Sam Altman has a new plan to make money from generative AI: he wants intelligence to be treated like water or electricity — and we’ll all have to pay him for it.
His chatbots are degrading people’s ability to retain information and think critically. Now he wants to sell smarts back to us.
1/ Hours after Iran and the U.S. reached a ceasefire deal, Israel launched one of its most devastating attacks on Lebanon to date.
Over a hundred strikes in ten minutes - carnage in Beirut, where hundreds of thousands of displaced people are sheltering.
www.cbc.ca/news/world/i...
Anyone trying to understand Israel in Lebabon over decades, read Maya Mikdashi
"In Lebanon, Israel’s war of impunity is being waged against three fronts: the battlefield, the country’s social fabric and its political society"
These attacks kill & displace while trying to foment sectarian violence.
“For Premier Eby to suddenly say changing DRIPA is ‘non-negotiable’ and will pass this session is an absolute betrayal of everything DRIPA and of our evolving relationship with the NDP over the last decade” Grand Chief Stewart Phillip #bcpoli cheknews.ca/premier-eby-...
For years, Palestinian trade unions have been calling on global counterparts to stand in solidarity.
Now, activists are asking Canada’s largest labour body to do just that.
pressprogress.ca/labour-for-p...
Screenshot of a post from Donald Trump: A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again. I don't want that to happen, but it probably will. However, now that we have Complete and Total Regime Change, where different, smarter, and less radicalized minds prevail, maybe something revolutionarily wonderful can happen, WHO KNOWS? We will find out tonight, one of the most important moments in the long and complex history of the World. 47 years of extortion, corruption, and death, will finally end. God Bless the Great People of Iran!
The President of the United States is openly threatening to commit genocide against 90 million people.
Prime Minister Carney: if there was ever a moment to denounce this illegal war, withdraw your support, and call for accountability for war crimes—it’s now.
You love to see it!!!
#LandBack #Nuchatlaht
www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/ar...
The immediate status quo, centrist attacks on Avi Lewis are precisely why he is effective and needed.
In face of growing right wing escalation, an unbashadely left opposition that is anti capitalist & internationalist is both principled *and* realistic.
The Liberal government is “appalled” at the blockade of the Strait of Hormuz, which is causing economic damage.
Yet it is utterly silent at the blockade of Cuba, which is causing death to innocents.
That’s not only incoherent, it’s immoral.
It is being reported on the ground in Cuba that everyone on a ventilator at this hospital died overnight.
As a Cuban, I'm devastated.
i guess i don't understand how this isn't crime-against-humanity stuff. or does that simply not matter anymore www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...
Handouts to the wealthy, austerity for everyone else
Let me tell you something about Cuba.
US officials are constantly saying "socialism in Cuba is a failure". But in fact Cuba's achievements with socialism are extremely impressive:
"Delaying housing does not save money; it shifts costs to other parts of the system, where they are far more expensive."
Read this new commentary from community housing sector leaders Jill Atkey, Margaret Pfoh and Thom Armstrong.
https://ow.ly/61Go50YvB3Z
Press Release from bc teacher union
The BC Teachers Federation, the province wide labour union representing over 40,000 teachers, has just passed a resolution in support of BDS!
The first province-wide motion to support BDS in solidarity with Palestine!!
Although our wealth concentration is not yet at the level of the U.S., we must take what is happening south of the border as a dire warning of the consequences of failing to rein in extreme inequality. Three experts write. #canpoli #uspoli
Senator Tuberville on x writing a response to the @endwokeness account Original tweet from @EndWokeness - “less than 25 years apart” Image 1 - the twin towers as they are hit by a the planes on 9/11/2001 Image 2 - Mayor Mamdani sitting on a prayer rug while hosting an Iftar at city hall Quote tweet from Senator Tuberville - “the enemy is inside the gates.”
Let there be as much outrage from politicians in Washington when kids go hungry as there is when I break bread with New Yorkers.
Excited for more of this when we finally elect a progressive council in October!
The US bombing of schoolchildren in Iran is the biggest single US massacre of civilians since My Lai. The Israeli bombing of Tehran’s oil storage constitutes the biggest single act of chemical warfare against a civilian population in history. Grotesque new depths of barbarism.
The intensity of the Israeli bombardments in Beirut’s southern suburbs....
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/05/w...
At B.C.’s universities, a violent RCMP unit showed up to spy on student Palestine protests.
A Breach investigation reveals how the CRU was shaping the encampment response, as the militarized unit grows itself into Canada’s go-to force to repress dissent. breachmedia.ca/a-notorious-...
Unless you are in echo chamber, yr movement spaces (like mine) are likely imploding
"Solidarity is not grounded in identical analysis, synchronized outrage, or emotional unanimity. Solidarity is disciplined commitment to remain in relation under conditions that continually threaten relation itself"
To understand what's happening in Iran today, you have to know about the history of Western intervention in the country.
In the early 1900s, the British secured oil rights in the country until 1993, where they only agreed to pay Iran 16% of the total profits.
This was seen as an unfair deal. 🧵
Thinking aboutt migrants - in UAE and GCC countries. So far those killed in the UAE are Pakistani, Nepali, Bangladeshi.
every year, about 10,000 migrant workers die in gcc.
Thinking about refugees in Pakistan w/ border escalation & war with Afghanistan. Already, 20% of global refugees are Afghan.
Tell Iranian And Cuban Diaspora Warmongers To Shut The Fuck Up
US government-toppling military interventionism doesn’t magically stop having a record of being reliably disastrous just because your family happens to come from the country being targeted.
www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/tell-irani...
PM Carney in Davos: “It means acting consistently, applying the same standards to allies and rivals.“
We are sending aid to Ukraine in the face of Russian aggression.
Consistency should require us to send aid to Cuba in the face of US aggression.
A mind-boggling — 31x — increase in public spending on for-profit nursing agencies in BC’s public health care system
From $8.8m in 2018 to $272m in 2024
via BC Nurses Union
www.bcnu.org/news-and-eve...
#bcpoli
The response to the #TumblerRidgeShooting from far-right media, online commentators and even an elected official in Canada is another dark example of how pervasive anti-trans misinformation has become, even in Canada.
Mel Woods writes. #bcpoli #bced
Canada is uniquely positioned to break the siege of Cuba—we should be leading a regional coalition to ship oil and aid to Cuba, and prevent the humanitarian crisis that U.S. regime is attempting to deliberately trigger.
I wrote about it, and the history of the blockade, for @policyalternatives.ca
