CherryRedToes

Sometimes I think the only data centres we need to build are libraries.

As Canada awaits the Alberta separation referendum results, let’s remember how stupid this all is. Huge public money spent on a Russian & American-fuelled separation movement for an awfully-written and badly managed unbinding referendum on whether to hold a binding referendum that would be illegal.

Carn(ey)age. Rolling back a half century of progress in environmental and climate protection. For what? Oh right, profits for the already very fucking rich & some jobs in the extractive sector, while the rest of us are fucked by climate, ecological and democracy’s collapse. Danger: Banker At Work.

This is the type of AI disaster scenario that I ACTUALLY worry about. (1) AI industry oversells the capabilities of its products to score fat government contracts. (2) govt puts the AI in charge of critical shit. (3) AI fucks up, because it has a nonzero error rate. (4) shit, now we’re at war.

SUCK IT, DANIELLE!!

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Kraft is the villain here but Ed Sheeran is still a little bitch. What's the point of having a squillion dollars if you are still too much of a coward to tell some dork ass landlord to eat shit?

"What’s actually happening is not environment versus economy. It’s one economic sector, extraction, being protected and subsidized at the direct expense of several others: agriculture, tourism, fisheries, and renewable energy development that rural municipalities themselves were courting."

Instead of spending at least $50 billion of public money on fueling more climate chaos, Canadians deserve a government that invests in building the green economy of tomorrow – creating good jobs, lowering costs, and protecting our future.

Said it before, will say it again: if they’re gonna accuse you of being socialist or communist or whatever (and they will) you might as well go for it. Literally, what’s there to lose?

Every time you take the premier seriously when she parrots Stay Free Alberta's talking points; every time you take Mitch's 300K claim at face value, you are helping to normalize separatism. drjaredwesley.substack.com/p/premier-sm...

If British Columbia can make Eby back down on UNDRIP, and Ontarians can make Ford back down on the jet, and Nova Scotia can make Houston back down on the budget, then Albertans can make Smith back down on gerrymandering. Organize, friends. #ableg

you don't fight fascism by welcoming people promoting fascist ideology into your party with open arms. You fight fascism by pushing fascists out of the government. I don't know why this is so hard to understand or agree on.

Winning an election in Alberta always relies on building coalitions. But it is fascinating to me how it is typically assumed that the pipeline-loving demographic of the coalition is bigger than the pipeline-disliking demographic, or that it is even viable or advisable to court that demographic

Sometimes, when things are rough and the world feels heavy, it helps to imagine a future where we have crushed these sons of bitches and are left to the actual business of constructing a world that we deserve and is fundamentally kind and good.

We’ve watched rapists, pedophiles and abusers go free for years. Every woman who’s ever experienced abuse knew exactly what Jonathan Ross meant when he said “f*cking b*tch” He didn’t fear for his life. He was enraged she didn’t fear for hers.

As I said before, I get that we’re all busy and tired, we have too much on our plates. Everything costs too much, we don’t have enough time for work, play, chores, rest, and healing. I’m exhausted too. But we can’t let that get in the way of building power in our communities. [6/N]

15 million Americans are going to lose their health care.

Time for a general strike! And I hope the ATA tells Smith where to shove it and keeps striking

Let's be clear about what happened today. Premier Smith introduced a bill to strip Albertans of Charter rights, denied MLAs the opportunity to debate it and the courts the ability to scrutinize it, and did all of this from her seat on a jet to Saudi Arabia.

The UCP government has invoked time allocation and on a bill removing Albertans' Charter rights. And they're using the notwithstanding clause to do it. Here's why that is a dangerous precedent. And why real conservatives need to stand up against it. open.substack.com/pub/drjaredw...

But there *are* good people in the world, lots of them. You're one of them. The evil psychos would love us to think everyone is like them. Then we would be completely defeated and powerless.

51,000 teachers are far more powerful than Danielle Smith and the UCP understand especially given that they have the support of the majority of Albertans. Solidarity is a powerful weapon we can use to put Danielle Smith and the UCP's corrupt regime in their place.

Canceling Jimmy Kimmel show is not about Charlie Kirk, just like going after universities was not about antisemitism and occupying DC was not about fighting crime.

I don’t know how anyone can argue the case that neoliberal capitalism rewards hard work when we can literally see with our own eyes that the thing it most consistently rewards is sociopathy.

There’s a publicly available 900 page playbook that this christofascist had a large hand in drafting. We should be punching Nazis, not inviting them over for dinner and a chat.

See, even Danielle Smith can be moved. Vaccines are now available for children under 12. MP MacPherson is working on the fee. Make a fuss, it works. #abpoli

Sometimes I see people like 20 tweets deep into an argument with Grok. Like, what are you doing brother? You are trying to win an argument with a vending machine.

The basic problem with LLM drafting is this: the skills you need to do it correctly are exactly the same skills you need to do it without the LLM. The only way the LLM actually saves any labor is if you skip the needed fact checking and proofreading.

Canadians travelling to the US advised to not fucking do that

So yes—there are biases in climate discourse. But one “side” is a trillion-dollar industry defending its business model. And the other side is scientists trying to make sure your grandkids can drink water and go outside. Let’s not pretend those are 𝘴𝘺𝘮𝘮𝘦𝘵𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭. 6/end rant

The cure for male loneliness is joining a union.

For fucks sake; what would I give for a journalist in this day and age to ask a single goddamn follow up question. “Oh you’re discovering new quantum physics? Like what? Can you explain that?”

There have been 4 by-elections since the 2023 provincial election, giving Albertans in Lethbridge, Edmonton, & Olds a chance to reconsider which party they support. The UCP has lost 3 and lost support in the 4th. Danielle Smith wants you to feel the UCP are unstoppable. They are not. ✊🏾

will political analysts ever learn that they don't have to speak about horrors that rip apart families and destroy communities like they're analyzing the outcome of a play in an NFL game

If you were too young in 2003 here is what Bush told the American people: 1) The Iraq War won’t cost a lot of money 3) We won’t need a lot of troops 4) We’ll bring peace and freedom to Iraq 5) We’ll find WMDs 6) We’ll be welcomed as liberators 7) It will be easy 8) It won’t take long All lies.

The Alberta Government is framing their abdication of public health measures as fiscal responsibility. It is far cheaper to give someone a vaccine than to keep them on a ventilator. Denying vaccines is one of the most most financially reckless things a government can do.

It’s astonishing that the UCP isn’t being held to account. $1BILLION of healthcare & tax payers $! And that doesn’t account for the ‘gifts’ that the politicians are getting in return. And they now want Albertans to pay for vaccines to reduce waste? What about the millions/billions in corruption!? 🤬

I do think the wording in a lot of reporting is unhelpful b/c it implies ChatGPT has agency ChatGPT doesn't encourage, or think, or listen, or even hallucinate. It just pulls words out of its word-hole and assembles them in orders that align with patterns it's observed elsewhere

Police aren’t misinformed. They already know journalism is important, because they know journalism can pose a risk to police power. Which is why they target journalists. It’s not complicated.

In South Park, San Diego, US citizens stigmergically rose up against Trump’s Gestapo. The revolt erupted midday when ICE began rounding up people at a restaurant; patrons and passersby alike dropped everything to confront the regime storm troopers. #3E #EndImpunity #StopICE

Unironically they should buy up the domains for about 60 defunct local newspapers in swing states. Hire two reporters to write almost exclusively about highschool sports and new restaurants opening with every 10th article about how the local GOP is screwing over people.