Tim Ellis 🍁

Oh man this is perfect @betteridgeslaw.bsky.social fodder

Solar for All will slash electric bills for working families by up to 80%. Now, Trump wants to illegally kill the program.

Working families are getting crushed by skyrocketing energy costs. The planet is literally burning. Sabotaging this program isn’t just wrong — it’s insane.

Study looking at AI chatbots in 7,000 workplaces finds 'no significant impact on earnings or recorded hours in any occupation' Despite AI’s promise to revolutionize white-collar work, most workers are using it sparingly—or hiding it from their boss.

Is it happening, though? Or is it a lot of hype?

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Canada's trade flows recovering from spring: Statistics Canada | Investment Executive Merchandise trade deficit widens, while services trade deficit narrows

We are moving in the right direction, but are we able to maintain the momentum.

But Mr. Trump's war on Canada is taking a hit.🤔

Exports to countries other than the US are up 14%.🙂

Canada's trade flows recovering from spring: Statistics Canada | Investment Executive share.google/8mnwnF97HHlt...

Tired: "AI is going to replace all the jobs"

Wired: "Humans are going to replace all the AI"

So apparently, it may turn out that The Wizard of Oz at the Las Vegas Sphere wasn’t entirely made in AI and Google threw the VFX crew under the bus by claiming it was all done by artificial intelligence.

If true, then fucking yikes.

Via the OP: "So apparently, it may turn out that The Wizard of Oz at the Las Vegas Sphere wasn’t entirely made in AI and Google threw the VFX crew under the bus by claiming it was all done by artificial intelligence.

If true, then fucking yikes."

My partner works for a US company but she is based here in Canada and covered by our laws; the employer was completely clueless about Canadian rights pertaining to pregnancy and family leave time. It's very different (worse) down there (thanks largely to the "party of family values" of course lol)

Google Canada claims pregnancy is not a protected ground under Ontario's human rights code in defence of lawsuit In a statement of defence as part of a lawsuit involving a pregnant employee, Google denies discrimination and wrongful dismissal.

Google fired a woman in Canada within days of finding out she was pregnant, so she's suing them and rather than just saying she wasn't fired for being pregnant they're arguing that being pregnant isn't protected by our human rights code

(they're wrong, it is)

sheer, unadulterated panic on behalf of Trump and the GOP here. Everything they've done makes it clear that they are pants shittingly terrified of facing voters next year.

We used to have some societal norms against this stuff, and they were getting stronger. Then the editors and investors decided that *actually* the cultural crisis is white men feeling any doubt about themselves whatsoever.

CBS NEWS REPORTER: "You willing to go to jail over this?"

TEXAS STATE REP. ANN JOHNSON (D): "This threat of arrest, this is not normal. Do not think that we can turn into a nation where you arrest and jail your political opposition"

Child separation was the most evil part of Trump 1.0 immigration and under Biden many critics tried to push this insidious false equivalency of “we’re still putting kids in cages” but it was the temporary housing of unaccompanied minors while authorities searched for longer term housing/relatives.

Family separation is back.

I have been told that keeping maximal pressure up would push for better outcomes, which is arguably a theory with merit, except that in almost all cases "keeping pressure up" turned out to be "lying about complex subjects to flatter my priors"

three of the 10 most visited news sites are newspapers, and fox news also uses ny post content for its site. newspapers shape and influence the news which influences politics. by launching a ca newspaper murdoch hopes to further influence politics.

U.S. Sells $1 Billion in Arms to Europe for Ukraine, Sealing Shift in Approach Trump has stopped sending U.S. weapons to Kyiv, but he is willing to let allies buy them for transfer to Ukraine.

Four European countries are buying U.S. military equipment valued at roughly $1 billion for delivery to Kyiv’s forces.

it's so obvious at this point that the american right wing, despite all their posturing about how they're pro-business, has absolutely not a single clue how actually producing items - be it ag, manufactured goods, etc - at scale is accomplished

starting to think some of these AI companies are kind of shitty tbh

Yeah, the ‘Superman’ movie is about Palestine (among other things) On the importance of a “woke,” punk rock Superman

"People were going to die.

And Superman doesn’t stand by when people are in danger."

#movies #Gaza #GiftArticle #DCU

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@jamestalarico.bsky.social: "We're here in IL, the land of Lincoln... When he was a state senator in 1840, broke quorum by jumping out of a window in the statehouse. I believe my colleagues and I are participating in a long tradition of standing up to bullies, civil disobedience, of good trouble."

Canada's economy is showing 'resilience' against U.S. tariffs. Why? TD Bank economist Marc Ercolao conceded it's a "bit of surprise" to see the economy holding up against a massive disruption from Canada's largest trading partner.

#CanadaSky #Cdnpoli

Hang in there Canada! So far so good!
#ResilientCanada #CanadaStrong

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it's weird being a not very religious person who also believes short form video is essentially the work of the devil

“If I owned Texas and Hell I’d rent out Texas and live in Hell.”

- Union General Phillip Sheridan

Say "No Gracias" to DOGE Daddy Antonio Gracias Join us to protest "DOGE Daddy" billionaire Antonio Gracias and his firm Valor Equity Partners. Gracias is a top Elon Musk money man who served as the DOGE lead on deportations and attacks on immigran...

Tomorrow: Protests will target "DOGE Daddy" Antonio Gracias, CEO of Valor Equity Partners.

"Gracias is a top Elon Musk money man who served as the DOGE lead on deportations and attacks on immigrants..."

Aug 5 in Palo Alto.

More: actionnetwork.org/events/say-n...

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Making life worse for big money supporters of Trump, & for the people who assist his lawlessness, is crucial. It will be easier to quash Trumpism if associating w Trump makes you toxic.

All major Las Vegas Strip casinos are now unionized in historic labor victory The Culinary Workers Union representing 60,000 hospitality workers in Nevada has achieved a historic victory on the Las Vegas Strip.

The Culinary Workers Union representing 60,000 hospitality workers in Nevada has achieved a historic victory on the Las Vegas Strip. For the first time in its 90-year history, all major casinos on the Strip are unionized.

Criminal enterprise. the entire csuite, board, and senior legal, along with key engineers and pms involved in this need prison time

Breaking911 @Breaking911 : REP. MIKE FLOOD, (R-NEB.): "Do you think that people who are 28-years-old, that can work, & refuse to work, should get free healthcare?" TOWN HALL CROWD: "YESSSSSSSSSS!"

lmaooooo this dumb shit just doesn’t fly anymore