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i think they should do it. the government should shut down all air travel. my reasoning is that it would be very funny.

even when far rightwingers are having an extremely positive experience on all fronts they’re still able to hallucinate a situation where they’re the victim

@christineboyle.bsky.social @seanorr.bsky.social @lucymaloney.bsky.social would council please direct police and fire to start enforcing this ban? I think people have had more than enough time to adjust to the five year old law.

An orange and white cat is on his side. He looks high and or intense

on National Cat Day, i am presenting you with a cat.

if you haven't seen a cat before, this is what they look like. granted, details often vary. but the head, legs, fur, triangle ears -- the core structure -- tends to be consistent.

Alexa explodes after Canadian replies to query with, “Oh, yeah, no, for sure.” OROMOCTO, NB - A local man almost lost his home yesterday after his Amazon Alexa smart home device burst into flames. Lloyd Wentworth, 38, says the fire started as he was preparing dinner in his bunga...

Alexa explodes after Canadian replies to query with, “Oh, yeah, no, for sure.”

I have been charged in a federal indictment sought by the Department of Justice.

This political prosecution is an attack on all of our First Amendment rights. I’m not backing down, and we’re going to win.

Hundreds of foreigners freed from Myanmar's scam centres Thai Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra has pledged to close scam centres along the Thai-Myanmar border.

A lot of the scammers/romance scammers who create fake profiles to win people's trust to ask them from money, or for nudes to extort them for money, or who hack into people's accounts & take them over are human trafficked people who were looking for tech work & kidnapped. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Strengthening ChatGPT’s responses in sensitive conversations We worked with more than 170 mental health experts to help ChatGPT more reliably recognize signs of distress, respond with care, and guide people toward real-world support–reducing responses that fall...

OpenAI put out a press release today addressing mental health concerns. I have many issues with it, but something super troubling:

They estimate a WEEKLY prevalence of 560,000 users displaying signs of psychosis or mania and 1.2 MILLION users indicating suicidal plan/intent.

New definition of “America First” just dropped

There's already been a lot of talk about how much Nazi Twitter has been melting people's brains and how what gets engagement drives the conversations.

This feels like Elon trying to take a direct and unsubtle hand at shaping The Discourse and thus people's opinions and expectations.

Government is suppressing postal workers. It should be learning from their innovative ideas ⋆ The Breach If the government listened to postal workers, they could be implementing win-win measures that create secure meaningful jobs as well as address the crises of affordability, isolation, and climate brea...

Carney’s attack on the public postal service isn’t just brutal austerity—it’s a missed opportunity.

Dru Oja Jay argues the government could harness the unparalleled infrastructure of the postal network to offer public banking, elder check-ins, and more. breachmedia.ca/government-i...

Who could have predicted this... other than everyone not in management.

Oh my god some fucking tech dingdong posted this on Twitter with the caption "AI games are going to be amazing" totally seriously, you have to watch it. You have to. In full screen.

TC Energy lobbied Canada’s spy agency to share intelligence | The Narwhal Pipeline giant TC Energy urged CSIS to brief Canada’s biggest companies on security threats — raising concerns about surveillance

The Canadian government passed legislation allowing CSIS to more easily share intelligence with private companies after it was pressed by pipeline builder TC Energy to set up regular “information-sharing” meetings with industry, CSIS and RCMP.
thenarwhal.ca/tc-energy-cs...

When developers get the lion's share of a video game's profits and not executives and shareholders, then we can talk about raising the price of games.

But miss me with this $100 shit when we have leeches like Phil Spencer and Andrew Wilson constantly laying off devs for a quarterly boost.

Tamara Lich, who Poilievre continually posts in support of, was on a panel last night alongside Diagolon/Second Sons leader Jeremy Mackenzie.

They were both introduced as panelists off the top.

Lich, at the end, then says the panel was made up of her “heroes”

😬

The Onion is within a hair's breadth of reporting real news apnews.com/video/robert...

Canada wants to detangle its data from U.S. tech giants. Can it be done? In the middle of a tense trade war, Canadian tech companies and policy-makers carve a path for data sovereignty

If sovereign data servers outside the reach of US law are the goal, why doesn’t the government just create a Crown corporation to build & run them?
This unthinking fetish for public-private partnerships is yet another example of how this government remains beholden to 1980s-era economic ideologies.

Deflect, deflect, deflect

This creator never misses

It's worth reiterating that independent creators are getting debanked for the same content

Peacemaker looks at a mural embedding Hitler into American symbols

Feels like this will be a useful meme for the next few years

Reading the excerpts you kind of get the desperation from the powerful to make this story go away.

“Restore merit, end DEI” says man who could only get elected in Canada’s safest Conservative stronghold OTTAWA - Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre has launched a petition to "end DEI programs and restore merit", just months after losing his own heavily-favoured seat before running in an even more hea...

“Restore merit, end DEI” says man who could only get elected in Canada’s safest Conservative stronghold

Smith Reveals Meeting with the US Heritage Foundation After Trump Win | The Tyee The Alberta premier said she met with the right-wing think tank because of its influence on the president.

The think tank is widely known for creating Project 2025.

And this isn’t the first meeting Alberta Premier Danielle Smith has had with allies of the U.S. president.

David Falk writes. A @desmog.com Canada reprint. #canpoli

Tweet from Quds News Network @QudsNen BREAKING: Three Palestinians were killed after Israeli quadcopter drones opened fire on residents inspecting their homes in the Shujaiyya neighborhood, east of Gaza City.

“Israeli” ceasefires only ever apply to the other party. They’ll continue to kill whomever they want, whenever they want until they are stopped. They see themselves as occupying an altogether different moral plane than their enemies, like any colonizer.

Inside the Right-Wing Attack on Alberta's Public Education | The Tyee MAGA’s Project 2025 has become a blueprint for undermining Canada’s schools in the name of profit and privilege.

I began writing this story with a naive question in mind: What do we lose when public education is privatized? A lot, actually.

By following the MAGA playbook, the UCP’s push against public education not only undermines democracy, it jeopardizes the possibility of a better future for all Albertans.