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• Post #4500778

  I see today the AG is looking for contractors to assess Microsoft's CoPilot to determine whether its genAI features are safe and ready to roll-out across the federal government. Elbows up, right? Everybody knows protecting our sovereignty starts with eliminating skilled public servants and shoveling money at a US broligarch plagiarism machine.

• Post #4422902

  Oh dear, looks like Carney's fallen into the Trudeau category in what's left of Trump brain. https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/trump-canada-nasty-las-vegas-9.7298087

• Post #4396111

  Great job, Zuck. But the rest of you don't worry, the kids will be safe as long as us adults give him our IDs. https://archive.is/9WpXM

• Post #4381266

  Picked up some A&W for lunch today. Got this little guy for my daughter while I was at it. Couldn't be helped.

• Post #4378741

  Onion thinks they're dong satire, but this is literally how people like Thiel / Andreessen / Musk think: Energy consumption as a metric of productivity and economic output. It's the techbro oligarchy's version of GDP. https://theonion.com/technological-advancements-allow-data-centers-to-run-on-even-more-electricity/ h/t @bonaventuresoft@mastodon.online

• Post #4252409

  As provincial and federal governments starve the public system it creates strain on the doctors and nurses we depend on. "The prevailing theme was that the [health-care] system is broken," wrote co-author Kerstin de Wit, an emergency physician at Kingston Health Sciences Centre and professor at Queen’s University, who conducted the research with the Network of Canadian Emergency Researchers. It's not broken. Something happening by design cannot be called broken. Various levels...

• Post #4249120

  Sending OC Transpo to field concerns from the ridership is a bit like sending front-line nurses out to ask patients what bothers them about ER visits. Feeding lambs to the wolves. In both cases the problem is political and budgetary. We need a city that is serious about public transportation as much as we need a province that believes in public healthcare. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/oc-transpo-customer-information-session-changes-9.7288513 #Ottawa

• Post #4247300

  RE: https://mstdn.social/@dalfen/117009564902173088 Many governments have succumbed to corporate executive thinking, summarized by this mantra: Act in accordance with how you want things to be, not as they are. You want to be a market leader? Act like a market leader. If something is not real, just make it real through confident insistence and brute force. That's how we got Uber. In 2004 Bush II went on about reality v faith based communities. Reality was the problem. Reality demands fac...

• Post #4210964

  Even on the surface of it, Boy George's new pro-genocide song is terrible. How does the Reggae beat fit with the theme? The forced rhymes, lyrics that are just silly. The IDF-supporting crowd calls it a 'hopeful' song, but everything about it is either attacking or defensive, depending on the verse. Where's the hope? We will dance again, after the enemy is exterminated? Is that hope? Mostly though, the song just drones on and on. It's empty - starts nowhere, goes nowhere. G...

• Post #4093219

  US still carrying on about smoke from Canadian wildfires when half their own damn country is also on fire, along with Europe and Siberia, all caused by climate change of which they are a leader in causing and protecting the industry. From a rhetoric perspective, this kind of manipulation via redirection is very common in politics and business circles. Rather similar to projection, also similar to false flag, the guilty trying to make it look like they're on the high road. It's transpar...

• Post #4072913

  CBC headline: "Canada celebrates long-awaited opening of Gordie Howe bridge without U.S." We do? This is an event worthy of a national celebration? Will there be Snowbird flyovers and fireworks? I feel bad for Gordie Howe, having his name dragged into this. Should be renamed to "Capitulation Bridge."

• Post #4069535

  I see CTV is airing live coverage of the Gordie Howe bridge opening, paid for by Canada used as extortion by the US. They do nothing, pay nothing and end up owning half of it. This is why I can't be a politician. If I were PM I would have ordered the demolition of the Canadian side and just left the US side dangling over the water.

• Post #4042690

  RE: https://mstdn.social/@mothership/116968458907311261 As conservative and neoliberal governments in Canada starve and find new ways of injecting private profit taking in our cherished healthcare system, Mexico heads in the correct direction.

• Post #4016629

  Last I checked, hacking is a criminal offense. OpenAI says their bot doing crimes was an "eye-opener." So glad OpenAI was able to enjoy a learning experience. One thing I haven't heard yet is when they'll be charged. I see this is a test of people's seriousness here. Allowing them to gleefully shrug it off is a dangerous precedent. Meanwhile everybody's acting like it was some mysterious third party: A government spokesperson said the UK's AI Security Institute...

• Post #3995090

  Tornado warning - More information.

• Post #3994973

  !!!!! Tornado WARNING issued for Ottawa south. Seek information for your area. This is the real deal.

• Post #3992821

  Boom boom boomy boom boom boom #Ottawa #Weather

• Post #3991808

  Not bragging, but I've just been informed my Google Pixel just got better with the latest update. /s

• Post #3991035

  RE: https://mindly.social/@TAV/116959018844250731 It dawned on me after reading this that it's been years since I've seen a honeybee. They used to be so common. Now it's just bumblebees.

• Post #3974570

  I was reading earlier about how Angine de Poitrine drew more people to the Montreal Jazz Festival than Stevie Wonder did in 2009. Now I can't get Sir Duke out of my head. https://youtu.be/ETFvmkIA6S4?si=IYaE5WOt8wshZVFk #Music

• Post #3917955

  Random brain dump. I don't know if a talking points memo went out or something, but I keep seeing the same Liberal Party argument popping up everywhere and it's freaky. "Canada accounts for less than 2% of global carbon emissions, so don't blame us for climate change." This is absolutely true. So far, we haven't had much of a direct hand in actually lighting the match that burns the boreal forests. However, set your frame around gun control. Guns don't pull thei...

• Post #3893163

  Good. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/convoy-leader-pat-king-loses-at-appeal-court-to-be-resentenced-9.7274254

• Post #3876498

  Sorry, but what exactly are the tools Canada has at our disposal that would prevent wildfires in the world's largest stretch of pristine boreal forest during a global climate emergency? Raking? Watering them daily so they're not so dry? Cutting them all down and paving over everything? Praying to Jesus? End global warming? Clearly you shutting the fuck up and stop burning so much oil isn't on the table.

• Post #3812380

  RE: https://mastodon.social/@br00t4c/116919150862329101 More of that "arbitrary starting points for history" I wrote about yesterday. Maybe every bullet fired, every missile launched counts as a whole new war! A corrupt president could keep this going for years without any actual legal authorization.

• Post #3810666

  RE: https://mastodon.social/@br00t4c/116918746593674406 Even a few Liberal party supporters I know have been scratching their head over Carney seeming to cheer on Trump's unjust, unprovoked and illegal war against Iran. But we've been told the reason a thousand times. The Liberal government wants Canada to be an 'energy superpower'. A good number of us progressives who voted for that were naively hoping that would mean a serious transition to electric, a national grid, investme...

• Post #3799173

  @chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.ca @andymoose@fedi.aiga.rocks During booms. Like right now with Trump messing up Hormuz. It will end. Well unless they start firing up those data centres and power them with bitumen, of course.

• Post #3791604

  Oh! Happy Toronto Circus Riot day, to all my Torontonian friends! It's part of our heritage!

• Post #3654182

  @dogzilla@masto.deluma.biz Rich people move to capybara habitat and then complain there's capybara? Poor them.

• Post #3632644

  @aaron.rupar Is that because it will him getting sworn in again, for a third time?

• Post #3630283

  Happy to see life improved in Richmound SK since the Queen of Canada got ousted from their compound there. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatchewan/richmound-celebrates-new-beginning-without-queen-9.7259494