Marxist Monster Mayhem
@calderwood.bsky.social
He/him. Writer, teacher, communist. New fiction in the Dalhousie Review issue 104.3. “I’ll be around in the dark.” 🏴 🇵🇸
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Court rules that OpenAI violated German copyright law; orders it to pay damages
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Court rules that OpenAI violated German copyright law; orders it to pay damages | TechCrunch
A German court ruled that OpenAI’s ChatGPT violated the nation’s copyright laws by training its language models on licensed musical work without permission.
techcrunch.com
November 13, 2025 at 11:45 PM
Court rules that OpenAI violated German copyright law; orders it to pay damages
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AOC: "It is unconscionable that what we are debating right now is legislation that will give 8 senators over $1 million a piece & we're robbing people of their food assistance & healthcare to pay for it. How can we vote to enrich ourselves by stealing from the American people?"
November 12, 2025 at 10:39 PM
AOC: "It is unconscionable that what we are debating right now is legislation that will give 8 senators over $1 million a piece & we're robbing people of their food assistance & healthcare to pay for it. How can we vote to enrich ourselves by stealing from the American people?"
No one has ever actually “hoped this helps”
November 13, 2025 at 1:50 AM
No one has ever actually “hoped this helps”
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With everything going on these days, it’s easy to miss when local governments get up to some sketchy stuff.
Take Vancouver, where Mayor Ken Sims is planning to eliminate the city’s sustainability and climate department!!!
Yes, really.
My partners at @nationalobserver.com have the scoop:
Take Vancouver, where Mayor Ken Sims is planning to eliminate the city’s sustainability and climate department!!!
Yes, really.
My partners at @nationalobserver.com have the scoop:
November 11, 2025 at 11:42 PM
With everything going on these days, it’s easy to miss when local governments get up to some sketchy stuff.
Take Vancouver, where Mayor Ken Sims is planning to eliminate the city’s sustainability and climate department!!!
Yes, really.
My partners at @nationalobserver.com have the scoop:
Take Vancouver, where Mayor Ken Sims is planning to eliminate the city’s sustainability and climate department!!!
Yes, really.
My partners at @nationalobserver.com have the scoop:
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1/ NEW: We identified 20 people who attended a white nationalist conference and, despite their efforts to keep it secret, caught another 30 people on film to identify in the future. Several MMA/combat sports instructors were discovered and their gyms have cut ties.
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Everybody Attending White Nationalist Conference Caught on Film
Advertised near-exclusively in white nationalist online spaces, promotional social media posts for the event include symbolism popular with neo-Nazis, including the kolovrat sun wheel and a table with...
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November 10, 2025 at 12:46 PM
1/ NEW: We identified 20 people who attended a white nationalist conference and, despite their efforts to keep it secret, caught another 30 people on film to identify in the future. Several MMA/combat sports instructors were discovered and their gyms have cut ties.
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New short story out now in The Dalhousie Review! (Issue 104.3) It’s one of my favourite things I’ve written.
November 11, 2025 at 12:33 AM
New short story out now in The Dalhousie Review! (Issue 104.3) It’s one of my favourite things I’ve written.
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Yes, sure people sure can buy more junk from Temu with reckless abandon, but their money isn’t keeping on pace for the one thing we all need, shelter. Stop being obtuse!!
November 9, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Yes, sure people sure can buy more junk from Temu with reckless abandon, but their money isn’t keeping on pace for the one thing we all need, shelter. Stop being obtuse!!
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every time I halfway regain my composure Chuck Schumer does a whole new freshly nauseating thing
November 10, 2025 at 12:38 AM
every time I halfway regain my composure Chuck Schumer does a whole new freshly nauseating thing
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I guess regular working class people are supposed to sympathize with the people who cave the second they might have to work weekends
November 10, 2025 at 1:25 AM
I guess regular working class people are supposed to sympathize with the people who cave the second they might have to work weekends
Guillermo I love your hatred of A.I. but your Frankenstein is basically Baz Luhrmann’s “Great Gatsby” (derogatory). At first it seems just overly worshipful of the source material, but then you discover it’s actually just obsessed with its own cleverness.
November 8, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Guillermo I love your hatred of A.I. but your Frankenstein is basically Baz Luhrmann’s “Great Gatsby” (derogatory). At first it seems just overly worshipful of the source material, but then you discover it’s actually just obsessed with its own cleverness.
Have all the people responding to Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein by saying, "Finally a director who's read the novel" actually read the novel?
November 8, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Have all the people responding to Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein by saying, "Finally a director who's read the novel" actually read the novel?
We don’t know what pterodactyls sounded like. They could have had deep, sexy voices.
November 8, 2025 at 3:45 PM
We don’t know what pterodactyls sounded like. They could have had deep, sexy voices.
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Transphobes are already targeting the biggest star in women's soccer and baselessly alleging she's a man because she's Black. This is what trans people warned would happen. Gender policing that becomes explicitly racial.
www.outsports.com/2025/11/6/24...
www.outsports.com/2025/11/6/24...
A women's soccer star is the target of an anti-trans activist - Outsports
Barbra Banda's peers in the NWSL stood up for her when the head of an anti-trans fashion brand tried to demean her.
www.outsports.com
November 7, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Transphobes are already targeting the biggest star in women's soccer and baselessly alleging she's a man because she's Black. This is what trans people warned would happen. Gender policing that becomes explicitly racial.
www.outsports.com/2025/11/6/24...
www.outsports.com/2025/11/6/24...
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NANAIMO: “Delivery trucks come and go from the Loaves and Fishes warehouse in Nanaimo Wednesday as the food bank keeps up with increasing demand, even as donations of food and money are drastically down.” cheknews.ca/nanaimo-food... - @cheknews.ca
#BCNews #FoodSecurity #Nanaimo #VancouverIsland
#BCNews #FoodSecurity #Nanaimo #VancouverIsland
Nanaimo food bank facing critical financial issues
A Nanaimo food bank facing critical financial issues and running an untenable deficit just to keep going.
cheknews.ca
November 6, 2025 at 4:30 AM
NANAIMO: “Delivery trucks come and go from the Loaves and Fishes warehouse in Nanaimo Wednesday as the food bank keeps up with increasing demand, even as donations of food and money are drastically down.” cheknews.ca/nanaimo-food... - @cheknews.ca
#BCNews #FoodSecurity #Nanaimo #VancouverIsland
#BCNews #FoodSecurity #Nanaimo #VancouverIsland
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Beshear: Let me be clear. The president has both the funding and the authority to fund snap during a shutdown. In fact, every other president in every other shutdown has done so. People going hungry in this instance is a choice that this president has made.
November 5, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Beshear: Let me be clear. The president has both the funding and the authority to fund snap during a shutdown. In fact, every other president in every other shutdown has done so. People going hungry in this instance is a choice that this president has made.
If Cuomo actually makes good on his promise to move to Florida, news cameras should follow his white Bronco down the highway. I think it’d be fun.
November 5, 2025 at 8:11 PM
If Cuomo actually makes good on his promise to move to Florida, news cameras should follow his white Bronco down the highway. I think it’d be fun.
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We stopped at the historical marker for Harriet Tubman's birthplace and found someone had left three apples and a whisk broom in the grass. They form an arrow pointing north.
November 5, 2025 at 1:36 AM
We stopped at the historical marker for Harriet Tubman's birthplace and found someone had left three apples and a whisk broom in the grass. They form an arrow pointing north.
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can’t let genocide stand in the way of profits and decent relations with the US
Norway suspends $2.1tn oil fund’s ethics rules to avoid selling Big Tech stakes
Jens Stoltenberg says move will avoid forced sale of shares in Amazon, Microsoft and Alphabet over their work for Israel
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November 5, 2025 at 1:36 PM
can’t let genocide stand in the way of profits and decent relations with the US
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OpenAI pirated large numbers of books and used them to train models.
OpenAI then deleted the dataset with the pirated books, and employees sent each other messages about doing so.
A lawsuit could now force the company to pay $150,000 per book, adding up to billions in damages.
OpenAI then deleted the dataset with the pirated books, and employees sent each other messages about doing so.
A lawsuit could now force the company to pay $150,000 per book, adding up to billions in damages.
November 4, 2025 at 3:30 PM
OpenAI pirated large numbers of books and used them to train models.
OpenAI then deleted the dataset with the pirated books, and employees sent each other messages about doing so.
A lawsuit could now force the company to pay $150,000 per book, adding up to billions in damages.
OpenAI then deleted the dataset with the pirated books, and employees sent each other messages about doing so.
A lawsuit could now force the company to pay $150,000 per book, adding up to billions in damages.
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Labour are not on the Left
November 4, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Labour are not on the Left
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UCP members vote in committee to replace auditor general Doug Wylie, forcing rush to complete health procurement report. He isn't sure he can finish before a newbie takes over. Column
calgaryherald.com/opinion/colu... #ableg #abpoli #cdnpoli #yyc #yeg #UCP
calgaryherald.com/opinion/colu... #ableg #abpoli #cdnpoli #yyc #yeg #UCP
Braid: UCP dumps auditor general as he races to finish health scandal report
A UCP committee votes to replace auditor general Doug Wylie, the key person investigating the health contract scandal, writes Don Braid.
calgaryherald.com
November 4, 2025 at 12:54 AM
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Condé Nast finally achieved its dream of wrecking Teen Vogue and killing its politics section.
www.thecut.com/article/teen...
www.thecut.com/article/teen...
Teen Vogue Is Folding Into Vogue.com
According to Condé Nast’s announcement, the outlet will keep its “unique editorial identity and mission.”
www.thecut.com
November 3, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Condé Nast finally achieved its dream of wrecking Teen Vogue and killing its politics section.
www.thecut.com/article/teen...
www.thecut.com/article/teen...
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“‘Laissez-faire’ is the economics of greed, and it’s responsible for the mess we’re in.”
The Montreal housing crisis — brought to you by predatory landlords, Airbnb profiteers and the politicians who enable them
#polmtl
The Montreal housing crisis — brought to you by predatory landlords, Airbnb profiteers and the politicians who enable them
#polmtl
The Montreal housing crisis — brought to you by predatory landlords, Airbnb profiteers and the politicians who enable them
The Montreal housing crisis — brought to you by predatory landlords, Airbnb profiteers and the politicians who enable them.
cultmtl.com
November 1, 2025 at 11:46 PM
“‘Laissez-faire’ is the economics of greed, and it’s responsible for the mess we’re in.”
The Montreal housing crisis — brought to you by predatory landlords, Airbnb profiteers and the politicians who enable them
#polmtl
The Montreal housing crisis — brought to you by predatory landlords, Airbnb profiteers and the politicians who enable them
#polmtl