I meant to post this last night but if you’re mad about any of the primary results you got 24 hours to bleed, try not to say anything you’ll regret in 48, and then it’s Blue No Matter Who.
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Let's not lose sight of how abnormal this is. Trump is demanding prosecutions over Reflecting Pool fiasco even though his own DOJ has shown conclusively it isn't supported by facts or law. On the pod, @barbmcquade.bsky.social is brilliant on the bigger stakes here: newrepublic.com/article/2139...
Trump’s Fury at Reflecting Pool Mess Darkens as Damning New Leaks Hit
As Trump’s effort to jail people over his failed renovation starts looking even worse, a former federal prosecutor explains why this corruption of DOJ is so dangerous—and how to fight back.
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That solution is a license to manufacture Patriot missiles in Ukraine, plus a supply package to cover us until production starts up. If that comes with a condition to replace those missiles later, im sure we would gladly do so.
New media release calls on the Chief Medical Examiner of Nova Scotia to investigate and recommend steps to address the growing danger to pedestrians, cyclists, and other vulnerable road users from pick-up trucks and large SUVs. #VisionZero #RoadSafety
Nova Scotia must take action to prevent deaths from pick-ups and large SUVs
Pickups, largely promoted and used for personal travel, along with SUVs and minivans, accounted for almost 88% of new vehicle sales in Canada in 2025.
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Forget "Don't be evil"; Google's true motto is a form of vulgar spidermanism: "With great power comes no responsibility." The internet's *de facto* boss is an absentee landlord. 1/
The media's takeaway from an El-Sayed win is the same as it would have been from a Stevens win, and the same as it will be if El-Sayed wins the general, or if he loses it: everyone, no matter who they are, needs to take several steps to the right.
A startup has created beagles without the gene that causes runny noses and watery eyes for allergy sufferers. www.wired.com/story/gene-e...
Gene-Edited Puppies Will Melt Your Heart—but Won’t Trigger Your Allergies
A startup has created beagles without the gene that causes runny noses and watery eyes for allergy sufferers.
wired.com
Two dead from the US cyclospora outbreak, just in case you had any doubt how dangerous it is. There are now 18,000 confirmed or suspected cases across 45 states. By any standard this would be a scandal but it’s just another metaphor for life under Trump - killer food contaminated with human waste.
Two People Have Died in the Cyclospora Outbreak — TIME
Two people in Michigan have died from cyclosporiasis, state health officials announced on Aug. 3. They are the first reported deaths from a record Cyclospora outbreak that has sickened thousands of pe...
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If you read fiction and you don't like AI you're a hypocrite. If you eat monster munch and don't like asbestos you're a blacksmith. If you play videogames and don't like stubbing your toe you're a submarine captain. We can all just SAY things. It's not hard.
Did it... Did it happen???
CNN@cnn.com · 5h agoFederal aviation officials are investigating an air-traffic safety incident Tuesday involving the military helicopter carrying President Donald Trump and another aircraft, according to Reuters news agency and air-traffic control audio reviewed by CNN. https://cnn.it/4fF8s51
Whether someone realizes it or not, accepting the "liberal bubble" framing at all is a way of granting the utterly absurd notion that the globally reviled and increasingly unpopular views of the reactionary right are the norm
Ian Boudreau@ianboudreau.com · 2d ago"Liberal bubble" has only ever meant anywhere where right wing perspectives aren't artificially elevated and forced into everyone's feeds.
“Ad blockers violate YouTube's Terms of Service” yep! LMAO! it rocks!
Patrick Cosmos@veryimportant.lawyer · 21h ago"it looks like you're using an adblocker to visit our site." yep! ha ha! it rocks!
Daaaamn. “AI is the asbestos we're shovelling into the walls of our technological society. Our descendants will spend generations digging it out again, and the longer the bubble goes on without popping, the longer it will take to repair the damage." www.thenerve.news/p/cory-docto...
Cory Doctorow: The people who tell you ‘AI is changing everything’ are lying
It has become impossible to tell managers mesmerised by artificial intelligence that the tools are not, in fact, helpful. So employees just play along with the fiction to keep their jobs, writes our t...
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CBC Books has put together a list of emerging Canadian writers who are making their mark on the literary scene. www.cbc.ca/books/20-can...
20 Canadian writers to watch in 2026 | CBC Books
Every year, CBC Books makes of list of writers making their mark on the Canadian literary scene. From romance to nonfiction, these authors are telling fresh and interesting stories.
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“Hybridity” is giving off a new kind of Hitler particle never previously observed.
Cuddles_the_destroyer@cuddlessmash.bsky.social · 17h agowhat the fuck am I reading lmao
HWA back on its bullshit, I see I'm not a member (this isn't their first pro-"AI" rodeo). But fucking hell, we need better options Shauna and I run a horror press. We're EXACTLY the people who should be joining an org like the HWA. Where are we supposed to go, when this is what they serve up?
Holly Lyn Walrath@hollylynwalrath.bsky.social · 16h agoThere is a lengthy pro-AI screed in the latest HWA newsletter and it is . . . a mood.
💛🚫🤖 No AI Gods, No AI Masters 🤖🚫💛 I am massively excited to share the backstory ACADEMIC SHENANIGANS behind our Open Letter (& so this paper below too) — and as always big thanks to my co-authors {@irisvanrooij.bsky.social & @marentierra.bsky.social}: www.civicsoftechnology.org/blog/no-ai-g... 1/n
No AI Gods, No AI Masters — Civics of Technology
More on their open letter, Stop the Uncritical Adoption of AI Technologies in Academia , and position piece, Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia , by Guest et al.
civicsoftechnology.org
Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ@olivia.science · 11mo agoFinally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity. 1/n
Seeing news of Google DeepMind killing AplhaFold and people rightly pointing out how it fueled hype of general AI, and cannot help think back of the mansplainers in my mentions about this post 🙄
Iris van Rooij 💭@irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 3w agoProtein folding is intractable in general, so the barrier cannot have been broken algorithmically in general. Where is the scam hidden? Either algorithms consume super-polynomial resources or they are simply not solving the problem reliably. There is no other way, unless P = NP So which is it?
there are certain users on social media that make you wonder if they're ops to make their ideology look worse than it actually is
you can just tell she had this one chambered all night
Alex Ip 葉清霖@alexip718.com · 10h agoBody isn't even cold yet
Please enjoy my cartoon for Wednesday's Toronto Star
El-Sayed: We live in an era where we continue to see a few very small people try to define America as being as small as they are. We can't control the past 250 years. What we can do is build the next 250
I am quite heartened to be heading into a general election with a guy who has demonstrated he can overcome an absolutely massive cash disadvantage and still pull off the win.
#StupidSuez@diplomatofnight.com · 10h agoUnfathomable
Hopefully this means Dems are feeling pressure to quickly consolidate & let bygones be bygones
Alex Ip 葉清霖@alexip718.com · 10h agoBody isn't even cold yet
