@andrewwahl
B2B tech content marketing strategist and still sometime journalist. andrewwahl.ca Proud husband and dad. Cottage DIYer 🛠️ Jays fan ⚾️ Canadian indie rocker🤘🏻 Craft beer quaffer 🍻 Sci-fi nerd 👽 Fierce ally of good people. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧🌎 (He/Him)
DHS nominee Markwayne Mullin is one of the most active stock-traders in the Senate — and violated the STOCK Act against insider trading as recently as last August.
He currently holds stock in L3Harris, which has millions in contracts with ICE and FEMA.
The grift continues.
Instead of spending $50 billion to bankroll Trump’s criminal war on Iran, we could:
-Extend ACA subsidies for one year
-Restore SNAP benefits for 2.4 million people
-And ensure Medicaid coverage for nearly 2 million people
It’s not about what we can afford. It’s about priorities.
Yeah that’s not good. There is not much point to a Canadian social platform if they can’t keep non-Canadians out.
It is still in beta and very much not fully baked so will see how it progresses.
I have interest in the localization feed features of Eh! but it’s also WIP.
I think that Gander pulls in your BlueSky feed, but I'm not sure if someone comments there that it shows up here. So useful for someone following you, but not to interact with you.
I actually signed up for Gander and it is, so far, a pleasant Canadian experience. But how many feeds do you need?
This is a profound continental divide. Canadians overwhelmingly view other Canadians, even those unlike them, as being good people. Americans, more than any other country, view their neighbours and fellow citizens as bad people. Anti-Americanism flourishes in the United States
Ya’ think? What twigged you to that idea?
Besides, while there have been many data analyses of that other place, most bashing of BlueSky come from individual experiences.
From *my* limited POV, I have seen a variety of opinions. Just because this platform isn’t awash with fascists and hate-mongers doesn’t make it an echo chamber.
I mean, it is odd that everyone decrying this place as an 'echo chamber' is totally comfortable hanging out on the Nazi CSAM web site run by a white supremacist who fine tuned its algorithm to turn users fascist
“Buried in the cascade of news this week, Sadie Gurman and Caitlin Ostroff of the Wall Street Journal reported yesterday that 47,635 files are missing from the #Epsteinfiles documents that the #JusticeDepartment has made public.” open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
We need less women's shelters and more men's shelters. Abusive men should be forced to flee their homes and live in institutions, not their spouses and children.
So true.
there's a lot going on right now but did you know a massive amount of the world's fertilizer flows through the middle east, and did you know that that fertilizer needs to be shipped to the us *right now* for planting season, and uh did you know we are at war with iran
Iran’s Strategy: Expand the War, Increase the Cost, Outlast Trump
The Islamic Republic is aiming to draw out the conflict and broaden the fighting. That would force Trump to risk more casualties and more political capital.
If only I could just avoid using the thing that drives people to suicide, but it’s the future and I can’t be left behind.
Also, Catherine O’Hara’s birthday.
I know journalism is a rapidly deteriorating industry, but it also feels like fighting a losing battle when folks on here are mostly sharing articles to dunk on them, rather than solid pieces from journos and critics out here trying our best every day to stay working and writing
Well isn’t that just fucking great. 🤬
I’ll second that nomination.
I hope Kelly’s sides hurt from laughing so hard at this.
Clearly he has nothing better to do.
Maybe he should post on AITA (spoiler: he is).
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LLM makers makers do not want you to be able to understand. It's about turning the means of understanding and sensemaking into externalized products to rent.
May he soon ride into a burning hellmouth in a golf cart fatly.
She's like an old samurai whose great battles are behind her but every once in a while she kills a man with piece of paper just to prove a point
As someone clinging desperately to scientific rationality with *both hands*, I request an end to all of these excessively timely apocalyptic omens
Mea culpa: as @michellecyca.com corrected me, B.C. will be 3 hours behind Ontario during daylight time, and then when Ontario falls back to standard time, B.C. will be two hours behind, the same as Mountain Time.
That makes a lot more sense.
It will be baffling for USA West Coasters though.
Right! I rarely get anything about time change correct. Lol. Thank you.
So come fall, Ontario will be four hours ahead of BC? Newfoundland and Labrador 6.5 hours? And crossing from Alberta’s MT into BC moves clocks back two hours? Am I getting this right?
The Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps says the Strait of Hormuz is now closed and any vessel attempting to pass through it will be attacked.
That’s one of the world’s major transit routes for oil and gas.
March is the only month that is also a verb wait no we forgot about May never mind as you were
There is a new axis of evil in the world: Trump, Putin and Netanyahu.
One of my favourite sides of politics/media.