Many Americans were already ok with the death penalty. From there, it’s just a coupe of small leaps to “firing squad” and “livestream”.

To me the pink house is synonymous with what I love most about Montréal. It's whimsical, spontaneous, technically illegal... requiring no understanding or explanation.

Old Canada Malting building to be demolished

One of Montreal’s most intriguing curiosities is the pink house high atop the old Canada Malting Factory in Saint-Henri. No one truly knows who built the cabin up there, or

thesuburban.com

And Twitter (X).

Brent Toderian@brenttoderian.bsky.social · 3d ago

“Elon Musk thinks Quebec should separate from Canada.” I think Elon Musk should hurry up and separate himself from planet Earth. In the meantime, everyone should separate themself from Tesla and Starlink, and governments should separate themselves from SpaceX.

Spread the word. Surely he means no harm.

Canada's National Observer@nationalobserver.com · 3d ago

"Good. Quebec should separate," Musk wrote in a post on X. "They would be better off. Alberta and Saskatchewan should separate too."

Habs fans cheered louder for the support staff than Leafs fans did for the players

Convenience, efficiency, profitability, and easiness have long been the four horsemen of the tech apocalypse.

Gil Durán@gilduran.com · 6d ago

“Democracy has been hailed as, like, the holy grail for the last couple hundred years, but democracies are inefficient,” said the crypto billionaire. “If you get a benevolent dictator, it’s actually extremely efficient." Hmm, where have I heard this before? www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/b...

Lawsuits against fossil fuel companies are our best hope to stop climate change from getting worse, so this Supreme Court case is really about the habitability of our planet.

I love @lingthusiasm.com, a smart interesting podcast about #linguistics Bonus: won’t leave you profoundly depressed. Recommend!

Gretchen McCulloch@gretchenmcculloch.com · 5d ago

Hey. The fragmentation of the social media landscape has been hard on indie #scicomm 🧪 projects So if you'd like to follow a podcast that's enthusiastic about #linguistics, could you check out @lingthusiasm.com? And if you think your followers might like to, could you give this a repost?

Holy shit.

🗳️ En cette veille d'élections, j'ai beaucoup d'empathie pour les candidat-es qui se sont donné-es à fond pendant la campagne. C'est physiquement et mentalement très exigeant. Frapper aux portes à tous les jours est un dur exercice d'humilité sans garantie de résultats.

Part of why I don't like the AI-or-bust economy is the constant flopsweat of people on the news who say this HAS to work. Quit making everyone so anxious. Goddamn. If this is the next Google then why are you acting like this? I don't remember being told to buy an iPhone at gunpoint.

A successful regulatory strategy would recognize these companies as bad actors whose business model almost compels them to act against the public interest, as in this story. They require hard, punitive regulations and enforcement, as @ntusikov.bsky.social and I explain here.

Canada can’t regulate Big Tech by trusting Big Tech

Bill C-34 puts too much faith in Big Tech. Canada should regulate the algorithms, data practices and business models that drive online harm.

policyoptions.irpp.org

Dealing with my med clinic’s AI = 0/10 experience. It spits out unneeded info, then transfers me back to.. itself. I follow a phone labyrinth until I land on a human who likely fields calls all day from frustrated patients all day. She seems relieved I don’t blame her for the snafu.

End of the world The Globe and Mail by @deAdder Substack: deadder.substack.com/p/end-of-the...

End of the world

Globe and Mail

deadder.substack.com

I did, and it was a lovely experience.

CTV News Montreal@ctvnewsmontreal.bsky.social · 2w ago

A total of 23.59 per cent of Quebecers voted in advance polling, according to Elections Quebec.

I think Canadians are over the "please come back" tourism ads! Good summary by @maxfawcett.bsky.social (clever invoking PET's classic "just watch me", referring to decidedly more domestic matters..)

Canada's National Observer@nationalobserver.com · 2w ago

No matter what happens in the upcoming midterm elections or even the 2028 presidential contest, Canadians will not forget how they are being treated right now — or how some Americans react when we fight back, @maxfawcett.bsky.social writes.

Our ancestors weren’t “the nice guys”; they just had little ability or strategic need (at first) to subjugate their Indigenous allies back in the 1600s. Let’s look at relations between modern Quebec governments and Indigenous communities!

Home - APTN News [Unofficial]@aptnnews.ca.web.brid.gy · 2w ago

Artificial intelligence systems do not think, feel, want or understand. Avoid language that gives them human characteristics.

Marking my birthday by cancelling old subscriptions and accounts that may come back to haunt me. Festive!

And this has nothing to do with the AI industry propaganda about the technology being an "existential threat". The threat is the climate crisis, the authoritarianism, the mass surveillance, the tech fascism. The real threat is not the tech, but the billionaires.

when ai leaves u behind

Xero now with 100% more 🎃@artificer-ind.bsky.social · last mo.

Still patiently waiting to be "left behind" by AI rather than it chasing me across every damn space like a slasher in a low budget flick.

This is not a good look, @liberalca.bsky.social

NDP@ndp.ca · 3w ago

1/ Yesterday, seniors wearing pictures of their grandchildren were arrested outside Parliament while protesting Mark Carney's climate cuts.

When shipping costs are at an all-time high, Trump wants to import potash fertilizer from halfway around the world, rather than across the border from Saskatchewan to the Great Plains breadbasket of the world. Explain that to me like I’m not a former global supply chain manager.

Great idea!

Oh The Urbanity!@ohtheurbanity.bsky.social · 3w ago

Montreal bike share offering free rides on provincial election day!

US military nearly attacked a Chinese ship because of false, hallucinated AI claim that the ship had nuclear weapons components on it. Planes were "in the air" and the attacks was halted "only just before" they were set to begin.

Exclusive: US military had close call after using AI for false intelligence report, sources say | CNN Politics

The episode shows the risks of using this new, relatively poorly understood technology in the middle of the Iran war

cnn.com

Economist John Kenneth Galbraith didn't live to see the "effective altruism" movement, but he knew the type and read them for filth.

Faine Greenwood@faineg.com · 3w ago

Nick Beckstead, noted longtermist and "effective altruist,” just comes out and says it: "But it now seems more plausible to me that saving a life in a rich country is substantially more important than saving a life in a poor country, other things being equal."

NEW by me: When I saw that the White House had stolen 'The Magic School Bus' to promote its racist ICE deportations, I could not be quiet. The books' publisher, Scholastic, has remained noticeably silent, while others like Hasbro and Tetris have clapped back. www.thequeenzone.com/trump-regime...

Trump Regime Keeps Stealing Kids Entertainment for ICE Ad Campaign. Companies are Clapping Back.

The Trump regime keeps stealing kids entertainment properties to promote its racist ICE deportations scheme. Some companies are saying no.

thequeenzone.com

I’ve been wary of the Scholastic Book Fair racket since becoming a parent. Their silence re Trump’s abhorrent appropriation of the Magic School Bus is very disappointing.

What stage of capitalism is this?

I'm just watching tiktok videos about how grocery shopping in NYC is so hard especially if you're hauling bottled water and I have never in my life hauled water. Babe, you're picking a hard life.