ecowen
@ecowen.bsky.social
just a guy trying to stay informed of current events while keeping existential dread to a manageable level. Have opinions on handing the reins of power to unaccountable billionaires, misinformation, the environment and equality.
Reposted by ecowen
ever since I learned about three-cueing I've developed infinitely more patience for replies on social media. mfers literally do not know how to read. people are walking around conjuring random meanings into words they don't know, and they don't know a lot of words. it's crazy
November 11, 2025 at 6:15 PM
ever since I learned about three-cueing I've developed infinitely more patience for replies on social media. mfers literally do not know how to read. people are walking around conjuring random meanings into words they don't know, and they don't know a lot of words. it's crazy
Reposted by ecowen
a new small post on 柏舟 ("Cypress Boat") from the Book of Songs (c 600 BCE).
My heart is not a mirror
To reflect what others will
My heart is not a stone
It cannot be rolled
My heart is not a mat
It cannot be folded away
我心匪鑑 不可以茹
我心匪石 不可轉也
我心匪席 不可卷也
#everynightapoem chowleen.substack.com
My heart is not a mirror
To reflect what others will
My heart is not a stone
It cannot be rolled
My heart is not a mat
It cannot be folded away
我心匪鑑 不可以茹
我心匪石 不可轉也
我心匪席 不可卷也
#everynightapoem chowleen.substack.com
November 11, 2025 at 12:41 AM
a new small post on 柏舟 ("Cypress Boat") from the Book of Songs (c 600 BCE).
My heart is not a mirror
To reflect what others will
My heart is not a stone
It cannot be rolled
My heart is not a mat
It cannot be folded away
我心匪鑑 不可以茹
我心匪石 不可轉也
我心匪席 不可卷也
#everynightapoem chowleen.substack.com
My heart is not a mirror
To reflect what others will
My heart is not a stone
It cannot be rolled
My heart is not a mat
It cannot be folded away
我心匪鑑 不可以茹
我心匪石 不可轉也
我心匪席 不可卷也
#everynightapoem chowleen.substack.com
Cannibal capitalism. Eating your market to satisfy shareholders, reality hidden behind illusions. AI, crypto & gambling, stripping everything, leaving future generations with nothing. Authoritarianism is the only hope billionaires have to survive the coming riots.
November 11, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Cannibal capitalism. Eating your market to satisfy shareholders, reality hidden behind illusions. AI, crypto & gambling, stripping everything, leaving future generations with nothing. Authoritarianism is the only hope billionaires have to survive the coming riots.
Reposted by ecowen
Tucked into a spending bill that is part of the deal to end the government shutdown is a provision that would allow GOP senators to personally sue the federal government for as much as $500K over Special Counsel Jack Smith’s lawful search of their phone records.
talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo...
talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo...
Shutdown Deal Lets GOP Senators Personally Sue Over Jack Smith Probe
$500K For Election Subversion Tucked into a spending bill that is part...
talkingpointsmemo.com
November 11, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Tucked into a spending bill that is part of the deal to end the government shutdown is a provision that would allow GOP senators to personally sue the federal government for as much as $500K over Special Counsel Jack Smith’s lawful search of their phone records.
talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo...
talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo...
Reposted by ecowen
Boris Johnson says the idea that criticism of the BBC is being organised by the right is ‘complete and utter bollocks’, which makes me think there might be something in it.
November 11, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Boris Johnson says the idea that criticism of the BBC is being organised by the right is ‘complete and utter bollocks’, which makes me think there might be something in it.
Reposted by ecowen
Some thoughts on the CR/minibus.
1 The Dems negotiating with Rs were not freelancing. They coordinated with Sen Schumer. A few were ready to give in on day one, others worked to maximize appropriations wins.
Those voting for the 'deal' are the ones furthest away from electoral consequences.
1 The Dems negotiating with Rs were not freelancing. They coordinated with Sen Schumer. A few were ready to give in on day one, others worked to maximize appropriations wins.
Those voting for the 'deal' are the ones furthest away from electoral consequences.
November 10, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Some thoughts on the CR/minibus.
1 The Dems negotiating with Rs were not freelancing. They coordinated with Sen Schumer. A few were ready to give in on day one, others worked to maximize appropriations wins.
Those voting for the 'deal' are the ones furthest away from electoral consequences.
1 The Dems negotiating with Rs were not freelancing. They coordinated with Sen Schumer. A few were ready to give in on day one, others worked to maximize appropriations wins.
Those voting for the 'deal' are the ones furthest away from electoral consequences.
Reposted by ecowen
Then it's not a fucking ceasefire, is it.
Since the ceasefire took effect one month ago, Israeli attacks have killed at least 242 Palestinians and injured 622.
How many times has Israel violated the Gaza ceasefire? Here are the numbers
Since the ceasefire took effect one month ago, Israeli attacks have killed at least 242 Palestinians and injured 622.
bit.ly
November 11, 2025 at 10:15 AM
Then it's not a fucking ceasefire, is it.
Reposted by ecowen
NEWS: The UK is no longer sharing intelligence with the US about suspected drug trafficking vessels in the Caribbean because it does not want to be complicit in US military strikes and believes the attacks are illegal, sources familiar with the matter told CNN. edition.cnn.com/2025/11/11/p...
Exclusive: UK suspends some intelligence sharing with US over boat strike concerns in major break | CNN Politics
The United Kingdom is no longer sharing intelligence with the US about suspected drug trafficking vessels in the Caribbean because it does not want to be complicit in US military strikes and believes ...
edition.cnn.com
November 11, 2025 at 3:06 PM
NEWS: The UK is no longer sharing intelligence with the US about suspected drug trafficking vessels in the Caribbean because it does not want to be complicit in US military strikes and believes the attacks are illegal, sources familiar with the matter told CNN. edition.cnn.com/2025/11/11/p...
Reposted by ecowen
What if we had no electricity and everything ran on fossil fuels?
This ad keeps making me chuckle.
Enjoy if you have not seen it or rewatch as it is just gold.
This ad keeps making me chuckle.
Enjoy if you have not seen it or rewatch as it is just gold.
November 11, 2025 at 8:04 AM
What if we had no electricity and everything ran on fossil fuels?
This ad keeps making me chuckle.
Enjoy if you have not seen it or rewatch as it is just gold.
This ad keeps making me chuckle.
Enjoy if you have not seen it or rewatch as it is just gold.
Reposted by ecowen
There's an army of people out there telling us change is impossible.
Only that it is not.
10 years ago electric vehicles plaid almost no role in global car sales.
Today one in five cars sold worldwide is electric.
Only that it is not.
10 years ago electric vehicles plaid almost no role in global car sales.
Today one in five cars sold worldwide is electric.
November 11, 2025 at 10:34 AM
There's an army of people out there telling us change is impossible.
Only that it is not.
10 years ago electric vehicles plaid almost no role in global car sales.
Today one in five cars sold worldwide is electric.
Only that it is not.
10 years ago electric vehicles plaid almost no role in global car sales.
Today one in five cars sold worldwide is electric.
Reposted by ecowen
The spyware that is now in ICE's hands has been (by another government) against journalists and activists in Italy, as well as a top CEO, and a political consultant. Matteo Renzi, Italy's former prime minister, calls it the Italian Watergate. Now it's landed here: www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Tech giants vow to defend users in US as spyware companies make inroads with Trump administration
Apple and WhatsApp say they will keep warning users if their phones are targeted by governments using hacking software against them
www.theguardian.com
November 10, 2025 at 6:22 PM
The spyware that is now in ICE's hands has been (by another government) against journalists and activists in Italy, as well as a top CEO, and a political consultant. Matteo Renzi, Italy's former prime minister, calls it the Italian Watergate. Now it's landed here: www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Reposted by ecowen
I’ve been saying this for the past couple of years.
Talked about the prospect of another pipeline and Carney's recent comments on my Monday political panel.
As I said, the biggest impediment isn't regulations or even Indigenous opposition but the lack of a viable business case.
www.nationalobserver.com/2025/10/23/o...
As I said, the biggest impediment isn't regulations or even Indigenous opposition but the lack of a viable business case.
www.nationalobserver.com/2025/10/23/o...
Danielle Smith’s pipeline still doesn’t have a business case
The biggest obstacle standing in the way of another pipeline to the West Coast isn't the tanker ban or federal climate policies. It's oil prices and the nature of the businesses that rely on them for ...
www.nationalobserver.com
November 10, 2025 at 6:17 PM
I’ve been saying this for the past couple of years.
Reposted by ecowen
No proof will ever be enough for the denialists but here’s yet another example of the thing they say isn’t happening - children’s remains being returned to their families. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
After 8 decades, Alma Beaulieu, who died at an N.W.T. residential school, is home | CBC News
For generations, the family of five-year-old Alma Beaulieu didn’t know what happened when she died at St. Joseph’s Residential School in Fort Resolution, N.W.T. More than 80 years later, Alma's sister...
www.cbc.ca
November 10, 2025 at 4:47 PM
No proof will ever be enough for the denialists but here’s yet another example of the thing they say isn’t happening - children’s remains being returned to their families. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Reposted by ecowen
Legal experts and politicians criticise process used to ban Palestine Action
Legal experts and politicians criticise process used to ban Palestine Action
Independent commission says definition of terrorism relied on by ministers is too broad and more parliamentary oversight is needed
Legal experts, former government ministers and an ex-MI6 director have criticised the process used to ban Palestine Action.
The members of an independent commission set up by the Bingham Centre for the Rule of Law said the definition of terrorism was too broad and better parliamentary oversight and judicial scrutiny was needed. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 10, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Legal experts and politicians criticise process used to ban Palestine Action
No viable third party to punish the two payola parties means working class Americans get screwed once again. Decades of being played by Washington & pundits wonder why democracy is in peril? The rich win every time.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/09/p...
www.cnn.com/2025/11/09/p...
Senate advances deal to reopen government after centrist Democrats strike major deal to end shutdown | CNN Politics
A critical bloc of eight Senate Democratic centrists on Sunday helped advance a funding deal to reopen the government in exchange for a future vote on extending enhanced Affordable Care subsidies, put...
www.cnn.com
November 10, 2025 at 4:26 AM
No viable third party to punish the two payola parties means working class Americans get screwed once again. Decades of being played by Washington & pundits wonder why democracy is in peril? The rich win every time.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/09/p...
www.cnn.com/2025/11/09/p...
Reposted by ecowen
Every major policy that makes life in Canada great: healthcare, pensions, paid time off - the Cons fought against it.
They’ve never been on the side of progress, only the side of power. And if given the chance, they’d take it all back. Women’s rights, workers’ rights, healthcare, all of it.
They’ve never been on the side of progress, only the side of power. And if given the chance, they’d take it all back. Women’s rights, workers’ rights, healthcare, all of it.
November 10, 2025 at 4:13 AM
Every major policy that makes life in Canada great: healthcare, pensions, paid time off - the Cons fought against it.
They’ve never been on the side of progress, only the side of power. And if given the chance, they’d take it all back. Women’s rights, workers’ rights, healthcare, all of it.
They’ve never been on the side of progress, only the side of power. And if given the chance, they’d take it all back. Women’s rights, workers’ rights, healthcare, all of it.
Reposted by ecowen
'I saw the Prince of Darkness, with his Staff,
Standing bare-headed by the Cenotaph:
Unostentatious and respectful, there
He stood, and offered up the following prayer.
‘Make them forget, O Lord, what this Memorial
Means; their discredited ideas revive'
Standing bare-headed by the Cenotaph:
Unostentatious and respectful, there
He stood, and offered up the following prayer.
‘Make them forget, O Lord, what this Memorial
Means; their discredited ideas revive'
At the Cenotaph, by Siegfried Sassoon
I saw the Prince of Darkness, wit…
Standing bare-headed by the Cenot…
Unostentatious and respectful, the…
He stood, and offered up the follo…
‘Make them forget, O Lord, what t…
www.poeticous.com
November 9, 2025 at 1:54 PM
'I saw the Prince of Darkness, with his Staff,
Standing bare-headed by the Cenotaph:
Unostentatious and respectful, there
He stood, and offered up the following prayer.
‘Make them forget, O Lord, what this Memorial
Means; their discredited ideas revive'
Standing bare-headed by the Cenotaph:
Unostentatious and respectful, there
He stood, and offered up the following prayer.
‘Make them forget, O Lord, what this Memorial
Means; their discredited ideas revive'
Reposted by ecowen
The deprivation of food is done with the specific intent to cause death, or with "malice aforethought" (extreme recklessness or "depraved heart" that shows a reckless indifference to human life), the charge can be first or second-degree murder.
November 9, 2025 at 3:44 PM
The deprivation of food is done with the specific intent to cause death, or with "malice aforethought" (extreme recklessness or "depraved heart" that shows a reckless indifference to human life), the charge can be first or second-degree murder.
Reposted by ecowen
Yep. Has NYT devoted even *one* stand alone news analysis to the collapse of the MAGA coalition?
After a week in which Dems exceeded expectations in elections, Trump's popularity continues to tank, the GOP largely abandoned the task of governing (just as Thanksgiving travel approaches), I'm a bit surprised to see many more stories highlighting weakness in the Dem than in the GOP coalition.
This NYT framing is ludicrously overstated. Sure, there are primaries. But if anything, the results showed a lot of Dems that there's a way to unify the factions around anti-Trump and affordability politics (as I try to argue in the piece/thread below).
November 9, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Yep. Has NYT devoted even *one* stand alone news analysis to the collapse of the MAGA coalition?
Reposted by ecowen
"Plans for Australia's new $7 billion Redback infantry fighting vehicles have been stolen and posted online by Iran-backed hackers following a spate of attacks on Israeli arms companies." 👁️ www.skynews.com.au/australia-ne... "Cyber Toufan, a hacking group believed to have ties to the Iranian state"
Iran-backed hackers steal plans for new Australian fighting vehicles
Plans for Australia's new $7 billion Redback infantry fighting vehicles have been stolen and posted online by Iran-backed hackers following a spate of attacks on Israeli arms companies.
www.skynews.com.au
November 9, 2025 at 6:36 PM
"Plans for Australia's new $7 billion Redback infantry fighting vehicles have been stolen and posted online by Iran-backed hackers following a spate of attacks on Israeli arms companies." 👁️ www.skynews.com.au/australia-ne... "Cyber Toufan, a hacking group believed to have ties to the Iranian state"
Reposted by ecowen
Possibly the saddest exchange I've seen on social media, transformed into a living nightmare because
1 - Oates' target is arbitrarily responsible for 100,000s of deaths
2 - We don't yet have the social tools, at scale, to address either the tragedy of the exchange, or the immense tragedy of the act
1 - Oates' target is arbitrarily responsible for 100,000s of deaths
2 - We don't yet have the social tools, at scale, to address either the tragedy of the exchange, or the immense tragedy of the act
November 9, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Possibly the saddest exchange I've seen on social media, transformed into a living nightmare because
1 - Oates' target is arbitrarily responsible for 100,000s of deaths
2 - We don't yet have the social tools, at scale, to address either the tragedy of the exchange, or the immense tragedy of the act
1 - Oates' target is arbitrarily responsible for 100,000s of deaths
2 - We don't yet have the social tools, at scale, to address either the tragedy of the exchange, or the immense tragedy of the act
Reposted by ecowen
"An article published by The Times suggested that Iran was making donations to Palestine Action "via proxies"
It turned out that the story was allegedly planted in the British press by a PR firm working for an Israeli weapons company. Read the full report from Joshua Carroll: novara.media/4hLyeUx "
It turned out that the story was allegedly planted in the British press by a PR firm working for an Israeli weapons company. Read the full report from Joshua Carroll: novara.media/4hLyeUx "
November 9, 2025 at 10:08 AM
"An article published by The Times suggested that Iran was making donations to Palestine Action "via proxies"
It turned out that the story was allegedly planted in the British press by a PR firm working for an Israeli weapons company. Read the full report from Joshua Carroll: novara.media/4hLyeUx "
It turned out that the story was allegedly planted in the British press by a PR firm working for an Israeli weapons company. Read the full report from Joshua Carroll: novara.media/4hLyeUx "
Reposted by ecowen
I never expected to write about my time rigging card games. Then I watched him get elected in 2016. I hinted at it with a post. When Kavanaugh was sworn in, I’d had enough. The book is set in the world of crooked poker, but that’s not what it’s about. It’s about what’s happening to all of us now.
October 26, 2025 at 7:45 PM
I never expected to write about my time rigging card games. Then I watched him get elected in 2016. I hinted at it with a post. When Kavanaugh was sworn in, I’d had enough. The book is set in the world of crooked poker, but that’s not what it’s about. It’s about what’s happening to all of us now.
Reposted by ecowen
But, this month is Scouting for Food, and Troop and Pack 98 responded knowing just how dire the situations were.
Car after car after car came in, wagons arriving on foot, bag after bag coming out of the cars.
Those scouts filled those shelves. And the back room. And the hallway.
Car after car after car came in, wagons arriving on foot, bag after bag coming out of the cars.
Those scouts filled those shelves. And the back room. And the hallway.
November 8, 2025 at 8:03 PM
But, this month is Scouting for Food, and Troop and Pack 98 responded knowing just how dire the situations were.
Car after car after car came in, wagons arriving on foot, bag after bag coming out of the cars.
Those scouts filled those shelves. And the back room. And the hallway.
Car after car after car came in, wagons arriving on foot, bag after bag coming out of the cars.
Those scouts filled those shelves. And the back room. And the hallway.
Reposted by ecowen
“When Sora finished generating those videos it sent us notifications like ‘Your choke scene just went live, brace for chaos,’ and ‘Yikes, intense choke scene, watch responsibly.’”
OpenAI’s Sora 2 Floods Social Media With Videos of Women Being Strangled
X and TikTok accounts are dedicated to posting AI-generated videos of women being strangled.
www.404media.co
November 8, 2025 at 8:53 AM
“When Sora finished generating those videos it sent us notifications like ‘Your choke scene just went live, brace for chaos,’ and ‘Yikes, intense choke scene, watch responsibly.’”