Public Health Agency not renewing contracts of over 800 employees, including 245 at Winnipeg lab: union
The union representing workers with the Public Health Agency of Canada says the federal government is not renewing the contracts of over 800 employees, including at least 245 at the National Microbiology Laboratory in Winnipeg. 
#labor #politics #health #Winnipeg #News #Canada
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/phac-job-cuts-national-microbiology-laboratory-1.7440048?cmp=rss

Day three of Trump's term and the largest push for surveillance capitalism yet has been made: Project Stargate will be a $500.000.000.000 (500 billion USD) data center used for running a multitude of AIs with the purpose of spying on you.

Larry Ellison, the world's second richest man and CEO of Oracle, one of the main partners of Stargate, said:

“Citizens will be on their best behavior, because we're constantly recording and reporting everything that's going on [...]. We're using A.I. to monitor the video.”

— Larry Ellison, CEO of Oracle on how the company's A.I. systems will be used for in the future [Source: Business Insider]

This is who is in power now. This is the vision they have.

I made myself an Emotional Support Dumpster Fire. #crochet @c3dumpsterfire

Once again thinking about weird Windows 8-era tech, but this time thinking about the Acer Aspire R7. This is not a photoshop. This thing exists.

@leo @jeffjarvis I get into this argument constantly with my brother (who works at a big cloud company) that if you can't moderate at scale, then you shouldn't operate at scale. The only reason they don't moderate is because it would be unprofitable. Just letting everyone say what they want at scale is a great business model, but it's a net negative for humanity.

Bill 21: Supreme Court will hear challenge to Quebec secularism law https://www.montrealgazette.com/news/provincial-news/article697223.html?utm_source=Mastodon

I would love to see a political candidate—any political candidate—come out in support of the federated social web.

TIL that Uppercase X is ASCII code for 88

https://www.ascii-code.com/88#:~:text=ASCII%20Code%2088%20%2D%20Uppercase%20X
#til #todayilearned
https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1i8132f/til_that_uppercase_x_is_ascii_code_for_88/

From an excellent thread about the subreddits overwhelmingly rejecting X, and also helping educate each other on anti-fascist language - this isn't going to be the walkover they think anywhere...

The whole "Roman salute" thing needs some clarification. There's no such thing as a "Roman salute". It was made up by fascists in Italy and then copied by the nazi regime. Only fascists use it. End of story.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_salute