Make no mistake, trampling treaty rights at the federal & provincial level, normalizing & platforming residential schools denialism (alongside genocide denial) & sanitizing Canada's history (& present) is exactly why the Second Sons felt comfortable setting foot in Tk'emlúps te Secwepemc.
Maybe y’all should seriously consider the process that brought you into near full-alignment with fascists on the subject of public health.
this is a key point that I don't think most people, including leftists, understand
Hillcrest Card Company 📬 🔥🍉🏳️⚧️🔥@hillcrestcardco.bsky.social · last wk.If you don't dismantle ableism, then the fascists can use the bigotry you want to hold onto to pathologize any person who resists their fascism. Elements of disability identity are socially constructed and anyone can be moved into the category of pathologically atypical.
You really can't truly be anti-racist or support LGBTQ+ rights if you are not also anti-ableist because these types of bigotries are all entertwined and play off one another.
The real reason this exists. Mr. Nobody As A Service for when you do war crimes
Techmeme@techmeme.com · 2w agoUS officials say overreliance on Palantir's Maven AI system was among the factors that contributed to a February missile strike in Iran that killed 123 children (Bloomberg) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
💯Truly wish people would connect the dots a little faster!
Mar Hicks@histoftech.bsky.social · 3w agoAll the shock about the recent revelations that NYC leadership intentionally harmed people to get them back to work more quickly in dangerous conditions where the air was leading to long term illness is pretty ironic considering the current public health situation we’re in.
A lot of people have said to me “but why would the government lie about the risks from Covid?” And I’m sorry but the answer is always because capital is valued over lives and they want you to go back to work, it was true in the mines, true on the railroads, true post-9/11, and true now.
Allison Gill@muellershewrote.com · 3w agoNEW: Mayor Mamdani has released 170,000 documents that suggest New Yorkers were misled about the safety of the air quality following the 9/11 attacks. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/07/n...
Really useful paper on the ways tech companies approach people with disabilities as "design problems." "Disability Dongle rhetoric instills in students the value of a quick fix over structural change, thus preventing them from seeking out, participating in, and contributing to existing inquiry."
Yan Basque@yanbasque.com · 3w agoEveryone claiming this is an "accessibility feature" for Deaf people, I urge you to familiarize yourself with the term "disability dongle." blog.castac.org/2022/04/disa...
Somehow I missed the recent blowup around health fascism until just now. It doesn't seem to have spilled over from X to here. But I'm begging everyone, especially leftists, to read any disability history or theory. It feels like 101 stuff.
it's great when guys who've done nothing but code their entire lives start to dabble in metaphysics. excellent content
Someone should ask Doug Ford about his Fortress Am-Can scheme.
Reminder: this case didn't come down to Cycle Toronto's "bike lanes good" v. the province's "bike lanes bad" evidence. The province's own internal documents (and their staff briefing to cabinet) confirmed that bike lanes do not cause traffic congestion and ripping them out will put lives at risk.
ℳatt@matttomic.bsky.social · 2mo agoReading the judgment. A big part of Cycle Toronto's case hinged on "the government says it's removing bike lanes to ease congestion but there's no evidence removing bike lanes eases congestions". The Court basically ruled "all that matters is the government BELIEVES it to be true, not if it's true"
Jim Henson didn’t muppeteer a tiny green frog that was singing and playing the banjo, with rubber gloves while totally submerged underwater in a airtight aluminum tank just so you could tell me that AI is “inevitable”.
Gwen C. Katz@gwenckatz.bsky.social · 3mo agoThe Wachowski sisters didn't use 120 cameras to film one shot just so you could tell me that AI is "inevitable."
If you struggled with lockdown or wearing a mask all the time, I would like you to sit with the fact that complete abandonment of high risk people has damned us to those exact things. Still. When, if people stepped up and did these things even a little bit more, we wouldn’t be in that position.
part of truly moving forward from this period will mean directly addressing disinformation & repairing its harm; one way i can imagine this taking shape is by addressing the very present & ongoing need for clean indoor air. this, unfortunately, would require a lot of ppl to eschew persistant denial.
Walker Bragman@walkerbragman.bsky.social · 2mo agoRight-wing disinformation is a big reason why this country has so many people who distrust science and medicine. Disinformation pushed by business-aligned right-wing groups and media. Other reasons are systemic problems (like our lack of national healthcare). But they’re exploited by the right.
I have never even been asked! It’s just noted in the follow-up summary. Then I noticed that during the appt, the dr is talking to the AI, not me, to make sure the facts are included in the summary. In 100% of appts across multiple drs/hospitals, there have been errors in my notes.
Kestrel Casey@kestrelcasey.com · 2mo agoThe first time my doctor asked if she could use ai to take notes, and I said no, she seemed surprised. THIS IS WHY. SAY NO.
Canada is in many ways the single most successful branding exercise in history. We are a neoliberal extractive colony with crumbling social infrastructure and middling economic prospects, but many Canadians will hand-wave away problems here and use those same problems to condemn Americans.
Ontario jails are using an AI tool that claims to predict prisoners’ behaviour. And it’s disproportionately placing Black prisoners in maximum security. An investigation by @desmondcole.bsky.social reveals the province knew the tool would discriminate against Black people—and used it anyway.
Black prisoners are assigned harsher living conditions in Ontario jails—thanks to AI ⋆ The Breach
Ontario jails are using a program that claims it can predict prisoners’ behaviour, disproportionately putting Black prisoners in higher-security facilities
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I hope everyone relentlessly complaining about the air quality in Toronto can keep that same energy to protect land defenders who are criminalized, targeted, and terrorized for protecting their own homelands. Land back or extinction.
People are fleeing burning towns & the now normalized "wild fire season" while the provincial & federal governments destroy climate protection & sell out to tech & extraction industries to make the rich, richer while human & non human life is irrevocably destroyed. Death merchants, all of them.
Canada makes a lot more sense when you realize it's an ongoing colonial resource extraction project www.cbc.ca/news/indigen...
First Nations chiefs across country 'blindsided' by pipeline announcements | CBC News
First Nations chiefs countrywide are expressing concern about the lack of engagement after two pipelines were announced in Alberta, B.C. and Ontario. Two leaders say they only learned of the plans thr...
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"The billionaire quest for political power and the billionaire quest to defeat death are, I’d argue, the same project wearing two hats. Democracy is a limit on power. Mortality is a limit on power. Both projects are, at bottom, a tantrum against the words 'limit' and 'reality.'" - Gil Duran
Gil Durán@gilduran.com · 3mo agoGood News: Bryan Johnson is dying. Just like the rest of us. His recent diagnosis is a brutal reality check for the sick billionaires who seek to rule the world...and live forever. www.thenerdreich.com/bryan-johnso...
We should invent a kind of canceling where the guy goes away
It's fun and sad and terrifying to watch the "neoliberal" governments fund oil & gas projects that the "market" abandons or refuses to fund. Neoliberalism was never a free market ideology, it was always about maintaining class and power structures.
Sierra Club Canada@sierraclubcanada.bsky.social · 3mo ago"If BP doesn't see Bay du Nord as a good investment in terms of return and debt that is a massive warning against any public investment in the project, and against the Bay du Nord project's viability." Full Statement: www.sierraclub.ca/bay-du-nord-... #NLpoli #CDNpoli #Equinor #EQNR #BayDuNord #BP
The internet is for people to tell us everything they know about their niche intense interests. I want to know all the obscure details about frogs or fairies or farming or shrubbery or whatever odd thing you are obsessed with. I want to learn things that I didn’t even know that I didn’t know.
I just want to live in the imagined sci-fi future where everything has big chunky buttons and weird tactile stuff instead of the touchscreen future where we barely know we're alive because all we see and touch are screens and we might even remove that with vr and the real world just slips away.
