Dylan MacKay

If defense spending is so crucial to Canada's security, why are we spending public money scaling up private contractors who aren't even capable of giving us what we need now instead of creating crown corporations to do the same thing?
The only reason is to transfer public money to private companies.

Following Eurovision’s decision to allow Israel’s participation, Spanish public broadcaster RTVE has withdrawn from the contest. The announcement split the screen between Israel’s performance and scenes of bombardment and starving children in Gaza. #Spain #eurovision #genocide

I'd love for the authors of this report to come to NL so people in NL could make fun of them to their face. Yes By "economic freedom" to get fucked harder by capital, no thanks

Letter to the Guardian. The protection of badgers has a long pedigree (Report, 29 August). Arthur Gore, known as "Boofy", the eighth Earl of Arran, was a fanatical defender of them. He was also a tireless campaigner for the rights of homosexuals. In 1967 he managed to push through a law in the Lords that decriminalised homosexuality but failed to pass a bill to outlaw the cruel hunting of badgers. When asked why he had not received enough support for his badger bill, he replied: "Not many badgers in the House of Lords." Tony Lywood Keswick, Cumbria

Found when sorting an old drive. I still, very occasionally, say 'not many badgers in the House of Lords' and this is why:

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

The Sex Work Historian École Polytechnique Tragedy infographic. The image is of a white ribbon (the symbol for the National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women). The image also features the Sex Work Historian logo (a grey/ multicoloured peach) and a red umbrella (the international symbol for sex workers’ rights).

(1/8) CW: violence against women, gun violence, and suicide. The École Polytechnique Tragedy, also known as the Montreal Massacre (www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/p...), is part of an ever-growing stain across Canada’s history.

We got Weird Al out here singing Killing In The Name, the time for moderation is over

'It's embarrassing,' says Indigenous man who believes he was racially profiled at Winnipeg Home Depot | CBC News George Sinclair had just gotten into his vehicle and was ready to pull out of a Home Depot parking lot in Winnipeg this week when he was boxed in by three police cars, he says.

Look we just can't expect the Winnipeg police to see what is going on south of the border with ICE and border enforcement and not feel left out so... www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Where is the fried bologna?

Boomers: It just sucks so much that everyone gets participation trophies now, you used to have to show real merit to get an award

Also Boomers:

I wonder how much cocaine I would need to consume to start hyping AI.

Maybe this much?

New recycling tech recovers nearly pure nickel and cobalt from old EV batteries Researchers have developed an eco-friendly recycling tech that extracts 99 percent pure nickel and cobalt from waste batteries.

If anyone cares at all, EV battery recycling is now hitting 99% recovery for important metals

Please remind me again what the recycle rate for fossil fuels is

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Canadian-built machines of war “As we move from fighting the war to fighting the peace, I think we really have to see this as an opportunity for an economic renaissance" - Chrystia Freeland

My latest -- the bigger story about the Canadian-built armoured vehicle purchase by ICE is actually how the war abroad and the war at home are, primarily, economic wars.

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At least 4 countries pull out of 2026 Eurovision contest as Israel's participation sows discord | CBC News Spain and the Netherlands say they are pulling out of next year's Eurovision Song Contest as Israel's participation roils the competition.

Canada shouldn't join either if any countries who have killed more than 20000 children in the last 2 years are participating www.cbc.ca/news/enterta...

Step up the the plate Canada. Science is a remarkable investment for futiure prosperity and the worlds largest competitor is busy dissecting its golden goose to look for the eggs inside.

Thanks to the Treasury Board of Canada for inviting me to serve as a panelist on yesterday's CCO Day of Learning, which was broadcast to thousands of government communicators across the country. Here are 12 of my comments, which I will attempt to weave into a paper at a later date:

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Sadeghi says this "genetic optimization" allows parents to minimize disease while maximizing traits they prefer. However, critics have drawn comparisons to a different term: "eugenics." "[It's not eugenics] by any stretch, because it's fundamentally about empowering people with information that they can use to give their child the best start in life," he said. "And yes, if you want 2 inches taller for your child, 3 inches taller, right, if you want a couple IQ-point difference, absolutely, by all means, do that. But I'm saying, you're really asking me here, you're asking me, what is life about? That's what you're really getting at when you talk about height and IQ, right, they're abstractions of life."

His “it’s not a eugenics company” tee is raising questions already answered by his shirt. www.cbsnews.com/news/nucleus...

it rules that every day now is just watching everything in your life get more expensive and worse and then also constantly being told that nothing is more expensive or worse

Der Spiegel: Commander in Sleep

I hate this timeline

People act like being disabled is great because you get all these ‘benefits’ but forget you have to actually live with your illness or diagnosis or impairment

Which of course could not go wrong at all given our systemic biases in Canada that relate to who interacts with police and how

AI is Destroying the University and Learning Itself Students use AI to write papers, professors use AI to grade them, degrees become meaningless, and tech companies make fortunes. Welcome to the death of higher education.

„CSU—US’s largest public uni system—went all-in with a $17mill partnership with OpenAI. . .CSU unveiled its grand technological gesture just as it proposed slashing $375mill from its budget. While admin cut ribbons on AI, they were cutting faculty positions, academic programs, student services.“

“the problem is that Americans have eyes”

Opinion: Release of body-camera footage sets dangerous precedent The first authorized body-worn camera footage to be officially shared in Canada was made public by Manitoba Mounties at the end of November.

Wait police are going to use body-camera footage for PR videos, but otherwise tightly control the release and access, who could have seen this happening??? www.winnipegfreepress.com/opinion/anal...

Trump keeps microdosing death on live television and I keep feeling more optimistic that he'll croak during a cabinet meeting in the near future

I will now defend myself by paraphrasing jack nicholson in that scene from a few good men, who is the hero of that movie btw