Beware of any Christian movement that needs a government in order to succeed. Beware of any government that needs a Christian movement in order to succeed.

Saw a rather disgusting example of Doug Ford using our money for propaganda. He touts banning safe injection sites from being near playgrounds. Since he closed them all, the playgrounds *are* the injection sites now and they are not safe. #ONPoli

Every time I see Cameron Brink I think of that tweet "when did the Cameron Diaz factory start making Kevin Durants"

So disappointing. Dismantling Canada’s climate plan to meet the demands of a reckless premier and rich oil & gas companies not only increases our emissions, it undermines our competiveness as the clean energy transition accelerates - and it leaves our kids to pay the price.

I wrote my MP about Bill C-22 and leaned into "hey, remember when Conservative values meant things like individual freedom from government surveillance? Please prove me wrong by showing you still care about these things." action.openmedia.org/page/188754/... #CdnPoli

Some defense from the Toronto Tempo would probably help.

This is truly insane, and it’s a major reason why I follow any mention of Elon Musk with some form of “who is a Nazi”

And we’re purposely falling behind

You know it's an old DVD when it asks if you want to watch in fullscreen or widescreen.

The funniest thing about the “fertility debate” is that it has an easy answer as far as America is concerned (let in more immigrants) but people are like that is neither racist nor misogynist enough

"Major tech companies leaving Canada is worth it for the ability of the government to spy on people." - Carney fans

The private sector won't pay for it because it is a bad investment. Most other countries are wisely realizing it is bad economics to keep pouring billions into dependence on fossil fuels. Canada, though, is eager for governments to pay all the wasted expense. #CdnPoli www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

Trump hearing "cisgender" and thinking its "six genders" then getting all mad about it, thus forcing other Republicans to agree that the libs are now demanding there be six genders, is a perfect encapsulation of our Golden Age of Dickishness and Stupidity.

ok, deep breath… we're discussing *potentially* adding post editing to Bluesky this year.

I really do think Trump misheard Talarico saying "cisgender" as "six genders," and that's just a thing he says now. The first person I saw make this observation deleted the post saying it, but yeah.

Compressing a talk about AI - what is it, what is it good/bad at, what social issues does it impact - for church Adult Education is proving challenging to get down to 45 minutes or less.

"You are responsible for your work regardless of how it was generated" is a much more coherent and enforceable policy than some of the "no AI allowed at all" framings that are popular on social media and would put the onus on reviewers to somehow know what counts as "AI" when they see it.

Oh, as a true Canadian male I know this one: Toronto Maple Leafs, Montreal Canadiens, Detroit Red Wings, Boston Bruins, New York Rangers, Chicago Blackhawks.

‘Sovereign Pipeline’: CEO Pitches to Keep Trans Mountain in Government Hands. TRANSLATION: "No one is gonna buy this from us given global market trends, so let's just say we want to keep it." www.theenergymix.com/sovereign-pi...

I realize nothing makes me sound like a conservative more than talking about bad tech policy, but when I say things like "freedom" and "free market" I mean actual freedom to compete and for the most marginalized to live equitably, not for the oligarchs to be uninhibited in their endless extraction.

The fact that Signal has threatened to pull out of Canada should be a five-alarm fire for the Carney people. This bill is illiberal.

Considering increasing pushes for more of a corporate and/or police surveillance state in the name of things like protecting the children or giving police access to more data, I may go full digital hermit. Maybe just a GrapheneOS phone with nothing but Proton Mail and Signal on it, through a VPN.

In my more cynical moods I suspect the Skynet nonsense is to equate discussion of “AI harms” with fanciful hypotheticals rather than more mundane stuff that’s actually happening.

I am not worried software is suddenly going to decide it wants power over humanity. I am worried about what people who already have power over humanity can do with that software.

One more reason to sign up for Signal right now... They actually give a shit about privacy

We've seen the shift in Canada, too. The lies used to be more like: find one piece of contradictory data they could manipulate to fit their ideology. Now they straight up invent a whole new reality where they are perfect and everyone else is pure evil, for the conservative faithful to live in.

I am very tired of the stupid-savvy 'oh you think politicians were honest before Donald Trump' take, like yes there has in fact been a qualitative change in the way modern american politics have been conducted that is largely attributable to him, and is bad.

Them: Hey; what’s up? Me: Jesus #AscensionDay ⚓️

#TorontoTempo get the franchise's first regular season win! #WNBA

Nearly $200k to buy a plan that was returned twelve days later after the public found out about it. Remember this the next time the Premier complains about a school trustee (allegedly) expensing a pack of gum. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Missed the first half and the start of the second because the power went out at the cottage, but #TorontoTempo basketball is back on the TV now!

As Jesus famously said, "blessed be the oil barons, for they will accumulate wealth at the expense of human survival and God is totally cool with that."

One of these days I'm going to actually get around to optimizing my social feeds, whether that's using @surf.social or just regular Bluesky feeds and Mastodon lists. Not today. But someday. Hopefully.

There's nothing journalists of a certain age are nostalgic for more than Google Reader. So I think the way you get journalists coming to Bluesky—or, rather, to @atproto.com powered networks—is to simply rebuild, pixel for pixel, feature for feature, Google Reader, including its social elements.

I think you can usually make a pretty good point in less than a hundred characters. The other two hundred and change are mostly for trying in vain to get ahead of every possible misreading of that point.

Much like how every time Republicans in power do something and the primary narrative is "here's how Democrats are bad for failing to stop it" we act like too-online progressives have more power than the people literally dictating what speech is allowed on the platforms they literally own.

I left Twitter before BlueSky existed because a Nazi bought it. I can’t control what other people do. I’m not the Nazi Whisperer.

I mean, it’s good that “they’re obviously hiding something, right?” isn’t basis enough to launch a criminal investigation, but they’re obviously hiding something, right?

No surprise here: AI transcription tools for doctors make a lot of mistakes. If used as a first pass that the doctor reviews immediately after, I don't mind it. It might save them some time writing it all. But they absolutely should not simply assume it is perfect. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Fixed it. #OpenStreets

Jason Collins, the NBA's first openly gay player who has served as a global ambassador for the sport, has died from brain cancer, his family said. He was 47 www.espn.com/nba/story/_/...

Why do you expect to have a person prepare a customized meal that another person picks up and delivers to you — and _not_ pay a lot of money for such a luxury

Part of the thinking around this whole trial is that Elon did it to embarrass Sam, but hard to think of anything more embarrassing for Elon than "he had a plan to turn OpenAI into a hereditary monarchy"

Well this is shocking news.

The rule appears to be that redistricting is always legal when it benefits Republicans and never legal when it benefits Democrats.

crimes you do with a car aren’t really crimes and fines assessed for them exist solely to raise revenue

why would i want to watch a podcast. podcasts are for when you are doing something else

I do this exercise w/ theology students: imagine in an important area of your life, you can only operate on what you understood at 14. Every other area, you grow in understanding, but in e.g. romance or finances? 14. How’s that part of life going to go? Now when do people stop learning re: religion?

Removing the gas tax doesn't target fossil fuel companies. If anything, it helps them by making it more likely consumers buy gas.

This is a rare big win for privacy. I'll still encourage @signal.org as much as I can, but the worst case scenario default for everyone else will be a lot better.