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I can't really believe it but it seems to be the case that the Times has not covered a credible accusation of rape against the President of the United States, but has two solid stories on Obama's cheesecake factory quip.

shut the fuck up meatball man

The political media is visibly chafing at the current situation, where Republicans are glaringly awful, fucking everything up, running deviant candidates everyone hates, and Dems are just being normal & winning. The force is out of balance. They are viscerally eager to go after Dems about something.

WOOF

just like the fossil fuel industry and CCS, the most fun response is to say "Okay: your product is dangerous. So we're banning data centres, taxing LLM products and encouraging institutional bans on chatbots". And watch them scream with wide eyes

Sometimes it just dawns on me how deeply weird and wild this situation is. A company making a crappy, unchecked and badly designed product, but thanks to pre-existing science fiction narratives they can aggressively tout their own failures and inadequacies as reasons for self-regulation

hate to see the bc conservatives win, but also david eby got exactly what he deserved for taking such a cynical and opportunistic move when he had two years left on his majority government

Elon Musk has now issued his fourth explanation for his actions in throttling StarLink and StarShield. Note that each of his explanations is inconsistent with its predecessor. And this one focuses on Ukraine supposedly violating its terms of service. If it did, that's an easily ascertainable fact.

They're not even trying to get you to like them.

Our long national nightmare is over, and another member of the hated American Olympic squad got their way. Disappointed it all turned out like this. www.tsn.ca/nhl/article/...

Saw an old guy with the craziest drip today

this is fucking appalling. i already knew james dolan (who owns the knicks and madison square garden) was a douche but this is next-level. www.nytimes.com/athletic/771...

nobody stopped Musk before he broke the state monopoly on violence, so now either he goes or the nation-state does

@cascoinfoundation.org Me: sees a bunch of bad news stories and Cas discussing racism Canadian Mint ad on my insta: we got you fam FYI we’re doing steampunk for no apparent reason www.mint.ca/en/shop/coin...

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Incredibly normal stuff, America.

Canadians want to prioritize clean energy over fossil fuels, Carney government told in internal report New public opinion research commissioned by federal government shows a majority of Canadians want to see Canada become a clean energy superpower

the combined company would have a negative free cash flow of at least $54b, it would have to divest or ring-fence the Chinese operations that produce 22% of Tesla's global revenue, and the two firms do billions in related-party transactions, but the merger makes sense because ✨buzzwords✨

the idea that empathy is dangerous has been permeating right-wing spaces for a while, but it's not an actual element of their ideology as much as it's a defense mechanism against confronting the reality of their cruelty

I'm finding it hard to feel good about the Alberta referendum result, despite the overwhelming margin of victory for sensibility. Danielle Smith got to shake the feds down for unnecessary concessions and immigration controls, and some of the nine questions messing with immigrants will likely pass.

"eugh it's actually just starting" shut the fuck up, genuinely

Pierre "Canada is Broken, Canada is Broken, Canada is Broken" Poilievre is really testing the limits of "it's never too late to do the right thing" bsky.app/profile/saro...

"in Conservative Alberta it’s always Festivus, & the airing of grievances is always close at hand. Every time an argument is made on behalf of Canada, it has to begin with an almost ritualistic recitation of the various ways in which Canada has harmed & injured Albertans." shorturl.ly/ol2z3

Research Co. has a new poll that looks at all 10 questions in tomorrow's referendum. Three-quarters support for remain, but the other results are varying degrees of distressing.

I don't know if I can say I "enjoyed" Akbar Shahid Ahmed's "Crossing the Red Line: Biden, His Advisors, and Israel's War in Gaza" because of the subject matter, but it is a damning indictment of the Biden government's inaction without being preachy or screechy. www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

yesterday musk said that companies that "overstate claims about their product" will be banned from advertising on X, today he says that his cars are alive

Absolutely baffling that this has *increased*, what fumes are 1/3 of Albertans huffing?

Stuff like this is why the Canadian political establishment is (correctly, IMO) assuming that Democrats can NOT be trusted to return the bilateral relationship to the status quo ante going forward.

Super difficult to study these oligarchs scientifically because they are so weird

This is just flat out racism. No other way to describe it, and if you see someone trying to do otherwise (looking at you NYT editors) then correct them.

There is an endless reservoir of Canadians in dubious quotes from Americans about healthcare and conspicuously few of us who would ever in a million years trade it for the American system

so restricting Ukraine's Starlink was Musk's idea, but after Moscow took advantage he became "alarmed about the possibility of adverse consumer reaction in Europe" to the "night of carnage" and denied responsibility I mean, it sounds like typical Elon

Is he spending billions to influence elections worldwide in favor of right wing extremists who want to take away rights from half the population? That ain't news. A car that will never get made with jets on it? Yeah baby! Post that!

For my entire life I wondered how virulent racist and antisemite Henry Ford would have been talked about at the time and now I get to watch the press cover sig-heiling white supremacist Elon Musk without even mentioning that he's a nazi.

@parismarx.com Nova Scotian wind development that was built for a cockamamie green hydrogen export scheme is now (surprise) for a data centre. Equivalent generating capacity for ~15% of the province’s normal needs, squandered. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

"They might tax some of my billions or put some mild regulatory restraints on the growth of my businesses, therefore I will endorse fascism" is not savvy. It's not clever. It's not understandable or forgivable. It's shitty, just like it looks on the surface.

I consider myself a fairly compassionate & empathetic person, but the more I read about people in this particular demographic -- wealthy Gen X white men radicalized by social media & group chats -- the more I loathe them. I understand them *too well* to sympathize. They are contemptible & weak.

(Reuters) - The order to limit a satellite system used by Ukraine for battlefield communications and drone operations came from inside the White House, according to two US officials and a Western official briefed on the matter. @reuters.com 🇺🇦 www.reuters.com/world/europe...

It’s hard to think of a better definition of a traitor to the West than someone who deliberately sabotages a European democracy’s military operation against a barbaric Russian invasion.