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Please share this fact sheet on Ukraine with anyone who needs it understandingwar.org/backgrounder...

submitted 15 days ago • 138 comments

Honestly, this guy. He’s so upbeat, so genuine, so optimistic. A bridge-builder. And this video shot in the snow is visually stunning.

submitted 26 days ago • 130 comments

For all our American neighbours who may be struggling to find accurate health information - thr Public Health Agency of Canada has a website you are more than welcome to use: www.canada.ca/en/public-he...

submitted 36 days ago • 132 comments

🧪 If I were Canadian PM I would immediately: 1. Create a new $15B science fund 2. Offer any credentialed US scientist funding for lab startup and replacement of NIH grants if they move to Canada 3. Immediate permanent residency 4. Citizenship after 2 years Overnight a science superpower

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NEW: X has become a hotbed of neo-Nazi content under Elon Musk. We identified the operators of four anonymous accounts that share racist, antisemitic, and neo-Nazi content. Three live in Texas. Musk has replied to two of them. One works for the Navy. www.texasobserver.org/revealed-ope...

submitted 95 days ago • 279 comments

“A new report on foreign interference in Canada has found that agents of the Indian government interfered in the CPC leadership race that resulted in Pierre Poilievre becoming party leader.” Poilievre is still the only federal party leader who refuses to obtain security clearance.

submitted 96 days ago • 15 comments

so what does 181 man hours of surveillance of you and your family spread out over 7 months look like? one thing the EPS were doing was hanging outside my house taking pictures of my partner and small child. (thread)

submitted 99 days ago • 27 comments

Just insane that the left treated the tech industry with increasing hostility just because they undermined organized labor, flouted the regulatory state, and bragged that they were going to get rid of everybody's jobs for a decade straight.

submitted 100 days ago • 403 comments

New paper: Do social media algorithms shape affective polarization? We ran a field experiment on X/Twitter (N=1,256) using LLMs to rerank content in real-time, adjusting exposure to polarizing posts. Result: Algorithmic ranking impacts feelings toward the political outgroup! 🧵⬇️

submitted 104 days ago • 35 comments

A new report analyzes Canada's contribution to a global problem and how the country might help fix it.

submitted 102 days ago • 0 comments

Good. It’s horrific how other platforms abused their reach to strangle local, independent, and national outlets alike. I WANT to see news and actual vetted work and I WANT journalists to get rewarded for it. Because I want to live in a thinking human world over some AI generated slop dystopia

submitted 103 days ago • 562 comments

What an achievement vaccines are. What a monument to our love for each other it is to stare straight into the face of something as horrific and unstoppable as smallpox or measles or polio or cervical cancer and say “You know what, it doesn’t have to be like this.” HUMANS!

submitted 115 days ago • 236 comments