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alanwrites.bsky.social
Writer of sci-fi and fantasy, once and future cat wrangler.
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Another excellent big picture take on the Trump admin from Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social - the Trump admin's multi-front attack on knowledge itself, and the horrible consequences that will have: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Poilievre vows to stay on as party leader for reasons of being otherwise unemployable #CanadaVotes #cdnpoli

Done my civic duty and voted at the advanced polls.

The world really is going to hell in a handbasket, isn't it?

If you use ai you intellectually and mentally lazy. That’s all. You are lazy. Ai makes art free. No. AI robs you of learning how to do something. In learning how to do something you develop your voice. You are asking ai to speak for you because you are too lazy to face yourself

Andrew Jackson: I may be in Hell now, but I burn with the confidence that no other American president will ever top the Trail of Tears Donald Trump: Hold my Diet Coke

A boil water advisory on Neskantaga First Nation in northern Ontario enters its 30th year, an anniversary their chief calls ‘unconscionable.’ That story on the latest APTN News Brief: podfollow.com/e/2a7e74

Crucial piece on how Trump has become a massive threat to global security. "Trump in a second term could effectively end the security umbrella that has guarded friends in Europe, Asia, Latin America and the Middle East for much of the nearly eight decades since the end of World War II." [gift link]