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The UK said the quiet part out loud by explicitly targeting the poorest schools and students for AI enshittification www.gov.uk/government/n...

“I have all the sympathy that you need, but please give me back a percentage of what I give you instead of kicking me in the ass and thinking you’re going to get away with it.” Meisner, you absolute DIVA! 😂

Next up, con Carney promotes smoking in new Health Canada initiative.

The powerful executives who cozied up to Trump didn't oops accidentally forget about pendulum swings. They either: 1) Like the fascism 2) Calculated it was here to stay, so going along was savvy 3) Saw no real downside, no consequences when the pendulum swung Crucial to show them 3 was a mistake

Happy Saturday, your afternoon read is about letting friendships die and punching cops. buttondown.com/monteiro/arc...

Only 48% of BC voters supported the BC Conservatives, yet the voting system has handed Lorne Doerkson's Conservatives 69% of the seats and 100% of the power. READ MORE: www.fairvote.ca/25/10/2026/b... JOIN THE CAMPAIGN FOR PROPORTIONAL REPRESENTATION: secure.fairvote.ca/en/action/de...

"Despite massive investments...[AI] has delivered zero financial payoff to corporate America outside of tech. With no impact on the bottom line, mainstream corporate America is pulling back and starting to view token spending not as a source of growth but as a cost center that weighs on margins."

Anyone catch that clip of Eby shortly after he called the election where he was like “My advisors told me I should’ve called a snap election a while back but I didn’t because I believe in policy, not politics. Anyway, that was a mistake, so here we are.”

Somebody should have told Eby that he can resign without calling an election.

Gotta change your first name, Art

The show became a success because of the crew involved and they get rewarded by all being fired/not renewed as production moves to Canada, where Canadians get cursed by being paid dirt and being yelled at to deliver the same quality for less money and most likely less time.

Absolutely gorgeous stuff from Aardman at the Young V&A in London. This puppet is my holy grail. Need to plan a heist.

How much you wanna bet these tech companies pleading with users to "be kind to their AI agents" is because half of what they claim is AI is actually human labour from exploited workers in the global south?

One of my favourite summer jobs was working at my local national park while I was in college. It was heartbreaking to see and hear stories of how funding had been slashed over the decades... our parks play such important natural, cultural, economic, and social roles. They hold so much potential.

May 8, 1968 Student demonstration, Quartier Latin in Paris

Some profesh news! I'm beyond thrilled to share that I've been invited to be part of the Fall/Winter 2026/2027 cohort of Women in the Director's Chair's Career Advancement Module alongside a group of incredibly inspiring filmmakers! 🎬

Exactly a year ago today… 🥲 We’re having a reunion call with the Camino buddies on Sunday. Can’t wait!

If the economy grows but you can't afford a home, who benefited? If productivity rises but you work longer hours, who benefited? If corporations make record profits but you can't afford food, who benefited? The owning class is robbing us all blind.

this is partly how we end up with such credulous, fawning coverage of AI

every day it's another Armando Iannuci moment for these fuckin chuckleheads

‘Wildwood’ director Travis Knight on AI: “A pencil is a tool. A paintbrush is a tool. A 3D printer is a tool. A digital capture is a tool. AI is not a tool. AI can go fuck itself.”

This is private equity, this is what it does. Buy up businesses, run them into the ground, and rip them apart for short-term profit. www.pcgamer.com/gaming-indus...

You gotta wonder how many American children would say “When I grow up, I wanna be president of the United States” these days… It’s not just about not seeing yourself represented by who’s doing the job. It’s how you see the job being done.

We live in a world of finite resources. There’s a word for unchecked growth: Cancer.

BREAKING: Anthropic reports an $80 billion net loss in the first half of 2026.

Conservatives and Liberals are working together to ram Bill C-39 through Parliament. They don’t want to hear from Canadians, and they are afraid to have their legislation scrutinized. New Democrats are standing up for Canadians whose voices are being ignored.

No ISBNs in Canada for AI writing. This is a fantastic policy, and every country should do the same. www.canada.ca/en/library-a...

“The internet is a store but it used to be a library” hits me like a slug to the chest

So this means we’re getting a ranked ballot at the next municipal election in Vancouver, yeah?

IT'S GAME OVER FOR SIM CITY PETE FRY HAS BEEN PROJECTED BY CBC NEWS AS THE NEXT MAYOR OF VANCOUVER

WIP! 👀

Today I learned that my NDP MLA endorsed Ken Sim… 😑

Here is your Saturday read: “…your goal isn’t to upend your life to fit a child, but to expand it in a way that your child comfortably fits within it.” buttondown.com/monteiro/arc...

The CEO of Microsoft France admitted that if Trump ordered the company to spy on French citizens' data (or the data of the French government), his company would comply, in secret: www.forbes.com/sites/emmawo...