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Highly recommend listening to this episode of The Intercept Briefing and reading Empire of AI by @karenhao.bsky.social. Hao sheds light on the largely overseas exploited workforce who actually power so-called artificial intelligence. theintercept.com/2026/01/02/e... @theintercept.com

You can have a government that is fun and cares about people! It's not illegal.

Is riding trains and looking out the window a job? Because I'm very good at it.

How many provinces and territories will show us leadership on shunning the CSAM platform before the Carney government gets around to it?

The worst political malpractice has been progressive parties letting the freaking conservatives be the only ones attacking 'elites.' Progressives can back up attack on big corporations with policy that makes things better as well. It gets votes AND they can walk the walk.

If you failed, you'd get yelled at. The stress was unbelievable. You quickly learn who is ALWAYS available. Ian Lee, for example, was ALWAYS available. To the point that it was kind of a running joke. Sylvain Charlebois? Constantly pitching himself in our inboxes, always ready to hop on camera.

This watermark graffiti by street artist Mathieu Tremblin is, like, the best thing ever.

canada continuing to drop the ball on taking tech policy seriously

The cost of living has always gone up, the bigger problem is that you're getting a smaller slice of the pie.

Kind of obsessed with my 11-year-old's drawing of a black hole barfing out a rainbow and creating the earth.

Oh great.

I don't think it's hyperbole to say that the only way to ensure a free and just society for our children and grandchildren is to enact policies as soon as possible that tax billionaires out of existence, removes their influence from politics, and breaks up the companies they've consolidated.

I don’t like this

whoever figures out a way to bundle independent journalism subscriptions will be a hero

"If you're not at the table, you're on the menu."

Bezos right now: Wait, if democracy dies in darkness, all I have to do is buy all the lamps and turn them off.

1. Build huge subscriber base by telling them their $ supports democracy. 2. Don’t establish other revenue sources. 3. Rug-pull subscribers by pushing opinion side to the right. 4. Subscribers leave, revenue falls. 5. Enact crippling newsroom cuts.

Future Mending Radio Season 2 has begun! In this podcast, I profile the people and organizations that are already experimenting with a better future. If you're new to the podcast this episode is a quick overview of the project so far. www.buzzsprout.com/2396702/epis...

Trump and Ford agree on basically everything except tariffs on Canada. Remember Ford said he was a big fan of Trump the first time he was running for election.

LNG industry: we are clean energy.... Reality.

Important for people to realize that like 30% of all the bad stuff in society is already explicitly illegal it's just not enforced.

Trust me, you want this! Coming May 2026: a collection of #solarpunk short stories by @tkrex.bsky.social, built off her story, A Holdout in the Northern California Wildcraft Zone, which you can read/listen to free! grist.org/climate-fict... @torystephens.bsky.social bookshop.org/a/102876/978...

Woody Allen and climate denier Bjorn Lomborg meet up with Jeffrey Epstein... No, it's not the beginning of a joke.

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Yo! The history of the saxophone is WILD!

No! Definitely No!

This shit hits like a sledgehammer right now. It's not even remotely an exaggeration.

Union workers solved the trolley problem, you're welcome

I’m all about STOP CARRYING OUT YOUR INTENTIONS

insisting on calling every mass day of protest or one-day boycott a "general strike" is not the move. it's good to see people rallying around the cause, it matters, but if you want to be part of a large-scale labor action that shuts down the gears of capital, start by unionizing your workplace!!!

Xbox LIVE was willing to do in 2013 what the entire US establishment was not.

BREAKING: Federal Court of Appeal affirms Canada's move to regulate plastic as a toxic pollutant. The case dragged on for years but the decision vindicates our fight for the right to protect the environment and people from US-owned petrochem! www.fca-caf.ca/en/pages/dec... #plasticpollution

Apparently if you put an instant buy button for everything in everyone's pocket and then add a giant layer of algorithms buying and selling for max profit, no one knows what the price of anything is anymore.

Proud "over-empathizing" Scandinavian here!

the White House's official X account gloats over the arrest of Don Lemon with a chains emoji

feds have arrested jamael lundy alongside journalists georgia fort and don lemon for the protest at a st. paul church led by an ICE agent lundy is currently running for state senate district 65 in minnesota. his wife is anika bowie, a st. paul city councilmember www.jlundyforsd65.com

Why is every food ad about protein now? Were people having that much trouble finding protein amongst the foods we have been thriving on for hundreds of thousands of years?

I cannot tell you how much doubt was consistently directed at the Gaza Health Ministry’s casualty numbers and how much pressure was put on news organizations to couch those numbers as unreliable. Biden himself said they were fabricated! www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

The Overton window has shifted so far towards fascism that Bill Kristol is now to the left of Senate Democrats.

Gold usually climbs aggressively during or after stock market collapse. The current behaviour is very weird.

The goal, quite explicitly, is to silence dissent with violence

Canada was at 9.4% in Q3 2025, down from 15.7% in Q3 2024. The government keeps delaying the introduction of a new EV incentive and is letting the fact we’re tied into the US market and its vehicle safety standards limit the affordable EVs that can be sold here. That needs to change.

The International Energy Agency (IEA) has regular reports (monthly, quarterly) which provide short-term projections of coal, oil, & gas. As of January 2026, it looks like fossil CO2 emissions in 2026 will be relatively flat: the drop in coal (-1%) offset by growth in gas (2%) & oil (0.8%). 1/

"Every social theory undergirding Trumpism has been broken on the steel of Minnesotan resolve...The secret fear of the morally depraved is that virtue is actually common, and that they’re the ones who are alone. In MN, all of the ideological cornerstones of MAGA have been proved false at once."

The biggest risk in this moment is something sociologists call “symbolic compliance.” That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.

This hit so fucking hard today.