Timely, since in a span of four days we’ve seen a would-be privately funded west-coast pipeline turn into a publicly funded one, and a pitch for a new Alberta-Ontario pipeline *start* from the premise that it might be publicly funded.

@mark-carney.bsky.social Borders cannot be redrawn by force. At this year’s NATO Summit, Canada and our NATO Allies will reaffirm our support for Ukraine in defending its freedom, sovereignty, and territorial integrity. Yet genocidal Israel’s borders change DAILY and Canada still trades with them.

Can't imagine the rest of the Five Eyes governments — Australia, Britain, Canada, and New Zealand, which share their intelligence with the United States — are thrilled that they've got someone gunning for retribution running the U.S.' spy shop.

when AI companies go bankrupt

Incredible achievement. The Chinese spacecraft Tianwen-2 has arrived in close proximity to the asteroid Kamo'oalewa, a 'quasi-satellite' of Earth. It will collect samples from this asteroid and return with them to Earth next year. Kamo'oalewa was once part of our Moon.

This might be the most blatant example in existence of "rich guy who created a problem attempting to place the blame for that problem on immigrants"

god. we can't have anything nice anymore. 90 years prison for people using photorealistic AI to deceive others.

such an american idea to think that the pope would have to "move" its moral guidance for the united states government have you heard of the catholic church ever

I do not say this lightly: I hope the judge that downplayed his threats, assured him he was a good dad and wished him well in life, is haunted for the rest of his life by the murder of those young boys.

Sure seems like betting markets on wildfires are an...extremely bad idea lol.

It'll never not be funny that the frontman for Slipknot got bullied into this: youtube.com/shorts/1EwIf...

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This is a lie that Alberta has repeatedly told itself. The NEP didn't cause an oil shock. The global oil market went into a supply glut at the same time and prices crashed, but rather than blame those factors, they chose to blame Pierre Trudeau and created a mythology out of it. Same again in 2014.

The pipeline announcement begins with Carney acknowledging, without a hint of irony, the “biblical weather” in Ottawa yesterday. Extreme weather huh? Like the kind exacerbated by climate change? You don’t say! Hm!!!!

@jkass99.bsky.social Is the Canadian airborne Somalia affair on your list? Can we hear you and Ani speak a little Armenian on a HoA episode?

Oh, and the guy was almost certainly not in Tren de Aragua either, as ICE accused. Like with make-up artist Andry Romero, it seems ICE’s reason for declaring him a gang member was… a tattoo. Of a clock. With his son’s birthday. Showing a man holding a kid’s hand. Seriously. ICE can’t be trusted.

It is so fucking gross that we will cut every single taxpayer funded service to the bone to fund oil pipelines for separatists. You’re going to buy off maybe 1% of them. They’re white Christian nationalists my dude, or at best, people so far out of regular media environments.

This trend of mainstream media outlets asking this stupid asinine question over and over and over and Democratic candidates for office rejecting the premise is going to become increasingly common, and this is good because it makes the press look bad, not the candidates.

Came across this gem today: a replica of Isaac Newton’s telescope, placed on a pedestal below the 200-inch Palomar telescope, for comparison. (Look closely!) 🔭 1958 photo from the Observatories of the Carnegie Institution for Science collection at the Huntington Library, San Marino, CA.

The corporate state is underplayed in the definition of fascism. The distinctive promise of fascism is to discipline labor (and thereby eliminate the leftist threat) by uniting the government, industry, and the church to subdue it.

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I found this 17 year old opinion piece on The Guardian from back when Benny 16 lifted the excommunications. It, ah, explains the ick that guy gave me to the point I stayed away from mass until a year before Francis passed. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

www.maptap.gg July 1 100🎯 100🎯 100🎯 92🏆 80👏 Final score: 916 I royally fucked that last one

Intimate partner violence, like sexual violence, is proven to be a crime of escalation. Looking at a 40 year old man with no criminal convictions & deciding "Yes, he threatened her *in writing* but let's give him another chance" is how you end up with 2 dead children & a tortured mother.

Belgium-Senegal: The 1913 Ghent World's Fair included a human zoo of 128 Senegalese in a "village." *10 months* after it closed, the Tirailleurs Sénégalais of the French Army were the bulk of the force defending Diksmuide and the Yser, the last tiny corner of Belgium not yet overrun by the Germans.

My taxes do not go to schools to subsidize parents' dreams of Olympic gold. They're not there to oppress teenagers. We pay for public school programs to make sure EVERY CHILD is prepared to enter society as a fully formed, educated adult. Limiting trans womens' access to this experience is bullshit.

Not a great economy alert! Wall Street Bets users think Palantir spiked today because The Onion story titled “Palantir Acquires Pentagon for $800 Billion” hit their front page. They’re guessing trading bots indexed the top post on the subreddit reddit not understanding source.

A photograph of actress Rita Hayworth and a stencil of the title of her then-hit movie, “Gilda,” adorned the bomb expended in the test. Hayworth’s husband, Orson Welles, said he hoped his daughter Rebecca could tell her daughter “that grandmother’s picture was on the last atom bomb ever to explode.”

I love Dan's columns. They're always so good.

congratulations, transphobes: the biggest perverts you know will be doing genital inspections on your children

www.maptap.gg June 30 98🎯 100🎯 100🎯 72🙃 95🏅 Final score: 899

Old enough to recognize this as a data center

www.maptap.gg June 29 100🎯 89👑 86🎓 95🏅 89👑 Final score: 913 Not a great day. Should have done better on the last one.

As we kick off the Round of 32, I give you what these matchups are really about: 1. Canada 🇨🇦 vs. South Africa 🇿🇦 - Battle of the Commonwealth nations 2. Brazil 🇧🇷 vs. Japan 🇯🇵 - Battle of the Portuguese Jesuit "colonies" 3. Germany 🇩🇪 vs. Paraguay 🇵🇾 - Battle of *chuckles nervously* (1/x)

Happy 100th birthday to Cpl Melvin Kaminsky aka Mel Brooks - the Mensch of Mensches When speaking of his service with the 78th Infantry Division in WWII, he reportedly said, “I was a combat engineer. Isn’t that ridiculous? The two things I hate most in the world are combat and engineering.”

This is the consensus of every major Israeli party, it's just completely forbidden to acknowledge that in American discourse or suggest that it should influence our policy towards Israel.

It's important to remember, the people who bought into this shit have been constantly, consistently sold a drumbeat lie that tells them "AI is Magic & It Can Do Anything," a lie reinforced by absurd stock valuations & credulous news coverage in indices & outlets these kinds of people treat as gospel

A lot of media coverage of the ‘AI’ reading of the Herculaneum scrolls really fails to understand what’s happened here. There’s no language processing happening, the AI/ML is not trained on a corpus of texts or language. It can detect ink to see shapes. HUMAN EXPERTS are then transcribing the text.

Hey Regina… this will be us.

The 1% didn’t get there by buying avocado toast and fancy coffees. They got their with fortune-level inheritances, bend-over-backward tax breaks, unprosecuted fraud and the ability to control steps to stop them from exponentially increasing their share of national wealth.

Big Tech is organized crime. Most people won’t engage with that statement. They don’t want to confront what it means — how huge the problem is and how hard it will be to fix. But that doesn’t change the fact that it’s true. Big Tech is organized crime.

Illegal gambling sites. Illegal cab companies. Illegal hotels. Crypto for criminals. “Full Self-Driving.” The wholesale theft of billions of copyrighted works for AI. Surveillance capitalism. Automated price-fixing. Election rigging via media manipulation. Big Tech is organized crime.

Jesus. 68,900 reported missing in Venezuela.

“How much is a magical world worth?” A beautiful thread about Cabo Verde, the Peace Corps, and the World Cup:

Disabled Canadians are furious. A pathetic $4.20/mo increase to the Canada Disability Benefit is a slap in the face. Worse, most disabled people can't even access it. The gov't locked it behind the complex Disability Tax Credit gate, trapping thousands in deep poverty. Livable income for ALL now.

Adam Blake, the DOGE staffer who “led the implementation of…Trump’s nuclear safety oversight rollbacks,” was “simultaneously serving on the board of a venture capital firm backed by nuclear industry investors *** The NRC rejected Sludge’s FOIA request for info about DOGE’s activities at the NRC.” 1/

In 1982, as a stunt to promote the opening of UK and France pavillions at EPCOT, Air France and British Airways Concordes managed this synchronized landing on parallel runways at Orlando. Perfectly pointless, pointlessly perfect.

Mark Carney is a neoliberal. State owned anything is anathema . His credo is "All hail the sacred market." Of course, that doesn't stop him ftom handing taxpayer funds to private companies.

WANT TO SNORFLE THE MURDERCAT (🔊 up)

For years, 24 Sussex has been left to rot because it was deemed political suicide to use taxpayer dollars to spruce up the Prime Minister's home. So instead they've landed on a solution where... donors and companies can directly give money to the Prime Minister's home in exchange for good favor?