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Racist Influencers Using OpenAI's Sora to Make it Look Like Poor People Are Selling Food Stamps for Cash Folks looking for evidence of SNAP recipients as welfare queens have no shortage of AI generated schlock to use as justification.

Again, this precise use case is why these systems exist-to proliferate people’s racist (transphobic, misogynistic…) imaginary at scale. This should not be seen as a “misuse” but rather the product being used exactly as intended.

This is why we can’t have nice things

Rudi has thoughts.

Ahem, no! Blue Jay's all the way!

Nice. Good to see. What's her?? name?

Problem w/ these stories is they mix units of analysis. 500 ml of water is 0.5 litres. It's a lot, but.... Microsoft will invest $1B in data centres. Wow! Telus says it will invest $70 Billion on network upgrades from now to 2029. Big #s, w/ no sense of scale=unhelpful. www.telus.com/en/about/new...

How's your dog, retriever?

For context, the Heritage Foundation is running an initiative to ostensibly fight antisemitism by attacking George Soros and other exemplars of International Jewry www.nytimes.com/2025/05/18/u...

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Disney pulls channels from YouTube TV over carriage & payments dispute. It's the second time in 4 years. Looks a helluva a lot like classic cable TV carriage disputes. And YouTube TV is $82.99/mo. Looks like we're back to the future & its cable TV. variety.com/2025/tv/news...

YouTube TV Drops Disney’s ABC, ESPN and Other Networks After Two Sides Fail to Reach New Deal YouTube TV will drop ESPN, ABC and other Disney networks at midnight ET Thursday. Google and Disney remain far apart on a deal in a dispute over pricing.

YouTube TV pulls Disney channels over carriage & payments dispute. It's the second time in 4 years. Looks a helluva a lot like classic cable TV carriage disputes. And YouTube TV is $82.99/mo. Looks like we're back to the future & its cable TV. variety.com/2025/tv/news...

Canada isn't doing its part to stop AI government surveillance, UofT director says Ronald Deibert says the ability of governments and criminal actors to surveil and target people is growing in scope thanks to AI. Read more.

Everyone is talking about AI. It's obviously having a transformative impact across all sectors of society.

So how should the Canadian government approach it?

My interview with Yvonne Lau for the @financialpost.com

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'Washington Post' editorials omit a key disclosure: Bezos' financial ties Three times in the past two weeks, editorials at the 'Washington Post' failed to disclose that they focused on matters in which owner Jeff Bezos had a material interest.

Three times in the past two weeks, editorials at the 'Washington Post' failed to disclose that they focused on matters in which owner Jeff Bezos had a material interest. n.pr/3X0UZtS

I asked Microsoft PR about this—specially the DHS using Halo IP to recruit for ICE—and the company declined to comment.

Lawyers in the case before Judge Sara Ellis in Chicago respond today to this DHS statement about Greg Bovino’s use of tear gas:

“The statement is a lie,” they say.

Trump says he’s increasing tariffs on Canada by 10% after Ontario’s Reagan ad | CNN Business President Donald Trump said Saturday he is increasing the tariff on Canada by 10% over current levels, further escalating trade tensions over what he called a “fake” ad that featured parts of an anti-...

An embarrassingly obvious point, but...

This. Is. Illegal.

If anything like the rule of law were in force, Trump couldn't arbitrarily increase a tariff because he is annoyed.

In important and increasing ways, the rule of law in the US no longer exists.
www.cnn.com/2025/10/25/b...

Excellent account of who is pushing the buttons and pulling the levers in Trump's efforts to gut the US government agencies he loathes: Russell Vought.

Ahem, "in" Windsor, not "on".

You are not wrong about Trump frog marching the US to authoritarianism. I grew up on Windsor, went to school in US, and think highly of most Americans, but watching the system of US democracy collapse like a house of straw is gobsmacking.

I remember reading at the time and just reread it again. It's a really good piece (the awkward prediction of the then upcoming Canadian election aside 😀).

Special Canadian angle here: Omni is owned by Stonepeak and Stonepeak owns the near bankrupt rural internet service provider, Xplornet. @beynate.bsky.social

Some well thought out policy here by the mafia don, DJT. What an embarrassment to the US, the world, himself.

Here’s the original clip of Ronald Reagan from April 25, 1987, where he delivered a complete and total rebuke against tariffs. Trump's calling Reagan’s words here “FAKE” and “fraudulent.” They’re 100% real. And the original clip is actually far worse for Trump, as much is left out of the ad:

"In settlement and compromise of the Released Claims in this Agreement, UCLA shall pay the United States the sum of One Billion Dollars ($1,000,000,000.00), payable in equal
installments."

Congratulations, @ubiquity75.xyz. A hard & justly fought for win.

Please understand that the only reason this has been released is because of the UCLA faculty association who filed a request and challenged the refusal in court. If you are a UC faculty member, join your FA!

No masks, huh?

Your fuhrer wants you!

ah, you've got a good eye, the background of a literary scholar (if memory serves) and a good memory. Nice to see you putting it all to work for a righteous cause (arrgghh!!).

Well, I didn't quite get that reference but I did a thing on the same piece, so half marks for recognize when Trump's being called out for the authoritarian he is? bsky.app/profile/medi...