We are so humiliatingly deep into tinpot dictatorship territory. The government has just brokered the coerced sale of a major media platform to an ally of the president, who is openly boasting about converting it into (even more of) a partisan propaganda outlet.

This may be the first time I've ever learned about a cybersecurity vulnerability via a CBC News app notification: www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

In a statement, Vaughan Mayor Steven Del Duca pivoted from speed cameras to violent crime, suggesting we should spend more time focussing on the latter. That’s illuminating. Vehicles obviously present the bigger statistical threat, especially to children. But we accept those injuries and deaths.

I have learned that a new version of Final Fantasy Tactics is releasing soon, including on Xbox, which is a valuable reminder that there can be good news in the world.

Anyone else wearying of Doug Ford’s endless efforts to kill pedestrians and cyclists while misappropriating tax dollars? Just me?

literally every time I talk to friends

Now I know: that turn is legal here, including (I think but it wasn't as clear) when the LRT lights are flashing. That seems even more dangerous to me than the usual right on red because pedestrians largely don't know to be looking over their shoulder for the car whipping through. But it's legal.

This idea that nobody likes speed cameras is patently false. A few loud, angry voices are convincing our elected officials otherwise. www.thestar.com/opinion/star...

I just watched 5 cars in a row turn left on a red light (onto a one-way) plus lots of flashing lights warning about the LRT. But Doug Ford assures us we don't need to enforce speeding because lights are sufficient. #OnPoli

Talking even to academics you often encounter a strong belief that a distinct, new thing called "generative AI" was invented in 2022, while ML tools before that date were hand-crafted and used only trusted sources.

When I worked for the Girl Scouts, and this was ten years ago, this was a five alarm fire. Membership organizations were crashing across the board, nobody wants to join or commit to any organization they just kind of want activities and services to be available when they feel like showing up

I promised myself I'm not going to loose my mind & day like yesterday on the speed camera issue (Doug Ford will kill more people) but man who inherited a label & tag business loves a sign as much as he loves his SUV.

Yeah it’s called speeding. “Ford and Del Duca both claimed they'd heard of drivers getting fined multiple times for going only a few kilometres per hour over the speed limit through camera zones.” https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/ontario-premier-announcement-speed-cams-live-1.7643182

Most of these are fine tips, but we all know the real answer is "never leave your house without being in your $50,000 portable metal box" because you will be blamed for whatever happens to you otherwise. Can't afford that, or too much traffic, or a disability that means you can't drive? Oh well.

Lots of (appropriate) dunking on this article, but I haven’t seen many people with this particular dunk: cars are HUGE now! The biggest SUVs are SEVEN FEET TALL and have a FIFTEEN FOOT front blind spot. My teeny tiny 8yo doesn’t stand a chance against these.

BREAKING: Microsoft has blocked the Israeli military from some cloud and AI services. The block comes after The Guardian revealed last month that Microsoft’s services were being used for mass surveillance of Palestinians. Full details 👇 www.theverge.com/news/785733/...

Might need to reach out to our indie theatres in Kitchener-Waterloo to see if they'll be getting this.

Without further ado, here is the trailer for Jeffrey Epstein: Bad Pedophile. Against all odds, it will air in select theatres on October 2nd, along with the theatrical debut of Sex House. Tickets go on sale tomorrow. And, yes, this is real.

I'd like to suggest that "the worst part" is that people are speeding in school zones and putting kids and others at risk, not that they are getting caught for doing so.

So just to be clear, all taxpayers will pay for traffic calming instead of fining the people that speed and leaving everyone else alone. We like this for a policy change? Are we so afraid of going after the actual rule breakers that we would rather put it on the back of everybody?

This is a reasonable and appropriate response to receiving a speeding ticket from an automated speed camera. More of this please. www.ctvnews.ca/toronto/arti...

you can tell america is going great because every day an important institution must post something like "please do not listen to the president, we promise that water is not going to turn your blood cells trans"

With all due respect to some of the classics, Canticle of the Turning is the greatest hymn ever written.

the lesson of the kimmel thing is that a corporation that previously caved to trump was forced by its audience to defy him. they're afraid of him but they're more afraid of you.

That he feels he can say this, publicly, is 100% Doug Ford giving this behaviour his approval. This should be an embarrassing secret bro takes to his grave. The way these people drive & treat others will be related too. The sociopathic lid is off.

it's official: Microsoft is embracing OpenAI rival Anthropic to improve its Microsoft 365 apps. Microsoft is bringing Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 4 and Claude Opus 4.1 to Microsoft 365 Copilot users, starting today. Full details 👇 www.theverge.com/news/784392/...

maybe they meant Canadian Rapture, which happens in October

Speed is what kills and speed cameras have been reducing it effectively. Every single death and injury in a section where his government rips out speed cameras will be very reasonably attributable to Ford.

Christian (or Jewish) crowdsourcing question: what have you been taught, or came to understand, is the purpose of the idea of Sabbath?

Ford offers money for helping municipalities implement infrastructure that will slow cars, replacing enforcement that slowed cars now and helped fund infrastructure. But this is also the guy who demanded to rip out bike lanes so it will be interesting to see what infrastructure is allowed. #OnPoli

What a king. May all the people in ford-voting areas w pathetic “slow down” signs on their lawns make no connections between what they see & voting preferences. www.thestar.com/politics/pro...

I tried asking GitHub Copilot to help me write unit tests for a custom #Drupal entity. 3 models (Gemini Pro 2.5, Sonnet 3.5, GPT 4o) all failed miserably. Sonnet seemed to do the best and was most user-friendly in the process, a little better than GPT 4o, but ultimately also gave up.

I've been thinking about this in terms of a conversation I had. She only knew Kirk for some vague "stand up for God" stuff and thought that made him a hero. She didn't have a lot of depth to what "Christian" meant, and didn't know what Kirk meant by it, so obviously he was a good person like her.

I’ve known about this bifurcation — eg churches that teach the Gospels vs churches that avoid teaching them entirely — for some time, but even then I’ve felt SHOCKED by what it feels like to preach with the lectionary. The lectionary has me preaching about the poor every week for the past month!

When a typo in your Google search leads to new and exciting philosophical positions

Happy Rapture Day! It's been a few years since we had a good rapture, definitely was starting to feel like we were overdue.

I've thought about this Andor quote so many times this year. The only way Trump can win anywhere close to every battle he is waging is if most of his targets don't even fight back. It is an extremely fragile regime trying to do too much too fast. So pick which part of the fight is yours then do it.

If you, like me, are the parent of a neuro-atypical child dreading this autism press conference, please remember: These are the people hurting our kids. Not us. They are the ones stigmatizing and pathologizing them. They are the ones peddling untested science. And we should be very, very angry.

I wrote about Kirk‘s memorial, which was set up as part MAGA propaganda rally/TPUSA Action fundraiser, part Christian revival, with Christian Nationalism as the centrepiece - and numerous calls for spiritual warfare, as well as Kirk‘s canonisation as a martyr for the movement @religiondispatches.org

do we think it's good that entire economy is based on the same entities passing money back and forth on speculative investment without anyone making anything that someone outside the loop is buying

Just got an email from a scam academic journal asking if I wanted to "explore new advances in White Psychodrama" and it's just got me like: buddy, I can watch the news myself.

"This one weird trick saves you THOUSANDS per year in taxes* 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘮𝘢𝘬𝘦𝘴 𝘮𝘶𝘯𝘪𝘤𝘪𝘱𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘦𝘴 𝘧𝘶𝘳𝘪𝘰𝘶𝘴^!" The trick is to just not speed past speed cameras. Come on Doug Ford and the crybabies who don't like the cameras. Let's be serious here. #OnPoli *Not a tax. ^They actually prefer it

Love killing off all the religion departments just as christofascism sweeps the nation.

ATS has always seemed like a terrible idea to me for anything except the most generic roles, or basic of filters. You are basically marking people on whether they have learned the rules of a game they may not even know exists.

They have utterly conflated being a Christian with being a Good American. They have shrunk the whole mission of Jesus down to waving the flag and serving US interests. There is no difference whatsoever between their duty to the nation and to their god. It is absolute blindness & worship of empire.

It's very strange to hear the Vice President of a powerful earthly nation quoting Jesus saying "But take heart, I have overcome the world," and using that to encourage people to say "For Charlie, we will rebuild America to greatness!" America is part of the world, brother.

Just encountered a fake captcha on a site so uh, watch out, if you "fail" a captcha and it tells you to press windows plus r and then ctrl plus v that's some shady shit that's gonna run something on your computer so don't do that. Be aware that's a thing that exists to try and trick you.

Loudest and brightest thunderstorm I've encountered in quite a while is currently underway in #Kitchener. #ONStorm

Still waiting to hear any tribute to Charlie Kirk that uses his memorable words. I guess he was a very powerful mime.