Symbolik

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#Enshitification of the internet is real. When you search in the app store or on Google the top item is researved for the highest bidder, often it's a scammy imitation of what your looking for, or worse. GoogleIsFailingUs

The US Gov is #gaslighting the entire world.

A very interesting documentation of a culture of contribution

Surprise, the corporations lied!

YouTube video by Africa Kenyah Intro to Web Accessibility

Want to learn about web accessibility and how to make your web applications more usable for everyone? Here’s a small crash course on the subject!

You can also get more info on live streams and join the web Accessibility Study Group over at github.com/codingtherap...

Yes I will be fighting back against the unjust firing by @washingtonpost.com.

I have filed a grievance and will be represented by none other than the amazing @katiephang.bsky.social and an incredible legal team.

Journalistic freedom is a bedrock of a healthy society and is worth battling for.

Why Washington Post fired me Read the official termination letter for yourself.

New from me:

There's a lot of misinformation around the reasons I was fired from WaPo.

Here's the official termination letter I got sent by Washington Post.

Read and judge for yourself.

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I just listened to the newest episode of @99pi.org about the story of the Embassador Bridge between the US and Canada, thought provoking, informative and amazing. Check it!

Check out NOIR FEST: Art as Cultural Software on '@filmfreeway'

Catured #MalaninXMarket at #SankofaSquare #inTORONTO today. It was a great vibe.

From wonderful vendors, great company, to yoga. It was a great launch to series that I feel will make a good vibes mark on the city, in the aptly renamed public square.

Look out for my #SpacialSnapshots audiovisuals

Former MusiquePlus and MuchMusic host Juliette Powell dies at 54 Former MusiquePlus and MuchMusic host Juliette Powell has died at the age of 54.

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Twitch Twitch is the world

#TalkshowONPOINT

Tech, Culture w/ Soul
Wednesdays on Twitch!

Check out this video "Talkshow OnPoint: AI Job and The role of music in culture" www.twitch.tv/talkshowonpo...

Feat #IrisNevins #BNA / #Umbadiama

@jessehirsh.com

195: The Great Trump Depression and the End of Money A dispatch from the future on the ontological paradox of money

A great and creative, inspiring, work of futurism

metaviews.substack.com/p/195-the-gr...

Talkshow OnPoint

We are live #talkshowonpoint w @IVProduced and @Symbolik
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Tech and Culture w/ Soul!!

Looks great!

YouTube video by Symbolik Black to the Future

I'll be showcasing my Virtual Reality work at #Black2theFutureExhibition #inTORONTO!

Black 2 The Future is an interactive experience not to be missed.

Get info here:
projects.web-ar.studio/v2/ARINVITE

In the spirit of that, I'm sharing my song Black to the Future :-)

youtu.be/GGljIGKFcAs

156: TikTok and Big Tech Are Undermining Trump's Trade War Fragments of a Hidden Empire

Check out this great #Metaviews @jessehirsh.com read!

metaviews.substack.com/p/156-tiktok...

Black Community - 2025 Federal Election Candidates Meet & Greet Communauté noire – Rencontre des candidats aux élections fédérales de 2025.

Canadian elections are coming. Vote for a better Canada for all, not for divisive antgonism.

Here is a community meet and greet #BlackCanada

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Lost

#art #illustration #drawing #dibujo

Affirmation to Art Program Affirmation to Art is a 3-day art workshop, aiming to serve 30 BIPOC youth aged 16-22. It will teach how to transform affirmations into painted artwork on baseball caps, using fabric paints and stenci...

Artist Just J is facilitating a free art workshop for youth ages 16-22 at Wildseed Centre for Art & Activism from April 15-17th

A hands-on creative workshop, where all supplies are provided #inTORONTO!

Sign Up Here: forms.gle/3B4HKKrPZPTT...

Artist quits post after P.E.I. vet college tells him to remove painting based on U.S. politics | CBC News Christopher Griffin, the now former artist-in-residence at the Atlantic Veterinary College in Charlottetown, says administrators were trying to censor one of his paintings after complaints from Americ...

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The Meaning Of The Name Gang Starr · Step In The Arena · Song · 1991

#Gangstarr is forever giving #CultureALIVE

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Sign the Petition Urge Amazon to Discontinue Selling "Canada, 51st State" Merchandise

Hey #Amazon, WTF?! Stop it!!

www.change.org/p/urge-amazo...

Glad to hear it worked out ok.

When photography came out, painters thought it couldn't be art.

When Photoshop came out, lab based photographers thought it couldn't be art.

Humans driving new tools will always be artists, and humans shunning new tools will fade away.

I hope you're ok?

Mr. Carney, Congratulations on winning the Liberal party leadership race. While I'm glad to see the poll numbers dropping for Poilievre's CPC, I have strong reservations around many of your statements both in your campaign and in your prior work, including your book Value(s). It's been clear to many observers for quite a while that the tech industry has been pushing the overton window toward austerity, autocracy, and fascism. Yet your statements over the last few years demonstrate a persistent willingness to side with that very industry, despite their goals having become more and more obvious. Is this how a reasonable, rational economist views the world? That even when their equations fail time and time again to match up with reality, they stubbornly refuse to change their approach? Here are a few examples of what I'm getting at:

1. AI: You are pushing for the Canadian Government to invest in and/or adopt Artificial Intelligence technologies. Today, as it happens we're seeing where this leads: the US is implementing AI as a cover for xenophobic attacks on political speech. https://www.axios.com/2025/03/06/state-department-ai-revoke-foreign-student-visas-hamas People may rightly point out that there are (limited) use cases for things like Machine Learning, such as simulating protein folding. Sure. However, your fellow central banker, Stephen Poloz, was recently trying to push Canada's public pension funds to invest in the build-out of hyperscale data centres. These are not built for ML applications, but instead are almost exclusively for Generative AI, a technology that has not found a single societally beneficial product-market fit. Moreover, the AI industry is also wasting money & resources (particularly when it comes to water) at an alarming rate. The notion, repeated by you, that AI is 'an essential part' of a climate solution, is purely industry propaganda - and it's not clear to me if you don't realize this, or simply don't care. To the contrary: 'AI' been far more effective at helping the oil industry pump fossil fuels out of the ground more cheaply. And even a first-year econ student can tell you what that means.

2. Fintech: Your book praises Shopify as a fintech having a positive societal impact. It also takes a supportive view of things like smart contracts, as well as Facebook's 'Libra', without once mentioning that Libra was near-universally seen as an existential risk to the currencies of smaller nations - and, in its 'basket of currencies' version, a threat even to the global financial system. While it's true that, back in 2021, the explicitly far-right and libertarian politics of Shopify's leadership may not have been so widely known, it's clear that trusting these fintech folks is no longer an option. What we actually need, as many have said, is to move slow and fix things. This continued fascination with 'fintech innovation' represents a massive liability for you, and I urge you to reconsider your willingness to glom onto whatever the shiny new disruption of the day is.

3. Climate tech: Speaking of which, you've also shown a consistent tendency to boost things like hydrogen fuel, electric vehicles, and direct-air carbon capture as paths to zero emissions, but not things like government investment in public transit or high-speed rail. I don't know if Brookfield has investments in the former, but those technologies are not the transformative change we need if we're to avert the worst case climate disaster looming ahead. We need collective solutions, not more of the same approaches that got us into this mess. Thanks for reading. I appreciate your time, and I sincerely hope you'll reconsider the direction you're pursuing. This is a critical time for our country; I'd hate for us to work so hard to avoid Poilievre only to be sold out to the US tech oligarchy by other means. Yours, etc.

Wrote a letter to Mark Carney. It's a little bit over 300 characters though, so I'm posting images with alt text 😉

Subject: Please rethink your stance on tech

#CdnPoli #MarkCarney

YouTube video by Marsh Family "I Put Up Tariffs" - Marsh Family adaptation of Bob Marley and the Wailers, "I Shot the Sheriff"

#terrifs to I Shot The Sherrif melody
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