damn they really put a spirit halloween where america used to be

it would be a good day for mark carney to finally cancel the f-35 fighter jet contract

For anyone who claims that "casteism only exists in rural India". > ...country’s growing cities ... largely replicate the caste and religious disparities of its villages, thus presenting a challenge, and opportunity, for India to change course. bfi.uchicago.edu/insights/res...

Residential Segregation and Unequal Access to Local Public Services in India: Evidence from 1.5m Neighborhoods | Becker Friedman Institute

Residential segregation of marginalized groups is a well-established driver of persistent inequality in wealthy countries. Segregated communities tend to have worse access to employment networks, publ...

bfi.uchicago.edu

i wish @kbardeesy.bsky.social did townhalls for his constituents like me and many others who live around me.

I need someone to make a «Meta glasses detector», that will make a configurable sound the moment a pair comes into range. Over time this detector can be expanded to detect other products. I’d pay money for this.

Patricia Aas 🐢🏳️‍🌈@patigallardo.bsky.social · last wk.

Mr. Altman, not only do I ABSOLUTELY NOT want this for myself, I don’t want to associate with ANYONE who does this. I have ZERO interest in participating in their personal surveillance. I want this disclosed from a distance like an infectious disease. I need a physical buffer.

Where will Mark Carney cave next, to which pressure group? As we enter into an era where trans rights are under attack and queer rights are very likely next on the chopping block, will Carney actually stand up for us? @journodale.bsky.social asks. xtramagazine.com/power/politi...

Mark Carney is set to fold on trade. What’s next? | Xtra Magazine

If the prime minister is willing to cave on this issue, it seems reasonable to expect there will be others down the line

xtramagazine.com

> Negotiations must be entered to in good faith <checks history of the side making this argument> oh i see

T. Ryan Gregory 🇨🇦@tryangregory.bsky.social · last wk.

The Globe & Mail, folks. www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/edit...

This reminds me of when I had to read Leonard Woolley's report on the excavations at Ur in Southern Iraq and rather than give credit to or name most of the people doing the actual labour on his dig, he spent a big chunk of his time insulting their work ethic.

Jen Baird@jenbaird.bsky.social · 2w ago

For too long, the people who have done the real work of archaeology have not been recognised. At Dura-Europos in Syria, one of the ways this is evident is in the lack of credit given, or even names recorded, for the many workers there.

Every day Canada looks a little more like the USA.

The Tyee@thetyee.ca · 2w ago

After a nerve-racking evacuation, workers who had come to B.C.’s Okanagan to help bring in the fruit harvest were told they couldn’t stay more than two nights and three days in emergency shelters for wildfire evacuees — because they’re not B.C. residents. thetyee.ca/News/2026/08...

Recently heard an elected official say "AI adoption is not political" and it is still playing on loop in my mind

I've been wrestling with what it means to stop reading code, and I put some thoughts to paper. How do we retain control over the integrity of the things we build? okayfail.com/2026/what-do...

Scientifically accurate velociraptors are not that impressive: Think "Turkey with teeth instead of a razor-sharp stabbing beak" (Utahraptor, on the other hand...)

It’s a truth universally acknowledged that defeating students who make memes using Fanon is well nigh impossible. I respect the person who made this edit. They had to read Fanon thoroughly to create this brilliant exposé. There’s hope in our little corners. The ultimate villain sequence is 👌🏽👌🏽👌🏽

OpenSSH 10.5 has just been released, mostly to fix a handful of security vulnerabilities. www.openssh.org/releasenotes... We plan to move to a more frequent release schedule for as long as this season of LLM-found bugs lasts. More details in the release notes.

If anything, men are probably over-targeted, given that women buy and read more books, and until 2020 men authored more of them. www.weforum.org/stories/2023...

Women are now publishing more books than men - and it's good for business

Women have gone from publishing just 20% of books in the 1970s to more than half today, according to new research. It's good for the industry and readers, data shows.

weforum.org

As anyone in publishing will tell you, women do not resist reading books by men, but men will often dismiss books by women. This is not a publishing problem or a failure to target men. It's a misogyny problem.

In Montreal, August is time to tell our city councillors clearly that we must be an anti-apartheid city again. This is a grassroots campaign, with the municipal opposition Projet Montréal on board. Please spread the word!

Ontario community workers have been on strike for 11 weeks. While some locals have settled, most of the 4000 workers are still on the picket line. When MPP Kevin Holland drove through a picket line, it was a reminder of the contempt that the elites have for working people.

The struggle to be heard in Doug Ford's Ontario

OPSEU community service workers enter their 11th week of strike

noraloreto.substack.com

KFC rebrands as Kentucky Frontier Computing, stock up 245%

KFC announces their frontier-class model briefly escaped its sandbox and attempted to exfiltrate the 27 herbs and spices

Real ones don't let their friends use Substack anyway. And serious activists are paying attention to the landscape and know what options exist.

Destacked: Why I Avoid Substack As Much as Possible - Jacky Alciné

From Substack LLC's attempt to capture the concept of a newsletter as a verb to their overt encouragement and support for Neo-Nazi content, don't expect me to post anything on that platform. I explain...

jacky.wtf

👇 "'Free speech only applies to the groups that they want to support,' Lexier added, referring to anti-trans and residential school denialist speakers who have attracted protests or had their events shut down on campus.'"

Euan Thomson@drugdatadecoded.ca · 3w ago

Big story out this morning by @lilypolenchuk.bsky.social and @readtheorchard.org 🔥 Coincidentally, David Slater and I will be citing this in a related scoop for @breachmedia.ca - watch for that soon! www.readtheorchard.org/p/alberta-mi...

In Punjabi there is a saying "ਜੀਹਦੀ ਕੋਠੀ ਦਾਣੇ, ਉਹਦੇ ਕਮਲੇ ਵੀ ਸਿਆਣੇ" meaning "those who have grain in their storehouse, even their fools are considered wise". in modern context grain is $$$.

This smells like the work of a crisis comms firm. "Small fringe group"? Here's what the federal transport minister actually said on Friday when citing the 87,000 responses to the public consultation. And he actually cited elevated noise & negative environmental & housing impacts. #OnPoli #ToPoli

dave1agar@dave1agar.bsky.social · 4w ago

NEW: Ontario’s transportation minister says the Ford government will not repeal the legislation that expropriated the Toronto island airport. Sarkaria also chastised the federal government for giving into a “fringe group” of Toronto residents globalnews.ca/news/11996784/… #onpoli

@blog.rust-lang.org.web.brid.gy code of conduct now includes "caste" as a protected characteristic. rust-lang.org/policies/cod...

Code of conduct

A language empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software.

rust-lang.org

It's better to prevent one from being built than to try to stop it from operating or expanding down the road: stopthedatacentre.ca #StopDataCentres #regulateAI

Stop the Datacentre

Communities across Canada are organizing around AI datacentre proposals. Find your local campaign or start one.

stopthedatacentre.ca

This was an intentional choice @mark-carney.bsky.social made, meant to show Canada where he stands on indigenous issues. He won't stop there. None are free until all are free.

Leah ProudLakota (she/her)@leahgazan.bsky.social · 4w ago

“Winnipeg NDP MP Leah Gazan says Carney has a lot to answer for on his latest choice for principal secretary.” (1/2)

Just in case you still use any Basecamp products, DHH is crashing out about his AI product gently pointing out that it’s bad for him to have extermination fantasies about the Roma people.

they are firing ak47s on students in india?

“It’s easy to see the Canadian government engaging in deference to U.S. terrorism strategies as normal, but it’s only a matter of time before there’s a crack down on left-wing political speech, thought, and organizing” Free to read today! www.hilltimes.com/2026/07/22/c...

Canada cozying up to fascism under false pretence of co-operation - The Hill Times

It’s easy to see the Canadian government engaging in deference to U.S. terrorism strategies as normal, but it’s only a matter of time before there’s a crack down on left-wing political speech, thought...

hilltimes.com