Tech billionaires didn’t misread science fiction. They performed an edit: keeping the frontier, the visionary, the chrome; cutting the public institution, the collective, and the warning. Every. Single. Time. My new piece is now up in Aeon.

Aeon Magazine@aeon.co · 3w ago

Tech billionaires like to claim their work is inspired by science fiction, but in truth, they are using its ‘chrome-plated aesthetic’ as a fig leaf to further what the social theorist Ali Rıza Taşkale labels ‘reactionary futurism’

Canada should show the same guts as Spain, Brazil & Mexico in standing up to Trump as he tightens the noose around Cuba, starving the Cuban people. Good piece by @justinling.ca www.thestar.com/opinion/star...

Justin Ling: Trump’s White House is spinning a wild conspiracy tale about this country. Canada needs to step in to defend it

While Trump and Marco Rubio spin theories about Cuba, Canada needs to do what it can to protect Cuba’s residents

thestar.com

This graph (a visualization of petty revenge and political immaturity) is stunning.

Murshed Zaheed@murshedz.bsky.social · 7d ago

“Trump has rejected disaster aid for Democratic-run states at the highest rate in the 47-year history of the Federal Emergency Management Agency.” Right now people in blue states are basically paying federal taxes as if they’re colonized territories of red states. www.politico.com/news/2026/03...

This is white male privilege speaking. I do encourage those with privilege to take this tack, but women experience men reflexively disagreeing with them when they open their mouths. Sometimes refusing to engage with a bad faith actor is the way to deprive them of legitimacy

AI + ignorance = more AI and more ignorance

Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · 6d ago

A U.S. government map of Africa mislabeled every country during a state department presentation at a ⁠global conference www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

The Liberals have lied about transforming Canada to a post carbon economy for a decade+. No one should believe a single oil-soaked word they deploy to maintain power.

Andrew Lewis FC@andrewlewisfc.bsky.social · 6d ago

It's true! The Conservative Party of Carney loves pipelines, loves the tar sands, wants to expand production, and is fine with increasing Canada's carbon emissions dramatically while the smoke from our burning forests choke us. Appeasing extreme right separatists is a minor side-benefit! #cdnpoli

Great to see more and more media on perimenopause, thanks for sharing!

DrDinD.bsky.social@drdind.bsky.social · 6d ago

🧵 Balance is an extraordinary documentary series - two Jain monks in their late 30s, experiencing the impact of perimenopause ("sleeplessness, fatigue, anxiety, and mood swings") undergo a journey to understand why and "...find that a controversial study by the Women’s Health Initiative in 2002....

"There has never been a better time in human history to be stupid," @garethwatkins.bsky.social writes. "Today even the stock market is for dumb guys. There’s quantum physics for idiots." www.welcometohellworld.com/there-has-ne...

There has never been a better time in human history to be stupid

Alright that's enough Odyssey. Let's skip ahead to the next fucking thing. Unless you didn't read this piece yet then fine go do that but afterwards we're done. Today Gareth Watkins returns to write ...

welcometohellworld.com

Canada already sees a higher portion of private health care spending than a lot of countries, and it needs to change. New report by @alonghurst.bsky.social , senior researcher with @policyalternatives.ca. www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...

Public versus private health care spending in Canada | CCPA

Canada already sees a higher portion of private health care spending than a lot of countries, and it needs to change

policyalternatives.ca

You don’t want hands free driving, you want trains. You want trains you want trains you want TRAINS

"They lied to you. The genocide is not over. The children at our Refaat Alareer Camp made kites in our Al-Hassan School summer session, dreaming of a day they can fly them beneath open skies - no drones, no fighter jets, no bombs" #TheSameerProject #Gaza #They_Lied_To_You

Everything that the European Union opposes when done by Russia in Ukraine it supports when done by Israel in Lebanon, Palestine and Syria, by Morocco in Western Sahara, and by the United States in countries like Venezuela. EU has no principles, no values. Only hypocrisy, racism and cowardice.

Western Sahara Flag and Map

ALT: Western Sahara Flag and Map

static.klipy.com

I think in Vampire culture this might mean eternity?

@intolerantcentrist.bsky.social · 2w ago

Mitch McConnell is on Eternity Leave. Republicans are taking him to full term.

Voting for liberals begets liberal policies: more oil, more weapons, more hot air discourse about democracy and freedom. Carney is a banker and always will be.

Very cool Carney is going to drive the Southern Resident population of this species to extinction so we can appease Alberta separatists with an oil pipeline that will never be profitable (unless the world decides to embrace a climate catastrophe)

Massimo (mirror)@rainmaker1973-m.bsky.social · 2w ago

Orcas have been heard mimicking human speech. A study found that when prompted, the marine mammal could replicate the sounds. Original post

"The young have given us a gift. It is up to us all, every one of us to make what they have done matter." - Arundhati Roy Long live the Cockroach movement! m.thewire.in/article/righ...

Cockroach Democracy: Unarmed and Dangerous - The Wire

Can all the people be fooled all the time? Can a country with a population of a billion-and-a-half be dragged around like a corpse forever? It cannot. The Cockroaches are out and about.

m.thewire.in

Australia is planning some of the world’s toughest AI regulations. There will be restrictions on water and energy use. And AI companies won't be able to train on Australian creators' work without their permission.

@pembina.org

Damien Marie AtHope Ⓐ 🚩🏴🌍@damienmarieathope.bsky.social · 2w ago

Democracy Now examines Trump's designation of left-wing groups as terrorist organisations. Watch it alongside what is happening here. 🧵 www.youtube.com/watch?v=4s-8...

"Disrupt, Identify, Defund, Debank, Arrest & Prosecute": Trump Admin Threatens Leftist Groups

YouTube video by Democracy Now!

youtube.com

An organizer from one of the largest food distros during OMS was recently stopped and arrested for an alleged busted tail light and is facing deportation. I’m so sad and furious. The organizer of this fundraiser is a friend of mine. Help if you can, babes. gofund.me/4962797c4

Donate to Standing with Carlos in This Difficult Time, organized by River Hollows

Beloved community, Our dear friend and family member, Carlos,… River Hollows needs your support for Standing with Carlos in This Difficult Time

gofund.me

Family-friendly, vibrant animation explores the nooks and crannies of the Brazilian rainforest through the eyes of a papaya seed From the Fantasia Festival: dmovies.org/2026/02/15/p...

Papaya - DMovies

Family-friendly, vibrant animation explores the nooks and crannies of the Brazilian rainforest through the eyes of a papaya seed - from the Fantasia Festival

dmovies.org

“Paris has embarked on a grand transformation, planting 155k trees, adding hundreds of kms of bike lanes, pedestrianising 300 school streets and banning cars from the banks of the Seine. Parking has been turned into green space…Fewer parents fear their child being run over when they walk to school.”

How Paris swapped cars for bikes – and transformed its streets

Under Anne Hidalgo – mayor for 12 years until last week – the French capital added bike lanes, cut traffic and reclaimed public space, but not without resistance

theguardian.com

Some good news for a change.

Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · 3w ago

Andrew and Tristan Tate have been arrested in Miami, TMZ reports

I was sunning by the pool when the boxes arrived. And here in my hand is my life’s work: “The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and the War On Democracy.” Coming 8/18. Pre-orders make a huge difference! Make a fascist sweat—pre-order today! www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Ne...

HYPERSCALE is hitting bookstores on October 20. Preorder it now! In the book, I dig into how the data center boom is pushing our planet past its breaking point, and the incredible efforts of people pushing back against the profit-driven interests of Big Tech. Get your copy: hyperscalebook.com

World temperature anomalies 19.07.2026 N Argentina / Paraguay area SUPERSTAR West 🇨🇦 NW 🇺🇸 South of Africa N #Africa #Greenland East Kazakhstan + NW China area Deep 🥶🥶 Alaska Scandinavia #Antarctica (-84c yesterday ) #ClimateCrisis

This was always a likely outcome of everything being metrics even before LLM hallucinations.

Miles Klee 🦉@milesklee.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Academics and technologists are sounding the alarm about a growing crisis in scholarship as we know it: AI-generated citations of nonexistent papers that have infested real journals. Despite being fake, the sources are widely assumed to be authentic the more they appear in published literature.

Unacceptable. I’ve. Barely used my account but will be canceling it tomorrow. #LeaveSubstack

Melanie@passifloraresearch.com · 3w ago

And Substack promoted Andrew Tate as recently as this past April! #LeaveSubstack

Kneecap has by far been the best show at #phill_good_festival_2026 in Plovdiv, Bulgaria. Their politics and art are next level. @kneecapceol.bsky.social

An ICE goon pulled a gun on a New York teenager and beats him. However, they realized they had the wrong person and abandoned him injured far from home.