Asking for help for the UW systems lab women. As the sexual harassment situation drags on with no end in sight, the grad students are now unable to afford their lawyer. So I started a fundraiser for them if you would like to support. https://www.chuffed.org/project/fight-sexual-harassment-in-the-allen-school
When Merv Leitch and Peter Lougheed created the notwithstanding clause, they couldn't have imagined a Canada where premiers could invoke the clause without political or moral hazard. The Senate is now debating a provocative proposition. Should we vow, preemptively, to refuse to pass any law that preemptively deploys the clause? Here's my take - which starts with a little history lesson. https://youtu.be/IEnAWFmLdjE?si=8pSfngoXZJ2fYDMV #SenateofCanada #NotwithstandingClause #cdnpoli #Alberta #abpoli #Vriend
“Cities seem to be in worse shape than ever thanks to entrenched neoliberalism, inequality and austerity.”
My favorite Bill Atkinson story. I wish him all the best.
https://www.folklore.org/Negative_2000_Lines_Of_Code.html?sort=date
Spotify just reported record-breaking profits.
In totally unrelated news, Spotify stopped paying nearly 90% of artists on the service ANYTHING (no royalties for songs w <1k streams/year)
For some reason people fleeing the sinking #Twitter / #X ship for #BlueSky don't seem to be aware of the fact that crypto bros at #BlockchainCapital bought a huge stake in the company just a few weeks ago. Like these are basically the same crypto bros who just helped #ElonMusk buy Twitter. They might even be literally the same people (I strongly suspect they are but I'm too lazy to check). Either way #BlockchainCapital was co-founded by #BrockPierce, who also brought you #Tether, AKA the company that Trump's transition team chairman manages $120 billion for. Pierce is also a friend of the #Netanyahu family.
You don't have to take my word for it. Here's the official press release: https://bsky.social/about/blog/10-24-2024-series-a
Moving to BlueSky is not an escape. Growing a base there is just putting in a bunch of work to create a platform that will be co-opted by crypto bros as soon as X breaks in half.
Nazis wave nazi flags. Nazis. Not "protesters"
A Tesla crash in Toronto left four passengers dead after electronic doors trapped them inside the burning vehicle. A bystander saved a fifth passenger by smashing a window. Tesla's electronic locks, requiring power to open, have raised safety concerns in similar past incidents. https://futurism.com/the-byte/four-die-trapped-burning-tesla
Jesus fucking Christ I already wasn't planning on voting you stop campaigning so hard for Anyone-But-Liberals
https://montrealgazette.com/business/federal-government-hopes-to-encourage-ai-adoption-with-safety-institute
Just terrifying.
Funding terrorism is already illegal, but the new bill would let the government avoid the red tape required for criminal prosecutions or official terrorist designations.
In their recent letters, elected officials called for terrorism investigations of the New York Times, Reuters, CNN, and the Associated Press, relying on allegations that those outlets bought photographs from Palestinian freelancers who covered Hamas’s October 7 attacks.
https://theintercept.com/2024/05/10/terrorism-bill-nonprofit-journalists-israel-hamas/