if you see some dipshit noname account on reddit posting reactionary interpretations of one piece and other manga, you are obliged to say "peter thiel just fuck off and die" in the 1/10000 chance that you nail him

So thankful that dudes without game now have the option of driving all of our energy bills up to come up with devastating lines like it was nice to meet you

He thought, I am living in a nightmare, from which from time to time I wake in sleep.

Sorry, not sorry, neighbors.

Pretty much

The purpose of government is not to maximize earnings to investors

Unsurprising but disappointing to see leading politicians in this resource-captured province spout climate denial and ignorance of both the environmental and economic risks of oil dependence #nlpoli www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

“What is astonishing to me as a legal scholar is that the alcohol industry has somehow circumvented their legal and moral responsibility to warn consumers.” No question this bill should be made law. Make alcohol follow the same plain packaging rules as tobacco.

every couple months, carney starts pulling the legs out from under yet another important climate policy

benioff is a pathetic man. every time i see his face i think of when he was at wef on a panel with sam altman, and instead of engaging like a normal person, he was sitting there with his phone out recording altman from the other end of the panel.

this pope just keeps getting better. now he’s calling out clickbait!

The pope has condemned clickbait as a “degrading” part of journalism, at a private audience with global newswires. "I urge you: never sell out your authority" News agencies deliver a service which “requires competence, courage and a sense of ethics”.

The Canadian boycott of travel to the U.S. continued through September—cementing an enormous economic loss for American tourism in 2025 as visitors from around the world choose not to travel to the States amid geopolitical tensions. www.forbes.com/sites/suzann...

We can have democracy or we can have billionaires. We cannot have both. NYT: Marc Benioff Says Trump Should Send Guard Troops to San Francisco (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

Seeing Ms. Rachel say exactly what needs to be said to Obama is so damn refreshing

Every month I put together a recap of some top stories and good tech reads you might have missed. This one has stories on Elon Musk, surveillance, contract AI workers, and so much more. It’s a little late because I’m writing a book, but better late than never? 😬

“I am exhausted, running out of body parts, and feeling more cyborg than human with each passing day. And if we blindly race toward a future where everyone feels like that? We’ve lost sight of why any of us ever loved technology in the first place.” — @vicmsong.bsky.social

always a pleasure to chat with @jacobsilverman.com about his great work on the terrible tech billionaires. this episode — and his new book! — do not disappoint :)

today i talked to the one and only rachel gilmore 🤭

Striking Canada Post workers will move to rotating strikes as of tomorrow — but they’re still fighting the uphill battle for both Canada Post and their labour rights. For @parismarx.com, the Carney government continuing to chip away at this essential service is the last straw:

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We could be treating Canada Post as not just an essential delivery service, but an essential social infrastructure in our communities. Instead the government prefers to treat it as a costly burden that must be subject to death by a thousand cuts.

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

so it goes... another day, another example of elon musk being inexplicably let off the hook for crimes

always love venting about canadian politics with @rachelgilmore.bsky.social

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i remember when i worked for a car dealership and they told me employee pricing aren’t actually the best prices and sometimes the cars are even cheaper the month before, but people think it is because of how it’s marketed

REPORT | Donald Trump phoned into Fox to claim credit for what he calls “peace in the Middle East,” tying the Gaza deal to his trade wars, military strikes, and his pressure on Iran. He presented himself as the architect of a global realignment—one that brings Israel, Arab states, and even Iran...

cbc front burner is a good show, but they really need to lay off the US stories. i want more canadian analysis from my public broadcaster.

any good pieces on the ellisons, their historial, and their rapidly growing media empire?

the shamelessness of the prime day shilling by media organizations baffles me more and more with every passing year

if you work for a publication that does this and have any idea how much $$$ your outlet makes from affiliate sale commissions on prime day, DM or signal me: jason.404 also interested if you are a journalist who is asked to do these deal roundups as part of your job

from elbows up to warm embrace. it’s a betrayal of he told canadians to expect from him.

is it going to be a dating sim for rich losers who want a girlfriend who will tell him whatever he wants to hear like a sexualized version of the yes men he’s surrounded himself with, even if she just has to be a chatbot

wow of course mark carney would do this

did he really not believe the party wouldn’t out him for being this deceptive?

“…that Sora is being used for stalking and harassment will likely not be an edge case, because deepfaking yourself and others into videos is one of its core selling points.” Far from an edge case, it’s the primary use case.

wonder how this is going

AI SLURS *ahem* Clanker Slopper Token tanker Thought stopper

“You are taking in the Human Centipede of content, and from the very very end of the line” lmao

i promise i am also an ai racist, @ai-rights.bsky.social

“As premier, I will defend the rights of businesses to trade with apartheid South Africa!”

question for those who updated to ios26: is there a way to stop the screen time downtime feature from applying to every website now? you can have safari or vivaldi allowed, but every website you visit is now locked by screen time. it’s a mess and i don’t see a way to turn that part off.

Time for Mark Carney to invite BYD to take over a factory that some US automaker will surely vacate in the coming year in exchange for access to the Canadian market.

Greta Thunberg, deported to Greece, says the targeting of the Sumud Flotilla is "not the story" @teenvogue.com — instead, she says: "Israel once again violated international humanitarian law by preventing aid from getting into Gaza while people are being starved.”

feels like when the power-hungry mod of a mastodon server loses it, but this time it’s on the scale of an entire platform

Nearly a decade of organizing in Vancouver's animation and VFX industries is transforming wages and working conditions for the workers behind shows like Star Trek: Lower Decks, even amid a historic slowdown in film and TV. I spoke to workers + organizers about it for @pressprogress.ca

it'd be less duplicitous if they said they were exercising their thin-skinned prerogative to make people who embarrass them disappear. citing the charlie kirk meme is so dishonest it borders on pathetic. nobody is this credulous and it's a little embarrassing for them that they thought anyone was.

Interesting choice of Ellison to spin the acquisition as part of his broader effort to push tech and innovation across Paramount to cover it becoming yet another right-wing media network. The suggestion Weiss has a “commitment to amplifying voices from all corners of the spectrum” is hilarious.

feels like when the power-hungry mod of a mastodon server loses it, but this time it’s on the scale of an entire platform