Today, Danielle Smith and the UCP caucus unveiled plans to rig the next election:
A new motion indicates the UCP's plans to manipulate the election maps for the next election in their favour, and without any requirement to consult the public.
This has never been done in Canadian history. /1
The black line marks city boundaries.
The red lines show how the UCP aims to weaken your vote by gerrymandering Calgary, Edmonton, Lethbridge, and Red Deer into pieces to rig the election.
We can't let Danielle Smith get away with it.
"Alberta’s Premier is facing allegations of gerrymandering and election rigging after Thursday's announcement to change the electoral boundaries drawn by an independent commission."
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We are so far beyond even Teapot Dome levels of "government captured by private industry" in this country, and Democrats genuinely seem to believe their unpopularity is driven by being too nice to trans people, instead of being driven by their screamingly obvious hypocrisy about this.
Fix your hearts or die.
in 2024 i got to hang out with the genius who wrote this and it is legitimately the most star-struck I've ever been for another writer
The New Yorker, "Wondering why people are pining for old technologies - CD players, VCRs, Walkmans. What's behind our longing for inconvenience?"
Inconvenience? I just had to dig seven pages deep to find the unsubscribe for one of the four TV subscriptions I need, I'm measured & optimized against in my supermarket, lamps, music, games, and travel. Every service I love gets enshittified to buy billionaires yachts worth 100 times my house.
It’s called the Cycle of Abuse or the Walker Wheel: calm followed by rising tension, the explosion of violence, the reconciliation, the incremental intensification of violence over time.
I'm the daughter of an Army paratrooper who refused orders during our illegal invasion of Vietnam back in the day. He went to LBJ military jail.
Dad taught his girls this: "Just following orders" is NEVER any excuse for anyone who's complicit in war crimes. You MUST refuse heinous orders.
So pro-life means jailing women who miscarry but shrugging when the deranged president says “a whole civilization will die tonight.” Do I have that right?
Viral photo from some years back of a man nonchalantly mowing his yard with a tornado on the horizon .
How it feels doing literally any task right now.
I guess we're just waiting around to see if this demented psychopath kills everyone: defector.com/i-guess-were...
Does anyone need a gemstone for their Godot game? We just published a new YouTube tutorial ✨ youtu.be/TxPLBKllOVQ?...
#indiedev #gamedev #godot
MBS is telling Trump he can't stop now. He has to finish the Iranian regime off. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/there...
So you can unzip your pants and show a whole bunch of unconsenting women your dick as a white man and still get a Netflix special.
But if you bitch slap a bitch for mocking your wife's medical condition, you're banned for ten years.
anyway ending on Ada since she started Critical AI Literacy in the 1840s
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There's probably a newer version of this somewhere, but here's a bunch of (many of them free) Adobe alternatives:
I think especially because the news media has recently demonstrated what "we think the president is incompetent and that he should not be in office" looks like in how they covered Biden post-debate and don't do the same for Trump
Trump: "Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon. They are lunatics, and you can't put nuclear weapons in the hands of a lunatic."
One Of The Best Gaming Trilogies Ever Is On Sale For Less Than A Sandwich kotaku.com/mass-effect-legendary-ed...
This weekend at every panel I was asked "What do you think of AI?" My answer is the same every time.
if you are a bigot or support bigotry or act in a movie built on the profits of hate, people are allowed to not like you 1. because bigotry is bad and 2. because people generally DONT LIKE THINGS THAT HURT THEM. like this is so obvious. it is not 'canceling' it is an exercise in basic human autonomy
The Jetsons lied to us
Star wars joke but Don Quixote windmill has four lightsabers
Just a thought that if they start bringing ICE into the airports, airtravel is going to fucking tank, hard, very quickly, and if their presence and deployment doesn't get curtailed real fast, it will be increasingly hard to unmake that soup.
So, um... this is bad. Really bad. I looked at the letters that were translated by the AI, and the very first one I found was almost entirely hallucination. Thread:
Interesting how temp assets shipping never seemed to be a real problem but now suddenly teams using genAI always "forget" to remove those assets.
Either you're a liar (likely) or using the slop machine has made you careless and lazy (likely).
