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I think having 225 CAF members (men and women, from many trades, and a long shot of a guy with a big bushy beard!) hold an enormous flag on the field at the Jays game today vs the Yankees was a good choice.

YouTube video by Kidzuko No Cats In The Library 🐱📚 | Reading Rainbow 📖 🌈 | Full Episode | @Kidzuko​

Reading Rainbow… is back! 🥹

This LeVar Burton/Reading Rainbow raised human is feeling all of the library joy. We hope your kids believe they belong in books, just like you ✨

Take a look, it’s in a book 📚🌈🦋🌌
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YouTube video by Anil Dash The Threat to Video Creators Online

This was a quick one — I think video creators are under a big risk right now, bigger actually than before Kimmel was pulled off the air. One part of the reason why is a behind-the-scenes consolidation that almost nobody is paying attention to. youtube.com/shorts/3cK51...

They couldn’t have paid for a better review than this

"We're going to create superintelligence" How about making outlook search work first. How about that

Zelenskyy and UN atomic agency head warn of heightened risk at huge Ukrainian nuclear plant KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine’s president and the U.N. nuclear agency head are sounding the alarm about increased safety risks at the Russia-occupied Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant in southern Ukraine, which lost its external power supply more than a week ago as the war raged around it.

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine’s president and the U.N. nuclear agency head are sounding the alarm about increased safety risks at the Russia-occupied Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant in southern Ukraine, which lost its external power supply more than a week ago as the war raged around it.

It looks like American journalists need to start dressing for job with a full helmet body and body armour. Not that a courthouse will let a civilian inside dressed for combat… nor is it necessarily safer to wear “PRESS” boldly on your chest now.

La lutte canadienne contre le fentanyl reste invisible aux yeux des États-Unis

Entretien avec le «tsar du fentanyl» du Canada, Kevin Brosseau.

Reflect on likely interpretations of “extremism” on “migration”, “race”, or “gender” (let alone the other things). You can only conclude that nobody should willingly visit the United States now. Even if your employer wants to send you — do not go. Look what happened to the LG plant workers.

Add to this the practical fact that automated speed enforcement *frees up* police resources to do other things (assuming there is still any intention to actually police the speed limit… which I suppose is the flaw in this argument).

By now we should not be surprised by the moral fracture from normality which inevitably comes with extreme wealth, nor that it eventually turns tech billionaires into supervillains. But if we allow their sick fantasies to reshape society so they rule over us from their megayachts it’s our own fault.

But apparently when you can make buckets of money wiretapping everybody then it’s totally fine and good. Is that the only difference?

Who’s old enough to remember when everyone (?!) celebrated the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of repressive rule in places like East Germany where the Stasi strove to implement what Ellison seems to dream of here? Or outrage at China’s “social credit” scheme? Will this hurt Oracle at all?

Salmonellose: le Canada interdit les importations de pistaches en provenance d'Iran L'Agence canadienne d'inspection des aliments (ACIA) a temporairement interdit les importations de pistaches en provenance d'Iran dans le cadre d'une réponse nationale à une épidémie de salmonellose q...

Salmonellose: le Canada interdit les importations de pistaches en provenance d'Iran
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Shopping for a fall jacket and I noticed something. I seem to remember these things coming in lots of bright/light colours, but right now they’re only available in “unmarked van stop resisting drab”. Maybe it’s just seasonal but oof.

People signing the Global Pledge for Healthy Indoor Air at the UN

Yesterday, history happened at the UN: For the first time hundreds of orgs signed a global pledge declaring that healthy indoor air is a human right.

Healthy indoor air is a key tool for preventing pandemics, building climate resilience, and increasing health equity. We need it everywhere!

Ces derniers temps, ils sont occupés à défendre leur propre espace aérien

Crowding has forced me to stand on the morning GO train for several weeks, making some incidental shoulder-surfing inevitable. I’ve been shocked to see so many full-grown adults (40s, 50s, 60s!) endlessly scrolling AI slop videos along with other short (apparently) garbage clips to “relax”. Wild.

Demanding they swear a personal loyalty oath to Trump or resign?

The Dems tried calling people “weird” for like a week, and it was working, but they bailed on it of their own accord. So I assume that’s what would happen?

I guess it’s actually an un-fare tax… 🥁

Can’t wait for Doug Ford to decry fare enforcement on municipal and GO transit vehicles as an “unfair tax grab” next… maybe I won’t hold my breath for that, though.

Yeah because people who hate speed cameras will definitely respect those signs … oh wait www.cambridgetoday.ca/local-news/n...

Naturally, by the time we have retrospective stats showing how bad this decision to ban speed enforcement using cameras in Ontario is, Ford will be out of office and relaxing at his cottage full-time. The toll in death and dismemberment won’t bother him one whit.

If your gambling operation isn’t capable of supporting itself… you’re running a bad gambling operation, no?

Something I have noticed lately on the train is folks who visibly freak out (performative grimacing, flapping hands in front of face, sometimes even getting up to stand somewhere far away) when someone else coughs. But they won’t wear an N95…? Nah, that’s for *anxious* people, right…

iOS26 is full of idiotic, terrible tiny changes that make things worse, and it’s not just me being cranky. I think my “favorite“ is that you now have to tap twice to see the Safari tabs you have open.

What could 500 people possibly do to run a data centre? Even in three shifts that would be 160+ people at a time! Were they just rolling in all the construction jobs or the entire economic impact of the project? Yeesh.

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