A-A-Ron
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Instead of watching Stranger Things, maybe we should start building stronger things, like the rule of law and a commitment to democratic norms
November 27, 2025 at 5:24 AM
Instead of watching Stranger Things, maybe we should start building stronger things, like the rule of law and a commitment to democratic norms
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Want millions in tax payer 💰 from the Skills Development Fund?
Hire a lobbyist.
Proportion of successful applicants using a lobbyist is up 60%
Lobbyists include Labour Minister's wife, Doug Ford's Campaign Manager, Conservative Party President.
#PaytoPlay #ONpoli
Hire a lobbyist.
Proportion of successful applicants using a lobbyist is up 60%
Lobbyists include Labour Minister's wife, Doug Ford's Campaign Manager, Conservative Party President.
#PaytoPlay #ONpoli
November 9, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Want millions in tax payer 💰 from the Skills Development Fund?
Hire a lobbyist.
Proportion of successful applicants using a lobbyist is up 60%
Lobbyists include Labour Minister's wife, Doug Ford's Campaign Manager, Conservative Party President.
#PaytoPlay #ONpoli
Hire a lobbyist.
Proportion of successful applicants using a lobbyist is up 60%
Lobbyists include Labour Minister's wife, Doug Ford's Campaign Manager, Conservative Party President.
#PaytoPlay #ONpoli
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Hi Bluesky 👋
Small life update: I’m at the centre of a multimillion dollar lawsuit in Alberta launched by a failed candidate for Jason Kenney’s UCP
It may be the longest and most expensive media trial in Canadian history
I’m ready to go public about it and I want to share more details with you 🧵
Small life update: I’m at the centre of a multimillion dollar lawsuit in Alberta launched by a failed candidate for Jason Kenney’s UCP
It may be the longest and most expensive media trial in Canadian history
I’m ready to go public about it and I want to share more details with you 🧵
November 7, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Hi Bluesky 👋
Small life update: I’m at the centre of a multimillion dollar lawsuit in Alberta launched by a failed candidate for Jason Kenney’s UCP
It may be the longest and most expensive media trial in Canadian history
I’m ready to go public about it and I want to share more details with you 🧵
Small life update: I’m at the centre of a multimillion dollar lawsuit in Alberta launched by a failed candidate for Jason Kenney’s UCP
It may be the longest and most expensive media trial in Canadian history
I’m ready to go public about it and I want to share more details with you 🧵
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If guaranteeing essentials sounds radical in 2025, it speaks to how far we’ve drifted from democracy’s core promise. Markets will not save democracy.
My new piece for @theguardian.com:
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
My new piece for @theguardian.com:
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Zohran Mamdani shows how Democrats can defeat authoritarians like Trump | Isabella Weber
Democrats have two choices: fight to make life affordable again for ordinary people or watch voters embrace authoritarians
www.theguardian.com
November 6, 2025 at 2:23 PM
If guaranteeing essentials sounds radical in 2025, it speaks to how far we’ve drifted from democracy’s core promise. Markets will not save democracy.
My new piece for @theguardian.com:
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
My new piece for @theguardian.com:
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Japan's "Mundane Halloween" costume contest is back!
Each year website DailyPortalZ holds a contest where people dress up as something super duper ordinary.
Here's a thread of some of my favorites from the 2025 contest!
#MundaneHalloween
Each year website DailyPortalZ holds a contest where people dress up as something super duper ordinary.
Here's a thread of some of my favorites from the 2025 contest!
#MundaneHalloween
November 2, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Japan's "Mundane Halloween" costume contest is back!
Each year website DailyPortalZ holds a contest where people dress up as something super duper ordinary.
Here's a thread of some of my favorites from the 2025 contest!
#MundaneHalloween
Each year website DailyPortalZ holds a contest where people dress up as something super duper ordinary.
Here's a thread of some of my favorites from the 2025 contest!
#MundaneHalloween
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I don't know why people aren't having more kids. We've tried everything from soaring inflation, suppressing wages, stripping rights, destroying public services, making literally everything more expensive, making literally everything more expensive in a different way, and sending in the marines
October 31, 2025 at 4:15 PM
I don't know why people aren't having more kids. We've tried everything from soaring inflation, suppressing wages, stripping rights, destroying public services, making literally everything more expensive, making literally everything more expensive in a different way, and sending in the marines
[Guy who’s profiting from the bubble]: “We’re not in a bubble!”
Nvidia's CEO Huang: I don't believe we're in an AI bubble.
October 28, 2025 at 7:05 PM
[Guy who’s profiting from the bubble]: “We’re not in a bubble!”
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“Nobody has to sleep at the office”
“But you’re tracking who isn’t right”
“We measure our employees commitment to the mission in a variety of industry leading metrics”
“But you’re tracking who isn’t right”
“We measure our employees commitment to the mission in a variety of industry leading metrics”
Absolutely obsessed with framing your employees sleeping on the floor as a humble brag
“Look how hard my team works” no dude you’re just bad at project management.
Competent companies ship products without cosplaying being homeless
“Look how hard my team works” no dude you’re just bad at project management.
Competent companies ship products without cosplaying being homeless
October 23, 2025 at 12:29 PM
“Nobody has to sleep at the office”
“But you’re tracking who isn’t right”
“We measure our employees commitment to the mission in a variety of industry leading metrics”
“But you’re tracking who isn’t right”
“We measure our employees commitment to the mission in a variety of industry leading metrics”
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oh so like when all PCs were going to be touchscreen tablets so let’s reorganise the OS entirely around that assumption
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/...
Microsoft wants you to talk to your PC and let AI control it
Copilot Voice and Vision are now rolling out.
www.theverge.com
October 16, 2025 at 3:32 PM
oh so like when all PCs were going to be touchscreen tablets so let’s reorganise the OS entirely around that assumption
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One of the many things I wish I had been wrong about is saying that back in the nineties, our leaders looked at climate change and said: We can’t do shit about this without measures we find unacceptable, so future generations will just have to deal with it via machine guns, fences and attack dogs.
October 12, 2025 at 1:35 AM
One of the many things I wish I had been wrong about is saying that back in the nineties, our leaders looked at climate change and said: We can’t do shit about this without measures we find unacceptable, so future generations will just have to deal with it via machine guns, fences and attack dogs.
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Franz Kafka writing Steam reviews
October 11, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Franz Kafka writing Steam reviews
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Interesting choice of words coming from PP
October 7, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Interesting choice of words coming from PP
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you can tell america is going great because every day an important institution must post something like "please do not listen to the president, we promise that water is not going to turn your blood cells trans"
September 24, 2025 at 4:36 PM
you can tell america is going great because every day an important institution must post something like "please do not listen to the president, we promise that water is not going to turn your blood cells trans"
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I am a hypermasculine and extremely powerful alpha male. As such my greatest fears are seed oils, rainbows, people who don't look like me being on TV, and preventative medicine. I cannot explain any of these fears and consider that to be your fault.
September 5, 2025 at 1:32 PM
I am a hypermasculine and extremely powerful alpha male. As such my greatest fears are seed oils, rainbows, people who don't look like me being on TV, and preventative medicine. I cannot explain any of these fears and consider that to be your fault.
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Bonus - Is Economics a Science? w/ @erikmbaker.bsky.social
Danny chats with Erik Baker about his new article reviewing the “science critique of economics.” Plus, they talk a bit about the history of nuclear science.
Link in the replies!
Danny chats with Erik Baker about his new article reviewing the “science critique of economics.” Plus, they talk a bit about the history of nuclear science.
Link in the replies!
August 17, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Bonus - Is Economics a Science? w/ @erikmbaker.bsky.social
Danny chats with Erik Baker about his new article reviewing the “science critique of economics.” Plus, they talk a bit about the history of nuclear science.
Link in the replies!
Danny chats with Erik Baker about his new article reviewing the “science critique of economics.” Plus, they talk a bit about the history of nuclear science.
Link in the replies!
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I filed a FOIA request with the FTC to get user complaints about ChatGPT.
In one case from Utah, a mother reports her son was experiencing a delusional breakdown and ChatGPT told him to stop taking his medication. The AI bot also told him that his parents were dangerous.
In one case from Utah, a mother reports her son was experiencing a delusional breakdown and ChatGPT told him to stop taking his medication. The AI bot also told him that his parents were dangerous.
'This Was Trauma by Simulation': ChatGPT Users File Disturbing Mental Health Complaints
Gizmodo obtained consumer complaints to FTC through a FOIA request.
gizmodo.com
August 13, 2025 at 2:52 PM
I filed a FOIA request with the FTC to get user complaints about ChatGPT.
In one case from Utah, a mother reports her son was experiencing a delusional breakdown and ChatGPT told him to stop taking his medication. The AI bot also told him that his parents were dangerous.
In one case from Utah, a mother reports her son was experiencing a delusional breakdown and ChatGPT told him to stop taking his medication. The AI bot also told him that his parents were dangerous.
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what it feels like to talk to my friends about stuff I like
August 10, 2025 at 4:03 PM
what it feels like to talk to my friends about stuff I like
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Medieval ai would be Robards
August 12, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Medieval ai would be Robards
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I have a new piece out for the Toronto Star today on how the Carney Liberals ran on public investment and nation-building and have swung immediately to the right. Among other things, Canada may soon experience the most sweeping austerity program it's seen in decades. www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
Mark Carney won on a promise of strong but fair Canada. This is how he is betraying that vision
The Carney government is repeating the mistakes of Paul Martin and Stephen Harper.
www.thestar.com
August 9, 2025 at 5:09 PM
I have a new piece out for the Toronto Star today on how the Carney Liberals ran on public investment and nation-building and have swung immediately to the right. Among other things, Canada may soon experience the most sweeping austerity program it's seen in decades. www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
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Imagine in 2020 if someone had told you “We will soon release a new kind of AI. It will send psychologically vulnerable people right over the edge. Everyone else it will just randomly tell falsehoods. Also: our governments, employers and schools will force us all to use it every day.”
‘I Feel Like I’m Going Crazy’: ChatGPT Fuels Delusional Spirals
An online trove of archived conversations shows the artificial-intelligence model sending users down a rabbit hole of theories about physics, aliens and the apocalypse.
10point.cmail19.com
August 8, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Imagine in 2020 if someone had told you “We will soon release a new kind of AI. It will send psychologically vulnerable people right over the edge. Everyone else it will just randomly tell falsehoods. Also: our governments, employers and schools will force us all to use it every day.”
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the sickening racism in israeli "society" continues to be uncontainable
July 29, 2025 at 6:07 AM
the sickening racism in israeli "society" continues to be uncontainable
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This totally makes sense. A notable public figure in the US (Amazon labor organizer Christian Smalls) is illegally arrested by Israel and subjected to severe physical violence while on a hunger strike… and not one US media outlet of any type has decided that is news.
July 29, 2025 at 1:43 AM
This totally makes sense. A notable public figure in the US (Amazon labor organizer Christian Smalls) is illegally arrested by Israel and subjected to severe physical violence while on a hunger strike… and not one US media outlet of any type has decided that is news.
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Saw this said somewhere else, but I’d like to see someone explain the difference between telling starving people there is aid and then shooting them and telling people they will be cleaned in a shower and then gassing them?
July 28, 2025 at 12:13 AM
Saw this said somewhere else, but I’d like to see someone explain the difference between telling starving people there is aid and then shooting them and telling people they will be cleaned in a shower and then gassing them?
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[email protected] on the singular character of the Israeli-imposed famine in Gaza:
July 28, 2025 at 11:27 AM
[email protected] on the singular character of the Israeli-imposed famine in Gaza: