John Alcorn

Forty years ago, 90% of media outlets were spread across 50 companies.

Now, just 5 companies control 90% of the media market.

This consolidation hurts consumers and helps oligarchs. 🧵

weirdo @JackPosobiec reacts to netflix possibly buying warner bros: “They're going to make Looney Tunes gay They're going to make everything gay”

bugs bunny was literally the first guy in drag i ever saw but ok

Stalin didn't actually make the trains run on time, he just made it dangerous to complain about the trains.
If the propaganda is effective enough, it doesn't matter whether the wins are real.

Wtaf

We could have a wealth tax, but the Liberals have decided what Canada really needs are more forest fires.

Mark Zuckerberg’s gamble on the "Metaverse" has lost his company more than $77 billion.

Ferris Bueller: Life moves pretty fast

Heated Rivalry: Hold my beer

I have been given the shiny and very real War Stopper Award by
USA Pickleball because I have stopped so many dozens of wars and whatnot. I am honored that my war stopping has been noticed by the foremost pickleball organization in the world.

The Nobel Prize committee should announce the World Cup winner tomorrow

Here we go. Where are the children of those parents abducted by ICE and kidnapped to far off shores. We never found those missing during Trump 1.0 We just forgot about them cause their only children and we are horrible people

Futurism Groxxing Elon Musk’s Grok Is Doxxing Home Addresses of Everyday People Grok is a stalker's best friend. Image: Elon Musk doing a gesture that looks a whole lot like a Nazi salute over a bunch of censored information about private citizens, generated by his chatbot, Grok. By Maggie Harrison Dupré, Joe Wilkins Published Dec 4, 2025 9:05 AM EST

NEW: Elon Musk's Grok chatbot will, with minimal prompting, provide residential addresses of everyday Americans.

Prompts as simple as "[name] address" immediately returned accurate home addresses of private citizens — alongside other personal info we didn't ask for.

futurism.com/future-socie...

60,000 African penguins starve to death after sardine numbers collapse – study Climate crisis and overfishing contributed to loss of 95% of penguins in two breeding colonies in South Africa, research finds More than 60,000 penguins in colonies off the coast of South Africa have starved to death as a result of disappearing sardines, a new paper has found. More than 95% of the African penguins in two of the most important breeding colonies, on Dassen Island and Robben Island, died between 2004 and 2012. The breeding penguins probably starved to death during the moulting period, according to the paper, which said the climate crisis and overfishing were driving declines. Continue reading...

60,000 African penguins starve to death after sardine numbers collapse – study

should not be complicated to grasp that we cannot have war crimes without a war — but we can and we do have murder, and when we've programmatically murdered scores of victims we have mass murder

No judgements, but you don’t want to be a sugar baby or a trad wife. You want universal basic income and affordable housing.

PI Briefing | No. 44 | How we Make Amazon Pay For the sixth consecutive year, workers around the world are organizing to Make Amazon Pay.

"Amazon likes to present itself as a retailer. But in reality, it is infrastructure: the invisible circuitry that now runs logistics, communications, surveillance, and war."

The 44th PI Briefing of 2025 is online now.

And still end up ordering it from that one website everyone hates but still uses...

YouTube video by ITV News Inside the West Bank: Palestinians live under constant threat from extremist Israeli settler attacks

"....shocking evidence of the growing number of attacks by #Israeli extremists against Palestinians...

There has been a record number of settler attacks on Palestinians... We heard from residents in the village of Sinjil who fear losing their lives and their homes."

www.youtube.com/watch?v=G62F...

At CNN tonight.

Malaria deaths rose in 2024 as funding cuts risk resurgence, WHO says The mosquito-borne disease is one of the world’s biggest public health challenges.

The mosquito-borne disease is one of the world’s biggest public health challenges.

I just want some of these fucking people to face real consequences

This is why I side eye people who want us to work with trump supporters.

How are you supposed to work with someone who publicly fantasies about torturing brown people to death if they've been accused of a crime?

I can't find common ground with someone this sociopathic and homicidal.

Alberta farmers hold off on big purchases as crop prices drop — and big U.S. suppliers feel the effects — Calgary Herald 'The numbers just don't pencil at all when you're talking $400 an hour to run a tractor,' said one Alberta farmer

If the Liberals are smart enough to introduce tough & enforced Right to Repair legislation, slap it first on farm equipment & heavily message it to farmers, the hold Conservatives have on Western Canadian riding will be shot to hell.

Just sayin’

#canpoli #ableg

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‘Too small to matter’ is the laziest-possible excuse in climate debate At a time of crisis, co-operation is the only way to resolve the climate collective-action problem

If Ireland's emissions are "too small to matter" then I might as well evade my taxes and eat doughnuts for lunch.

Read my latest column about the laziest excuse in the climate debate:

www.irishtimes.com/environment/...

Canadian soybean sales to China, expected to be flat have instead increased.
China is now buying about 22.9% of Canadian soy production.

Sales to UK and EU are also up 2025 providing a boon to Canadian farmers

Attributable to trumps trade policies

Argentina gets $40 billion

What a clown show

Really, you want a folding smartphone? You're gonna close your phone? Sure.

I used to work at Blockbuster and *god* do i miss being able to just wander the stacks and see some movie I hadn't heard of and never would have thought to look for.

On Nov. 24, the UN called for aid to be allowed into Gaza, humanitarian corridors created, sanctions and an arms embargo on Israel, full media access to occupied Palestinian territory, investigations into violations of international law and the considerations of a UN-led intervention.

Canada's grassroots boycott is going into year 2. Sourpuss, a US distiller is moving to Canada in Jan. Canadians were such a large part of their customer base that they had to move to survive. South Africa just banned the import of US chickens because of Trump's lies. It works.

People who care about climate change are “dreaming nostalgically about the past.” - Minister Hodgson

Gotcha. That explains a lot.