6abc Philadelphia push alert BREAKING UPDATE 9m ago A 37-year-old woman who was killed in an ICE-involved shooting in Minneapolis has been identified
“ ICE-involved shooting” go fuck yourself
Great day at Mount Royal University supporting progressive media
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Absolutely incredible. CityNews and CBC were both present in the media segment, with the Chair offering them question time.
Both declined to ask anything. 3/
Neufeld, who helped launch ASIRT, is now claiming concussions aren't serious injuries in response to @katyanderson.bsky.social, asking about her own concussion & other injuries.
Because Commission keeps delaying its mtg videos, we screen-recorded. Well worth seeing Katy's exchange when it's up. 2/
@readtheorchard.org just got lit up by Chief Neufeld at Calgary Police Commission. (Appel was not present to respond.) Neufeld called Appel's story on UCP interference on the ASIRT investigation "an opinion piece, at best."
Decide for yourself: 1/ www.readtheorchard.org/p/how-the-uc...
Alberta: more fake than Canada? You decide! Plus: separatist slam poetry!
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Zuckerberg, Mrs. Bezos, Bezos, Pichai, Musk
a functioning opposition party that represented the working class could spike this photo in the end zone basically forever
Look, there's no way for us to say what he was trying to do in that moment. It's about calling balls and strikes. Ultimately it's unknowable and we have to be responsible in our reporting
All we know is that when college students protest relentless mass murder of Palestinians, that's antisemitism
prophetic
"This is perhaps the final piece in the slow and inevitable political capture of Facebook -- but really all online speech platforms."
"As Zuck foreshadowed, this is about a global geo-political war across a new frontier of control: tech companies, their platforms, and the internet."
Since we’re all talking about Greenland and Canada now would be a good time to remind people that Puerto Rico and Washington, DC actually should be added as the 51st and 52nd states.
One of my favorites in a while. Some good examples of why cars make your life worse even if you drive
It’s funny Zuck says “I started building social media to give people a voice” when in fact, he started building social media to publicly rate the hotness of undergrads.
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Last month to send blog pitches! We are receiving pitches in English, German, Portuguese, French, Russian and Kazakh: degrowth.info/en/blog/move...
welp, we had a good run
Vote Harder! Justice Warriors 2 w/ @mattbors.bsky.social and @benclarkson.bsky.social
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I don't know who needs to know this, but Pro Publica has an online thing that will format a letter to your US health insurance company to demand the records behind a claim denial. (which the insurance is then legally required to provide in most cases)
projects.propublica.org/claimfile/
lol
Big news for people interested in the (mostly non-visual) senses: cfp deadline for Uncommon Senses V, happening May 7-10 @ Concordia, extended until January 20th. Full details in link.
This is always a fun & diverse conf, consider throwing in!
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Regarding the Calgary Chief of Police, you don't under any circumstances "gotta hand it to him."
_Bike Battles_ is on the @thewaroncars.bsky.social Bookshop list, bookshop.org/lists/the-wa...? ; purchases benefit TWOC.
Or, of course, I recommend your local public library, always a great choice...
Comparison of older and newer pick-up truck. Although the truck bed is essentially the same, the overall truck size is substantially larger and higher.
Trucks have been getting bigger, more energy & space consuming, more polluting, and much deadlier to everyone around them including kids. Not because most of us actually need bigger vehicles, but as ego boosts, status symbols & “indicators of male virility.” Note the truck bed is basically the same.
Find out if EPS uses Palantir Gotham, like they do in Calgary. Truly evil software courtesy of Peter Theil. Originally developed for intelligence agencies and counter terrorism, It would be the ultimate endpoint of all they gathered on you. FOIP if you have to.
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“Positive social change results mostly from connecting more deeply to the people around you than rising above them, from coordinated rather than solo action… Our largest problems won’t be solved by heroes. They’ll be solved, if they are, by movements, coalitions, civil society.”
The biggest argument against "people posting on the internet under their real names will improve civility" is the website where people will post the most ludicrous things right beside their CV.
