Pope Leo XIV speaks against AI: ‘A challenge of human dignity, justice and labour’ New leader of the Catholic Church says AI poses challenge to humankind and dignity of workers

Pope Leo XIV speaks out against AI: ‘A challenge of human dignity, justice and labour’

UNFORCED ERROR after UNFORCED ERROR.
The senators who confirmed this shit show will roast in infamy for generations.

RFK Jr.'s HHS Orders Lab Studying Deadly Infectious Diseases to Stop Research NIAID's Integrated Research Facility is one of the few federal facilities charged with studying Ebola. Tuesday afternoon, all of its work was put on indefinite pause by Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s departm...

RFK Jr. ordered the NIH’s Integrated Research Facility in Frederick to stop all research on serious infectious diseases yesterday at 5:00 PM.

They study pathogens like Ebola there. You may be familiar with it from The Hot Zone.

www.wired.com/story/hhs-ni...

Screenshot of Pierre Poilievre and Jenni Byrne holding Stockwell Day's grandchild posing as an Alberta family in an ad to nominate Ezra Levant "for the Canadian Alliance in Calgary Southwest in this archival CBC footage from 2002". https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/video/1.3736106

Fun bit of history ... Pierre Poilievre & Jenni Byrne hold Stockwell Day's grandchild to pose as an Alberta family in an ad to nominate Ezra Levant "for the Canadian Alliance in Calgary Southwest in CBC footage from 2002".
Levant stepped aside to allow Stephen Harper to run in the riding. #cdnpoli

Measles vaccine lasts decades, experts say, pushing back on RFK Jr. - National | Globalnews.ca As United States Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. urges Americans to get the measles vaccine, he's also casting doubt on it.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s claim that the measles vaccine fades quickly is contradicted by experts, who say it provides protection for decades, if not a lifetime.

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~She's thumbing her nose at us.

The campaign is a Poilievre campaign, so being mean, mendacious, and arrogant was always going to be part of it. He’s only ever been an attack dog, so he’s fighting yesterday’s war the only way he knows how.

Unidentified men grabbing someone off the street and putting her in a car because she wrote an op-Ed. This as flatly authoritarian as anything we’ve seen in this country in a very long time.

Nearly 230 transition housing spaces open for women, children leaving violence Women and children at risk of or leaving violence have access to more safe, secure spaces as 229 new transition and second-stage housing units open on Vancouver Island and in Metro Vancouver.

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Facebook’s secrets, by the insider Zuckerberg tried to silence Careless People author and former Meta director Sarah Wynn-Williams reveals what it was like ‘babysitting’ her boss

“She describes [Zuckerberg] as a cross between a truculent teen and a toddler: he doesn’t like to get up before midday, even to meet prime ministers, and his obsequious colleagues feel obliged to let him beat them at board games.”

Sigh. The tech bros are all the same.

Scientists have just cured pancreatic cancer in some patients with personalized mRNA vaccines. Pancreatic cancer. And this Trump administration wants to throw it all away.

They’re throwing away a cure for cancer.

I've been buying Canadian wherever possible and am pleased to find out we can get the same goods with better quality and lower prices. Also, I'm looking forward to seeing a good selection of European goods on our shelves moving forward. This boycott is easier than I thought.
#BuyCanadian

Mike Myers at SNL closing tonight with “Canada is not for sale” t-shirt.

Mike Myers, Canadian legend, on SNL tonight.

Excellent work from ProPublica

At the NATO meeting a loud US republican saw my CDN flag pin on my lapel and reached for it saying, "Hey Canada."
I stopped him.
"Don't touch the Canadian flag."
"Just joking," he said.
"You'll die before you touch our flag," I said, "not joking."
He scrambled out of there.
#notfuckingaround

Canada, Germany and Norway discussing a security pact to cover the North Atlantic and Arctic | CBC News Canada, Germany and Norway are discussing the possibility of a trilateral defence and security partnership covering the North Atlantic and the Arctic — an arrangement that could be broader and deeper ...

This is welcome news. #cdnpoli

www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

This is from a 2020 presentation. Now it's just the chaos we live in, and no such description is needed.

Tesla sales crash in Australia as Musk impact has consumers looking for another brand Tesla EV sales in Australia slump again, with the once market leading Model 3 sedan falling 62 pct below the same month a year earlier. Is this just the market, or is Musk repelling buyers?

Tesla sales crash in Australia as Musk impact has consumers looking for another brand thedriven.io/2025/02/04/t...

i am nostradamous but only when it concerns intolerable tech men with personality disorders

Trump funding freeze a blatant violation of Constitution, federal law: Legal experts The Constitution, federal law and court decisions make it clear: President Donald Trump's order to pause federal funding is against the law, legal experts tell ABC News.

It would be fantastic if major federal institutions would acknowledge that the executive branch cannot legally unilaterally cancel or redistribute congressionally appropriated funding on ideological grounds and thus they have no legal obligation to comply with such directives

How can anyone in their right mind ignore this letter from Caroline Kennedy about her cousin, RFK Jr.?

The upside of Trump’s taunting Canada is that we’ll get more news clips of actual leaders pushing back on him instead of our steady diet of “Chris Coons thinks this idea has merit”

Here are 41 of the sketchiest things that happened during Christy Clark's time as Premier of BC Leading Canadian newspapers say Clark's BC Liberal government is "addicted to money" and has poor "ethical standards."

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Holy fuckerdoodles.

Charlie Angus Calls Out Poilievre as Trump Puppet YouTube video by Charlie Angus

Regarding the latest Conservative scheme to force an election just as Trump comes to power:
I didn't survive 21 years in Parliament defending a working class and Indigenous constituency to get played for a sucker by Pierre Poilievre and his Vichy Conservatives.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4bd...

Why won’t the media use the word misogyny? Misogyny is at the core of these smear campaigns targeting women, yet news coverage consistently avoids naming it.

I wrote about the coverage of Justin Baldoni's smear campaign against Blake Lively and why it's so crucial to talk about the gendered nature of it all www.usermag.co/p/blake-live...

Blake Lively, Justin Baldoni and a Smear Campaign After ‘It Ends With Us’ Private messages detail an alleged campaign to tarnish Blake Lively after she accused Justin Baldoni of misconduct on the set of “It Ends With Us.”

One thing about this story is it confirms my deep suspicion of any cultural figure who makes Male Feminist a central part of their brand. An incredible number of them have turned out to be predators. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/21/b...