Jfc, what a corrupt sex pest pedo government.

Mark Carney refuses to ‘categorically’ rule out military involvement in Middle East conflict Speaking in the Australian capital, Carney appeared to harden Canada’s stance on the war, saying it’s too soon to call for an immediate ceasefire.

What is even happening...

Carney supports the war, then does so with regret, says it prima facie violates international law, but now won't rule out joining in.

Mark Carney refuses to ‘categorically’ rule out military involvement in Middle East conflict: www.thestar.com/politics/fed...

Look how much Canadians hate the United States now It’s not just about the trade war. Nearly half of America’s neighbors to the north now think the U.S. is a bigger threat to world peace than Russia.

Carney dragging Canada into a war it doesn’t want on the side of the US which Canadians view as a bigger threat to world peace than Russia and China COMBINED would be a death sentence for his government. The fact he’s even considering it is appalling.

More than anything else, being reactionary like that is what leads to genocides! People really need to move beyond binary simplistic and childish good guy vs bad guy stuff (and imagining themselves as special heroes individually saving the world, that's not how you stop cycles of violence!)

The US wasn't forced into this war by either Israel or Iran though, the GOP has been drooling at the idea of war with Iran forever. Just because the US government says it doesn't mean they're not trading in antisemetic tropes, like they often do.

Americans Stranded in the Middle East Aren’t Getting Help from the State Department “Please do not rely on the U.S. government for assisted departure or evacuation,” a State department hotline said when NOTUS called Tuesday afternoon.

NEWS: Americans were told to evacuate the Middle East — but the State Dept is not helping them do it.

We called the State hotline. First thing you hear is an automated message: "Do not rely on the U.S. government for assisted departure or evacuation."

a pack of kittens closes in a a large dog standing on a chair

David Attenborough [whispering]:

“As the predators close in on their helpless prey, we can only watch in silent horror, for it is not man’s role to interfere in the hierarchy of nature.”

I think one of the things that bothers me the most about the way Polymarket presents itself to the world is that it's adopted the language of journalism to make itself sound more legitimate. Like look at this post from yesterday morning incorrectly "projecting" the winner.

I think disinfo is an important component but it's very much downstream of economic inequality. Taxing the rich and investing in civil society is crucial (not divesting like Carney is doing). It's an ouroboros of capitalism.

Disinformation is the single greatest threat to our democracy Social media disinformation is fuelling the global far-right, endangering democracy and rendering civil discourse impossible.

“In Canada, conservative political parties, Big Oil, hate groups and right-wing propaganda outlets have all used disinformation to advance their causes.”

Going to suck for all our nations that didn't take transitioning to green energy seriously, which is exactly how Big Oil loves it because it's all a death cult.

USPSTF Meeting Pushed Back for Third Time in a Row Meeting will be 'rescheduled in the coming months,' according to HHS

The meeting of the United States Preventative Services Task Force has been canceled again—another attack on public health by RFK Jr.

This is an independent group that reviews scientific research for things like cancer screenings. Their recommendations must be covered by insurance.

MAHA!

She reported her professor. Then the Reddit comments poured in. Part one of an investigation into an online smear campaign that followed a complaint against a music school.

These types of campaigns are boosted by algorithms and biases that identify women who report sexual harassment as attention-seeking and overreacting. It's another form of DARVO, and it's increasingly affecting everyday women who speak up about sexual violence.
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She reported her professor. Then the Reddit comments poured in. Part one of an investigation into an online smear campaign that followed a complaint against a music school.

Smear campaigns in Reddit comments have become a fixture of celebrity legal dramas, but they aren't just affecting public figures. For @spitfirenews.com, I investigated anonymous online attacks against a woman who reported a music professor for sexual harassment.
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Yes! It's exhausting to watch so many Americans not understand how undemocratic the US system is on a systemic level. I wonder if this is blame shifting, denial of systemic oppression/White supremacy or just a result of hyper capitalist individualism? Or all of the above or something else.

China is many ethnicities! It's got lots of regional cultures and ethnicities. Let's not collapse Chinese cultures into the one official culture of the propaganda machine. It's a bit like saying India has a culture, when it has multiple cultures that differ. All of our nations are kluges.

Hundreds stand 'Shoulder to Shoulder' at Halifax rally for Indigenous rights, environment, democracy - Halifax Examiner Hundreds of Nova Scotians joined their Mi’kmaq allies to protest Tim Houston’s austerity budget, which has slashed millions in grants to vulnerable groups.

Hundreds stand ‘Shoulder to Shoulder’ at Halifax rally for Indigenous rights, environment, democracy

reported by @mmughees.bsky.social

White supremacy's a system designed to pretend White people are too "evolved" to have feelings, the British upper class system's designed to denigrate, deny and repress feelings so extreme cruelty's not only possible but desired as an outlet for repressed feelings. Emotional becomes an insult.

I've come to realize that quite a lot of people don't really want to be free though or at least are afraid of looking inside themselves. In some ways, to be free is to also be awake to the tragedy of the world as well as the joy. A lot of people are VERY scared of emotions, particularly White people

I appreciate what you share here so much. Thanks. If we can't free our mind, your body being free won't help us be free! THIS is why deconstructing bigotry in ourselves is liberating. But we can't get mentally free if we don't take responsibility for our own thoughts and feelings.

World Trade Organization strikes down climate industrial strategy again - CCPA Long-standing conflict between trade disciplines and economic support measures plague global green new deals

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“The American-born pope wasn’t speaking only to the thousands gathered in St. Peter’s Square, but to the more than 1.4 billion Roman Catholics in the world, including those in the Trump administration who self-identify as Catholics, such as Vice President JD Vance or Secretary of State Marco Rubio.”

Je ne comprends pas cette histoire de « plus bas niveau depuis 1995 ». En 1995, la souveraineté était très proche de 50% (il me semble que c'est facile de s'en rappeler!).

Donc, la souveraineté serait à son plus bas niveau depuis encore plus longtemps, non? Un·e politologue dans la salle?

AI Translations Are Adding ‘Hallucinations’ to Wikipedia Articles AI translated articles swapped sources or added unsourced sentences with no explanation, while others added paragraphs sourced from completely unrelated material.

The new restrictions show how Wikipedia editors continue to fight the flood of generative AI across the internet from diminishing the reliability of the world’s largest repository of knowledge.

“Using AI to check AI can absolutely fail — and in some contexts it can fail at very high rates."

AI Translations Are Adding ‘Hallucinations’ to Wikipedia Articles AI translated articles swapped sources or added unsourced sentences with no explanation, while others added paragraphs sourced from completely unrelated material.

NEW: Wikipedia editors have implemented new policies and restricted a number of contributors who were paid to use AI to translate existing Wikipedia articles into other languages after they discovered these AI translations added AI “hallucinations,” or errors, to the resulting article.

“Those who’ve chosen Anthropic as a pro-democracy signifier should reconsider…not only is it far from an ethical company, but it embodies the very worst, most corrosive aspects of AI’s impacts on modern society, from creative exploitation to political opportunism to, yes, military lethality.” 🙏🏼

Yeah, the older I get the more things from the distant past I feel the need to apologise to my mom for (often from 40 years ago).

What most Canadiana really want from our PM and government but we elected a banker who puts profits over people so...

Spanish PM Sánchez on Trump's threat to end trade:

"We are not going to be accomplices to something that is bad for the world and contrary to our values and interests simply because of fear of reprisals... We have absolute confidence in the economic, institutional & moral strength of our country."