Erika McCallion

A yellow bridge in front of a city background with three banners reading "POST-GAZETTE STRIKERS WILL WIN".

BREAKING: We won!

Today the 3rd Circuit Court ordered the @post-gazette.com to restore our contract it illegally tore up 5 years ago. That’s our health care, PTO, right to a 40-hr. work week, short-term disability and so much more we’ve struck for 3+ years.

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Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

The CBS takeover by Larry Ellison and Bari Weiss is the most foreboding move in a while, and I’m not saying that lightly.

It will have an effect on the 2026 elections: CBS will now lie to people and normies will believe it.

This is the playbook, folks.

If you're not paying attention now and doing something about it, then you're going to have to sit down the rest of your life because democracy is being taken away.

Do not be quiet in this moment.

Just so I'm clear:

TV host says we should kill every homeless person? No big deal

TV host says the right must "go to war" with the left? Pfft.

TV host says the government is cracking down on critics? Well, the government cracks down on him for the criticism.

Free speech, everyone.

Mark Zuckerberg presenting his Pervert Glasses for perverts

I'm not sure about this branding but I'm not the billionaire business genius

Having proper ventilation and filtration of all indoor air spaces would mitigate symptom-free spread. So many good reasons for the govt to have a national grant/subsidy program to clean indoor air in every home, office, commercial, industrial building. What a missed nation-building opportunity!

Ontario public servant unions rallying against Ford’s return-to-office mandates | Globalnews.ca Unions representing Ontario public sector workers are holding a rally Thursday outside of Queen's Park to protest the province's return-to-office mandate.

Unions representing Ontario public sector workers are holding a rally Thursday outside of Queen’s Park to protest the province’s return-to-office mandate. #OnPoli
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Ford government declines to say if temporary foreign worker program should end | Globalnews.ca Premier Doug Ford's office declined to take a position on whether or not the temporary foreign worker program should come to an end amidst growing unemployment in his province.

Young Ontarians are disillusioned by sky high cost-of-living, housing insecurity and rampant unemployment.

Doug Ford’s message to them?

You’re not looking “hard enough”.

For someone with so much contempt for education, he sure lectures a lot.

#onpoli

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YouTube video by Kormans LLP From Finance to City Council: How Joe Horneck Found His Purpose | EP.183

From Finance to City Council: How Joe Horneck Found His Purpose.
This week on Chosen Life Podcast Mississauga Ward 6 Councillor @JoeHorneck! Giving an eye-opening conversation about local government, urban growth, and the future of cities.

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YouTube video by Kormans LLP Mississauga is Always Evolving

Cities are constantly evolving.
#urbanism #Mississauga

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Milk Act to Bike Month: How Liberals are trying to slow Bill 5 with 4,000 amendments | Globalnews.ca Bill 5 is the government's mining legislation, which has sparked protests from First Nations leaders over a plan for special economic zones, where laws can be bypassed.

NEW: The Ontario Liberals have tabled more than 4,000 amendments to the province’s controversial Bill 5 in a last-gasp attempt to slow its progress during the final day of committee and force the government to delay passing it into law. #OnPoli
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Ontario Liberal MPP Ted Hsu has filed over 4000 amendments to stop Bill 5 - one of the Ford government’s most dangerous & anti-democratic bills.

This is about your clean water, air, and community. We will keep fighting until this government kills Bill 5 & gets it right. #onpoli

New document reinforce that Science Centre closure was not supported by engineers The Ontario Science Centre was shuttered on June 21, 2024, with the Ontario government claiming that a structural roof issue made it unsafe. New documents suggest that the engineers inspecting the roo...

The Ontario Science Centre was shuttered on June 21, 2024, with the Ontario government claiming that a structural roof issue made it unsafe. New documents suggest that the engineers inspecting the roof didn't agree. #OntarioScienceCentre #ONpoli #Ontario

Milton still doesn’t have all-day, two-way GO train service. What’s the hold up? “A complex challenge,” says Metrolinx.

A bit of a small explosive allegation here. The federal government was prepared to give the province $1 billion for 2-way all-day service to Milton. But while Doug Ford said he was “1,000 per cent committed” to making it happen, Metrolinx has pointed the finger at CPKC. #onpoli

This was just posted by @tbretc.bsky.social on another platform. The Chicago Sun-Times obviously gets ChatGPT to write a ‘summer reads’ feature almost entirely made up of real authors but completely fake books. What are we coming to?

During the vote, top bill backer Kirsten Gillibrand and chief opponent Elizabeth Warren got into a heated argument. Warren strongly believes this will pave the way for corruption, risk the stability of the financial system and allow more criming. Gillibrand argues this bill will protect consumers.

I can’t recommend this enough.

UNBREAKING, a new project from @lizneeley.bsky.social & co, documents & explains our many concurrent institutional collapses.

It’s beautifully executed work, full of intellectual & moral clarity. 3 pages are live, more will come. It’s SO GOOD, & I learned so much.

Screenshotted text. One might imagine that algorithms like these could improve their answers to medical questions if they restricted themselves to citing the academic literature, rather than potentially partisan blogs—that is, sticking to the “science.” However, pseudoscientific disinformation campaigns are often laundered through the scientific literature itself, creating additional challenges for algorithmic systems hoping to do scientific boundary work. Prior reporting has documented how SEGM pays for open-access fees for authors publishing research congenial to their anti-transgender stances, so that their work will be freely accessible to the public instead of hidden behind paywalls. This also means, however, that the text of these articles is available to algorithmically generated search summaries like Google Search, which often cites their claims via publicly accessible text.[13] Two out of the three peer-reviewed scientific articles cited in the above summary on detransition had their open-access fees paid for by SEGM, of these, one suggests that existing research on detransition rates is flawed, and the other suggests it is higher than is widely reported. One of the articles was authored by someone whose only listed affiliation was SEGM itself.

As reported by the @splcenter.org, anti-trans pseudoscience groups often pay the open-access fees for researchers with friendly viewpoints.

It needs to be studied further, but this strategy seems to work for AI search. Many cited articles had their open access fees paid by an anti-trans group.

My statement on the charges filed against me:

State Department Designates WNBA As Terrorist Organization WASHINGTON—Promising to stamp out the extremist movement as well as its sympathizers, the U.S. State Department announced Thursday that the WNBA had been designated as a terrorist organization. According to Secretary of State Marco Rubio, the organization has as many as 156 terrorists spread across 13 known cells in the United States, and several of […]

“Their radical anti-American ideology is centered on the empowerment of girls and women,” said Secretary of State Marco Rubio
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Ford’s Budget Delivers for Corporations, Fails Working Ontarians Again  | The Ontario Federation of Labour Toronto (May 15, 2025) – Ontario Budget 2025, the first budget tabled by Doug Ford’s...

🚨BREAKING: Ford’s Budget Delivers for Corporations, Fails Working Ontarians Again
"Year after year, this government tables budgets that offer no real solutions for Ontario workers and their communities.” -
@waltonmom
Full release: ofl.ca/fords-budget...
#OnLab #OnPoli

The big “why do you hate AI?” Thread got comments and quotes turned off, but here’s the main reason I hate AI:

It’s being developed by the worst people on the planet solely to enrich themselves at the expense and labor of the world’s vulnerable populations. Everything else stems from that

Group photo of Sesame Street workers holding their firsts high with graphics showing the logo of their new union and the winning vote tally, 55-19

Sesame Street is officially UNION! Workers at Sesame Workshop, the nonprofit behind Sesame Street, have voted 55-19 to join @opeiulocal153.bsky.social

Huge congrats to @sesameworkersunion.bsky.social! “We can officially say that today, May 15th, is brought to you by the letter U!”

Thrilled that my article on women's activism in PRR parties has been conditionally accepted in @cpsjournal.bsky.social!

Drawing on membership surveys of the League 🇮🇹 and the Sweden Democrats 🇸🇪, I show that women members are *more active* than men because they are more embedded in party networks.

I grew up believing that we had learned the lessons of the German poem and Martin Luther King Jr's speeches. We would all speak out if we saw democracy threatened and the rule of law under attack.

I will always speak out against wrong. I will always stand up for democracy. I will not back down.

I’m really only just getting into it but I genuinely love birding as a hobby. The entire goal is to look at the bird. Is there a bird? There is a bird! Look at the bird! If you are very keen you can learn what to call the bird so that you can properly thank it for the joy you feel when you see it. 🪶

338 Sunday Update: Week Two Goes to the Liberals As we enter week three (of five) of this federal campaign, the Liberals continue to lead in the vote and seat projections.

📊As we enter week three (of five) of this federal campaign, the Liberals continue to lead in the vote and seat projections.

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