In my experience the reaction is especially intense when you’re trying to correct something about a story of something awful, like the below—they see “this is definitely very bad but this detail is wrong/it isn’t bad in precisely this way” and read “shut up, this isn’t real or bad at all”
Yet again I remind everyone (as Elizabeth does in her very next tweet) that "foreigners are corrupting our pure blood with weakness & disease" is Fascism 101. Not some variant, not some metaphorically similar thing, not some echo -- the thing itself.
Concerned about rushed, unregulated & undemocratic AI expansion? Read this story from Saskatchewan. Unbelievable.
Feels like what's happened over the past decades is the unholy alliance of capitalists and religious fundamentalists have realized that the more people are immiserated, the more susceptible they become to reactionary ideas. Factions who shouldn't be allies find out they have perfect symbiosis.
Hate me today
Hate me tomorrow
Hate me for all the things I didn’t do to you
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Sometimes you just have to write out some words that are a bit disconnected and a bit frustrated and a bit angry and also a bit hopeful.
@caljones.com flailing around about why CASCADE CASCADE exists:
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I keep seeing "all authors use AI, the real issue is they're being forced to be sneaky about it" headlines.
Full stop No. This is a lie peddled for normalization. It's schoolyard-level pressure tactics "C'mon, all the cool kids are already doing it. We won't tell. It's fine. We're on your side."
still can’t believe that given the choice between “bountiful, free, clean energy from the earth, wind, and sun” and “poisonous dead animal sludge price sensitive to global politics” we keep choosing the latter
We haven’t recovered as a society, and in fact we haven’t even really named it
but when I talk about the lack of distress tolerance for dealing with other humans fueling the AI push, “male loneliness epidemic”, etc.
I think COVID was a huge factor in making it this extreme
Canada Post delivers to 17.6 million addresses every day (business and residential). At 260 work days per year, that is 4.57 billion deliveries each year. Over eight years, that is 36 billion mail deliveries in 8 years.
Canada post delivered mail 36 billion times and it only cost $6.1 billion.
That's it? $6.1B in eight years? We gave Ukraine $25B in four and didn't even get daily mail out of it.
President urges Iran to start peace negotiations by releasing non-existent, AI-generated women some rando posted about on X
Once you know what social murder is, you begin to see how social murder is hidden behind systems and bureaucracy, financial reports and corporate shareholders, if you haven't already. You'll notice that disabled people being given too little to live on, wages well below affordable living, etc.
“Samson said she didn't see the break coming, but that she had no doubts that "something or someone" had pressured the UCP-appointed members to come up with a minority report.”
Another original commissioner member has stepped forward.
#abpoli #ableg
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I was wondering if there's any kind of ongoing global threat that's causing these records to fall, but surely if that were the case it would be mentioned in news stories about these unprecedented temperatures.
This is a great read. I will add one more Harper issue—withdrawing stimulus too soon after the 2008 recession ensured the Bank of Canada had to keep rates lower for longer, which drove up consumer debt levels. Conservatives now complain those debt levels are too high (but blame Trudeau/Carney).
A network of 20 inauthentic YouTube accounts has racked up nearly 40 million views by peddling lies, grievance, division and narratives normalizing the prospect of Alberta’s secession and annexation by the United States. @charlesrusnell.bsky.social reports. #abpoli
Toronto: What we’re seeing now is that (police) are not even distinguishing between protests, academic events or cultural events. Any time there are Palestinians speaking about Palestine, they are viewed as potentially anti-semitic or promoting violence.” www.thegrindmag.ca/cops-keep-sh...
Also, people are being fooooooled by oligarchs if they think Canada Post is what's tanking Canada's economy. Truly, congrats on getting scammed by propaganda, my guys.
I teach bystander intervention for a living & I spend all my days thinking about building community care, breaking isolation, etc.
I wish more people understood how community banks, local grocery stores, door-to-door mail service, etc. are all tiny, but important ways that we build connections.
Add universities to this list.
👏 Canada 👏 Post 👏 is 👏 a 👏 public 👏 service 👏
Nothing proves how capitalism has brain rotted everyone than thinking the post office, hospitals, public transit, libraries, etc. need to turn a profit to be worthwhile.
The currently escalating tech backlash must be put in the context of:
“people have been listening to the most insufferable techbros in the world gleefully threaten everyone else with mass unemployment for over 6 years, and they’re sick of their shit”
Keir Starmer famously said there was "no such thing" as Starmerism. He was half-right: there is no such ideology. There is however an approach to managing and running the country that is core to so many of the government's difficulties that we probably should call 'Starmerism'. In tomorrow's paper:
A clip from The New York Times reads: "But only the entities that officially paid the tariffs are eligible to recover that money. That means that the fuller universe of people affected by Mr. Trump’s policies — including millions of Americans who paid higher prices for the products they bought — are not able to apply for direct relief. The extent to which consumers realize any gain hinges on whether businesses share the proceeds, something that few have publicly committed to do. Some have started to band together in class-action lawsuits in the hopes of receiving a payout."
The average American family paid $1,700 in tariffs last year, according to the bipartisan Congressional Joint Economic Committee. Few will ever see any of that money back. The refunds will go to companies, if doled out at all. What a joke.
Black-and-white chest X-ray image overlaid with the headline, “After Decades of Quiet Rumbling, an Epidemic Is Erupting Among California Stoneworkers.” Smaller text reads: “The engineered stone industry is worth nearly $30 billion. But the workers at its core are falling sick and dying from an illness called silicosis. Now these workers—most of whom are young immigrants—are suing manufacturers.” The byline reads “By Kayla Yup,” with the In These Times logo at the bottom.
"The California Department of Public Health has described silicosis as an epidemic, one primarily plaguing young Latino immigrants like Hernandez who work in shops that fabricate engineered stone."
@kaylayup.bsky.social reports on the dangers of stoneworking.
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Meanwhile, virtually every Canadian governmental official (with the exception of our privacy commissioner) is not only not questioning the legality of X becoming the largest CSAM and non-consensual porn site on the internet, they continue to support the site by posting there.
Turns out that Plato and Shakespeare and Rousseau are subversive 🤷♂️
I'm starting to get the sense that referendums in Alberta are performative exercises instead of ways to resolve policy disputes.
I don't think the budget cuts at GAC "could" signal a shift away from peacekeeping and development towards self-interested trade and defence. The government has literally said this is what it intends to do. That is the very clear plan
But 0.17% of GNI. Ouch
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