It's fascinating how right-wing governments everywhere are enthusiastically embracing generative AI. #abpoli #cdnpoli

"'I had the opportunity to speak with Ambassador Hoekstra and thank him, the President, and the American people for their heartfelt support throughout the Freedom Convoy and ever since.'" A remarkable and wholly unsurprising admission of ongoing foreign interference in Canadian politics. #cdnpoli

We live in an era where testing, grades, writing, teaching conditions, and reading are all simultaneously in forms of crisis, and, to my mind, the common denominator is a complete lack of focus and intention on learning as the desired outcome of education.

"These are delusional, careless, and tedious people who will never suffer consequences like these, attempting to massage a bad message so they can get patted on the back for it."

"While the news release referenced opportunities for Manitoba to join the project, it did not include any indication that its provincial government had signed up for a project that would likely have to travel through its territory." Kinew can do the funniest thing. #abpoli #cdnpoli

I want to see Public Library Rooftop Punk Shows everywhere

what’s joy look like in this deranged ‘AI or die world’ you ask: well, today for me, it is computer science and statistics students quoting Ruha Benjamin and bell hooks in their research papers

A man who publicly was doing something which, when done wrong, can cause graft-vs-host disease, an autoimmune disease which can attack, among other things, your GI tract, now has an autoimmune disease which is attacking his GI tract. What a coincidence.

HYPERSCALE is hitting bookstores on October 20. Preorder it now! In the book, I dig into how the data center boom is pushing our planet past its breaking point, and the incredible efforts of people pushing back against the profit-driven interests of Big Tech. Get your copy: hyperscalebook.com

"I expected patriotic Dread Lord acolytes from all across this great country of ours to be out in full force this weekend. It was the Fourth of July, for crying out loud. Who doesn’t love hot dogs and fireworks and those mysterious, deafening keening wails coming from the renovated Reflecting Pool?"

data visualization is my passion.

this guy is the co-founder of Airbnb

here's a tip: when someone in your building steals your packages, if all they find is big awful books about political philosophy they'll just quietly leave them by your apartment door a few days later anyway

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Nothing quite captures the spirit of America 250 like promising a century of single party rule if only one party can change election laws.

CBC’s The National last night: Top story is the government announcing a new oil pipeline from Alberta and how it placated BC Then a story on the massive heatwave, storms and flooding in Ontario and Quebec Then a story on huge Manitoba flooding after they also dealt with tornadoes and rain 🫠

Happy 40th birthday to the one and only Cundey joint, Big Trouble In Little China.

rookie numbers, gotta pump em up, and all that

So, is it good when Alberta’s privacy commissioner is recommending people obscure their new driver’s licences to prevent unlawful collection of citizenship status and health care numbers? oipc.ab.ca/resource/cha...

Union workers establish hardship fund to support devs impacted by layoffs

driving down the road dodging potholes the town "can't afford" to fix past three giant cop SUVs pulled up around a single homeless guy & his dog I'm sure there's a message there somewhere

Atlas V is an incredible rocket, and one I will miss dearly. Last night the final Atlas V 551 put on a show that can only be described as breathtaking. I have had one shot in mind for this variant for years, and not only did I finally get it on my last chance, it might be my best work yet.

"And on the pedestal these words appear: 'My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!' Nothing beside remains. Round the decay Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare The lone and level sands stretch far away."

Couldn't sleep last night because it was too hot outside so instead I ruminated on the 63 billion dollars we've allocated for defence spending www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

I think Eden at @aftermath.site is telling me I should play this game. aftermath.site/saros-doom-m...

"[P]layers don’t have the same rights over digital purchases as they do with physical ones. Just last week, Sony deleted hundreds of movies users had already purchased from their libraries."

He means the climate plan he inherited from a government that was led by most of his current cabinet members and endorsed by his own voters

Now accepting bets on whether Jason Kenney or Garnett Genuis will be first to tweet something out wishing everyone a happy "Dominion Day" tomorrow

Let's gooooooooo #ableg #abpoli

He says it would be too expensive to meet our climate targets…so who is saving money when we don’t? The people whose houses burn down in forest fires? Those who lose homes to flooding? The people who die in heat domes?

Costume? I don’t think so! Blobby sheds his skin every spring, then makes a fortune selling it to freaks and ghouls. It’s a scam.

Date yourself with a snap of your first ever compute.

"'In all my time as a narrative designer I’ve never once encountered a situation where editing an inferior product took less time than simply throwing it out and redoing it would have, or resulted in anything better than mediocre.'"

I read a lot of sci-fi in my teenage years but I never read a dystopian fantasy where every successive prime minister of the UK Jeremy Hunt-ed their successor from now until the planet melted in 2045

Kickstarter campaigns w/toy factor collector perks & dopamine-releasing stretch goals to woo boardgame whales is modeled after Hollywood's opening weekend box office - two days to determine a game's hit or flop status - and is a diminishing and bad business model, actually

The Right understands it is war.

Expanding the court is the conservative position now. The moderate position is Nuremberg 2.0.

No, no, no — not dying! A promising plot of potential! An assemblage of aspiration! A caucus of civic commitment! The post office could and should be so much more! Local print: bring it back! Phone booths: so many possibilities for activation!

“Those trying to shut it down want to prevent Canadians from hearing #Palestinian stories that reflect negatively on the Israeli state. However, it is the role of the Museum to tell [these] stories..not to protect the reputation of the perpetrators.” www.cjpme.org/pr_2026_06_2...

wait for it

Old enough to recognize this as a data center

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Xbox's unionized workers have joined forces across teams to speak out and fight back against looming layoffs, demanding protections not just for union members, but for all Xbox workers. https://kotaku.com/unionized-workers-xbox-respond-layoff-reports-will-not-be-treated-disposable-2000711455

But I mean yeah in all seriousness, a second shortlist spot (!!!!) in this incredible company for what I consider to be my PERSONAL most meaningful award in SFF is... is very something! Thank you so so much to @psychopomp.com @ecatherine.com @mkcurry.bsky.social @seanmarkey.bsky.social !

Their goal is to institutionalize & legitimize the fascist turn, not unlike the earlier "viewpoint diversity" initiative that was designed to permanently embed discredited fascist & theocratic ideas in the university.