Going to be so funny watching people try and act like this never happened one day

"bluesky has a toxic AI discourse problem" — man i actually feel you that hard-lining doesn't always feel useful. but i think the more salient point to arrive at is that "solutions that don't knowingly create new problems" is a reasonable desire in an era that otherwise looks like *gestures*

This is fantastic. I saw someone had done this for Toronto a few years ago and downloaded the data set for Halifax and, well, got distracted so I’m glad someone else had this idea and followed through!

Who indeed myarmybenefits.us.army.mil/Benefit-Libr...

The Arts and Culture sector in Nova Scotia employs more people than farming, fishing and forestry combined.

The Houston gov’t lost more than $300 million in revenue annually by cutting bridge tolls and 1% from HST. They also spent more than $6 billion outside of budget processes over the last few years. Now they cut two of our biggest economic sectors (tourism and arts and culture) to deal with deficit?

Arts and culture in Nova Scotia left reeling from 'unprecedented' cuts - Halifax Examiner "It's going to be absolutely devastating."

thanks to @philmoscovitch.bsky.social and @halifaxexaminer.ca for bringing attention to this travesty

www.halifaxexaminer.ca/arts-and-cul...

smh indeed

I had really good quick service from Top Point Auto in Dartmouth. It was for a corroded rocker panel though so a different kind of job. But worth getting a quote maybe?

it makes sense that anthropic would try to keep it a secret that they were scanning & pulping tons of books, including rare and out of print texts, because it paints an almost too on the nose image of the entire project of AI

Shame on Hootsuite for abandoning Canadian values in taking ICE contract

Canadian companies can win the trade wars by being essential to the U.S. government

Having a little trouble reconciling these two articles published in the Globe and Mail on the same day.

It seems clear Alex Pretti, a healthcare worker, was murdered for engaging in the exact kind of community care we hope all care workers to embody: the kind that doesn’t stop at the threshold of the hospital, the clinic, but that aims to care for and support the community where and how they can

"I am a children's entertainer who specializes in face painting," writes a woman now in hiding from the federal government for witnessing a state-sanctioned street execution

Multiple reports that ICE is highly active at the Calais Maine border crossing snd they are taking FN folks into custody (if you don’t have a blood quantum letter).

Lord of the rings: Merry looks into the glowing palantir orb… and screams

“Cant sleep… i’ll just have a quick look at my phone”

For decades, countries like Canada prospered under what we called the rules-based international order. We join its institutions, we praised its principles, we benefited from its predictability. And because of that, we could pursue values-based foreign policies under its protection. We knew the story of the international rules-based order was partially false, that the strongest would exempt themselves when convenient, that trade rules were enforced asymmetrically, and we knew that international law applied with varied rigor, depending on the identity of the accused or the victim. This fiction was useful, and American hegemony in particular helped provide public goods, open sea lanes, a stable financial system, collective security, and support for frameworks for resolving disputes.

If nothing else, pretty amazing Canadian PM Carney said the quiet part out loud today: international law has never been real and the ‘rules’ of the international order have never applied to the US and its allies.

This may indeed be the actual death of neoliberalism.

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ICE Details a New Minnesota-Based Detention Network That Spans 5 States Internal ICE planning documents propose spending up to $50 million on a privately run network capable of shipping immigrants in custody hundreds of miles across the Upper Midwest.

Canada considers the US to be a safe country for asylum-seekers. www.wired.com/story/ice-de...

Home - Land Back: A Yellowhead Institute Red Paper Land Back A Yellowhead Institute Red Paper The project of land back is about reclaiming Indigenous jurisdiction: breathing life into rights and responsibilities. This Red Paper is about how Canada dis...

This too: redpaper.yellowheadinstitute.org

September/October 2020: The Land Back Issue In our special 60-page Land Back issue, we address how to return land in so-called Canada to Indigenous Peoples, and encourage the flourishing of Indigenous laws, life, and governance on those territo...

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Sign in • Magicall Sign in to Magicall - access your encrypted video meeting room.

I haven't looked into it a ton but I heard about Magicall for encrypted video calling recently. Looks to be based in France: magicall.online

Man who was subject of Hants County police alert killed in RCMP shooting | CBC News The Serious Incident Response Team confirmed to CBC News that it is investigating the shooting death related to an emergency alert issued Tuesday about a man with a firearm driving along a rural highw...

In Nova Scotia too. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

my four-year-old has entered her sea chanty phase and I could not be happier

Scotiabank CEO says Trump doctrine to dominate hemisphere will be good for business Financial data suggests Canadian banks are poised to profit if Donald Trump’s plan to takeover Venezuela’s oil industry comes to fruition.

This is part of the way that Canada loses its sovereignty — Canadian business elites will cheer it on

Awesome that Carney felt the need to state that he was "appalled" when Charlie Kirk was shot but remains silent after the murder of Renee Nicole Good by state agents and two days later emphasizes that he's hiring more cops.

Congrats to the NYT for getting a citation in the new rules that would ban gender affirming care for anybody under 19! You did it! How's that for *impact* baby! Put it on the Pulitzer application!

it is truly fascinating to see a certain Canadian media critic's posting on here versus X. it's kind of like the old political tactic of saying one thing in French and a different thing in English, to the point where he's now announced a new show to the X crowd that he hasn't even mentioned on here.

Younger daughter is only 9 months old and already learning valuable 21st-century skills, like operating a rotary dial phone.

What really happened the night of the O'Leary boat crash in Muskoka - Toronto Life It's been a year since the infamous accident, which triggered a swirl of legal manoeuvring, PR gamesmanship and cottage-country gossip

This fucking guy torontolife.com/life/what-re...