Canadian "sovereign AI" project: Look at this sovereign computing facility we're building in Canada! There will be so much sovereign Canadian compute here! Facility hardware specifications: Dell, Intel, Nvidia

Headline: "AI can replace 11.7% of workforce" Actual study: Anthropic paid MIT to use a "labor simulation tool" that said 11.7% of TASKS could be done by AI

✨ A few years back I stood outside Wells Cathedral for a full day and photographed the impact of the light on the front facade. I was amazed at the outcome - at how a single entity could morph and change under the changing light. 🌅 #thread

Every time you see that the government is trying to raise our military spending to 5% of GDP, think about the fact that our total elementary and secondary school spending is 3.9% of GDP.

Getting REAL tired of government "public consultations" that are blatantly designed to elicit specific responses. But we should still let Ford know what's important to us, and there is an option to email directly if you have "a specific proposal".

Costs for CPP and EI have gone up, but school boards have NOT been given funds from the Ontario government to pay for these mandatory increases. Millions of dollars are now being spent on EI and CPP contributions that could have been spent on direct supports for students. #OntEd

There are a lot of rich PC donors who want the voucher system here in Ontario. Doug is doing everything he can to make their dream a reality.

The Ontario government keeps telling school boards to find more “efficiencies”. The end result is cuts to services and programs that impact our most vulnerable students, more kids melting down, and more families who can afford to do so leaving for private schools.

Seeing so many students with various social and learning needs falling through the cracks is a moral injury. Knowing that with just a little bit of direct support a student would be able to be safe and successful, but lacking the staff and time to make it happen… it’s a lot.

They've transitioned hard to "we might not get another term so better make our donors happy now" mode this term. Multiple initiatives going on simultaneously that seem like smash and grabs.

Apparently the Ford government is removing the law that prevented Air Miles from expiring. A popular and sensible law, removed to accommodate a business at the expense of regular people.

𝙍𝙞𝙜𝙝𝙩 𝙣𝙤𝙬, 𝙖 𝙧𝙚𝙥𝙤𝙨𝙩 𝙞𝙨 𝙡𝙞𝙠𝙚 𝙖 𝙝𝙪𝙜 , 𝙖 𝙜𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙡𝙚 𝙝𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙩𝙤 𝙡𝙞𝙛𝙩 𝙢𝙚 𝙪𝙥 🤍 𝙍𝙞𝙜𝙝𝙩 𝙣𝙤𝙬, 𝙖 𝙧𝙚𝙥𝙤𝙨𝙩 𝙞𝙨 𝙡𝙞𝙠𝙚 𝙖 𝙝𝙪𝙜 , 𝙖 𝙜𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙡𝙚 𝙝𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙩𝙤 𝙡𝙞𝙛𝙩 𝙢𝙚 𝙪𝙥 🤍 𝙍𝙞𝙜𝙝𝙩 𝙣𝙤𝙬, 𝙖 𝙧𝙚𝙥𝙤𝙨𝙩 𝙞𝙨 𝙡𝙞𝙠𝙚 𝙖 𝙝𝙪𝙜 , 𝙖 𝙜𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙡𝙚 𝙝𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙩𝙤 𝙡𝙞𝙛𝙩 𝙢𝙚 𝙪𝙥 🤍 Donate ⏬️ Donate ⏬️ Donate ⏬️ chuffed.org/project/mona...

A Badhamia/Physarum slime mould. Zielonka Forest, Wielkopolska (western Poland). #slimemoulods #slimemolds #śluzowce #Myxogastria #Eumycetozoa #Amoebozoa #myxofriends

This is the Sunburst Candy Spider from Thailand. Not AI (sucks to have to declare this). Very real and had been on my wish list for a long time. The taxonomic placement is unclear, so we are leaving it at Cyrtarachninae.

Over 1000 Amazon employees have signed a letter warning that the company's race for AI is trampling over workers and the climate. Read the full letter from @amzn4climate.bsky.social here: www.amazonclimatejustice.org/open-letter

“Some of them will say they never ate for how many days? I try not to get emotional. I get very sad, but I just try to keep my sadness in and try to help them in every way we can. I try to give leftovers to everyone.” www.aptnnews.ca/featured/peo...

It's finally here. A history of the Nova Scotia lobster fishery. Morton is truly an historian's historian, and from the installments I've seen, the book is going to have riches of social history, politics, economics, and even some marine biology. share.google/J3GYgjTkjV9I...

Long ago on the hell site I made long list of historically interesting things to use in dnd ttrpgs and I'll start dragging them over here starting with 2000 years-old sapphire ring presumably belonged to Roman emperor Caligula, depicting his fourth wife Caesonia.

I guess no arch support is needed in the afterlife.

Tax the billionaires

Ethologist Konrad Lorenz with Goslings He Raised — Nina Leen, 1965

if you steal a cell phone or wallet in paris they kick you out of the french thieve's guild for insufficient whimsy

Whether you admit it or not, Carney is low-key DOGE-ing us. Eventually that key will ring out and it’ll be as dissonant as it is deafening. Canada was had by a banker.

I was about to commend him on actually having a spine, but he's not leaving the party. So. Still not a spine in sight.

It really has been interesting the last while to see Doug Ford's outbursts. The true Ford. From "get a job" to "audit orgs that might support left wing causes". The authoritarian belligerent bully that had no staff to muzzle him in City Hall days is still there. Does Ontario see? Do they care?

Carney caved on virtually all of Smith's demands. Updates to come.

Canada has had record breaking forest fires that show no signs of slowing down, let alone stopping, and Carney decides we can all stomach it so oil magnates can get more billions.

I directed the episode of MURDOCH MYSTERIES set in 1910 where they invented the internet AND the concept of the nude selfie.

I think if Canada wants to have a strong cultural identity we need to go back to doing what we're best at, making the weirdest fucking TV shows you've ever seen

Just want to point out that "Indigenous Writes: A Guide to First Nations, Métis & Inuit Issues in Canada" has a new edition coming out in the spring of 2026 with a much expanded exploration of administrative definitions of Indigenous folks (and more).

Ethnic frauds stir up so many terrible feelings in Indigenous folks, and I don't think the general public really understands this. The goal of the ongoing colonial project has been the erasure of Indigenous Peoples, meaning our identity and existence has been undermined from every direction.

Christmas is coming, and the Black Friday sales signal we’re in peak gift-buying season. When you’re picking out gifts for friends and family this year, there’s a whole slew of tech products that are better to avoid. I put together a guide to help you through it.

Crows get it, too!

Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷

So wholesome! Pros give an aspiring artist tips on how to draw Frieren:

narrator: 50 years ago... me: [nods] in 1945 narrator: in 1975... me: what

My microwave sings a little song when my Hot Pocket is done. Should it have the right to vote?

Sometimes I think it’s going to be the librarians who will save us all.

i can not be the only person wondering about the five percent gap between bigfoot and the yeti i mean is this where u draw the line

Taxes are good! Taxes are how we pay for all of the things that make society a good place to live! People who don't like taxes are selfish and stupid and make our entire society worse for their own short term, often barely noticeable gain.

1. A landmark study was just published in The Journal of Pediatrics. It found a 68% reduction in suicidality for trans youth getting HRT. It also found only 7 of more than 400 stopped taking HRT... and of those that did, 4 still identified as gender-diverse. Transgender care saves lives.

You’re cutting funding for Women and Gender Equality Canada by 51% over 3 years.

This account is hiding replies that point out his government's policies when it comes to women's issues.

I’ve worked in indie bookstores and agree heartily with this whole thread

I was proud to be thrown out of the Ontario Legislature today as the Ford government shamefully passed #Bill60. We won't be silent while this government makes more Ontarians homeless.

The Fall-Winter 2025 legislative session is a full assault on municipalities, schools, pedestrians, cyclists, local democracy, and accountability.

Two ways I can think of to channel your despair at the Ford wrecking ball: -run for municipal office and fight -push the Ontario Liberals, NDP, and Greens from the inside and out to get over themselves and get their shit together to get these jokers out of government

Holy effing shit. So long democracy.

🚨 People of Ontario - This is a Coup 🚨 #NoKings