The AI con/bubble shows that a “global technology economy” is not and never was viable as a guiding principle. Technology for technology’s sake (read: for oligarchy’s sake) has led us here, where everything is as evil and disappointing as possible. There has been no innovation in anything important

Yet more criminalization of poverty www.thestar.com/politics/pro...

95% of authors are not making a living through book publishing. The public needs to understand this.

Do I know anyone on here who's well versed in Alberta's mental health legislation? I'm doing a cross-jurisdictional comparison and want to be sure I'm understanding things accurately.

I think the shortest version of why LLMs are an anti education technology is that education is fundamentally about making shared context to understand ourselves, each other, and the world And by design LLMs destroy shared context

I misread this image so badly that I can only really hope to illustrate what I saw. ( Also a good excuse for an #art study )

Israel’s National Security Minister Ben-Gvir ordered that a performance by children in the Palestinian National Theatre be raided and closed down just before the children were due to perform.

Terumaru, a bright young lightbulb and the mascot of the Tokyu Denki electric company, trapped in a door yesterday:

the line "You think it's all goin' somewhere but every failure leaves you a little more mangled than before. Older, uglier, meaner. Smarter in a worse way.” swansea says in mouthwashing is such a banger

I used to look at fucking sunsets now I stare at phone

I once knew a Federal bank examiner, and one time someone asked him why we had to KEEP inspecting banks over and over. He basically said every new batch of business school grads invents bank fraud from first principles.

Here's a list of #MentalHealth 📞resources in 🇨🇦#Canada Suicide Crisis Helpline 9-8-8 Crisis Services #Canada 1-833-456-4566 Kids Help Phone 1-800-668-6868 First Nations - Hope for Wellness 1‑855‑242-3310 National IRS 1-866-925-4419 LGBTQ National Hotline 1-888-843-4564

This interview is a snapshot into where tech companies are with online harassment right now. They know how to end it, but they decided not to spend the money. They’re prioritizing growth (and profit) above all else. And they’re blaming YOU for logging on to the platform they designed to be unsafe.

Canada’s complicity deepens. #cdnpoli

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@melwoods.me: We must not overcomplicate what’s going on here. This is the Alberta government saying the rights of trans kids to receive life-saving health care, go by their own pronouns at school or play on sport teams don’t matter as much as the Smith government’s right to dictate their lives.

There’s nothing wrong with healthy living. It just won’t prevent disability. It won’t make you bulletproof. Telling people to “get healthier” if they want to afford healthcare is effectively telling sick people to accept being left to die. Healthcare for all.

me in my enclosure

Honestly, this makes every org and institution that folded at the merest threat of an attack on trans rights just look as pathetic as they are. It does the same for everyone that excused them.

heistuxedomaskidontbelieveit

when we say that Canada is just a bunch of corporations in a trench coat it wasn't supposed to be taken literally. alas bsky.app/profile/then...

"[U]nder the ceasefire agreement that Israel is repeatedly violating, all of the Palestinians in Gaza have been forced into a small zone ... mak[ing] up less than half of Gaza's land, with Israeli forces occupying [the other 53% of Gaza] surrounding the designated area for Palestinians."

“When a government grants itself license to override physician judgment and patient consent, who - at any stage of life — will be next?” The AMA raising very serious concerns about the UCP’s invocation of the notwithstanding clause. #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

Alberta and Ontario are the tip of the spear in dismantling our public healthcare system. The way it’s being reported makes it sound like they’re just doing a controversial move when they are sabotaging our healthcare system.

people are so caught up in the uselessness of the chatbots or the plagiarism in the image generators, we simply are not paying enough attention to the literal death cult around AGI they are all worshipping

2008 is old hat. Let’s try for 1929, we’re almost at the anniversary

Everything they are doing to Palestine, all the horrors and atrocities they're committing, is SETTLER COLONIALISM. Palestine must be viewed through the lens of racist settler colonialism, racist settler colonial governments, and the empire who sponsors them.

INFAMY!

Can I get an amen, large with two oat milk

The culture of disposability around criminalized people set us up for this moment, and to fight fascism, we are going to have to rage against that culture of disposal. Submitting to it (or hiding behind it) is an egregious form of surrender.

Canadian border officials detained for hours a 95-year-old man on his way to a conference about human rights violations against Palestinians. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Israel moves to approve death penalty solely for Palestinians: www.icjpalestine.com/2025/11/11/f...

"If you hate GenAI you're going to have to stop playing new games when they all start using it" My brother in Christ, my backlog is literally thousands of games long. I have lifetimes worth of earlier titles to play, & I will gladly do that instead of boiling the oceans for a new CoD or whatever

New from 404 Media: Microsoft and nuclear power company Westinghouse Nuclear want to use AI to speed up the construction of new nuclear power plants in the United States. "may lead [..] to catastrophic nuclear consequences" and distrust of nuclear tech www.404media.co/power-compan...

I don’t know how we’re gonna do it but we need to collectively build the capacity to divest from Google/YouTube entirely. Hard to do when it owns the internet.

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Remember deez nuts

Scientists Discover a Viral Cause of One of The Most Common Cancers A common type of human papillomavirus (HPV) could be more dangerous than we thought. www.sciencealert.com/scientists-d...

This is straight up, one of the most absurd ideas I've ever encountered.

sneaking off to kiss in the inflatable corn maze

Can we fucking please dismantle the patriarchy because I do not want to hear about techbro cum ever again

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elon musk: people in the uk live like hobbits. um let’s look at you for a second bro

Google's Gemini summaries for niche topics can typically be found almost verbatim in the highest ranked Reddit thread in the search

"World's first potential trillionaire has killed 600,000 people, including 400,000 children" is the only headline that anyone should ever read about Elon Musk

The "abundance agenda" is an incredibly designed piece of centre-right climate delay The entire project of climate action comes down to *not extracting and burning fossil fuels*. So if you frame "being against things" as inherently bad, you can pull thousands of ppl into a pro-fossil stance.

#cdnpoli these data centres must not be allowed to gain a foothold in Canada.

Most fascinating interpretive handling of Soma I’ve read, capturing something of its poetry, the paradox of selfhood, how pursuing absolute distraction from self leads only to unbearable, imprisoned awareness of it. Trying to separate mind from body, form from fluidity, makes living impossible.