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This may seem alarmist. But if you're paying attention... it's really, really not. I also refer you to Explaining Computers' latest video, AI and the future of the Web. It dovetails with this if you consider the implications. www.halifaxexaminer.ca/morning-file...

Ack I never read the fine print…

Hear me out…

“Technical audits of bike lanes commissioned by the mayor of Montreal do not recommend dismantling them or reducing the space allocated to bicycling, La Presse has learned.”

www.reuters.com/world/china/...

It’s a hard moment to be someone who cares about stuff like wealth inequality and the climate crisis -- I mean, look at B.C. Luckily, I have some good news for you today!! At a time when governments are all but abandoning the fight against the climate crisis, the kids are fighting for us all:

We have to stop thinking that we're voting for who represents us - we're voting for who we want to have to fight to represent us.

While pundits on national television applauded Lorne Doerkson for running a campaign supposedly laser-focused on the economy, it appears white nationalists were paying attention when his campaign manager posted "fuck Islam" and when his relentlessly attacked Indigenous rights. Total media failure.

Be seeing you.

Today is Intersex Awareness Day. Intersex Awareness Day aims to gain recognition and support for intersex people in their right to live authentically and unapologetically. We stand in solidarity with our intersex siblings, team members and supporters!

When you run into someone who has a long list of loosely connected talking points to back up their incorrect position, it's tempting to try to dismantle their argument point-by-point, but this is a great way to get locked into an ever-expanding fight on multiple fronts that wastes your whole day

Apparently the Food Network is fully embracing the author whose name shall not be spoken. We have so much rich literature, why focus on the person who uses her wealth to harm people?

One of the weirdest things about the AI age is people confidently declaring things to be AI that are in fact not.

This is Trumpian.

First, NS Premier Tim Houston signed a “one project, one review” agreement with Ottawa, claiming provincial environmental assessments were “world class,” so federal impact assessments were not needed. Which is garbage and a giant leap backwards. And now … www.halifaxexaminer.ca/dismantling-...

Gotta pay for pipelines and weapons of war somehow: Parks Canada plan to cut 500 jobs draws criticism from union Reductions come in response to federal funding cut of $145M over next 3 years www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Harper 2.0 😔

Didn't think this would happen so soon after Wing's closed for good. 😞 Enshittifying everything! 🤬

100% Trump is a gift to Carney's Shock Doctrine.

Carney “rebuilding” Canada, until nothing remains but billionaires and bankers in bunkers. But they’ll be wearing fucking hockey sweaters with maple leafs on them.

Pc load letter?

Want “Paris density”? Let’s legalize six-storey single-stair apartments on every residential lot in every major city.

@avilewis.ca, head of the NDP (and husband of @naomiaklein.bsky.social) wants the Canadian government to rescue BioWare. Good for him. It's vital to do everything we can, however futile, to try to stop the Reapers, oops I mean investment funds from destroying everything.

The BC election is tomorrow and the BC Conservatives, who are polling on top, are looking to roll back the best attempt at provincial housing reform in Canada.

Manson Carney.

Taking the bus is substantially more convenient with apps that plan your route and tell you when the bus is coming.

OUCH. Bloc Québécois MP @patbonin.bsky.social absolutely clears the environment minister in this clip on Bill C-39. My translation: “It’s sad to see the minister who is giving the impression of wanting to convince herself that the bill that’s directly under her purview isn’t a disaster.

Something big has been happening this week, and with all the news happening, you probably didn’t hear about it. MPs from every federal party except the Liberals and Conservatives have banded together — and they’re sounding the alarm about Carney's destructive policies:

My new book HYPERSCALE is finally out this week! Yesterday I went on MS NOW’s The Beat with @arimelber.bsky.social to talk about data centers, AI, and the threats that come of how tech billionaires have shaped the technology to benefit themselves. Get your copy today: hyperscalebook.com

Bill C-39 puts foreign investors’ profits ahead of workers’ rights, environmental protections and Indigenous rights. Canada’s top scientists warn it will cause irreversible harm. So why are the Liberals limiting scrutiny instead of giving this bill the thorough review it demands?

Don't. Fucking. Look. Away! This is America. VOTE!

I see a direct line from roughing up the 80-year-old man in Wolfville to evicting Joan Baxter and Jennifer Henderson from the EverWind announcement to vilifying Paul Wonzey. It's all about delegitimizing dissent.

It's always the left that gets punished for recognizing the only way things can change, and the right doesn't even have to explain itself. Like Libs and Cons in the room when ACTUAL violence was committed against two reporters, and the perpetrators of that violence being clearly who they represent.

There's a reason almost all mainstream media is ignoring this

WHY THE FUCK WAS THIS INFO SITTING IN A DATABASE TO BEGIN WITH look, I never trusted Crime Stoppers (ACAB, too preoccupied w/ boomer paranoia cases, etc...) but plenty of good faith calls were placed AT GREAT RISK TO THE CALLER. Every1 w/ a hand in managing this data needs to be drawn and quartered

This is very, very bad: “Information from more than 1.5 million other tips submitted to Canadian Crime Stoppers programs over the last 25 years — was exposed in a massive data breach, an exclusive CBC investigation has found”

Like Trump, Rowling tries to intimidate and silence her critics. She used her wealth to shut down human rights defenders, a move right of the Trump playbook.

Let them have the damn candy

This is true no matter which country you're a federal worker in, tbc

Conservatives had an obstruction playbook leaked in 2009 and it was a guide on how to essentially do exactly this. The Toronto Star wrote about it in an article called 'Obstruction Handbook Leaked". Look it up. Tell me Liberals aren't using the same tactics.

God forbid members of the Nova Scotia NDP *checks notes* encourage workers to stand up for their rights.