Benjamin Boles

I don't know that this is the *most* unethical thing David Frum has ever done, but in terms of professional *journalistic* ethics? Whooo boy

Renewables become biggest source of electricity globally for 1st time, beating coal | CBC News Worldwide solar and wind power generation has outpaced electricity demand this year, and for the first time on record, renewable energies combined generated more power than coal, according to a new an...

www.cbc.ca/news/science...

A reminder that Ford has repeatedly used or threatened to use the Notwithstanding Clause to undermine democracy by:

- Limiting third party election advertising
- Slashing Toronto City Council mid-election
- Undermining education workers' labour rights
- Evicting encampments
- Removing bike lanes

WHITEHOUSE: What happened to the $50k in cash that the FBI paid to Tom Homan in a paper bag?

BONDI: The investigation of Mr Homan was subjected to a full review by the FBI. They found no credible evidence of any wrongdoing

W: That was not my Q

B: You're welcome to discuss this with Director Patel

The UK is within spitting distance of having more murders portrayed annually on TV shows and movies set in the country than occur in real life

One should assume, if one had not already, that every single thing the GOP has to say about pretty much anything is a lie or fabrication.

Should've used this photo

'Just reckless': Ford comments on driver charged in fatal crash, collision with OPP vehicle transporting him | CBC News Ontario Premier Doug Ford says a driver accused in two crashes this year, one that killed a father of three in August and another that hit a car transporting the premier himself in January, was "just ...

Now would be a great time for an investigative reporter to look back into whatever happened to Doug’s motorcade earlier this year: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Dunno man, seems a little misleading to write an article about Trump describing activity in Portland and Chicago as “insurrection” with a 33 year old photo of a burning donut shop taken in the 1992 LA Riots (sans caption explaining that) as the header on all your posts about it.

I’m pretty sure Doug Ford is the one going around in the middle of the night destroying speed cameras

General admission in complete darkness sounds intense. The only time I saw them was back in the 90s at a rave. Blinded us with strobes. Good times!

Claim: 10 cars rammed ICE
Truth: No cars rammed ICE

Claim: She boxed ICE in
Truth: ICE boxed her in

Claim: She shot a rifle at ICE
Truth: She did not have a rifle

Claim: ICE returned fire
Truth: Only ICE fired

Claim: She drove herself to the hospital
Truth: Paramedics found her

Is it a seated venue?

The thing about 7 billionaire freaks passing the same increasingly large wad of IOUs back and forth, is that only a pundit could possibly think this translates to increasing prosperity for everyone else.

Post from Threads user rodneyowl: "Ireland has declared the Basic Income for Artists scheme permanent. This will be officially announced in tomorrow’s budget. Details to follow. Congratulations to all who fought for it and the present and future artists of all sorts in Ireland. That includes me 👌We’re just comin to the end of a 3 year pilot scheme. It’s been a roaring success. For every €1 paid out to the 2000 participants, the government got €1.46 back. Can’t argue with that. Other countries are already taking note."

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

It’s important to flood social media and news channels with news about how ICE lies, so that potential jurors see it.

Vehicles registered to Ford cabinet ministers caught by speed cameras more than 20 times | Globalnews.ca Documents obtained by Global News reveal that, over three years, vehicles registered to Ford’s cabinet minister received more than $3,300 in fines for speeding.

🤤 (shocked, shocked I tell you)

This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram.

Community action works.

Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...

Judge: That's what I'll do. Prohibit federalization or deployment of any NG troops into Oregon. For all reasons in prior opinion. Deployment of federalized military is ultra vires and contrary to law, violating Title 10, section 12406. I also find it's likely that defendants violate 10th Amendment.

"to me it's always been a challenge to cover the entire bpm range of my collection in one set, transitioning through multiple genres. My latest went from around 150 to over 500 in a little more than 6 hours, another one ranging from 230 to basically 1040 bpm in just 2 hours. What bpm ranges have you covered? Climbing or fluctuating? Adjusting tracks or keeping their original speed? What genres have you mostly used for this? I want to discover more genres that allow this, especially at lower bpm ranges. My collection contains barely nothing below 150bpm. A steady bpm climb feels just heavenly to me and the lower you start the better."

"Edit: Well, people lack experience with music on this sub, that's honestly a surprise. I'm gonna upload the set and hopefully one or two will end up hearing it. Can't believe people still have no idea about anything above 230. Psycore, Hitech, psychedelic speedcore, microcore, ethnocore, shamancore. You guys are saying that hundreds of people are producing static walls of sounds and "not music". How weak, ignorant and inexperienced are the people visiting this sub please? Do people here even have experience with DJing and music? Honesty that's more than disappointing and sad to see.

Someone is going a great bit on r/djs.... at least I think it's a bit

[abruptly stops playing my air banjo] Oh the intervention is for ME?

the most important thing to remember when under attack by spiritual forces is to preserve your own brand

In light of The Atlantic reporter today, i repeat...

That’s kind of funny. Some of my mom’s old activist friends were convinced CSIS was tapping their phones back in the day. They might not have been just paranoid

lol, I suspect that’s also most of what the CIA is now too, but technically they’re our spies, so probably at least some of them have guns.

Don’t forget CSIS

wizard frog is insane

Nobody cares and nothing will happen but this is classically, paradigmatically fascist language. Comparing opponents to vermin and pests is straight out of the textbook.

as a girl with a PhD in natural language processing and machine learning it's actually offensive to me when you say "we don't know how LLMs work so they might be conscious"

I didn't spend 10 years in mines of academia to be told ignorance is morally equal knowledge.

We know exactly how LLMs work.

Geordi La Forge Nope/Yes meme, but the yes has laser eyes in the visor: NOPE: "Do Not Comply In Advance" - bossy - already a cliche - implies permission to comply later YES: "Fuck You, Make Me" - leads by example - directs yelling at opposition instead of allies - easy to chant at a protest or put on a banner