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Pair this with the TPL hosting workshops like this after getting a 2.7 million dollar grant from Google to spread this shit through public institutions.

I've been having SUCH a good time putting on the Wayfinding series with my pals at @1rg.space!! Did you know you can just bring people together to have interesting conversations?? There's still tix available for the Art event this Weds, come hear about making art In These Times™ luma.com/wayfinding4

For international women's day I'd like to be real. Women in trades are dealing with some really messed up stuff at work. Stuff you probably don't of. Death threats, false imprisonment, attempted murder- and this is happening on big union sites even. My latest: canadiandimension.com/articles/vie...

the “better fash than cringe” reaction has been one of the more significant and widespread poisons of the last decade

love how we killed the old, frail anti-nuke ayatollah just to have him replaced with his young, healthy son who wants nukes and who just had his father, mother, wife, and child murdered on the same day by his mortal enemy. surely this will bring peace to the region

Stop being a pick-me about thinking the world is ending. Guess what, me too! Cloaking insufficiency to rise to the occasion of your life through cataclysm is only excusable when the streets are filling with volcanic ash and there's no more grass to touch.

“It’s insane because in the night it looked like day and in the day, it was so dark, it looked like a new moon night. So, so dark, just like our futures. I noticed there wasn’t a single bird in the sky and you know what they say? When the birds abandon you, you are truly on your own.”

It’s cool that this generation gets to find out the answer to “what would you have done when we started interning the Japanese?” and “what would you have done when we invaded Vietnam?” and “what would you have done in Watergate?” all at the same time.

“International Women’s Day” ending up on the only 23 hour day of the year.

They attacked the burn treatment center in Tehran before unleashing the fires of hell on the city. They are truly the epitome of all evil in this world x.com/UnboundedVoi...

Wonderful breakdown!!! The scariest part of these misrepresented stats is that they drive they idea that these beliefs are common and normal, which itself makes people more likely to align with them!!! It's a blight on every journalist who reported this uncritically

Am I surprised that a man who was able to thrive at a company where women weren't allowed in the same room as the boss, because he'd grope them, appears to have no ethical backbone? Not even a little.

Give me my hour back you goddamn animals

THREAD: I got laid off from NYMag/Vulture after 14 years. The family lost 75% of income + medical. Now mzs.press bookstore, once a side project. is do-or-die for Judith & I. I feel weird telling you this because others are doing much worse. But if you could like or share this, we'd be so grateful!

1. Today we celebrate Toronto’s 182th birthday. Which is pretty weird. Because Toronto isn’t 192 years old. And it wasn’t founded in March. Here goes my annual rant…

Seeing that no press freedom orgs have rushed to defend and help @rachelgilmore.bsky.social makes me ask, for the millionth time, what do CJFE, PEN, etc even do? Why exist at all when you do fuck all to fight censorship and intimidation?

Does anyone else feel sick of it all? Wrote for the Star about Toronto Police, Open AI and everyone in power who deserves a public shaming. www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

This is why journalists should not be friends with the people they cover. It‘s embarrassing for all concerned. www.tvo.org/article/anal...

Maybe they realized how unpopular this idea was www.thestar.com/politics/pro...

WE LOVE RECIEPTS workerorganizing.org/corporate-ta...

New from 404 Media: Proton Mail, the privacy-focused email service, gave authorities data that let the FBI unmask an anonymous 'Stop Cop City' protester. It was payment data linked to the anonymous email account. From that, FBI ID'd them, then tracked their movements www.404media.co/proton-mail-...

Carney *explicitly campaigned* on increased funding for the CBC. Just a straight up lie.

lol, lmao even grith.ai/blog/clineje...

Greg Davies: Can’t fault you for effort, well done that man. Sisyphus: What kept me going was knowing everyone else was also pushing that boulder uphill every day. Alex Horne: Ah. Well, I’ve got some bad news there.

what the—and I cannot stress this enough—absolute fuck: "...sensitive and personal footage captured by [Meta Smart Glasses]—including people going to the bathroom, getting dressed, and having sex—is being reviewed by contractors who see all of it uncensored." gizmodo.com/dear-meta-sm...

Steam community: “Can we play as a male character?” Me (indie dev in this economy): “Best I can do is sentient tofu.”

This week's @showuptoronto.ca newsletter: lots of OSAP cuts protests, International Women's Day march this Saturday, and a poem. buttondown.com/showup/archi... #toronto

FYI for fellow narrative designers/game writers: the studio in question is Sentona Games and it’s my understanding they are currently interviewing to replace me. Be very careful with them. They were very nice to me and easy to work with right up until I needed the money I was promised.

New blog post just dropped. www.chrismelito.com/blog/the-but... If you hate how technocrats are replacing human interaction with slop, you'll like this

Next Wednesday we're hosting Wayfinding: Art, a conversation between @blap64.bsky.social and Michelle Jia, moderated by @sholis.com We'd like to find our way between the hype and the fear What does it feel like to create art, and to engage in the art world at this moment? luma.com/wayfinding4?...

I am horrified by this

Also, C-2 was only a "first attempt" in that bill's specific iteration of lawful access, but over the years, it has really been, what, 6th attempt maybe, or more? And rebuffed every time. There's a reason for the zombie metaphor as per @christopher-parsons.com:

There's an emergency "Stop the War in Iran" protest kicking off in NYC at 2 pm at Times Square. www.answercoalition.org/iran/ - I'm going to head out. I've also included the list of other protests across the country.

People say what's the point of impeachment? It'll fail. The War Powers resolution will possibly (probably?) fail as well, like the Venezuelan War Powers resolution. You push for both because both are required responses to the illegality we're facing.

I think people misunderstood Mark Carney's speech at Davos. It was not about standing up to the US. It acknowledged the fiction of the "rules-based international order" led by the US, and advocated pragmatic cooperation between middle powers. Not "do what is right" but "do what is cheap."

The U.S. is now attacking Iran.

if i was dario anthropic i would simply fund ann altman's lawsuit alleging incestuous rape by her brother sam altman. this would be a very easy win for effective altruism. possibly the easiest win imaginable.

Time for the JSON creator to do the funniest thing ever www.json.org/license.html

this is an attempt by the Secretary of War to bankrupt Anthropic. good luck to everyone working there

Today, I received confirmed reports that agents from ICE and HSI forced entry into a residence on the 5200 block of 36th Ave., kicking in the door and detaining a constituent. Witnesses report that 8–9 masked agents carried out the operation. 🧵

My friend Eva has run an absolutely incredible mutual aid operations out of MacArthur Park in LA for an uninterrupted six years, and she experienced a brutal and bizarre attack during food service that landed her in the hospital last week. Help pay her medical bills! www.gofundme.com/f/support-a-...

i actually think this is the wrong way to think about the direction this is going. fox news is the default channel in many public spaces — most troublingly, us military bases, has been for decades. this was not a matter of policy afaik, it just slid into place. it's not hard to lock it in as policy.

This is a beautiful act of integrity and principle, incredibly rare for our time. Thank you, Anthropic. www.anthropic.com/news/stateme...

I can't wait to vote in the ndp leadership race and more importantly I can't wait for the ndp leadership race to gtfo my inbox

I was about to be like wow now I can say I’ve been featured in an NMA-nominated newsletter but given the usual subjects Rusty covers this is decidedly not actually complimentary (the nomination is VERY complimentary and deserved tho, congrats Rusty!!)

Is this bad yes Should you doom?

It's time. Colin, the comrade running the shelter-in-place food program I'm working at, told me that this week he's had to turn down asks from schools to supply food directly to their sheltering families. The reason? There's not enough money coming in for that amount of food. Let's change that.