After I wrote last week's column, I learnt that a neighbour with severe disabilities, an extremely tough & resourceful woman who lived to the full, died in the heatwave. Everyone here is devastated. I can scarcely express my anger towards a mindset that treats people like her as collateral damage. 🧵

Respectfully & from the bottom of my heart, if you think anything in the world could justify this, you’re a monster or an idiot or some impressive combination of both.

Poya Pakzad@ppkzd.bsky.social · 2y ago

Razed to dust, this is what Israel's apocalyptic erasure of Northern Gaza looks like. Palestinians are "returning" to nuclear-scale desolation.

Since Google revealed its plans for an AI search overhaul, visits to our "No AI" search page have tripled…and they’re still rising! Want to make it your default on Chrome or Firefox? Grab our No-AI extensions and banish AI-assisted answers, chat, and AI images. (1/3)

I don't know a single person who thinks the offside challenge is good use of technology in hockey, and no one can convince me that a hairline offside 30 seconds before a goal makes a single lick of a difference, but the nhl is run by the dumbest and worst people on earth

Should be the obvious move, but most postsecondary institutions are run by bankers whose friends in the tech industry need their shit to be bought by big colleges so that they can promise their shareholders that "AI" sells when, in fact, most people either actively hate it or have no real use for it

Nathan Kalman-Lamb@nkalamb.bsky.social · 3mo ago

UC Berkeley Law creates new AI policy that bans AI for "conceptualizing, outlining, drafting, revising, translating, or editing any work submitted for credit" or exams because "thinking remains the sine qua non of good lawyering (and of a quality legal education)." That's what I'm talking about.

I can't decide if I'm more angry about the stupidity of this or the villainy, but I'm definitely angry www.theglobeandmail.com/business/art...

Telus using AI to alter the accents of customer service agents

Company says tech is meant to improve clarity and reduce ‘accent-related friction,’ but its use is stirring up debate

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That first brush with a new toothbrush, always takes you places

This monstrosity is the curse, take it down and give the artist some run support

The lowest possible bar - "denounce and distance yourself from the guy openly threatening genocide" - but Carney is incapable of clearing it

Avi Lewis@avilewis.ca · 4mo ago

The President of the United States is openly threatening to commit genocide against 90 million people. Prime Minister Carney: if there was ever a moment to denounce this illegal war, withdraw your support, and call for accountability for war crimes—it’s now.

Blue Jays are oofmaxxing this April

The nightmare is always the same, doc. I hear this deep velvety voice in the distance saying "Brendon Little is getting loose in the bullpen"...

There's a strong argument that Trump and Israel have set into motion a catastrophe that will imminently transform all of our lives, for the much worse.

The world energy shock is coming

The US and Israel's illegal attack on Iran will provoke a global economic catastrophe

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Seen tacked to a community board on my walk

Never thought I'd be sharing anything written by a Yankees fan, but this gets it absolutely right: www.pinstripealley.com/yankees-edit...

The World Baseball Classic, Team USA, and the war problem

On conduct unbecoming.

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thinking about the hero of this game for Team Venezuela, Eugenio Suárez, and his comments about ICE’s effect on Latino baseball players just last week

Empires always begin by telling themselves that they are bringing the light to the dark corners of the world. The reality is always the opposite.

AFP News Agency@en.afp.com · 5mo ago

Darkness falls in Havana as Cuba hit by total electricity blackout. The latest blackout comes as the United States pursues its oil blockade against the island

Lost among the many other horrors of 2026, Israel is attempting to create another Nakba in Lebanon, no one is even attempting to explain or justify this, they're just bombing and killing and taking

Al Jazeera English@aljazeera.com · 5mo ago

Nearly one in five people in Lebanon have been forced from their homes as Israel launches new 'ground operations' https://aje.news/3grqr2

Get ABS in the WBC so I don't have to watch the Americans win on a "strike" that's a foot low

Tragic to watch Canada knock Cuba out of the WBC even while -in real life- the Canadian govt is helping Trump commit mass murder against Cubans. Watching baseball in Cuba is one of the most joyous experiences of my life: no ads, no luxury boxes, just incredible baseball played by normal people.

Can't imagine why Carney would be eager to protect data centres in the region. www.theglobeandmail.com/business/art...

Brookfield and Qatar launch $20-billion AI infrastructure joint venture

Partnership aims to position Qatar as leading AI hub in the Middle East

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Conor Curtis@conorcurtis.bsky.social · 5mo ago

(1/2) Just had a horrible thought about the real risk that Carney gets convinced into Canada helping defend U.S. corporate data centres in the region. All because the U.S. started a war and then expended huge amounts of defensive capabilities that were needed elsewhere (example Ukraine). #CDNpoli

This is a guy who has Nazi-affiliated tattoos on his body and whom the US military itself (!) flagged as a potential 'insider threat' for his far-right politics. A guy who has draped himself in the idea of a Christian crusade against Islam. I'm seeing a lot of "this will be evidence at The Hague..."

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 5mo ago

Hegseth: "Death & destruction from the sky all day. We're playing for keeps. Our warfighters have maximum authorities granted personally by POTUS & yours truly. Our rules of engagement are bold, precise designed to unleash American power, not shackle it ... we are punching them while they are down"

"What happens to Iran's nuclear weapons" is that they'll continue to not exist. For anyone who doesn't know, his father the Shah was one of the most hated despots of the 20th century. He was installed to rule Iran by the CIA after they (CIA) overthrew the government elected by Iranians in the 1950s.

Israel and the United States is bombing elementary schools in Iran and, by the way, the heroic Ukrainian resistance supports that

History is What's Happening@historyiswhat.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Ukrainian president supports Israeli/American attacks on Iran.

Trump does it more explicitly, but this is the same death-cult logic as we are witnessing south of the border. Billions of dollars into a stalemate war where both sides are fully captured by far-right forces, but no money for libraries and hospitals and schools and culture.

Toronto Star@thestar.com · 5mo ago

Canada will hike military aid to Ukraine by $2B

Man someone's gotta do something about cheese packaging, I shouldn't be this banged up from trying to access a block of marble cheddar

Truly a society humiliating itself, completely enslaved to a logic of capital (which it doesn't even fully understand because it is too terrified of its critics to actually read and understand them). Language models will (obviously) write garbage and (less obviously I guess) not support profits.

Nathan Kalman-Lamb@nkalamb.bsky.social · 6mo ago

“We plan to hire an AI rewrite specialist to ingest the reporting by Hannah and others and use AI to convert it into stories.” The editor of the Cleveland Plain Dealer said it will use AI to ‘write’ its articles. www.cleveland.com/news/2025/10...

Liberals are so hard-wired to follow the rules that Trump says anything and they just do it, "stop measuring presidential approval" "ok" like they are constitutionally incapable of saying "nah fuck you man" no wonder they hate protestors so much

Speaking of acquiescence, Canadian airlines are now cancelling all flights to Cuba, obviously at the direction of the Carney govt. Other airlines are making fuel arrangements, but Canada is going the extra mile in helping Trump starve Cuban people and destroy their revolution.

Tyler Shipley@shipster.bsky.social · 6mo ago

The United States - with acquiescence and support from Canada and other allies - is seeking to murder millions of Cubans and destroy the Revolution that has carried and embodied so many of our aspirations for a just world. This is effectively genocide and must be stopped.