"All of this is to say that I am very confident that almost every report at a company about 'massive AI productivity gains' is untrue as a matter of brute fact." Incredible summary by Nik Suresh.

AI Mania Is Eviscerating Global Decisionmaking

The reality of how much damage AI mania is doing to our ability to run institutions effectively.

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Ed Zitron@edzitron.com · 7d ago

Here's this week's Better Offline - I'm joined by Nik Suresh to talk about how AI mania is eviscerating global decision-making, creating a culture of fear that demands workers lie about the benefits of AI to coddle Business Idiots. youtu.be/OrKSaVDu8nM?... linktr.ee/betteroffline

I went to the encampments at UBC to deliver supplies and interview the students and they were incredible brave and articulate on the subject. Willing to risk everything to do whatever they could to try and stop the genocide. Disgraceful they would be treated like criminals

The Breach@breachmedia.ca · 6d ago

A new investigation by @drugdatadecoded.ca and David Slater reveals how universities in Canada coordinated to spy on and violently remove their students’ anti-genocide encampments. Then, they denied the existence of records, delayed their release, and deleted chats. breachmedia.ca/canadian-uni...

The dice-roll plagiarism apps known as "AI" are designed to be addictive so you'll keep using them in spite of their constant errors & cost. Protect your mind and don't use these apps.

Inevitably, people clap back with something about no ethical consumption. Look. I have to maintain self-respect for myself. In many ways, my life depends on it. I would lose it knowing I directly enabled my wannabe killers. We live in a capitalist hellscape. But I don't eat that sandwich.

Alice Averlong 🏳️‍⚧️@alice.averlong.com · 6d ago

there's plenty of restaurants in this town, but the owner of the sandwich shop downtown hates me, says he's gonna kill me, and has a sign up on the wall saying that 5 cents out of every sandwich order will go towards buying bullets to shoot me with.

you're worried about your streak ending i'm worried because thanks to the nytimes normalizing anti-trans rhetoric, i won't be able to renew my passport, be careful which states i even consider traveling to, watch as more and more "allies" who "don't hate" regurgitate bigotry and right-wing framing

may@maysuser.name · 6d ago

the real victims of the new york times' targeted campaign against trans people are cis people who like to play wordle

the real victims of the new york times' targeted campaign against trans people are cis people who like to play wordle

The worst people on the internet are constantly watching our Trans siblings on this app. It’s so fucking gross that the slightest thing can end up on Anti-Trans News Daily™

bluesky user with less than 2k followers is cited as a furious transgender mob and Ken Jennings is an innocent little baby boy, here’s how our article is not attacking a minority group

This is *EXACTLY* why what Ken said was dangerous. If he was some smol beans account it would still have been fucking disgusting but faded into obscurity But Ken’s a celebrity. And he provided ammunition for monsters and essentially doxxed a trans woman making her a subject of international news

Officials at Canada's agriculture department are asking scientists who were abruptly fired earlier this year to help the agency decide its future research goals, Canada's National Observer has found.

Feds ask fired scientists to advise on Canada's future research

Officials at Canada's agriculture department are asking scientists who were abruptly fired earlier this year to help the agency decide its future research goals, Canada's National Observer has found.

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Both my husband and I have been looking for a job for many months. Meanwhile, there are asshats at the State Department who can’t be bothered to know, nay learn!, where Nigeria is.

it’s never a great sign for your society when all the competent people who believe in doing a good job for the sake of it conclude that they’re actively being punished for these qualities, while malignantly stupid criminals are making bank

I managed a datacentre. We employed eight people. Nine if you count the occasional fire or electrical inspector. A hospital or school has a bigger net impact on a community, and it’s not close.

It's clear that many cis people aren't aware how truly fucking awful the New York Times has been towards trans people and that it is not just a bit transphobic like so many others but a leading voice that has been cited in legal cases taking away the rights of trans people.

"A concentration camp, in its most basic definition, is a place where a targeted civilian population, not necessarily accused of a crime, is detained and at least some of their basic rights are suspended," writes @jwashing.bsky.social. "That’s precisely what’s happening in the United States today."

Don’t call them ICE detention centers. Call them camps | John Washington

I’ve spent a decade reporting on immigration enforcement. The word ‘camp’ best captures the political function of these facilities

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Weather forecasting is a good example of why @ntusikov.bsky.social argues that the US evisceration of its regulatory and scientific agencies means Canada needs more, not less, government to pick up the slack. www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

Whither the weather balloons? U.S. changes leave Canada with less notice of storms, experts say

American stations have strayed from regular launch times observed around the globe as part of co-ordinated scientific effort

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Billionaire has the ear of the prime minister. Some of the discussion points censored. #cdnfoi #cdnpoli

Days after Shopify CEO Tobi Lutke publicly supported the idea that pensioners and the poor should lose their right to vote — and the wealthy should have extra votes — Elon Musk called him a "national treasure." But that's not all. Lutke also has the ear of Canada's prime minister. Here's proof:

LIVE NOW! Watch our Green New Deal organizing call, featuring Avi Lewis, Janelle Lapointe, JP Hornick, and Naomi Klein www.youtube.com/watch?v=DPi2...

Emergency Green New Deal Livestream // Webinaire d'URGENCE sur le Nouveau pacte vert

YouTube video by Canada's New Democrats / Le NPD du Canada

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Canadians need to come to terms with our position on the baddies list. Do that, and we can act to get it the hell off there.

The Breach@breachmedia.ca · 6d ago

A new investigation by @drugdatadecoded.ca and David Slater reveals how universities in Canada coordinated to spy on and violently remove their students’ anti-genocide encampments. Then, they denied the existence of records, delayed their release, and deleted chats. breachmedia.ca/canadian-uni...

A new investigation by @drugdatadecoded.ca and David Slater reveals how universities in Canada coordinated to spy on and violently remove their students’ anti-genocide encampments. Then, they denied the existence of records, delayed their release, and deleted chats. breachmedia.ca/canadian-uni...

Canadian universities set up a secret network to crack down on student Palestine demonstrators ⋆ The Breach

Universities in Canada coordinated to spy on and violently clear student encampments. Then, they deleted the evidence

breachmedia.ca

I'll never not be disgusted by how easily (and quickly!) Canadians were suckered into extreme anti-immigration myths. I could post all day the stats that Canada lost record numbers of people over 2020-2025, or patiently explain the actual factors to the housing crisis building since the 1980s...

Rhetoric like "taken back control" of immigration repeats and legitimizes anti-immigration rhetoric. It could be viewed as an actual dog-whistle to racists.

Carney: "The flow of asylum seekers entering Canada is down a third, while the level of temporary foreign workers is down by a half and foreign students down by two thirds." Carney fans: "Being anti-immigration just like the Conservatives is good now, actually." www.ctvnews.ca/politics/art...

PM Carney says government has ‘taken back control’ of immigration

Prime Minister Mark Carney says his government has 'taken back control' of immigration.

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A few reminders of what else is happening. Again, all of this gets rationalized. 🧵 www.thestar.com/politics/pol...

Althia Raj: The Carney government cut health-care funding for refugees. Here’s what that looks like to Olivia

Until last month, the Canadian government covered the health-care costs of asylum-seekers. When it imposed fees, it left one Toronto mother with tough choices about how to provide for her

thestar.com

The divide between public opinion and autocratic leaders couldn't be wider here.

The Narwhal@thenarwhal.ca · 6d ago

SCOOP: The Doug Ford government received 98.98% opposition to its plan to replace Ontario’s Endangered Species Act with weaker legislation, according to an internal analysis viewed by @fatimabsyed.bsky.social. The bill passed anyway. thenarwhal.ca/ontario-enda...

Insane satellite imagery. This is the change from May to July. Europe has cooked. (🎥 Colin McCarthy)

Well. That didn't take long. Critics of age verifications laws have been saying this whole time that they open the door to labeling all queer media as pornography and are a Trojan horse for persecution. This is exactly why I and so many other queer people raise our hackles at similar laws.

Mike Stabile@mikestabile.bsky.social · last wk.

The Missouri Attorney General is threatening librarians with arrest over an LGBTQ+ story hour for kids, suggesting that a picture book about gay dinosaur dads is "pornography." The Secretary of State says he'll pull funding if the event happens, citing the state's new age verification law.

Hundreds of sports leagues and hospitals and universities have banned trans people and the national response is... "oh well". The Trump regime is openly saying they're going to eliminate us and the country just... collectively shrugs.

Parents of trans youth in Alberta, alongside advocacy groups, are calling for a federal government inquiry into the province's harmful trampling on the rights of trans youth. Because Carney has been all smiles alongside Alberta Premier Danielle Smith lately -- and silent on her deadly policies: