I do wonder if this shapes the next election in Quebec because if the US is demanding this of Canada now, it's hard to see how an independent Quebec isn't forced to be Anglo by the US

Isaiah Bishop@isaiahbishop.bsky.social · 2h ago

Just to be clear this is like saying "for this trade deal to go through, you must eliminate college football" level ask in our politics

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Sanho Tree@sanho.bsky.social · 6d ago

“During the meeting, operation security was discussed and it was emphasized that ICE Agents may try and infiltrate the organization. A lawyer stood up and encouraged attendees not to put anything in writing that they wouldn't want to be seen in court.“

When you spy on a bunch of peace-mongering churches, you’ve already answered the “are we the baddies” question.

RNS@rns.org · 7h ago

(RNS) — Religious groups now argue that the government has committed ‘multiple egregious violations’ of a preliminary injunction handed down in their case back in February.

this is an entirely reasonable position and not even a 'decomputing' one i very deliberately run my stuff on what is effectively e-waste because it turns out that you don't actually need that much compute for a lot of things

Kevin Riggle@kevinr.free-dissociation.com · 6h ago

See if he had just left out the bit about “digital minds” we could have a conversation about future compute needs. But he didn’t. And frankly i believe we have been overproducing compute and software for a while and should figure out how to more efficiently use what we have before building more

Art Of The Deal author fails to secure deal with friendliest nation on planet

Art Of The Deal author fails to secure deal with friendliest nation on planet

WASHINGTON D.C. - President Trump, a man who was elected based on his self-proclaimed "deal-making genius", has failed to secure a trade deal with Canada, a nation most known for maple syrup and neigh...

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National Treasure 3 should just be Ben Gates breaking into a federal warehouse to rescue the original slavery and freedom exhibit that was removed from the President’s House Site in Philadelphia.

Jason Herbert@herberthistory.bsky.social · 4h ago

We're back, baby ew.com/nicolas-cage...

PM Carney outlines last minute demands by the US last night. 1) Changes to the scope of tariffs on Canadian auto content 2) Restricting Canada’s ability to have trade deals with other countries 3) Restrict Canada's protections of language, culture 'and in effect, our sovereignty’

Carney says trade deal became untenable when U.S. 'asked too much and offered too little' | CBC News

Prime Minister Mark Carney told his negotiators to walk away from the table after the Trump administration introduced late unacceptable demands on culture, autos and sovereignty that, when taken in co...

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Someone said to me yesterday that I should, as a feminist, feel bad that they are “bringing this woman down” and my guy it is not the task of feminism to come to the aid of a fascist enabler who is a woman

I gotta say that my dude’s follow-through ratio in no way supports the investor class’s childlike faith in every bit of hype that tumbles from his lips.

e.w. niedermeyer@niedermeyer.online · yesterday

another day, more total vindication for the long-time Tesla haters www.theverge.com/tech/983167/...

The first time I interviewed in libraries, they wanted to know about my experience dealing with difficult customers. I said, “Well, I worked at Disneyland”, and the interviewer literally said “say no more”. I had a burger thrown at me, got punched twice, was spat on, grabbed…little flaps me now.

Voltaireon - 5 caustic French philosophers in a trenchcoat@shaidorsai.bsky.social · yesterday

There is an incredibly powerful differentiator for almost all people, and that differentiator is “have you ever been on the side of getting yelled AT in a public-facing job, or were you only ever the one doing the yelling?”

Some of the richest people in the world want a racial caste system, and they want scholarly backing for that in the form of racist pseudoscience. And a lot of ostensibly non racist people quietly agree, and don’t like to see those who peddle that pseudoscience excluded from mainstream institutions.

say what you will about the myriad valid concerns with current LLMs but I personally will never get over the fact that Aaron Swartz was prosecuted to his literal death for downloading JSTOR and then a decade later, they downloaded & ingested the entire world and our IP laws just went ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Academic freedom does not extend to racist pseudoscience any more that it extends to peddling any other woo-woo. If you use your academic platform to suggest black people are inferior, you should lose your job as an academic. Just as much as if you use it to claim the Sun revolves around the Earth.

it's kind of like if they rolled out the automobile with the tagline "this thing is going to run over so many dogs"

post malone ergo propter malone@proptermalone.bsky.social · 2d ago

8) SV has really screwed up a number of marketing-related things lately, AI chief among them. They don’t appear to have even been correct about it slashing headcount, but what a world-historic idiot thing to lead with anyway.

This NYT piece that fighting back against Trump’s abuses is hurting Harvard carries the same whiff as the slew of stories that Harvard was on the verge of surrendering. Trying to will it into being. Wouldn’t be surprising if a source is someone trying to get Harvard to fold, such as Bill Ackman.

Samantha Brennan@samanthabrennan.bsky.social · yesterday

How Harvard’s Epic Fight With Trump Is Costing the University The federal government has slowed Harvard’s funding, despite the university’s legal victories. The conflict is forcing hard choices on campus. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/21/u...

Ethnic nationalists explictly despise the post-Reconstruction American project and want to destroy it from the inside because they know that honestly resolving its contradictions would create a society where the concept of an ethnic nation itself would no longer have any civic or legal currency.

🏳️‍⚧️ june | יוֹכֶבֶד🪬@junewl.bsky.social · 3d ago

they hate us because we’re free.

Trying to imagine surprising but also unsurprising October surprises

Forget the endless bullshit trying to please private developers and builders. Bring back real public housing. (Yes, I know that the landlords have triumphed on that one in the US, but we need to drive them back.) www.ithaca.com/news/tompkin...

From Manufactured Homes to Zoning Updates: Tompkins County Panelists Offer Roadmap to Housing Affordability

Trade Design Build and Cornell University's Circular Construction Lab hosted a “Building What We Value” panel on Aug. 6, in which local officials and housing experts advocated for factory-built homes,

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DHS Agent’s Hidden Wire Drops to the Floor While She’s Spying on Minnesota Church

An undercover federal agent dropped her recording device on the ground as she spied on a Minneapolis church group in May, according to recent court filings, revealing a potential violation of a federa...

people.com

RE: https://mastodon.social/@sundogplanets/117124047415214993 The more illuminating thing about this is that it confirms that homework performance is really not an indicator of learning (this will, naturally, not be surprising to your neighbourhood neurodivergent ex-G&T kids)

Prof. Sam Lawler@sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 3d ago

Wow. "AI adoption raises homework scores by 18% and reduces completion time by 30%, but lowers monthly exam scores by 20% within six months. High-stakes entrance-exam scores fall by 18 and 24%, with the full penalty emerging only after about two years. " […]

one part “my green room friends thought it was mean,” one part debilitating fear of backlash. inability to see that ossof successfully goaded the white house into *being reactive* and thus revealing that there is a story here

Salome@salome-gongadze.bsky.social · 3d ago

what is it with ex obama people and misreading the room lol? this whole thing sparked a news cycle and endless earned media, feels like a slam dunk to me

We escalated. We escalated as far as we could, short of ground invasion (good luck with that!) or nuclear attack. And look where it got us. Will anyone who advocated for escalation face any consequences?

Travis@someforeignfield.bsky.social · 6mo ago

If everyone involved in this war, from the politicians to the generals, do not go to jail for this then we are doomed as a country. Failing to punish the crime of the Iraq war is why we are where we are now. Never again. Michael Mirdraghi's murderers must face justice.

Yes, Chud 1.0 Was Crazy. Now Where’s the Accountability?

Michael Hobbes@michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 3d ago

The problem with Woke 1 was its lack of proportionality. That's why everyone who tweeted about how racism is bad should be sent to the Hague. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/18/o...

Just walked past this. Why would I want to hire people to carefully move my stuff if they can’t be bothered to make sure that their company name “In and Out Movers” is not accidentally rendered as “In Nut” on their logo?

How do I explain to small business owners that the menu on the left is one billion times more appealing than the one on the right

If the president votes by mail, then EVERY CITIZEN should be able to vote by mail.

peabody grapes, painted by deborah griscom passmore

even not that long ago. A whole new wave of feminism since 2013 or so got rid of a lot of the victim-blaming and myths about rape and other forms of violence against women and created the receptivity that led to #metoo and the treatment of this stuff as public concerns rather than "private matters,"

Millions of people have now heard of Natalie Harp who wouldn't have if the right wing hadn't gone completely nuts about Jon Ossoff saying simply that Trump likes traveling, just traveling, with her.