we recognize and remember still ❤️🖤💚 "US mathematician Gladys Mae West was best known for her foundational work on GPS systems. As an African American woman, West overcame huge barriers to contribute to this key technology." 👇🏾

I still think the best idea for progressive donors is to just revive every alt-weekly in the country and staff them with 10 reporters each.

I think it's best for everyone to understand that the unified class project of billionaires right now is to do to white collar workers what globalization and neoliberalism did to blue collar workers.

Public hospitals in Ontario face a structural deficit of $1 billion The Ontario government is funnelling $125 million into for-profit surgery facilities Austerity for the public sector, a time of plenty for investors #onpoli www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...

I wrote about my childhood friend Alexi Pretti. Please read it and share it and remember him as a human being. @theverge.com

brass solidarity band performing “stand by me” in the streets of whittier next to alex pretti’s memorial. the crowd started chanting “the people united will never be defeated” so they incorporated it into the song. i love minneapolis

Note how there's no violence or chaos when the cops aren't rioting.

I can’t go to the grocery store alone right now because ICE is racially profiling and abducting people who aren’t white

Senate Dems are going to fully fund ICE if they agree to more body cameras. And that, boys and girls, is why the republic is crumbling. We do NOT need more video of ICE atrocities! We have plenty. We need to STOP the atrocities, PERIOD! Defund ICE or go to hell. That is all.

People not in Minnesota: please read this excellent summary of what life is like in Minneapolis since the murderous scum ICE swarmed here. And more are on their way. By local reporter / writer / bike dude / legend @dbrauer.net .

Eleven American Samoans in Alaska face serious prison time for voting in the only country they’ve ever known. Theirs is a wild story of colonialism, cops, “voter fraud” panic, small-town beef, and family. I spent months on this + am so glad to now be able to share it: boltsmag.org/prosecuted-f...

It's incredibly demoralizing to constantly see the highest institutions of government and academia and the most important and widely seen news outlets knuckle under one after another, but then to see the gulf between that and the bravery of communities and neighbors and teachers - that's something

#BigOil doesn't even want to clean up their wellsites after forest fires burn through them. How could we possibly trust them to do anything responsible?

I’m just an armchair critic but if I was a human rights lawyer, the former DPP and the current PM, I’d probably decide immediately that the only option on the table for a website that openly allows the creation and sharing of CSAM is to shut it down and jail the ringleaders.

American Samoans, unique among *everyone* born in US states or territories, are denied US citizenship. That means they are banned from voting. That's made some a target of vicious GOP prosecution for fraud; even if they were told incorrect info from public officials. A. New. Must. Read.

There was a time there would have been wall-to-wall media coverage of this public outrage. But I only see it on social media.

"I'm calling to demand the immediate dismantling of ICE for the murder of a woman in Minneapolis today and the impeachment of the President for his support of that murder" is the easiest call to my senators and representative I've ever made

we get dozens of male loneliness articles but women being sexually harassed on twitter? not a peep

Doug Ford has fought transparency every step of the way with your hard-earned taxpayer dollars. If there was nothing to hide, why the secrecy? #onpoli globalnews.ca/news/1159745...

The City of Vancouver continues to provide real-time text updates about council meetings exclusively on a website that produces mass amounts of deepfake non-consensual sexualized images of minors

*taps the @tomflood.bsky.social t-shirt*

Ontario has the fewest hospital beds per person of any province in Canada. Ontario funds its hospitals at the lowest rate per person of all the provinces. We deserve better. #OnPoli #OntarioHealth

It’s hard to fathom the tragedy of another Kennedy-this time Tatiana Schlossberg-dying at such a relatively young age But it’s unimaginable to comprehend what she felt, while cancer was stealing her life, as she watched her cousin cut research that might’ve saved other victims of malignant diseases

Reading Tatiana Schlossenberg's essay about her experience with facing an aggressive form of cancer, what struck me was her two mentions of her family having to negotiate with the insurance company. Even for a family of relative wealth, the costs of treatment are brutal.

Ford's crony capitalism is gutting healthcare. “In order for hospitals & other providers to live within that kind of budget envelope, some pretty significant trade-off decisions would have to be implemented.” - Anthony Dale, OHA #GiftLink 🎁 #OnPoli www.thestar.com/news/gta/ham...

As someone who has to review minutes for multiple committees, I can affirmatively state that AI for meeting transcription is not accurate, edits to the minutes now take up more committee time, and it is much worse than having a person prepare accurate minutes.

We do not want this in Ontario or in any other province. However, this is the slippery slope that Doug Ford’s government is putting us on. Privatization and for-profit healthcare literally kills patients.

PSA: if you live in Ontario, Québec, New Brunswick, or Nova Scotia, you can order native plant seeds for FREE from the Ottawa Wildflower Seeds Library. Their annual seed giveaway starts today! wildflowerseedlibrary.ca

Imagine congestion pricing in #OttCity: even just, say, just the urban area shown below, or a concentrated area bound by Bronson, 417, Rideau River… imagine how much better our city could be. Imagine a #BetterOttawa @strongtownsottawa.ca @bettertransitottawa.ca

My listening to Tudor history podcasts has not gone unnoticed by my family, as evidenced by the Anne of Cleves ornament in my stocking. Huzzah!

Our holiday tradition: reading Roddy Doyle's Rover Saved Christmas aloud with comically bad approximations of Irish accents.

Ontario used to be at the forefront of sustainability in building codes, recycling, sustainability. All that good work has been undone. And it’s going to take years to recoup how far we’ve been set back. In the absence of provincial leadership, we need municipal leadership to affect change 1/

I refuse to shut up about this: NYC started charging $9 to bring a car into our most transit-rich zone, the haters & trolls predicted doom, but traffic evaporated instantly and here’s Times Square tonite (even after the holiday tourists have left). For a better future, build transit & price driving!

Not only is Ontario Premier Doug Ford eviscerating our healthcare and schools, it seems that he's fleecing the province and handing everything over to cronies. www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXK0...

Anyway you ever think about how much of libertarianism is just creating a framework to allow antisocial behavior by people who want to engage in antisocial behavior?

2025 was the darkest for Alberta democracy. Here are 10 things you can do this holiday season to help restore the light. open.substack.com/pub/drjaredw...

It's kind of mind-blowing how these tech dorks think they're so smart and have the utmost confidence in their genius, while actual smart people are constantly doubting themselves and critiquing their own arguments.

If you want to do something to support reproductive rights in Scotland sign my petition. It’s being discussed in parliament in January. Show them we won’t take this 🇺🇸 Christian Nationalist interference in our country petitions.parliament.scot/petitions/PE...

"Why don't people love evil murder theft robot?" wonders inventor of evil murder theft robot

It’s infuriating to me that I need to evaluate media to determine whether it’s AI generated now. The great “time saver” technology wastes incalculable time and energy for people who want to retain their grasp on reality