American-owned Toronto Sun advocating for US annexation of Greenland

As someone who is approximately the same age as a Mark I it's a bit of a gut punch to see them being scrapped. dailyhive.com/vancouver/sk...

Condé Nast forgot to renew the trademark for Gourmet and so a group of journalists grabbed it and are relaunching the food magazine as a worker-owned co-op. Love it. [gourmetmagazine.net]

Fantastic piece and good quote from @marisakabas.bsky.social: “Being independent is a form of resistance in that it’s going up against the old ways of practicing journalism,” she said. “I feel like I have more latitude to come at systems of power, because I’m not answering to anyone.”

What's especially hilarious is 90% of restaurants fail in their first year. The idea is totally worthless, the execution of that idea in physical reality is all that matters. And chatbots don't know that physical reality exists. They don't know anything.

Everyone has some shit to say about how they're going to write a book, and they never will because only you are emotionally naked enough to give yourself over to the years of pointlessness, spiraling, and incredibly difficult work that will almost certainly lead to absolutely nothing! Live más.

I'm not sure who I am, but it's great to be here.

apropos of everything, friendly reminder that a company in Ontario is providing ICE with armored vehicles. and Doug Ford thinks this is fantastic globalnews.ca/news/1155832...

They’re opposed to preventative healthcare policy because they believe they’re an intervention in the natural eugenic hierarchy, framing this as an issue of “government overreach” while they’re literally banning healthcare for disfavored groups assists in that effort.

There has probably been a *lot* of pushback and threats from Musk over the idea of banning X, and Solomon is pretty much a sea-cucumber, so this would be a really good time for Canadians to all contact their MPs and demand that we follow through on a total ban of X/Grok.

Free family of hyperlegible® fonts designed to improve legibility and readability for people with low vision. H/t @fredgatesdesign.bsky.social. www.brailleinstitute.org/freefont/

I wore the wrong footwear today. I’ve been at SFU for 15+ years. I should know better.

my latest for LA Review of Books!! I feel like "storytelling" was everywhere (at least pre-pandemic)... and suddenly it disappeared! I wondered whether narrative is now driven more by character or mood rather than plot-- and what all that means.

Where the hell are Google and Apple enforcing their app store terms of service on X? Grok doing CSAM should instantly be a removal from the app store. Any other app doing this would be pulled instantly. Journalists should be asking for comment from these companies.

"We have common ground. And we're standing on it." !!!

Canadians who oppose Washington’s barefaced imperial violence in Venezuela—and Ottawa’s complicity in it—must mobilize and raise our voices for change. As Owen Schalk writes, it is our responsibility to the hemisphere, and to the planet, on which we live.

It's time to ditch a system where 39% of the vote can grant 100% of the power. On Nov 26, BC's all-party Special Committee officially recommended a Citizens’ Assembly on Electoral Reform. This followed a public consultation, where a staggering 93% called for proportional representation.

Abysmal statement from Canada on the illegal US action in Venezuela. It doesn’t matter how much you dislike Maduro, that doesn’t justify a violation of international law and the UN Charter. You can’t call on “all parties” to respect international law and not call out US lawlessness.

Call your Member of Parliament and demand that the Government of Canada condemn the American aggression and immediately impose sanctions

Three million people live in Caracas, five million in the metro area. It's one of the densest cities in South America. Remember this in the morning when they try to spin this as anything other than a cold-blooded attack on a major civilian center.

"The Venezuelan President has declared a national emergency, and has denounced the attacks as an attempt by the US to take his country's oil and minerals." www.bbc.com/news/live/c5...

Slopbros is the only appropriate term for AI evangelists going forward.

Is a shell company included with the adoption feee? adopt.spca.bc.ca/pets/787706/

Forest, for what ails you.

Why do I have to read an Irish paper for a feature about this?

While I was out walking the neighbourhood the other day, I stumbled across some very positive Luigi Mangione posters... and it's very easy to see why he's become a poster-boy.

Mom informs me that everyone is warming up to help me solve a ridiculously hard puzzle.

“Just when you thought you heard it all, AI systems designed to spot cancer have startled researchers with a baked-in penchant for racism.”

we’re shooting ourselves in the foot because we’re letting racists shape the immigration and housing crisis discourses instead of taking on landlords and developers through mass public housing construction

Behold: the first-ever list of news outlets that have banned generative AI in their reporting. As of today, this is literally information that you cannot find on Google. My goal is to fill the starter pack, so please send over suggestions with supporting evidence! go.bsky.app/8cn1XfT

Mark “Elbows up” Carney’s $83 billion military spending spree has to get funds from somewhere: today it’s stripping libraries of mission-sustaining cost controls. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Michelle Bryant-Gravelle knew it wouldn’t be an easy journey when she accepted a position at the City of Vancouver as its first senior director of Indigenous relations three years ago. She’s now stepped away from her role, due to a number of incidents at the city over the past year.

this is fitting especially since the Prime Minister rode a wave of "elbows up" to power and has done very little since.

Worse, they did this without advance notice to many people waiting to speak to them about their ridiculous plan to turn the DEOD area into towers and to gut existing (and weak) protections for the city's most impoverished residents. Just cleared the room to go party.

So, last night the ruling ABC Vancouver party and mayor cut short a crucial public hearing by 4 hours so they could attend the Christmas party of the real estate developers' assn (UDI). There was a motion to keep the hearing going, but they voted it down. #vanpoli. #vanre

There isn't a single problem "solved" by edtech that couldn't be fixed with smaller classes led by well-paid teachers given real academic freedom

CALLING all Burnaby Residents to urgently support supportive housing at 5389 Imperial Street! All Burnaby residents take 5 minutes to email decision makers this week using this easy template and then directly encourage others to do the same! ✍️✍️✍️ docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Catastrophic flooding in BC and WA is putting thousands at risk. We’ve always had heavy rain and floods; but as the world warms, they’re becoming more frequent and severe. And it was a UVic research team that ID'd the human fingerprint in increasing extreme precip. www.nature.com/articles/nat...

Tomorrow (Dec 12th) is the last day to submit your claim regarding Loblaws’ bread price-fixing scheme. You could get $50 or more. Get that “bread!” www.cbc.ca/news/busines...

ICYMI yesterday, we reported on a for-profit school opening in a for-profit ICE prison. Uniquely American. prospect.org/2025/12/10/f...

Here is the thing. Global warming, by increasing the background temperature by just a couple degrees, means can see you more precipitation falls as rain and enters rivers at same time rather than falling as snow bsky.app/profile/dawe...

It's truly wild to me that this just keeps happening. Coca-Cola runs an AI ad and people overwhelmingly react with disgust. They do it again, and people are disgusted again. Now McDonald's makes an AI ad that's so bad that so many people are furious about it they pull it down. People hate AI slop!

While intended to unify, the pipeline deal will only deepen divides in Canada over the long run. My latest @ca.theconversation.com. theconversation.com/why-mark-car...

An absolute horrific nightmare of two AI bots caught in a loop with each other is the perfect example of the total nothingness of AI “brains”.

This has me reflecting on born digital history projects. In recent weeks, I tried to access a few fantastic ones—all less than a decade old—and was met with dead links. With the death of the open internet and humanities funding more generally, what is going to happen to these projects?

A lot of great motions coming to Vancouver council on Dec 10. I'll be writing in support of 4 of them, and you should too! 🧵 Quick read I promise. Instructions on writing in at end. council.vancouver.ca/20251210/cfs...

Rachel Gilmore: "Thanks to a confluence of factors—including the advent of social media, incompetent moderation from tech giants and manosphere influencers creation of soft entry points for a more radical ideology—anti-feminist ideology is experiencing a resurgence."

Who amongst us hasn't looked at the US military-industrial complex and said, yes! I'll have me some of that!