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Making unions stronger and corporations and billionaires weaker is an essential step to strengthening American democracy, says author Hamilton Nolan. trib.al/TPhu6Cv

AOC: "As AI begins to encroach in our society, their goal is to take your cognition away from you. AI's goal is to take your thoughts away from you, your ability to think away from you, so that you become dependent on a machine ... reading books is active resistance"

US garment workers helped pioneer multi-ethnic labor unions, which united people across racial, religious, gender, linguistic, and cultural divides. Also native-born citizens and immigrants. I think about that sometimes when I see people suggest such divides are unbridgeable.

Greece, Egypt in talks to extend maritime zone further east reut.rs/4ieIsNG

2/ A recent report from Anthropic’s Threat Intelligence team gives direct evidence that generative AI is “being incorporated into the machinery of cross-border repression,” enabling authoritarian governments to identify, monitor, and target diaspora activists and exiled dissidents around the world.

Letter: Undocumented Utah high schoolers should not have to pay out-of-state tuition. Expecting these students to pay triple the price for college makes higher education unreachable.

Oh, come on, eh! Not maple syrup too?! Whether we needed it or not, every Canadian reading this will now be in a frenzy to find themselves some maple syrup tomorrow… www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

There was a very good turnout at the anti-AI data centre in downtown #Halifax on Saturday afternoon.

Hey Houston? Data centres in NS = more problems Hell no.

Please sign this, everyone

Just No. Nope. Not in Nova Scotia: Houston is a wrecking ball.

Repressive, secretive and highly militarised: Eritrea, the east African country facing UK visa ban threat

From the Whitney Plantation: In Louisiana, the prevalence of dishes like etouffee, red beans and jambalaya, along with rice itself, is a result of enslaved West Africans being brought here during the French Colonial period. https://ow.ly/XsVW50ZUgMx

Research from @kspoon.bsky.social & ... "“People don’t want to be in a workplace if they feel disrespected, if they feel like their work isn’t valued, if they feel like they’re not seen,” she notes. “And I do think that in many, many academic workplaces, that is the experience that women have.”"

Congratulations to lawyer and human rights activist Navanethem “Navi” Pillay on her Nobel Peace Prize. Few have devoted their lives to justice, peace and human dignity like she did.

This is all the news I need for the day.

“I am just one of many...” says Yonas, “but there are still many friends left behind,” he adds. “No one leaves their country just like that... There is a reason. Our reason is war.” Yonas is one of the people rescued by MSF Oyvon crew last Sunday, Oct 4.

I do not want to be googling the plague y’all…

Nearly 1,500 migrants arrive in Myanmar from Malaysia despite UN warnings https://aje.news/yg221b

Why Carney’s economic overhaul is clashing with Canada’s unions https://aje.news/ga62e2

Bangkok at breaking point as floods turn streets into stagnant lakes

Burundi to take third-country deportees from US reut.rs/4rFrRag

This is *the* piece. Kate Manne, professor of philosophy at Cornell, speaks truth to the totality of failures at the university — and why students protesting the war in Gaza have faced far harsher consequences than any of the Cornell 7: www.thecut.com/article/what...

🙌🏽

A new network wants to encourage Black and immigrant workers to join trade unions. One of the most pressing issues continues to be the impact of Ireland's work-permit regime, which make it risky for employees to speak out if exploited.

Climate activists are scrambling to find some path that will lead them back out of the political wilderness—“but right now they’re lost,” Jason Dove Mark reports. He spoke with more than a dozen climate leaders about where the movement goes from here:

What world is Melania living in? “He works nonstop,” the First Lady said, defending her husband, whose approval ratings are underwater.

The leaders of two of the world’s top AI companies are usually fierce rivals. But in front of the UN Security Council on Wednesday, they were in agreement: The AI industry needs international standards and cooperation, or risk global security. https://cnn.it/46Cc8iy

Students asked me how to get rid of AI Overview in Chrome, and this method has worked for me so here's a PSA! It's SO nice to not have to scroll past that nonsense! tenbluelinks.org

THIS 👇 HERE.......

The countries are not opposed to a new map per se; they're testy about the colour shades.

Bite me. #lakeontario #canadastrong #elbowsup #FUTrump #never51

"There is no cleavage between white-collar workers and manual workers, between artists and artisans, musicians and mechanics, lawyers and accountants, architects and miners." FDR:

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Amen, sister

how i be getting around in my car now that Apple Maps and Google Maps are dead to me

An undergrad told her professor President Trump made teaching about gender identity illegal and then THE PROFESSOR was fired. This happened LAST YEAR in Texas. www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-...

If Canadians didn’t accept it because it wasn’t a reasonable deal, why are Americans accepting this as their own fate? It’s not a good deal for you either. America First is actually American 1% Only and F the rest…

I have several favourite bookstores in different cities around the world but Shakespeare and Company in Paris is absolutely divine.

"Depicting migrants as invaders is a common social-Darwinist trope that assumes a clash of civilizations through the application of natural selection to the human species....this mode of thinking ultimately legitimizes violence."

www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en... I can totally get behind booting the US Ambassador out of Canada… join me!

Mapping Academic Freedom www.visualcapitalist.com/mapped-which...

The Age of Stupid is upon us by Cathy Conrad @cathyconrad.bsky.social