Trout in Plaid
@troutinplaid.bsky.social
Artist. I like living things. I block bots, AI, crypto, people here to make $$$
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My ancestors started this mess in 1635 and I'd like to make it right.
Insta: @indifference_to_flowers
fabrika.wordpress.com
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concluding that people don't need their newspapers to be accurate is professional self-harm done for no particular reason other than to justify layoffs and satisfy the AI lords
New: When the Washington Post ran tests on its AI personalized podcasts, the paper found that between 68% and 84% (!!) of the pods had potential issues.
Still, the paper decided to release the product anyway, saying it would “iterate through the remaining issues”
www.semafor.com/article/12/1...
Still, the paper decided to release the product anyway, saying it would “iterate through the remaining issues”
www.semafor.com/article/12/1...
December 15, 2025 at 2:26 PM
concluding that people don't need their newspapers to be accurate is professional self-harm done for no particular reason other than to justify layoffs and satisfy the AI lords
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this field biologist does a great job highlighting the insidiousness of AI editing
these one-click AI edit buttons are incredibly appealing to many photographers, amateurs and professionals alike, and are framed as innocuous
this is worth sharing and educating people about
these one-click AI edit buttons are incredibly appealing to many photographers, amateurs and professionals alike, and are framed as innocuous
this is worth sharing and educating people about
December 15, 2025 at 2:21 AM
this field biologist does a great job highlighting the insidiousness of AI editing
these one-click AI edit buttons are incredibly appealing to many photographers, amateurs and professionals alike, and are framed as innocuous
this is worth sharing and educating people about
these one-click AI edit buttons are incredibly appealing to many photographers, amateurs and professionals alike, and are framed as innocuous
this is worth sharing and educating people about
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We need an alternative to the 5 big banks that make record profits while charging us excessive fees. That's why postal banking is at the heart of our plan to stop price gouging: breaking the dominance of the big banks, strengthening the postal service, & saving you money.
Crunching the numbers on postal banking in Canada - CCPA
Among the many proposals to transform Canada Post, one stands out: postal banking. It’s a program that could contribute to solving multiple policy problems at once—help support our postal service with stable revenue, boost financial inclusion and enhance public services, and, unlike conventional banks that put profit first, create accessible public interest banking services.
dub.link
December 14, 2025 at 10:22 PM
We need an alternative to the 5 big banks that make record profits while charging us excessive fees. That's why postal banking is at the heart of our plan to stop price gouging: breaking the dominance of the big banks, strengthening the postal service, & saving you money.
Project 2026 Declares Open War on Women’s Rights msmagazine.com/2025/12/13/p...
Project 2026 Declares Open War on Women’s Rights
When the Heritage Foundation released its new policy blueprint for 2026 this week—an extension of the now-infamous Project 2025—it did so with the calm confidence of an institution convinced no one wi...
msmagazine.com
December 13, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Project 2026 Declares Open War on Women’s Rights msmagazine.com/2025/12/13/p...
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December 13, 2025 at 9:31 AM
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The guy who wanted to defund the CBC is now running to it in order to save his own bacon.
The irony is delicious.
The irony is delicious.
December 13, 2025 at 2:38 AM
The guy who wanted to defund the CBC is now running to it in order to save his own bacon.
The irony is delicious.
The irony is delicious.
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Most people aren’t fretting about an AI bubble. What they fear is mass layoffs | Steven Greenhouse
Most people aren’t fretting about an AI bubble. What they fear is mass layoffs | Steven Greenhouse
Artificial intelligence could make income inequality even worse and create a new underclass. Governments and society must take action
www.theguardian.com
December 12, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Most people aren’t fretting about an AI bubble. What they fear is mass layoffs | Steven Greenhouse
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Disney has hiked prices and laid off hundreds of workers this year.
Yet Disney paid its CEO $41B in 2024. It just reported a 36% increase in net profits for parks and streaming. And it plans to double stock buybacks next year.
Remember this as Disney turns to AI.
Yet Disney paid its CEO $41B in 2024. It just reported a 36% increase in net profits for parks and streaming. And it plans to double stock buybacks next year.
Remember this as Disney turns to AI.
December 12, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Disney has hiked prices and laid off hundreds of workers this year.
Yet Disney paid its CEO $41B in 2024. It just reported a 36% increase in net profits for parks and streaming. And it plans to double stock buybacks next year.
Remember this as Disney turns to AI.
Yet Disney paid its CEO $41B in 2024. It just reported a 36% increase in net profits for parks and streaming. And it plans to double stock buybacks next year.
Remember this as Disney turns to AI.
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“Meta has removed or restricted dozens of accounts belonging to abortion access providers, queer groups and reproductive health organisations in the past weeks in what campaigners call one of the ‘biggest waves of censorship’ on its platforms in years.”
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
Meta shuts down global accounts linked to abortion advice and queer content
More than 50 organisations report sites being restricted or removed, with abortion hotlines blocked and posts showing non-explicit nudity triggering warnings
www.theguardian.com
December 11, 2025 at 2:19 PM
“Meta has removed or restricted dozens of accounts belonging to abortion access providers, queer groups and reproductive health organisations in the past weeks in what campaigners call one of the ‘biggest waves of censorship’ on its platforms in years.”
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
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Medicare for all, paid leave, universal childcare.
Busting up big corporations and tackling Wall Street’s greed.
Getting big money out of politics.
Supporting unions and fighting for higher wages.
If Dems want to win back working people, this is the agenda they must support.
Busting up big corporations and tackling Wall Street’s greed.
Getting big money out of politics.
Supporting unions and fighting for higher wages.
If Dems want to win back working people, this is the agenda they must support.
December 11, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Medicare for all, paid leave, universal childcare.
Busting up big corporations and tackling Wall Street’s greed.
Getting big money out of politics.
Supporting unions and fighting for higher wages.
If Dems want to win back working people, this is the agenda they must support.
Busting up big corporations and tackling Wall Street’s greed.
Getting big money out of politics.
Supporting unions and fighting for higher wages.
If Dems want to win back working people, this is the agenda they must support.
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just going to reiterate this.
if immigrants don't have due process, no one does. you can't tell citizens from immigrants without due process. www.everythingishorrible.net/p/if-immigra...
if immigrants don't have due process, no one does. you can't tell citizens from immigrants without due process. www.everythingishorrible.net/p/if-immigra...
If Immigrants Don’t Have Due Process, No One Has Due Process
How do you prove you’re a citizen?
www.everythingishorrible.net
December 11, 2025 at 4:43 AM
just going to reiterate this.
if immigrants don't have due process, no one does. you can't tell citizens from immigrants without due process. www.everythingishorrible.net/p/if-immigra...
if immigrants don't have due process, no one does. you can't tell citizens from immigrants without due process. www.everythingishorrible.net/p/if-immigra...
Pathetic. The mouse sells out to Sora.
Disney Agrees to Bring Its Characters to OpenAI’s Sora Videos
www.nytimes.com
December 11, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Pathetic. The mouse sells out to Sora.
It is an insult to all women that this important report by the Ontario government was largely relegated to AI authorship, and full of falsehoods. This is unacceptable. Thank you to these MPPs who care enough to issue their own report on recommendations for ending Intimate Partner Violence.
Ontario NDP MPPs Statement on the IPV Committee Report
QUEEN’S PARK — Ontario NDP MPPs Kristyn Wong-Tam (Toronto Centre), @alexagilmour.bsky.social (Parkdale—High Park), and @lgretzky.bsky.social (Windsor West) have issued the following statement:
QUEEN’S PARK — Ontario NDP MPPs Kristyn Wong-Tam (Toronto Centre), @alexagilmour.bsky.social (Parkdale—High Park), and @lgretzky.bsky.social (Windsor West) have issued the following statement:
December 11, 2025 at 5:30 PM
It is an insult to all women that this important report by the Ontario government was largely relegated to AI authorship, and full of falsehoods. This is unacceptable. Thank you to these MPPs who care enough to issue their own report on recommendations for ending Intimate Partner Violence.
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Every single aspect of this administration, every speck, is a garbage fire
SCOOP — Gregg Phillips, a conspiracy theorist with no emergency management experience who helped produce the election-denying documentary ‘2000 Mules’ with Dinesh D’Souza and has faced numerous legal inquiries, has been named head of FEMA’s Office of Response and Recovery.
My story:
My story:
Conspiracy theorist election denier given FEMA’s second-most important role
Gregg Phillips will lead the Office of Response and Recovery, “the heart of what FEMA does.”
www.thehandbasket.co
December 9, 2025 at 11:32 PM
Every single aspect of this administration, every speck, is a garbage fire
" The promise of AI – the promise AI companies make to investors – is that there will be AIs that can do your job, and when your boss fires you and replaces you with AI, he will keep half of your salary for himself, and give the other half to the AI company.
"That's it."
"That's it."
Pluralistic: The Reverse-Centaur’s Guide to Criticizing AI (05 Dec 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
pluralistic.net
December 11, 2025 at 3:29 AM
" The promise of AI – the promise AI companies make to investors – is that there will be AIs that can do your job, and when your boss fires you and replaces you with AI, he will keep half of your salary for himself, and give the other half to the AI company.
"That's it."
"That's it."
Truly, do we have time to question everything we see on these platforms? How is social cohesion damaged by this fake content? We need to label every instance of AI or preferably, ban it from social media. Explore this gift article from The New York Times. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/08/t...
A.I. Videos Have Flooded Social Media. No One Was Ready.
www.nytimes.com
December 11, 2025 at 12:44 AM
Truly, do we have time to question everything we see on these platforms? How is social cohesion damaged by this fake content? We need to label every instance of AI or preferably, ban it from social media. Explore this gift article from The New York Times. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/08/t...
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Our mayor wants to consider #ptbo for data centres. Counties in the U.S. are requesting a lifetime ban on them.
Trump is backing AI. This Trump-voting town wants to ban AI data centers anyways.
YouTube video by More Perfect Union
www.youtube.com
December 10, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Our mayor wants to consider #ptbo for data centres. Counties in the U.S. are requesting a lifetime ban on them.
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Gambling is pretty much the one thing in the world I will straight-up moralize about, so:
Fuck this. Let Kawartha Downs rot. Tear down the casino in Peterborough too!
www.thepeterboroughexaminer.com/news/council...
Fuck this. Let Kawartha Downs rot. Tear down the casino in Peterborough too!
www.thepeterboroughexaminer.com/news/council...
City to write to Ontario government to ask that Kawartha Downs slot machines remain open
OLG plans to shut down the racetrack’s 150 slot machines at the end of March.
www.thepeterboroughexaminer.com
December 10, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Gambling is pretty much the one thing in the world I will straight-up moralize about, so:
Fuck this. Let Kawartha Downs rot. Tear down the casino in Peterborough too!
www.thepeterboroughexaminer.com/news/council...
Fuck this. Let Kawartha Downs rot. Tear down the casino in Peterborough too!
www.thepeterboroughexaminer.com/news/council...
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bit unclear what happened here - did six craven cowards discard due process in orchestration with the mayor, or simply do what he wanted out of craven cowardice ?
neither looks great
neither looks great
#Ptbo city council endorses mayor's 2026 budget with 6.56% rate hike despite split over police spending. Lachica, Bierk, & Riel oppose the budget over a 9.22% police operating increase and major capital costs as council accelerates adoption under strong mayor rules.
kawarthanow.com/2025/12/09/p...
kawarthanow.com/2025/12/09/p...
Peterborough city council endorses mayor’s 2026 budget with 6.56% rate hike despite split over police spending | kawarthaNOW
By Bruce Head. Lachica, Bierk, and Riel oppose the budget over a 9.22% police operating increase and major capital costs as council accelerates adoption under strong mayor rules.
kawarthanow.com
December 10, 2025 at 3:08 PM
bit unclear what happened here - did six craven cowards discard due process in orchestration with the mayor, or simply do what he wanted out of craven cowardice ?
neither looks great
neither looks great
I hate strong mayor powers.
'We're devastated': neighbourhood group abandons legal case against City of #Ptbo after court demands $30K upfront. Northcrest Neighbours for Fair Process had challenged Mayor Jeff Leal's use of strong mayor powers to expedite Brock Mission supportive housing project. kawarthanow.com/2025/12/10/w...
‘We’re devastated’: neighbourhood group abandons legal case against City of Peterborough after court demands $30K upfront | kawarthaNOW
By Bruce Head. Northcrest Neighbours for Fair Process had challenged Mayor Jeff Leal's use of strong mayor powers to expedite Brock Mission supportive housing project.
kawarthanow.com
December 10, 2025 at 5:11 PM
I hate strong mayor powers.
Good on Starke County!
Starke County, Indiana voted 75% for Trump in 2024.
But now they're opposing Trump's AI agenda, and the Planning Commission voted unanimously to recommend a 12 month pause on new hyperscale data centers.
Banning AI data centers is becoming increasingly popular.
www.youtube.com/shorts/xCQah...
But now they're opposing Trump's AI agenda, and the Planning Commission voted unanimously to recommend a 12 month pause on new hyperscale data centers.
Banning AI data centers is becoming increasingly popular.
www.youtube.com/shorts/xCQah...
Trump is backing AI. This Trump-voting town wants to ban AI data centers anyways.
YouTube video by More Perfect Union
www.youtube.com
December 10, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Good on Starke County!
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Last night at 2 a.m. Danielle Smith's Alberta government passed Bill 9, which invokes the Notwithstanding Clause to shield its three anti-trans laws from court challenge
We must not overcomplicate what is going on here.
xtramagazine.com/power/politi...
We must not overcomplicate what is going on here.
xtramagazine.com/power/politi...
The lies Danielle Smith is telling to overturn trans kids’ rights | Xtra Magazine
The Alberta government is invoking the Notwithstanding Clause to protect its three anti-trans laws from being challenged in the courts
xtramagazine.com
December 10, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Last night at 2 a.m. Danielle Smith's Alberta government passed Bill 9, which invokes the Notwithstanding Clause to shield its three anti-trans laws from court challenge
We must not overcomplicate what is going on here.
xtramagazine.com/power/politi...
We must not overcomplicate what is going on here.
xtramagazine.com/power/politi...