excited to hear tech companies will now be allowed to build their own power plants for their data centers. i am sure the makers of "the app that tells kids to kill themselves" will responsibly operate coal plants

I wrote about the US funneling pregnant children in immigrant detention to a Texas facility where their rights can be more effectively restricted. I hear echoes of disappeared parents and kidnapped children in Argentina decades ago. In each case, the intent is to inflict deep generational trauma.

Microsoft: We have appointed a new Xbox CEO! Gamers: Will she make games better? Microsoft: Eh, she's not really interested in games. Gamers: Oh. Does she bring any new ideas to the table? Microsoft: She believes AI will help improve declining birth rates.

Virtually every provincial government in this country is run by the most appalling fucking scumbags. Couldn't risk destroying Canada more than if they were Russian assets.

Canada has a moral obligation to stave off a humanitarian crisis and a long-standing (+ well-supported) history of ignoring the American embargo on Cuba. It would be absurd if we didn't do something.

So much more to say, but the thing I most want to say is: the country would be so much better if the Democratic Party had honored used more instead of constantly shitting on him.

If you're looking for the source of academia's leaky pipeline--it's not women's lack of commitment, it's the misogyny of men like this.

What you have to understand is that Carbon Capture and Storage is driven not by environmental concerns but by fossil fuel industry demands. It provides both a new revenue stream (at our expense) and the mother of all greenwashing schemes. Whether it works or not (it doesn't) is entirely irrelevant.

Under the leadership of Dr. Reimer, the Canadian Medical Association challenged the Alberta GAC restrictions, and didn’t mince words about what it meant for doctors to follow their oaths. Surreal to read from the US, but so grateful to have you, @jossreimer.bsky.social

I haven't yet seem a summary of all his plans for DC and it's stunning. Please let this mean he knows he's dying.

Also applies to Saskatchewan & Alberta, where large capital-intensive industries form a big part of the economies (potash, oil, & uranium mining, farmland). Much income from these industries flows out-of-province, or to a small, wealthy group within province, as dividends & interest, r/t to wages.

Of the 93 locations (while one city may host, various events are held in various locations) that have hosted various events of the Winter Olympics, only four—Niseko, Japan; Terskol, Russia; and Val d’Isère and Courchevel in France—will likely have enough natural snow in 25 years -> 3/5

it really just feels like there's a concerted push to get as many people's faces into that system as fast as possible by any means necessary

Library and Archives Canada to cut 56 jobs. If we want Canada's history preserved and access to it, this is not the way to go about it. www.ctvnews.ca/ottawa/artic... #archives #library 📚

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If you search images of “Yeongno” there is a lot of delightful art of the Korean Folklore creature that literally eats the rich & corrupt. 🖼️: BonplandArt, nineheavenspress

This is an unimaginable crime.

The family of Kylie May Smith have had to cancel her celebration of life due to violent threats being made towards them. Her parents implored the public to stop making the Tumbler Ridge shooting about gender politics. They asked people to share Kylie’s photo instead. Now they’re being threatened.

Put her in a choke hold and the other kids jumped in to beat his ass. The kids are alright.

Oops. Turns out Persona, Discord’s age-verification service, was secretly screening selfies against government watchlists AND accessible by the feds. It's backed by Peter Thiel. “The state wants to see everything. The corporations want to see everything. And they've learned to work together.”

I truly can’t handle reading this news about OpenAI’s disregard for public safety on the same day as I saw Sam Altman equate the energy use of AI models with the energy use of humans, reducing humanity to a resource calculation to be managed so he can pursue his AGI god. I’m just so disgusted.

They saw France bust down the doors of X for being pedophiles and immediately started developing the national sex crime VPN.

Even now, too many people simply refuse to admit what is happening. Whitewashing continues from the media and key institutions among civil society. We are in deep trouble. Time to say it together, out loud.

fire up the lawsuits. it's a race to see what bankrupts OpenAI first, lawsuits or a market correction.

Another 3 people murdered with the USA military. This is mass, serial murder to make propagandistic snuff pron ; violation of international humanitarian law; & a crime against humanity b/c “legitimate command authorities” doing repeated murder of civilians w/USA state & military forces.

This is an extremely alarming story and it's time that Canada had some sort of, I dunno, Minister Of AI, who could be in charge of regulating and legislating... Oh we do have a Minister of AI? Oh he spent the days before the shooting advocating for MORE use of AI and "AI For All"?

It's pretty apparent that the Carney Government views the role of A.I. Minister as someone who goes to tech conferences in Austin and Dubai and jerks off investors, and not someone who has to worry about the world's biggest AI company's negligence getting Canadian elementary schoolers murdered

The Musk family are actively endorsing Restore Britain, a party the racist Reform UK considers excessively racist, whose slogan is “millions must go” and whose leaders call for the expulsion of Britons of darker skin or Jewish, Muslim or otherwise non-Christian faith

"so you're telling me i CAN rain down nuclear hellfire on the entire globe, but i CANNOT arbitrarily impose crippling sales tax on bananas because guys were mean to my friend??" sir we've run the legal analysis several times and yes this appears to accurately sum up the state of play

finally an elite athletic feat I could achieve

The myth of the immigrant freeloader is a wizened one. It isn't the sole purview of the Alberta Premier. But it's a myth. Migrants give more than they get. And just as with citizens, where they do need services, it's cheaper to provide them early.

He pleaded guilty to laundering money for al-Qaeda and ISIS

Once again we find that bad and evil triumph in this world

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It's so crazy how the US military just does things—completely leaderless, an unaccountable black box—and keeps putting the dear anti-war President in sticky situations

I recently received “The Bomber Mafia” as a birthday gift (heh). It was bad, so bad that I believe it cannot be read as a reliable account of strategic bombing in World War II. In so many ways, it demonstrates the worst tendencies of the “pop history” genre. My review (and latest)⬇️

“Leaders have a duty to uphold the facts and the rights of everyone involved. Using this horrific incident to conflate trans identities with violent tendencies is incorrect, irresponsible and frankly dangerous.“ bchumanrights.ca/news-and-eve...

NEW: One year ago, we caught a peek of MAGA authoritarianism when men roughly dragged a woman named Teresa out of an Idaho town hall. This is the story behind that viral video and the radicalization of the community where it happened. My investigation: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

here you go

I just did the dumbest thing of my entire career to prove a much more serious point. I tricked ChatGPT and Google, and made them tell other users I’m a competitive hot-dog-eating world champion People are using this trick on a massive scale to make AI tell you lies. I’ll explain how I did it

Every time someone asks one of those share what you remember about X questions and all the replies are full of women sharing how awful shit was for them, I am so glad I was once a fit 6’3” white guy.

a fucking pedophile sexually abused nearly every prospective and actual Olympian gymnast for over two decades, and the political discourse is hyper-fixated on the hypothetical unfairness of trans girls competing with cis girls

PM Carney in Davos: “It means acting consistently, applying the same standards to allies and rivals.“ We are sending aid to Ukraine in the face of Russian aggression. Consistency should require us to send aid to Cuba in the face of US aggression.

Love that AI, a thing we hate and don’t want, steals everything, ruins everything, shittifies everything. Drinks our water, plagiarizes our art, pisses all over our information fidelity, drives kids to suicide, serves the right-wing, and fucks up our devices and services. Good job, techbros!

We murdered 11 more people on boats last night

if your hobby is touched in any way by electronic components needed by the hyperscalars, AI is coming for it, gaming most of all shortages everywhere as far as the eye can see

800! Jesus christ. I have seen like 8 of these things run a wholeass uranium mine.

Sex work is work. Solidarity to these workers as they unionize. And kudos to my @wbng.org parent union, @cwaunion.bsky.social, for supporting the organizing. www.cbsnews.com/news/sex-wor...