1/ PM Carney’s public service cuts are dismantling food safety in Canada. From food inspectors to agricultural researchers, the government is abandoning workers and the public interest. And tech won’t save us: you can’t algorithm your way out of a listeria outbreak!

The idea that anyone working for a living has their income taxed is actually kind of wild. You generate wealth for your employer, get paid a sliver of that wealth, then the government steps in and takes a cut of that. Bezos is a parasite, but he’s not entirely wrong about income tax.

My disappointment is immeasurable and my day is ruined

Thank you @mayor.nyc.gov for showing the rest of us what’s possible. New York today, Canada tomorrow if we give @avilewis.ca the chance to make it happen.

@thestorygraph.com has been my go to alternative to GoodReads for a while now. Although I’d prefer to use a platform on the #atproto network, integration with Kobo is going to be wonderful. Really looking forward to this update!

Damn straight. The right to strike isn’t a right and all of the government can call you back to work. It’s been abused over and over and we’re all worse off for it

When we took office, NYC had a $12B deficit. Today it’s zero. And we didn’t close that gap on the backs of working people. We closed it while funding parks, libraries, safer streets, & public housing. Call it Pothole Politics or Democratic Socialism: We are government that delivers for the people.

Why is Copilot Claude so much dumber than normal Claude? What is Microsoft doing to my boy?

I’ve never seen a more damning squiggly line. Maybe my heart rate after a little jog?

This couldn’t be more opposite to the mandate he was given from the people when he was elected. It’s incredible how fast he flipped the moment he had a majority.

I’m playing with the Super Mario World PC port source code. Making a fork that allows for higher resolution art as a drop in replacement for the original sprites. I don’t know if I’ll have anything to show for it any time soon, but it could be a fun little thing someday.

Working on a new labeller

Saskatchewan was the home of Canada’s first democratic socialist government, led by the great Tommy Douglas. It was the first province to achieve public healthcare, and the catalyst for our universal system that Canadians hold dear. I'm excited to kick off our Saskatchewan tour next week. Join us!

This is none of my business.

Harper would say he was going to do something awful and conservative and then he would do it. Trudeau was performative in saying he was going to do something progressive and then not doing it. Carney says he will do progressive things, but then he does things that are awful and conservative.

I watched a David Lynch movie then played some Peggle if anyone was wondering what was going on here

I wonder if David Lynch ever played Peggle

Mental health is part of your health. It should be part of our publicly-funded healthcare system. What do we think is worth spending money on in this country? Why does this government have billions available for major projects and for bullets and bombs but not for projects that benefit all of us?

The government should be protecting our public airports, not selling them off for parts. History is littered with examples of the failures of privatization. It drives up costs for the public, quality suffers, and workers always end up paying the price.

Controversial opinion in some circles: I do actually think we should be increasing spending on defence. We share a border with a raving lunatic and if they ever decide to invade our allies aren’t exactly going to leap to our defence if we haven’t been holding up our end of the deal

I had low expectations for @mark-carney.bsky.social , but I was cautiously optimistic he’d be reasonable and guide us through a tough period. LOL. I guess the lesser of two evils is still evil.

The first thing airports will do after being privatized will be cutting costs and increasing prices. That means low wages for employees, cutting corners everywhere, and gouging Canadians. How the fuck is this supposed to help anyone? How long until staffing cuts result in accidents?

Yes. I want to spend my precious sliver of free time each day watching “competent stories” catered to the version of me scraped together from my web cookies and purchase history.

I like this guy.

We’re at the late stage of capitalism where ordinary people are turning into Batman villains. Woods may be going to jail, but it’s “The Beekeeper” that will be released back into the world.

when we mourn le guin, we mourn one of our greatest writers & thinkers. but we also mourn one of our all-time greatest haters

I’ll never forgot opening up a newer Samsung dryer to take a look at the logic board only to find that they put a layer of epoxy over the components. Made it literally impossible to fix. Fuck that.

I should set something up so Claude Code periodically quizzes me on what it’s built so far and refuses to do any more work until I demonstrate I know what the hell is going on. I’ve had too many sessions where I’m just pushing the button on the slot machine until the code runs correctly.

Ever wonder what an "HD" Super Mario World would look like? Well it might look a little something like this* 😎 👇 *Early build, not representative of final product

The NDP appears to be rebuilding as the party that will deliver what the Liberals only promise and then walk back on. They are quickly winning back my vote with @avilewis.ca at the helm.

Appreciate @avilewis.ca bringing the case for proportional representation back to Ottawa. Breaking the cycle of defensive voting is the only way to modernize our democracy. It is time to make every vote count.

1/ Prime Minister @mark-carney.bsky.social and I had a warm and productive first conversation today. I shared the NDP’s concerns about the cost-of-living crisis facing Canadians, including the creepy practice of surveillance pricing.

Corporations have found a creepy new way to rip you off. It's called "surveillance pricing" and it's coming for all of us at the checkout if we don't stop it. Add your name and help stop retailers from price-gouging us with the help of Big Tech: ndp.ca/surveillance-pricing

📚 If you want to maximize your enjoyment of this book, picture Matt Berry as Ruslav.

Bingo

One last point: When governments talk about "age verification," they also mean "identity verification" So even if you're 55 years old, you will be virtually carded and all your social media activity will be linked to your identity. That means no online anonymity and raises privacy issues for adults

If the Liberals passed this into law in 2018, Ontario students would’ve been unable to organize protests against Doug Ford’s sex-ed curriculum change 15 yr old Greta Thunberg would have been banned from posting about climate change Teenagers actually participate in our democracy, believe it or not

The new Canadian Tire store is pretty cool, it has space in the center of the building that I can only assume is a combat arena.

They turned No Man’s Sky into a space Pokémon game. Why aren’t more people going nuts? This is huge!

Let’s just triple check that the little guys know the difference between the tumour and the rest of the person.

So Claude Mythos level AI is basically Y2K but worse and we don’t have years to prepare, just months?

Claude is going to elevate the output from so many teams, we’re entering a new era!

Oh hey, this exponential curve is really ramping up, eh? Haha, so what happens when it’s just a straight line?

“We did not explicitly train Mythos Preview to have these capabilities. Rather, they emerged as a downstream consequence of general improvements in code, reasoning, and autonomy.” This is actually terrifying. red.anthropic.com/2026/mythos-...

Suck boomers, Rock The River is ours now!

My ongoing refusal to acknowledge I am now middle aged continues.

Not specifying which civilization has big Monkey's Paw energy

I firmly believe that we are in an overblown moral panic over AI and data centers and that much of the left is making themselves useful idiots by letting themselves be distracted from freeway expansions, defunding of transit/climate science, and attacks on renewable energy Come yell at me

"You have to check Trivago!"

Opinion: The Globe can fuck all the way off