if you’re cold they’re cold let your demons in

In Canada for the week so my generalized anxiety is paused...

It is *lunacy* for the ostensibly liberal opposition party to say we shouldn't limit any individual's wealth and power after watching a cadre of fascist billionaires systematically destroy this country. That's probably the single most important thing we *must* do!

i am not a christian but i have no idea why there isn't some big panic about a guy called "mr. beast" amassing tremendous amounts of fame and influence by literally getting people to do dangerous and degrading things

Mr. Beast is one of those celebrities or shows in the background of a dystopian story to give you an idea of how completely the broken society has become. You can't convince me he's real.

"Strong floor, no ceiling" is very literally the basis of like every Gilded Age political cartoon

I’m not trying to be the fun police and I want us to be able to joke around and get along (I love Chris Wilson!) But if we’re going to keep doing these events in the current political climate, the press might wanna be careful about what their laughter and cheers are normalizing

CDC website altered at Robert F. Kennedy's behest to reflect his belief that "all events depicted in the film Ghostbusters really happened."

23 pound turkey just might be overkill for the three of us.

This is the ultimate “bring back a past I’m nostalgic for without recreating any of the material conditions that made that possible.” Peak MAGA brain.

Olivia Nuzzi wrote an entire story based on unnamed sources about Biden's decline, reinvigorating calls for him to leave the race -- and the whole time, she was working on RFK Jr.'s behalf, according to her ex-fiance. newrepublic.com/article/2035...

Elon Musk claims Grok's "epic vulgar roasts" can "make people really laugh at a party" so I took him up on it and used my coworkers as guinea pigs: www.wired.com/story/elon-m...

"Alberta’s Compassionate Intervention Act — which will allow for the involuntary admission of people who use substances, even when they have[..]capacity to make decisions about their care — lacks sufficient evidence of effectiveness + poses substantial ethical concerns" www.cmaj.ca/content/197/...

The joy of reading a truly excellent doctoral dissertation.

Today, DULF co-founders launch their constitutional challenge to Canada’s drug laws that criminalize possession for the purposes of trafficking. “[The law] is over broad in that it prohibits non medical safer supply programs no matter how efficacious” - lawyer Tim Dickson @pressprogress.ca

Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea

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The EU Court of Justice ruled that all countries must recognize same-sex marriages granted in other member states, effectively legalizing gay marriage across the EU. www.reuters.com/world/europe...

Everything about this might be the saddest thing I’ve ever seen

In Monrovia, California, protesters are purchasing 17¢ ICE scrapers from Home Depot and immediately returning them to create long lines and slow down the entire store. Their aim is to disrupt sales and convey a message opposing ICE raids occurring in their neighborhood.

every single baby had to be hospitalized.

There's so much happening I don't know which vague posts apply to which sordid scandal. I need an explainer.

Great interview with my colleague Dr. Kathryn Dong about what the loss of the Royal Alex supervised consumption service means for patients and the hospital. www.cbc.ca/listen/live-... #ableg #yeg

Zohran flip your hair again we need healthcare get him to give us healthcare.

The Zohran press conference is your regular reminder that the entire administration folds like tissue paper at the slightest hint of confidence and conviction, and thus the fact that national democrats are playing a game of capitulation and weakness is exactly why they're all getting away with it

“Has the claim that addiction is a brain disease helped or harmed those experiencing drug-related harm epistemically?” This is also an important Q for contested conditions, eg chronic pain, which are increasingly understood as a disease. #bioethics #stigma www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Rather than preventing overdoses, the UCP bets on teams who may or may not find people in time. “The recovery response team will work around the clock with the Royal Alexandra’s security services to help people who are overdosing in and around the hospital.” #abpoli www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Few things bug me more than higher ed leaders saying that we lost our mission and lost the trust of the public, when we have actually been the target of a decades-long smear campaign by the right wing that worked. The moment we’re losing our mission is right now, in capitulation.

Belatedly sharing this study on the rapid rise of manslaughter charges in Canada against people alleged to have shared or sold drugs that led to an accidental overdose death. Police agencies are quietly changing investigative procedures to recast medical emergencies as homicide scenes. #drugsky

Can't help but read this as a warning to anyone wanting to actually do journalism...

Never forget that just a week ago, Ross Douthat and the NYTimes were asking if women ruined the workplace.

it is wild that Labour is doing exactly what the reactionary centrists recommend and is absolutely destroying its base of support as a result, and yet reactionary centrists in the US are just utterly silent about the complete failure of their program.

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1/ Egalitarianism should begin at home. I link to this article by @bencasselman.bsky.social in light of the communications between Larry Summers and Jeffrey Epstein that have just been released. The released emails and the fact of friendship are vile. www.nytimes.com/2021/02/23/b...

Nuzzi's fawning coverage of the sociopathic conspiracy crank she was having an affair with aided his rise to political power, which he is using to perpetrate the worst intentional public health catastrophe of our unnecessarily shortened lifetimes, and THAT is the STORY.

If you're a professor at Texas A&M, you'll need to receive written authorization from the university president before discussing this incident on campus.

dystopian ass weather report

bringing this statement over from Alice’s Twitter. it appears the below was Alice’s last post before passing. I am heartbroken

Alan Dershowitz is one of those claiming Epstein was not a pedophile because he pleaded guilty to one count of having sex for money with a 17-year-and-10-month-old person. "That’s not a pedophile." See this important response from Julia Brown, the brave reporter who broke the news on this

It wasn't just drug users, social scientists, Dr. Henry, BC's Chief Coroner.. turns out Health Canada’s expert committee was also urging the govt to expand safe supply. Instead of listening to science + lived experience, the feds & the BC NDP decided to kill safe supply. shorturl.at/VdxHc

I think it’s cool when the grocery store asks you to donate to the food bank but also locks its dumpsters. It just makes sense

Sharon Van Etten kind of afternoon.

They’re all just looting the treasury now

In Technics & Civilization (1934) Mumford claims clocks fundamental to the development of capitalism from the fourteenth century on, making us time-keepers, then time-savers, and ultimately time-servers; teaching us irreverence toward the sun and the seasons, superseding the authority of nature, eh.

Message to all faculty: your expertise is no longer trusted or valued at this so-called “university.”

The application deadline for this open faculty position is this Friday, 11/14!

Dear NPR, You do not work for the president. You are not his public relations team. You do not need to try to boost his public image with “preparing to take on the concern,” especially not when referring to problems he has caused or made worse. Your job is news. Or at least it’s supposed to be.

During the height of the pandemic, Tyson used Palantir to predict Covid-19 infections among meatpacking workers down to a nearly exactly figure. But rather than using this data to increase worker protections, Tyson used it plan for labor shortages + plant closures My latest for @sentientmedia.org