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Saving money on, and with, tech!

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Meant to watch this since it came out. It's an hour long, heavy, & sobering.

He left Google in 2023. One of the fathers of AI.

AI's not all bad. He has an interesting solution to avert disaster. But, capitalism. 😞

So even with people speaking up, & fighting back... 😢

youtu.be/OpB7IWd0l9Q
Geoffrey Hinton vs. The End of the World
YouTube video by The Globe and Mail
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“The organized white nationalist movement in Canada is the biggest it's been in modern history. A big part of that is Second Sons Canada, the Dominion Society, Diagolon, the Active Club movement.”
Growing white nationalist group behind broad daylight demonstration in London on Sunday | CBC News
An apparent white nationalist demonstration on a busy overpass near London, Ont.'s downtown on Sunday afternoon is concerning for witnesses and experts who track extremist behaviour.
www.cbc.ca
November 25, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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We could live in a country where we reduce our energy bills, clean our air and water, revitalize our communities, take back our energy sovereignty, and create thousands of good-paying union jobs in the process.

The secret? Public ownership.
November 24, 2025 at 9:41 PM
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Republicans have a million ideas regarding health care. Except one.

They will never acknowledge that health care is a human right — to be guaranteed to ALL.
November 24, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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The Trump administration's pressure on European regulators is having an impact, with fewer restrictions on Big Tech and canceled measures. www.wired.com/story/europe...
Europe Is Bending the Knee to the US on Tech Policy
The Trump administration's pressure on European regulators is having an impact, with fewer restrictions on Big Tech and canceled measures.
www.wired.com
November 24, 2025 at 7:06 AM
Indeed. Now that I'm back into Linux, I can breathe new life into my and others' old laptop and desktops too.

I already use my old phones as music phones (and emergency backup/tiny tablet on wifi).
If the economy relies on us re-purchasing durable goods every two years, the economy is broken.

It didn't have to be this way.

We didn't have to let investors do this to us.
www.cnbc.com/2025/11/23/h... "please, buy new phone. the economy is dying" is an incredible gaslight
November 24, 2025 at 1:21 AM
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If the economy relies on us re-purchasing durable goods every two years, the economy is broken.

It didn't have to be this way.

We didn't have to let investors do this to us.
November 24, 2025 at 1:17 AM
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Meta halted internal research that purportedly showed (young) people who stopped using Facebook became less depressed and anxious, according to an unredacted legal filing released on Friday. www.cnbc.com/2025/11/23/m...
Meta halted internal research suggesting social media harm, court filing alleges
Meta is alleged to have halted internal research suggesting social media harm, according to court documents.
www.cnbc.com
November 24, 2025 at 12:31 AM
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Canadians don’t need more platitudes or private market incentives, they need real solutions.

We can't rely on the market to fix what it broke. We need a massive, wartime-level investment in affordable public housing.

Housing is a human right. Let's start acting like it.
November 22, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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Today is National Housing Day. I write this from Vancouver, one of Canada’s wealthiest cities, and where homelessness reached an all-time high this year.

It wasn’t always this way. Canada has a massive deficit of affordable public housing, ever since Liberal governments slashed funding in the 90s.
November 22, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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There need to be social consequences for enacting anti-evidence policies that kill kids.

One of Danielle Smith’s staffers just called me over (??) at an event wanting to say hi.

Once I realized who she was, immediately questioned her about trans rights.
November 22, 2025 at 4:28 AM
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In a country the size of Canada, we need a public option for cell phone service.

It can be a matter of life and death.

www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...
Why Canada’s roadways are studded with cell phone ‘dead zones’
Ottawa has not adequately pushed cellphone companies to increase coverage, experts say, preventing people in emergencies from receiving help
www.theglobeandmail.com
November 21, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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Immigration is frequently scapegoated for problems actually caused by oligarchs' greed and the numbers show it. We need to keep focused on the singular truth: billionaires are the reason food and shelter are unaffordable in Canada and beyond.
November 21, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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this man has blood on his hands and everyone who supported him and excused him has blood on their hands and I do not want to hear a single fucking Democrat with any position other than "impeach and remove him immediately"

he and his MAHA movement are child killers
Breaking News: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said he personally instructed the CDC to abandon its position that vaccines do not cause autism. The move underscores his determination to challenge scientific orthodoxy — in this case, that vaccines save lives — and bend the health department to his will.
RFK Jr. Says He Instructed CDC to Change Vaccines and Autism Language on Website
In an interview, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. cited gaps in vaccine safety research. His critics say he is ignoring a larger point: Vaccines save lives.
nyti.ms
November 21, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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cannot shake the feeling that if you showed me this pic one year ago today, i'd walk into the sea
Sounds about reich
November 20, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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The CAQ government is moving to allow Quebecers to purchase alcohol from other provinces and have it delivered to their doors by the middle of next year.
Quebec hoping to tear down provincial trade walls for alcohol by May
The CAQ government is moving to allow Quebecers to purchase alcohol from other provinces and have it delivered to their doors by the middle of next year.
bit.ly
November 20, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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Whoa she said it 🤯 good for her #OntarioNDP #FordIsCorrupt
November 19, 2025 at 11:03 PM
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This is beyond horrific.

ICE is responsible for the well-being of people in immigration detention and it is failing that responsibility miserably. Mr. Ge’s loved ones and the American people need answers immediately. www.newsweek.com/ice-detainee...
November 19, 2025 at 11:03 PM
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It doesn’t matter how much you exercise or how many veggies you eat when it comes to a pandemic.

These things will not stop it, and the shitbirds that Trump has installed in leading public health positions should be fired for even suggesting it would.
RFK Jr.’s Miasma Theory of Health Is Spreading
The NIH is picking up Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s argument that a healthy immune system can keep even pandemic germs at bay.
www.theatlantic.com
November 19, 2025 at 11:03 PM
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November 19, 2025 at 11:03 PM
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November 19, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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Alberta's government is engaged in something I can only describe as psychopathic politics.

What else do you call it when a government so set on pushing ahead with policies that WILL cause more trans youth to try to leave us?

When they'll trample on the charter to hurt these kids?

It's disturbing:
November 19, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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To quote Austin is Iike quoting a fox about a henhouse.
Homelessness in Halifax has increased by 400% since 2018 and it’s expected to continue to increase.

Sam Austin said he has “a lingering reluctance around the politics around the issue, and cautioned that closing encampments to meet political objectives would go awry.”

(by @jentaplin.bsky.social)
Halifax closing all designated homeless encampments within two years
Homelessness in Halifax has increased by 400 per cent since 2018, but city staff say fewer than 100 people are sleeping rough.
www.saltwire.com
November 19, 2025 at 12:05 PM
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Imagine never having stability, even if you are approved for a pallet. You can’t fart wrong without risk.

And while an apartment also carries risk because of the abuse of fixed term leases, at least you don’t risk losing it if you don’t come home for 4 days.
November 19, 2025 at 12:19 PM
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You are loved, you deserve to be safe, and we will make sure you are.

Please stay with us.

We need you ❤️
November 19, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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Growing up my favorite show was The X-Files, and my Dad, an FBI agent, strongly objected to the premise not because of aliens but because "there's no way the dumb motherfuckers above me could pull off that cover-up." That and Mulder's gratuitous travel budget
see this shit is why I’m skeptical of any successful coverup by the DOJ re: Epstein because these are just dumb motherfuckers
BREAKING: Prosecutors in the Comey case just told the judge that they’re under orders from the Deputy Attorney Generals’s office not to disclose whether career prosecutors wrote a memo recommending *against* indicting Comey prior to Halligan going to the grand jury.
November 19, 2025 at 4:17 PM