It looks like UCP cabinet minister Nathan Neudorf’s plan to split the City of Lethbridge into 3-4 sprawling rural-urban ridings wasn’t adopted by the commission. The city retains the 2 urban ridings it’s had since 1971.
I broke the story on Neudorf’s plan here: daveberta.substack.com/p/ucp-mla-na...

Local woman wakes up, gets Danielle Smith a new job in Saudi Arabia, sends all the separatists to join her there, promotes Naheed Nenshi to premier, makes oatmeal.

Scoop: Trump has started demolishing the White House's East Wing facade to build his ballroom. The president had claimed construction of the $250 million building wouldn’t ‘interfere’ with the existing White House structure. /W @ddiamond.bsky.social wapo.st/4hqBNiU

“Average musician makes $12 a month on Spotify. The fact that they are not even able to sell a record and it’s taken from them by rich motherfuckers on streaming platforms who get paid royally by record labels,Ticketmaster, merch companies. They’re all fucking getting paid, except for the musician.”

This is the future of Windows. Microsoft wants to rewrite Windows to turn computers into AI PCs that you talk to. It's now bringing AI features to all Windows 11 PCs today, in a bid to convince you to talk to your PC and let AI control it. Full details 👇 www.theverge.com/news/799768/...

The "cognitive decline and brain damage from repeat COVID infections" and "easy to use robot that makes slop and melts your critical thinking skills" is a hell of a combo in a post-fact media ecosystem

there’s this weird idea a lot of people seem to have about how all of us writers and artists must secretly want to use AI and are merely resisting temptation for ethical reasons, and like, no, it’s not hard for me to resist drinking the bowl of Piss With Glass In It actually

👇🇨🇦"Justice minister rejects premiers' request to pull out of notwithstanding clause case" #NotwithstandingClause #JusticeMinisterSeanFraser #CharterOfRightsAndFreedoms #Canada

An actual hot take: Too many authors are afraid of editors watering down their voice or whatever and not afraid enough of editors letting you put any old slop on the page.