Exactly, and why on earth are they getting us further entangled with American tech companies (the data centre here will be Texas-Calgary owned) that undoubtedly support the current administration? Nothing about it makes sense. Just bad in every possible way.

It's appalling how poorly informed they are when all that info is readily available from communities that are already suffering the consequences. I honestly think they're so eager for a piece of the AI pie & bragging rights about how cutting edge they made us that they don't want to know the truth.

Here in Saint John too. It's so unbelievably frustrating how many of our leaders are selling out our communities in favour of tech companies.

Not sure if Justin Trudeau saw The Strokes right before watching Justin Bieber at Coachella, but if he was standing there in the audience at the tail end, I hope he felt real awkward at that huge footage of the last university in Gaza blowing up.

To call this ableist bullshit would be to understate the insidiousness of this statement. People do not make the choice to be too unwell to work. Were I able to work, I would. Disability is not a fucking choice. And it can strike down the healthiest, strongest, and fittest among us with no notice.

This little fart-squirrel (Mephitis mephitis) is stamping, a warning behavior before the *big show*.

She's hoping to scare you off with her ferocity so she doesn't have to use her scent glands.

These types of bluffing moves are "deimatic" behaviors, from Greek 'deimatóo' = "to frighten".

Me today 😭

A stunning 8 minute treat for the eyes, ears, and soul.

Martin Gregus Jr. captured a pod of narwhals on film: #AGoodPlace

Source: www.reddit.com/r/NatureIsFu...

In case you missed it: first-person video footage of the U.S. Navy Divers Medical Team opening the hatch and entering inside the Orion Integrity capsule to meet the Artemis II heros

U.S. Navy Courtesy Asset/ Explosive Ordnance Disposal Group One

www.dvidshub.net/video/100269...

#Artemis 🧪🔭

“It’s a couple of things that work beautifully in concert. First: no music. Audiences are so sophisticated, but what they’re not accustomed to is not being told how to feel,” Wyle says. “You take all that out and it forces a level of engagement where you’re now looking for clues within the frame of the screen, which forces you to look up from your phone. And I think that is extremely engaging, especially to young viewers who aren’t accustomed to being asked to participate in a nonpassive way in the viewing experience.

“Second point, shooting it with almost exclusively 50-millimeter or 65-millimeter lenses, which is the most comparable to the human eye—and only shooting from the point of view of a human being that’s present in this space. There are no cameras on gurney wheels going in the hallway. There’s no cameras on the ceiling looking down from a God point of view. You are limited to the perspective of a participant. You can look away, but you can’t leave, and it becomes an endurance test for you to stay on your feet as long as we’re on our feet. Which [brings me to my] third point: real time. Real time has an aggregate sense of tension that you don’t get in any other form of storytelling. What happened before is happening now, and these two things are going to add up to the next thing. And if we throw more ingredients into this cooker and keep ratcheting it up, it’s going to pop.”

Wyle makes eye contact for his next point, delivering it with a Robby-esque matter-of-factness. “Fourth point: The election went the other way,” he says with a shrug. “We could have been a really good show with a lot of nice things to say in a perfectly normal Kamala Harris universe. And instead we became almost a beacon of hope and humanity in an alternative universe. But in the midst of that, fifth point—this is essentially competence porn. You’re watching really smart, dedicated people do what only they know how to do at a level that you don’t know how to do it, and you’re so fucking glad that they’re there doing it, and compartmentalizing their own stuff to put your broken pieces back together. You’re so reassured by knowing that there are people out there that laugh and joke and have the ability to lock in like that.”

this is fucking unreal stuff from Noah Wyle on the magic of The Pitt. www.gq.com/story/noah-w...

To state that Canada has ever pursued anything short of Indigenous annihilation—the year its Indian Act marked 150 years on the books—is colossal ignorance at best, settler colonial propaganda at worst. Kinda both, really.

The 21st century will be won by the states that, in a developed world where skilled young people are increasingly in short supply, are able to overcome their own xenophobia to welcome the future

Also to recognize that responsibility doesn't stop with voting. We need to hold our leaders accountable.

Yeah, for sure, the opposite extreme is an issue too. Give credit where it's due. I just want people to exercise some critical thinking, like asking if this is really a moral decision and how they'd feel if the guy they voted against did the same thing, or how it'll affect marginalized people, etc.

I'm so tired of politics being treated like a team sport with people cheering in unquestioning loyalty when their party is winning, whether or not their party is doing the right thing.

Really sad to hear this. What a beautiful voice she had.

Today, the NDP is calling on the Carney government to implement a national ban on surveillance pricing - before it becomes a predatory new normal in Canadian life.

Canadians are already being squeezed by the untenable cost of living. It’s time to stop the practice dead in its tracks.

Politician-worship is so bizarre.

You know how you support politicians? You vote for them. If you're really down with their ideas, you volunteer for their campaigns. Give 'em money. Put up a sign.

But at what part of that process do you surrender your right to criticize them?

They. Work. For. Us.

Thread. If it doesn't have a librarian, it's not a library but a warehouse for books.

More on this: www.nasa.gov/missions/pro...

It is always the case that any radical action by workers to resist the power of capital is "violence" but the constant suffering of poverty, absence of healthcare, hunger, surveillance, wage theft and the rest of it, well... that doesn't really count as "violence."

Post your favourite film from the year you turned 18 (if you feel like it).

A lovely mossy boulder with a face. I walked past this venerable stone gentleman on Dartmoor when I was beginning to write my first novel, Villager, and it whispered all 104,000 words of the book to me. So now I have to pay it all of my royalties. Unfortunately my ex-publisher stopped paying me royalties last year. Understandable, the boulder was not happy. But now I have a new publisher and the book has been republished. So remember if you purchase a copy you will be helping a boulder to eat, pay the rent on his riverside moss garden, and feed his boulder family.

Yes it could be argued that keeping up with world events is important but alternatively can I interest you in hugging an ancient mossy boulder that looks like a face and quietly listening while it tells you stories from centuries cloaked in mist.

Apparently it's impossible to find unflavoured whey isolate protein powder without stevia, chicory, prebiotics, probiotics, or any other weird shit I can't tolerate.

Like just give me the protein powder. That's it. That's all.

Food sensitivities are so much fun.

A blue feathered bird with a spiky crest on its head and black and white stripe patterns along its wings and tail feathers.

Bluejay

And if you don't want to consider that point, fine, but don't act like it was a personal attack on you and start throwing around accusations of gaslighting just because you can't handle any criticism of your political party.

A journalist pointing out the contradiction of PM Carney banning social media for kids under 16 yet pushing AI in classrooms is not gaslighting you. He's not psychologically abusing you or trying to make you question your sanity/reality, he's just making a point for people to consider.

I keep seeing people use the term "gaslighting" wrong. Just because someone posts an opinion that's different than yours does not mean they're gaslighting you.

Screenshot of Elmo next to his pet's fishbowl in Elmo's World. The subtitles say "We. Dorothy's been thinking abou and down to what’s her daughter."

four birds in a cartoon from Sesame Street, with the caption reading "Oh, shit"

Another Sesame Street cartoon saying "Oh shit"

Screenshot of Big Bird in Hooper’s Store with live human Alan and a flying red bird. The subtitles read: "Time for the birth of terror. Me"

Do not watch Sesame Street on Tubi with the subtitles on 😭. I swear, I didn't edit or add anything. Is it hilarious? Yes, but also, they need to fix this immediately. Absolutely incomprehensible and bad