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Michael Froomkin @mfroomkin.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Light in a dark time.

Scott L Greer@scottlgreer.bsky.social · 11mo ago

“52% of all autocratization episodes become U-Turns, which increases to 73% when focusing on the last 30 years. The vast majority of U-Turns (90%) lead to restored or even improved levels of democracy” V-Dem data

Djoubz 🇨🇦@djoulec.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Post a random picture or else everything will go bad in September.

Meredith Rose@mrose.ink · 11mo ago

Post a random picture or else everything will go bad in September.

Olivier Niquet @olivierniquet.com · last yr.

Au moins on rigole. « Deux minutes et 18 secondes : voilà l’économie de temps que feraient en moyenne les milliers d’automobilistes de la grande région de Québec avec le corridor retenu par le gouvernement Legault pour le troisième lien, selon une étude. » ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/217...

Une 3e lien pour économiser 2 minutes et 18 secondes

Deux minutes et 18 secondes : voilà l’économie de temps que feraient en moyenne les milliers d’automobilistes avec le corridor retenu.

ici.radio-canada.ca

Laura Lopez @ohdearz.bsky.social · last yr.

Here's NASA astrophysics, if I read the president's proposed budget correctly. 🔭

James Tuttle Keane@jtuttlekeane.bsky.social · last yr.

The NASA planetary science fleet chart if the president’s budget is enacted.

The NASA planetary science fleet chart. It shows two spirals with missions to Moon/Mars and the Solar System. I’ve crossed off all of the missions that will be cancelled in the president’s budget… and there are a lot of them.

News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · last yr.

NEW: This opinion piece in today’s Washington Post is one of the most important it has ever published. Shadi Hamid on the urgency of calling the Gaza crimes what they so patently are: a genocide. I don’t like violating paywalls, but make no apology for doing so for this. It’s essential.

The opening of the story.

It reads:

Throughout history, atrocities have usually been committed under cover of darkness. The perpetrators know that what they are doing is wrong. They hide it. They deny it. They speak in euphemisms. But what happens when they no longer feel the need to hide? What happens when they say the quiet part out loud?
This is what is happening in Gaza today. The mask has come off.
Ethnic cleansing has become the official policy of Israel. The nation's leaders are admitting it, without apology. There was barely a pretense before. But now there's not even that. And these admissions, combined with mass killing on the ground, point to something even more horrific: genocide.

The end of the article which reads:

Words matter because they determine action.
When we avoid naming a genocide for what it is, we become complicit in allowing it to continue. Terms like "humanitarian crisis" or even "war crimes" can function as euphemisms that fall short of triggering the moral and legal imperatives that genocide demands. The power of naming isn't some academic exercise; it's practical. It determines whether the international community mobilizes to stop atrocities or simply manages their aftermath.
There was a time when I would have cautioned against using a word like "genocide" too freely, worried about diluting its meaning. But we are well past that now. Shielding people from uncomfortable truths is self-defeating. Words have meaning, and they should be used when they describe reality. Otherwise, we're in denial, and atrocities at this scale shouldn't be denied.
Israel's brutalization of the Palestinian population in Gaza has gone on too long. These are unspeakable - and, more important, indefensible - crimes. We cannot be complicit in minimizing them or pretending that they are not happening. Because they are. Enough.

Alexandre Shields @alexandreshields.bsky.social · last yr.

Il est beaucoup question d'outils à délaisser pour réduire nos émissions de GES. Les faits: le monde se dirige vers un réchauffement de plus de 3 °C. Cela provoquera une explosion des coûts de l'alimentation, en santé et en adaptation, en plus des vies humaines. www.ledevoir.com/environnemen...

Les bouleversements climatiques menacent de rendre le monde «méconnaissable»

Une nouvelle infographie du GIEC insiste sur l’urgence de changements profonds pour réduire les émissions de GES.

ledevoir.com

Coralie Laperrière 🍉🕊️@anarcoco.bsky.social · last yr.

Le gouvernement de la CAQ impose le vouvoiement dans les écoles. En tout cas pour un gouvernement qui était contre les toilettes mixtes, soudainement c’est VRAIMENT important les pronoms.

Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · last yr.

I've just come back from the Cambridge Disinformation Summit where I gave the opening keynote, titled "Demanufacturing Consent - How Disordered Discourse is Destroying Democracy", featuring everything from Fake Hooves to Jackson Hinkle being the worst. www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-FV...

Belllingcat CEO Eliot Higgins, on how disordered discourse is destroying democracy

YouTube video by Cambridge Disinformation Summit

youtube.com

CineCalendar @cinecalendar.bsky.social · last yr.

Apr 25th - The perfect date, it's not too hot, not too cold. All you need is a light jacket. 📽️📅 Miss Congeniality (2000)

2 Screenshots from the movie "Miss Congeniality" (2000): First, a beauty pageant host in a red blazer holds a microphone and stands beside a contestant wearing a sash labeled "RHODE ISLAND" among other contestants lined up behind her, with the subtitle "Describe your perfect date." Second, a close-up of the same host and the smiling contestant as she responds, with the subtitle "That's a tough one. I'd have to say April 25th. Because it's not too hot and not too cold. All you need is a light jacket."

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · last yr.

Walz: If you say you love freedom but you don't believe freedom is for everybody, then the thing you love is not freedom, it is privilege.

Burrowcrat @burrowcrat.bsky.social · last yr.

How are Americans not protesting daily? Like, the big march a week or two ago was great and all, but it just lasted one day? And Cory Booker did a performative filibuster and…that’s it? That’s the pushback? The whole country is just rolling over and accepting its fate. What a pathetic populace.

Sharon 🪳🌹@sharonk.bsky.social · last yr.

imagine explaining to someone in 2016 that Bill Kristol had united in a AOC/Bernie popular front against fascism

Jonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social · last yr.

Same, little pepper, same

Jess Davis @jessmarindavis.bsky.social · last yr.

If Trump is serious (and who really knows), I think there are a few things to keep an eye out for: 1. Creating economic instability in the country to "soften us up" for annexation: tariffs, attacks on debt issuance, limiting correspondent banking relationships (think FATF action) and access to US$

Alex Panetta@alexpanetta.bsky.social · last yr.

This is new: “A source with direct knowledge of the discussions told NBC News that Trump is heavily focused on Canada in conversations with aides, who believe he is completely serious about making the country the 51st state—even with Trudeau out of power” www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...

Alex Panetta @alexpanetta.bsky.social · last yr.

Poll on Canada joining the U.S. as 51st state: Almost nobody wants this in Canada. Just 10%. Regardless of what the X algorithm would have you think Few Americans want it either. 60% have no interest and 32% say it’s up to Canada. angusreid.org/wp-content/u...

Blayne Haggart @bhaggart.bsky.social · last yr.

This is the correct framing. And it shows how naive Doug Ford is to think he’s involved in a trade negotiation. He thinks Ontario and the US are negotiating as equals. What he’s really negotiating at this point is the terms of our surrender. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

ANALYSIS | The U.S. has covertly destabilized nations. With Canada, it's being done in public | CBC News

Former senior Canadian intelligence officials say Canada needs to be on the lookout for campaigns aimed at destabilizing the country amid U.S. President Donald Trump's escalating 51st state threats. T...

cbc.ca

Canadian Anti-Hate Network @antihate.ca · last yr.

This trade war & 51st state talk isn’t just USA vs. Canada. This is the far-right vs. all of us. Help us give MPs a push & an exit plan by signing the petition telling them to stop using X! Leaving X sends a message, & it helps us build community in better spaces. www.antihate.ca/mps_stop_usi...

Canadian Anti-Hate Network@antihate.ca · last yr.

📣 X isn’t the Twitter it once was. Under Elon Musk, a non-elected member of a foreign government that just put crippling tariffs on Canada, the hate, conspiracy theories, and disinformation have increased. Help us tell Canadian Members of Parliament: Stop Using X! 👇

Scott Lincicome @scottlincicome.bsky.social · last yr.

"Roughly one-third of US auto parts suppliers said they would move production outside of the US if 25% tariffs on Canada & Mexico stay in place for six months.... Nearly a quarter...said they would cut or delay investments if tariffs lasted just a month" buff.ly/KX7Od5W

Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · last yr.

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Aki H Heikkinen @akihheikkinen.bsky.social · last yr.

Backstop to prevent invasion of Canada, Panama and Greenland submitted to the US congress by rep Magaziner with 8 co-sponsors, all Democrats www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c...

Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · last yr.

Got mad, did another thing www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Trump's Threat To Take Over Canada Is a Scandal

Trump keeps threatening to annex Canada. Americans would never accept such talk from another country.

rollingstone.com

Les Perreaux @perreaux.bsky.social · last yr.

We’re going to end up with nukes and a republic and down a national hockey hero out of this mess.

James Felix Black @tft.io · last yr.

Absolute 100% required reading in re Big Balls and the Federal payments systems and [waves hands around] all this paulkrugman.substack.com/p/musk-in-yo...

Musk In Your Computers: An Interview With Nathan Tankus

On risks to democracy nobody even thought about

paulkrugman.substack.com

Nina Jankowicz @ninajankowicz.com · last yr.

A pro-Russia content aggregation network is churning out at least 3 MILLION pieces of propaganda per year, all on sites that are virtually unusable by humans. So what's the goal? We explore the idea that it might be to flood LLMs with pro-Russia content: static1.squarespace.com/static/6612c... 1/

Executive Summary
A pro-Russia content aggregation network, Pravda, appears to be set up to flood large-language models with pro-Kremlin content, The American Sunlight Project has found.

Over the past several months, ASP researchers have investigated 108 new domains and subdomains belonging to the Pravda network, a previously-established ecosystem of largely identical, automated web pages that previously targeted many countries in Europe as well as Africa and Asia with pro-Russia narratives about the war in Ukraine. ASP’s research, in combination with that of other organizations, brings the total number of associated domains and subdomains to 182. The network’s older targets largely consisted of states belonging to or aligned with the West.

Notably, this latest expansion includes many countries in Africa, the Asia-Pacific, the Middle East, and North America. It also includes entities other than countries as targets, specifically non-sovereign nations, international organizations, audiences for specific languages, and prominent heads of state. The top objective of the network appears to be duplicating as much pro-Russia content as widely as possible. With one click, a single article could be autotranslated and autoshared with dozens of other sites that appear to target hundreds of millions of people worldwide.

ASP researchers also believe the network may have been custom-built to flood large language models (LLMs) with pro-Russia content. The network is unfriendly to human users; sites within the network boast no search function, poor formatting, and unreliable scrolling, among other usability issues. This final finding poses foundational implications for the intersection of disinformation and artificial intelligence (AI), which threaten to turbocharge highly automated, global information operations in the future.

Pivot @pivot.quebec · last yr.

ENQUÊTE | Une analyse de Pivot met en lumière les nombreux biais systémiques dans la couverture médiatique de la guerre d’Israël à Gaza. #polmtl #polqc #medias #genocide #palestine #israel La première partie de notre enquête, par Sam Harper, à lire sur Pivot 👇 pivot.quebec/2025/02...

Comment les grands médias québécois ont favorisé Israël – Pivot

Une analyse de Pivot met en lumière les nombreux biais systémiques dans la couverture médiatique de la guerre d’Israël à Gaza.

pivot.quebec

Thomas Juneau @thomasjuneau.bsky.social · last yr.

I was on @johnivison.bsky.social's podcast : -I take Trump's 51st state threat seriously but not literally -Canada should diversify but geography means we have no choice but to manage US relations; we should offer a grand bargain on trade/defence/security nationalpost.com/opinion/ivis...

Ivison: Canada must offer Trump a grand bargain on defence and trade

"There will not be a return to the status quo," Prof. Thomas Juneau tells John Ivison

nationalpost.com

BWJones @bwjones.bsky.social · last yr.

I was at a punk show in 83 where a skinhead jumped up on stage and gave a Nazi salute. The bass player hit him with his bass, knocking him into the crowd and 150 people collectively hauled his ass out of the venue and threw him in the mud. This was the right and only appropriate response.

Merien ten Houten@merien.com · last yr.

If you are at an event where someone on stage gives a Hitler salute and that person is not dragged off by security and kicked out, you are at a Nazi rally.

Jason P. Steed @profsteed.bsky.social · last yr.

The notion that Trump's "I'm king" tweet is "just trolling" or "a joke" presents an opportunity to recreate my just-joking thread (porting it over from the Bad Place): 1. I wrote my PhD dissertation on the social function of humor (in literature & film) and here's the thing about "just joking."

Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · last yr.

🧵"So this is how liberty dies..." Trump’s first 3 weeks have been a relentless flood of actions. It's incredibly hard to keep up. I’ve gone through 69 actions & mapped out the pattern - showing how they fall within 5 broad domains consistent with authoritarian states 1/9