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Ontario community workers have been on strike for 11 weeks. While some locals have settled, most of the 4000 workers are still on the picket line. When MPP Kevin Holland drove through a picket line, it was a reminder of the contempt that the elites have for working people.
The struggle to be heard in Doug Ford's OntarioOPSEU community service workers enter their 11th week of strikenoraloreto.substack.com
Hank Green should not use LLMs in his work. Working scientists have specific use cases for LLMs, but science communicators like Hank and I do not. They add more vulnerability than value in our field. I laid out some history and background to walk you through the reasons why.
Hank Green, Science, History, and Misinformation — aetaaeta.mataroa.blog
This is Massive Attack's response to what happened in Singapore, posted on their Instagram page. Good on them.
Kirsten Han 韩俐颖Massive Attack has been banned from Singapore after they held up a Palestinian flag during their concert here last week. www.bbc.com/news/article...
It's amazing to be how many Serious Thinkers™ conceive of junkies as random spawn NPCs, like Aristotle thought rotten meat spontaneously generated maggots. These are people. They need food, housing, and medical care, including mental and physical health. If they can't have that, they have this.
Michael HobbesIt was inevitable that reactionary centrists would turn against harm reduction and call for a return to mass incarceration
The thing about Joyce Carol Oates is she posts like a monkey with a gun. She'll get off five good posts where you're like "Yeah! You tell 'em!" but then the seventh post will have to be an apology for the sixth post accidentally supporting race science or something.
Neuromancer is chillingly relevant today because it asks: what if a guy would rather Die than stop Going Online
Devyn Dalton is Matt Damon's stunt double in The Odyssey - and she's from Vancouver!
Matt Damon's stunt double in The Odyssey is B.C. woman with 'the greatest arms' he's ever seen | CBC NewsShe might be small, but this B.C.-born stunt performer is making big waves for her part in Christopher Nolan's box-office busting epic The Odyssey.www.cbc.ca
I have to assume Substack is throwing some fat stacks of cash at prominent authors to launch on the platform in 2026, in exchange for ignoring the fact the company openly embrace nazis and white supremacists for engagement
We all have to post as hard as possible about Lindsey Graham's death so we can see who wins by getting cited in an article in the Atlantic about how Bluesky is destroying the fabric of American politics next week.
Big Capy Castaway news is washing ashore soon!!! 🌊🐾👀 Also, can you believe it's National Capybara Appreciation Day?! If you love capybaras as much as we do, keep an eye out for a VERY BIG Capy Castaway announcement from us next week!
And YES. Charles de Lint used AI for the cover of a book he has coming out this fall. He sent out an email that lead with "AI Haters shouldn't read too much further..." #booksky
Here is a secret about things you love. If you put them down you can always pick them back up again. You can always paint again, sew again, hike again, play music again, read that book again, watch the movie. "But it's been so long." The thing you love doesn't care.