USA: who are the other two-thirds for Canada: we got a, uh. mosquito problem

FinTwitter@fintwitter.bsky.social · 2d ago

CANADA HAS STRUCK A C$350 MLN DEAL WITH UKRAINE TO PROVIDE IT WITH AIR DEFENSE INTERCEPTORS, PRIME MINISTER CARNEY SAYS, ADDING THAT CANADA AIMS TO BE ABLE TO PRODUCE MILLIONS OF DRONES WITHIN THE NEXT TWO YEARS AND WILL SEND A THIRD OF THOSE TO UKRAINE

Canadian EV charge station culture is even friendlier, I highly recommend road tripping up here 🇨🇦

Chris Hayes@chrislhayes.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Best part of my first road trip in an all electric car is the enthusiastic EV small talk with other EV Dads at the charging stations

Today GLAAD released “Build for Everyone,” our first comprehensive report on LGBTQ Responsible AI. It’s a roadmap for building AI that actually works for LGBTQ people — and everyone: glaad.org/2026-ai-repo...

2026 AI Report – Build for Everyone: A Framework for LGBTQ Representation and Safety in AI | GLAAD

In this inaugural report, GLAAD presents the tangible and unique ways that AI both impacts and shapes perceptions about our community.

glaad.org

I have been pretty offline due to ongoing postpartum health Stuff but just popping up to say how grateful I am to live in a time when croup is a minor scary instead of a terrifying and frequently deadly thing. Vaccines and dexamethasone are miracles.

Using this opportunity to talk about my really cool clock again

Doug Mack@douglasmack.bsky.social · 6mo ago

introducing a bill requiring all students to learn how to make the cool S

@indirect.io pleased to have introduced the cube rule to another person today 🙏

cannot possibly convey how actually crazy-making it can feel, after spending 20 years monitoring all these orgs blaming sex workers and the internet for enabling a vast sex trafficking network, to now see Jeffery Epstein’s inbox

This is an absolutely fascinating article, coauthored by @hypatia.bsky.social, about how predatory behavior and fraud / financial impropriety often go hand in hand. It’s long, but well worth a read. hypatia.ca/2016/06/21/n...

No more rock stars: how to stop abuse in tech communities

Content note for discussion of abuse and sexual violence. In the last couple of weeks, three respected members of the computer security and privacy tech communities have come forward under their ow…

hypatia.ca

I don’t regret to inform you that in between discussing AI sales forecasting models, the sales guys at my hotel bar are talking about how brave the people in Minneapolis are.

@mmasnick.bsky.social has it 100% correct

andy jabbour@andyjabbour.bsky.social · 8mo ago

It's important to stay grounded in reality. 'Not a single one of them is telling the truth. They are flat out lying.' - @mmasnick.bsky.social attempts to help us stay grounded as ICE continues its Administration-supported & protected assault on the American people. www.techdirt.com/2026/01/08/a...

Finally some good news.

Ken Burns Announces New 10-Part ‘Mr. Biscuits’ Documentary After Adopting Cat

WALPOLE, NH—Revealing that the series would force Americans to rethink everything they thought they knew about the “cute little fuzzball,” filmmaker Ken Burns announced Friday the release of Mr. Biscu...

theonion.com

I wanted to just share one story about a kid who spent a lot of time in the neighborhood where Renee Nicole Good died today. Prince got married at Park United Methodist just down the street from 34th & Plymouth; he went to high school at Central High a few blocks in the other direction over on 35th.

here’s me in @newrepublic.com back in ‘20 on coptalk, “resisting arrest,” the standard of “reasonable fear,” police impunity, painfully blatant lies, and more of what we’re seeing, again, right now newrepublic.com/article/1568...

Policing and the English Language

The poisonous contradictions of coptalk

newrepublic.com

The reason they're coming after this place is because they can't control the people on it and it drives them nuts.

My mum is knocking it out of the park as a grandmother in many ways, but one of them is that she has wildcrafted two nice strollers from the curb just in her regular travels, not even looking for them on garbage day or w/e

I said for years that the only way to permanently reduce migration to the United States was to destroy the vision that the world had of this country as the land of opportunity. That wasn't a goddam suggestion!

Eric Geller@ericjgeller.com · 12mo ago

"'My main takeaway is that America is not a safe place to work,' Mr. Park said. 'I don’t think I would go there again to work.'" www.nytimes.com/2025/09/24/w...

i've been studying the right-wing for over a decade what is happening now in online right-wing spaces is fucking me up in ways that i'm currently unprepared for and don't know how to cope with

404 Media@404media.co · 12mo ago

YouTube removed a channel that was dedicated to posting AI-generated videos of women being shot in the head following 404 Media’s request for comment. The videos were clearly generated with Google’s new AI video generator tool. 🔗 www.404media.co/ai-generated...

If our little guy ends up somewhere on the spectrum, I’m sure it will be all the Tylenol I took during my pregnancy, and not the fact that both of his parents have ham radio licenses 🤪

once again, if tylenol caused autism, america would have a better rail system

I took Tylenol as needed throughout my pregnancy. I am a doctor. I order Tylenol for pregnant women regularly. Tylenol is safe in pregnancy. RFK Jr is ignoring a huge recent well-done study because he doesn't like the answer it gives. There is no causality between Tylenol and autism.

Caroline Dodds Pennock@carolinepennock.bsky.social · 12mo ago

You have no idea how much I despite these anti-science dipshits for making pregnant women terrified of taking (safe, mild, proven) pain relief.

One reason I do not think Trump is going to create a 1,000 year reich is because he failed to cancel a middling funnyman and immediately pivoted to trying to outlaw not having a headache.

This isn't about antifa, this is about the NGO's. The goal here is to eliminate philanthropic support to major liberal groups through intimidation. They're going to starve liberal groups of funding while hitting them with millions in legal fees from investigations. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

Trump to sign order designating antifa a terrorist organization

U.S. President Donald Trump will sign an executive order as soon as Monday designating the antifa movement a "terrorist organization," the White House said, after promising actions targeting left-wing groups following Charlie Kirk's assassination.

reuters.com

Remember when I said Trump’s H-1B policy sounded like a distillation of viral tweets?

The defining lesson of this first year of Trump authoritarianism is that kowtowing & capitulating yields zero permanent benefit and only emboldens the admin to come after you more. This critical lesson was first documented in the landmark political science treatise “If You Give a Mouse a Cookie.”

Daniel Laurison@daniellaurison.bsky.social · 12mo ago

Pretty clear illustration of "you may as well stand up for what you believe in, they're coming for you anyway."

Having been in the US on one of these visas… lol, lmao

The Wall Street Journal@wsj.com · 12mo ago

President Trump plans to add a $100,000 fee to H-1B visa applications in the administration’s latest crackdown on a system it says is used by tech companies to avoid hiring American workers.

The thing Eisner identifies that so many have missed abt the dangerous & escalating 1A restrictions is that the overwhelming majority of us do not have the resources to challenge the state in this way. If our key institutions cave in this moment, that opens the floodgates.

Yashar Ali 🐘@yasharali.bsky.social · 12mo ago

Michael Eisner, who served as CEO of Disney for 21 years and acquired ABC while he was in charge, slams his successor Bob Iger for bending the knee.