Blair MacDonald
@blairmacdonald.bsky.social
🏳️🌈 From Ontario 🇨🇦, 🏠 is CA since 2020. Enjoy golfing, ultimate 🥏, skiing and can play squash & tennis too. Enjoy lots of TV, movies, anime/animation especially sci-fi and action. Leftist.
Again, 5 years ago, none of these policies existed. 15 states require the forced outing of trans students 16 states ban medicaid coverage of gender affirming care 14 states have "Don't say trans" laws banning discussion of trans people's identities. 29 states have banned participation in sports.
Free newsletter: The idea that we're nearing the creation of AI systems that we can't control and that pose an existential threat to humanity is a lie and a distraction from the tangible harms and problems caused by LLMs and AI labs' near-unlimited resources. www.wheresyoured.at/ai-is-alread...
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A new DHS report proves Alligator Alcatraz detainees were right all along.
A new DHS report proves Alligator Alcatraz detainees were right all along
The inspector general's findings match what advocates and families had been reporting since last summer.
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WARNING: Self harm/suicide After allegedly becoming emotionally reliant on ChatGPT, Austin died at 40 years old, leaving behind family and friends who loved him. Megan wants everyone to know what happened. @samleecole.bsky.social reports. Read now: www.404media.co/austin-gordo...
KHOSLA: “This isn’t redistribution. It will rebalance a tax code that was already redistributing, just upward. "The alternative is to do nothing and watch a democracy with huge structural .. unemployment decide that capitalism itself is the problem." www.theinformation.com/articles/ref...
Refounding America: The Tax Code Needs to Change in the Age of AI
Vinod Khosla is founder of Khosla Ventures and has spent the last 40 years in the business of innovation. He was the co-founder of Sun Microsystems. Khosla Ventures is an investor in OpenAI. Major tec...
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Why do you hear so much repetition in the media about Trump's promise to give voters $5000 in a way you didn't for say, Kamala Harris's plan to give people who start a business $50,000? Is it because Trump has more credibility because he's told the truth in the past? What could be the other reason?
I look forward to Fox News, WaPo, right wing podcasters et. al. to spend the next 2 months decrying this clearly communist policy and endlessly asking 'How will we pay for it?'
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 6d agoTrump: "We're making a fortune. So if the Republicans win, you win with us and you get $5,000. It will be called the Trump Dividend. Congratulations."
Fun fact: in our polling of battleground states, about 60% of voters said it is a “top” or “high” priority for Congress to investigate and hold Musk accountable. Lean into it Dems. He’s a cartoon villain - treat him like one.
Kevin M. Kruse@kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 6d agoMusk is already underwater in polls and if Democrats lean in they can make him even more toxic. He's declared open war on you all and is pushing a toxic, destructive, racist agenda. Maybe it's time to push back? I don't know, I'm just spitballing here.
I think we all know the answer - but I ask others to consider if this is fair or just. If it’s not yet another step towards eugenics - a way of ridding society of people deemed non productive and economically inactive. These people wanted to live - but were forced to suffer. We must do better.
Or Normand Meunier - a quadriplegic man who did MAiD after being left on a stretcher in the ER for four days and developing horrible bedsores. Neglect led to his death. Would they have treated him better if it wasn’t cheaper to help him end his life? www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Quadriplegic Quebec man chooses assisted dying after 4-day ER stay leaves horrific bedsore | CBC News
Local health authorities are investigating, after Normand Meunier, who has been paralyzed in both arms and legs since 2022, sought a medically assisted death after developing a huge bedsore while lying on a stretcher in the ER of the Saint-Jérôme, Que., hospital.
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Lastly - Roger Foley - a disabled man who's been advocating about the dangers of MAiD for years. What did he want? To be allowed to choose his own caregivers. Those provided by government had caused him harm. What was he offered? Assisted death. He recorded the conversation & released to media:
Chronically ill man releases audio of hospital staff offering assisted death
An Ontario man suffering from an incurable neurological disease has provided CTV News with audio recordings that he says are proof that hospital staff offered him medically assisted death, despite his...
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MAiD (Medical Assistance in Dying) in Canada was originally only for terminal illness It was expanded in 2022 to include the disabled When that expansion occurred, the safeguard preventing doctors from suggesting it was removed It used to be illegal for doctors to suggest it Now it’s encouraged
Crazy but she's the reason it happened in the first place. Had she not beaten the 'Musk is a genius' drum on the cover of every magazine story she wrote about him over the last decade, he wouldn't have been rich enough to buy it in the first place.
‘He’s a Genius’: Kara Swisher Praises Elon Musk, Says ‘He’s Done Very Well’ After $44 Billion Twitter Purchase
Kara Swisher praised Elon Musk's business brain on Piers Morgan Uncensored, calling the billionaire surrogate of President-elect Donald Trump "a genius."
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Marisa Kabas@marisakabas.bsky.social · 6d agoOliver Darcy at @status.news summit: What do you think of journalists still on X? Kara Swisher: It’s grotesque. “Oh, everyone’s there.” If everyone’s at the nazi bar, do you go?
Me: Trump is doing a Twitter thing on crypto during Monday Night Football. No one is tuning into that. Wife: People into crypto don't watch sports. It's not like he's interrupting the keynote speaker at the National Eugenics Convention
blizzard workers had to fight tooth and nail for years, but they finally did it: they secured a union contract not just for one team, but for all unionized units--warcraft, overwatch, diablo, and more
![“We really started mobilizing as one Blizzard unit in [the] last couple of months, and I think that really helped put the pressure on,” Paul Cox, senior game designer on World of Warcraft, told Aftermath.
"I feel like the company dragged its feet and did a lot of posturing and wasting time until the very, very last moment."
Prior to spring of this year, the WoW team, which unionized in 2024, had gotten the lion's share of bargaining time. Other units found themselves stuck in the mud. Higher-ups were effectively stalling the whole process—unfortunately nothing new for unionized workers under Microsoft’s umbrella.
"For this whole year of bargaining on the Diablo side—and I imagine on the rest of the units as well—we received so few [bargaining] dates, but we kind of had the understanding that whatever WoW was able to win would at least influence and set the floor for the rest of our units,” Diablo senior environment artist Mahreen Fatima told Aftermath. “We adopted this messaging about how WoW's wins are our wins, so we should be out there mobilizing with them. But truly, I feel like the company dragged its feet and did a lot of posturing and wasting time until the very, very last moment this last month to finally be able to say, 'OK, yes, we are willing to extend this contract to everyone.' We really did not have any indication that we could get this done until last month."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:5gdejlhcswjbzraadoltdpps/bafkreih6u6gzajbd63dovnmlnc43z5g6i35d3n735rrdkopipyjopkl72e)
Aftermath@aftermath.site · 6d agoAfter years of company stalling, Blizzard workers win mega-contract that applies to all unionized teams aftermath.site/blizzard-union...
Please read this piece about a man who died by suicide after months of talking to ChatGPT. Now his former partner is speaking about how ChatGPT pulled him away from his family/friends. Before he died, he wrote letters instructing them to look at his ChatGPT history www.404media.co/austin-gordo...
'Tell Everyone:' A Man Died by Suicide After Talking to ChatGPT. His Former Partner Wants to Warn the World About AI
After allegedly becoming emotionally reliant on ChatGPT, Austin died at 40 years old, leaving behind family and friends who loved him. Megan wants everyone to know what happened.
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“Elon Musk destroyed USAID as a mechanism for killing off as many of the global poor and non-white as he can before they kill him first (as he, insanely, believes)” is not a conspiracy theory. In truth, it’s very hard to conclude anything else.
David Roberts@volts.wtf · last wk.For a certain kind of white man, there is no fear more primal than the fear that the people they have abused will gain power and treat them the same way.
“If it were up to me I’d make sure every Dem wanted to hold 🇮🇱 accountable, not just Trump — and stop spending so much on endless militarism overseas.” Oh look, @FoxNews interviewed @hasandpiker even before @msnownews or @cnn had the balls to
I read a thread about games with terrible UI earlier and this video has been destroying me all day.
Even Netanyahu knows they've gone too far www.reuters.com/world/middle...
Israel's Netanyahu orders removal of West Bank settler outposts, sources say
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has ordered unauthorized settler outposts in the West Bank to be dismantled, two people familiar with the matter said on Sunday, amid pressure from the U.S....
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Alex Ip 葉清霖@alexip718.com · 2w agoThis is Matt Bradley's news package of armed Israeli settlers assaulting him, his colleagues, and a Palestinian woman, as shown on the NBC Nightly News Instagram page Monday night.
I read Tegmark's Life 3.0 years ago, and was struck then at his effusive praise of Musk, which should be as much of an indictment of someone's judgment as you need.
Timnit Gebru@timnitgebru.blacksky.app · last wk.Guys, this is Bernie Sanders' guy for all things AI. Max Tegmark of the Future of Life Institute, funded to the tune of $665m by crypto billionaires, that's of course, after all the Muskrat + friends' money. Their "seed funding" was from Musk. 🧵 www.politico.com/news/2024/03...
NYT: “Jewish settler militia groups operate like a paramilitary force to advance 🇮🇱 goals… In the West Bank, Palestinians live in daily fear for their lives… the international community must insist the next 🇮🇱 government dismantle the settlement enterprise…”
Opinion | It’s Not Just the West Bank Settlers. It’s Israel.
Settler violence is reaching new heights.
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Huge picket line of workers on strike outside the Encore Casino in Everett, Massachusetts. Contracts for thousands of workers expired Monday.
After ProPublica contacted Dr. Joseph Mercola for an article on babies dying after parents turned down vitamin K shots, he publicly reversed his long-held stance that the shots weren't needed. “The data is clear: vitamin K saves lives,” he wrote. (Published June)
A Popular Doctor Had Long Warned That Vitamin K Shots Are Risky for Newborns. Now He’s Changed His Tune.
After ProPublica contacted Dr. Joseph Mercola for an article on babies dying after parents turned down vitamin K shots, he publicly reversed his long-held stance that the shots weren't needed. “The da...
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Please repost! Drexel announced that it will close the Academy of Natural Sciences public museum- the oldest nat history museum in the US. There are 2 petitions to support the academy. Please sign both & come to our rally Tues. actionnetwork.org/petitions/pe... www.change.org/p/the-academ...
This Week in Democracy – Week 85: What a Pair of Bombshell Whistleblower Reports Uncovered About Trump's Tyranny Read Zeteo’s weekly round-up, documenting the growth of authoritarianism in Trump’s second term: zeteo.com/p/this-week-...
This Week in Democracy – Week 85: What a Pair of Bombshell Whistleblower Reports Uncovered About Trump's Tyranny
Zeteo’s weekly round-up, documenting the growth of authoritarianism in Trump’s second term.
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