oh my god no it does not. Canada has maha type cranks. The UK does. Japan does, Germany does, Sweden does, India does, France does IT'S NOT ABOUT THE MATERIAL CONDITIONS OF THE SYSTEM, WHICH YES ARE BROKEN MAHA IS A EUGENICS MOVEMENT NOTHING TO DO WITH THE HEALTHCARE SYSTEM

hey here's the long blog post i wrote. it is a different way of talking about the US and what it exists to do. i am proud of it so gonna be unconventionally insistent on promoting it! www.winstonhearn.com/wrote/2026/s...

Systems Story for the United States

A post trying to make sense of why the US refuses to respond to the climate crisis—which I believe is an existential threat for large portions of humanity, that also provides an explanation for the AI...

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I spent very little time online this long weekend and felt great even though I had a couple of big anxiety spirals I wonder what the lesson is

Today, August 4, 2026, is the setting of Ray Bradbury’s short story “There Will Come Soft Rains” about a fully automated house continuing on after the family who lived there and the world around it died in a nuclear blast.

"don't make enough money" is a fig leaf All those degree programs--social work, art, etc.--have disproportionately female student bodies. This is designed to make it harder for women to attend college--college education being a key factor in women's autonomy from men & left-leaning voting pattern.

The New Republic@newrepublic.com · 2d ago

President Trump is banning students majoring in degrees that don’t make enough money from taking out college loans. Degrees for social work, art, religious studies, teaching aides, and music will be hit the hardest. trib.al/aaAEu6v

I don't even know what to say. This is real, this is true, so, like, thank you all, from the bottom of my heart. This took over 25 years to happen so if there's any lesson here it's either "keep at it, who knows" or "many people are divorced"

if there is a maximum amount of peaches you’re supposed to eat in one sitting it is simply none of my business

this owns www.inverse.com/input/cultur...

The adorable love story behind Wikipedia’s 'high five' photos

Nearly 14 years later, the tale of this iconic couple can finally be told.

inverse.com

lifehack: log off this cursed site and buy yourself some flowers at the farmer’s market

just said this on another post but it bears repeating: the thing about continuing to give money to any jk rowling properties or the nyt is not that they’re shitty about trans people, which they are. it is that both of these entities MATERIALLY CONTRIBUTE to the legal challenges to trans rights

alright fine this is objectively a very funny email subject for something scheduled for 6:30pm on the last day of the month

Over and over the cycle repeats: Bad tech do bad thing Politicians: make bad tech not to bad thing? Companies: no bad thing make money Politicians: ah okay keep doing bad thing just add more spy

Electronic Frontier Foundation@eff.org · 5d ago

The new CHATBOT Act doesn’t just require parental permission for teens to use AI. It requires AI companies to build monitoring systems that store and analyze entire conversations, creating new privacy risks for entire families. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful

between this and @propublicaguild.org getting their first contract today I invite all of you to join me in blasting the newsies soundtrack (which you should do every friday afternoon anyway) www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntre...

NEWSIES Broadway - 2012 Tony Awards

YouTube video by El Camerino De Frank Alonso

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404 Media@404media.co · 5d ago

UPDATE: After the publication of this piece, Google sent 404 Media a statement saying it was “rolling back this feature in Google Earth while we work on implementing stronger guardrails.” www.404media.co/google-earth...

@phirephoenix.com is doing such good work with Show Up Toronto, y’all.

jenny (phire)@phirephoenix.com · 6d ago

This week's Show Up Toronto is a little late, due to life, but we've got a fun little write-up of the Billy Bishop saga and a ton of organizing and mobilizing events around the city as per usual! Thanks to @ruhee.ca for the photo buttondown.com/showup/archi...

It's pretty impressive that 404's story put a stop to this pipeline to the wood chipper. As a former e-book production person, I just want to add some considerations about the *data* the AI companies were getting, and implications for the output.

Joseph Cox@josephcox.bsky.social · 5d ago

IMPACT: that company that was offering to buy books for AI companies’ training data — and probably destroy them in the process — says it will no longer offer this service following 404 Media’s exposure of it www.404media.co/ai-company-t...

Canadian Blood Services has reported a 20% drop in blood supply since June and needs donors to help replenish it. Please go to www.blood.ca to book an appointment and get your friends to do the same. Already did three weeks ago before going on vacation. #TOpoli #ONpoli #cdnpoli

Reminder that we published an extensive interview with a former editor at The New York Times who laid out, in detail, how the paper's pushing of anti-trans bigotry was both very intentional and directed from the very top of the organization. The NYT plays a direct and major role in trans genocide:

'A directive from above': Former NYT editor lays out how the paper pushes anti-trans bigotry

In this in-depth interview, former New York Times editor Billie Jean Sweeney details how the paper shifted towards openly promoting anti-trans hatred, how some staff tried to stop it, how it's directe...

transnews.network

Scab being beaten by a miner’s wife, 1984

french patrol to jean valjean french patrol to jean valjean take your loaf of bread and put your shackles on (two) french patrol to jean valjean (four, six, zero, one) his sentence ends, parole’s begun (two, four, six, zero) said the bishop “and may god’s love be with you” (one, run off)

This week's Show Up Toronto is a little late, due to life, but we've got a fun little write-up of the Billy Bishop saga and a ton of organizing and mobilizing events around the city as per usual! Thanks to @ruhee.ca for the photo buttondown.com/showup/archi...

East York house show!!!!! Come hang out at the Flat Top on August 30 for this sick lineup (ask a punk)

this is pandering and I am being pandered to (complimentary)

Matt Elliott@graphicmatt.com · 6d ago

Councillor Gord Perks ends by saying he has "just one quick little three-word piece of advice" for colleagues: "Capitalism is trash." He gets a standing ovation.

I know bosses are bosses everywhere but there's something particularly silly about wikipedia specifically being like "nah" when offered the opportunity to take the side of collective action cwa-union.org/news/release...

Wiki Workers United US/CWA Will File for NLRB Election After Wikimedia Foundation Declines Voluntary Recognition

Wiki Workers United U.S. (WWU-US-CWA) has released a statement after announcing today that it will file for a union election with the NLRB after the Wikimedia Foundation declined the union's request f...

cwa-union.org

Medusa but her hair is an anaconda

Union staff at ACLU of Virginia were excluded from the 4% salary increase provided to non-union staff. Send an email telling ACLU-VA leadership to uphold its values and provide the same salary increase to all staff: actionnetwork.org/letters/cola...

COLA Campaign

ACLU of Virginia staff carry out the organization’s mission every day and deserve to be treated fairly. Union staff were excluded from the 4% salary increase provided to non-union staff, even as livin...

actionnetwork.org

filtermag.org/community-bu...

The Communities We've Built in Prison - Filter

The informal, prisoner-led writing club at South Central Correctional Facility in Tennessee has a dozen or so members. Earlier in ...

filtermag.org

If you do not fight at the barricade of trans healthcare you will fight at the barricade of the most stigmatized medication you are on and you will do it with fewer experienced allies because you left trans people to die.

Gillian Branstetter@gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 5mo ago

They won't start with banning birth control. First they'll lie about it. Then dictate who can prescribe it, use it, fund it, in what forms, and for how long. Suddenly, your doctor won't call you back. I know this is what they'll do because it's what they're doing to transgender healthcare right now.

Reo does incredible work here if you’re in the Bay and you’re not checking this out you’re missing out!!!

Reo Eveleth@reveleth.com · 7d ago

If you know someone who lives in the Bay Area can you do me a favor? Send them this calendar? I work really hard on it every week and think it's a genuinely useful thing, but I feel like it's so hard to get the word out!!! www.coyotemedia.org/coyote-calen...

hey #TOPoli pals, I found out a local vintage store I like is blaming a massive revenue drop and the subsequent closure of their bathurst location to the bus lanes getting rid of parking spots. before I write them off forever, has there been any actual study of the local retail impact?