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Proud Canadian living in #LdnOnt. (see banner above) Interested in SF, science, games both video and tabletop, a little bit of finance & economics, and alas US and Canadian politics because I have to. Used to write until I went broke trying.
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Couple things I learned today: - Seniors are extremely fired up about this - "Fuck ICE" is a normie position now - People are MASSIVELY pissed off about Sen. Padilla being wrestled to the ground in LA - We all we got, we all we need

Oh? You’re a protestor? What’s your three favorite pepper sprays?

"How long can a state built on seasonal visitors survive when the season never starts?" This is an excellent analysis of the crushing impact of Canadian resistance. Canadians are refusing to spend money in a land run by a tyrant. Keep the boycott strong. www.youtube.com/watch?v=w47Q...

Living in Canada can be an interesting adventure sometimes 😅😂🤣 Bear caught stealing a whole garbage bin in Maple Ridge😅🐻 via:(damondaigneault/fb) #Canada

Saw someone call that “parade” the You’re Fyred Festival and I can’t stop laughing.

This woman knows how to deal with this idiot. My hero

I say again... Fascists are just aesthetics-obsessed dorks who want to bully the rest of the world into telling them that they're cool...

Classic Canadians. Come across the protest by accident but then just roll with it because they don't want to bother anyone.

Iran uses hypergolic UDMH/N2O4 propellant-oxidizer for liquid propellant missiles. Agree that this is characteristic of an unplanned N2O4 release; very nasty stuff that no humans without protective gear should be near.

Just learned the assassin, in Minnesota, rang my niece's doorbell 3 times & she wouldn't let him in. Had barking dogs. She took his picture & of his car. Police found his gun in the bushes nearby. FBI is swarming all over the neighborhood.

Just thought I’d note that the front page of the New York Times does not have *a single article* about the gigantic protests yesterday. Millions of people in the streets, and not a single word. It’s been disappeared.

Leonard Nimoy with son Adam on the set of STAR TREK. #FathersDay

okay, recent things make me want to tap the sign againnnn Not every protest is a running street battle! You don't need super opsec and "don't bring your phone don't post anything don't even say you were there" for the huge "everyone and their grandma" gatherings like yesterday in the states!

👇 genuinely don’t understand why people are unable to comprehend “don’t get AI to do something for you if you can’t understand whether it has produced the wrong answer”.

It’s amazing that in 2020 democrats swept federal elections, won a trifecta, swept many states, and had the opportunity for a true restoration of democracy (yes they squandered it). If that’s what the 2020 protests enabled … good?

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The Canadians in the replies are priceless 🤣 #CobraChicken 🇨🇦

For Canadians, the constant recipients of Trump’s lurid attempts to be press-ganged into becoming the 51st state, the border is now self-controlled and self-policed, with virtually the entire population agreeing that crossing over to America is a kind of betrayal, almost treasonous. #CdnPoli 🇨🇦

Apparently he used to paint them with the Hammer leading ladies in between takes. King.

This is mostly because the median Democratic politician insists on constructing a made-up median American voter in their head, who they base on some combination of Archie Bunker and William Buckley.

ON TOP of the ethical reasons to not use AI, it's also 1) bad at what it does 2) literally makes you stupider 3) has HUGE environmental costs: every search is equivalent to pouring out an entire bottle of water. It's not worth it to generate a cutesy emoji or have it write an error-riddled draft.

“they think ‘balance’ means concealing the partisan nature of violence” godDAMN that hits the nail on the head, doesn’t it?

The owner of Twitter sends out 100 right wing propaganda tweets every single day and the algorithm is set up so that every single person on Twitter has to see every single one of these tweets. Now here’s another piece about Blue Sky’s ideological diversity problem.

How many reporters are currently working on tell-all exposés about their own organization, detailing all the acts of cowardice of their editors and publishers? I won’t ever buy your book about Sleepy Joe Biden, but I’d absolutely devour a book about the internal collapse of the NYT or CNN.

The Tea Party protests in April 2009 had about a third of a million people involved, and the political media treated it like a game changer for the Obama presidency. The No Kings rallies were AT LEAST ten times bigger than the Tea Party protests. Will the press keep pretending Trump is popular?

The increasingly public antipathy towards Trump and his administration has caused injury that will cause more sadistic retribution, predation and violence, not less. With the political violence and assassinations, his supporters will become more disconnected from reality in narcissistic denialism.

I don't see that @deadder.bsky.social has shared this here yet.

Word of the Day: HYPERNORMALISATION - the state of a society where people continue to live according to rules that they know are not actually working.

After watching many videos of the missile strikes on Tel Aviv my number one piece of advice is to not stand looking out the window recording things on your phone during a ballistic missile attack

I keep seeing reports of non-AI users being told that an AI detector has dubbed their work AI generated, and it makes me insane because: 1) AI detection tools *are themselves AI* and thus entirely bullshit; and 2) if an AI was trained on your works, of COURSE it’ll flag you as sounding “like” AI!

I love that a politician can say something like “I believe mice naturally spawn out of grain” and the news will now just treat that as a legitimate line of thought

Authoritarians want you to feel isolated and alone, to feel like their vision of the world is the only one. That’s why taking part in public protests matters. You connect with other people like you and you show those numbers off to the world. It’s a great feeling. Try it!

It's pretty obvious that a lot of US mainstream media either doesn't recognise authoritarianism or doesn't want to call it out. Either way, it's an excellent way to destroy trust in your institution.

There are a couple of kids in my nephews's class who weren't born in the US, and the class has decided (w/o teacher input) that if ICE shows up in they're all going to pretend not to speak English. 10yos reinventing "I am Spartacus" because they don't want their friends to get disappeared.

Nobody in the Trump administration knows their job. Not a single one.

As we can now see pardoning the J6 rioters was just the first step in legalizing Trump based crime, it belatedly occurred to me how much more press hand wringing there was over Biden pardoning his son from minor and obviously politically motivated charges than freeing a pack of cop beaters.

Wtf Carney?

Amen. 🙏 #NoKings

A friend sent me this. A bathroom in a St. Albert pub. 🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣 Where do they put those stickers? 🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣 #TrudeauMaxArouse This is why other provinces mock us.

Literal shot ---> chaser

My favorite #Wisconsin #NoKings sign/flag from today. #wipolitics

Remarkable. MSNC: "I want to reiterate this has been 100% peaceful." Seconds later, LA County sheriffs start firing on the crowd. Yet again, "law enforcement" deliberately escalated.