Condom prices could rise 30% due to Iran war, says world’s top producer Karex Karex produces more than 5 billion condoms annually and is a supplier to leading brands like Durex and Trojan, as well as the NHS

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Condoms on the rise?

Say it with me.

Government services are not businesses.
Governments are not businesses.
Neither should be run as a business.

If you think they should, you have the fiscal understanding of a 4 year old.

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Albertans! We could do the funniest thing!
Let's start another referendum campaign.
#ableg #abpoli

picking over the corpse of the economy, what a great look.

The 1990 symbol grounding problem predicted we'd need sensory experience to understand meaning. LLMs broke this by learning from text alone. But the unease about them 'just guessing words' reveals how deep that intuition runs—we still expect intelligence to be embodied.

AI learns language from skewed sources. That could change how we humans speak – and think | Bruce Schneier Large language models aren’t trained on real-life conversations. As we encounter their language, it could affect our own

Oh:

A 2022 study found that children in households that used voice commands with tools like Siri and Alexa became curt when speaking with humans, often calling out “Hey, do X” and expecting obedience, especially from anyone whose voice resembled the default-female electronic voices.

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What’s impressive is not that your brain stops working under the influence of AI, but how quickly.

Jesus Christ this is literally what some of their professors (including me) have been yelling about for years, I DIDNT WANT TO BE RIGHT ABOUT THIS

I needed a good news story today and thought you might like it, too.

Education is not a business.

Schools are not factories.

Our children are not widgets to be churned out.

Do better, @fordnation.

#OntEd

The pet I’ll never forget: Chilly, the kitten I saved from freezing to death I found Chilly literally frozen to the spot beneath a Detroit dock, warmed her up and took her home. She’s now part of the family

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It’s nice to read a sweet story amidst the crappy news.

#skpoli

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The kids are all right.

Totally agreed. Canadian governments and institutions need to quit Xitter. Yesterday.

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WTF indeed. The Gestapo/ICE should not be allowed in Canada.
One related action we can all take is demanding that OUR pension funds divest from ICE-enabling firms - petition ⬇️.

"Cognitive surrender" leads AI users to abandon logical thinking, research finds Experiments show large majorities uncritically accepting "faulty" AI answers.

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“In other words, letting an AI do your reasoning means your reasoning is only ever going to be as good as that AI system. As always, let the prompter beware.”

Tell the Canada Pension Plan: Divest from ICE Millions of Canadians trust the Canada Pension Plan (CPP) to safeguard their futures, yet breaking research from Stand.Earth shows they have been investing our retirement savings in companies tied to ...

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Legendary Banff grizzly 'The Boss' awakens as Alberta bears begin to emerge | CBC News The awakening of Banff National Park's most iconic grizzly heralds the return of bears to the Alberta landscape. Parks Canada calls him Bear 122, but he's better known to most in Alberta — and across ...

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I finished @adambecker.bsky.social’s More Everything Forever yesterday and it hasn’t left my mind all day (and I’m usually too scatterbrained for that). You should read it if you haven’t already! Mini review below: 1/n

Jamil Jivani posted that the government shouldn't feed hungry poor kids at school.

Then he stood in Parliament holding a Bible.

Carrying the Bible isn't the same as following it.

This is the situation we find ourselves in

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‘A new world is being born’: author Rebecca Solnit on the ‘slow revolution’ the far right cannot tolerate It’s easy to focus on authoritarians and their petty victories. But zoom out and the picture is more encouraging, says the woman who popularised the term ‘mansplaining’, whether it’s in feminism, or t...

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“A government can take away your rights, but no one can take away your belief in those rights. The first points of challenge to fascism are memory and history.”

look at this baby beaver and feel better briefly

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Old Canada Series on Instagram: "People driving RVs through Saskatchewan around 1960" 5,323 likes, 102 comments - oldcanadaseries on December 29, 2025: "People driving RVs through Saskatchewan around 1960".

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Heartbreaking