"If there is a question to ask, then, it is this: Why does Musk get a pass? Why do politicians, journalists and commentators treat his far-right racist radicalism as a sideshow rather than the core of his political, ideological and industrial project..." www.nytimes.com/2026/07/29/o...
Opinion | Elon Musk Is a Menace to Society (Gift Article)
Why does the owner of X get a pass for what he says and does there?
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Lol this corruption isn’t unprecedented - it’s got plenty of precedents in places the US president has denigrated as “shithole countries.” Which may be particularly apt, given the effects of cyclospora.
public health guy@publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 2w agoit does actually sound like taylor farms and the white house teamed up to try and blame taco bell for the outbreak. unprecedented corruption
The price hikes and the product disappearances were not the blips of supply and demand – they were the results of behind-the-scenes pressure by Amazon, according to internal emails reviewed by the Guardian and court claims against the world’s largest company. From @georgejoseph94.bsky.social:
‘We were at their mercy’: inside the Amazon tactics that hiked prices across the internet
Internal emails revealed in court and interviews with ex-employees describe how Amazon’s practices drove up prices for competitors like Walmart and Target. Amazon denies price-fixing claims and says i...
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It’s because one of the Spanish players hugged Carney and not him, isn’t it?
A Canadian helicopter pilot was killed fighting a wildfire in Colorado last weekend.
Global News@globalnews.ca · 3w ago"If Canada will not manage its forests to prevent these fires, the United States will look elsewhere, and act on our own, to protect our people,” said a group of U.S. lawmakers. globalnews.ca/news/1196860...
In which @bradwheelerglobe.bsky.social takes stock of Angine de Poitrine and finds “the thinking nerd’s Rush; disco for robots; Met Gala math rock…jazz from planet Remulak…microtonal guitar for tourists, danceable Cubism,” the ‘76 Leafs, and even Sam Shepard. www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/arti...
Angine de Poitrine played Toronto’s Mod Club – and it was some show
The Quebec band’s music is built to be heard live, with audiences excited by the newness and committed to the ritual
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Please stop making up George Carlin quotes. He said a lot of wise and funny things! Post some of those! Don’t add to the slop. Sigh.
God this is fucking shameful. No alleged cost savings could possibly be worth incurring this type of irreparable damage to your brand
Emma Grae@emmagraeauthor.bsky.social · 4w agoMarie Claire actually left a prompt from an AI in one of their recent articles. While there’s still some great journalists and publications left, this is utterly shocking. No wonder I’m trying to pivot.
Online gaming giants including DraftKings, FanDuel, Fanatics, and Bet365 are funding a web of U.S. super PACs that support candidates in favour of less industry regulation. The PACs don’t disclose their ties to the companies. www.sportico.com/business/spo...
Sportsbooks Hide Intent of Super PAC Election Ads Around U.S.
DraftKings, FanDuel, Fanatics and Bet365 are supporting local political ads that don’t disclose their ties to gambling.
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Google AI: Yesterday’s Canada v. South Africa match drew 19M viewers. Me: Interesting! Hey, Google, please tell me which news outlet reported yesterday’s match drew 19M viewers. Google AI: Idiot That number is from a completely different match. Ratings aren’t in yet! Me: [stifles scream]
Google’s AI Overview has decided Vancouver’s BC Place is going to host “the highly anticipated Bronze Final” of the World Cup on July 18, instead of Miami. I guess there is something more powerful than FIFA, after all!
"Misogyny is at the heart of the worst mass violence in recent Canadian history ... Yet it’s still somehow controversial to note that misogyny is the common denominator in so much violence" www.thestar.com/opinion/cont... via @lizrenzetti.bsky.social
Elizabeth Renzetti: When will these horrible attacks like the one in Montreal end? When we admit that misogyny is an ideology
Violent attacks can be stopped if government, tech giants, take action against tide of hatred
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Musk says not a single person has died due to him axing USAID. Sadly, part of my job involves tracking aid spending. So here’s a thread with just some of the people who lost their lives because of USAID cuts
The wealthiest man in the world posts utter fictions at a machine-gun pace to his no-choice audience of tens of millions. These fictions cause deadly race riots in UK, terrible crises in many countries, and here justify his destruction of the org that solves these very problems
Quinn Slobodian@quinnslobodian.com · last mo.In the last three hours, Musk has posted that USAID “was central to the creation of COVID-19,” “funded coronavirus research in China that killed millions of people,” “was used for terrorism,” and “killed millions.”
Some of what the Ontario government doesn't want you to know: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Doug Ford’s daily calendar kept secret after changes to Ontario’s FOI law | CBC News
Premier Doug Ford’s daily calendar will now be kept secret from the public following recent changes to Ontario’s freedom of information law — which no longer includes access to records held by ministe...
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Thoughts on Capitulation Day. This level of defeat in Iran is only possible at the hands of a super loser like Trump. To win a war means changing the politics of the enemy such that they must surrender. That is what Iran just did to the United States. Read more: snyder.substack.com/p/capitulati...
Local soccer officials expect the World Cup to bring a surge of interest in the sport. But that growth can’t happen without training, and retaining, a new generation of refs—the perpetually ignored, often abused officials who make the games work. thelocal.to/soccer-refer...
The Grand Ambitions and Grubby Indignities of the Aspiring Soccer Referee | The Local
Making it pro as a referee in Canada is in many ways harder than making it pro as a player. That doesn’t stop this corps of exacting, self-serious officials from trying.
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Lost access to Anthropic’s AI models highlights risk of relying on U.S. tech, Canadian experts say (along with anyone else who’s been paying attention for the past year and a half). www.theglobeandmail.com/business/art...
Lost access to Anthropic’s AI models highlights risk of relying on U.S. tech, Canadian experts say
U.S. government ordered AI giant to restrict foreign nationals from Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models
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Lauren Southern's story of being raped by Andrew Tate is sad on so many levels. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
"wealth inequality is growing in dimensions that we’ve never seen before." www.nytimes.com/2026/06/12/t...
Elon Musk Becomes the World’s First Trillionaire
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