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For years (and YEARS) I've been saying do not trust VAERS reports. There is no vetting, no statistical relevancy. It's pure anecdote.
Pretty much ANY statistic you see cited to frighten you about vaccines comes from the VAERS database. (Including the recent evidence-free missive from Vinay Prasad). Here's why VAERS can NEVER be a proper source for population-level vaccine risk estimates.
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November 30, 2025 at 2:10 PM
For years (and YEARS) I've been saying do not trust VAERS reports. There is no vetting, no statistical relevancy. It's pure anecdote.
Canada should follow suit
“Our mid-term goal should be the complete phase-out of Microsoft products, including the Windows operating system. It’s easier than it sounds.”
A cross-party group of lawmakers are pushing for the European Parliament to get off US tech, starting with Microsoft.
A cross-party group of lawmakers are pushing for the European Parliament to get off US tech, starting with Microsoft.
Get us off Microsoft! Lawmakers press EU Parliament to change in-house IT.
“We cannot afford this level of dependence on foreign tech,” lawmakers say in letter obtained by POLITICO.
www.politico.eu
November 25, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Canada should follow suit
from government by consultant to government by consultants using generative AI.
decades of degrading government capacity to actually govern has left it open to further degradation through ai hype and perceptions it enables further cost cutting.
decades of degrading government capacity to actually govern has left it open to further degradation through ai hype and perceptions it enables further cost cutting.
Major N.L. healthcare report contains errors likely generated by A.I. – The Independent
$1.6 million Health Human Resources Plan from Deloitte cites research papers that don’t exist, making it the second major government policy paper called into question in as many months
theindependent.ca
November 22, 2025 at 10:50 PM
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Excited to share that I’ll be speaking at Memorial University on Friday!
If you’re in St. John’s, make sure to come out. I’ll be talking about how I became a tech critic and how I‘m seeing the current challenges with generative AI and digital sovereignty.
If you’re in St. John’s, make sure to come out. I’ll be talking about how I became a tech critic and how I‘m seeing the current challenges with generative AI and digital sovereignty.
"Becoming an AI Critic", with Paris Marx (Tech Won't Save Us) | Political Science
www.mun.ca
November 19, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Excited to share that I’ll be speaking at Memorial University on Friday!
If you’re in St. John’s, make sure to come out. I’ll be talking about how I became a tech critic and how I‘m seeing the current challenges with generative AI and digital sovereignty.
If you’re in St. John’s, make sure to come out. I’ll be talking about how I became a tech critic and how I‘m seeing the current challenges with generative AI and digital sovereignty.
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Looks like The Thing is trying to assimilate an entire town and doing a poor job trying to keep it's shit together.
This mural has gone up in Kingston, ostensibly for Christmas but AI has ensured it's actually to celebrate the return of our dark lord Cthulhu
November 18, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Looks like The Thing is trying to assimilate an entire town and doing a poor job trying to keep it's shit together.
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so cool that mark carney is gutting climate policy to make a very expensive bet that asia will buy a ton of additional oil and gas from canada over the next few decades
"Far from a peak, China's gasoline demand is estimated to have fallen 9% in October on the year to 12.5 million tons, with average daily use roughly flat with September..."
China's oil demand is entering structural decline.
China's oil demand is entering structural decline.
EVs put an end to China's usual holiday surge in gasoline use
Tianyu Jiang took a 2,000-km (1,200-mile) road trip this month during China's national holiday week, driving in his electric vehicle from the southwestern Sichuan basin to Beijing for the first time.
www.reuters.com
November 10, 2025 at 7:42 AM
so cool that mark carney is gutting climate policy to make a very expensive bet that asia will buy a ton of additional oil and gas from canada over the next few decades
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Up She Rises! A public forum presented by @nlhistorical.bsky.social about women and gender in Newfoundland and Labrador Historical is happening this weekend.
A free event in person at @memorialu.bsky.social or online. To attend, visit the NLHS website here: www.nlhistory.ca/program/
A free event in person at @memorialu.bsky.social or online. To attend, visit the NLHS website here: www.nlhistory.ca/program/
November 8, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Up She Rises! A public forum presented by @nlhistorical.bsky.social about women and gender in Newfoundland and Labrador Historical is happening this weekend.
A free event in person at @memorialu.bsky.social or online. To attend, visit the NLHS website here: www.nlhistory.ca/program/
A free event in person at @memorialu.bsky.social or online. To attend, visit the NLHS website here: www.nlhistory.ca/program/
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I was selfish and took the milestone episode to explain why we must get off US tech, some options that are already available to us, but also why our governments need to step up.
We can’t keep allowing the US government and Silicon Valley billionaires to have so much power over us!
We can’t keep allowing the US government and Silicon Valley billionaires to have so much power over us!
Tech Won’t Save Us is celebrating 300 episodes! 🎉
This week @parismarx.com took over the show to discuss an issue that’s been motivating a lot of his work this year: the problem with our dependence on US tech and why we need digital sovereignty!
Full ep: techwontsave.us/episode/300_...
This week @parismarx.com took over the show to discuss an issue that’s been motivating a lot of his work this year: the problem with our dependence on US tech and why we need digital sovereignty!
Full ep: techwontsave.us/episode/300_...
October 31, 2025 at 12:18 PM
I was selfish and took the milestone episode to explain why we must get off US tech, some options that are already available to us, but also why our governments need to step up.
We can’t keep allowing the US government and Silicon Valley billionaires to have so much power over us!
We can’t keep allowing the US government and Silicon Valley billionaires to have so much power over us!
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The AI industry wants us to believe AI superintelligence is the real threat from generative AI.
But that narrative was crafted to distract from the many ways genAI is being used to tear our societies apart, as we saw this week when a deepfake video rocked the Irish election. It must be reined in.
But that narrative was crafted to distract from the many ways genAI is being used to tear our societies apart, as we saw this week when a deepfake video rocked the Irish election. It must be reined in.
Generative AI is a societal disaster
Governments are deluding themselves into believing investment justifies allowing AI to upend society
disconnect.blog
October 24, 2025 at 10:12 AM
The AI industry wants us to believe AI superintelligence is the real threat from generative AI.
But that narrative was crafted to distract from the many ways genAI is being used to tear our societies apart, as we saw this week when a deepfake video rocked the Irish election. It must be reined in.
But that narrative was crafted to distract from the many ways genAI is being used to tear our societies apart, as we saw this week when a deepfake video rocked the Irish election. It must be reined in.
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someone needs to ask mark carney why, if canada is the “most european of non-european nations,” all of our peers can offer pharmacare as part of their universal healthcare systems but canada still can’t after all these years?
October 23, 2025 at 3:43 AM
someone needs to ask mark carney why, if canada is the “most european of non-european nations,” all of our peers can offer pharmacare as part of their universal healthcare systems but canada still can’t after all these years?
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Why does everyone keep calling it “The Epstein Ballroom?” Please stop repeating “The Epstein Ballroom” because it is not called “The Epstein Ballroom!” Don’t tell the news that it’s called “The Epstein Ballroom” and please don’t repost this!!!!!
October 22, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Why does everyone keep calling it “The Epstein Ballroom?” Please stop repeating “The Epstein Ballroom” because it is not called “The Epstein Ballroom!” Don’t tell the news that it’s called “The Epstein Ballroom” and please don’t repost this!!!!!
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How stupid do Canada’s far-right extremists think we are?
Last night, Diagolon's Jeremy MacKenzie trotted out an old refrain: his followers are, effectively, just podcast fans.
There’s a clear implication: how could anyone serious take issue with that?
But uh, let's check the receipts:
Last night, Diagolon's Jeremy MacKenzie trotted out an old refrain: his followers are, effectively, just podcast fans.
There’s a clear implication: how could anyone serious take issue with that?
But uh, let's check the receipts:
October 20, 2025 at 9:25 PM
How stupid do Canada’s far-right extremists think we are?
Last night, Diagolon's Jeremy MacKenzie trotted out an old refrain: his followers are, effectively, just podcast fans.
There’s a clear implication: how could anyone serious take issue with that?
But uh, let's check the receipts:
Last night, Diagolon's Jeremy MacKenzie trotted out an old refrain: his followers are, effectively, just podcast fans.
There’s a clear implication: how could anyone serious take issue with that?
But uh, let's check the receipts:
In a world where the Conservative Party is doing its best Trump impression and the Liberal Party is doing its best Conservative impression, we need more than two options.
That’s why you have a dog in the NDP leadership race.
Here's what you need to know about it:
That’s why you have a dog in the NDP leadership race.
Here's what you need to know about it:
October 17, 2025 at 10:58 AM
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i remember when i worked for a car dealership and they told me employee pricing aren’t actually the best prices and sometimes the cars are even cheaper the month before, but people think it is because of how it’s marketed
Our personal tech columnist @geoffreyfowler.bsky.social tracked the prices of a bunch of items on Amazon ahead of the latest Prime Day sale.
Turns out only a few prices went down, many stayed the same... and several went significantly *up.* www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
Turns out only a few prices went down, many stayed the same... and several went significantly *up.* www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
Column | I tracked Amazon’s Prime Day prices. We’ve been played.
Here’s what you should do to actually get a good deal on Amazon.
www.washingtonpost.com
October 9, 2025 at 6:37 PM
i remember when i worked for a car dealership and they told me employee pricing aren’t actually the best prices and sometimes the cars are even cheaper the month before, but people think it is because of how it’s marketed
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Shelter-in-place order issued for Livingstone area in downtown St. John’s ntv.ca/news/shelter...
Shelter-in-place order issued for Livingstone area in downtown St. John's - NTV
A shelter-in-place order has been issued for the area that encompasses Lemarchant Road, Lime Street, Livingstone Street, and Barters Hill. This includes Cabot Street, Barters Hill Place, and Stephen P...
ntv.ca
October 9, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Shelter-in-place order issued for Livingstone area in downtown St. John’s ntv.ca/news/shelter...
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YVES ENGLER HASNT EVEN APPLIED TO RUN FOR NDP LEADERSHIP???????????
And he’s been accepting donations while implying he applied but hasn’t been approved yet???
Omg 🤦♀️
Article here: www.thestar.com/politics/fed...
And he’s been accepting donations while implying he applied but hasn’t been approved yet???
Omg 🤦♀️
Article here: www.thestar.com/politics/fed...
October 7, 2025 at 1:27 AM
YVES ENGLER HASNT EVEN APPLIED TO RUN FOR NDP LEADERSHIP???????????
And he’s been accepting donations while implying he applied but hasn’t been approved yet???
Omg 🤦♀️
Article here: www.thestar.com/politics/fed...
And he’s been accepting donations while implying he applied but hasn’t been approved yet???
Omg 🤦♀️
Article here: www.thestar.com/politics/fed...
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Macron remarks are notable- some quotes: "We have been incredibly naive in entrusting our democratic space to social networks that are controlled either by large American entrepreneurs or large Chinese companies, whose interests are not at all the survival or proper functioning of our democracies."
President Macron: “Europeans, let's wake up!
We have been incredibly naive in entrusting our democratic space to social networks.”
defenddemocracy.eu/macron-democ...
We have been incredibly naive in entrusting our democratic space to social networks.”
defenddemocracy.eu/macron-democ...
October 4, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Macron remarks are notable- some quotes: "We have been incredibly naive in entrusting our democratic space to social networks that are controlled either by large American entrepreneurs or large Chinese companies, whose interests are not at all the survival or proper functioning of our democracies."
Reposted by Finn
President Macron: “Europeans, let's wake up!
We have been incredibly naive in entrusting our democratic space to social networks.”
defenddemocracy.eu/macron-democ...
We have been incredibly naive in entrusting our democratic space to social networks.”
defenddemocracy.eu/macron-democ...
October 4, 2025 at 10:52 AM
President Macron: “Europeans, let's wake up!
We have been incredibly naive in entrusting our democratic space to social networks.”
defenddemocracy.eu/macron-democ...
We have been incredibly naive in entrusting our democratic space to social networks.”
defenddemocracy.eu/macron-democ...
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Obviously, this is loser shit, but I think AI has really cemented itself as the visual language of fascism. It's anti-human, flattened, uninteresting, and cheap. It's like looking at a Potemkin Village and thinking that's the same as architecture.
October 3, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Obviously, this is loser shit, but I think AI has really cemented itself as the visual language of fascism. It's anti-human, flattened, uninteresting, and cheap. It's like looking at a Potemkin Village and thinking that's the same as architecture.
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As I’m typing these words, Israel is illegally intercepting the Global Sumud Flotilla that is trying to break the siege on Gaza.
This is an illegal enforcement of an illegal blockade.
So I reached out to the Canadian government to see what they would do for the six Canadians on board:
This is an illegal enforcement of an illegal blockade.
So I reached out to the Canadian government to see what they would do for the six Canadians on board:
October 1, 2025 at 9:09 PM
As I’m typing these words, Israel is illegally intercepting the Global Sumud Flotilla that is trying to break the siege on Gaza.
This is an illegal enforcement of an illegal blockade.
So I reached out to the Canadian government to see what they would do for the six Canadians on board:
This is an illegal enforcement of an illegal blockade.
So I reached out to the Canadian government to see what they would do for the six Canadians on board:
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Good job to the federal government for causing a national postal strike in the middle of the municipal and provincial elections taking place in Newfoundland and Labrador.
Real pros at considering the consequences of their actions.
Real pros at considering the consequences of their actions.
Cities making backup plans as postal strike hits Newfoundland and Labrador elections | Globalnews.ca
Canada Post workers have gone on strike in the midst of municipal and provincial elections, leaving officials racing to find contingency plans for mail-in ballots.
globalnews.ca
September 27, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Good job to the federal government for causing a national postal strike in the middle of the municipal and provincial elections taking place in Newfoundland and Labrador.
Real pros at considering the consequences of their actions.
Real pros at considering the consequences of their actions.
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6 days ago Liberal MP Vince Gasparro smeared and ‘banned’ Kneecap from Canada (forcing them to cancel tour dates) just 3 days after meeting with an Israeli lobby group, using this bogus terrorism charge as reasoning.
Seems a public apology is in order.
Seems a public apology is in order.
Terror charge against Kneecap band member thrown out by court
Terror charge against Kneecap band member thrown out by court
www.independent.co.uk
September 26, 2025 at 12:24 PM
6 days ago Liberal MP Vince Gasparro smeared and ‘banned’ Kneecap from Canada (forcing them to cancel tour dates) just 3 days after meeting with an Israeli lobby group, using this bogus terrorism charge as reasoning.
Seems a public apology is in order.
Seems a public apology is in order.
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Social media was once positioned as the great connecting force that would improve our world. If it ever did that, it certainly isn’t now.
We must rein in these platforms, and deceptive narratives aimed at stopped regulation isn’t helping. Age restrictions are an experiment worth trying.
We must rein in these platforms, and deceptive narratives aimed at stopped regulation isn’t helping. Age restrictions are an experiment worth trying.
Social media causes more harm than good
We need to stop falling for anti-regulation hysteria if we’re to get control of digital harms
disconnect.blog
September 19, 2025 at 6:27 PM