wrote about Trump, AI slop and how they're making wildfire misinformation even worse

The Narwhal@thenarwhal.ca · 11h ago

As wildfires rage on across Canada, misinformation rages on social media — and AI and American politics are making it worse. @michellecyca.com explains why: thenarwhal.ca/wildfire-mis...

Heat Safety Experts Advise Americans To Seek Privilege https://theonion.com/heat-safety-experts-advise-americans-to-seek-privilege-1850623871/

This is absolutely hilarious to me. *TPUSA kid dares to say things are expensive* The Vice President of the United States of America: 'Shut up fatty' 😡

huck mason@tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 10h ago

for reasons that only make sense if you're insane, a TPUSA kid complaining about burrito costs on xitter has the GOP's biggest divas going for each other's throats.

Somehow things that would have been a background gag in a Verhoeven movie are now just real

Definitely a good read. I think Luke sums up many people's frustrations with Carney quite well. www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

Mark Carney promised to take on Donald Trump. He’s done anything but

While Prime Minister Mark Carney said he be “Elbows up” to Trump, his policy choices have essentially aligned Canada with America.

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A paramilitary group plotted to overthrow the Constitution then conducted a violent attack on America. They were convicted in court of seditious conspiracy, and jailed. Then the leader they aimed to illegally install got power and let them out, their records wiped clean. The Jan. 6 attackers won.

Judge Pained as He Grants Dismissal of Jan. 6 Charges Against Oath Keepers

The judge, Amit P. Mehta, blasted the administration’s request for a dismissal in the case, saying it bestowed “unearned grace” on the Oath Keepers defendants “by wiping their records clean.”

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Missed this when it dropped

Jeremy Appel 🍉@readtheorchard.org · 4w ago

NEW from me: I took a deep dive for @ricochetmedia.bsky.social into the American hedge fund-owned Canadian newspaper chain that’s pushing anti-trans, pro-genocide and climate science denial narratives down our throats. ricochet.media/media/dumpst...

“In recent months, ICE has deployed a round-the-clock digital dragnet to scour the public internet—from Facebook to Instagram to X—for speech that could endanger the agency’s mission.” Speech. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

How ICE Is Weaponizing Social Media Against its Critics

Agency says its surveillance program searches for threats to agents, but critics see free-speech infringements.

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New: We found 50 cops who misused Flock cameras and other license-plate readers for personal purposes, often to spy on their girlfriends or ex-wives. He "watched every single move I made. ... Who do you turn the chief of police in to?" wapo.st/3S6rTuo

She left her ex. He secretly tracked her through a network of policing cameras.

Flock’s array of license-plate cameras was built to fight crime. But at least 50 law enforcement officers were charged with or accused of misusing it and other systems.

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Nailed it! Wait, I don't think we say that anymore... BASED!!

Peter@notalawyer.bsky.social · 4d ago

a lot of what the right does nowadays is create an emotional support system for bigots. bigotry will offend and alienate people in your life, so the right looks provides a counterweight that lavishes you with praise.

Finally, a diagram that's not depressing

Luke Knox@lukeknox.me · 5d ago

this is my new favorite diagram

this is my new favorite diagram

It’s important to understand “age verification” and “kick the kids off social media” laws as a gift to Big Tech. These policies allow surveillance capitalism to chug along full steam ahead and let Silicon Valley giants off the hook. Instead of regulating their biz model, we just put up age gates

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Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 5d ago

CNN: 77% of Americans say economic conditions are poor. That's the lowest of Trump's second term. Is this the 'amazing economy' the administration thought you'd be boasting about? KEVIN HASSETT: Right now the economy does look amazing to me

Is that a ROACH CLIP?!

The Onion@theonion.com · 5d ago

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Luke does great work, give his new project a follow

Luke LeBrun@lukelebrun.ca · 5d ago

Hey everyone, I have some news: I'm creating a new project today called @thewatchdog.ca The Watchdog's editorial mission is to protect the public and defend democracy through original public interest watchdog journalism. Sign up here as it gets ready to launch: www.thewatchdog.ca/p/sign-up

Is it bad when a president hates Americans who didn't more than the country's literal enemies?

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 5d ago

Q: Can you rule out that Iran is behind the water attacks? TRUMP: I don't think so. I think that Minnesota is behind it. You know who is behind it? Minnesota. Because they're grossly incompetent. I don't think there was an Iranian cyberattack. I think Minnesota ought to get its act together.

Im sure there are zero issues that could possibly arise from 71% inaccuracy

More Perfect Union@moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 5d ago

In one California town, Flock misread license plates in 71% of the time. Out of a sample of 1,427 alerts that Flock sent to police in the town of Roseville, alerts that flagged vehicles as stolen or used in a felony after they passed one of the city's Flock cameras, 71% were inaccurate.

Breaking: Man who keeps shitting himself in public tough to pin down on international trade deal

Breaking: Man who keeps shitting himself in public tough to pin down on international trade deal

“I wonder why diaper grandpa keeps changing his mind on CUSMA?” Luke and the Panel (Ian MacIntyre and Janel Comeau) talk about the latest in the Trade War, the debate about whether Conservatives are p...

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I truly hate this smug little shit with a burning passion

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 5d ago

Hassett: "Data centers are very good for towns bc they create so many jobs & bring people in with high incomes that can buy houses & stuff like that. So if you take a sleepy town that hasn't seen much in the last 30 years & put a data center there, there are gonna be a bunch of happy residents."

Is that a lot. www.businessinsider.com/flock-camera...

Good-faith concern on this issue would be going, "hmm, professional sports leagues should probably have some standards in place to ensure trans competitors aren't getting an unfair advantage," googling for 5 minutes, realizing every sports league already has those standards and dropping it.

Rodger Sherman@rodger.bsky.social · 6d ago

i don't believe anyone has "good-faith" concerns about trans women in sports in 2026. there's been too much time to hear the actual evidence, the actual people affected, and the role the debate plays in attempts to purge trans people from American life. anybody picking that side has made a choice

Very cool that this is how our prime minister has been responding to a premier that is increasingly privatizing healthcare (just did another announcement to that effect, even!) and attacking trans youth rights. Really cool, really great!!

"The Trump regime is trying to usher in a 'Golden Age in Science' where scientific research is run like a Trump family business, artificial intelligence is all that matters, profit is everything, and expertise is for chumps." — @snipy.bsky.social

The new "science golden age" looks suspiciously like a grift

Trump wants to run scientific research like his family business.

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Boy do I have a deal for this guy.

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Kyle Clark@kylec.bsky.social · last wk.

Colorado GOP Gov candidate Victor Marx says God has given him a "gift" to uncover people's demons and rid them of evil spirits through a specialized prayer. Marx says you, too, can learn how to do it. The eight-part course is $99. www.9news.com/article/news...

If pocket calculators regularly and randomly gave you incorrect answers to your queries like ChatGPT does, we would have left the technology behind, not insisted that 2+2=5 is HERE TO STAY, BABY.

Uncle Fuzzzy 🦆@unclefuzzzy.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Funny, that’s what we thought about pocket calculators in 1974

we should charge the C-suite with fraud and theft if they take a tax credit meant to keep people employed and then cut staff anyway.

Paula Wirth@paulawirth.bsky.social · last wk.

Pixar receives a $26.2 Million Tax credit to keep film jobs in CA, and immediately lays off 10% of its work force, after making over a billion from Toy Story 5, the highest-grossing film of 2026.

The picture, the headline...

Michael Fassbender: Perfection

ALT: Michael Fassbender: Perfection

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The New Republic@newrepublic.com · last wk.

“PSA: Now that my case is settled, you are free to refer to @FBIDirectorKash as a ‘chud,’ a ‘googly-eyed Kremlin bitch,’ and a ‘traitor’ without fear of legal repercussions!” trib.al/e8IVBnp