Gonzales Neighbourhood Dissociation

How about we shut down the government for this very popular and specific goal and then, hear me out, we hold out for like a month and a half and then, ok this part is important, after a watershed election where we ran the table, ONLY THEN, fold and don't get the one thing we said we wanted.

"Why do you talk about American politics so much? You're Canadian?"

If I lived next to a noisy bar I'd probably talk about the noisy bar a lot too

OpenAI in Danger After Authors Suing It Gain Access to Its Internal Slack Messages Authors and publishers, who are suing OpenAI, secured access to internal Slack messages and emails discussing the deletion of pirated books.

“authors & publishers who filed a lawsuit against the Sam Altman-led firm have secured access to internal Slack messages… discussing the mass deletion of a pirated books dataset… A NY district court ordered OpenAI to hand over the communications regarding data deletion”
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“I agreed to an interview. I did this because, in ways you might think I’d have outgrown by now, I’m a fucking idiot.”

Mamdani sign: No one's actually leaving for Florida

Jason Kenney and Caylan Ford

First some background: In 2019, I wrote a story about a UCP candidate named Caylan Ford

I obtained leaked messages showing Caylan Ford making controversial statements about race, immigration and white supremacist terrorism

Caylan Ford resigned and Jason Kenney publicly condemned her comments

This farm apparently hid their outbreak. The best thing that could happen for other farmers is for the CFIA to come down like a ton of bricks on any farm that does that. No compensation for lost livestock, lose all their permits, huge fines, etc. Scorched earth when a farm doesn't report outbreaks.

Israel’s underground jail, where Palestinians are held without charge and never see daylight Exclusive: Detainees at Rakefet include nurse deprived of natural light since January, and teenager held for nine months

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Oh fucking YES. Youth bus pass program passed to return to the budget unanimously.

Sudanese fighters accused of massacres use Canadian-made rifles | CBC News The Rapid Support Forces in Sudan, accused of civilian massacres, have posted numerous images posing with rifles bearing the logo of a small B.C. manufacturer called Sterling Cross Defense Systems. Ex...

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get in girls we’re bringing back phrenology

Anyway. High emotions at the court house with many supporters crying or frustrated that the judge can so clearly acknowledge the harms caused by the CDSA, and then find people who push back against the CDSA guilty.
If the law exists to protect people but people are dying, should the law change?

A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women

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Parody of Times headline "Did Humans Going to Work Ruin Everything?" Dek: That wasn't enough wet food, I'm STARVING

Look I get publishing a broad spectrum of opinions but I already fed them this morning

The Supreme Court of Canada Wants You to Call 911 if Someone Is Overdosing | The Tyee Police can’t arrest a person for drug possession if they call for help and stick around, a new ruling finds.

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"There are too many similarities between the iPhone and Meta’s glasses to name them all here, just as one could strain to name infinite similarities between a table and an elephant if we chose to ignore the context that actually matters to a human being."

B.C. Greens call for tax reform to ensure ultra-wealthy 'pay their fair share' “This government must choose which side they’re on: the side of austerity and oligarchs, or the side of the working class,” new Green Leader Emily Lowan said.

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Yup yup yup yup yup yup yup yup yup yup yup yup.

wtf are we doing here folks!? 🙃 #yyj #yyjpoli

Let's fucking go!!!!!

Thursday, November 6 Committee of the Whole for #yyj begins. Short but spicy agenda today.

-A referred Council Member Motion from Gardiner to shut down Island Health's safe consumption site,

-A motion to halt the Centennial Square revitalization project, brought by Coleman, Gardiner, Hammond

Media Advisory: Mark Carney’s economic plan must expand child care system - Child Care Now OTTAWA, ONTARIO – Canada’s national child care advocacy organization says the budget tabled by Finance Minister Champagne could stall and push back Canada’s new national early learning and child care ...

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Sigh.

The City of Victoria might slash grants and programs across the board to make up for one single line item that's roughly equivalent to everything being cut. Can anyone guess what that single budget item is, which apparently isn't even up for debate? One guess.

The truly maddening thing is that, unlike when I was a young man in science and the materials and engineering just weren’t there yet, the future is *right there.* The problem is *solved*. What’s holding us back is not just greed, but this bizarre nostalgia, an obsession with petro- masculinity.

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If you aren't seeing skeets from some of your fave people, they might have been labeled "Rude" by bsky mods. Idk what they are thinking, I don't need a mommy to tell me who to be buddies with. Anyway, go into Settings > moderation > bluesky moderation (advanced) and turn Rude off.

gommunism

Budgets aren’t just numbers; they’re a reflection of what we stand for.

And #Budget2025 shows #Canada turning away from the world when humanitarian needs are rising.

Our reaction: https://ow.ly/ISuF50Xnu7o #cdnpoli

The cover of The AI Con against a background

"'Luddite' isn’t an insult—it’s a warning and a word of caution. One we must return to, repeatedly, if we’re to resist the constant drumbeat of consumerism dressed up as science and progress."

Erik J. Larson reviews "The AI Con": https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-return-of-the-luddites/

Of course mainstream media is focusing on the identities of the winners, but don’t fall for it. what made them win was their politics. Affordability. Reproductive rights. Trans rights. Opposition to genocide.

Zohran Mamdani polled +40% on men under 30. So we wasted all that time on all those think pieces about how we need a Joe Rogan for the left, when what we actually needed were *policies* for the left.

I knew it would take less than a day for a tiktok dj to make something.