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This is like when Russian oligarchs and, more recently, Chinese tech billionaires learned the difference between being a fantastically rich person and being in direct personal control of the state and its powers.

submitted 14 hours ago • 110 comments

between that, Google Images being created because of Jennifer Lopez's v revealing green dress and Facebook's prototype being used to rate students' attractiveness, it really is quite striking and grim just how much of the modern internet was created by and for sleazy men

submitted 17 hours ago • 9 comments

We’ve leapt over a lot of red lines in the last week. But one I find most worrying is Trump/MAGA/ICE have ceased even pretending to claim some criminal pretext for cracking down on protected speech. It’s just straight up “if you criticize us, you’re getting throttled/arrested/disappeared.”

submitted 1 day ago • 53 comments

Dryden creek fire update #Squamish has been doing excellent public safety communication throughout the wildfire, from sending out a public alert using their municipal alerting system, to keeping the population informed. squamish.ca/our-services...

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Their pro-life stance is a farce. They don’t care. #TeslaTakedown

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Engaging the base is how you persuade the middle. When you have a left flank carrying what isn't yet a "popular" position, you move people toward you by making it seem more and more the norm.

submitted 1 day ago • 24 comments

Again a parallel of how Hong Kong protests were propagandized in 2019 and 2020. Hyperfocus on property damages and no coverage of plainclothes police violence by Chinese press

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

Legit, I am not entirely certain my illness wasn't kickstarted by the WTO protests in 90s Seattle, because I started getting severe allergic reactions to nothing anyone could pinpoint roughly around that time, and then cognitive slips began. The city huffed teargas for weeks. Wear a mask, y'all.

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Quite the lede 👀 "There's little left for us to say that can further embarrass the Tesla Cybertruck, a vehicle that was supposed to be the culmination of Elon Musk's genius." 💀 #teslatakedown #MuskMustFall futurism.com/cybertruck-s...

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This is why we do not obey in advance. #NoTyrants #TeslaTakedown #OnTyranny

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#TeslaTakedown

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Mainstream media reporting on wildfire smoke, but not mentioning N95 masks 🤡

submitted 6 days ago • 6 comments

SCOOP: The CDC is planning to move information on cases of diseases like measles and polio to a data system managed by Palantir, raising concerns about patient privacy. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/06/h...

submitted 5 days ago • 34 comments

New Data: U.S. Wine Exports to Canada Approaching Zero. In April 2025, U.S. wine exports to Canada — the country’s most important wine export market — fell by US$32.5 million, a 92.2% decrease compared to April 2024, dropping to just US$2.73 million.

submitted 6 days ago • 16 comments

#TeslaTakedown

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Pretty egregious error from this book: The authors say Swedish deaths fell by 2.3% during the pandemic, proving that the country's lax lockdown strategy worked. But they misread their source: Mortality is only down if you remove the COVID deaths. research.abo.fi/ws/portalfil...

submitted 5 days ago • 86 comments

The DOGE/MAGA/MAHA/Great Barrington Declaration linkages are REALLY TIGHT This guy Tucker, anti-vaxxer & founder of the Brownstone Institute, was editorial director of the right wing AIER, the GBD's sponsor; he conceived, edited, & marketed the GBD He❤️DOGE, MAGA, & MAHA! @adrian7745.bsky.social

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“[B]itcoin is fulfilling PayPal’s original vision to create ‘the new world currency.’ We actually had T-shirts printed in 1999 w/ that mission statement” - 2017, David Sacks (Trump’s “Crypto Czar”) In 2024, Sacks encouraged Trump to pick JD Vance—a protégé of PayPal founder Peter Thiel—as VP. 👇 1/

submitted 14 days ago • 7 comments

Everyone involved in trying to pass off that ChatGPT-extruded disinformation manifesto as a scientific report should be, at the very least, barred from public office for life. The MAHA report is dangerous criminal misconduct and an offence to the process of science.

submitted 13 days ago • 26 comments

Ford is corrupt, this is awful. #Ford government scrapped #Toronto affordable housing requirements after pushback from three REITs, documents show Two of the REITs suggested the quotas for converted employment lands could result in no new housing built at all. www.thestar.com/real-estate/...

submitted 15 days ago • 25 comments

#TeslaTakedown

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SCOOP: ICE, HSI, and DHS are getting side-door access to the nationwide system of Flock license plate cameras by asking local police to perform lookups for them, new public records show. ICE does not have a contract to use this surveillance tool itself. www.404media.co/ice-taps-int...

submitted 15 days ago • 37 comments

“Already gaining traction for outpatient medical visits, the AI-powered systems are also moving into hospital rooms and emergency departments to capture discussions at the bedside, update medical records, draft care plans and create discharge instructions.”

submitted 15 days ago • 7 comments

A good news story, which we all need more of. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

submitted 17 days ago • 1 comment

“.. European airlines are freezing their transatlantic growth and pulling back from major U.S. cities like New York, Miami, Los Angeles, and Chicago as they redirect flights to Canada, Mexico, Brazil and Caribbean.” $JETS $XAL www.travelandtourworld.com/news/article...

submitted 16 days ago • 236 comments

New Covid symptom just dropped! If you get “a sharp, burning sore throat”, that’s probably NB 1.8.1. Measles started with fewer than 20 cases too Mask up 😷 This could be the variant that brings you Long Covid, why find out?

submitted 16 days ago • 2 comments

Having to pay for products will absolutely kill my 'stealing products then reselling them' industry. www.theverge.com/news/674366/...

submitted 16 days ago • 6 comments

Time to get out your air cleaners and respirators. Don’t have any? Start with canadastrong.ca #Wildfires

submitted 16 days ago • 2 comments

Ontario community reclaims public water from private corporations rabble.ca/environment/...

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Queensland hit by surge in whooping cough cases as experts blame low vaccination levels Queensland has reported 2,384 whooping cough cases this year—3.4 times higher than the 2020–24 average, according to Queensland Health. Source: www.news.com.au/lifestyle/he...

submitted 16 days ago • 4 comments

Quick Update: The source of this info is She Matters, an advocacy group for survivors. And they have a petition right on this page re: this issue. Direct link. #cdnpoli #onpoli #Canada #CanadaSky www.shematters.ca/calltoaction

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

AI guys have useless jobs but derive their entire sense of self from their careers (which are useless.) They want to make things of value (or at least be treated like it) but lack the curiosity or humility to do so. They live their lives in unlocked prisons and hate you for refusing to join them.

submitted 17 days ago • 6 comments

5 years ago: “An incalculable loss” Today: Banning masks and restricting vaccine access

submitted 17 days ago • 264 comments